Ryan Poltermann is Principal for Team DSGN, specializing in public safety consulting. He has performed public safety communications design and consulting work for over a decade and has been involved in over half the US states and six countrywide systems. He is the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) Vice Chair of Land Mobile Radio (LMR) Long Term Evolution (LTE) Integration and Interoperability Working Group, Co-Chair of the Public Safety Internet of Things (PS-IOT) Working Group and was the Master Writer for the Assessment of Future Spectrum and Technology (AFST) Report. He is also a Wireless Communications Research Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, with a focus on 5G and 6G.