Michele Zarri

Huawei, Senior Standardisation Expert

Speaker Bio

Michele Zarri graduated in telecommunications engineering at University of Pisa (Italy) and completed his studies at King’s College of London (UK). He is currently representing the Huawei Consumer Business Group in 3GPP SA2 (Architecture) and 3GPP TSG SA working mainly on 6G research. Michele served as Regional CTO at Mobilieum from 2020 to 2022 and was responsible for the migration of roaming value added services to 5G and on the design of new products. From 2015 to 2020, Michele has served as technical director in GSMA where he was leading technology projects for 4G Advanced and 5G. Prior joining the GSMA Michele worked for Deutsche Telekom where he accrued more than 15 years of experience in standardization of mobile technologies. During this period Michele served as chairman of working groups both in 3GPP (SA1) and GSMA (RILTE). Michele started his career in the research and development team of Fujitsu working on adaptive antennas and physical layer of WCDMA. He has authored several patents.