Gerhard P. Fettweis, earned a Ph.D. under H. Meyr at RWTH Aachen (Germany) in 1990. After a postdoc at IBM Research, San Jose, he joined TCSI, Berkeley, USA. Since 1994 he is Vodafone Chair Professor at TU Dresden, Germany. Since 2018 he is also founding Scientific Director & CEO of the Barkhausen Institute. He researches wireless communications and chip design, and coordinates 5G++Lab Germany and the German Cluster-for-Future SEMECO. His team spun-out 30 tech startups, and he initiated 6 platform entities. Gerhard is member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the German Academy of Engineering (Acatech), and Fellow of IEEE, VDE/ITG, National Academy of Inventors, EURASIP, WWRF, and DATE. He is active in organizing IEEE conferences.

Professor Harald Haas received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, UK, in 2001. He is the Van Eck Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he leads the LiFi Research and Development Centre (LRDC). He is the Director of the National UK Future Connectivity Hub on the Network of Networks, TITAN. He co-founded pureLiFi Ltd and is a member of the Board. His research spans photonics, communication theory and signal processing to advance optical wireless communications. He has co-authored over 800 journal and conference papers, with more than 69,000 citations according to Google Scholar, and holds over 50 patents. His two TED talks and one TEDx talk have attracted over 5.7 million views. His honours include the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, the IEEE VTS James Evans Avant Garde Award, the Humboldt Research Award, and being shortlisted for the European Inventor Award. Haas is an Ambassador of Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg. He is a Fellow of the RAEng, the RSE, the IEEE and the IET.

Renato Lombardi is Director of Huawei Italy Research Center, Vice President of Huawei’s Microwave Product Line. In these roles, he oversees the research and development of microwave / millimeter-wave technologies for wireless communications and the implementation of innovative mobile broadband backhauling solutions all over the world.

Renato Lombardi joined Huawei in 2008, founding the Huawei Research Center in Milan, Italy.  

In 2011, he was awarded the title of “Fellow of Huawei for Microwave”.

Renato has more than 35 years of experience in the microwave and millimeter-wave industry. He previously led the Siemens Microwave Business and Product Management and then in 2006 appointed Director of Research and Development.

In 2015 Renato Lombardi has been elected Chair of the ETSI Industry Study Group mWT (millimeter-Wave Transmission), in 2025 transformed in a permanent Working Group.

Renato Lombardi graduated from the Politecnico of Milano, the largest and most prestigious technical University in Italy with a Master’s Degree in Electronic Engineering.

Xuemin (Sherman) Shen (M’97–SM’02–F’09) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, in 1990. He is a University Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. His research focuses on network resource management, wireless network security, Internet of Things, 5G and beyond, and vehicular networks. Dr. Shen is a registered Professional Engineer of Ontario, Canada, an Engineering Institute of Canada Fellow, a Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow, a Royal Society of Canada Fellow, a Chinese Academy of Engineering Foreign Member, and an International Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan.

Dr. Shen received “West Lake Friendship Award” from Zhejiang Province in 2023, President's Excellence in Research from the University of Waterloo in 2022,  the Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research from the Canadian Society of Information Theory (CSIT) in 2021, the R.A. Fessenden Award in 2019 from IEEE, Canada, Award of Merit from the Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals (Ontario) in 2019, James Evans Avant Garde Award in 2018 from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Joseph LoCicero Award in 2015 and Education Award in 2017 from the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), and Technical Recognition Award from Wireless Communications Technical Committee (2019) and AHSN Technical Committee (2013). He has also received the Excellent Graduate Supervision Award in 2006 from the University of Waterloo and the Premier’s Research Excellence Award (PREA) in 2003 from the Province of Ontario, Canada. He serves/served as the General Chair for the 6G Global Conference’23, and ACM Mobihoc'15, Technical Program Committee Chair/Co-Chair for IEEE Globecom’24, 16 and 07, IEEE Infocom’14, IEEE VTC’10 Fall, and the Chair for the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Wireless Communications. Dr. Shen is the Past President of the IEEE ComSoc, the Vice President for Technical & Educational Activities, Vice President for Publications, Member-at-Large on the Board of Governors, Chair of the Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee, and Member of IEEE Fellow Selection Committee of the ComSoc. Dr. Shen served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE IoT JOURNAL, IEEE Network, and IET Communications.

Prof. Dimitra Simeonidou OBE: is the Chief Scientific Advisor to the European Commission, the Director of Smart Internet Lab at the University of Bristol and the Founding Director of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute. Her research is focusing on the fields of high-performance networks, programmable networks, Future Internet, 5G/6G and smart city infrastructures. She has been the Technical Architect, and the CTO of the smart city project Bristol Is Open. In the past few years, she is increasingly working on cross-disciplinary topics addressing digital transformation for society and businesses. 

Dimitra has been a member of the UK Government Supply Chain Diversification Task Force and Advisory Council. She is a founding member of the UK Telecoms Innovation Network and member of the OFCOM Spectrum Advisory Board. She has led major research projects funded by UK Government and the EC. She is currently coordinating the DSIT REASON project developing blueprint architectures and technologies for 6G and the EPSRC JOINER project, establishing a UK-wide experimentation platform for 6G research and innovation. 

