Welcome Reception with cocktails and light dinner

Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport (tsr@nyu.edu) is the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University (NYU), and is a professor in the NYU Courant Computer Science Dept. and the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He founded the NYU WIRELESS research center in 2012 and the wireless research centers at the University of Texas Austin (WNCG) and Virginia Tech (MPRG) earlier in his career.

Peter Vetter is President of Bell Labs Core Research and Bell Labs Fellow.  He leads an eminent global research organization with the mission to create game changing innovations that define the future of networks and insure portfolio leadership for Nokia’s core business.

Peter is currently leading Nokia Standards at Nokia. The unit is responsible for developing holistic concepts and innovations for Access and Core networks as well as automation breakthroughs in network and service automation and driving them accordingly into external standardization bodies and fora.