Speedmentoring
Following the very positive feedback from previous events, we are pleased to offer another Speedmentoring Session for PhD students.
This session provides a unique opportunity to engage directly with leading experts from both academia and industry. Participants will be able to book short, focused meetings to discuss their research, recent developments in the field, or broader career-related questions.
The Speedmentoring Session will take place on Monday, October 6, 2025, and requires prior registration. Please note that the number of available slots is limited and exclusively reserved for participating PhD students. We will make every effort to distribute the slots fairly among all registered participants.
Further details will be shared with registered attendees soon.
Mentors
Henning Sanneck is Research Manager, Wireless Technology at Apple, Munich, Germany. After he received his Dr.-Ing. (PhD) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin in 2000, Henning joined Siemens - Mobile Networks, becoming an Innovation Project Manager in 2003. In 2007, at the formation of Nokia Siemens Networks, he started to lead a line team, creating Self Organizing Networks (SON) concepts and demos, and later applying Analytics and Machine Learning technologies to this area using both network data- and simulation-based approaches. From 2016 to 2022 Henning acted as Nokia Department Head for 5G / 6G Network Automation Research, providing vision, strategy, concepts and IPR to support 3GPP, ORAN and ETSI standardization efforts. In 2023 Henning was Chief Architect AI/ML in Nokia Standards. Henning has 100 publications and 50 patents granted or published. He was co-editor of the book "LTE Self-Organizing Networks" (2011) and co-author of the book "Towards Cognitive Autonomous Networks" (2020).
Johannes Riedl studied mathematics and physics at the LMU in Munich and finalized his PhD in mathematics at the Technical University in Munich in 2001. Afterwards he joined Siemens Information and Communication Networks as R&D engineer. There he was responsible for the development of innovative carrier network design concepts focusing on IP/Ethernet technologies. Joining Siemens Corporate Technology in July 2005, he was leading between 2006 and 2022 the Research Group ‚Industrial Networks’ focusing on wired communication network technologies for industrial networks in all Siemens business areas. Since September 2022 he is heading the Research Group "Industrial Networks & Wireless" which consists of three portfolio elements "Deterministic Communication & Edge Networks", "5G/6G/Wireless" and "Network Intelligence & Localization".
Rastin Pries received his master and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Wuerzburg, Germany in 2004 and 2010. In 2015, he joined Nokia, Munich, where he is currently working as a Principal Research Lead. He has more than fifteen years of experience in the telecommunication industry. Rastin was the consortium leader of several national and international research projects such as the German BMFTR lighthouse project 6G-ANNA. He is the author of numerous scientific conference and journal papers as well as patents. His research interests include extended reality, spatial computing, edge computing, and localization and mapping.
Guido Dietl received his Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees (both summa cum laude) in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from the Technical University of Munich. He has held various academic and research positions, including roles at Purdue University, the Australian National University, and DOCOMO Euro-Labs, where he focused on advanced wireless communication technologies. Since April 2022, he has been a Professor of Satellite Communication and Radar Systems at the University of Würzburg.
Amr Rizk is Head of the Distributed Real-time Systems Lab at the Leibniz University Hannover. He is interested in performance evaluation of communication systems, stochastic models of networks and their applications to real-time systems. Before joining Leibniz University Hannover, he held professorships at Ulm University and the University of Duisburg–Essen and postdoctoral positions at TU Darmstadt, UMass Amherst and University of Warwick. He received the doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) with distinction from the Leibniz University Hannover in 2013. Among a number of awards he was a recipient of the Excellence in DASH Award at ACM MMSys’16 and the Best Paper Awards at ACM Middleware’17, MMSys'23, QCNC'24 and EMS'25.