Miguel Familiar-Cabero

Previously, he earned a double M.Sc. in Telematics Engineering both from Carlos III University of Madrid and Technical University of Catalonia, a double Executive MBA from EAE Business School Madrid and Universitat de Barcelona, as well as his B.Eng. in Tech. Telecommunications Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid. 

Miguel is currently at Ericsson Spain as Portfolio Director, AI/ML Innovation, Cognitive Network Solutions. Previously, he worked at KPN The Netherlands as 5G Mobile Core Network Architect, Telco Cloud and Senior Technical Solution Architect NFV/SDN and Cloud. Before that, he was employed by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise as Solution Architect NFV/SDN and Cloud. He has been also working for Ericsson for more than 8 years, initially as Software Engineer and later as System Architect in the area of Network Function Virtualization. In this period, he performed as NFV Lead Engineer and Technical Coordinator in 4G/LTE and IMS networks. Previously, he was working for the Next-Generation Networks and Services Research Lab of the Technical University of Madrid in several European Research Projects applied to software engineering on wireless computing and ad hoc networks.

His research activity includes several papers published in scientific indexed journals, a book chapter and patents. Also, he was awarded with top class raking in his B.Sc. degree; first position in the National Competition of Technical Telecommunication Engineering Schools "Premio Liberalización de las Telecomunicaciones" 2009, major in Telematics; first-class honors obtained in the MSc Telematics Engineering (GPA: 8.7) and Executive MBA (GPA: 9.95, top 1%), and a Excellence Academic Grant by EAE Business School. He was also member of the Ericsson Young Advisory Board (YAB), a recognized world-wide Talent Development Program to Ericsson Executive Leadership Team at R&D EEM in Madrid, 2017.

Finally, Miguel holds several industry recognized professional certificates in the areas of machine learning, public and private cloud, cloud-native computing, data center virtualization as well as ITIL service and PRINCE2 agile project management from different providers such as Red Hat, VMware, The Linux Foundation, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, OpenStack Foundation, IBM, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Cisco among others.