The 6th CIS & CEE Spectrum Management Conference will take place in Q4 of 2022. More information on the date and format will be released in due course.
Gathering key stakeholders to discuss topical issues relating to the management and coordination of spectrum policy across the region, attendees will have the opportunity to get involved and engage through interactive sessions, networking opportunities, a virtual exhibition area and much more.
The conference is part of The Global Spectrum Series. The world’s largest collection of regional spectrum policy conferences.
This conference will be held under a Hybrid Format. To ensure the health and safety of our speakers, attendees, sponsors and staff while maximising interaction amongst participants, in-person attendance at this event will be limited.
There will be a significant in-person component to this event with demand likely to be high. If you are interested in participating in the conference in person we recommend that you apply for your spot as soon as possible. For those not attending on site, sessions will be live streamed to our events platform.
We will continue to monitor developments around the COVID-19 pandemic, follow recommendations regarding masks, social distancing, and sanitation set out by the venue and local authorities and may revise the capacity limit based on the advice received.
Mr. Mario Maniewicz was elected Director of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He took office on 1 January 2019.
Mario Maniewicz is an electronic engineer specialized in telecommunications. He has been with the ITU for over 30 years, where he has served in high-level management positions in the Radiocommunication and Development Sectors as well as in ITU Regional Offices.
As Director, Mr. Maniewicz is responsible for the management of the Radiocommunication Bureau, which organizes and co-ordinates the work of the Radiocommunication Sector whose aim is to ensure the rational, equitable, efficient, and economical use of the radio-frequency spectrum and satellite orbits.
Before joining the ITU, Mr. Maniewicz occupied a managerial position in Uruguay’s main telecommunications operator and was Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering of Uruguay’s main University.
Mr. Maniewicz is married and has two children. He speaks Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.
More than 25 year experience in spectrum management, EMC analysis, simulation of interference environment for space and terrestrial systems, radio monitoring, automation of frequency coordination and notification process, frequency planning for mobile and fixed services, development of automated spectrum management systems;
• More than 15-year experience in CEPT and ITU activity. Participation in ECC, WG FM, CPG including various PTs, ITU-R SG1 and its Working Parties and Task Groups, ITU-R SG4;
• In ITU was elected as a Chairman of ITU-R Study Group 1 “Spectrum management & Radiomonitoring” (2012-up-to-now) and Chairman of ITU-R Working party 1B “Spectrum management including economic aspects” (2008-2012);
• In CEPT was elected as Chairman of CEPT/WGFM “Frequency management” (2008-2014) and Vice – Chairman of Electronic communications committee (2014-up to now);
• More than 160 papers on spectrum management, EMC analysis, radio network planning, etc. published in Russian scientific and technical journals.
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Since 2007 Galina has been working at RTR, Russia’s largest TV and radio broadcasting company. In her role as a Deputy Director of the RTR Distribution Network Department, Galina contributed greatly to the launch of digital terrestrial broadcasting in Russia. As a member of working groups of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Galina participated in the development of the regulatory framework for digital broadcasting in Russia.
In Galina’s current role as RTR’s Deputy Director of Foreign Affairs she works in Working Bodies of the RCC. Galina is a member of the ministerial Project group on preparation for WRC-23. Since 2014 Galina has been a member of the EBU Technical Committee.
Mr. Nikolai Vassiliev is the Chief, Terrestrial Services Department in the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU).
He obtained his Master’s degree in radiocommunications in 1985 and MBA in management in 19992.
From 1985 to 1996 he worked at different positions for the Russian Ministry of Telecommunications. In
1996 joined the ITU.
His current responsibilities cover the international management of frequency resource for terrestrial
radiocommunications, including maritime, aeronautical, mobile, etc., and technical studies of emerging
communication technologies, such as 5G, IoT and Intelligent Transport Systems.
Victor Strelets is member of the ITU Radio Regulation Board (RRB). He was elected to the Radio Regulations Board at the 2010 and 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conferences (2011 – Vice-Chairman RRB, 2012 – Chairman RRB).
He is today advisor to Director General, at Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Morsviazsputnik” and Consultant to various Russian Satellites Companies.
