Uros Janko

Uros Janko has over 30 years global management experience with Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. He is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in leading edge research and innovative product development in the areas of high-speed networking for HPC & HTC environments; network security technologies; and network storage virtualization and management.

Uros is former Chairman & CTO of Enfotec, Inc., an open source security vendor that he co-founded in 2001 to develop a series of disruptive open system based, multi-application security appliances with a compelling value proposition. Prior to that, he co-founded Asita Technologies in 1997 and, as its CEO, led product development teams that delivered a complete line of integrated network security solutions. The core enabling technologies were developed in collaboration with strategic partners within the scope of a EU Framework Programme research project that he managed.

Earlier, he served as Chairman & CTO of MultiStream Systems, provider of network storage management solutions; Managing Director of STB Software Technology Beteiligungen (Equity Investments), concentrating on acquisition of strategic equity interests in ground-breaking technologies blending networking, security and storage aspects; Vice President, Development of Enterprise Systems and Networking at Grau Storage Systems; and Director of European Development & Services at Network Systems Corporation. In those capacities he represented the companies on numerous international program committees and participated in various EC initiatives.

Uros serves as an external expert of the EC in the areas of e-Infrastructures; Future Internet research; Pervasive and Trustworthy Network and Service Infrastructures; International Cooperation; and Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme. He holds a Graduate Degree in Mathematics, received in 1978.

Dr. Ali Haj-Fraj

Vice President Strategy and Portfolio
Industrial Automation Systems, Siemens AG

Ali Haj-Fraj started his career as research and teaching assistant at the Technical University of Munich in the field of dynamics and control. He joined Siemens AG in 2001 as Project Manager for Drives Development in the business unit Motion Control Systems. From 2004 he then served as Director Business Development for Automation in Metal Forming. In 2007 he took over his current position as Vice President for Strategy and Portfolio in the business unit Industrial Automation Systems. His main focus areas are strategic planning, portfolio management, innovation management and merger and acquisition.   

Bilel JAMOUSSI

Chief of Study Group Department, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau.

Thierry Collette

Thierry Collette is the deputy director of CEA LIST, the academic French laboratory of technology research on smart systems. The LIST, which is based near Paris, is a key software systems and technology research center working in three areas with vital societal and economic implications. These areas are sensing systems, interactive systems and embedded systems. Thierry Collette is in charge of programs and strategy for the activitu of the LIST (650 researchers) since 2010, before he was involved in embedded system field and has managed since 2004 the Architectures and Design Unit of LIST, unit of 100 researchers, focused on embedded computing architectures, embedded reliability and computer vision. Before that, he was the head of embedded computer laboratory of LIST and has designed several parallel and reconfigurable embedded computers. He has obtained an Electrical Engineering Degree in 1988 and a Ph.D in Microelectronics of the University of Grenoble in 1992.

He wrote, as author and co-author, several papers in conferences and journals on technologies for embedded parallel and reconfigurable computing and holds several patents too. He teaches computer architectures in master degree at Ecole Centrale of Paris  and University of Paris XI. He is expert CEA senior and had evaluated several international and national projects (MEDEA, ANR, OSEO, etc) and is member of evaluation committee of the French National Research Agency.   

Karama Kanoun

Karama Kanoun is Directeur de Recherche at LAAS-CNRS, heading the Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance Research Group (http://www.laas.fr/~kanoun/). Her research interests include modeling and evaluation of computer system dependability considering hardware as well as software, and dependability benchmarking. She has authored or co-authored more than 150 conference and journal papers, 5 books and 10 book chapters. She has co-directed the production of a book on Dependability Benchmarking (Wiley and IEEE Computer Society, 2008). She is Chairperson of the Special Interest Group on Dependability Benchmarking of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and vice-chairperson of the IFIP working group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance.
She was the principal investigator of the DBench European project (Dependability Benchmarking), and managed the European Network of Excellence ReSIST, Resilience Survivability in IST.
She is member of the Editorial Board of three journals: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, International Journal of Performability Engineering and International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems (IJCCBS). She is chairing the Steering Committee of the European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC) and member of the Steering Committees of three other conferences in her field of interest (DSN, ISSRE, SSIRI).
She has been a consultant for several French companies (among which Renault-Automation, Merlin-Gerin, CEIS-Espace, SYSECA, Aérospatiale, SAGEM, CNES, Alcatel Espace, STNA), the European Space Agency, Ansaldo Transporti and for the International Union of Telecommunications. She has been involved in several national research contracts and European projects. She was Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA in 1998.

