Yasuyoshi Katayama joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation in April 1976.
In June 2004, he became a Senior Vice President and Executive Manager of the Fundamental Services Department, Fundamental Services Promotion Headquarters, and an Executive Manager of the Plant Planning Department of NTT West.
In July 2006, he became a Senior Vice President and General Manager of Networks of NTT West.
In June 2008, he became a Senior Vice President, Director of the Technology Planning Department and Director of the Next Generation Network Office, Technology Planning Department of NTT.
In June 2009, he became an Executive Vice President, Director of the Technology Planning Department and in June 2012, he was elected to his current position of Senior Executive Vice President of NTT.

Nik Willetts is Chief Strategy Officer for TM Forum.
In this capacity, Nik is responsible for driving the Forum's success and value-delivery across a broad range of competencies, including TM Forum's unique Digital Services Initiative which focuses on helping service providers overcome the challenges of managing complex digital services and enabling an open, vibrant digital economy.
Nik is a frequent speaker and moderator at TM Forum's conferences and events.
Most recently, Global Telecoms Business named him to their Top 40 under 40 as one of the most exciting young leaders in the communications industry for 2013.

Dr. Yuan-Kuang Tu serves as the President of Northern Taiwan Business Group of Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), in charge of the fixed-line telephony, broadband, and IPTV services.
He joined Telecommunication Laboratories (TL) in 1981, engaged in various R&D and project management positions.
He served as Vice President of TL, Senior Managing Director of the Corporate Planning Department of CHT, and President of TL.
Dr. Tu received his B.S., M.S. and Ph. D degrees in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1977, 1979, and 1988, respectively.
His professional fields include photonics, optical communications, access networks, broadband networks, and network evolution architectures.
He served as the General Co-Chair for APNOMS 2011.

Douglas N. Zuckerman received his B.S., M.S. and Eng.Sc.D degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University (USA) in 1969, 1971 and 1976, and is an IEEE Life Fellow.
His over 30 years of experience, mainly at Bell Labs and Telcordia Technologies, span the operations, management and engineering of emerging network technologies and services. He is currently on the IEEE Board of Directors as the Division III (Communications Technology) Director. He was the IEEE Communications Society President in 2008-9.
His technical career included long-haul millimeter waveguide studies (before fiber), satellite systems engineering, maintenance engineering for the world's first digital transmission networks, business services operations planning, and most recently IP-centric optical network interoperability. He was an early contributor to TMN standards and had chaired the Optical Internetworking Forum's OAM&P Working Group.
For over 25 years, Doug's leadership across ComSoc's technical committees, conferences, publications, chapters and Society governance has maintained focus on member interests worldwide, especially making relevant technical information widely and quickly available on line and in conferences, and encouraging more member interaction in the technical committees. He co-founded technical committees on Network Operations & Management and Enterprise Networking, as well as the IEEE Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS).
His sustained contributions were recognized through the Salah Aidarous Memorial Award, the Society's Donald McLellan Meritorious Service Award, its Conference Achievement Award and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.

James Won-Ki Hong is currently the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Executive Vice President for KT (Korea Telecom), the largest telecommunications company in Korea since March 2012, where he is responsible for leading the R&D effort of KT and its subsidiary companies.
He is Chairman of National Intelligence Communication Enterprise Association, and Chairman of ICT Standardization Committee in Korea.
His interests include network innovation, such as software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), cloud computing, mobile services, IPTV, ICT convergence technologies (e.g., Smart Home, Smart Energy, Healthcare), and next generation technologies such as big data analytics and intelligence.
Before taking the role of CTO at KT, he had worked at POSTECH for 17 years as a professor including Head of Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Dean of Graduate School for Information Technology, Director of POSTECH Information Research Labs (PIRL) and Head of the Division of IT Convergence Engineering. He was also co-founder and CTO of Netstech, a Palo Alto, USA-based startup developing network integrated ultra-dense, blade servers from 2000 to 2002.
Over the past 20 years, James has been an active volunteer in various committees in IEEE, ComSoc, and KICS.
He has served as Steering Committee Chair of IEEE NOMS, IM and APNOMS, as well as Chair of CNOM (ComSoc Committee on Network Operations and Management) and KNOM.
He has also been serving as EiC of Wiley's International Journal of Network Management (IJNM) and ComSoc Technology News (CTN) as well as an editorial member of the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Elsevier's Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM) and Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN).
James received his HBSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario, Canada in 1983 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 1991.