She is the author and co-author of over 700 publications, numerous patents and several contributions to standards. She has been co-founder of three spin-out companies developing solutions for connected smart infrastructures.

Dimitra is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), a Fellow of the IEEE (FIEEE), Fellow of WWRF and member of UKCRC. In 2025 she has been recognised with an OBE for service to communication technologies research and scientific policy.

Shuping Dang received B.Eng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester (with first class honors) and B.Eng in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Beijing Jiaotong University in 2014 via a joint ‘2+2' dual-degree program. He also received D.Phil in Engineering Science from University of Oxford in 2018. He is currently a Senior Lecturer with the School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol. Dr. Dang is the leading author in the well-known perspective article “What Should 6G Be?” published by Nature Electronics in 2020 and one of the pioneers in 6G communications. The recent research interests of Dr. Dang include various physical-layer topics related to AI for communications.  

Marco Di Renzo received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Doctor of Science) degree from University Paris-Sud (currently Paris-Saclay University), France, in 2013. Currently, he is Chair Professor of Telecommunications Engineering, the Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research, and the Head of the Telecommunications Group, Department of Engineering, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom. He is also a CNRS Research Director (Professor) with the Laboratory of Signals and Systems at CNRS-CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France. He was a France-Nokia Chair of Excellence in ICT at the University of Oulu (Finland), a Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellow in Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), a Fulbright Fellow at The City University of New York (USA), a Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor at Aalto University (Finland), and a Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast (U.K.). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IET, EURASIP, and AAIA; an Academician of AIIA; an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, an Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea, and an Ordinary Member of the Italian Academy of Technology and Engineering; an Ambassador of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation; and a Highly Cited Researcher. He has received several distinctions, including the Michel Monpetit Prize conferred by the French Academy of Sciences, the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award, and the IEEE Communications Society Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications. Also, he is a principal investigator of an ERC Synergy grant on metasurface-based information processing. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters from 2019 to 2023, and as the Director of Journals and Chair of the Publications Misconduct Ad Hoc Committee of the IEEE Communications Society from 2024 to 2025. Currently, he sits on the IEEE-COMSOC Fellow Evaluation Standing Committee and on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE.

Dr. Yonggang Wen is a Professor and President’s Chair in Computer Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Currently he serves as the Vice Provost (Graduate Education) and Dean of Graduate College at NTU Singapore. Previously he has served as the Associate Vice President (Capability Building) at President’s Office (2023), the Associate Dean (Research) at College of Engineering (2018-2023), the acting Director for Nanyang Technopreneurship Center (NTC) (2017-2019) and the Assistant Chair (Innovation) at the School of Computer Science and Engineering (2016-2018), all at NTU Singapore. He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (minor in Western Literature) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, in 2008. Dr. Wen has published over 400 papers in top journals and prestigious conferences. His systems research has gained global recognitions. His work in Multi-Screen Cloud Social TV has been featured by global media (more than 1600 news articles from over 29 countries) and received ASEAN ICT Award 2013 (Gold Medal). His work on Cognitive Digital Twin for Data Centre, has won the 2015 Data Centre Dynamics Awards – APAC (the ‘Oscar’ award of data centre industry), 2016 ASEAN ICT Awards (Gold Medal), 2020 IEEE TCCPS Industrial Technical Excellence Award, 2021 W.Media APAC Cloud and Datacenter Technology Leader Award, and 2022 Singapore Computer Society Digital Achiever Tech Leader Award. He was the winner of 2019 Nanyang Research Award and the sole winner of 2016 Nanyang Awards for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, both of which are the highest recognition at NTU. He is a co-recipient of multiple Best Paper Awards from top journals, including 2019 IEEE TCSVT and 2015 IEEE Multimedia, and at international conferences, including 2023 ASPLOS, 2016 IEEE Globecom, 2016 IEEE Infocom MuSIC Workshop, 2015 EAI Chinacom, 2014 IEEE WCSP, 2013 IEEE Globecom and 2012 IEEE EUC. He has served as the Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) (2023 - 2025), serves or has served on editorial boards for multiple IEEE and ACM transactions, and was the elected Chair for IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communication Technical Committee (2014-2016). His research interests include cloud computing, green data center, big data analytics, multimedia network and mobile computing. He is a Fellow of IEEE and Singapore Academy of Engineering, and an ACM Distinguished Member.

Chau Yuen received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Murray Hill, in 2005. From 2006 to 2010, he was with the Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore. From 2010 to 2023, he was with the Engineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design. Since 2023, he has been with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, currently he is Provost’s Chair in Wireless Communications, Assistant Dean in Graduate College, and Cluster Director for Sustainable Built Environment at ER@IN.

Dr. Yuen received IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize (2024), IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award (2024), IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize (2023), IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications (2021), IEEE APB Outstanding Paper Award (2023), and EURASIP Best Paper Award for JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING (2021). He is an IEEE Fellow, and is listed as Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, and also a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science from 2022.