Mohamed Kaâniche

Mohamed Kaâniche is currently “Directeur de Recherche” of CNRS, the French National Organization of Scientific Research. He joined the Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance Research Group of LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France, since 1988. From March 1997 to February 1998, he was a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA. He received the Certified Engineer degree from the National School of Civil Aviation (ENAC), Toulouse, in 1987, and the PhD in Computer Science and the “Habilitation à diriger des recherches” degrees from the Toulouse National Polytechnic Institute, in 1992 and 1999 respectively.
His research addresses the dependability and security assessment of computer systems and critical infrastructures, using analytical modeling and experimental measurement techniques. Application areas include safety critical and embedded systems in aerospace, automotive, railways, defence, energy, and telecommunications as well as more general Internet based applications and mobile systems. He has (co)authored two books on these subjects and more than 100 publications in international journals and conference proceedings. He has contributed to several national and European research contracts, and acted as a consultant for companies in France and as an expert for the European Commission. He served on the organizing and program committees of the major dependability conferences in the area. He was Program Chair of PRDC-2004, EDCC-5, DSN-PDS-2010, and currently LADC-2011. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the SEE Dependable Computing Club.

Dr Boutheina Chetali

Head of the Formal Methods & Security group, part of the Security Labs of Gemalto’s Technology and Innovation Department. Doctor in Computer Science, she has been working in the smart cards arena since 1999 when she joined the advanced research group of Bull Smart Card & terminals as R&D engineer ,expert in formal methods. Since 2001, she is in charge of the Formal Methods & Security team (previously Schlumberger and Axalto) working on the application of formal methods to the security of the smart cards and to their Common Criteria certifications. Main activities of its group are the development of security technologies for the card platforms and its components, the verification of security properties, model-based testing and the Common Criteria evaluations at high levels (EAL5 to EAL7). She is also member of the Java Card Forum security group and the Global Platform security group. The main achievement of its group was the first smart card certificate using formal assurances from the EAL7 level, the highest Common Criteria certification level. With respect to R&D projects, her team coordinates and participates to a number of funded projects, European (FP6&FP7) and National (ANR, poles de competitivité), around security validation using formal methods, model based testing and security certification.

Méhand Guiddir

Méhand Guiddir joined Altran, leader in Innovation consulting, in 2006 as Chief Technical Officer of Altran Telecoms and Media. He previously held the position of CTO at Altran Belgium. His responsibilities include the coordination of innovative R&D activities related to French competitive clusters. He is actively involved in the ICT cluster System@tic, participating in the Telecom Steering Committee. Méhand Guiddir graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris, a Tier-1 engineering school in France, and holds a Master in Networks & Telecommunications. He began his career in 1984 within the Marconi group and then held several management positions within telecom vendors and operators worldwide. He participates as an expert in several selection committees, such as the selection committee of Paris city Innovation award.

Bernadette Dorizzi

Bernadette Dorizzi got her PhD (Thèse d'état) in Theoretical Physics at the University of Orsay (Paris XI-France) in 1983, on the study of integrability of dynamical systems. She is Professor at Télécom & Management SudParis (ex INT) since September 1989, she has been leading the Electronics and PHysics department between 1995 and 2009. She is in charge of the Intermedia (Interaction for Multimedia) research team. Her present research activity is related to the surveillance-video and biometric domain. She is coordinator of the Bio-Identity Institut Telecom research project (http://www.int-evry/biometrics) and of the BioSecure Foundation (http://biosecure.info). She is author of more than 300 research papers and has supervised more than 15 PhD thesis.

