Michel is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA) and holds an Executive MBA from ESC Rennes. He began his career with a services company in Paris, before joining Alcatel in Rennes to take charge of various projects in the telecoms field, followed by the digital television field at Teamlog and Thomson. In charge of Business Development in Images & Réseaux cluster since 2009, he was leading ImaginLab, the first 4G LTE open innovation plateform in France. He also took an active part in the cluster’s development at European level especially in Future Internet program. His skills range from technical expertise to product marketing, via project and platform management.

At b<>com
He joined b<>com in 2013 as Director of Infrastructure and Technology, before being appointed Director of Networks & Security in June 2014, then Director of Operations in 2019. This cross-cutting division, which is in charge of Cloud platforms and architectures, oversees the IRT's Horizon Europe and PIA France projects.

This presentation will introduce 5G EVE ICT-17 project, its vision, its services offer as well as the basic foundation for its architecture. The main assets (site facilities in Spain, France, Italy and Greece) will be depicted with deployment roadmap. Finally, the use cases from ICT-19 projects that should be experimented on 5G EVE will be also listed.