Christian Regnier

Manager of Communication Services Engineering IT at Air France

Christian Regnier was the Enterprise Technical Architect about Critical connectivity in Air France KLM CIO Group in 2021. He is also co-founder in 2012 of AGURRE association (association of large users of PMR). He is co-founder of EUWENA (European Users of Wireless Enterprise Network Association) in 2021.

Christian Regnier initiated one of the world's first POCs in 2017 of private LTE networks (at Paris Roissy airport), for which he won 2 awards in 2019.

• the Industry pioneer disruptive excellence AWARD at the Big disruption summit &
• the Greatest advance in the Migration to Critical Broadband by International Critical Communications AWARD.

He received the Aeronautics Medal from the French Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Transportation on July 14, 2021 for his work on private LTE networks for airlines and airports.

In September 2021, he leaves Air France (after 22 years) to focus with his new company PRIVINNET (PRIVate & INnovative NETworks) on the needs of all verticals (and others) for new services around 4G and 5G networks. Helping companies to better understand what kind of connectivity solutions are best for their operational and critical activities and also helping vendors to adapt their solutions to these same needs to accelerate the deployment of 5G networks, especially private ones.

Graduate of the Grenoble School Engineers in electricity with a specialization in Signal Processing.