JJ Wang is a Manager within the Information and Communications Research Laboratories (ICL) of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Hsinchu, Taiwan. In his current role, he is responsible for leading the R&D teams for developing Multi-access Edge Computing and SDN/NFV technologies. Prior to this position, he was focused on mobile technology research and development including LTE RRM (Radio Resource Management) and SON (Self-Organizing Network) technologies. Prior to joining ITRI, JJ was a Software Architect at the Rovi Corporation where he was working on end to end solutions for consumer electronics industry.

Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) aims to provide cloud computing capabilities at the edge of the access network. MEC not only offers storage and computation resources at the edge, which reduces application latency for mobile users and bandwidth requirement to the mobile backhaul and core networks, but also provides radio access network (RAN) information for improving application performance. In this talk, we will share the potential and challenges to evolve the MEC to a next generation service innovation platform.