Kostas Chalkiotis

Vice President – Head of 6G & NTN Group Technology at Deutsche Telekom

Speaker

Dr. K. Halkiotis has joined Deutsche Telekom Group Technology in 2013 as Vice President in Mobile Access. He moved from Cosmote Greece (subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom Group) where he initially joined in 2002.

His primary function was to define the strategy, architecture, innovation and blueprints for Mobile Access Networks in Deutsche Telekom Group. As of the beginning of 2016 he was also responsible for the architecture of the fixed networks within Deutsche Telekom Group Technology. Since 2018 he took over the responsibility of Access & Home Networks in DT group defining the strategy, architecture and innovation for access and home Networks in Deutsche Telekom Group. From 2020 -2022 he was leading the 5G solutions which pushed the 5G deployment with the introduction of Dynamic Spectrum Sharing, (DSS), 5GC and Network Slicing.

Currently he is leading the 6G Tribe and NTN Tribe activities overall in DTAG Group. He is also Alternate Board Member for Deutsche Telekom in NGMN (Next Generation Mobile Networks) and member of the Board of 6G IA.

He has more than twenty years working experience in Telecommunications. Also, he was the head of EMF Department in Greek Atomic Energy Commission from 1998 – 2000.