Highlights

This page lists my awards and recognitions, advisory and board positions, media and press coverage, as well as keynotes and panels.

1. Awards and Recognitions

  • IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for 6G, Communications Society, 2023-ongoing.
  • IET Achievement Medal, October 2021.
  • 21st Century Icon Award, September 2018.
  • Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, May 2018.
  • Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, September 2017.
  • Artist-verified account on Spotify, April 2017.
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), June 2016.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa (Ph.D. DHC), INSA, France, June 2015.
  • Best Personal Tutor Award, Faculty of NMS, KCL, 2015.
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Globecom 2014, for pioneering work on 5G systems.
  • IEEE Fellow for “contributions to machine-to-machine communications”, 2014.
  • Nomination to “Media Personality of the Year” at King’s College London, 2014.
  • IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Communications Society, 2012-2013 & 2014-2015.
  • Significant Contribution as Editorial Board member of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials from 2008-2011.
  • Top Associate Editor for IEEE TVT for first submissions in 2008.
  • Award of personal Spanish national grant Torres Quevedo, PTQ-08-01-06440.
  • Nominated to MIT’s Technology Review’s 2004 list of 100 young inventors, whose invention will profoundly change the world for the invention of Virtual Antenna Arrays, US, 2004.
  • Visiting Lecturer Girling Watson Fellowship, Sydney University with Prof. Branka Vucetic, Australia, 2004.
  • IEEE Award for outstanding leadership in student activities in the UKRI Section, UK, 2002.
  • National Scholarship from Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, (top 1% graduates only), Germany, 1995 – 2000.
  • Unique 1-year grant from Siemens for exceptional performance, 1994.
  • 3rd round of the International Olympics in Physics, Germany, 1993.
  • 2nd round of German Olympics in Mathematics, Germany, 1992.
  • Winner of the Olympics in Physics in Thuringia, Germany (twice), 1990 & 1991.

2. Advisory and Board Appointments

  • FCC (US Regulator) Technical Advisory Committee, 2022-ongoing.
  • Ofcom (UK Regulator) Spectrum Advisory Board, 2016-ongoing.
  • Cambridge Wireless Advisory Board, 2018-2019.
  • EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team (SAT), UK, 2014-2018.
  • RUSI Futures Advisory Board, 2017-2018.
  • Global Change Ambassador @ Round Table, 2017-2018.
  • “Leonardo Advisory Group” to King’s Science Gallery, 2016-2018.
  • IEEE ComSoc Strategic Planning Committee, 2016-2018.
  • IEEE ComSoc Emerging Technologies Committee, 2016-2018.
  • KTH International Scientific Advisory Board, Sweden, 2014-2016.
  • Tech London Advocate, London, UK, 2015-2016.
  • TechUK IoT Council, 2015-2016.
  • 21st Century’s Technology Stars, 2015-2016.
  • CAPITA’s Create Tomorrow Smart City Group, 2015-2016.
  • Digital Catapult Advisory Network (CAN), WG on IoT, 2014-2016.
  • Project Auditor/Reviewer for the EC, 2006-2016.
  • Project Proposal Evaluator for the EC, ANR and EPSRC, 2006-2016.
  • Advisory Board “RAN World” with ETSI, 3GPP and NGMN, 2014-2016.
  • Digital Catapult “IoT Expert” Advisor, UK, 2014-2016.
  • mVCE Company Board, UK, 2014-2016.
  • International Advisory Board of ICST Trans. on INIS, 2014-2016.
  • Advisory Board of Intern. Symp. on Future Mobile Networks: 5G and Beyond, 2015.
  • Evaluator Expert on the Finnish IoT Program, 2014.
  • BEREC Brussels regulator consultation on M2M, 2014.
  • Expert Contributor to the EC’s Horizon 2020 Program, 2012.

3. Media and Press Coverage

  • “Mischa Dohler, Chief Architect at Ericsson: 6G development requires cooperation in competition,” Finance Sina, 22 March 2023.
  • “MWC ’23: XR, 5G and AI to Power Third Phase of the Internet,” AI Business, 2 March 2023.
  • “[MWC 23] The ‘XR era’ has a long way to go?… Experts “5G· AI convergence will accelerate”,” Tech M, 2 March 2023.
  • “MWC23 Barcelona – Smart Mobility Summit: Reach for the impossible (Panel Discussion),” MWC 2023, 1 March 2023.
  • “GBx Salon Series: Web 3.0,” British Consulate San Francisco, 18 January 2023.
  • “5G, 6G, and the Metaverse: A Silicon Valley View TryEngineering Tuesday,” IEEE, 6 December 2022.
  • “How can telecom companies enable the metaverse?,” RCR Wireless (covering our 5G Metaverse blog), 14 August 2022.
  • “Top 5 metaverse ‘metaplaces’: Ericsson sees consumer and enterprise applications,” RCR Wireless (covering our 5G Metaverse metaplaces blog), 2 August 2022.
  • “Questions Remain About Push to 6G, With 5G in Early Stages: IEEE Experts,” Consumer Electronics Daily, 16 June 2022.
  • “Questions Remain About Push to 6G, With 5G in Early Stages: IEEE Experts,” Communications Daily, 15 June 2022.
  • “The Promise of 6G,” EE Times Asia, 10 June 2022.
  • “Escape Velocity: Standard Agnostic Wireless To Go Beyond Gs?,” Teck Nexus, May 2022.
  • “Do we need 6G? And all about Self-Synthesizing Networks,” EE Times Europe Magazine, 15 November 2021 issue.
  • “Ericsson hires telecoms academic to become chief architect for 6G,” Capacity Media, 2 November 2021.
  • “What’s up with… BT, Mischa Dohler & Ericsson, cloud security,” Telecom TV, 1 November 2021.
  • “Mischa Dohler – an engineer, composer and pianist – gives us an insight into a multi-disciplinary future,” ETSI Standards, Spot Light Article, October 2021 issue.
  • “AI and Semiconductor Memory: More, More, More,” EE Times, 1 October 2021.
  • “Move over 5G! 6G mobile data will put your home broadband speeds to shame,” Express, 21 August 2021.
  • “La implicació dels avenços tecnològics en l’àmbit laboral: Les competències digitals,” Axxon (in Catalan), 10 August 2021.
  • “New pioneering research centre for 6G technology launching in UK,” Innovation News Network, 5 August 2021.
  • “UK universities’ 6G research hub,” Advanced Television, 5 August 2021.
  • “Research Alliances Grow to Learn How 6G Will Play Out,” EE News Europe, 5 August 2021.
  • “Two UK universities launch 6G centre,” EE News Europe, 4 August 2021.
  • “What’s up with… Lumen, Mavenir & Triangle, 6G in the UK,” Telecom TV, 4 August 2021.
  • “Research powerhouses join forces to maximise global potential of 6G next generation mobile technology,” Mirage News, 4 August 2021.
  • “Give technology a soul,” The Bunker Daily, 25 July 2021.
