Subject 1 : IoT, 5G and Smart City trends and challenges 

Doctor Abdellatif KOBBANE is currently an Associate Professor (Professeur Habilité) at the Ecole Nationale Suprieure d'Informatique et d'Analyse des Systemes (ENSIAS), Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco since 2009. He received his PhD degree in computer science from the Mohammed V-Agdal University (Morocco) and the University of Avignon (France) in September 2008.

He received his research MS degree in computer science, Telecommunication and Multimedia from the Mohammed V-Agdal University (Morocco) in 2003. Doctor Kobbane is Adjunct Professor at L2TI laboratory, Paris 13 University, France.

His research interests lie with the field of wireless networking, performance evaluation in wireless network and SDN, NGN, Ad-hoc networks, DTNs and Sensors, M2M, Mesh networks, cognitive radio, Mobile computing, Mobile Social networks, Caching and backhaul problem, Beyond 4G and 5G communications, Future networks...

+10 years of computer sciences and Telecom experience, in Europe (France) and in Morocco, in the areas of Performances evaluation in wireless Mobile networks, Mobile Cloud Networking, Cognitive radio, Ad-hoc networks and Future network 5G.

Author of several scientific publications in top IEEE conferences and journals. IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IWCMC, ICNC, IEEE WCNC, ... etc.

Dr Kobbane is Senior Member ComSoc IEEE, Secretary of ExCom IEEE Morocco Section, Member TC CommSoft, Adhoc Network at IEEE ICC and IEEE Globecom. President and Founder of Association of Research in Mobile Wireless networks and embedded systems (MobiTic) in Morocco.

Dr Kobbane is Co-Chair: Wireless Networking Symposium of the International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC’14-18) and General Co-Chair WINCOM 2015 and Executive Chair of WINCOM 2017.

Dr Kobbane is Coordinator of the Internet of Thing and Mobile services Master program (IOSM)