William Webb: BEng, MBA, PhD, CEng, FREng FIET, FIEEE

William is one of the founding directors of Neul, a company developing machine-to-machine technologies and networks, which was formed at the start of 2011.

Prior to this William was a Director at Ofcom where he managed a team providing technical advice and performing research across all areas of Ofcom's regulatory remit. He also led some of the major reviews conducted by Ofcom including the Spectrum Framework Review, the development of Spectrum Usage Rights and most recently cognitive or white space policy. Previously, William worked for a range of communications consultancies in the UK in the fields of hardware design, computer simulation, propagation modelling, spectrum management and strategy development. William also spent three years providing strategic management across Motorola's entire communications portfolio, based in Chicago.

William has published eleven books, eighty papers, and four patents. He is a Visiting Professor at Surrey University and DeMontfort University, a member of Ofcom's Spectrum Advisory Board (OSAB) and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IEEE and the IET where he is as a Vice President. His biography is included in multiple "Who's Who" publications around the world. William has a first class honours degree in electronics, a PhD and an MBA.

Keynote Title: DSA Is The Solution, So What's The Problem?

Abstract: Arguably, dynamic spectrum access is a solution to the lack of available spectrum but it has not been clear what applications would make use of the spectrum once available. Early thinking was around peer-to-peer connectivity and extended Internet access but the move from sensing towards geo-location has increased the cost and complexity of such devices. Emerging thinking suggests that DSA might be best for network-based solutions such as M2M networks but then there is no need for cognitive or software-defined devices. So perhaps DSA has found it's problem but in the process has decoupled itself from CR and SDR. This keynote explores these issues and suggests what the "problem" might be that "DSA" is the solution for.