Alvaro Retana

VP Technology Strategy, Futurewei Technologies. Member of the IAB at Member of IETF IAB

Speaker

Alvaro Retana is VP of Technology Strategy in the Future Networks group at Futurewei Technologies. He is a Board Member of the Industry Network Technology Council (INTC), has published four technical books, and has been awarded over 60 patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office. Alvaro has been participating in the IETF since 1998, where he has co-authored several documents on routing technology. He previously co-chaired the Routing Area Working Group (rtgwg) and served as Routing Area Director (2015-2023). Alvaro is co-chair of the Source Packet Routing in Networking WG (spring) and a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).