The increasing availability of exciting media rich content, advanced multimedia applications and the arrival of augmented and virtual reality ensure the continued explosive growth in the demand for high bit rates and reliable coverage. 5G is intended to address this need by opening up the vast spectrum available at mmWave frequencies. At the same time, services providers will need reliable RF planning tools to verify that the rates users demand are available in at least 90% of the intended coverage area with a high degree of confidence. I will describe the opportunities and challenges in this crucial topic with particular mention of the of appropriate channel sounder design, needed measurement campaigns. Then, I will review data already collected, corresponding models and preliminary systems RF system designs achieving the stated goals.

Biography—Reinaldo A. Valenzuela: Member National Academy of Engineering, Fellow IEEE. IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. Bell Labs Fellow. WWRF Fellow, 2014 IEEE CTTC Technical Achievement Award, 2015 IEEE VTS Avant Garde Award. B.Sc. U. of Chile, Ph.D. Imperial College. Director, Communication Theory Department, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories. Engaged in propagation measurements and models, MIMO/space time systems achieving high capacities using transmit and receive antenna arrays, HetNets, small cells and next generation air interface techniques and architectures. He has published 190 papers and 44 patents. He has over 26,000 Google Scholar citations and is a 'Highly Cited Author' In Thomson ISI and a Fulbright Senior Specialist.

Biography—Ana Lehmann, Secretary of State for Industry of the Portuguese Government. Before taking office in July 2017, she developed a strongly focused international career of two decades spanning academia, public policy and executive positions in over twenty public and private organizations.

Her areas of specialization relate to the competitiveness of firms and industries, notably companies’ internationalization, foreign direct investment attraction, innovation, industrial clusters and public policy.
She has been a consultant to leading international institutions (OECD, UNCTAD, European Commission, among others) and various national and regional governments in five continents. She held a variety of managerial responsibilities in several companies and foundations, as well as having founded several companies.

She has been CEO of InvestPorto, Vice-President of the Regional Government Authority of Portugal’s Northern Region, President of the Managing Authority of the Atlantic Area Transnational Program of the European Union, Pro-Rector for Strategic Planning/Enterprise Relations (U.Porto) and has been involved in setting up the Portuguese Investment Agency.

She is a Professor of Economics (FEP-University of Porto, Portugal) and has been Head of International Business (Porto Business School); has been Visiting Professor or Visiting Fellow in several US/European universities (e.g. Universities of Strathclyde, Reading, Glasgow, Columbia, among others), and President and one of the 20 Fellows of the European International Business Academy. She has a MSc and a PhD in Economics (University of Reading, UK) and a BSc in Management (U.Porto).

A regular speaker in top-level conferences, she has been an Editor of scientific journals and is an author widely published in her field. She is the author/editor of books such as Rethinking Investment Incentives: Trends and Policy Options (2016), Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm (2011) and Multinationals, Clusters and Innovation: Does Public Policy Matter? (2006). She has won several awards for scientific merit and career recognition.

It is a well-known fact that today only a small fraction of the world’s cars, roughly 6%, are connected to the Internet. This sCobering reality is about to change dramatically, as auto OEMs jump start the production of connected cars to reach more than 80 million units per annum by 2021. At the same time, the advent of artificial intelligence and the autonomous vehicle invites us to re-imagine the automobile as much more than a machine that carries people and goods. By generating and consuming massive amounts of data, the autonomous vehicle promises to re-shape not just the way we experience mobility but the means by which we enable cities to become smarter, more sustainable and more human. Whereas the challenge of teaching vehicles to drive themselves has drawn dozens of companies into a worldwide race, very few are addressing the key challenge of teaching the vehicles to form a wireless network and communicate with the cloud in a secure and scalable way. Drawing from more than 60 Million kms of real-world data and ongoing projects with the automotive industry, this keynote will highlight how the future mobility ecosystem forces us to rethink our communication platforms and find new ways for vehicles to become the network.

Biography—An award-winning wireless engineer, academic leader and passionate entrepreneur, João loves to turn complex theorems and algorithms into products and services that can make a real difference in people's lives. After more than a decade developing new wireless networking technologies at Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Universidade do Porto, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon, João founded two venture-backed startups, Streambolico and Veniam, where he serves as board director and CEO respectively. His work has led to 160 science and technology papers, as well as feature articles by NPR, BBC, MIT Technology Review, The Atlantic, and TechCrunch.

João Barros has received several awards, including the 2010 IEEE Communications Society Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, the 2011 IEEE ComSoC and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, the 2012 BES National Innovation Award, the 2013 Building Global Innovators Grand Prize (ISCTE-IUL and MIT) and a state-wide best teaching award by the Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts.

João Barros has a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Germany), his undergraduate education in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Universidade do Porto, Portugal and Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany, and a performing arts degree in flute from the Music Conservatory of Porto, Portugal.

Biography—Vladimiro Mota Cardoso Feliz is ICT Director and leads the Smart Cities Unit at CEiiA. He was born in December 1973 and is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering (Industrial Management and Engineering option) by Universidade do Porto.

He worked in the pre-sales department of the Instituto Electrotécnico Português and as Program Engineer at OGMA – Indústria Aeronáutica de Portugal.

He was Executive President of Fundação para a Divulgação das Tecnologias de Informação and Chief Executive Officer of Fundação Porto Social.

At Porto Municipality he was Chief Information and Innovation Officer, City Councilor for Education, Youth and Innovation, City Councilor for Environment and Urban Management, City Councillor for Tourism and Leisure, held the guidance of Research & Planning Cabinet and be appointed by the Mayor, as Deputy Mayor of the city.

During his journey at Porto municipality we was the Chairman of several companies under municipal management/interests:
• Associação Porto Digital;
• CMPL - Porto Lazer – Empresa de Desporto e Lazer do Município do Porto, EEM;
• Associação de Turismo do Porto, AR.

5G is the first generation of mobile networks that is by design addressing the wide range of needs of the vertical industries. 5G offers unlimited mobile broadband experience, provides massive connectivity for everything from human held smart devices to sensors and machines, and most importantly, it has the ability to support critical machine communication with instant action and ultra-high reliability. First 5G specifications are available with 3GPP Rel.15 but further enhancements and optimization are needed to design a 5G System that meets the requirements from the vertical industries. This talk will share what can be achieved with 3GPP Rel.15 and give the perspective of what needs still to be done in research and standardization in the next releases.

Biography—Dr. Simone Redana is Head of Network & Architecture Research Group in Nokia Bell Labs and Chairman of the 5GPPP Architecture Working Group. His research interests are on novel architecture solutions for 5G era and 5G business acceleration for verticals.

Simone is currently responsible for the Standardization Research on E2E Network Architecture and Automation in Nokia, leading a group of experts on Radio Access Network (RAN) and Core Network (CN) protocols, architecture and automation. He contributed in 3GPP to the standardization of Self Organizing Network (SON) and Relays for Long Term Evolution (LTE).

Simone is Chairman of the 5GPPP Architecture WG since January 2016 with the publication of two White Papers in June 2016 and January 2018 respectively. He has coordinated the EU funded project 5G NORMA (Novel Architecture for the 5G era) during the 1st year. Simone contributed and leaded relay concept design in various EU research projects (WINNER II, WINNER+ and ARTIST4G).

Simone received the MSc and PhD degree from Politecnico di Milano in 2001 and 2005 respectively. He joined Siemens Communication in 2006 and since 2008 he has been with Nokia in Munich, Germany.