Dr. Richard D. Gitlin is a State of Florida 21st Century World Class Scholar and the Agere Systems Chair Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida. He has more than 38 years of leadership in the communications and networking industry. Most recently, he was Chief Technology Officer of Hammerhead Systems, a venture funded networking company in Silicon Valley. Previously, he was at Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies for 32-years performing and leading pioneering research and development in digital communications, broadband networking, and wireless systems. Dr. Gitlin was Senior VP for Communications and Networking Research at Bell Labs and later CTO of Lucent's Data Networking Business Unit. After retiring from Lucent, he was visiting professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, where he supervised several doctoral students and research projects.

Dr. Gitlin is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Bell Laboratories Fellow. He is also a co-recipient of the 2005 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award and the S.O. Rice prize, has co-authored a text, published ~100 papers and holds 43 patents (with 6 pending. He has conducted and led research and development that has resulted in many innovative products, including: the industry-leading ATLANTA ATM Chipset, the world's first 20 gigabit/sec ATM switch, wire-speed and quality of service-aware IP switches, multicode CDMA (used in 3G HSDPA wireless data), and the BLAST broadband wireless system based on advanced smart antennas (MIMO). Earlier in his career, he led the team that pioneered V.32/V.34 voice-band modems, and in 1986 he was co-inventor of DSL. He was instrumental in launching Globespan, an early DSL chip vendor.

Richard J. Lynch is executive vice president and chief technology officer for Verizon Communications. In this role he is responsible for technology direction and network planning for all the Verizon business units. Prior to assuming his current position in July 2007, Lynch had been the executive vice president and chief technical officer for Verizon Wireless since its formation in 2000, and before that, had held the same position at Bell Atlantic Mobile since 1990. In those positions he was responsible for network technology selection and planning as well as network operations. Under Lynch, the Verizon Wireless network attained the distinction of quality and reliability which has formed the basis for the very well known "Can you hear me now?" advertising campaign.

Lynch has been at the forefront of wireless data solutions, starting with Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) in 1995 when he led Bell Atlantic Mobile's build of one of the largest CDPD networks in the country. In 2004, Lynch again led the industry with the decision to widely deploy EV-DO, in the first true wireless broadband service widely provided to the public in the US. Lynch was also responsible for the decision to deploy CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), which still remains the basis for the Verizon Wireless high-quality voice network. Building on these and other key technology decisions, Lynch has supported the introduction of key innovative products and services into the marketplace.

Lynch is a Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has served on the executive board of the CDMA Development Group (CDG) and as a member of the Federal Communications Commission Technical Advisory Committee. For his leadership in the early years of wireless data, Lynch was honored with the President's Award by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA). He has earned patents for advances in the area of wireless technology. He is a frequent guest lecturer in academia and industry on technology and its business implications.

Lynch began his career in 1972 with New England Telephone and has held a variety of positions in planning, operations, and engineering there and in Bell of Pennsylvania.

Lynch is a graduate of Lowell Technological Institute (now University of Massachusetts) where he received bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering. He has also completed post graduate work at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University.

Invited Speakers :

Dr. Francois Cosquer
CTO Security and Technology Strategist
Carrier Product Group
Alcatel-Lucent

Dr. Zygmunt Haas
Professor and  Director of Wireless Networks Laboratory
Cornell University

Dr. Sajal Das
Program Director, NSF
Professor, University Texas at Arlington

Dr. Habib Riazi
Research Manager, Clearwire WiMax Lab.

Dr. François Cosquer is CTO Security and Technology Strategist for the Alcatel-Lucent Carrier Product Group. Over the past 18 years, he has held senior positions with research institutions, equipment vendors and telecommunications operators. He draws on extensive experience in security architecture, networking, operating systems, middleware, and multimedia applications. He has been speaker, panelist and chair at key industry events and conferences. François graduated in Electronics and Computing and holds an MSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Computer Engineering. He currently serves as Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Concordia, Montreal.

Dr. Zygmunt Haas is currently a professor in the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. His research interests are in the area of Wireless Communication and Mobile System, and Biologically-inspired Complex Systems and Networks. Previously he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories in the Network Research Department. There he pursued research on wireless communications, mobility management, fast protocols, optical networks, and optical switching. From September 1994 till July 1995, Dr. Haas worked for the AT&T Wireless Center of Excellence, where he investigated various aspects of wireless and mobile networking , concentrating on TCP/IP networks. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1988. Dr. Haas is an author of numerous technical papers and holds eighteen patents in the fields of high-speed networking, wireless networks, and optical switching. He has organized several workshops, delivered numerous tutorials at major IEEE and ACM conferences, and has served as editor of several journals and magazines, including the IEEE Transactions on Networking, the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Communications Magazine, the Springer "Wireless Networks" journal, the Elsevier "Ad Hoc Networks" journal, the "Journal of High Speed Networks," and the Wiley "Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing" journal. He has been a guest editor of IEEE JSAC issues on "Gigabit Networks," "Mobile Computing Networks," and "Ad-Hoc Networks." Dr. Haas is an IEEE Fellow and a voting member of ACM. He has served in the past as a Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications (TCPC). His interests include: mobile and wireless communication and networks, biologically-inspired networks, and modeling of complex systems.

Dr. Sajal Das is a University Distinguished Scholar Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the Founding Director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He is currently a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Computer Networks and Systems. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur and an Honorary Professor of Fudan University in Shanghai, China. His current research interests include wireless and sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing, smart environments, security and privacy, cloud computing, biological networking, applied graph theory and game theory.

He has published over 400 papers and over 35 invited book chapters, and holds five US patents in wireless networks and mobile Internet. Dr. Das coauthored two books - Smart Environments: Technology, Protocols, and Applications (Wiley, 2005) and Mobile Agents in Distributed Computing and Networking (Wiley, 2010). He is a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2009) for pioneering contributions to sensor networks and mobile computing; IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award (2008); and seven Best Paper Awards in such conferences as EWSN'08, IEEE PerCom'06, and ACM MobiCom'99. At UTA, he is also a recipient of Lockheed Martin Teaching Excellence Award (2009), UTA Academy of Distinguished Scholars Award (2006), University Award for Distinguished Record of Research (2005), College of Engineering Research Excellence Award (2003), and Outstanding Faculty Research Award in Computer Science (2001 and 2003). He is frequently invited as keynote speaker at international conferences and symposia. Dr. Das serves as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) journal, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networking. He is the founder of IEEE WoWMoM symposium and co-founder of IEEE PerCom conference. He has served as General and Technical Program Chair as well as TPC member of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences.