Nancy Alonistioti has a B.Sc. degree and a PhD degree in Informatics and Telecommunications. She has 15 years of experience in numerous national and European research projects, including project/technical management (e.g., SELFNET, CONSERN, E2RI&II, E3, SACRA, WHERE2, Univerself, ANWIRE, MOBIVAS). She is currently faculty member, leading the SCAN (http://scan.di.uoa.gr) group activities in the Dept. Informatics and Telecommunications at N.K. University of Athens. She has served as organiser, TPC and reviewer in over 40 conferences and journals. She has over 100 publications in the area of Future Internet, cognitive and autonomic communications and reconfigurable mobile systems. She has been actively involved in FIA activities as well as FIRE/WEEK activities since 2008. Indicatively, she has participated in FIA conferences and took active role in the organisation of the conference sessions, Panels on experimentation results, Project Demos and served as reviewer for FIA, FIREWEEK etc. She is author of FIA book articles. She has also participated in several FIA caretakers’ meetings.

Michael Boniface is Technical Director of the IT Innovation Centre. He joined IT Innovation in 2000 after several years at Nortel Networks developing infrastructure to support telecommunications interoperability. His roles at IT Innovation include technical strategy of RTD across IT Innovation’s project portfolio, technical leadership, and business development. He has over 10 year’s RTD experience in innovative distributed systems for science and industry using technologies such as Semantic Web, Clouds and service-oriented architectures. He leads IT Innovation’s contribution to the Future Internet initiative through Expert Groups including leadership of the FIA socio-economic working group. Michael provides architecture and business modelling direction in RTD projects. Past projects include scientific leadership of industrial Grid projects IST SIMDAT and IST BRIDGE. Current projects include leadership of a PaaS cloud architecture in ICT IRMOS; construction, experimentation and sustainability activities for Future Internet testbeds in ICT BonFIRE, ICT TEFIS and ICT FIRESTATION; socio-economic impact assessment of Future Internet technologies in SESERV; and overall technical coordination for the open source software GRIA. Michael has a BEng in multimedia communications.

Dr. Didier Bourse currently holds the position of Director, European Research Cooperation inside ALU Bell Labs, coordinating the cross-locations cross-domains EU research co-operations. He received his diploma degree in telecommunications in 1992 from ENSTBr and obtained his PhD degree in 1997 from IRCOM. In 1997 he joined Thomson-CSF Communications and worked in the field of military tactical radio as technical manager and project manager. When working in Motorola Labs (2001-2008), he was coordinator of several EC IPs, e.g. the complete FP6 E²R Programme on Cognitive Radio Systems, and was also member of the eMobility ETP Steering Board. Since he joined ALU Bell Labs in 2008, he was key ALU contributor to the Cross-ETPs working group on Future Internet, the Future Internet PPP programme pre-definition, the EIT KIC ICT Labs proposal building and the FIA developments. He has numerous publications and patents in the areas of communications.

Christophe Diot received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from INP  Grenoble in 1991. He has been with INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, Sprint, and Intel Research. He joined Thomson in October 2005 to launch and manage the Paris Research Lab. Thomson became technicolor in January 2010. Diot is a pioneer in multicast communication, Internet QoS (in saying that we do not need QoS!), Internet measurements, and Pocket Switched Networks. Diot's research activities now focus on new architectures for content delivery. Diot is the Technicolor Chief Scientist since July 2009. He is an ACM fellow.

John Domingue is the Deputy Director of the Knowledge Media Institute at The Open University, UK and the President of STI International, Austria. (kmi.open.ac.uk/people/domingue/ and www.sti2.org). John Domingue has been involved in the Future Internet (FI) since 2008 acting as a Caretaker supporting the organization of the Future Internet Assemblies (FIAs) and representing the Software and Services area. Within the FIAs he has co-organized a number of sessions including most recently "Search as an Architectural Component" at FIA Ghent. In terms of FI outputs he supported the editing of the initial Bled Declaration, is an editor for the first and third FIA books and appears in the currently most popular YouTube video for "Future Internet" which will soon have more that 100K hits. In relation to Challenge 1 projects he  currently serves as the Scientific Director of SOA4All and is a member of the SOFI support action which is part of FISA. Lastly, he co-founded the Future Internet Symposium an event which is now in its fourth year.

Alex Galis - Visiting Professor, University College London, United Kingdom; www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~agalis

• Participation and organisation as a caretaker of 8 sessions at previous FIA conferences (Madrid, Dec 2008 www.fi-madrid.eu, Prague, May 2009 www.fi-prague.eu, Stockholm, November 2009 www.fi-stockholm.eu, Valencia, April 2010 www.fi-valencia.eu; Ghent Dec 2010 fi-ghent.fi-week.eu/program/);
• Contribute, work and drive towards a result-oriented FIA complementing its concertation objectives; organisation and leading the MANA working group across FP7 projects (MANA group consists of approx. 350+ members / researchers from difference domains and FP7 projects; MANA group scope is Management and Service-aware Networking Architectures (i.e. see MANA position paper www.future-internet.eu/fileadmin/documents/prague_documents/MANA_PositionPaper-Final.pdf - also published in IEEE ChinaCom 2009).
• Participation as a Vice chair in the ITU-T Focus Group Future Networks, which will release in Q3 2011 an ITU-T recommendation Y.3001 “Future Networks: Design Goals and Promising Technologies” - this standard document describes the overall objectives and design goals of Future Internet.
• Author / co-author of 6 research books and more that 150 publications in journals and conferences in the FI areas: networks, services and management; PTC chair of 14 IEEE conferences and reviewer in more that 100 IEEE conferences (www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~agalis)
• Participation in a number of FP projects, including FAIN (technical coordinator), CONTEXT (technical coordinator), Autonomic Internet (technical coordinator), RESERVOIR and UniverSELF projects

