Silvia Almagia, Technical Expert, Centre for Testing and Interoperability, ETSI

Silvia joined ETSI in 2012 as a Technical Expert in the Centre for Testing and Interoperability, where she is in charge of project and community development for open source and collaborative software development groups. Her current responsibilities include taking care of TeraFlowSDN, Open Source MANO (ETSI TFS and OSM) and developing ETSI Software Development groups. Before that, she was responsible for the creation of several PoC Frameworks and Plugtests Programmes (series of interoperability events) for ETSI ISGs working on Network Transformation: NFV, MEC, ZSM.

Prior to this position, Silvia was Lead Member of the Technical Staff at Ulticom, where she was responsible for the design and development of software based carrier grade solutions enabling mobile services. Before that, she worked in the domain of Operations Support Systems (OSS) and Network Management for HP and Thales.