October Edition

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

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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.

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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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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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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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.