Congress Program

Presentation: Convergence - The Final Challenge
- Steve Andrews, Group Chief, Strategy & Convergence, BT
Presentation: How to Expand Your Revenue Streams with a Synergized VoIP Model
Panel: Business Implications of FMC
- Dr Botaro Hirosaki, Executive Vice President and Member or the Board, NEC

Education:

1986	Received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo for his pioneering work in OFDM system design

Career:

1970	Entered NEC at its Central Research Laboratories
2000 – 2003	Associate Senior Vice President and Executive General Manager of NEC’s Optical Network Operations Unit

Moved to NEC’s telecommunications business group, he was involved in business strategy planning and later in optical transmission business operations as an associatesenior vice president.

2003 - 2005	Senior Vice President and Executive General Manager of NEC’s Intellectual Asset Operations Unit
2005 -	CIO of NEC
2006 - 2007	Executive Vice President
2007 - Present	Executive Vice President and Member of the Board

He is currently responsible for NEC’s Carrier Network Business Unit as an executive vice president.

Presentation: A Security Framework for Protecting Next Generation Networks and Services
- Jan Seedorf, Research Scientist, NEC Laboratories Europe
Presentation: Open Mobile Security Standard for Interoperable Services with PC and Servers
Presentation: Practical Security Aspects of the Interworking Between VoIP and Mobile Networks
- Hakan Ekmen, Managing Director, P3 Networks
Presentation: Security for the Computing on the Run Generation
Group Discussion

Jan Seedorf joined the Next Generations Networking Group (NGN) at NEC Laboratories Europe in August 2007 as Research Scientist.

Previously he has been working as a research assistant at the University of Hamburg where he conducted teaching and research in the Security in Distributed Systems Group (SVS).

Jan received a B.Sc. degree in 2001 and a Diploma degree in 2002 in computer science from the University of Hamburg, Germany, with special focus on IT-security.

He has written several research papers on Voice-over-IP security and is currently finishing his Ph.D. on securing Voice-over-IP signalling in highly decentralised systems.

His research interests are in the area of Voice-over-IP security and Peer-to-Peer security. In particular he is interested in the session initiation protocol (SIP), and the security of structured overlay networks.