Tivit Future Internet pre-conference May 30, 2012, Dipoli Espoo, Finland

Panelist bios
Markus Isomäki is a Senior Technology Manager in Nokia’s Compatibility and Industry Collaboration unit. He is responsible for IETF and related Internet protocol standards development in Nokia. His main interests at the moment include Web application performance and Internet connectivity for constrained devices. He has contributed for various Internet standards over the last 15 years, especially in the IETF. Markus has an MSc degree from Helsinki University of Technology.

Jonne Soininen is the Head of Standardization Strategy at Renesas Mobile. In his role, Jonne is responsible for standardization strategy in Renesas Mobile. In the standardization front, Jonne has been active in Thirds Generation partnership project (3GPP), the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) - in both of them in various working groups and roles. The main activities, however, have been at in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) being active especially in mobility and IP related topics, and serving in different roles in the organization. In the Internet Governance and policy front Jonne has been active in the Internet Society, the Internet Governance Forum, and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers recently have served a year term as  as the Technical Liaison Group liaison tothe ICANN board. 

Hannes Tschofenig lives in Finland and is employed by Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). In his last 10 years of IETF involvement he has been interested in security, privacy, and emergency services.

Hannes co-chaired the IETF ECRIT working group from 2005 to early 2010. For his work in the area of IP-based emergency services he received the ‘Outstanding Vision for 112′ award from the European Emergency Number Association (EENA) and later even became the co-chair of the EENA Next Generation 112 Technical Committee.? He contributed to the technical specifications developed within the National Emergency Number Association (NENA), is a contributor to the work in the ECRIT as well as the IETF GEOPRIV working group, and co-chairs the Emergency Services Workshop series. He has published several articles on emergency services, including an article on ‘Emergency Services for Internet Multimedia’ in the December 2010 edition of the IP Protocol Journal and a CACM article on ‘Security Risks in Next-Generation Emergency Services’ from November 2011.

Hannes co-chaired the IETF Provisioning of Symmetric Keys (keyprov) and the Diameter Maintenance and Extensions (dime) working groups. Currently he co-chairs the Web Authorization Protocol (OAuth) working group developing solutions for secure and privacy-friendly data sharing on the Internet. Hannes frequently gives talks about various security and privacy related topics and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). As an active participant with over 40 RFCs he likes to work with others in different areas in the IETF.

Dr. Raimo Vuopionperä has 20+ years of experience working in top level Science organizations and ICT Research and Development units. In 1996 he received his Ph.D. on Theoretical Particle Physics from the University of Helsinki. Then he went to work at CERN for 1½ years. After realizing his High School dream (which was to work at CERN :-) he decided to change his field of profession to Telecommunications and joined Ericsson Finland in 1998. In spring 1999 become the Research Manager of Nomadiclab - Ericsson Research Laboratory in Finland. During his leadership period between 1999 – 2008 NomadicLab developed from almost unknown Ericsson internal laboratory to one of the biggest Ericsson Research laboratories in the Ericsson Research Global organization that is also internationally recognized research laboratory e.g. at IETF. Currently his work at Ericsson Finland focuses on setting up External R&D Collaboration efforts both for Ericsson Finland and for whole Finnish ICT Sector. Since April 2012 he is also working as the chairman of the TIVIT Board of Directors.