Bilel Jamoussi

Deputy to the Director and Chief of Telecommunication Standardization Policy Department, TSB

Dr Bilel Jamoussi, a distinguished engineer and diplomat, serves as the Deputy to the Director and Chief of Telecommunication Standardization Policy Department at the ITU Standardization Bureau (TSB) in Geneva.

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His mission includes establishing international standards to advance global connectivity and digital transformation. Previously, he was Chief of the Study Groups Department at ITU-TSB (2010-2023). Through this, he paved the way for the creation of digital payments guidelines and standards that aim to foster financial inclusion on a global scale. Key achievements under his tenure have been important new standards while effectively managing staff by recruiting new talent, improving gender balance, delivering new work methods, and staying within budget.

Before 2010, he held executive roles, including Director of Standards for Nortel, and contributed to over 90 international standards bodies. With a PhD in Computer Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, he’s an IEEE Senior Member and has served on the IEEE-SA Board of Governors. A key voice in the global ICT arena, he’s a regular keynote speaker at events like the Global Cybersecurity Forum and is frequently interviewed by top media outlets. Fluent in Arabic, French, and English, with knowledge in Spanish and German, Bilel’s global perspective is shaped by his experiences in Tunisia, Canada, the USA, and Switzerland.

Bruno Meyer

Fellow IEEE, 2022 Chair of IEEE Technical Activities Board, Secretary General GO15

Bruno Meyer is a consultant with over 38 years’ experience in industry in the field of energy. He is Secretary General of GO15, a global association of Very Large Power Grid Operators. An IEEE Fellow, Bruno was 2022 IEEE Vice President, Chair of Technical Activities.

Dr. Christoph Baer

Academic Senior Councillor, Vice Chair of IEEE Germany Section, Institute of Electronic Circuits, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Christoph Baer received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, in 2009 and 2015, respectively.

[read more]From 2006 to 2015, he was an RF Research Engineer with the Krohne Group. Since 2016 and 2022, he has been an Academic Councillor and Academic Senior Councillor with the Institute of Electronic Circuits, Ruhr University Bochum and head of the RF-Sensors research group. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific papers and holds twelve patents in the area of microwave engineering. Dr. Baer is the founder and was the first chair of the IEEE SIGHT Germany Section. Since 2020, he was appointed member of several, global IEEE HAC, IEEE HTB and SIGHT sub-committees. Dr. Baer served as the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Germany Section from 2021 to 2024.[/read]

Claudio Cañizares

IEEE CTSC Chair

Rakesh Kumar

Ph.D., IEEE Life Fellow, President & CEO, TCX Technology Connexions Inc.
Past-Chair IEEE Roadmaps, Chair, IEEE Data-based Business Strategy

Dr. Rakesh Kumar is a semiconductor industry veteran, an entrepreneur, and an educator. He has held numerous leadership roles at IEEE including Chair of IEEE Roadmaps, Chair of IEEE DataPort and AskIEEE, and President of the Solid-State Circuits Society. During 40+ years in the semiconductor industry he has been VP&GM at Cadence Design, and has held various technical and management positions at Unisys and Motorola. Dr. Kumar has authored the book “Fabless Semiconductor Implementation”, published by McGraw Hill.

Sam Daws

Senior Advisor to the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative at Oxford University

Sam Daws is Senior Advisor to the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative at Oxford University, and Director of Multilateral AI. He is a subject expert in AI governance, geopolitics and sustainability, and has spent 35 years in multilateral policy roles including serving as a First Officer to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York, and as Deputy Director (UN) in the Cabinet Office advising the UK Prime Minister on the creation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He has also served as an expert advisor to the ITU’s AI for Good Summit.

Tariq S Durrani

Research Professor, University of Strathclyde

Tariq’s research interests are in the area of Communications , Signal Processing Engineering Management and AI. He has been IEEE Vice President Educational Activities and more recently the Chair of the IEEE Climate Change Committee- (CCIRCC). He is Fellow IEEE and International Member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Thomas Hanselmann

My name is Thomas Hanselmann and I studied Electrical Engineering with major in communications at ETHZ during 1988 to 1993. Later, I migrated to Australia and completed my PhD at the University of Western Australia and worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne for almost five years. During this time, I started my consulting company, Wise Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, in 2006 through which I did some consulting in Australia and Switzerland. This finally brought me back to Switzerland in 2013 permanently, where I work for HSE AG as a Principal Algorithm & Data Analytics Engineer in the field of medical device development, where I was involved in Next-Generation-DNA-Sequencing and my latest project is signal processing for upgrading a PCR machine to a quantitative version. I have broad scientific interests spanning physics, chemistry and biology where I love to apply my knowledge of sensor networks, signal processing, computer vision, machine learning & statistics.
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Dario Liguti

Director, Sustainable Energy Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Dario is the Director of Sustainable Energy at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). Prior to joining UNECE, Dario was the Chief Underwriting Officer at SACE, responsible for export credit, the EU Green New Deal and the guarantees under the EU Temporary Framework. Before joining SACE, Dario spent more than a decade with General Electric (GE), at the Council of Europe Development Bank and with the European Commission. His career started at Cargill. Dario has a MSc in Economics from Bocconi University and a MA in EU Law from the University of Leicester.

Sneha Hegde

Partnerships Lead, IEEE YP Climate and Sustainability Task Force

Dr. Sneha Satish Hegde is an Scientific Researcher and a passionate IEEE volunteer based in France, serving as Chair of IEEE DEIS Women in Engineering, Partnership Lead at IEEE YP Climate and Sustainability Task Force, and Vice-Chair at IEEE Computer Society SYP. She specializes in HVDC systems and eco-friendly materials, driving sustainable energy solutions through her work and volunteer leadership.

John Walz

University of Missouri

Retired from Lucent Technologies / AT&T with more than 20 years of management/coaching experience, covering positions in hardware and software engineering, quality planning and auditing, standards development and implementation, and strategic planning.
Served IEEE as Board Director, Treasurer, and Secretary. Involve in Board’s ad hoc related to Climate Action.

Marie Alvarado

University of Missouri

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