Reinaldo Valenzuela received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Chile and a Ph.D. from Imperial College, London. He is currently Director of the Wireless Communications Research Department at Bell Laboratories, and is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff. Valenzuela has been at the forefront of many recent advances in wireless systems; his research includes propagation measurements and models, MIMO/space time systems achieving high capacities using transmit and receive antenna arrays, HetNets, small cells, and next generation air interface techniques and architectures. The author of more than 185 papers, he has 44 issued patents and more than 22,000 citations in Google Scholar. Valenzuela is a 'Highly Cited Author' in Thomson ISI, a Fulbright Senior Specialist, an IEEE Fellow, a Bell Labs Fellow and a WWRF Fellow. For his pioneering contributions to MIMO technology, he was awarded the 2010 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. He is a recipient of the 2015 IEEE VTS Avant Garde Award.

•Dr. Abdul Sattar Al-Taie, Executive Director, Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Qatar.•Dr. AbdulAziz AlSwailem, Vice President For Scientific Research and Support, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.•Dr. Chengshan Xiao, Program Director, ECCS division, NSF, USA.•Dr. Ajit K Chaturvedi, Deputy Director, IIT Kanpur, India.

•Dr. Neeli Rashmi Prasad, Chief Technology Architect of SPA Solutions, San Francisco, USA. Associate Professor and Director of CTIF-USA, Princeton, NJ, USA.•Mr. Lars Kierkegaard, Head of Strategy & Business Development at Teracom A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark.•Dr. Vladimir Poulkov, Professor, Technical University of Sofia and Head of Bulgarian Telecommunications Cluster, Bulgaria

•Malik Gul, National Instruments, USA •Dr. Halim Yanikomeroglu, Carleton University, Canada •Dr. Merouane Debbah, Huawei, Paris, France•Dr. Reinaldo Valenzuela, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA •Dr Geoffrey Li, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA

Mostafa Ammar is a Regents' Professor with the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been with Georgia Tech since 1985. Dr. Ammar received the S.B. and S.M. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and 1980, respectively and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1985. Dr. Ammar's research interests are in network architectures, protocols and services. He has contributions in the areas of multicast communication and services, multimedia streaming, content distribution networks, network simulation, disruption-tolerant networks, virtual network design, and most recently in mobile cloud computing. He has published extensively in these areas. To date, 33 PhD students have completed their degrees under his supervision; many have gone on to distinguished careers in academia and industry. Dr. Ammar has served the research community in multiple roles. Most notably, he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN) from 1999 to 2003, and he was the co-TPC Chair for the IEEE ICNP 1997, ACM CoNEXT 2006 and ACM SIGMETRICS 2007 conferences. His awards include the IBM Faculty Partnership Award (1996), Best Paper Award at the 7th WWW conference (1998), the Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award (2006), the Outstanding Service Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (2010), and the ACM Mobihoc Best Paper Award (2012). Dr. Ammar was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2002 and Fellow of the ACM in 2003.

•Dr. Emilio Strinati, Smart Devices & Telecommunications Strategy Program Director, CEA-LETI, France.•Dr. Guillaume Chelius, Founder and CEO, HiKoB, France.•Mr. Jurgen Hase, Group Director M2M, Group B2B Commercial, Ooredoo, Qatar.•Dr. Fadel Digham, Executive Director, Research & Development, National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA), Egypt.

•Dr. Dawn Tilbury, Professor at University of Michigan, USA•Dr. Mehrdad Dianati, Associate Professor, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom.•Dr. Fethi Filali, Head, Technology Development, Qatar Mobility Innovations Center (QMIC), Doha, Qatar.•Mr. Malike Bouaoud, Head of Technology Trend and Smart Innovation Lab/Cyber Security expert, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Doha, Qatar.

•Dr. Julio C. Silva, MD, MPH Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Sidra Medical and Research Center.• Dr. Lakshman Tamil, Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA.•Dr. Waleed Qoronfleh, Director of Biotechnology Development, Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), Qatar.•Dr. Roozbeh Jafari, Associate Professor, Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems, College of Engineering, Texas A&M Univ. College Station, USA

Gerhard Fettweis earned his Ph.D. under H. Meyr's supervision from RWTH Aachen in 1990. After one year at IBM Research in San Jose, CA he moved to TCSI Inc., Berkeley, CA. Since 1994 he is Vodafone Chair Professor at TU Dresden, Germany, with currently 20 companies from Asia/Europe/US sponsoring his research on wireless transmission and chip design. He coordinates 2 DFG centers at TU Dresden, cfAED and HAEC. Gerhard is IEEE Fellow, member of acatech, has an honorary doctorate from TU Tampere, and has received multiple awards. In Dresden he has spun-out ten start-ups, and setup funded projects of more than EUR 1/3 billion volume. He has helped organizing IEEE conferences, most notably as TPC Chair of IEEE ICC 2009, IEEE TTM 2012, and General Chair of VTC Spring 2013. He remains active within IEEE.

•Dr. Zouheir Rezki, King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia•Dr. Marc Dacier, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar•Dr. Munir Tag, Director, ICT Program, Qatar National Research Fund, Qatar •Mr. Malike Bouaoud, Head of Technology Trend and Smart Innovation Lab/Cyber Security expert, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Doha, Qatar.•Dr. Gabriele Oligeri, Al Kindi Center, Qatar University