Graham Campbell
Ether2 Co-Founder, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering (Ret.), Illinois Institute of Technology
Graham Campbell received the BScEE and MScEE degrees from the University of Manitoba in Canada. After working in industry in Canada he emigrated to the USA and established with a classmate a company providing consulting services related to control systems to NASA, the US Air Force, and the U.S. Army. Subsequent to this he joined Penn State University where he taught and also directed Computer Science activities at the 20 Commonwealth Campuses of the Penn State system while completing his PhD in Computer Science. He returned to Canada in the mid 70s for a four year stint as Science Advisor to the Premier of Manitoba. He was a Professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology for over 20 years, where he was responsible for the courses related to data communications. In working with fourteen students who completed their PhDs under his direction, Dr. Campbell and his team invented the Distributed Queue Switch Architecture (DQSA) which is currently being commercialized by Ether2 Corporation.
Dr. Luis Alonso
PhD. Associate Professor of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Luis Alonso received the Engineer of Telecommunications degree from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain, in 1997. In 1998 he joined the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyers de Telecomunicació de Barcelona (ETSETB), Spain, where he started teaching pre-graduate students while beginning his PhD preparation. At that time, he discovered the ideas of Dr. Graham Campbell about an amazing near-optimum access protocol suitable for any kind of communications systems. He decided to contact with Dr. Campbell and focus his research work based on this surprisingly good idea. Indeed, his PhD consisted in the proposal, modeling and analysis of the adaptation of Dr.Cambpell’s protocol to a mobile wireless communications system based on CDMA technology.
Dr. Alonso has participated in several research programs, networks of excellence, COST actions and integrated projects funded by the European Union and the Spanish Government, always working on the design and analysis of different mechanisms and techniques to improve wireless communications systems. He has been publishing several works (in international congresses, journals and magazines) based on the Distributed Queueing principle, trying to show all the benefits that this key idea may provide for all kind of wireless communications systems, when it is embedded into the general Radio Resource Management entities. He has been showing also that QoS features and Cross-Layer optimization are specially easy to fit into the DQSA-like architecture.
He has also collaborated with some telecommunications companies as Telefónica, Alcatel and Sener, working as a consultant for several research projects. He has also supervised a great number of Master Thesis, some of them developed by students working in companies as Tradia or Amena. Furthermore, he is currently supervising three doctorate students who are working in different aspects of applying the Distributed Queueing ideas into other environments. He also collaborates teaching within the Vodafone’s Master in Mobile Communications, carried out in the UPC and directed by Professor Ramon Agustí in collaboration with Vodafone.
He is currently the Project Coordinator of a Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge Action (funded by the Eurpoean Union) in collaboration with INA, a Greek Research Institute, and he is also the Scientific in Charge of a three-year Research Project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. Both projects are related to Cross-Layer optimization aspects of wireless communications systems. The latter also includes the intention to build a demonstrator (a test-bed) of a wireless communications system based on DQCA (one of the protocols of the DQSA family). His current research interests are still within the field of medium access protocols, radio resource management, cross-layer optimization and QoS features for all kind of wireless communications systems.
Dr. Jesús Alonso Zárate
Research Associate, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
Dr. Zárate received his M. Sc. (with Honors) and Ph. D (Cum Laude) degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC, Spain) in March 2004 and February 2009, respectively. In 2005, he was awarded by the National Telecommunication Agency (COIT) of Spain with the Best Master Thesis Award in ICT. In 2011, he received the UPC Award for his thesis read during the course 2008/2009 (Premi Extraordinari de Doctorat 2011).
From 2004 to 2005, he worked as an Information Technology consultant at Everis (former DMR Consulting). In 2005, he was granted by the Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) to obtain the Ph. D. on Signal Theory and Communications at the UPC.
While completing his Ph. D. degree, he was granted in 2006 by the European Space Agency (ESA) and by the Generalitat de Catalunya to attend the Space Studies Program (SSP’06) at the International Space University (ISU) in Strasbourg, France. He has also been a visiting teacher assistant at the Escola Politècnica Superior de Castelldefels (EPSC) of the UPC during the second semester of 2007.