  • “King’s launches engineering online course for refugee students and host communities,” King’s College London, 17 June 2021.
  • “Anti-vaxxer’s testimony to lawmakers recites Covid-19 misinformation,” AFP Fact Check, 15 June 2021.
  • “NGMN Urges ICT Companies to Tackle Climate Change,” Press Box, 26 April 2021.
  • “The London Visionary: Mischa Dohler,” Amazon Prime, Dec 2020.
  • “Next tech breakthrough will be internet of skills, says expert,” The Hindu, 8 Dec 2020.
  • “Technology to synchronize realities – 5G scholar,” RT, 27 Nov 2020.
  • “La importancia y urgencia de la conectividad rural regional: punto de consenso en el segundo día de la Conferencia Ministerial Latinoamericana de la Elac 2020,” Governments of Latam (in Spanish), 24 Nov 2020.
  • “Autoridades de América Latina y Caribe analizarán la agenda digital “eLAC 2022,” El Nuevo Diario (in Spanish), 20 Nov 2020.
  • “Nace 5G Ventures, que prevé captar 5 millones para impulsar 6 ‘startups’ de tecnología 5G,” El Confidential (in Spanish), 16 Nov 2020.
  • “Una nueva tecnología masificará las videollamadas holográficas,” La Opinión A Coruña (in Spanish), 3 Nov 2020.
  • “Films that you can direct with your face… Whatever Next?,” Apple Podcast on 5G, October 2020.
  • “La 5G pour être connectés culturellemen,” Services Mobiles (in French), 22 Oct 2020.
  • “Drone delivery: accelerated by Covid-19 but not yet taking off,” New Statesman, 15 September 2020.
  • “Experts reject conspiracy theories about ‘5G microchip implants’,” AFP Fact Check, 1 June 2020.
  • “Con tecnología 5G llega la era de los hologramas,” El Tiempo (in Spanish), 18 May 2020.
  • “5G: Creating culture in times of confinement,” Tech Register, 15 May 2020.
  • “How Britain Fell for the 5G Conspiracy Theory,” Vice, 29 April 2020.
  • “Most household chores will be fully automated by 2040, experts believe,” Express (and many other outlets), 18 March 2020.
  • “L’internet di domani digitalizzerà anche l’essere umano,” Le Macchine Volanti (in Italian), 27 Feb 2020.
  • “5G revolution will “change the game” in a new era of collaboration,” Time24News, 21 Feb 2020.
  • “Mischa Dohler: 5G trará a ‘realidade sincronizada’,” Dinheiro Vivo (in Portuguese), 19 February 2020.
  • “10 ways 5G will transform healthcare,” 5G Radar, 23 January 2020.
  • “Democratizing Skills For 5G,” LSN Global, 17 December 2019.
  • “What is the Internet of Skills,” Analytics India Magazine, 16 December 2019.
  • “Emerging Trends in Business for 2020,” Accenture, 15 December 2019.
  • “The Internet of Skills: Risks and Opportunities,” JDSupra, 12 December 2019.
  • “5G: ¿Cuándo (y cómo) llegará a México?” Forbes (in Spanish), 9 December 2019.
  • “Red 5G será una realidad en 2025 en México, pero solo a nivel consumidores,” Expansion (in Spanish), 9 December 2019.
  • “How the Next Generation of Mobile Computing Is Already Changing the Face of Health Care,” Inc., 3 December 2019
  • “Is Latin America ready for 5G?,” BN Americas, 14 November 2019.
  • “Reguladores flexibles y más espectro, las piezas clave para detonar el 5G,” Expansion (in Spanish), 12 November 2019.
  • “La Red 5G operaría el próximo año en México pero expertos urgen regulación,” El Economista (in Spanish), 12 November 2019.
  • “Por falta de 5G, México no entra a la ola del Internet de las Cosas,” Expansion, 30 October 2019.
  • “Technologists meet at KARMA Automotive to explore transformative power of emerging 5G Technologies,” AutoFutures TV, 8 October 2019.
  • “What does 5G mean for automotive connectivity?,” Engineer Live, 17 September 2019.
  • “Why The U.S. And Europe Need To Win In Wireless,” The Innovator News, 26 August 2019.
  • “How 5G will supercharge businesses to work in real time,” Wired, 8 August 2019.
  • “Jamie Cullum – World’s First 5G Music Lesson,” BBC1, EIN News, among others, 25 June 2019.
  • “El ‘internet táctil’ que viene con el 5G,” Innovadores, 21 June 2019.
  • “Vodafone hails UK 5G promise at digital hub launch,” Mobile World Live, 20 June 2019.
  • “Map Shows International Cyber Attacks In Real Time,” Sky News, 13 June 2019.
  • “5G: The Fifth Generation of Mobile Network Communication Technology,” Asian Tribune, 8 June 2019.
  • “Why 5G Isn’t Just Faster 4G,” Forbes, 25 May 2019.
  • “Busting the myths around the value of 5G for consumers,” Ericsson, May 2019.
  • “H Vs E: Naming Names,” Forbes, 24 April 2019.
  • “Mischa Dohler: El sistema de escuelas se ha optimizado, ¿pero dónde están los Leonardos?”, Catalunya Press, 5 April 2019.
  • “The world’s first 5G orchestra at King’s College London,” King’s College London, 25 March 2019.
  • “Web at 30. The won, lost and the next 30 years?,” Medium, 22 March 2019.
  • “Orchestrating the 5G Orchestra in a world’s first,” Standards Body ETSI, 19 March 2019.
  • “Remote control of museum restorers,” The Times (printed edition), 17 March 2019.
  • “5G Mobilfunk: Chancen und Risiken,” ZDF, 25 February 2019.
  • “The 5G wireless revolution,” Guardian podcast, 1 February 2019.
  • “Necesitamos asegurarnos de que tenemos atractivo internacional y relevancia,” El Economista, 25 January 2019.
  • “Did you know that 5G will be about 10 times faster than the current 4G?,” Live Media, 9 January 2019.
  • “The technology which could end traffic jams,” BBC, 12 December 2018.
  • “Ericsson and 5G, we tried the new technology,” Wired (in Italian), 30 November 2018.
  • “El arte urbano de Bostik Murals, gran ganador del Premio Lluís Carulla 2018,” La Vanguardia, 26 November 2018.
  • “El premi Lluís Carulla impulsa l’art urbà de Bostik Murals,” ARA.cat, 26 November 2018.
  • “La prossima internet connetterà le skills – Human 4.0” “Human 4.0 and Internet of Skills – the next Internet will connect skills” [in Italian], 24Ore, 15 November 2018.
  • “21st Century Icon Awards celebrate next generation,” Biz Asia, 27 September 2018.
  • “Hologram phone calls – sci-fi or serious possibility?,” BBC, 20 September 2018.
  • “7 Fields and Professions That Are Beginning to Rely on Virtual Reality,” Innovation Excellence, 6 September 2018.
  • “More UK cities are testing 5G. Here’s how it could be useful,” Wired, 5 September 2018.
