Trevor is the head of Openreach access technology research within BT TSO, and leads the team responsible for the breakthrough use of G.fast at the cabinet to pass 10 million homes with Ultrafast broadband by the end of 2020. He is now looking at the future of G.fast technology to deliver the next step change in copper capacity and maximising the coverage of superfast broadband via the use of “Long Reach VDSL”.   Trevor is a Chartered Engineer and holds Masters degrees in Experimental Physics and Telecommunication Engineering.

After receiving a doctorate in Mathematics at Newcastle University, Peter embarked on a career in telecommunications. He has worked for BT for just over 23 years, during which time he has had a major influence on all of BT’s deployments of Broadband.   Peter designed and developed BT’s ADSL and ADSL2+ network deployments, which culminated in the extensive take up of service across the whole of the UK.   Peter was instrumental in the successful rollout of the Openreach Next Generation Access network (both VDSL and PON) and led the design and development of this platform from its inception.   Currently, he is part of the thought leadership team driving the strategy, design and development and implementation of BT’s fourth generation Broadband access technology, G.fast. In addition, he leads the team who monitor, manage and operate Openreach’s Next Generation Access platform.

Daniel Burri is IPMA certified Senior Project Director at Swisscom. His passion is to lead challenging strategic telecommunication system introduction projects at Swisscom.   In the past 20 years he introduced already three generation of optical core/metro transport systems and two generation of copper access systems (VDSL2, G.Vector).   Currently hi is responsible for the introduction of the next generation copper access technology (G.fast) into the Swisscom operational network.

Bill Bittancourt is a Senior Product Line Manager at Calix with responsibility for copper based Access technologies for FTTN, FTTB, and FTTdp solutions. These products include G.fast and VDSL2/ ADSL2+ solutions for sealed/hardened, fixed form factor, and chassis based solutions.   Bill has contributed to the Calix submissions to the WT-301 G.fast standard and has written VDSL2 Vectoring best practice documents (“Vectoring to Win”) as well as worked on cabinet and cabinet retrofit OSP solutions. Prior to joining Calix, he has held strategic product line development and marketing roles for L2/L3 router and remote access server products, proprietary embedded communications solutions, and mainframe computer products at other companies.

Kurt Coulier, Senior DSL Technology Expert, Proximus

Kurt Coulier is the G.fast technology engineering project lead within Proximus, is responsible for strategic vectored VDSL2 and G.fast technology design aspects and represents Proximus in ITU-T SG 15 WP1 Q4.  Since the start of the Proximus FTTCab journey in 2002 he has advised the main Proximus DSL technology choices. Since 2005 he has been responsible for the DSL technology part of all main DSL RFI / RFP / RFQ (DSLAM, CPE modems and master splitters) including technical interoperability ecosystem management.  Kurt Coulier joined Proximus in 2000 (then called Belgacom) and holds an MSc in electronics and electrical engineering for telecommunications

Chief Executive of UK based analyst house Point Topic Oliver has been involved in online environments for more than 30 years. He joined Point Topic as the COO in 2004 and moved to CEO in 2007.   Starting with internet projects in the mid-80s running bulletin boards, through building some of the first commercial websites in the UK in the early 90s and then to monitoring and analysing B2C and B2B market demand and supply he has built up a significant breadth of experience. Over the last 15 years he has researched, analysed and reported on global broadband markets and players down to zip code consumer modelling. Familiar with the range of influences that drive broadband, from political to legal to technical to socio-demographic effects he originates the bulk of Point Topic’s modelling and data analysis.   Originally a mathematical economist Oliver subsequently moved on from the City (working in strategic management consultancies) and progressed through a number of media rich environments including broadcast TV, online and offline advertising and digital marketing for some of the largest global brands and agencies before arriving at Point Topic.   Oliver oversees the analyst and development work on Point Topic’s geographic products in particular and continues to work on broadband scoping projects for the local and national governments, the European Commission as well as a full range of industry clients.