Biographies

Marco’s technical areas of current involvement include IoT and Smart Cites, Future Networks incl. IMT-2020/5G and Network 2030, AI/ML and Autonomous Networks. He has professional experience in R&D and technology strategy, and he has worked in different market roles in Solvay group, Orange Labs, Nortel Networks CTO division, ZTE R&D Technology Strategy. He has been engaged in consultancy activities with various customers, including NEC (2015-2018), and is presently consultant for Huawei Research Europe (since October 2018). Marco is active in standardization since long time, leading standards specifications in different domains (NGN, IoT/M2M, Big Data, IMT2020) and holding leadership positions. In the current 2017-2020 ITU-T study period, he serves as Rapporteur for Q2/20 (“Requirements, capabilities and architectural frameworks across verticals enhanced by emerging digital technologies”) and co-Rapporteur for Q20/13 (“Networks beyond IMT-2020 and Machine Learning: Requirements and Architecture”), and has been Champion of the Use Case Analysis and Requirements deliverable within the Focus Group on Data Processing and Management to support IoT and Smart Cities and Communities, as well as Editor of the Use Cases and Requirements deliverable within the ITU-T Focus Group on Technologies for Network 2030. He is one of the expert team members of the IEC-ISO-ITU Joint Smart Cities Task Force and serves as leader of the WG Standardization High Level Architecture Subgroup in the Alliance for IoT Innovation (AIOTI).

During 2018 he acted as Rapporteur for the European Commission in the joint MSP/DEI WG on Standardisation in support of Digitising European Industry and Editor of the Final Report of the WG (Dec 2018). He holds an Electronic Engineering degree in Telecommunications from University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy), a M.S. in Engineering and Management of Telecommunication Networks from National Institute of Telecommunications (Evry, France) and a Master in International Business Development from ESSEC Business School (Paris, France).