Toon Norp

Senior Business Consultant at TNO

Speaker

Toon Norp is a Senior Business Consultant at TNO. Toon Norp joined TNO (former KPN Research) in 1991, where he has since been working on network aspects of mobile communications. Toon advises operators, government organisation and others on strategy, and architecture related to M2M/IoT, Satcom, 5G and 6G. He has been involved in standardisation of mobile networks for more than 25 years. As chairman of the 3GPP SA1 service aspects working group Toon was responsible for the requirements specification phase of 5G and he was instrumental in getting several new sectors (e.g. public safety, satellite, media, railway, industry) involved in the 3GPP standardisation process. In 2021, Toon was elected as governing board member of the 6G SNS Industry Association (6G-IA), and he represents the 6G-IA in the SNS Joint Undertaking Governing Board. Toon holds a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.