Eliseo M. Rio Jr. , is the former Acting Secretary of the Department of Information and Communication of the Philippines before he holds his current position as Undersecretary for Operations.

He is a Filipino retired brigadier general and electronics engineer who headed the Philippines’ Department of Information and Communications Technology from 2017 to 2019.

Latif Ladid is the founder and president of the IPv6 Forum. He is Chair of the IEEE COMSOC IoT subcommittee, chair of IEEE COMSOC 5G subcommittee, co-chair of IEEE COMSOC SDN-NFV subcommittee, Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society – ISOC; IPv6 Ready Logo Program Board and Chair of ETSI IPv6 ISG.

Latif is Research Fellow at the University of Luxembourg. He is a Member of 3GPP PCG (Board member of 3GPP2 PCG, board member of UN Strategy Council GAID, board member of the Future Internet Forum for Member State and board member of WSA.

Sataoshi Nagata received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 2001 and 2003, respectively. In 2003, he joined NTT DOCOMO, INC. He worked for the research and development for wireless access technologies for LTE, LTE-Advanced. He is currently a senior research engineer working for 5G and 3GPP standardization. He had contributed to 3GPP for many years, and contributed 3GPP TSG-RAN WG1 as a vice chairman during November 2011 to August 2013, and also contributed as a chairman during August 2013 to August 2017. He is currently a vice chairman of 3GPP TSG-RAN since March 2017.

Prof. Hiroshi Esaki received his B.E. and M.E. degrees from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1985 and 1987 respectively. He received a Ph.D from The University of Tokyo, Japan in 1998. 

In 1987, he joined Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation, where he engaged in The research of ATM systems. From 1998, he has been working for The University of Tokyo as an Associate Professor, and for the WIDE Project as a Board Member. 

He was at Bellcore in New Jersey (USA) as a residential researcher from 1990 to 1991, where he was engaged in research on high speed computer communications. From 1994 to 1996, he was at CTR (Center for Telecommunications Reserch) of Columbia University in New York (USA) as a visiting scholar. 
He is currently interested in a high speed internet architecture, including MPLS technology, mobile computing, and IPv6.

Dr. Sławomir Kukliński received his PhD with honours from Warsaw University of Technology in 1994, and since then, he is Assistant Professor there. He teaches mobile and wireless systems. 

As a principal investigator he led many national research projects and was involved in many international projects, including FP6 MIDAS, FP7 EFIPSANS, FP7 4WARD, FP7 ProSense, Celtic COMMUNE, he coordinated Polish-Luxembourgish project on Cognitive SDN (CoSDN). 

He is a systems engineer at Cisco who is part of Global Service Provider upport a global and one of the prime mover of IPv6 deployment in Belgium.

Lawrence Hughes was co-founder of CipherTrust (along with Jay Chaudhry), which became the leading company in E-mail security, including corporate Anti-Spam. The e-mail of 25% of the US Fortune 100 was going through IronMail tat one point. In 2006, CipherTrust sold to SecureComputing for $273M. SecureComputing was later bought by McAfee, which is now part of Intel.

I ran InfoWeapons, in Cebu, Philippines from 2004 until early 2013. InfoWeapons created a line of secure Internet appliances that implemented critical network infrastructure. These appliances were well hardened against hacker attacks, worms, denial of service attacks, etc. They all fully supported IPv6. Our primary markets were ASEAN countries and the Middle East.

An International expert in NGN technologies, Regulation, Interconnection and Broadband with 38 years experience in all aspects of Telecom, including 25 years with Govt. and Regulator, Satya N. Gupta is publicly recognized as an Analyst, Author, Advocate and Advisor on ICT related Policies, Projects and Business. After his post graduation from IISc. Bangalore, he joined ministry of Communication in 1981 and Ministry of railways in 1983. He is  recipient of Minister of railways award for outstanding performance for the  digitalisation project.

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Prof. Sureswaren Ramadass is an International expert in NGN technologies, Regulation, Interconnection and Broadband with 38 years experience in all aspects of Telecom, including 25 years with Govt. and Regulator, Satya N. Gupta is publicly recognized as an Analyst, Author, Advocate and Advisor on ICT related Policies, Projects and Business. After his post graduation from IISc. Bangalore, he joined ministry of Communication in 1981 and Ministry of railways in 1983. He is  recipient of Minister of railways award for outstanding performance for the  digitalisation project.

Medel Ramirez is a co-Author- Global Policy Proposal From ASO for Post Exhaustion IPV4 Allocation Mechanisms by the IANA. He is also a  member for SingTel International- Regional IPv6 Planning.

