Bernard Bureau

VP Network and Architecture Strategy at TELUS

Speaker

Mr. Bernard Bureau is Vice-president of Network and Architecture Strategy within the Chief
Technology Office at TELUS. He has end-to-end accountability for TELUS’ 5G and spectrum
strategy, Internet of Things strategy and our fixed and mobile network architecture. Since he
joined TELUS in 1997, Mr. Bureau has held several management positions, including VP of
Mobile Broadband Network Engineering, where he led the planning and engineering teams
responsible for the wireless access and core network and for the voice platforms. He played an
instrumental leadership role for several major projects, including the rollout of UMTS, HSPA,
LTE, LTE-A VoLTE and C-RAN HetNet. He received a Bachelor degree in Engineering from Ecole
Polytechnique de Montreal in 1995 and has been a member of the Ordre des ingenieurs du
Québec since then.