Professor Martti Mäntylä obtained his Dr.Sc. in computer science from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1983. In 1987, he was appointed full professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University). From 1999 to 2008, he was the Research Director of the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, a joint research centre of Helsinki University of Technology and University of Helsinki.

Martti Mäntylä was a post-doctoral visitor at Stanford University 1983-84, a visiting scientist at IBM Research Division 1989 and Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in 1996-97. His fields of interest include user-centric methods for digital service design and digital economy.

Located in Helsinki.

Stan Smits is Dutch and graduated in 1974 with a M.Sc. in physics from Leiden University. Until 1978 he was a research scientist at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam.

From 1978 to 1994 he held various R&D and General Management positions in the domain of data and telecommunications at Digital Equipment Corporation and was based in France for 10 years.

Stan Smits joined Royal Philips Electronics in 1994, and within Philips Healthcare he has performed roles as Chief Software Technology Officer and as CEO for of the Healthcare Informatics business unit. Stan Smits retired from Royal Philips Electronics in 2009.

Located in Eindhoven.

Johanna Gavefalk is Head of MarCom for EIT ICT Labs as of January 2012. She is stationed in Stockholm where she previously worked as the European Sales & Marketing Manager, C&A for Electrolux AB. As such she managed an international team in Europe, coordinating sales and business activities, competitive analysis, sales channel management, product marketing, PR activities, communication and development of sales tools.

Before joining Electrolux in 2004, then as the Stockholm Manager for Product Management, Sales & Business Support, Johanna Gavefalk worked for Ericsson AB (2001-2003) in Kista as Value Argumentation Manager. This position included supporting sales companies globally with value argumentation, business cases, strategic marketing planning and success stories around prepaid solutions for mobile phone systems. She was also Project leader of teams in charge of product marketing activities for Ericsson’s local companies world-wide.

As a Market Analyst, responsible for i e making situation analysis and future scenarios for management teams, she also worked for Ericsson Radio in the mid 1990’s. During this decade Johanna Gavefalk held various positions for companies and organisations in Singapore – Marketing Executive for BASI, PR & Communication Manager for SIT Pte Ltd and Editor and Board member of Scan Society, Philippines.

Prof. Hannu Tenhunen has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, USA, in 1985. He has been working at technical universities in Finland, Sweden, France, China, Hong Kong, and USA.

He is a professor of electronic system design and has been with Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) since 1992. Since 2006 ha has been director of Turku Centre for Computer Science. Hannu Tenhunen has initiated a number of national programmes and graduate schools. He has contributed over 650 reviewed papers and 150 invited or non-reviewed papers and presentations, and holds 11 international patents. He has also contributed as an evaluator of national research and educational programmes in Europe and European Union research projects and programmes. He has contributed strongly to internationalization of advanced education programmes in the Nordic region.

He has been active in technology policies in Finland and Sweden, researching technology impact to industry, strategic and management issues in high technology adoption in end products, and organizing technology diffusion and dissemination activities for SMI sector at Nordic and European level.

Located in: Stockholm

Klaus Beetz has more than two decades of industry experience in the IT and software engineering industry, including five years of international secondment to Eastern Europe. Building on his graduation in mathematics, philosophy and computer science, he started his professional career as a software engineer at Nemetschek AG. There he was a member of the board and in charge of the technology centres in Bratislava, Slovakia and Sofia, Bulgaria.

In 2002 he joined Siemens and headed the Global Technology Field "System Development Technologies" within Siemens Corporate Technology, with subsidiaries in USA (Princeton), Bangalore, India, St. Petersburg, Russia, Bejing, China and Munich/Erlangen, Germany. The position entails responsibility for the worldwide technology transfer from research to business with a focus on innovative engineering technologies for software-intensive systems.

Klaus Beetz is a member of the board of trustees (BoT) at the European Software Institute (ESI), member of the Steering Group of Information Technology for European Advancement (ITEA) and member of the executive board of DIGITALEUROPE.

Located in Berlin.

