After completing his Electrical and Computer Science engineering studies at Politecnico in Turin, Roberto worked for three years in the aerospace area where he spent one year in Toulouse in a European Consortium for designing and developing SW for manned shuttles and satellites. Since then, Roberto has spent more than 15 years in Telecom Italia Laboratories in the telecommunication area focusing first on network management.
Afterward Roberto was responsible for the "Service Management" department unit. Since 2001 Roberto Gavazzi is responsible for Programs (projects cluster) of Service Developments for Telecom Italia.
In the last period he worked on Convergent IMS based services (Messaging, Telecom Italia VideoPhone and WI FI VoIP IMS based services, Dual Mode VoIP service) with main focus in the services innovation and engineering area in the Telecom Italia Laboratories.
Other Roberto’s jobs have been: Telecom Italia Technology Plan editor, Guest speaker at many Telecom Conferences worldwide (IMS World Forum – Amsterdam, Dallas, Singapour - FMC World Forum – Amsterdam, San Francisco - 3GSM series events - Dubai) and Comverse annual User Forum, IEEE paper reviewer invited by Fraunhofer Institute (Prof. Magendaz), OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) standard forum TI delegate. In this last period Roberto is managing projects both European founded and Italian on Smart City, Smart Grids and Internet of Things services. He is a member of the Architecture Board for the FI – PPP projects.