• Globe Telecom IPV6 Playpen
• Philippine Presidential Implementing Rules and Regulations of Executive Order 893 – Promoting the Deployment and Use of IPv6
• National IPv6 Forum: Encouraging The Migration to IPv6
• First Philippine IPv6 Summit – Theme: Philippines onwards IPv6 Technology

She received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She has been working at multiple world-class companies and research institutes leading the R&D, including AT&T Bell Labs; Director of AT&T HQ, Director of ITRI Taiwan, and VPGD of ASTRI Hong Kong. She received the IEEE Trans. COM Stephen Rice Best Paper Award, the IEEE ComMag Fred W. Ellersick Prize Best Paper Award, and has won the 2015 Industrial Innovation Award of IEEE Communication Society for Leadership and Innovation in Next-Generation Cellular Wireless Networks.

• 1984 Ph.D. (Engineering) Osaka University
• 1984 Assistant Professor, Education Center for Information Processing, Osaka University
• 1987 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Information and Computer Sciences, Faculty of Engineering Science, Osaka University
• 1989 Lecturer, Dept. of Information and Computer Sciences, Faculty of Engineering Science, Osaka University
• 1991 Associate Professor, Dept. of Information and Computer Sciences, Faculty of Engineering Science, Osaka University
• 1997 Associate Professor, Division of Informatics and Mathematical Sciences,
• Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University

Presently, Dennis D. Omila holds the position of Chief Information Officer & Executive VP for Union Bank of the Philippines. 

Mr. Omila previously held the position of President & Chief Operating Officer at Netx Technology Solutions, Inc. and Senior Vice President-Infrastructure Engineering at Globe Telecom, Inc. 

He received an undergraduate degree from De La Salle University.

Prof. Ari Pouttu has scientific and engineering experience as a researcher, project manager and research manager in various domains of ICT development. The projects under his command have resulted in waveforms and system designs for military radio communication, radar systems, embedded device networks, future wireless radio communications including cellular systems, cognitive networks and navigation applications.

He is the the current head for business development manager for IoT and digital mobility at Smart Communications. In 2016 he spearhead Digital Mobility, Disruptive Business Group (DBG), the emerging technologies business unit of PLDT Enterprise. 

Joe Jasin has built a 20+ year international career within the Mobile-Wireless and Digital Media-Technologies industries; participating in the converging commercial industries of the internet protocol – TCP/IP and the associated technology convergence of ecosystems’. He has been proactively establishing cross-border relationships and presence in the USA and Asia.

Presently, Joe Jasin is Managing Director of DNA Partners, LLC an early stage venture investment firm. DNA invests in digital-media value-chain technology companies, based in the USA and China. Mr. Jasin spends about 20 to 30 percent of his time in Asia.

Prof. Ari Pouttu has scientific and engineering experience as a researcher, project manager and research manager in various domains of ICT development. The projects under his command have resulted in waveforms and system designs for military radio communication, radar systems, embedded device networks, future wireless radio communications including cellular systems, cognitive networks and navigation applications.

He is the the current head for business development manager for IoT and digital mobility at Smart Communications. In 2016 he spearhead Digital Mobility, Disruptive Business Group (DBG), the emerging technologies business unit of PLDT Enterprise. 

He is the the current head for business development manager for IoT and digital mobility at Smart Communications. In 2016 he spearhead Digital Mobility, Disruptive Business Group (DBG), the emerging technologies business unit of PLDT Enterprise. 

Prof. Sofiene Affes received the Diplôme d’Ingénieur in  telecommunications and the Ph.D. degree (Hons.) in signal processing from Télécom ParisTech (ENST), Paris, France, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He was a Research Associate with INRS, Montreal, QC, Canada, until 1997, an Assistant Professor until 2000, and an Associate Professor until 2009.

He is currently Full Professor and Director of PERWADE, a unique M$4 million research-training program on wireless in Canada involving 27 partners from 8 universities and 10 industrial organizations. He has been twice a recipient of a Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award from NSERC, from 2008 to 2011 and from 2013 to 2016. From 2003 to 2013, he was Canada Research Chair in Wireless Communications. Since October 2017, he holds a Cyrille-Duquet Research Chair in Telecommunications.

In 2006, 2015, and 2017, he served as General Co-Chair or Chair of IEEE VTC’2006-Fall, IEEE ICUWB’2015, IEEE PIMRC’2017 and co-located IEEE 5G Summit, respectively, all held in Montreal, QC, Canada. In 2008 and 2015, he received the IEEE VTC Chair Recognition Award from IEEE VTS and the IEEE ICUWB Chair Recognition Certificate from IEEE MTT-S for exemplary contributions to the success of both events, respectively. 

He is the the current head for business development manager for IoT and digital mobility at Smart Communications. In 2016 he spearhead Digital Mobility, Disruptive Business Group (DBG), the emerging technologies business unit of PLDT Enterprise.