Marco Carugi works as consultant on advanced telecommunication technologies and associated standardization, and is currently contractor for NEC representing the company in standards development activities.
During his professional career, he has worked as Telecommunication Engineer in the Solvay group, Research Engineer in Orange Labs, Senior Advisor in the Nortel Networks CTO division and Senior Expert in the Technology Strategy department of ZTE R&D.
Marco is active in standardization since long time, and has held numerous leadership positions, including ITU-T SG13 Vice-Chair, ITU-T Rapporteur in last three study periods, ITU-T FG Cloud Computing WG Chair and FG M2M Service Layer Vice-Chair, OIF Board member, IETF Provider Provisioned VPN WG co-Chair.
He is currently Rapporteur for Question 2 - "Requirements for NGN evolution and its capabilities including support of IoT and SDN" - in ITU-T SG13 (Future networks) where he also acts as SG13 Mentor, as well as Rapporteur for Question 2 - "Requirements and use cases for IoT" - in ITU-T SG20 (Internet of Things and its applications including smart cities and communities).
IoT/M2M, NGN evolution and Future Networks, SDN, Cloud Computing and Big Data are technical areas in which he is involved at present.
Marco has been leading the development of numerous standards specifications, specifically those related to requirements, capabilities and services for NGN and IoT/M2M since the creation of the respective ITU-T NGN and IoT Global Standards Initiatives, and has published in technical journals and books.
He regularly participates in the activities of the European Commission's Internet of Things Research Cluster and Alliance for IoT Innovation.
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), a Master in International Business Development from ESSEC Business School (Paris, France), and is currently completing a Certificate on Big Data at Ecole Centrale (Paris, France).