Victor Strelets has 34 years’ experience of scientific-research and technical and administrative work in the field of spectrum management.
Since 1993, he participated in the ITU-R activities and also in the of the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations and Regional Commonwealth in the field of Communications.
He has taken part in various sets of negotiations and has headed bilateral and multilateral coordination meetings dealing with frequency planning and coordination issues.
In 2004, Strelets assumed direct responsibility for the Russian Administration’s preparations for the 2007 World Radiocommunication Conference and 2006 Regional Conference for the planning of digital terrestrial broadcasting, and provided practical leadership for the Russian Administration’s delegations to those events. From 2004 to 2013, he served as Chairman of the State Radio Frequency Committee’s working group handling preparations for the World Radiocommunication Conference.
Victor Strelets has played an active role in the development of a spectrum management system in the Russian Federation. From 2004 to 2008, as an administrative head in the State Radio Frequency Committee.
Lidia Varukina is Head of Technology, East Europe, at Nokia. Lidia possesses Ph.D. degree in the field of telecommunications, she has been in the telecom industry for nearly 30 years and has gained broad expertise in various areas, including digital signal processing, HW and SW development, radio network planning.
Work experience:
1990-2006 Service in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus Official duties and responsibilities: RF planning and provision of the electromagnetic compatibility of radio electronic devices.
2006-2011 Secretary of the State Radio Frequency Commission under the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus. since 2011 The Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus, Head of the Radio Frequency Spectrum Regulation Department.
Official duties and responsibilities: development and implementation of policy for planning, allocation and effective use of the radio spectrum by radio-electronic devices and services, development of normative legal acts, participation in the maintenance of activity of the State Radio Frequency Commission under the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus, preparation proposals for the international frequency coordination of land and satellite systems, development draft position of the Administration of the Republic of Belarus for WRC of ITU and other international meetings, relationship with BR of ITU.
Deputy General Director on Innovation Technologies of JSC «National Research Institute of Technologies and Communications», Doctor of Economics Science (2003), Ph.D. Degree in Radio engineering (1988), Professor of Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI) and Plekhanov University of Economics (2013). Visit-Professor of Tunisian Telecommunication Institute (IsetCom, Tunisia) (Since 2005) and International Information Technologies University (IITU, Kazakhstan), the Government Prize laureate (2003), published over 330 scientific papers on Economic-legal, QoS – problems of telecommunications, Spectrum Management and EMC issues, author of 14-th books on Economic-legal and Technological issues of 2G/3G/4G/5G and IoT.
More than 35 years conducting research & development works in Research Authority of Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Information Technologies & Communications. Chief Editor of «T-Comm» Journal (Since 2008), Editorial Board Member of ITT Journal (Kazakhstan) and Electrosvyaz, «First Mile», «Mobile Communications» Journals in Russia.Scientific and professional fields of activity:
• Development of IoT, NGN and 2G/3G/4G/5G;
• Efficient utilization and Spectrum reforming of Radio Spectrum;
• Economical and Regulation issues of Radio communications;
• Quality of Service for Mobile communications
• Radio communication systems interference;
ITU Field Expert (ITU-D Seminars: Erevan-2001(Armenia), Sana’a-2005(Yemen)). Actively participated in the work of International regulatory and standardization telecom bodies as representative of the Russian Federation, namely, in ITU (ITU-R SG1), CEPT/ECC (EСC/WG RA, EСC/WG/FM), ETSI (TC/SmartM2M, TC/ERM, TC/STQ), GTI TDD Association and oneM2M Partnership Project.
Nikolay Varlamov has worked more than 17 years in the field of Spectrum Management at the National and International levels. He was nominated as ITU-R CPM Chapter Reporter on satellite issues in 2015. He participated at WRC-03, -07, -12, -15 and was responsible for satellite and terrestrial issues. Mr. Varlamov actively participates in RCC preparation to WRCs and spectrum management issues. He is a member of the Radio Regulations Board.
Head of spectrum management department, National Service for the Radio Frequencies Management (Republic of Moldova).
