Fatima is currently senior standardization manager of future radio access technologies within Orange. She is responsible for the elaboration of Orange group RAN standardization strategy and objectives in 3GPP (in particular 5G, LTE, UTRA, GERAN, IoT/MTC, Spectrum, etc) and the coordination of its RAN delegation. Before joining 3GPP by the end of 2007, Fatima successfully managed numerous R&D projects for Orange Labs and have contributed to European collaborative projects.
From 1997 and 2002 Fatima worked for numerous mobile operators (Orange Sverige, BLU Italy, SFR France and Maroc Telecom) where she had successfully delivered projects involving design, engineering, roll-out and optimization of operational GSM and UMTS networks.
These varied experiences gave her the ability and taste for creating, on one hand, efficient bridges between research and standardization and, on the other hand, for keeping standardization work in connection with the reality and constraints of deployment on the field.

Giovanni Romano is currently coordinating Telecom Italia activities on technical standards related to radio access and spectrum. The role implies the identification of requirements to be transferred to standardisation fora such as 3GPP to define new technical solutions for the radio interfaces of GSM, UMTS, LTE, 5G/IMT2020 and their evolutions, and the evaluation of technical solutions under development.
In March 2015, Giovanni was re-elected Vice-Chairman of 3GPP Technical Specification Group RAN for the period 2015-2017, following a first term period (2013-2015).
Since 1996 Giovanni has been active in several international standardisation fora and he is currently attending 3GPP RAN and MGMN. Giovanni also coordinates Telecom Italia’s activities in ITU-R, GCF and groups dealing with radio aspects in 3GPP and ETSI.
Until 2005 Giovanni was project leader of several activities within the R&D center of Telecom Italia, including UMTS performance evaluation, quality of service verification, standardisation, field trials and testing.

Joerg Swetina studied Chemistry and Mathematics at the University of Vienna, Austria and later conducted research in Theoretical Chemistry.
Moving from academia to industry he led a development team dealing with GSM call processing and software testing at Siemens Austria. Since the early days of 3GPP he had been representing Siemens and later Nokia Siemens Networks in standardization bodies like ETSI SMG, 3GPP, OMA and others.
In 2008 he moved to NEC Europe in Heidelberg, Germany, continuing his work in standards.
For several years Joerg had been vice chair of 3GPP SA1 (service and system requirements) and is currently involved in creating requirements for 5G in 3GPP.
Additionally to 3GPP his current field of interest covers Machine-to-Machine communication. He is currently acting as vice chair of the requirements group of the ‘oneM2M Global Initiative’ organisation and is also active in semantic aspects for IoT within oneM2M.

Dr. Swetina is married and is living in Vienna and Heidelberg.

Colin Langtry is the Chief of the Radiocommunication Study Groups Department (SGD) in the International Telecommunication Union. Mr. Langtry’s recent experience involved working as the Counsellor for ITU-R Study Groups 5 and 8 supporting their studies on amateur, fixed, mobile and radiodetermination services. This activity included his role as Counsellor in the development of the ITU’s International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) systems standards for mobile broadband wireless access. Prior to that he was responsible for the Text Editing and Publications Division of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau and, before joining the ITU, managing spectrum planning activities in the Australian spectrum management agency.