Volker is an energetic, strategic and purpose-driven leader with 25+ years of broad and international experience in the telecommunications industry. He currently serves as Senior Technology Advisor and Chief Architect in Nokia Strategy and Technology unit. Previously, Volker has exercised a leadership role with Nokia Bell Labs in 6G research and ecosystem. P rior to this, he h as served as Head of 5G Leadership and Chief Architect of Nokia Mobile Networks.

Chair and founder of MPAI community (well know to have founded MPEG committee since 1988) Leonardo Chiariglione obtained his MS degree from the Polytechnic of Turin and his Ph. D. degree from the University of Tokyo.He has been at the forefront of a range of initiatives that have helped shape media technology and business as we know them today. Among these is the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) standards committee which he founded and chaired for 32 years is now closed. In June 2020 he left ISO and the group he founded no longer exists.In September 2020 he lanched MPAI - Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence, a non-profit organisation developing AI-enabled data coding standards while bridging the gap between standards and their practical use. In a little more than a year, MPAI has published 5 standards on AI app execution environment, AI-enhanced audio, human-machine conversation, and prediction of company performance. It also has more AI-driven standards projects in other techical areas such as neural network watermarking and avatar representation and animation. Dr Chiariglione is the recipient of several awards: among these the IBC John Tucker Award, the Eduard-Rhein Foundation Award, the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award, and the Kilby Foundation Award. Since January 2004 he is the CEO of CEDEO.net, a company providing advanced media technologies, solutions, and services and advising major multinationals on digital media matters.
Additional details at https://leonardo.chiariglione.org/communications/biography/

Some forms of metaverse are already with us and impressive R&D investments promise to deliver the technologies needed to make the Metaverse idea real. This is probably the most ambitious cross-industry project ever and results that satisfy all parties - industry and consumers - are not guaranteed. MPAI, the Moving Picture, Audio, and Artificial Intelligence standards developing organisation, is designing a path that is based on the experience gathered in MPEG, the most cross-industry standards group in the Information and Communication Technology domain.

Pamela Snively is the Chief Data & Trust Officer at TELUS. She leads the team responsible for privacy governance and data ethics, along with data management and a number of compliance functions, including the Anti-bribery & Corruption and Competition Law programs.  Pam approaches overall data governance through the lens of customer trust, leveraging TELUS’ Customer First principle to drive the organization’s commitment to privacy and data ethics. Pam is a lawyer but has dedicated most of her career to developing and operationalizing privacy best practices, either as a consultant or in-house. Under Pam’s leadership, TELUS has significantly transformed its approach to transparency about its data handling practices. This has included a refresh of the TELUS Privacy Centre to include layered information on TELUS' data management practices, as well as some best practices to help our customers protect their information. Pam has also published the framework for her privacy management program online, encouraging TELUS’ customers to more fully understand what responsible private sector organizations do to protect privacy.   Pamela was the recipient of the 2017 Ontario Bar Association’s Karen Spector Memorial Award for Excellence in Privacy Law. She participates in a number of national and international think-tanks and governance bodies related to privacy and data governance, including serving as a Board member for the Information Accountability Foundation and on the Privacy and Data Advisory Committee for the Canadian Marketing Association.  She is also a founding member and Chair of Canada’s Business Privacy Group, a working group made up of some of Canada’s leading privacy professionals and industry associations focused on building trust in Canada’s digital ecosystem and legislative regime.   Pam is a frequent speaker on privacy and data ethics and she actively encourages other organizations to join her in her mission to earn and elevate consumer trust in our digital ecosystem.

The license to engage in the technologies of the future must be underwritten by trust. How do you gain and maintain the public’s trust?

Dr. Halim Yanikomeroglu is a Professor at Carleton University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1998. He contributed to 4G/5G technologies and standards; his research focus in recent years include 6G/beyond-6G, non-terrestrial networks (NTN), and future wireless infrastructure. His extensive collaboration with industry resulted in 39 granted patents. He supervised or hosted in his lab 150+ postgraduate researchers. He co-authored IEEE papers with faculty members in 80+ universities in 25 countries. He has given around 110 invited seminars, keynotes, tutorials, and panel talks in the last five years. He is a Fellow of IEEE, Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), and Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), and an IEEE Distinguished Speaker for Communications Society and Vehicular Technology Society. Dr. Yanikomeroglu is serving as the Chair of the Steering Committee of IEEE’s flagship wireless event, Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC). He served as the General Chair and Technical Program Chair of several leading international IEEE conferences. He received several awards for his research, teaching, and service, including IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Prize (2021), IEEE VTS Stuart Meyer Memorial Award (2020), IEEE ComSoc Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award (2018), and a number of best paper awards.

In this talk, a forward-looking wireless infrastructure will be presented which includes a new stratospheric access & computing layer composed of HAPS (high altitude platform station) constellations positioned in stratosphere, 20 km above the ground, in addition to the legacy terrestrial layer and the emerging satellite layer.  With its bird’s-eye and almost-line-of-sight view of an entire metropolitan area, a HAPS is more than a base station in the air; it is a new architecture paradigm with access, transport, and core network functionalities for integrated connectivity, computing, sensing, positioning, navigation, and surveillance, towards enabling a variety of use-cases in an agile, smart, and sustainable manner for smart cities and societies of the future.

Brian Markwalter is senior vice president of research and standards for the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™, the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the $487 billion U.S. consumer technology industry. CTA also owns and produces CES® – the most influential tech event in the world. Markwalter is responsible for CTA’s extensive consumer research, market data and forecasting capability, and CTA’s ANSI-accredited standards development program which develops technical standards used in millions of products every year. He serves on the ATSC board of directors, the Federal Communications Commission Technological Advisory Council, holds seven patents and is a licensed professional engineer.

The final day of ICCE and CES gives us a chance to look at hot products and trends showing up at CES.  Brian Markwalter will share what CTA sees as the latest and most important trends we see emerging from CES.