Next Giga Connect Europe

Next Giga Connect Europe

Philippe Chanclou – Team Manager : Fixed Access Networks – Orange Labs

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Philippe Chanclou – Orange Cropped

Philippe Chanclou received the Ph. D. and Habilitation degrees from Rennes University, France in 1999 and 2007 respectively.

He joined the R&D facilities of France Telecom in 1996 where he worked on the research of active and passive optical telecommunications functions for access networks. In 2000, he joined the University of ENST-Bretagne (now IMT Atlantique) as a senior lecturer where he was engaged in research on optical switching and optical devices using liquid crystal for telecommunications. During 2001 to 2003, he has participated to the foundation of Optogone Company.

Anders Bloom – Senior Systems Architect Broadband, DCT, Broadband Networks – Tele2

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Anders Bloom – Tele2

Anders Bloom is the Senior Systems Architect Broadband, DCT, Broadband Networks at Tele2 Sweden. Anders is responsible for the developing of Tele2’s DOCSIS Platforms. In his role as Senior Systems Architect he is defining the architecture for Tele2’s Virtualized CloudNative Distributed Architecture. During the past years he has lead Tele2’s roadmap from integrated CMTS system’s to the fully Virtualized CloudNative Distributed CCAP systems they run today. Anders launched Europe’s first DOCSIS deployment back in 1997 and has worked with most DOCSIS platforms available for well over two decades. Late 2016 he deployed the industry’s first software-based distributed CCAP with live paying customers.

Vincent Garnier – Director General – FTTH Council Europe

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Vincent Garnier is the Director General of the FTTH Council Europe since July 2020. In this executive capacity, Vincent manages and shapes the FTTH Council’s agenda and ensures the continuous implementation of its mission to advance ubiquitous full fibre-based connectivity to the whole of Europe. Vincent brings to this position 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, in Marketing and Business Development in EMEA and Asia for BtoB companies.

Andreas Waber – CEO – Swiss Fibre Net AG

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Andreas-Waber

From 2010, Andreas switched to the Swiss energy provider sector as the Director of Customer Services for Energie Wasser Bern (EWB); signing of a cooperation agreement for the construction of an FTTH network together with Swisscom in 2011. From 2012 elected as CEO of Swiss Fibre Net AG; development and establishment of the company Swiss Fibre Net AG since 2013. Swiss Fibre Net AG serves FTTH fibre lines and Mobile Backhaul solutions to Salt and Sunrise-UPC as their important clients.

Branimir Marić – CTIO – A1 Croatia and Macedonia

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Branimir Maric – A1 Croatia Cropped

Senior technology executive with more than 25 years of Telco experience and 20 years in management roles in the Telco industry working in areas of NT&IT Development and Operations on multiple markets in central and eastern EU. In his current role is responsible for Technology, IT, NG access network rollouts, digitization and cloudification of key infrastructure and application resources in two regional markets in A1 group (Croatia and N. Macedonia).

Cem Çelebiler – Managing Director – TurkNet

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Cem Çelebiler – TurkNet Cropped

Born in 1971, Cem Celebiler graduated from M.I.T. with Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics. He started his career in 1994 at Sapient, a global IT consulting firm. In 1996, he founded NetOne Telekom (now TurkNet) and has been the Managing Director since. Aside of being the Managing Director of Turknet Communicaiton Services, Cem Celebiler has also been the Vice President and President of TID (the Turkish Internet Association) between 2005-2009.

Jan Hruska – Chief Technology Officer – O2

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Jan Hruska – O2

Jan Hruska graduated in Computer Science at Charles University in Prague in 1994. After 8 years in management consulting, he moved to Telefónica O2 Czech Republic. Within his 15 years with Telefónica, and later O2 Czech Republic, Jan went through many positions, mainly Fixed-Mobile convergence program manager, E-shop manager, Director for distribution strategy and sales performance, Fixed services marketing director, to his current role of CTO, covering responsibility for IT, Network, and Product management areas. Jan’s latest focus is FWA, 5G, IPTV platform, IT modernization, and agile at a scale of big organization.

Boris Dragovic – Chief Strategy Officer – Hyperoptic

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Boris Dragovic – Hyperoptic Cropped

Boris is Chief Strategy Officer at a leading UK fibre infrastructure and broadband service provider – Hyperoptic. Prior to his currently 3 years at Hyperoptic, Boris has spent 7 years as Senior Vice President of McKinsey & Company’s Recovery and Transformation Service focusing on strategy and transformation design and implementation and serving some of the largest Telcos globally, including in senior interim roles. As part of his current role, Boris now focuses extensively on market and investment dynamics in fibre infrastructure, looking at the mid-/long-term fibre value creation in European, and especially UK market.