Dr. Noel Crespi, INT-GET, France

 Noel Crespi joined France Telecom Research and Development in 1995 where he worked on intelligent network paradigms for value added services such as CAMEL. He also led the prepaid service project for Orange to build an architecture now hosting more than 10 million mobile subscribers.

He took an active role in standardization representing France Telecom in various ETSI and 3GPP technical committees. In 1999 he joined Nortel Networks as French Telephony Program manager and was responsible of the evolution of the switch and call/session control in the SIP application server. He joined INT in 2002 and is currently professor, leading the Core Network group. He also represents INT at 3GPP and coordinates the standardisation activities for GET in ETSI. His current research interests are in B3G Core Network and Service Architectures.