Conference: Wireless Technology Track

David M. Britz is AT&T's subject matter expert for Free Space Optical Communications (FSOC) and the Terahertz initiative. He is a Principal Technical Staff Member with AT&T Labs Research - Shannon Labs and has worked at AT&T contiguously for 24 years. Over the years his principal activities have included forward looking technologies and advanced product design and development including public communications products, ISDN telephones, advanced speakerphones, in-building and terrestrial optical wireless. From 1994 he became the project leader for AT&T's internal development and applications of commercial FSOC technologies, and later, after the break up of AT&T and Lucent and the change in AT&T's research direction, he initiated and continued investigations and industry collaborations on the utilization of FSOC for broadband local access networks, and later meshed based FSOC backbone applications for broadband Wireless Local Area Networks. Since mid 2007 he has been focused on the technologies and network applications utilizing extreme millimeter and terahertz frequencies for multi-gigabit wireless links for next generation terahertz based Personal Area Networks. He is a founding board member and has served as the Chairman of the FSO Alliance, a USA delegate to the IEC on laser safety and founding member of IEC-TC76 Working Group 5 part 12 (FSOC operation standards). He is an active member of 802.11 standards organization and in late 2007, successfully lobbied and initiated the Terahertz Interest Group in 802.15, accepting the Vice Chair position of that group. The THz IG was formed to investigate applications and prepare standards for this next generation multi-Gigabit wireless PAN's utilizing THz spectrum, and to engage with the ITU on impending THz spectrum allocations.

Mr. Peeters co-founded Ozmo Devices in 2004 and currently heads up its marketing and business development activities. Ozmo Devices is trailblazing the innovative area of Wi-Fi Personal Area Networking for peripherals. Ozmo's solution extends the functionality of Wi-Fi-enabled platforms to seamlessly communicate with low-power wireless peripherals such as mice and headsets. Mr. Peeters has over 10 years of high-technology marketing, product management and sales experience. Earlier in his career, Mr. Peeters held various applications engineering, sales, and sales management positions in Europe, Southeast Asia, and the U.S. with ICOS Vision Systems (acquired by KLA-Tencor), a semiconductor equipment manufacturer. He received his MBA from The Wharton School and an MSEE from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.

Russell Cyr is a 20-year veteran of the wireless communications evolution. Russ is currently the CMO and Co-founder of BitWave Semiconductor, a start-up working on a single chip software defined radio transceiver. Russ has worked for public and start-up companies in the areas of RFICs, WLAN, fixed broadband wireless access, cellular infrastructure, microcells, wireless local loop, CDPD, broadband microwave radio and high performance digital tuners. Prior to BitWave, Russ held VP and senior level positions at Global Communication Devices, Engim, Adaptive Broadband, California Microwave and Tellabs Wireless, Steinbrecher and Lockheed/Sanders. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in microwave engineering from the University of Massachusetts and he holds an MBA from Rivier college.

Sheung Li is the Director of Product Development and Marketing for SiBEAM, Inc. He is working to introduce a new generation of 60 GHz semiconductors to the consumer electronics and personal computing markets. Mr. Li's responsibilities at SiBEAM include product management, government affairs, and industry standardization. In his prior roles as Product Line Manager and later as Director at Atheros Communications, he launched every product from the company's initial 5 GHz chipsets through to the introduction of 802.11n. Mr. Li has also been responsible for customer premises equipment at Geocast Network Systems and home networking at 3Com Corporation. He is the Vice Chair of the IEEE 802.11n standards committee, and holds patents in low power and adaptive radio technologies. Mr. Li received a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and both a M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering and a MBA from Stanford University.

Steve Muir is currently CTO at Vanu, Inc., where he has held a number of different roles since joining the company in 2001 as a member of the engineering staff. He has been involved in numerous research projects in the areas of software defined radio, computer networking and operating systems. From 2003 to 2006 he was a member of the research staff at Princeton University, working on the PlanetLab project. Steve possesses a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and B.A. and M.Eng. degrees from the University of Cambridge.