Abderazek Ben Abdallah

Ben Abdallah Abderazek received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering and the MSc. degree in Computer
Science from Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST, Wuhan) in 1994 and 1997 respectively.
He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Electro-communications (UEC,
Tokyo) in 2002. From 2002 to 2007, he was a research associate at the Parallel/Distributed systems laboratory,
Graduate school of Information systems, University of Electro-communications, then Assistant Professor at the
network computing laboratory, UEC. Currently, he is Associate Professor with the graduate and undergraduate
schools of computer science and engineering at the University of Aizu. His research effort is on the design of future
generations high-performance and low-power computer systems. He is mainly interested in issues related to their
architectures (processor, on-chip interconnection (NoC)) and compilation techniques. The targeted systems span
from application-specific networked embedded multicore systems (with special focus on computation intensive
biomedical applications) to large-scale parallel systems. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.
Ben Abdallah Laboratory web site: http://aslweb.u-aizu.ac.jp/benlab/
Ben Abdallah other activities: http://web-ext.u-aizu.ac.jp/~benab/activities.html 

Fathi H. Ghorbel

Fathi H. Ghorbel is the founder, Chairman of the Board, and Chief Technology Officer of itRobotics Inc.,
a startup pioneering technology company operating to provide state of the art non-destructive inspection
solutions for small diameter energy pipes using the latest robotics technology. itRobotics aims to increase
the safety and security of the energy industry around the world. itRobotics’ technology was initiated at Dr.
Ghorbel’s Robotics & Intelligent Systems (RiSYS) Lab at Rice University, Houston, Texas, where he is a
Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, the holder of Schlumberger
Chair in Mechatronics and Robotics, and also serves as the Director of Graduate Studies. He has a joint
appointment at the Department of Bioengineering. Dr. Ghorbel is also the Chief Technology Advisor
of INTREPID Robotics, Inc., a Houston-based technology company that provides explosion-proof robotic
inspection solutions of atmospheric storage tanks and marine vessels. Dr. Ghorbel’s research is in the areas
of dynamic systems and control, robotics, and biomedical engineering systems. He is the author of several
patents, and technical publications.
Dr. Ghorbel received the B.S. degree with honors from the Pennsylvania State University in 1985, the
M.S. degree from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign in 1991 all in Mechanical Engineering. In 1988, he spent one year at the U.S. Army
Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois, as a Research Assistant. During
his doctoral studies, he was a Research Assistant at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University
of Illinois where he was also a visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate in 1991. From 1992 to 1994, Dr.
Ghorbel was a Research Associate at the Intitut d’Automatique, Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne
(EPFL), Switzerland. He joined Rice University in 1994.
Dr. Ghorbel is an active member of the Houston Technology Center and the Rice Alliance for Technology
and entrepreneurship which support entrepreneurs and early-stage technology ventures in Houston and Texas
through education, collaboration, and research.
Dr. Ghorbel is a member of Le Comit´e de Haut niveau pour les Sciences et la Technologie appointed
by Tunisia’s President. He was the recipient of the medal of “Order of National Merit in the field of
education and sciences” by order of the President of Tunisia. He is the Vice-President, Founding Member,
and Member of the Board of Directors of the Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF). He is past
President of the Tunisian Scientific Society (TSS). He is also a Member of the ASME, a Senior Member
of the IEEE, a member of Sigma Xi, IFAC, SIAM, IASTED, and ASEE. He is the past Vice-Chair then
Chair of the ASME Biomechanical Systems Panel, and the past Chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society’s
Technical Committee on Manufacturing Automation and Robotic Control. He is an Associate Editor for the
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Dynamic
Systems, Measurement, and Control, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference
Editorial Board, and a past Associate Editor for the International Journal of Robotics and Automation.
Dr. Ghorbel served in conference organization and program committees at different organizational levels
including Conference Chair, Conference Co-General Chair, Publication Chair, Publicity Chair, Finance
Chair, and Member of several national and international conference Program Committees.

