Gian Paolo Balboni

Current

• Head, Innovation trends at Telecom Italia Lab

Past

• Senior Program Manager, TV and Multimedia at Telecom Italia Lab
• Senior Project Leader - Multimedia Technologies at Telecom Italia Lab
• Head, Press Events and Publishing at Telecom Italia Lab

• Head, Communications at CSELT
• Head, Broadband Switching Platforms at CSELT
• Designer and Project Manager at CSELT

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Education

• Università degli Studi di Torino

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Telecommunications

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Gian Paolo Balboni’s Summary

Work experience in the following areas: Computer architecture, HW and SW design, Operating Systems, VLSI for Telecommunications, ATM equipments and networks, contents production and multichannel distributions, multimedia services and technologies, Digital Terrestrial Television, interactive multimedia services, IPTV, DVB-H, content protection, new business models in Digital Media, WEB 2.0.
Professor at Politecnico of Turin, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in the Telecommunication area(1994-2003).
Journalist from 1999, writes mainly about Technology and Science.
Co-author of two books: "ATM technology for High-speed data networks", published in 1994, "DTT and interactive TV services", published in 2005

Gian Paolo Balboni’s Specialties:

Research and Development. Innovation in Telco and Media services.

Gian Paolo Balboni’s Experience

• Head, Innovation trends

  Telecom Italia Lab

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  Responsable for devising techno-economic comparisons in innovative business area (like Media-Telco convergence...) and defining medium-long term scenarios to drive future business development for a broadband network service provider.

• Senior Program Manager, TV and Multimedia

  Telecom Italia Lab

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; TIT.MI; Telecommunications industry)

  April 2004 — February 2007 (2 years 11 months)

  Coordinates Research and Innovation Projects in the Digital Media area. Most relevant projects are related to deployment of DTT, IPTV and DVB-H services in Italy.

• Senior Project Leader - Multimedia Technologies

  Telecom Italia Lab

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  December 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 5 months)

  Leading the development of technologies and services for multimedia applications, both for wired and wireless network.
  Responsable of the project for the development of the "New Technologies Lab", a Lab devoted to studying application of new multimedia capabilities and technologies to the TV production. The project has been co-founded by RTI-Mediaset.

• Head, Press Events and Publishing

  Telecom Italia Lab

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; TIT.MI; Telecommunications industry)

  April 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 9 months)

  Responsable of the promotion of research results obtained by national and international research projects, and for the disseminations of innovation within the Telecom Italia Group.
  The responsability included managing technical workshops, technical demos, fairs and exhibitions, traditional and multimedia publishing, media relations, sponsorships.
  Under this position has also designed and built up the New Technologies Lab, in cooperation with Mediaset Group, to support the develop of TV-related interactive applications and services, taking advantages of most advanced multimedia technologies made available by Telecom Italia Lab.

• Head, Communications

  CSELT

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  October 1996 — April 2001 (4 years 7 months)

  Responsable of the promotion of research results obtained by national and international research project, and for the disseminations of technical know-how within the STET Group, the major Italian Telecommunication Group.
  The responsability included managing technical workshops, technical demos, fairs and exhibitions, traditional and multimedia publishing, media relations.

• Head, Broadband Switching Platforms

  CSELT

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  November 1990 — October 1996 (6 years )

  Head of Research activities in Technologies and Architectures for Broadband Switching, at Research Center of Telecom Italia spa.
  Leading a group of 12 researchers, dealing with High-speed packet switching, ATM technology, innovative Software Architectures for real-time switching controls

• Designer and Project Manager

  CSELT

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  March 1977 — November 1990 (13 years 9 months)

  Designing hardware and software modules for controlling Digital Public Switches.
  VLSI design for parallel computing, fast packet switching and ATM application.

Gian Paolo Balboni’s Education

• Università degli Studi di Torino

  Laurea , Physics , 1977 — 1981

  Activities and Societies:

  CSELT, Politecnico di Torino, Telecom Italia Lab, Telecom Italia

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Gian Paolo Balboni’s Groups:

Member of Mensa Italia since 2001

•    Convergence: PC, Mobile, IPTV and beyond
•    CSELT-TILAB Alumni
•    NEM Summit - Towards Future Media Internet
•    telecoms.com network group

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