FutureInternetofThingsandServices2009

Program Co-Chairs:

• Vania CONAN, vania.conan@fr.thalesgroup.com

Dr. Conan is head of Advanced Studies laboratory in Thales Communications, Colombes, France. He received his Engineering Degree and PhD in Computer Science from Ecole des Mines de Paris, France, and a Masters Degree in Artificial Intelligence from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. Since then, he has been managing research projects at national and European levels (FP5, FP6 IST programmes, ITEA Eureka cluster and French ANR). His current research topics cover wireless and ad hoc networks, from a software and IP protocol perspective.

• Christian Wietfeld, christian.wietfeld@tu-dortmund.de

Prof. Dr. Wietfeld is head of the Communication Networks Institute of TU Dortmund, University. He has a background in communications networks research and product development at RWTH Aachen and Siemens AG. He held the position of a Director Product Line Management at Siemens Communications and served two years in the Board of Directors of the international industry consortium WAP Forum resp. OMA (Open Mobile Alliance). His research work on the design and performance evaluation of wireless communication architectures, protocols and services is published in numerous conference papers, book chapters, contributions to standardisation (ITUT/3GPP/ETSI/OMA/CEN) and patents. He completed management programmes at U.S. business schools (Kellogg/ Chicago and Babson/Boston).

• Peter Marwedel, peter.marwedel@tu-dortmund.de

Prof. Dr Marwedel is the head of UniDo/ES. His experience covers a wide range of topics in embedded systems. In 2003, he published a very influential text book on embedded system design which is setting standards worldwide. In the same year, he received the teaching award of his University. He is also heading the local technology transfer centre ICD. ICD is in charge of transforming research results into industrial products. ICD has designed several simulators, compilers and debuggers for industrial customers.

TPC Chair:

• Stefan Michaelis, stefan.michaelis@prodv.de

TPC Vice Chair:

• Damien Lavaux, damien.lavaux@fr.thalesgroup.com

Publicity Chair:

• Jens Schmutzler, jens.schmutzler@tu-dortmund.de