  • “Is Britain being left behind in the race for 5G?,” The Times, 12 August 2018.
  • “Government must ensure the UK does not cede its 5G leadership,” Public Technology, 13 July 2018.
  • “S’ha de potenciar més l’ensenyament transversal,” Diari de Girona, 11 July 2018.
  • “Girona, epicentro de la educación del futuro con los Creativation Talks,” 20 Minutos (in Spanish), 10 July 2018.
  • “5G connects London and Berlin in music and song,” Newswire, 26 June 2018.
  • “City ground zero for first ever concert in 5G technology,” London City Matters, 25 June 2018,
  • “Our 5G Future,” BBC World Service, 24 June 2018.
  • “India, UK academic institutions to collaborate on 5G technologies,” Business Standard, 21 June 2018.
  • “London and Berlin’s 5G collaboration hits the high notes with Epiphany,” 5G News, 13 June 2018.
  • “World Cup Click Off,” BBC Click, reporting on our Internet of Skills football solution, 9 June 2018.
  • “5G technology can change the world,” Blasting News, 20 May 2018.
  • “Autonomous drone services tested over intercontinental 5G,” 5G News, 16 May 2018.
  • “The 5G Revolution: What you should know,” Workspace, 15 May 2018.
  • “A General Perspective of 5G,” Rail Engineer, 14 May 2018.
  • “Drones to the rescue!,” BBC, 1 May 2018.
  • “The student of the 21st Century: How can organisations and top-managers train their employees to become skilled end-users?,” Business Reporter, 12 April 2018.
  • “5G gets cheaper than 4G,” Computer World (in Norwegian), 12 April 2018.
  • “5G Is Coming,” BBC Click, 7 April 2018.
  • “5G future: a world of remote colonoscopies,” Financial Times, 28 March 2018.
  • “Universities should be integral to the success of the cities they call home,” Wonk HE, 2 March 2018.
  • “Bristol and Surrey universities, King’s College London debut the world’s first end-to-end 5G network at Mobile World Congress,” Europa Wire, 28 February 2018.
  • “Y la ventanilla única de ayudas de la UE?,” El Mundo, 25 January 2018.
  • “Harnessing the power of 5G communications,” Business Reporter, 14 February 2018.
  • “How 5G could change everything from music to medicine,” CNN, 5 February 2018.
  • “How 5G will transform the way we learn new skills,” CNN, 5 February 2018.
  • “IEEE Releases Details About Its 5G and Beyond Roadmap,” The IEEE Institute, 25 January 2018.
  • “Future technologies,” CNBC (World) Sustainable Energy, 23 January 2018.
  • “Vodafone, Ericsson and King’s College London test standalone pre-standard 5G,” The Economic Times, 21 December 2017.
  • “Five takeaways from Keysight’s 5G Tech Connect conference,” EDN, 19 December 2017.
  • “Smart City steht vor dem Durchbruch” on Austrian Kurier (in German), 11 December 2017.
  • “Internet of Things and Sustainable Energy” on CNBC (World) The Business Class, 21 November 2017.
  • “Smart Cities: Mastercard steckt Expertise in die Weiterentwicklung der Städte,” APA OTS, 20 November 2017.
  • “Lamposts could light the way for smart cities to become a reality,” World Finance, 8 November 2017.
  • “King’s College London 5G Achievements,” DigiAnalysys, 14 October 2017.
  • “New IEEE 5G and Beyond Technology Roadmap White Paper Published,” Business Wire, 4 October 2017.
  • “What will stop these self-driving lorries colliding?,” BBC, 3 October 2017.
  • “First commercial 5G rollout will begin in 2020—Report,” RS-Tech, 3 October 2017.
  • “IMC 2017: UK eyes partnerships with Indian telcos, Digital India,” Business Standard, 27 September 2017.
  • “Internet de las habilidades, una tecnología para humanizar,” El Espectador, Colombia, 6 September 2017.
  • “Cidades inteligentes precisam que ‘big data’ se torne ‘big action’,” FAPESP, 7 August 2017.
  • “Smart Cities need ‘Big Data’ to Become ‘Big Action’,” Revista Amazonia, 7 August 2017.
  • “Benvinguts al future,” Entreacte, 21 July 2017.
  • “Trials of 5G in the UK will start in early 2018 as £16m funding handed out by government,” many important outlets, 7 July 2017.
  • “Reshaping our world with 5G research,” Ericsson Press, June 2017.
  • “Fellowship in Action: Music for Mental Wealth,” Royal Society of Arts (RSA), 15 June 2017.
  • “Future Technologies Now – 5G Internet of Skills,” Kommersant (Russia’s leading business journal), 1 June 2017.
  • “5G Mobile Networks to Revolutionize How We Create & Consume Media + Content,” TechMutiny, June-Sept 2017.
  • “Benefits of 5G innovation may outweigh costs for NHS, says top surgeon,” Computer Weekly, 31 May 2017.
  • “Can connected health be the lifeblood of 5G?,” various venues such as Mobile World, Digital Health, TelecomTV & LightReading, 31 May 2017.
  • “Could Surgeons Operate Using the Internet?,” Voice of America (>200m audience per week), 1st April 2017.
  • “400,000 extra phone masts needed to bring 5g network to rural Britain,” The Telegraph, 31 March 2017.
  • “Could ‘Internet of Skills’ Be Next Technological Leap?,” Voice of America (>200m audience per week), 24 March 2017.
  • “How Optical & Wireless Could Build the ‘Internet of Skills’,” LightReading (and many others)m 22 March 2017.
  • “I want to hear you breathing: A conversation with Mischa Dohler,” The Theatre Times, 4 March 2017.
  • “BT, Ericsson, King’s College London Team Up on 5G R&D, Testing,” Lightreading, 24 February 2017.
  • “Meet the pioneers keeping hackers out of your home, phone and car,” WIRED, 21 February 2017.
  • mentioned in “Bristol joins race to be test bed for ultra-fast 5G technology,” BBC News, 8 February 2017.
  • “‘Netflix for the performance arts’ aims to revolutionise the world of theatre and dance,” The i newspaper online iNews, 29 January 2017.
  • “5G Can Create a Healthier Internet of Medicine,” Wireless Mag, 18 November 2016.
  • “Broadband Speeds in the UK,” Sky News Morning Show, 16 November 2016.
  • “Forget smart devices, soon entire homes could be built to be connected from the ground up,” Wired Hive Future Thinkers, 9 November 2016.
  • “Sky Views: My frustration with an internet we still can’t touch,” Sky News, 5 October 2016.
  • “Smart city dream held back by siloed networks,” Total Telecom, 5 October 2016.
  • “5G Summit: Work on the Mobile Future,” Mopo24 (in German), 30 September 2016.
  • “Launch of London’s Free LPWAN IoT Network,” Wireless, The Stack, Government Computing, The Register, Computer Weekly, IT Pro,  on King’s involvement in the deployment, 20 September 2016.
  • “Are we prepared for 5G and Smart Cities?,” Sky News Business Program, 19 September 2016.
