Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Vahldieck

started his career as research fellow in Ottawa and subsequently became Professor in Victoria (Canada) and later in Zurich. He is President and General Chairman of the international Zurich Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), Editor-in-Chief (IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters) and Fellow of the IEEE. Currently Prof. Vahldieck is Director of the Laboratory for Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. His focus is on EMC, EM-based CAD and RF Electronics from the lower microwave range up to the upper millimetre wave region.

Prof. Dr.-Ing., Dr.-Ing. habil. Robert Weigel

started his career as research fellow and professor in Munich, Vienna, Linz and Shanghai. He is co-founder of the DICE - Danube Integrated Circuit Engineering GmbH & Co. KG, which is now a research and development centre of Infineon for RF IC Technologies. Prof. Dr. Weigel holds the chair of Electronics Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His focus is on circuit design for wireless applications

Prof. Dr. Andreas Weisshaar

started his career as research fellow and professor at Oregon State University (USA). He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging and the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters. Prof. Dr. Weisshaar heads the microwave group in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. His research focus is on passive RF/microwave circuits and components, interconnects and electronic packaging, and signal integrity.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoefer

began his academic career at the University of Grenoble, France, was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and is now Professor and Head of the Computational Electromagnetics Research Laboratory at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is the Managing Editor of the International Journal of Numerical Modelling, Co-Chair and former Chair of the Technical Committee MTT-15 Field Theory, Distinguished Microwave Lecturer of the MTT Society, Fellow of IEEE the British Columbia Advanced Systems Institute (BC-ASI), and of the Royal Society of Canada. He is also Founder and President of Faustus Scientific Corporation. His focus is on computational electromagnetics applied to RF to optical communications, EMC, drying and other industrial applications of electromagnetic fields.

Dr. Rüdiger Both

started his career as a developer of mainframe computers. After four years he changed to product management of Local Area Networks and data communication products. Several years later he additionally took on the responsibility for all computer activities of that company addressing the market with self developed industrial computers based on Microsoft and UNIX operating systems. After more than twelve years experience on providers' side he changed to consulting business and built up the Munich office of a well-known consulting company offering consultancy in the field of ICT strategies for users and market strategies for suppliers of information and communication technology products. His focus is on market research, competition analysis, identification of target groups, strategic product planning, elaboration of business cases/business plans, and definition of market strategies.