Adel Ghazel

Adel Ghazel Senior Member IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, USA) since 1997, received the E.E and M.S. degrees in systems analysis and digital processing from the Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis – ENIT, Tunis, Tunisia, both in 1990, the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from ENIT in co-supervision with the ENSEEIHT-Toulouse (France) and the Habilitation degree in information communication and technologies from Ecole Supérieure des Communications – Sup’Com, Tunisia in 1996 and 2002, respectively.
He is currently a Professor in Telecommunications and the Director of the Research Unit on Circuits and Advanced Techniques for Communication Systems (CIRTA’COM) at Sup’Com, University of 7 November at Carthage, Tunisia. He is a visitor professor for several universities in France and North Africa and field expert to the International Telecommunications Union. Since 1998, He is working with Analog Devices Inc., Boston, MA, as a Senior R&D Program Manager for innovative projects related to power line communication and smart grid, IP communication and multimedia. He started his professional experience in 1990 as a Specialist Engineer for design and field supervision of industrial communication systems and worked on projects in Africa and Asia. In 1993, he joined the Ecole Supérieure des Postes et des Télécommunications de Tunis then Sup’Com in 1998 where He occupied the position of the Head of the Department of Electronics and Propagation from 1999 to 2004 and the Dean of Planning from 2005 to 2010. His current research interests include VLSI and DSPs circuits, algorithms and architectures for wireless and wired communications systems. His research led to over 200 publications. He is currently reviewer for several international Journals and Transactions and has also been Chairman, session Chairman and Member of technical and steering committees of International Conferences & Symposiums.

Mohamed ABID

Mohamed ABID,  Head of «Computer Embedded System » laboratory CES-ENIS, Tunisia

 Mohamed ABID is working now as a Professor at the Engineering National School of Sfax (ENIS), University of Sfax, Tunisia (http://www.ceslab.org/eng/perso.php?id=27 ). He received the Ph. D. degree from the National Institute of Applied Sciences, Toulouse (France) in 1989 and the “thèse d’état” degree from the National School of Engineering of Tunis (Tunisia) in 2000 in the area of Computer Engineering & Microelectronics. His current research interests include: hardware-software co-design, System on Chip, Reconfigurable System, and Embedded System, etc. He has also been investigating the design and implementation issues of FPGA embedded systems.
Actually Dr. Abid occupies the post of director of doctoral school “Sciences & Technologies”, University of Sfax. He is founding member and Head of the research laboratory «Computer Embedded System » CES-ENIS, since 2006 (http://www.ceslab.org ). He was Founding member of “System on Chip at Computer, Electronic and Smart engineering system” Laboratory at ENIS 2001-2005. He was also Founding responsible of «Hardware-Software co-design» research Group at EµM-Lab-FSM, Monastir-Tunisia, 1991-2000.
Dr. Abid is member of scientific committee at ENIS, since 2008, member of quality committee at ENIS, 2006-2007 and member of national committee of engineering pedagogy, since 2006. He was founding member and responsible of doctoral degree «computer system engineering» at ENIS, 2003-2010.  
Dr. Abid served in national or international conference organization and program committees at different organizational levels including Conference Co-General Chair, Technical program co-chair, organization co-chair and Member of several national and international conference Program Committees. He was Founding Member of several international conferences and school: SCS, SSD, GEI, SensorNetSchool. Recently, he is Vice General Co-chair of IDT’10. He was General Co-chair of SensorNetSchool’09, Vice General Co-chair of IDT’09, and Special Session Co-chair of ICECS’09. He is Member of technical committee of DASIP since 2007, ICM 2010 since 2006, ComNet 2010, and General Co-chair of IDT’08. He was also Joint Editor of Specific Issues in two International Journals and Joint editor of many conference’s articles nationals and internationals: ICM’2004, GEI’2006-07, SCS’2004. He is a co-editor of the best paper in the international conference EDAC-ETC-EuroASIC’96.
Dr. Abid is joint coordinator or an active member of several International Research and Innovation projects: STIC/INRIA project since 2009, CMCU project and since 2009 and Head of Federator Research Project since 2009.
Dr. Abid was Supervisor or Co-supervisor of more than 20 PhD doctors, most of them were in joint guardianship and Supervisor or Co-supervisor of more than 50 master students. He is Author or co-author of more than 30 publications in Journals and author or co-author of more than 180 papers in international conferences. He is also author or co- author of many guest’s papers, Joint author of many book’s chapters.
Dr. Abid has served also as Guest professor at several international universities and as a Consultant to research & development in Telnet Incorporation.

Hassen MAAREF

Head of Laboratory of Physics of semiconductors and electronic components

Mohamed FRIKHA - General Manager

Mr. Mohamed FRIKHA is the founder and General manager of TELNET since 1994.
From 1989 to 1994, Mr. FRIKHA worked at Alcatel France then at Alcatel Tunisia as director of the development and studies department, he was responsible of range of product such as Network Management Links (NMU) and X25 switches of Alcatel.
From 1987 to 1989, Mr. FRIKHA worked with GDPD (General Data Processing Department) as a consultant.

