Arnd Sibila joined Rohde & Schwarz in 2012 as Technology Marketing Manager for Wireless Technologies and led the Infrastructure Global Key Account Manager group. Since 2016, he has focused on Technology Marketing for the Mobile Network Testing market segment.

Previously, Arnd gained 21 years of experience at Siemens Communications and Nokia Siemens Networks where he held various technical and management positions in the field of Wireless Communication Systems and Mobile Networks Product Lifecycle (Product Management, Product Line Management, System Architecture, CTO, Business Development, Portfolio Management and Product Qualification) covering nearly all wireless technologies (LTE-Advanced, LTE, WCDMA/HSPA, WiMAX, WiFi, etc.).

Ricardo Freitas is an Electrotechnical Engineer, with an MBA, and was part of the initial team that started with Rohde & Schwarz Portugal, back in 2003, where he has been working as Product Manager for Test and Measurement equipment, with special focus on the ICR (Industry, Components, Research) and MNT (Mobile Network Testing) market segments.

Previously, Ricardo gained 8 years of experience at TELERUS, where he worked as a Sales Engineer, for different brands, on the Instrumentation market, but also on Radio monitoring projects, with private and governmental customers.

Luís Perdigoto is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2015. He is also a researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics, at University of Coimbra, and collaborates with the Advanced Robotics and Smart Factories (ROBiTECH) group at Polytechnic of Leiria. His research interests include computer vision, robotics, and automation.

He is responsible for the EduNet Automation Academy in Polytechnic of Leiria, an international network of higher education institutions, that is promoted by Phoenix Contact.

He is also the Coordinator for the short cycle programme (Professional Higher Technical Course) on Automation, Robotics and Industrial Maintenance at Polytechnic of Leiria.

Ivan Miguel Serrano Pires (Male) holds, since 2018, a European PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Universidade da Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal. Holds the MSc degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the UBI (2012) and the BSc degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (2010). He is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Technology and Management of Polytechnic Institute of Viseu. He actively collaborates with some research and innovation institutes, including Institute de Telecomunicações, UBI, and UICISA: E Research Centre, School of Health, Polytechnic Institute of Viseu. Between February 2019 and September 2019, he frequented a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at C4 – Cloud Computing Competence Centre, Universidade da Beira Interior with a subject related to Passing Cloud. He received some prizes fruit of the scientific projects that he is being involved in, including 2nd place award Poliempreende by the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, for the project “Functional App Test” (2014), Awarded Paper in SENSORDEVICES 2018, Best presentation award in ICESPS 2020, Best paper award in HealthyIOT 2020, and VitalMobile prize – Prize for the best PhD thesis is e-health and telemedicine titled “Multi-sensor Data Fusion in Mobile Devices for the Identification of Activities of Daily Living” (2020). He is participating in several European research projects from the institutions that he is involved, including COST Action IC1303 – Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE), and COST Action CA16226 – Indoor living space improvement: Smart Habitat for the Elderly” (SHELD-ON) CA16226. He is frequently invited to the Scientific Conference Committee in the Information Technologies areas. He is also General Chair of the EAI GOODTECHS 2021 conference. He regularly reviews papers for several international scientific journals, namely Sensors, Electronics, IEEE Internet of Things, Scientific Reports, among others. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, INSTICC, among others. He is member of a Portuguese Ordem dos Engenheiros.

Mr Victor Marques concluded his Engineering and Masters degrees in Electronics and Telecommunications in the years of 1994 and 1997 respectively and his PhD in Electrotechnical Engineering in 2005, all at the University of Aveiro. He has joined Altice Labs on April 2001 where he has been researcher, Division Manager, Technological Consultant and, nowadays, Senior Consultant at the Network Systems Development and Implementation department. He has several National and International publications both in conferences and magazines. He has been involved in several national (Portuguese – QREN, P2020) and international research projects namely from EURESCOM, RACE, ACTS, FP5, FP6, FP7-ICT and H2020.

His main current interests are related with the synergies between 5G RANs (Radio Access Networks) and PONs (Passive Optical Networks).

Samuel da Rocha Madail, responsible for the consultancy services team on mobile networks and FTTx, has been developing since 2008 at Altice Labs / PTInovação several consulting projects on mobile networks for international operators. As a result of this experience, he presents solid knowledge in the operators’ mobile networks (in an end-to-end perspective), having worked with the main cellular network technologies (2G, 3G, 4G and 5G), Wimax and Wifi and with consolidated experience in the various manufacturers of radio solutions. In addition to the planning, auditing, benchmarking and optimization of mobile networks, it has complementarily carried out others activities, being currently the product manager of 5G small cells products and solutions at Altice Labs.