Starting from 2010 worked for National Center for Radio Frequencies of the Republic of Moldova as a telecommunications engineer, currently head of spectrum management department. Main duties and responsibilities: EMC analysis, frequency coordination, activities within ITU, providing expertise for development of national policy for planning, allocation and effective use of the radio spectrum and normative legal acts.
Glyn Carter’s expertise spans a range of areas, including technology strategy, spectrum and other regulatory issues, standards, and the specification and procurement of voice and data terminals and services. Glyn’s knowledge of mobile telecoms technologies includes LTE, UMTS/HSPA, CDMA/EV-DO, GSM/GPRS and TETRA.
Glyn currently works in the Future Spectrum team at GSMA, preparing for the next ITU World Radio Communication Conference (WRC). In particular, Glyn is developing technical studies into compatibility and sharing between mobile and other services in spectrum bands. Before joining the GSMA in February 2012, Glyn spent over 10 years working for mobile operators in countries including Portugal, Romania and the UK.
As a consultant, Glyn has participated in numerous projects for regulators, operators and users of telecommunications, including replanning the radio spectrum in South Africa and other spectrum management projects for regulators in the UK, Japan, Sweden and Jordan. Glyn also undertook spectrum compatibility studies in CEPT and was editor of ECC Report 42 on spectrum efficiency. Before this, Glyn designed communication terminal products for Racal Electronics. Glyn has a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and a PhD in cryptography from London University.
Jean-Pierre Faisan is spectrum policy advisor for TDF, and has been a Board Member of the association Broadcast Networks Europe since 2013.
A graduate from Ecole Polytechnique and Telecom Paris-Tech, he has more than 29 years of experience in the telecommunications industry where he held a series of engineering then managing positions at Intelsat, CCETT (now Orange Labs), Sofratev and Gobé and TDF. He is also the founder and managing partner of Leader Wave, a consulting company specialized on spectrum policy.
Raffi Khatcherian is a Senior ATM Expert and the Head of EUROCONTROL International Spectrum Management.
As the SESAR Spectrum Project Manager, he developed the Aeronautical Spectrum Strategy and Vision. Head of EUROCONTROL delegation at WRC-15. He is the Secretary of Aeronautical Spectrum Frequency Consultation Group (ASFCG), Spectrum Management Group (SMG), ASFCG-IG Interference Group and Aeronautical Radio Interference Analysis group (ARIA).
Before joining the International Spectrum Management, Raffi Khatcherian supported many EUROCONTROL member States in their ATM modernisation programme.
Rodney Croft is Professor of Health Psychology at the School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Australia. He obtained degrees in Philosophy and Psychology before completing his PhD in Psychology at the University of Wollongong in 2000, and then worked in the area of cognitive neuroscience as a postdoc at Imperial College, London, and then at Swinburne University, Australia. His research focuses on the delineation of human brain function, particularly as it relates to agents that might affect it (e.g. electromagnetic fields, illicit and medicinal drugs), as well as psychiatry more generally. He has been involved in research on ELF and RF non-ionising radiation since 2000, primarily utilising the electroencephalogram as a means of observing subtle alterations in brain function. He participates in a variety of national and international scientific and government committees, was Executive Director of the Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research (2004-2011) and is currently Director of the Australian Centre for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research. Croft was appointed in 2014 an Associate Editor of the BEMS journal, and joined the ICNIRP Biology Standing Committee in 2008 and Main Commission in 2012. Rodney Croft is the ICNIRP Chair since May 2020.
Launched in 2017, and now in its sixth year, The CIS & CEE Spectrum Management Conference has previously taken place in Minsk, Almaty and Yerevan.
The Global Spectrum Series is the world’s largest collection of regional spectrum policy conferences.
The CIS Spectrum Management Conference is now in its 6th year. The 2021 edition welcomed over 500 delegates virtually. More information and the link to catch up sessions can be found below.
This event is taking place as part of the Global Spectrum Series, for further information on speaking, sponsorship or visibility opportunities, and to discuss how you can maximize the value of involvement, please contact Dan Craft on [email protected]or on +44 (0) 2920 783 020.
Please note that this event will now take place in Q4 of 2022. More information on this will be released in due course.
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