Transforming Radio Access Networks Towards Open, Intelligent, Virtualized and Fully Interoperable RAN

Stefan Köpsell has been working in the field of security and privacy for more than 20 years. He received diploma in computer science and doctoral degree from TU Dresden. He chairs the Privacy & Data Security at the Faculty of Computer Science of TUD, which he currently leads as acting professor. He also leads the Secure and Privacy-Respecting Data Processing group at the Barkhausen Institute.

Stefan Köpsell 2022

Stefan Köpsell

Barkhausen Institut & Acting Professor Chair of Privacy and Data Security TU Dresden


Per Beming drives the technology leadership work in Standardization and industry initiatives, including open source, for the Ericsson Group. Through his career he held several key positions at Ericsson. He is also engaged in IOWN global forum board of directors and in executive board of directors in HAPS alliance. Per holds an M.Sc. in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering (1994). 

Per Beming 2022

Per Beming

VP, Head of Standards & Industry Initiatives Ericsson

Jack drives standardization and commercialization of 5G devices and infrastructure at Qualcomm. He is currently focused on open radio access networks. He has held leadership positions in several organizations including 3GPP, 3GPP2, ITU-T, and GSMA. He is a board member of the Small Cell Forum and co-chairs a working group in the O-RAN ALLIANCE. Jack holds 436 issued patents.

Jack Nasielski 2022

Jack Nasielski

Senior Director Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Andre oversees the global mobile and fixed network technology direction for AT&T. He is currently a board member of the Linux Foundation, Magic Leap, Open Networking Foundation and chairs the O-RAN ALLIANCE. Andre completed his graduate coursework in Computer Science at Stanford University. He holds seven patents in the fields of network traffic optimization and distributed systems.

Andre Fuetsch 2022

Andre Fuetsch

Chairman O-RAN ALLIANCE and Executive VP & CTO AT&T Services, Inc.

Since 2003, Petr been working on different positions in Technology organizations of Deutsche Telekom AG and T-Mobile Czech Republic a.s. His primary responsibility is to identify, prototyping, and evaluate future mobile network technologies and related concepts (mainly 5G, LTE-A/Pro, Managed connectivity and advanced QoS mechanisms). Petr  is currently strongly focused on future disaggregated RAN architectures. He is also Deutsche Telekom alternate board member of the O-RAN ALLIANCE. Petr received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Czech Technical University in Prague.

Petr Lédl 2022

Petr Ledl

VP, Head of Network Trials & Integration Lab

Olivier Simon graduated from Ecole Central Paris in 2000. He joined France Telecom/Orange in 2002 and has been involved since 2005 in Researches and Development of digital cellular networks of third, fourth and fifth generation. Olivier is currently Radio Innovation Director in charge of defining the evolution of Radio Access Networks and delivering innovation in this domain for Orange.

Simon Olivier

Sessions where Simon Olivier takes part

O-RAN ALLIANCE