Petar Popovski is a Professor at Aalborg University, where he heads the section on Connectivity and a Visiting Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant (2015), the Danish Elite Researcher award (2016), Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications (2019), the Danish Telecommunication Prize (2020) and Villum Investigator Grant (2021). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Editor-in-Chief of IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS and a Chair of the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee. His research interests are in the area of wireless communication and communication theory.

Federico Boccardi is Head of Connectivity Policy for Europe in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Before AWS, he held senior positions in Ofcom (the UK communications regulator), where he contributed to a very diverse set of areas, including defining the spectrum strategy for 5G, leading the studies to open a new Wi-Fi band at 5 GHz, and coordinating the emerging technology functions. Before Ofcom, he worked in Vodafone and Bell Labs (Alcatel-Lucent), where he made key contributions for the theoretical development of wireless communications and their applications to 4G and 5G systems. He received a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, and a Diploma in Strategy and Innovation from the Oxford Saïd Business School. He is an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol, a Fellow of the IET and a Member of the Advisory Board at UKTIN.

Sofie Pollin is a professor at KU Leuven focusing on wireless communication systems. Before that, she worked at Imec and UC Berkeley, and she is currently still a principal member of the technical staff at Imec. Her research centers around wireless networks that require networks that are ever more dense, heterogeneous, battery-powered, and spectrum-constrained. Her research interests are cell-free networks, integrated communication and sensing, and non-terrestrial networks. 

Gianluigi Liva received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. Since 2003 he has been investigating channel codes for high-data rate Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) missions. From 2004 to 2005, he was involved in research at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Since 2006, he has been with the Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center (DLR), where he currently leads the Information Transmission Group. In 2010, he has been appointed as a Lecturer of channel coding with the Institute for Communications Engineering (LNT), Technical University of Munich (TUM), and since 2014 he has been a Lecturer of channel codes with iterative decoding with LNT, TUM. His main research interests include satellite communications, random access techniques, and error control coding. Since 2020, he serves as Associate Editor in Coding and Information Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Communications.

Kimmo Kansanen is professor for wireless communications and signal processing and the leader for the signal processing group at the Department of Electronic Systems at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. He received his M.Sc (EE) and Dr. Tech. degrees from University of Oulu, Finland in 1998 and 2005, respectively, where he was a research scientist and project manager at the Centre for Wireless Communications. His research interests are within wireless communications and signal processing. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

Zoran Utkovski is a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin, Germany, where he heads the Smart Wireless Connectivity Group. He received a Dipl.-Ing. in electrical engineering (2000) from Sts. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia, an M.Sc. degree (with distinction) from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden (2004), and a Dr. Ing. degree (summa cum laude) from Ulm University, Germany (2010). He is a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship and was a visiting scholar at New Jersey Institute of Technology and University Carlos III in Madrid. His research interests are in communication theory, machine learning, communication security, and complex systems theory.

Laura Mančinska is an Associate Professor at QMATH, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Her main research focus is the theory of quantum information and computing with the goal of identifying new information processing tasks where quantum technologies hold an advantage over conventional ones. She is particularly interested in the phenomenon of quantum entanglement and how it can be leveraged for operational and cryptographic tasks. In her research she combines tools from different areas including complexity theory, optimization, and graph theory. She currently leads a Villum Young Investigator project on Trustworthy Quantum Technologies and an ERC Starting Grant project on Quantum Information Processing with Interacting Parties.

Federico Chiariotti is currently an assistant professor at the University of Padova. From 2020 to 2022, he was a postdoc and then an assistant professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He received his PhD in information engineering from University of Padova in 2019, where he also spent a year as a postdoc. In 2017 and 2018, he was a Research Intern with Nokia Bell Labs, Dublin. He has authored over 70 peer-reviewed papers on wireless networks and the use of artificial intelligence techniques to improve their performance. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Award at several conferences, including the IEEE INFOCOM WCNEE Workshop in 2020. His current research interests include semantic and effective communication, transport layer protocols, Age of Information, latency-oriented networking, and bike sharing systems.