  • “Launch of Amazon Echo – Implications for Privacy, Internet of Things and Home Automation,” on BBC World GMT, 14 September 2016.
  • “Why do mobile phone batteries catch fire?,” on Sky News Tech Show, 9 September 2016.
  • “A Step Closer to 5G Technology That Evokes Connected Cars, Virtual Surgery,” ABC News, 14 July 2016.
  • “Ericsson and King’s College London give tactile robotic surgery the finger with 5G” in various media outlets after the 5G World Summit, e.g. Fierce Wireless/iTWire/TelecomTV, 28-29 June 2016.
  • “IoT industry should focus on demand rather than need” on Wireless Magazine, 24 June 2016.
  • “5G Applications & Technologies” on BBC World TV, 3 June 2016.
  • “The tiny sensors transforming our lives” on CNBC online, 19 May 2016.
  • “The tech saving lives in Africa” on CNBC online, 12 May 2016.
  • “Stefan Means Business” on Soho Radio, 12 May 2016.
  • “Past, Presence and Future of Digital Communications” on Risk Group PLC, 11 May 2016.
  • “Changing the world with tech – Part I & II” televised globally on CNBC (showing our 5G and Tactile Internet developments), 4 May 2016.
  • “Who is protecting the internet of things from cyberattacks?” on Wired, 4 May 2016.
  • “How safe is your personal information on the internet?” on Al Jazeera Inside Story, 28 April 2016.
  • “What does 5G mean for IoT?” on Telecom TV, 12 April 2016.
  • “Banks and Cyber Crime” on Sky Business News, 24 March 2016.
  • “Six Ways to avoid missing plane” on BBC Future, Chinese Edition, 1 March 2016.
  • “Ericsson launches 5G Collaboration with King’s College London,” Telecoms, 29 February 2016.
  • “Unencrypted sensor data allows hackers free reign to control valves and drones” on Danish Media (in Danish), November 2015.
  • “TalkTalk Security Hack” on LBC Radio, October 2015.
  • “Why Bristol’s ship-shape for starting a business,” on Start-Ups, 25 August 2015.
  • “Who will lead the push to a smarter way of life in cities?” in The Guardian, 3 August, 2015.
  • “Key to a connected lifestyle and 5G” on Finanzen (in German), 25 June 2015.
  • “Ericsson Announces Live 5G Test Networks” on various media outlets, May/June 2015.
  • “The Tactile Internet: Touch Me, Now You Can!” at TEDxKingsCollegeLondon, May 2015.
  • “5G Professor backed by Ericsson calls for no more Gs” on Inside 5G, April 2015.
  • “The encouraging entrepreneurial environment in China” on China Daily, April 2015.
  • “Difficulty of doing startup” on China Daily, April 2015.
  • “Web of Insecurity: Hacked Baby Monitors Highlight Perils of Internet of Things” on Newsweek, April 2015.
  • “Why the Internet of Things will be the Internet of YOU” on Telefonica Digital Futures, March 2015.
  • “Tactile internet: 5G and the Cloud on steroids,” Engineering & Technology Magazine, March 2015.
  • “Three wireless technologies that could make 5G even faster” on The Conversation, March 2015.
  • “A closer look at the disruptive state of the industry” on Ericsson, March 2015.
  • “5G is disrupting the Telco industry” on Mobile World, Borneo Post and others after MWC 2015 5G Panel, March 2015.
  • “Future of black box technologies” on Sky News Technology Program, City AM, March 2015.
  • “Black box technology of GermanWing crash” on Sky News, March 2015.
  • “Mobile Industry’s 5G Revolution Heralds the Rise of the Machines,” Bloomberg, February 2015.
  • “UK/US cyber security agreement” on Sky News, London Radio, Feb 2015.
  • “The Future 100: Trends and Change to Watch in 2015” on US Exchange Magazine, entry 49, December 2014.
  • “Smart Cities, Tactile Internet, 5G and Entrepreneurship – some digital policy thoughts” on Digitising Europe Berlin, December 2014.
  • “Is car technology creating stupid drivers?” on BBC Future, November 2014.
  • “Webcam cyber security breach” on Sky News and other outlets, 2014.
  • “5G will be big business for telecom operators” on The Frontline, September 2014.
  • “Tactile Internet – 5G mobile networks will support an internet that’s so good you can feel it” on The Conversation, September 2014.
  • “Why entrepreneurship in universities” on Fresh Business Thinking, September 2014.
  • “The Smart City Business” on La Vanguardia, September 2014.
  • “Cause of crash of MH17” on Sky News, RTTC, Al Jazeera, July 2014.
  • “The Internet of Things” on BBC Radio 5, 29 June 2014.
  • “Smart Cities – Ask the Expert” on The IEEE Institute, June 2014.
  • “Can a city ever be traffic jam-free?” on BBC Future, June 2014.
  • “6 ways to avoid losing a plane” on BBC Future, El Periodico Ecuador, May 2014.
  • “Satellite data of MH370 – mystery?” on Sky News, May 2014.
  • “Role of communications in disappearance of MH370” on BBC News, Sky News, Al Jazeera, BBC Radio 5, LBC Radio, etc; throughout 2014.
  • “Prime Minister at CeBIT: UK and Germany can lead technological revolution” on No 10 Government Website, March 2014.
  • “Smart Cities – The Untold Story” on TEDxLondon City 2.0, December 2013.
  • “Smart Cities” on 30 January 2012, Barcelona, Spain: Catalunya Radio.
  • After/On Telefonica 2021 Networking Summit presentation “10 Times Beyond LTE-A – Business Case, Technologies, Challenges” on 15 December 2011, Madrid, Spain: e.g. El Pais, [more].
  • “Making Smart Cities Happen,” Wall Street Journal, September 2011 [reporting on Worldsensing].
  • “Privacy in the IoT,” BBC, September 2011.
  • “Talking Shop – Machine-to-Machine Communications,” Wall Street Journal, June 2011 [reporting on Worldsensing].
  • “Docitive Networks – The Next Femto Evolution” on 1 February 2011, Communications Technology.
  • After/On XALOC project dedicated to “Smart Parking in Smart Cities” around June/July 2010: El Mundo, La Vanguardia, El Periodico, AVUI Newspaper, TV3, BTV, [more].

4. Keynotes

  • “6G, XR and the Metaverse – A Silicon Valley View,” Baltimore ACM Chapter – Invited Talk, 13 February 2023.
  • “5G, XR and the Metaverse – A Silicon Valley View,” Plenary Keynote, IEEE Smart World, 15 December 2022.
  • “Now Is A Perfect Time To Talk 6G!,” Optica, 7 December 2022.
  • “Now Is A Perfect Time To Talk 6G!,” Plenary Keynote, Toward 6G workshop, 30 November 2022.
  • “Digital Divide & Equitable Education,” lunch-time keynote, Verge Climate Action, 25 October 2022.
  • “Emerging Technologies Shaping Our Future,” MWC 2022, Las Vegas, USA, 29 September 2022.
