Located in Saint-John, New-Brunswick Canada, Gino Dion is Head of the Nokia’s Innovation Solutions team. In his 25+ years in telecom industry, he has extensively worked with CxOs, heads of Network Operations of Service Providers & MSOs worldwide, and major webscale corporations such as Apple, Meta and Google.

Gino has extensive experience in all aspects IP service delivery, low-latency optimizations, advanced innovation R&D, IoT security, service assurance and cloud native technologies.

Gino is recognized as a Bell Labs Fellow, and also holds over 20 patents in the telecommunications space, including technology such as IP video, WIFI algorithms, and converged wireline & wireless access. He also sits on the Board of the Wi-Fi Alliance since 2023.

Gino complements the leadership teams of Nokia major accounts and primarily focuses on igniting R&D innovation opportunities for Nokia and their customers.

With over 30 years of experience in the telecoms industry, Craig Thomas is critical in leading the Broadband Forum, and executing the organization's strategy, focus areas, and ongoing work. The Forum represents the requirements of network operators, service and application providers, and the vendor community in laying the foundations for the future of broadband technology, standards, and best practices.

At a pivotal time for the global broadband industry, Thomas is driving the transition from connectivity-driven broadband to intelligent, services-led networks that prioritize the user experience.

Simon Sundberg is a PhD student at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Karlstad University. His research area is network performance monitoring, primarily focusing on network latency and enabling passive monitoring on commodity hardware through technologies like eBPF.

At Bell Labs, Koen leads the Access Control department in the End to End Network Service Automation lab. His research focuses on providing generic/programmable network functions and its algorithms and protocols to improve content delivery, service automation and facilitating network application development. He is interested in transport protocol - network, application - network and cross-layer network interactions.

Joined Huawei Ireland Research Center on Feb 2021 (ex-Cisco Fellow), as Data Communication Intelligent Operations Management CTO, focusing on realizing the Autonomous Driving Network vision.

For the last couple of years, Benoit has been mainly focusing on configuration management, network automation, data-model driven management. The latest focus is on service assurance, model-driven telemetry for closed loop automation, on digital map, and intent modeling, etc. ... as building blocks to reduce the cost of managing networks.

Long term participant at the IETF, served 3 terms (6 years) as IETF Operational and Management Area Director, contributor to the IETF with 41 RFCs, currently IETF Working Group co-chairs for the Network Management Operations (NMOP) and Operations and Management Area Working Group (OPSAWG). See https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/benoit@claise.be.

Published two books, including Network Programmability with YANG “The Structure of Network Automation with YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and gNMI” and “Network management: Accounting and Performance Strategies.

Christian works a strategic product manager in the Ericsson product area network organization focusing on products and services for 5G time-critical communication.

He has been the lead working on testbeds, trials and now products addressing bounded latency communication.

Christian has more than 20 years for experience in wireless communication from various position in research and development of devices and cellular infrastructure.

Christian holds a M.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Lund in Sweden.

Madhan Raj Kanagarathinam (Senior Member, IEEE) received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in 2024. He is currently a software architect at Samsung R&D Institute India-Bangalore. He has over a decade of experience designing and developing TCP/IP protocols, multi-path TCP, QUIC, and QoS-enhancement solutions. He has authored 30 peer-reviewed articles and has secured over 125 patent filings. He received the IEEE Bangalore Young Technologist of the Year in 2020. His research interests include AI-assisted QoE enhancement for smartphones, Wi-Fi QoS Management, low latency communications, and cross-layer optimization techniques.

Greg White has been a technical leader at CableLabs since 1999, playing a vital role in developing transformative technologies for the broadband industry. He has been a technical lead or key contributor for every iteration of DOCSIS since version 1.1, including serving as the lead architect of the Emmy Award-winning DOCSIS 3.0 specification. His influence extends across numerous other groundbreaking cable industry specifications.

Recently, Greg led the development of Low Latency DOCSIS technology and its associated IETF standards, enabling applications to achieve ultra-low round-trip delays even at high data rates, a critical advancement for modern network performance.

Greg remains an active contributor in leading technical forums, including the IETF, IEEE 802.11, and the Wireless Broadband Alliance. He also has a distinguished history of leadership in international standardization efforts, having served as the founding Chairman of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Cable Technical Committee and leading cable modem technology standardization within the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

Xuesong is a Chief Research Engineer at Huawei, specializing in network performance enhancement, including TSN, network slicing, and deterministic networks. With over 8 years of experience in networking, she has led projects such as improving network latency in 5G transport networks and ensuring deterministic latency in large-scale systems. Xuesong is also actively involved in the IETF, contributing to working groups including DetNet, TEAS, and RTGWG.