Stephane H. Maes is CTO and CPO, ESM/ITSM/ITOM at IFS, and member IFS SLT (SVP level). He shares a lot of his time with R&D, PM as well as with the field, customers and Industry activities to then contribute technical strategies or even disruptive innovations. He is an innovator and disruptor who pragmatically delivers on changing industries, creating new markets and products, or turning around / transforming portfolios.. He significantly changed industries several times and with big impact on systems that everybody uses every day, new markets and new opportunities for the companies he was part of. Besides creating new opportunities, he has a track record of turning around or transforming businesses based on new technology, evolutionary transformation or disruption. He can be as hands-on as needed when needed and lead all size international R&D teams.A seasoned technologist and leader, He is an expert on Web, Cloud, IT, AI, Autonomous Computing, DevOps, Life Cycle Management, Middleware, Service Delivery Platform (SDP), Telecommunications, Mobility, Internet of Things / Machine2Machine, Integration and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) / Micro-service Technologies as well as service layers for Communications, Cloud and Pervasive Computing, Conversational and Voice and Multi-modal Technologies. He has more than 25 years of experience in the high-tech industry. Prior to joining Micro Focus/HPE/HP, he held Research then Management and VP / CTO positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, IBM, Oracle, Huawei and Ericsson. He has been responsible of Worldwide R&D teams as big as 6500 people and CTO for businesses as big as 3.5 Billion US dollars revenue annually. He has more than 275 granted patents & applications.He is a technical advisor and co-founder of several startups. He has authored numerous papers and frequently speaks at scientific conferences and at industry events. He has also been involved and many industry activities (Standard specifications and Open-Source initiatives).Dr. Maes holds Bachelor and master’s degrees in Physics and in Electrical Engineering from UC Louvain (UCL), Belgium, an IBM Research MBA and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics and Electrical Engineering from UCL, partially obtained while a Visiting Scientist at CAIP, Rutgers University. On the side, he continues some pure Research and contributions in these areas.
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