Our Team

David Artuñedo

SDG Chair // Telefónica

David Artuñedo Guillén is leading 5G Projects with customers at Discovery inside Chief Digital Office exploring how to deploy 5G Private Networks and use cases with Telefónica Customers. Prior to 5G projects, David has led OnLife Networks for re-architecting Central Offices as Data Centers, and he worked in Telefónica at several business units, including CTO for TU Go Communications Product (launched in O2 UK, Movistar Argentina, Perú, Colombia and Mexico, and VIVO Brazil), Technology Liasion Manager at Jajah in Israel, and Senior Manager on Communication Services at Telefónica Research and Development. David Artuñedo received Computer Science Engineer of the Year in Castilla y León (Spain) from Computer Science Engineering Professional Association in 2010, and has been associate professor in Computer Science Engineering at Universidad de Valladolid.

Dimitris Tsolkas

SDG Vice-Chair // FOGUS

Dr. Dimitris Tsolkas holds a Ph.D degree from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. The last decade he has been supporting research and teaching activities at the Department. He currently leads research and development activities in Fogus Innovations & Services P.C, SME, Greece. He also has a chair in the Technology Board (TB) of the 6G-IA as well as in the ETSI SDG OCF (serving as vice-chair). His research publication record counts more than 60 articles in high quality journals, books, and conferences. His research interests include resource and service management for Mobile and IoT communication systems. Recently, the emphasis has been on architectural designs and performance analysis towards defining the beyond-5G networks.

Jorge Moratinos

TSC Chair // Telefónica

Jorge Moratinos Salcines is an R&D Expert Engineer in the Discovery Area at Telefónica Innovación Digital (TID) with over 14 years of experience, dedicated to innovation projects in the field of communications within Telefónica. His versatile roles encompass developer, QA, Designer, and Architect.

Apostolis Salkintzis

TSC Member // Motorola Mobility

Apostolis, with a Diploma and Ph.D. from Democritus University of Thrace, has extensive experience in wireless communication technologies, holding over 150 U.S. patents and authoring numerous publications, while actively contributing to 3GPP and ETSI standards development.

Harilaos Koumaras

TSC Member // NCSRD

Dr. Harilaos Koumaras is a prominent researcher in multimedia networking and communication, specializing in 5G and 6G technologies. He holds a BSc in Physics, an MSc in Electronic Automation and Information Systems, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Athens. He has authored over 120 scientific papers and serves on the editorial board of the Telecommunications Systems Journal.

Stavros Charismiadis

TSC Member // FOGUS

Stavros Charismiadis has followed postgraduate studies on communication systems and networks at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece. Currently, he is a software engineer in Fogus Innovation and Services P.C. with main expertise in microservice programming, API frameworks and cloud computing. He is also very active in research and innovation activities with main interest on resource allocation and optimization schemes based on machine learning techniques.

Bruno Garcia

TSC Member // UMA

Bruno is a Researcher at the University of Málaga in the MORSE Research Group, Where he is involved in 5G and 6G software development for network orchestration, automation, testing and experimentation in projects such as 6G-SANDBOX and EVOLVED-5G projects.

Dimitris Fragkos

TSC Member // ICCS

Dimitris is an R&D engineer at ICCS with three years of experience in Horizon European projects with a focus on 5G network openness and programmability for verticals. His main research focus on the transformative potential of AI/ML in shaping the future of B5G/6G network evolution.