23-25 June 2026
Copenhagen
Patrick Lopez
Founder and CEO
Core Analysis
Autonomous Networks summit
Patrick is a global technology executive and Founder & CEO of Core Analysis, after earlier roles including Global VP Telcom at NEC and Global VP Networks at Telefonica Group.
Patrick has extensive experience in corporate strategy, corporate development (M&A, due diligence, debt / equity funding, partnerships, JVs etc), board governance, and is board member of CENGN (Canada’s Center of Excellence for Next Generation Networks). Patrick sat on the board of directors of NEC Advanced Networks the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), Meta’s Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and NEXTONIC (an open telecom laboratory).
With a track record spanning every major mobile platform generation since 1998 — from the world’s first smartphones and commercial MMS networks to Open RAN, multi-access edge computing, and AI-driven autonomous systems — Patrick has consistently identified and commercialised frontier technologies before the industry considered them mainstream.
His latest achievements include:
• Over 100 international clients at Core Analysis (Akamai, Amdocs, Bain&Co., Bell Canada, Citrix, Deloitte, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, HP, Huawei, InterDigital, META, McKinsey & Company, NEC, Red Hat, Telus, Telefonica …)
• Multi-hundred-million-dollar joint venture with Meta and development banks to connect the unconnected — integrating SDN, open virtualised RAN, satellite backhaul, Google Loon high-altitude platforms and LEO satellite connectivity into a single end-to-end stack.
• Co-invented Open RAN — co-authored the first open and disaggregated RAN RFI with Vodafone at the TIP Summit — then led the world’s first commercial Open RAN deployments in greenfield and brownfield networks.
• Pioneered Lean Telco innovation framework for telecom operators.
• World’s first multi access (mobile, fixed, enterprise, residential) edge computing deployment (software defined Central Office re-architected as a data center project with transport aggregation, access virtualization, edge computing).
• Built and deployed the world’s first commercial MMSC (Multimedia Messaging Service Centre) at Logica, personally receiving one of the world’s first multimedia messages on a live network. Platform generated >$150m revenue on a $53m investment. Over 30 international awards for new product and technology introduction.
• Shipped one of the world’s first smartphones — the Philips Ilium Synergy (1998), predating the iPhone by a decade — and led WAP implementation at Philips, delivering the first mobile internet-capable handsets to market.
Patrick has collaborated with various industry and financial institutions including Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse First Boston, and has written several articles in collaboration with The Wall Street Journal, Wireless Week, Fierce wireless, RCR Wireless News, CNN and CNBC.
Patrick currently resides in Toronto, Canada and has worked in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Ireland, Spain and France. He holds an MBA in Corporate Management (IAE Nice) and a Bachelor of Commerce (EDHEC).
Patrick has extensive experience in corporate strategy, corporate development (M&A, due diligence, debt / equity funding, partnerships, JVs etc), board governance, and is board member of CENGN (Canada’s Center of Excellence for Next Generation Networks). Patrick sat on the board of directors of NEC Advanced Networks the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), Meta’s Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and NEXTONIC (an open telecom laboratory).
With a track record spanning every major mobile platform generation since 1998 — from the world’s first smartphones and commercial MMS networks to Open RAN, multi-access edge computing, and AI-driven autonomous systems — Patrick has consistently identified and commercialised frontier technologies before the industry considered them mainstream.
His latest achievements include:
• Over 100 international clients at Core Analysis (Akamai, Amdocs, Bain&Co., Bell Canada, Citrix, Deloitte, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, HP, Huawei, InterDigital, META, McKinsey & Company, NEC, Red Hat, Telus, Telefonica …)
• Multi-hundred-million-dollar joint venture with Meta and development banks to connect the unconnected — integrating SDN, open virtualised RAN, satellite backhaul, Google Loon high-altitude platforms and LEO satellite connectivity into a single end-to-end stack.
• Co-invented Open RAN — co-authored the first open and disaggregated RAN RFI with Vodafone at the TIP Summit — then led the world’s first commercial Open RAN deployments in greenfield and brownfield networks.
• Pioneered Lean Telco innovation framework for telecom operators.
• World’s first multi access (mobile, fixed, enterprise, residential) edge computing deployment (software defined Central Office re-architected as a data center project with transport aggregation, access virtualization, edge computing).
• Built and deployed the world’s first commercial MMSC (Multimedia Messaging Service Centre) at Logica, personally receiving one of the world’s first multimedia messages on a live network. Platform generated >$150m revenue on a $53m investment. Over 30 international awards for new product and technology introduction.
• Shipped one of the world’s first smartphones — the Philips Ilium Synergy (1998), predating the iPhone by a decade — and led WAP implementation at Philips, delivering the first mobile internet-capable handsets to market.
Patrick has collaborated with various industry and financial institutions including Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse First Boston, and has written several articles in collaboration with The Wall Street Journal, Wireless Week, Fierce wireless, RCR Wireless News, CNN and CNBC.
Patrick currently resides in Toronto, Canada and has worked in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Ireland, Spain and France. He holds an MBA in Corporate Management (IAE Nice) and a Bachelor of Commerce (EDHEC).
