Biography:

Detlef Fuehrer is Senior Manager, Spectrum Management and Regulatory Affairs, EMEA at HPE Aruba Networking, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. Prior to Aruba, Detlef managed the Spectrum Engineering activities of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre where he established the Radio Spectrum Laboratory as a reference institution for radio compatibility studies. Holding a diploma in Electronics Engineering from Dortmund University, he worked in the semiconductor industry for almost 20 years, predominantly in the domain of broadband communications, at Alcatel Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, and Hitachi Electronic Components. Detlef authored the first German-language expert book on ADSL and published numerous studies on spectrum sharing and wireless coexistence.