  • “6G and the metaverse will power a holographic society”, ITU, ITU Emerging Tech Journal Webinar, 11 May 2022.
  • “The (exciting) journey towards 6G,” IWPC 6G Workshop, Silicon Valley, USA, 24 August 2022.
  • “An Innovation Journey Into A 6G Future: Challenges and Opportunities,” Australian Beyond 5G Connectivity Summit, 23 August 2022.
  • “An Innovation Journey Into A 6G Future: Six Holistic Challenges To Solve Today,” Plenary Keynote, 6G Net Conference, Paris, France, 6 July 2022.
  • “Will Improved Connectivity Make Telesurgery a Reality,” SRS 2022, Robotic Surgery Society, 2 July 2022.
  • “Now Is A Perfect Time To Talk 6G!,” Plenary Keynote, IEEE NextG, Washington, USA, 14 June 2022; [recording].
  • “Please, solve these 6G Challenges!,” Stanford Information Theory seminar series, 8 June 2022.
  • “Spectrum Innovation Leadership in the 6G Era – A Silicon Valley View,” Deutsche Telekom Spectrum Workshop, 16 May 2022.
  • “Self-Synthesizing Networks & Sophisticated Metaverses: Will we trigger an AI Singularity in the 6G Era?,” Plenary Keynote, Reinforce AI conference, 8 March 2022.
  • “A Silicon Valley View on the Future of Industrial IoT,” Industrial IoT Alliance, 8 March 2022.
  • “6G and the Internet of Skills,” OFC 2022, San Diego, 7 March 2022.
  • “An innovation journey into a 6G future: from the Internet of Things to the Internet of Skills,” Rutgers Winlab Research Review opening keynote, 9 December 2021.
  • “6G Self-Synthesising Networks For An Immersive World,” IEEE Meditcom 2021, Athens, Greece, 9 September 2021; [slides].
  • “6G and the Internet of Skills,” UNet 2021, 20 May 2021.
  • “Virtual Reality is Dead – The Future is 6G Synchronised Reality,” Unlimited Realities, May 2021.
  • “The Immersive World of 6G,” IRICT2020, December 2020.
  • “Smart Cities in the Era of 6G,” EAI 2020, December 2020.
  • “5G and The Internet of Skills In Action,” CICT 2020, 3 December 2020.
  • “Digital Technologies for Social Inclusion,” eCLAC 2022, Latam’s most important digital policy conference, 24 November 2020.
  • “The Power of Artificial Intelligence,” Forensic Psychiatry, Liverpool, UK, 4 March 2020.
  • “5G in Action,” Vodafone Business Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 19 February 2020.
  • “5G: Has the UK Plc grasped the opportunity?,” IET Christmas Lecture, 13 December 2019.
  • “5G and the Internet of Skills in Action,” Plenary Keynote, IEEE IPCCC 2019, 29 October 2019.
  • “5G In Action For Automotive,” Karma Automotive, 11 September 2019.
  • “Internet of Skills — Where 5G, Robotics and AI Meet,” Plenary Keynote (>3,000 people), IEEE ICASSP 2019, Brighton, UK, 15 May 2019.
  • “Will 5G Be The Last G?,” Wireless Days, May 2019.
  • “The Making of 5G,” Keynote, ETSI & OAI, Nice, France, 12 December 2018.
  • “The Making of 5G and the Internet of Skills,” Plenary Keynote, Indian Mobile Congress (IMC) 2018, New Delhi, India, 27 October 2018.
  • “The Internet of Skills: Building the next-generation Internet,” EU Business School, Barcelona, 15 September 2018.
  • “The Making of 5G,” Plenary Keynote, IEEE PIMRC 2018, Bologna, Italy, 10 September 2018.
  • “The Making of 5G,” CDOT Anniversary, New Delhi, India, 28 August 2018.
  • “The Internet of Skills: Building the next “Leonardos,” CreativationTalks 2018, Girona, Catalonia, 10 July 2018.
  • “The Internet of Skills: How 5G Synchronized Reality Is Transforming Robotic Surgery,” SRS 2018, Annual Conference of the Society of Robotic Surgery, Stockholm, Sweden, 20 June 2018.
  • “Explainable Artificial Intelligence,” H-Farm AI Maze Event, Italy, 15 May 2018.
  • “The Future of Skills,” Ministerial Conference on the Information Society, Cartagena, Colombia, 19 April 2018.
  • “The Making of 5G,” 2nd Nordic Conference on ICT, Norway, 11 April 2018.
  • “5G, the Internet of Skills and other , massive opportunities for the Compound Semiconductor Industry,” CoInnovate2018, Cardiff, Wales 24 January 2018.
  • “Internet of Skills: Time To Disrupt Cellular,” Keynote, IET ISP 2017, 5 December 2017, London, UK.
  • “Internet of Skills: Time To Disrupt Cellular,” Keynote, NOF 2017, 22 November 2017, London, UK.
  • “5G – Are You Ready?,” Ericsson Innovation Days, 17 November 2017, New Delhi, India.
  • “Internet of Skills: 5G & Industrial Co-Creation,” Ericsson Innovation Days, 16 November 2017, Krakow, Poland.
  • “Future of Cities – without the hype & myth,” Evening Keynote, MasterCard, 9 November 2017, Vienna, Austria.
  • “Internet of Skills Democratizing Labor and Empowering Humans,” Plenary Keynote, Coleman Institute, 2 November 2017, Colorado, US.
  • “Internet of Skills From Industry 4.0 To Human 4.0,” Keynote at Bosch 2017 Innovation event, 25 September 2017, Stuttgart, Germany.
  • “5G and the Internet of Skills,” Keynote, IET Future Fest, 17 October 2017, London, UK.
  • “Transforming Industries with 5G,” Panel Plenary Keynote, 1st Indian Mobile Congress, 28 September 2017, New Delhi, Indai.
  • “Internet of Skills – Enabled by Spectrum-Aware Decoupled Up and Downlinks,” Plenary Keynote, Crowncom 2017, 20 September 2017, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • “Internet of Skills – Where Communications, Robotics and AI Meet,” Plenary Keynote, 7th International Spectrum Congress 2017, 5 September 2017, Bogota, Colombia.
  • “Internet of Skills – Where Communications, Robotics and AI Meet,” Plenary Keynote (4,000 people), OFC 2017, 21 March 2017, Los Angeles, USA.
  • “Internet of Skills – Where 5G, Robotics and AI Meet,” Plenary Keynote, NCC 2017, 3 March 2017, Chennai, India.
  • “Future of Wireless Trends & Policy Recommendations,” Keynote at Cambridge Policy Workshop, 1 February 2017, Cambridge, UK.
  • “Internet of Skills – Where 5G IoT Communications, Robotics and AI Meet,” Keynote at IET 5G event, 25 January 2017, London, UK.
  • “Internet of Skills – Where 5G IoT Communications, Robotics and AI Meet,” Plenary Keynote at IEEE CloudCom 2016, 13 December 2016, Luxembourg.
