Dr. Marcus Brunner is head of standardization, eco-system development, and chief researcher in the strategy and innovation department of Swisscom. He received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in 1999. He is active in research and standardization since 20 years with experience in programmability of networks and services, cloud technology for IT and network service providers (NfV), and automation of network and IT. For example, he represents Swisscom in various international organizations on software-defined networking and the future telecommunication technologies like Network Function Virtualization (NfV).