Udo Bub is member of the executive team of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (since their inception in 2004). His areas of responsibility include R&D in Human Computer Interaction, ICT Architectures and ICT Infrastructures as well as ICT Security.

Udo Bub is co-heading the Innovation Development laboratory, T-labs. He has also taken over the position of CEO at the European Center for Information and Communication Technologies  (EICT) GmbH in 2007, a public private partnership for innovation with partners such as Daimler, Deutsche Telekom, Fraunhofer Society, Opera Software, and Technical University of Berlin. He received both his master and doctoral degrees in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Technical University of Munich (Dipl.-Ing., Dr.-Ing.) and had held long-term research appointments at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science in Pittsburgh, PA and at Siemens AG's Corporate Technology in Munich.

Udo Bubs research interests are Information Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, and Human Computer Interaction. He is lecturer of ICT Systems Engineering at TU Berlin. Before taking up his current positions, he had spent six years as a management and technology consultant in the telecommunications industry.

Located in: Berlin

Professor Marko Turpeinen, born 1968, has a Doctor of Technology Degree in Computer Science from Helsinki University of Technology (TKK, now Aalto University) and a Master of Science Degree in Media Arts and Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

He is a Principal Scientist and the leader of the Digital Content Communities research group at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT), a joint research institute of Aalto University and University of Helsinki. He is also a Professor in Media Technology at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. He has extensive industrial experience from the media industry, as between 1996 and 2005 he worked in various executive positions at Alma Media Corporation, a Finnish media company.

Turpeinen was a Visiting Scientist at the University of California, Berkeley in 2009-10. His academic research addresses issues in customized media content, active computer-mediated communities, ageing society, and the role of media in promoting sustainable development.

Located in: Helsinki

Valérie Issarny is a Research Director at Inria since 2001 and since 2002 the head of the ARLES Inria research project team at the Paris-Rocquencourt centre. Her research interests relate to distributed systems, software architectures, pervasive computing / ambient intelligence systems and middleware.

Valerie Issarny got both her PhD and her "Habilitation à diriger des recherches", in Computer Science at Université de Rennes I, France, in 1991 and 1997, respectively. She has (co)authored over 150 technical papers in the area of distributed systems and software engineering.

Since the start of her career Valérie Issarny has been involved in International collaborative projects. In particular she has contributed to several collaborative EU projects as PIs. Furthermore she was the coordinator of the FP6 IST STREP PLASTIC project, and is currently the coordinator of the FP7 FET IP CONNECT project and scientific leader of the FET IP CHOReOS project.

Valérie Issarny has also led national projects in collaboration with industry, i e projects with France-Télécom R&D and Alcatel. She regularly acts as a scientific expert at the national (for the AERES, ANR, and regional programmes) and international levels (for the EC and national programmes of Austria, Belgium, HK, Ireland, NL, Qatar, UK, etc).

Located in: Paris

Roberto Saracco has been the Director of the Future Centre in Venice and responsible for innovative telecommunications architectures and scientific communications reporting directly to the Strategy Officer of Telecom Italia. In 2001 he became director of the Future Centre, a research centre focusing on the economic impact of innovations in the telecommunications area.

During 1999 and 2000, Roberto proposed and delivered a World Bank project in the InfoDev framework to speed entrepreneurship in Latin American countries, and prior, 1999 and 2000, he proposed and carried out a World Bank project in the InfoDev framework to foster entrepreneurship in Latin America countries.

Roberto chaired the Visionary Group (1996-1997) on Super Intelligent Networks to steer the cooperative research at the European Union (EU) level beyond the year 2000. He has recently served as member of the Internet 2020 Strategy Group and European Research Network (GEANT) expert group. In 1994 he launched the Marketing & Communications area in CSELT, ensuring dissemination of innovation.

At several stages in his career, Roberto has taught at Universities in Italy and around the world on the subject of Telecommunications, and most recently, on the New Economy. He currently lectures at the Turin Polytechnic on the aspects of multimedia and telecommunications.