Dr. Ibrahim Gedeon is one of the global
telecommunications industry’s most colorful and
respected executives, Dr. Gedeon has carved out an
international career by combining tremendous insight
and skill as an applied scientist with a lighthearted and
thoroughly non-conventional approach to leadership. As
Chief Technology Officer for TELUS, a leading national
telecommunications company in Canada, his energy and
engaging manner as a speaker and presenter are
legendary within industry circles.
Dr. Gedeon began his career in telecommunications
engineering and research in 1990 when he joined Bell
Northern Research, designing signal-processing
software in the Cryptographic Systems division. He moved to Nortel Networks in 1994 as a
network design engineer.
Dr. Gedeon was named Vice President and Director of Data Network Engineering at Nortel in
1996; Vice President of Internet Brand Management in 1999, and Senior Vice President of
Wireless Engineering in 2000. He joined TELUS in 2003 and is responsible for technology
strategy, service and network architecture, service delivery and operational support systems for
the company’s wire line and wireless divisions, as well as service and network convergence,
enterprise applications and network infrastructure strategies and evolution.
Dr. Gedeon has held numerous leadership roles in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) and has also received numerous professional awards and various forms of
industry recognition, including being named four times to the Global Telecoms Business
magazine’s “GTB Power 100,” a list of the 100 most powerful and influential people in the
telecoms industry.
He is currently the General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Communications 2021 (ICC
2021), Montreal. He was the Honorary Co-Chair, IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on
Integrated Network Management (IM 2015) in Ottawa, Canada, the Co-Chair of the IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conference 2014 (VTC 2014) in Vancouver, and was the General Chair for
the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012) in Ottawa, Canada. He
also serves on the board of a number of industry associations, including the Centre of Excellence
in Next Generation Networks (CENGN)/Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and
Research (CECR), Canada, the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance, the
Washington, DC based Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), and the
University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business based Institute for
Communication Technology Management (CTM).
A native of Lebanon, he has a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the American
University of Beirut and a Masters' in Electronics Engineering from Carleton University. In 2010,
he received a Honourary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of British Columbia.
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