João da Silva

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João da Silva
Director of the Network and Communication in Directorate of DG-INFSO

Dr. JOAO SCHWARZ DASILVA is the holder of a PhD in Computing and Systems Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Over the last 35 years he has successively worked for the Government of Canada and for the International Telecommunications Union in Geneva. He joined the European Commission in 1991 where he is currently Director of the Converged Networks and Services Directorate of DG-INFSO where he oversees all the R&D work relating to mobile communications, broadband networks including satellite communications, audio-visual and home networks; software engineering and ICT for enterprise applications.

He is the recipient of several awards including the UMTS Forum, the IPv6 Forum and the Wireless World Research Forum. He is the author of some 50 technical and scientific papers.

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