Gabriele Elia (Telecom Italia, Manager Innovation - Future Internet Technologies, Italy) Presentation Available

Abstract

Networks, both for connecting people and things, are part of a ecosystem that gives and takes from computing (cloud, datacentes) and end user devices.  Actually, we can call “SuperNetwork” the combination of networks and computing and devices. 

If we take a 10.000 feet view, worldwide investments in these three segments are surprisingly comparable.  The commercial life of these segments are anyway quite different, and this should be taken in consideration to try to understand future network evolution.  Technologies Factores, Users and Human Factores, Finances and Business Models, Regulations at local and global level and the capability of attracting and managing Talents and Professionals are all equally important in networks and supernetwork evolution but are playing with different forces.   We will try to find some possibilities of thing to future evolution from this scenario.

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Gabriele Elia manages the Future Internet Technologies research group on service evolution at the Innovation Department of Telecom Italia.

Gabriele’s interests are about fast prototyping and research on Mobile Internet  and Internet of Things from the point of view of roles and opportunity of the telecom operator. Topics are context awareness, wireless sensor networks e service robotics , smart grid,  smart cities e assisted living, internet of things and people, semantic web, social and local media.  A specific attention is given to a “interaction design driven” approach to service definition.

Gabriele worked on internet services research and innovation since joining CSELT, the formed R&D department of Telecom Italia, in the early ‘90s and has been involved in a number of innovative  IPs project among which the launch Telecom Online and TIN.IT in middle ‘90, the launch of ADSL services, IPTV and Mobile TV.  

He received a Master Degree in Electronical Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science and Systems Engineering at Politecnico di Torino.