Rui Luis Aguiar
Chair of the Steering Board of the NetworldEurope European Technology Platform
Rui L Aguiar is the Chair of the Steering Board of the NetworldEurope European Technology Platform. He has been involved in research and strategic research management since 1988 and has held multiple positions in all European-funded framework programs. Rui was involved in the development of the NetworldEurope initiative, the launch of the 5G-Infrastructure Association PPP, and has led the association before. He has been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer on 5G in the last years, and has several hundred papers on communication networks and services. He is also the co-chair of the Networks and Multimedia area at Instituto de Telecomunicações, a Portuguese state-associated laboratory, and a Professor at Universidade de Aveiro.
NetworldEurope is the European technology platform for communications networks and services. Communications networks enable interaction between users of various types of equipment, either mobile or fixed. The NetWorldEurope European Technology Platform gathers more than one thousand players in the communications networks sector (industry leaders, innovative SMEs, and leading academic institutions) and aims to strengthen Europe’s leadership in networking technology and services so that it best serves Europe’s citizens and the European economy.