Mr. Håkon Lønsethagen is a Senior Research Scientist at Telenor Research. He received a B.Sc in 1987 in electrical engineering and computer science from University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He was granted a M.Sc. from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1988 (Siv.ing). Since 1990 he has been working with telecom network and service management, orchestration and control, including systems integration and distributed systems frameworks, architectures and middleware. Over the last years his activities have addressed inter-provider network services and business models, Internet evolution, lately including SDN, NFV and 5G ecosystems. This includes curiosity to discover and analyse dependencies between technical architecture, business architecture and multi-provider ecosystem platforms. He has been advisory board member of several EU projects. He is currently engaged with 5G-IA and NetWorld2020 steering boards.

The EU 5GPPP ICT-19 project 5G Solutions for European Citizens aims to prove and validate that the 5G capabilities enable forward-looking services to prominent industry verticals, with significant improvement over 4G, thus bringing the 5G vision closer to realisation. In this talk special attention is put at the Smart Port use case from two perspectives. On one hand, the needs of the vertical enterprise must be explored and understood systematically in order to assess the potential business value, and on the other hand, the network service provider need to explore how synergies across use cases can be achieved.