Patrick Lopez

Founder & CEO at Core Analysis

Speaker

Patrick is a senior executive & technology thought leader, Founder & CEO of the telco & cloud consultancy company Core Analysis, after earlier roles including Global VP Products at NEC and Global VP Networks at Telefonica Group.

Patrick has extensive experience in corporate strategy, corporate development (M&A, due diligence, debt / equity funding, partnerships, JVs etc), board governance, and is board member of CENGN (Canada’s Center of Excellence for Next Generation Networks). Patrick sat on the board of directors of NEC Advanced Networks the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), Meta’s Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and 5Tonic (an open 5G laboratory).

From chipsets, to smartphones, to packet core, edge computing, traffic optimization, OSS, (open, virtual, AI) RAN, High Altitude Platforms, cloud and AI, Patrick has led teams in the most exciting telco / cloud environment.

His latest achievements include:

• Pioneered programmable networks and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
• Over 30 international awards for new product / technology introduction and execution.
• World’s first Open RAN (virtualized Radio Access Network) commercial deployments in greenfield and brownfield networks.
• World’s first multi access (mobile, fixed, enterprise, residential) edge computing deployment (software defined Central Office re-architected as a data center project with transport aggregation, access virtualization, edge computing).
• Pioneered Lean Telco innovation framework for telecom operators.
• Multi 1oo´s million$ joint venture with Facebook and development banks to connect the unconnected. Includes SDN, NFV, open source virtualized ENodeB, EPC, satellite backhaul, Facebook, TIP, Google Loon…
• Over 100 international clients at Core Analysis (Akamai, Amdocs, Bain&Co., Bell Canada, Citrix, Deloitte, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, HP, Huawei, InterDigital, META, McKinsey & Company, NEC, Red Hat, Telus, Telefonica …)

Patrick has collaborated with various industry and financial institutions including Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse First Boston, and has written several articles in collaboration with The Wall Street Journal, Wireless Week, Fierce wireless, RCR Wireless News, CNN and CNBC.

Patrick currently resides in Toronto, Canada and has worked in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Ireland, Spain and France. He holds an MBA in Corporate Management.