Mr. FRIKHA is graduated from Ecole Polytechnic and Sup Telecom France.
He is member of the technological commission of survey in the telecommunications ministry, he also member in the comity of experts for the strategic study on technologies in Tunisia, and member of comity on Internet survey for Tunisia Telecom.

Mondher MAKNI - Networks and Telecoms Director

Mr. Mondher MAKNI is the Director of the Networks and Telecoms department specialized in the integration and the installation of networks.
From 1993 to 1998, Mr. MAKNI worked as a consultant for international organizations like the UNIDO, USAID, and the World Bank. He carried out missions of networks audit and distributed systems design for different country.
From 1988 to 1993, Mr. MAKNI was successively an engineer developer and Project Manager in the IRSIT (regional institute of data-processing sciences and Telecommunications) and he was responsible in LAN, WAN, and Internet networks deployment.
since 1989 Mr. MAKNI managed the creation of Internet node in Tunisia.
From 1986 to 1987, Mr. MAKNI worked for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the design of mainframes integrated circuits . Mr. MAKNI obtained Bachelor of Sciences in Electrical Engineering of University of Wisconsin Madison, and Master of Sciences in Computer and System Engineering of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Hassib ELLOUZE - Quality Director & Electronic systems Director

Mr. Hassib ELLOUZE was successively project manager then Director of electronic systems department within TELNET.
Since 1995, Mr. ELLOUZE managed projects in different areas such as networks supervision and administration, embedded developments, automotive diagnosis, engine control and electronic system design.
Since 2001, Mr. ELLOUZE is nominated as director of quality and organization.
From 1992 to 1995, Mr. ELLOUZE worked at Alcatel in the development of the administration of networks and systems.
From 1990 to 1992, Mr. ELLOUZE was successively Development Engineer and manager in the CETIME (Technical Center of the Mechanical and Electronic engineering industries) where it worked on the design and the realization of electronics systems.
Mr. ELLOUZE is graduated from National School of Engineers at Sfax Tunisia.

Lotfi ZGHAL - Software development Director

Mr. Lotfi ZGHAL was successively project manager and Director of the software development Department at TELNET.
He joined TELNET since 1995, he managed different projects as network supervision system, embedded software project in the field of telecommunications (protocol stacking, multiplexers, routers), fingerprints recognition and Digital TV decoders.
From 1991 to 1995, Mr. ZGHAL worked as developer engineer at Alactel where it mainly worked on the development of X25 networks supervision system.
Mr. ZGHAL is graduated from ENSERG (Ecole National of Electronics and Radioelectricity of Grenoble France) and ENSIMAG (Ecole National of Data processing and Mathematics Applied of Grenoble France).

Anis YOUSSEF

Anis YOUSSEF is currently “Research and Innovation Activities Director” at TELNET group; Product engineering and consulting company in innovation and advanced technologies.

He joined the company, since April 2010. From January 2009 to March 2010, he was a head of railway dependability project in ANSALDO, for Banverket: Swedish Rail Administration that has overall responsibility for the rail transport system in Sweden.

From June 2005 to December 2008, he joined the service 65640 (fonctions inter-systèmes) at Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronic Systems (DIESE) at Renault technology center in Guyancourt.

He was responsible for the design, development and industrialization of a function that handles the Features Activation Logic (FAL) and the after-crash management function. He also coordinated with the R&D service for the development of prototypes for electric and hybrid vehicles and to innovate in the field of passive security.

Between 2000 and 2005, he was a European project work package header for "Flight controls of the Future" to define, design and validate by simulation and on the basis of a prototype a digital and dependable flight control system. He worked under a research collaboration contract between the "Manual and Automatic Flight Control systems: FCS-MO 142/4" team at Airbus technology center in St. Martin du Touch, Toulouse and the LAAS-CNRS (Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance group).

He received the Certified Engineer degree from the National School of Engineers of Monastir (ENIM) in 2000, the master degree from the University Henri Poincaré of Nancy in 2001, he had developed techniques to automate the measurement of quality services of mobile ad hoc networks and finally he received the PhD in Computer Science from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse in 2005.