Tero Solante has graduated from the Tampere Technical University with a major of information technology, RF-technology and telecommunication. Solante has worked in the Finnish Defence Forces as a technical officer since 1996 in several organizations and posts as a team leader, project manager, programme manager and director and chief of the branch dealing all the time with electronic warfare aspects. During the years 1998 and 1999 he has worked as a seconded national expert in Ericsson Microwaves in Sweden with an aim to study radar technology and electronic warfare.
At the moment Solante is detached to the European Defence Agency as a seconded national expert in the armaments directorate as a principal officer for SDR. Solante has also published several books in the area of military technology concentrating system engineering and technologies of the military products on the digitalized battlefield especially dealing mostly on exploitation of radio magnetic spectrum.

Dake Liu is Professor and the Director of Computer Engineering Division at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Linköping University, Sweden. Dake got technology doctor degree from Linköping University Sweden in 1995. Dake is IEEE senior member, he wrote a book, Embedded DSP Processor Design; Application Specific Instruction set Processors for Elsevier (Mogen Kaufmann), he published more than 100 papers on journals and international conferences, and he holds 5 US patents.
The focus of Dake’s research is implementation of radio / cable baseband, high performance low power ASIP (application specific instruction set processors), and integration of on-chip multi-processors for communications and media digital signal processing. Dake has experiences also in design of communication systems, design of Radio frequency CMOS integrated circuits. Dake Liu is currently the co-founder and chief scientist of Coresonic AB Linköping Sweden. Dake Liu was the co-founder and CTO of FreehandDSP AB Stockholm Sweden. FreehadDSP was acquired by VIA technologies in 2001. Dake Liu was a senior ASIC designer and low power design specialist in Ericsson Microelectronics, Stockholm since 1995 to 1998. Dake Liu worked as a university lecturer 1987-1990, and a teaching assistant 1982-1987 at Dept. of communication and control, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. His research interests in that time were EMC and reliable system design. Dake’s home page: http://www.da.isy.liu.se/~dake

Pierre-Jean Muller joined Huawei Technologies in 2006, since then he has been working for the Wireless Research Division as senior standard engineer. Pierre-Jean Muller has 20 years of experience in telecommunications including GSM, UMTS and LTE and more than 6 years of Standardisation in 3GPP and ETSI. He is currently Vice-Chairman of ETSI TC RRS with other technical involvements in ETSI and 3GPP mainly on radio matters. He holds its engineer degree in Computer Sciences from the University of “Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France” and its master degree in Electronics from the “Conservatoire Des Arts et Métiers de Paris”, France. Pierre-Jean Muller has also been working many years for NEC Technologies, Lucent Technologies and SAGEM.

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ulrich Ramacher Head of System Engineering of IFX WLS SDR, at Infineon's Corporate Research in Munich. He studied Mathematics and Physics at the University Tübingen and received his doctorate degree in 1979 in theoretical physics. From 1985 to 1994 he was at the Microelectronics Department of Siemens' Corporate R&D. Until 1996 he was Chair of the Electronic Devices and Integrated Systems Department at the Dresden University of Technology, before he built up the VLSI System Integration Department of Siemens' Coerporate Technology. In 1999, his department joined Infineon Technologies and he became a Principal Engineer and Senior Director of the Systems Technology Department. In 2006 he became the leader of the SDR project at COM of Infineon before taking on his current role in 2007.

Mr. Rittenbach is a Senior System Engineer in the CERDEC S&TCD SEAMS Directorate. He has been actively involved in Army MILSATCOM since 1987 and Army communications since 1980. His current focus is in development of Modular Open System Architectures for net-centric Army communications systems that service C4ISR requirements for DOD warfighters.