Leadership
Dr. Marcus Brunner is head of standardization in the strategy and innovation department of Swisscom, Switzerland. He received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in 1999. He has been active in research and standardization for 20 years with experience in programmability of networks and services, self-organizing networks (SON), and many topics around packet-based networking technologies including information-centric networking, software-defined networking, and the future internet. In his previous job at NEC Labs, Heidelberg, Germany, he ran research and standards for energy efficient networking including energy-saving LTE base stations, energy-efficient routing protocol extensions (OSPF), green data centre networking with OpenFLow, energy-reduction for enterprises with M2M, and contributions from his group into BBF and 3GPP.