Hans Joachim Einsiedler was born in 1966 in Ravensburg, Germany. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1994. He worked at the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich, at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, and at the University of Bern in Switzerland. He joined Deutsche Telekom in 1999. Since then, he was leader of EU and EURESCOM R&D projects. He joined the Telekom Innovation Laboratories on May 1, 2004 and was responsible for the Seamless Network Control team within Deutsche Telekom AG/Technology Innovation. His topics are next generation control platforms and Internet Protocol control plane topics. Hans was the Deutsche Telekom AG responsible for the European Technology Platform Networld2020, the ETNO R&D task force, the Future Internet and 5G Public-Private-Partnership initiative, and the 5G Association. Currently he is involved in 5G Core and 3GPP SA2 activities related to the future converged and access agnostic control plane, network slicing, and the end-to-end architectures for 5G.

With the cloudification of the networking infrastructures, the operators will face completely different problems and challenges like in the past. New opportunities on the operation and business emerge in the same times. These opportunities and challenges will be shown on the example of a 5G Core.