  • “Internet of Skills – Where 5G IoT Communications, Robotics and AI Meet,” Intel Research Conference, 12 October, Dublin, Ireland.
  • “The Future of Bandwidth,Towards an Internet of Things & Internet of Skills,” Berenberg CTO Conference, 5 October 2016, London, UK.
  • “Internet of Skills The Era of 5G, Tactile Internet, Robotics and AI has come,” IEEE 5G Dresden Summit, 29 September 2016, Dresden, Germany.
  • “Narrow Band IoT… without the hot air,” Deutsche Telekom NB-IoT Kick-Off, Hub:Raum, 5 September 2016, Berlin, Germany.
  • “5G … What if?,” IEEE 5G Initiative KickOff Workshop, 29 August, 2016, Princeton, USA.
  • “An Internet of Skills, where Robotics meets AI, 5G and the Tactile Internet,” Plenary Keynote at IEEE ICUFN 2016, 6 July 2016, Vienna, Austria.
  • “Host of the Night Speech on 5G,” Awards Event, 5G Global Summit, 29 June 2016, London, UK.
  • “Smart Cities – without the hot air,” Cambridge Wireless Conference, 21 June 2016, London, UK.
  • “The Future of Tech,” Plenary Keynote at IFCLA 2016, 10 June 2016, London, UK [blog].
  • “An Internet of Skills, where Robotics meets AI and the Tactile Internet,” Plenary Keynote at IEEE ICC 2016, 26 May 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, [PDF].
  • “5G Vertical Industry Requirements,” IEEE ICC 2016, Workshop 5G Arch, 23 May 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • “The 21st Century’s Changing Innovation Cycles,” Webit Festival 2016, 19 April 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria.
  • “Smart Cities without the hot air,” IoT Tech Expo London, 10 Feb 2016, London, UK.
  • “Internet of Things The Untold Story,” M2M Symposium, Telia Sonera, 19 November 2015, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • “Disruptive Tech – Is 5G The Next Frontier?” Plenary Keynote, IEEE 5G Summit, 16 November 2015, Google, Silicon Valley, US.
  • “The Tactile Internet – Transforming the Planet’s Energy Budget,” Plenary Keynote, IEEE GreenComm, 11 November 2015, online.
  • “IoT Innovation & Entrepreneurship out of a 21st Century University,” Plenary Keynote, IOT360, 27 October 2015, Rome, Italy.
  • “The Tactile Internet – IoT, 5G and Cloud on Steroids,” Plenary Keynote, ICUMT 2015, 6 October 2015, Brno, Czech Republic.
  • “Connecting your IoT – The Untold Story,” The Tech Expo, 5 October 2015, London, UK.
  • “Postcards from the Future,” Retail Week Tech and Ecomm, 15 September 2015, London UK.
  • “Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship in a 21st Century Ecosystem,” Plenary Keynote, Latvian National Innovation Conference in front of Latvian President, 10 September 2015, Latvia.
  • “The Tactile Internet – IoT, 5G and Cloud on Steroids,” Plenary Keynote, NGMAST 2015, 9 September 2015, Cambridge, UK.
  • “The Tactile Internet – IoT, 5G and Cloud on Steroids,” Plenary Keynote, SBrT 2015, 3 September 2015, Brazil.
  • “Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship in a 21st Century University,” SBrT 2015, 3 September 2015, Brazil.
  • “Disruptive Tech – The Next Frontier,” Plenary Keynote, IEEE PIMRC 2015, 1 September 2015, Hong Kong.
  • “Internet of Things, 5G and Big Data – Procuring in the 21st Century,” Procurements Innovation Event, 10 July 2015, Dublin, Ireland.
  • “Smart Cities – The Untold Story,” Bristol Smart City event, 7 July 2015, Bristol, UK.
  • “The Tactile Internet – IoT, 5G and Cloud on Steroids,” FiWiN5G Vision of 5G Workshop @ UCL, 30 June 2015, London, UK.
  • “Key to a Connected Lifestyle,” Ericsson Innovation Day, 23 June 2015, Aachen, Germany.
  • “Disruptive Technology – The Next Frontier,” Doctor Honoris Causa Keynote, INSA Lyon, 18 June 2015, Lyon, France.
  • “Green 5G Tactile Internet – Academic Myth or Industrial Necessity,” Green 5G Workshop at IEEE ICC 2015, 12 June 2015, London, UK.
  • “What if? Some Disruptive Design Approaches for Cellular,” 5G Architecture Workshop at IEEE ICC 2015, 8 June 2015, London, UK (together with Dr Toktam Mahmoodi).
  • “Smart City Transition from Concepts to Reality,” 21st GCC Smart Government and Smart Services Conference, 18 May 2015, Dubai, UAE.
  • “Smart Cities, IoT and Big Data – The Untold Story,” ICTRF 2015, 17 May 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  • “What if? Some Disruptive Design Approaches for Cellular,” Johannesberg Summit 2015, 11 May 2015, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • “The Tactile Internet – IoT, 5G and Cloud on Steroids,” SIECPC 2015, 27 April 2015, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
  • “London: The Connected City,” Joining the Dots – the Infrastructure for London Tech Event, Tech London Advocates, London, UK, 17 April 2015.
  • “Unleashing Innovation in Academia,” Innovation Leader Conference, 16 April 2015, Cambridge, UK.”
  • “5G Research and Innovation at King’s,” ITRI Taiwan Government event, 23 March 2015, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • “The Tactile Internet – IoT, 5G and Cloud on Steroids,” IET 5G Radio Technology Seminar, 17 March 2015, London, UK.
  • “The 5G Tactile Internet – hear it, see it and now touch it!” Ericsson Leadership Event, 24 February 2015, Windsor, UK.
  • “Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship in a 21st Century University,” National Innovation Congress, 19 February 2015, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
  • “IoT, Big Data & Smart Cities – The Untold Story,” Smart City & IoT Workshop, 18 February 2015, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
  • “IoT, Big Data & Smart Cities – The Untold Story,” SENSORNETS 2015, 11 February 2015, Angers, France.
  • “Will 5G Power the IoT?” NSysS 2015, 7 January 2015, Bangladesh.
  • “Smart Cities, Tactile Internet, 5G and Entrepreneurship – some digital policy thoughts,” Digitising Europe, speaking along Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, December 2014, Berlin, Germany.
  • “Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship in a 21st Century University,” Government National Innovation Congress, 25 November 2014, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • “Data Quality – What’s Next?” Experian General Technical Meeting, 20 November 2014, London, UK.
  • “IoT, Big Data & Smart Cities – The Untold Story,” WORKTECH 2014, 19 November 2014, London, UK.
  • “Innovation in 5G – Rethinking Cellular” Digital Catapult 5G Event, 14 November 2014, London, UK.
  • “Big Data – What’s Next?” Big Data Analytics Conference, 13 November 2014, London, UK.
  • “IoT, M2M & Smart Cities – The Untold Story,” M2M Forum Europe, 11 November 2014, London, UK.