Anastasius Gavras has more than 20 years of professional experience in academic and industry research. He joined Eurescom, the leading organisation for managing collaborative R&D in telecommunications, more than 10 years ago as programme manager, focusing on the areas of management of networks & systems, security and middleware. In these areas he has managed a large number of studies and projects on topics which are of concern to the Eurescom member community of European telecom network operators and the European telecom industry at large. He has served as coordinator of several RTD projects under the European framework programmes.
His current interests are large scale testbed federations for enabling future Internet research and experimentation. He was the coordinator of the large scale integrating project PII – Pan-European Laboratory Infrastructure Implementation under FP7 and is actively involved in the Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) initiative. He is author or co-author of several papers and articles in the Future Internet area.

Stephan Haller is a Development Architect responsible for Internet of Things at SAP Research in Zürich, Switzerland. He has been working on technologies relating to the Internet of Things for many years and as such is deeply involved in European research activities in this area, in particular regarding RFID and wireless sensor networks. Stephan has been responsible for the acquisition and management of several publicly funded research projects like IoT-A, SENSEI, SmartProducts and CoBIs. He regularly serves as a reviewer and expert for scientific conferences and research organizations and is a member of the EU-China Expert Group on the Internet of Things, the EC Future Internet Architecture expert group as well as the Steering Committee of the Future Internet Assembly. Previously he had served in the RFID Expert Group of the European Commission as well as on the core editorial board for the Strategic Research Agenda written by the Cluster of European Research Projects on the Internet of Things (CERP-IoT). From 2004-2006, Stephan was driving RFID standardisation efforts as the co-chair of the Reader Protocol working group at EPCglobal. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland.

Anne-Marie Sassen is a project officer of the unit "Software and Service Architectures and Infrastructures" of the European Commission. She has been involved in the Future Internet Assembly right from its start in Bled and worked with the "caretakers" and the FIA community to build the FIA to what it is today. Before joining the Commission, Anne-Marie worked for Atos Origin in Spain as project manager and for TNO in the Netherlands as researcher. She studied Informatics at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and received her Ph.D. from the Technical University of Delft.

Georgios Tselentis is scientific project officer in the European Commission DG INFSO unit F4 dealing with Future Internet Research and Experimentation (a.k.a. FIRE). He has been involved in FIA since its inception and actively contributed in the organisation and management of all events since FIA Bled. He's a chartered engineer with a post graduate and a Ph.D. on Production Engineering and Management with specialisation in control systems and sensor fault detection. He worked in industry and academia in Greece and Germany for more than 10 years as senior researcher and project manager in the area of Sensors, Automation, Data analysis and Artificial Intelligence before joining the European Commission where he has been responsible for more than 70 projects in diverse scientific areas such as Future Internet Research and Experimentation, Location Based Services, New Working Environments and Robotics.

Prof. Dr. Kurt Tutschku holds the Chair of "Future Communication" (endowed by Telekom Austria) at the University of Vienna. His main research interest include future generation communication networks, network virtualization, network federation, Quality-of-Experience, and the modeling and performance evaluation of future network control mechanisms and services in the emerging Future Internet, particular mechanisms based on P2P algorithms.

Kurt Tutschku is closely cooperating with industry. He has accomplished and is leading joint academic and industrial research projects with companies such as Telekom Austria, Nokia Siemens Networks, BTexact, DATEV e.G., Bosch and Bertelsmann AG.

In addition, Kurt Tutschku leads multiple funded academic cooperations such as the WWTF project on the "Optimization of the Future, Federated Internet". Furthermore, he and his team participate in various testbed projects such as GENI/GpENI (US) or G-Lab (Germany). Kurt Tutschku is also member of the steering board of the European FP7 Network-of-Excellence "EuroNF" and co-coordinates the joint research agenda in EuroNF.

Nick Wainwright is Director for European Projects for HP Labs, Europe.

Nick has been with HP Laboratories in the UK for over 20 years. During that time Nick has held positions as a researcher in the field of internet communications technologies working on high speed networks and wireless networks, has explored computer architectures developing reconfigurable computing devices for embedded processing,  and held a position as research director research in the area of digital media systems creating services oriented platforms for digital media management. Nick currently leads HP’s participation in a number of European research projects in the area of internet cloud technologies and internet security research. Nick holds a BSc in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bristol.

Nick chairs the UK’s Future Internet Strategy Group which provides a forward looking view on internet technologies including cloud to UK national stakeholders including the UK’s Technology Strategy Board and the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.   Nick is a member of the steering committee of the EU’s Future Internet Assembly where he works to facilitate interaction across the European research community in cross-cutting issues of technology, applications, and usage of the internet of the future. Nick is also a board member on the NESSI European Technology Platform, and previously a Steering Committee member in the Networked Electronic Media Technology Platform.   

HP Labs is HP’s long term research organisation.  HP Labs’ European research facility is located in Bristol, UK which is home to HP Lab’s Cloud and Security research Lab.