Mr Andrew Leong

CTO - Fixed Networks at NBN

Speaker

Andrew Leong, CTO – Fixed Networks

The nbn network is the digital backbone of Australia and is constantly evolving to keep communities and businesses connected and our nation advancing.

Andrew leads the key functions that bring together the technology and architecture decisions for the future of the nbn and is also responsible for enabling nbn to embrace emerging AI and automation to improve customer value, optimise the business and drive the industry forward.

Prior to this, Andrew was based in Silicon Valley, California where he was Meta’s Global Group Engineering manager leading the research, design and delivery of highly scalable and reliable backbone network solutions to connect Meta’s Datacenters to over 4 Billion global users.

Andrew brings extensive experience in scaling and optimising complex networks and systems through automation, webscale software solutions and deep technology expertise.

Andrew has degrees in Electrical Engineering (Hon) and Finance from the University of Melbourne, Australia and is constantly active in driving industry research and has even achieved a Guinness World Record for building the worlds longest terrestrial optical link.