  • “The Dawn of Connected Machines in 5G Networks,” IET 5G Conference, 30 October 2014, Birmingham, UK.
  • “IoT, Big Data & Smart Cities – The Untold Story,” Urban-IoT, 28 October 2014, Rome, Italy.
  • “50 Billion M2M Devices in 5G?,” BodyNets, 30 September 2014, London, UK.
  • “50 Billion M2M Devices in 5G?,” IEEE WPMC, 8 September 2014, Sydney, Australia.
  • “The Dawn of Connected Machines,” SAI Conference, 28 August 2014, London, UK.
  • “Big Data – overcoming the challenges,” Bird & Bird’s IT Breakfast Briefing Keynote, 10 July 2014, London, UK.
  • “Machine-to-Machine and Big Data in Smart Cities – Vision, Technologies and Applications,” Future of SIT Conference, 26 June 2014, Salford, UK.
  • “The path to excellence – reflections on personal career,” REF 2020 – Achieving Excellence, 14 May 2014, Coventry, UK.
  • “Challenges and visions of how to get M2M into 5G,” weM2M Workshop, 25 April 2014, London, UK
  • “Smart Cities – Technologies, Big Data & Privacy,” URSI, 26 March 2014, Paris, France.
  • “M2M in Smart Cities – Technologies & Vision,” Plenary Keynote IEEE WiMob 2013, 9 October 2013, Lyon, France.
  • “M2M in Smart Cities -Technologies & Vision,” MONAMI 2013, 24 September 2013, Cork, Ireland.
  • “Internet of Things,Technologies & Predictions,” Internet of Things PhD School, 16 Sept 2013, Lerice/Pisa, Italy.
  • “Designing Smart Cities – Challenges & Opportunities,” Design Council Keynote, 7 September 2013, London, UK.
  • “Machine-to-Machine in Smart Cities & Smart Grids:,Vision, Technologies & Applications,” WiFlex, September 2013, Kaliningrad, Russia.
  • “Smart Cities – Technologies, Big Data and Citizens,” Plenary Keynote IEEE WoWMoM, 7 June 2013, Madrid, Spain.
  • “Implementations & Lessons learned from Smart Cities Moscow & Barcelona,” ETSI Smart City Workshop, 3-4 June 2013, Sophia Antipolis, France.
  • “Machine-to-Machine in Smart Cities & Smart Grids – Vision, Technologies & Applications,” SWICOM, 22 May 2013, Luton, UK.
  • “Machine-to-Machine in Smart Cities & Smart Grids – Vision, Technologies & Applications,” ITU Workshop on M2M, 21 May 2013, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • “M2M & Big Data: Will the Wireless Industry miss out again?,” Johannesberg Summit, May 2013, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • “Machine-to-Machine & Sensor Technologies in Smart Cities – Vision, Standards and Applications,” Future Internet Alliance (FIA), 7 May 2013, Dublin, Ireland.
  • “Siliconification of Urban Environments – The Price for Smart Cities,” Urban Prototyping London 2013, April 2013, Imperial College, London, UK.
  • “Smart Cities – Technologies, Big Data and Citizens,” Plenary Keynote IEEE ICICS 2013, 8 March 2013, Vancouver, Canada.
  • “Sensors and Machine-to-Machine Technologies for Smarter Cities,” Sensornets 2013, February 2013, Barcelona, Spain.
  • “Machine-to-Machine in Smart Cities – Shift of Industries,” IEEE Globecom 2012, IWM2M, 7 December 2012, Anaheim, USA.
  • “10 Times Beyond LTE-A – Business Case, Technologies, Challenges for Emerging 5G Networks,” IFIP Wireless Days, 22 November 2012, Dublin, Ireland.
  • “Machine-to-Machine Facilitating the IoT for Smart Homes: Vision, Standards and Technologies,” Home Networking Summit, Austin, Texas, USA, 12 November 2012.
  • “10 Times Beyond LTE-A – Business Case, Technologies, Challenges,” Telefonica 2021 Networking Summit, 15 December 2011, Madrid, Spain.
  • “Cellular & Capillary Machine-to-Machine Networks: Industrial Cross-Layer Designs,” IEEE IWCLD, 30 Nov.-1 Dec. 2011, Rennes, France.
  • “Smart Cities – Technologies, Drivers and Major Challenges,” Plenary Keynote IEEE MASS, 17-22 October 2011, Valencia, Spain.
  • “Why ad hoc networking has been the wrong way,” Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks (ADHOC 2011), 10-11 May 2011, Johannesberg Castle, Stockholm.
  • “Docitive Networks – A Step Beyond Cognition,” ISABEL 2009, November 2009, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • “Docitive Radios – Centroid of Cognition and Cooperation,” WWRF23, October 2009, Beijing, China.
  • “Standards & Alliances – Wireless Sensor Networks,” WCO Concertation Day, October 2009, Brussels, European Commission.
  • “Researching Research: Are we going the right way?,” UBICOMM 2008, Valencia, Spain.
  • “Machines Learn To Cooperate,” International Workshop on Wireless Distributed Networks, part of IEEE PIMRC 2008, Cannes, France.
  • “Large-Scale Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks – Challenges & Opportunities,” International Conference on WSNs, November 2006, Paris, France.
  • “UWB – An Operator’s View,” IEE UWB Conference, April 2006, London, UK.

5. Panels

  • “Making Sense of the Metaverse,” Nimbus, London, UK, 12 December 2022.
  • “Metaverse: Work or Play?,” Microsoft Research Days, 19 October 2022.
  • “Renaissance 2.0 – Does Tech Have A Bigger Purpose?,” Fireside Chat with Microsoft Deputy CTO Lila Tretikov, Imagine Possible, Santa Clara, 18 October 2022; [recording].
  • “5G, 6G and the Metaverse,” CoInnovateCS Connectivity panel, Monterey, USA, 12 May 2022.
  • “No More Gs?,” IEEE ComSoc, 13 April 2022.
  • “6G Innovation Roadmap,” 5GUK Consortium Event, InnovateUK, 23 March 2022.
  • “Bridging the Digital Divide, and the Future of WorkUS & Silicon Valley View,” OFC 2022, San Diego, USA, 7 March 2022.
  • “An innovation journey into a 6G future,” ECO6G, Barcelona, Spain, 10 February 2022.
  • “International Innovation Centre for Future Wireless (6G),” US National Academy of Engineering, 24 June 2021.
  • “5G-Enabled: Where next for UK telecoms?,” SCI Summit, chaired by Dr Mike Short, 19 May 2021.
  • “6G Opportunities and Challenges,” 6G World, 4 May 2021, online event.
  • “5G Innovation Hub Launch,” Wired Panel, 19 June 2019, Salford / Manchester, UK.
  • “Internet of Skills – Future of Work?” Digitec EC Parliamentary Event, 29 November 2016, Brussels, Belgium.
