Mr. Takehiro Nakamura joined NTT Laboratories in 1990. He is now Chief Standardization Officer in NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

Mr. Nakamura has been engaged in R&D and the standardization activities for advanced radio and network technologies of W-CDMA, HSPA, LTE/LTE-Advanced, 5G and 6G, and engaged in strengthening inter-industry collaboration.

He has been contributing to standardization activities in ARIB, ITU and 3GPP since 1997, including as vice chair and chair of 3GPP TSG-RAN from 2005 to 2013.

Currently, he plays important roles to promote and accelerate 5G and 6G in Japan and globally as the Acting Chairman of Strategy & Planning Committee and the leader of Millimeter wave Promotion Ad Hoc of 5G Mobile Communications Promotion Forum(5GMF), the leader of Cellular System Task Group of ITS Info-communications Forum, the leader of White Paper Subcommittee in Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium in Japan and the Board member of 5G-ACIA.

David is currently the ETSI Director of New Technologies (NET), which involves tracking the latest ICT technology and business trends and all relevant research initiatives in order to identify appropriate technology standards needs and future opportunities for ETSI.

In addition, he works on outreach initiatives towards the research and academic communities, both in Europe and globally, as well as engaging with key European research programs such as Horizon Europe.

David has more than 30 years’ experience in the telecommunications sector, which includes over 20 years’ working in ICT standardization supporting both 3GPP and ETSI Technical and strategic groups.

Cristina is the Director of Spectrum policy and analysis, Spectrum Group at Ofcom and is also a NED of the Energy System Catapult and sits on the UK5G advisory board. Cristina is leading work to understand the long term impact of technology, market and international changes on our spectrum management activities. Prior to joining Ofcom Cristina held various market and business intelligence roles within strategy at Telefonica O2 setting up a framework to benchmark data growth across different countries, financial planning and analysis at Orange UK, looking at the profitability of different marketing initiatives and market research and intelligence at Red Bee Media where Cristina had the responsibility to set up the entire unit. Cristina holds a Master Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino university in Italy.

Anita Döhler has extensive international experience in various business areas including senior management positions with mobile network operators, vendors and consulting firms. From 2016 until 2020, she held senior management positions at Accenture Industry X.0. Prior to joining Accenture, she worked at Vodafone Group for 16 years, before at E-Plus and Philips, among others. Anita holds a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Telecommunication Engineering as well as an Executive MBA degree. Furthermore, she is a Systemic Business Coach. Anita is passionate about driving technology innovation for the benefit of human and societies and supporting the world’s leading operators, vendors and research institutes as CEO of the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance. 

A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole nationale supérieure des télécommunications, with an Advanced studies degree in industrial economics from Université Paris Dauphine, Franck Tarrier began his career in 2002 as Deputy head of “Communications networks and technologies” Unit in the Ministry of Culture and Communication.

In 2006, he joined the National Research Agency as a policy officer. In 2009 he became the head of the “Software” Unit of the Directorate General for Competitiveness, Industry and Services. Between 2012 and 2016, he served as the Deputy regional director and head of the “Enterprise, employment and economics” division of the Ile-de-France Regional Directorate of Enterprise, Competition, Consumer Affairs, Labour and Employment.

Then he joined the Directorate General for Enterprise as the Head of “Transport equipment, mechanics and energy” Division until December 2021.