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VADEMECUM OF THE SPEAKERS

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ADRIAN SCRASE

ETSI CTO.

Adrian Scrase is CTO within ETSI, having operational responsibility for all of ETSI’s

standards production activities. He has more than 35 years of experience in the

telecommunications field, which includes 30 years of experience in standardization.

He played a central role in the creation of the “3rd Generation Partnership Project”

(3GPP) and is responsible for the operations of the 3GPP Project Co-ordination

Group. He heads 3GPPs’ Mobile Competence Centre (MCC) which is an International

team of 20 experts who provide comprehensive support to the Project.

He was also principally involved in the formation of the “oneM2M” Partnership

Project and oversees ETSI’s support to that initiative.

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SEBASTIANO TOFFALETTI

Sebastiano Toffaletti is Secretary General at the European DIGITAL SME Alliance

(www.digitalsme.eu). The Alliance is currently the largest network of digital SMEs in

Europe representing about 20.000 companies in 18 countries. Sebastiano authored

several articles and position papers on topics such as Intellectual Property Rights,

Standards, e-Skills, Net Neutrality and Cloud Computing. He serves as expert in

several EU groups and task forces, such as the EU Multi-stakeholder Platform on ICT

Standardisation and the EC WG on Patents and Standards.

He is currently also chairman of the Working Group on SMEs at ECSO, the European

Cyber-Security Organisation (www.ecs-org.eu).

In 2014, Sebastiano was elected member of the ETSI Board. ETSI (etsi.org), the

European Telecommunications Standards Institute, produces standards for key

global technologies such as GSM cell phone system, 3G, 4G, DECT, etc.

From 2005 to 2013 Sebastiano worked at NORMAPME, the organisation supported

by the European Commission for SMEs in standardisation. He joined the organisation

as a Project Manager in 2005. Since then, he contributed to the development of the

organisation that achieved to double its budget and the number of funded SME

experts. From 2010 he served as Director.

Prior to 2005, he worked for VOLVO as sales engineer for trucks.

Sebastiano holds a Master’s Degree in Management, Economics and Industrial

Engineering from the University of Bologna. He speaks fluently English, French and

Spanish besides his mother tongue Italian.

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JOCHEN FRIEDRICH

Jochen Friedrich leads IBM’s Technical Relations – Europe team which is part of the corporate IBM standards and open source strategy organisation. He is responsible for coordinating IBM’s standardisation activities in Europe as well as for standardisation policy, technical regulation and compliance engineering. Jochen Friedrich started his career in IBM at the Scientific Centre Heidelberg in 1998. Since then he has held several lead positions in Research and Development. In addition to his IBM responsibilities, Jochen is a member of the ETSI Board, of the Executive Committee of Ecma International, and is a member of the DIN presidential committee FOCUS.ICT, of the DKE Advisory Council on Technology, of the Standardisation Council Industry 4.0 and of the German Platform Industrie 4.0 working group 1. He also holds lead roles in European industry associations: He chairs the standardisation task force in OpenForum Europe (OFE), is chair of the standardisation working group in the German ICT association BITKOM. He is a member of a regional board of the German Association of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (VDE). Jochen is a representative in the EU Commission's advisory group “ICT Multi-Stakeholder Platform” and in the Steering Committee of the “Joint Initiative on Standardisation (JIS)”. Jochen is a Fellow of the Openforum Academy. For further information see Jochen's Open Blog (http://jfopen.blogspot.com/) and connect with Jochen at Linked In (http://de.linkedin.com/in/jochenfriedrich).

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ROBERT POCKNELL

Robert Pocknell is chair of the Fair Standards Alliance, an association formed to

promote fair, balanced and rational practices in the licensing of standard-essential

patents within the FRAND policy debate. Mr Pocknell is also CEO of N&M

Consultancy and has more than 25 years’ experience advising clients on IP matters.

He has advised small and large companies, from SME’s to multinationals, on patent

licensing in the wireless industry for more than 17 years. He was a lawyer in private

practice for 12 years before joining Sendo, the United Kingdom’s first mobile phone

manufacturer and developer of the world’s first Microsoft smartphone. Mr Pocknell

also spent two years as Intellectual Property Counsel at TomTom, the leading

satellite navigation company.

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TIM FRAIN

Tim is Head of IP Regulatory Affairs at Nokia, focusing on intellectual property (IP)

policy and legislation. He has 40 years’ experience of IP in the corporate

environment and has a broad industry perspective, being actively involved in trade

associations and professional organisations in the UK and at EU level.

Tim is recognised for his active contribution in the policy debate surrounding

standardisation & patents, including the topical issues of SEPs and FRAND. He

actively participates in ETSI (the European Telecommunications Standards Institute)

and ITU patent committees.

Tim has also been closely involved in the proposals for a Unified Patent Court in

Europe. He represented industry on the Expert Group of Judges and Lawyers which

advised the European Commission, and is a member of the Expert Panel advising the

UPC Preparatory Committee.

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BERNHARD THIES

Dr Bernhard Thies is Chairman of the Board of Directors of DKE – the German

Commission for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies of DIN and VDE,

German National Committee of IEC and CENELEC. Moreover he is Vice-Chairman of

the EEBus Initiative, a network of leading companies, associations and stakeholders

in the German and international energy, telecommunications and electrical industry

in order to open up the new market of smart connectivity. Dr Thies is Vice-President

of the IRIEA – International Robotics and Intelligent Equipment Industry Alliance

(former AMA), (China), the international institute engaged in providing professional

training and consulting services for the organizations and the individuals in China.

Since many years, he also gives lectures at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische

Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen). Dr Thies studied at the RWTH Aachen where

he also obtained his doctorate. His last position in industry (1999) was President of

the ABB Traffo BB Gmbh, specialized in power, distribution and transformers. His

standardization career in VDE started in 1999. Dr Thies is President of CENELEC

since 1 January 2016.

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CHRISTEL DAVIDSON

Since February 2016, Christel Davidson is the Director of Small Business Standards,

the European association representing and supporting SMEs in the standardisation

process.

She has twenty years experience in EU Affairs, primarily in sustainibility.

Prior to SBS, she worked for various trade associations, such as EuroCommerce and

UEAPME, and environmental NGO namely Birdlife International.

Christel Davidson holds a DES in environmental sciences (ULB) and a university

degree in Business Administration (ICHEC).

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CHIARA GIOVANNINI

Chiara Giovannini works for ANEC since 2002, first as Programme Manager and

presently as Senior Manager, Policy & Innovation. Apart from deputising for the

Secretary General, she leads ANEC’s works on Accessibility and Digital Society and is

responsible for horizontal and strategic policy issues.

Prior to working for ANEC, Ms. Giovannini worked at Swiss Consumers Organisation.

She holds a master degree in European Law.

Ms Giovannini represents ANEC at high-level events, committees and research

Advisory Boards.

ANEC is the European consumer voice in standardisation. ANEC defends the

European consumer interest in the creation of technical standards and European

laws and public policies making use of standards.

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CHRISTOPH WINTERHALTER

After studying computer science at the University of Karlsruhe Winterhalter started

his career at ABB. After assignments in Norway, USA and Germany he took over the

business units robot automation and robotics products. In 2010 he became director

of the German Research Center of ABB until he was promoted global Product Group

manager heading ABB’s global Machinery Controls and Automation business and

later Hub Business Manager Control Technologies. Since July 2016 he is Chairman of

the Executive Board of DIN.