  • “Smart Cities, 5G and the IoT,” Total Telecom Congress 2016, 5 October 2016, London, UK
  • “Internet of Things/IoT & 5G,” Policy UK IoT Forum, 22 September 2016, London, UK.
  • “5G Industry Verticals,” IEEE ICC 2016, 25 May 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • “Backhaul and Fronthaul Tradeoffs in 5G,” IEEE ICC 2016, Workshop, 23 May 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • “What should 5G look like: standards, spectrum and rollout,” Westminster eForum Keynote Seminar on The future of mobile: networks, devices and 5G, 16 July 2015, London, UK
  • “Big Data,” Wragge-Law panel, 7 July 2015, London, UK.
  • “The road to 5G: the next biggest step in mobile connectivity?” Connected Britain, 16 June 2015, London, UK.
  • “Opening the data highway to a Digital Single Market,” InnovateUK Brussels, 15 June 2015, Brussels, Belgium.
  • “Future Technology Network 5G Panel,” IEEE ICC 2015, 9 June 2015, London, UK.
  • “5G Architecture Panel,” IEEE ICC 2015, 9 June 2015, London, UK.
  • “Information is Power – How Data is Changing the Built Environment,” L39 CogniCity Fire-Chat Panel, 14 May 2015, London, UK.
  • Panel Chair of “Applications and Drivers,” Johannesberg Summit 2015, 11 May 2015, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • 5G Spectrum Panel at Ofcom, 12 March 2015, London, UK.
  • TrueStart R:evolution 2.0 panel, 5 March 2015, London, UK.
  • “5G Requirements,” Mobile World Congress 2015, GSMA Session, 4 March 2015, Barcelona, Spain.
  • “Industrial IoT – Why did it take so long?” Mobile World Congress 2015, CDEC Session, 3 March 2015, Barcelona, Spain.
  • IoT & Smart Cities panel, Sensornets 2015, 11 February 2015, Angers, France.
  • “Exploiting Big Data in Support of Non-Proliferation,” The International Centre for Security Analysis, 26-27 January 2015, Vienna, Austria.
  • “Will 5G Power the IoT?” IEEE Globecom Industry Workshop, December 2014, Austin, US.
  • “Futures Rountable” at the World Humanitarian Summit, 12-13 November 2014, London, UK.
  • Panel Chair of IoT Panel at The Web Summit, 4000 attendees, November 2014, Dublin, Ireland.
  • IoT panel at IOT360 with Usman Haque, 29 October 2014, Rome, Italy.
  • “Modelling a Future World City,” InnovateUK 2014, Innovation Conference, 23 October 2014, London, UK.
  • “Future of UK’s Digital Infrastructure & Innovation,” Round-Table at House of Commons, 20 October 2014, London, UK.
  • Round-Table with British Ambassador to Germany in Berlin on “Foresight Europe 2030”,  6 October 2014, Berlin, Germany.
  • “5G Services in Action,” 5G Huddle, WWRF, 22 September 2014, London, UK.
  • “Your Life in Your Hands: Living our Lives through our Mobile Phones,” Ipsos MORI & KCL Panel, together with Ben Page (Chief Exec of Ipsos MORI) and Ben Hammersley (Editor at Large of Wired), 24 June 2014, London, UK.
  • City Hall event on Smart Cities, panel after Mayor Boris Johnson’s keynote, 24 June 2014, London, UK.
  • “5G challenges and what must the UK do to overcome them?” Royal Academy of Engineering, 5G stakeholders’ meeting, 19 June 2014, London, UK.
  • IoT Breakfast Event, Telefonica, 17 June 2014, London, UK.
  • “The Snowden Revelations – One Year On,” Round-Table at the Chatham House, 12 June 2014, London, UK.
  • Internet of Things  Ecosystem Event, NESTA, 3 June 2014, London, UK.
  • Panel Organizer and Moderator, “Is there a future in M2M?” Johanesberg Summit, May 2014, Sweden.
  • Panel Organizer and Moderator, “How to scale M2M connectivity provisioning?” IEEE WCNC 2014, April 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • “5G- Rethinking Wireless Infrastructure,” IWPC Industry Workshop, April 2014, Oxford, UK.
  • “Financing the Internet of Things,” Internet of Things EU Summit, 3 March 2014, Brussels, Belgium.
  • “Machine-to-Machine Technologies in 5G,” M2M/IoT conference, February 2014, Oxford, UK.
  • “Sustainable Technologies,” Sustainability Panel at King’s College London, February 2014, London, UK.
  • “Designing Smart Cities in 2013,” Re.Work Cities, 13 December 2013, London, UK.
  • “M2M Trends – Should we believe the forecast?” BEREC M2M Workshop, 19 November 2013, Brussels, Belgium.
  • “Emerging ICT Technologies,” IEEE WoWMoM, 7 June 2013, Madrid, Spain.
  • “Smart Cities – Shift of Technologies,” Smart Cities Workshop, 3 June 2013, Sophia Antipolis, France.
  • “Future Internet Technologies,” Future Internet Assembly, 6 May 2013, Dublin, Ireland.
  • “From Static to Dynamic” Urban Prototyping London 2013, April 2013, Imperial College, London, UK.
  • “Wireless Sensor Networks – Unexpected Shift of Industries” Sensornets 2013, February 2013, Barcelona, Spain.
  • “Future of M2M Technologies” IEEE Globecom 2012, IWM2M, 7 December 2012, Anaheim, USA.
  • “Home Networking Technologies” Home Networking Summit, Austin, Texas, USA, 12 November 2012.
  • Panel Organizer and Moderator in “Green Wireless Networking – Ecological Bubble or Financial Drive?” IEEE CAMAD 2012, September 2012, Barcelona, Spain.
  • “Disruptive Technologies – 1Gbps/km2 BuNGee Architecture,” LTE World Summit 2012, May 2012, Barcelona, Spain.
  • “Pervasive Computing: Is the Devil in the Details?,” IEEE PerCom 2012 (NSF Panel), March 2012, Lugano, Switzerland.
  • Panel Moderator in “Green Communications and the Smart Grid,” IEEE CTW 2011, June 2011, Sitges/Barcelona, Spain.
  • Panel Organizer and Moderator in “A Glimpse of the Future of Wireless Communications,” IEEE Globecom 2010, December 2010, Miami, US.
  • “The Impact Of Communication Theory On Technology Development: Is The Best Behind Us, Or Ahead?,” IEEE CTW 2011, Cancun, Mexico, May 2010.
  • “IP and Wavenis: Utopia or Reality?,” Orange M2M Wavenis, Paris, France, May 2009.
  • Panel Organizer and Panelist in “The PHY Layer is Dead,” IEEE VTC-Spring 2009, Barcelona, Spain.
  • “Cognitive Networking,” WPMC 2008, Lapland, Finland.
  • Panel Organizer of “Wireless Sensor Networks – Ripe or Hype? An Industrial View,” IEEE ICC 2008, Beijing, China.
  • “Cooperative Strategies for Future Wireless Communication Systems,” IEEE PIMRC 2006, Helsinki, Finland.