He is now with the CTTC holding a Research Associate position. He has published several scientific papers in renowned international journals (IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, etc.) and international conferences (IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE VTC, etc.) over the last years and he has also participated in both public funded and industrial research projects. He is member of the IEEE ComSoc CSIM Technical Committee (Communication Systems Integration and Modeling) and works as reviewer and chair for numerous international conferences. He is part of the Editorial Board of the IET Wireless Sensor Systems Journal and supervises a number of graduate students and Phd Thesis. In 2011, he has been awarded with the Best Paper Award of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) with a technical contribution towards the energy-efficiency of wireless communications.
Nelson Paez
DreamHammer, President and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Paez serves the Federal Government with subject matter experts specifically for NASA, Homeland Security and the Defense Department in Warfare Modeling, Simulation and Analysis, Defense Department Security Policy authoring, International Armament Cooperation for NATO, Defense Department Security Architecture Planning, Crew Exploration Vehicle Information Infrastructure for NASA, and Secure Data Integration between the Government and Government-contractors for all programs over $25 million.
Tony Perkins
AlwaysOn, Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Tony is a pioneering media entrepreneur and a prominent opinion leader in the technology business and investment editorial world. He founded Red Herring in 1993 and his two current ventures, the AlwaysOn Network and the GoingOn community management platform in 2002 and 2006, respectively. In 1999, Tony co-wrote The Internet Bubble, a book that forewarned the dot-com bust. Tony’s public activities include serving on President George W. Bush’s Information Technology Advisory Council. He cofounded and chaired Silicon Valley’s premier business and technology forum, the Churchill Club in Palo Alto, California. Prior to launching Red Herring and ALWAYSON, Tony was founder and CEO of Upside Publishing and vice president of business development at Silicon Valley Bank.
Darian Rodriguez Heyman
Code Green Agency, Founder
Darian has a history of building businesses and creating community. After five years of service, Darian recently stepped down as Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation, an organization dedicated to educating, empowering, and connecting emerging nonprofit leaders. While there, he helped launch Nonprofit Boot Camp, a one-day conference that quickly grew into the largest nonprofit gathering in San Francisco Bay Area history, and he also helped launch the Environmental Nonprofit Network and the Next Generation Leadership Forum. Heyman also served as a Commissioner for the Environment and Operations Committee Chair for the City and County of San Francisco, where he helped pass the largest solar rebate program in the country. For his work, Independent Sector labeled him a “Vital Voice” in the nonprofit sector in their 2007 annual report. Currently, Heyman is editing Nonprofit Management 101: A Field Guide for Social Sector Professionals, which will include contributions from 37 recognized nonprofit leaders. He recently worked with the Carbon War Room, an environmental nonprofit started by Sir Richard Branson to harness the power of entrepreneurs to solve climate change, and launched CODE Green Agency, which provides strategy, messaging, and fundraising for the green economy. Heyman advises the United Nations’ GAID program and sits on the board of Project Ahimsa, a global effort to empower children through music, and he helps produce the annual Power to the Peaceful festival in San Francisco, a free concert for peace and social justice that draws crowds of over 70,000.
Dr. Amy Vanderbilt
TrendPOV.com Founder & Chief Strategist
Trend POV is an interactive LIVE call-in show every Friday at 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific. Trend POV is for people who like to be one step ahead of the competition by harnessing emerging trends for their advantage. Dr. Amy Vanderbilt is a newly retired DARPA Program Manager and member of the dominant incoming government population – Generation X. While at DARPA, Dr. Vanderbilt was responsible for 17 different projects including SBIRs, Seedlings, and Programs and a budget of over 33 Million USD.
Alex K.
Principal Shareholder, Beverly Hills Law Firm
Alex is a U.S. Patent Attorney with many years of experience working for large law firms. He continues to prosecute U.S. patent applications and trademarks.