Luis Velarde Tazón

Head of Telco Cloud & Network Virtualization Architecture, Global Systems & Network at Telefónica

Since 2013, Luis has been responsible of the design of the Global Integration Strategy across all operations within the Telefónica Group, defining an API based architecture and the standard interfaces for BSS/OSS exposition required to interact with digital providers, as well as the design of open architectures to foster innovative technologies such as BlockChain to be deployed globally. Since 2019, Luis is in charge of the Global virtualization program (called UNICA) aimed to define the architecture of the new Telco Operator, joining together IT and Network applications into a common cloud native platform