Keynote Speaker
Masayoshi Ejiri (Fujitsu Ltd,
Japan)
Paradigm Shift of
Telecommunications Services and Management for NGN
(Next Generation Networks)
Biography
Masayoshi Ejiri was responsible for directing the telecommunications
management business strategy and Fujitsu groups after he joined them in 1995 as
a Vice President of Fujitsu Ltd and the Chief Scientist of the Network Systems
Group. He is currently working as a Director of the Photonic systems Group
within Fujitsu Ltd.
Dr. Ejiri began his professional career in 1967 at NTT where he engaged in
various business areas including transmission systems development, visual
communication systems development and nation-wide digital transmission network
planning and management. Whilst with NTT his positions included being director
of the telephone office and being the Executive Manager responsible for
strategic planning of service/network operations and management systems
development. He was a major contributor to ITU-T TMN (Telecommunications
Management Network) standardization from the onset of this work, where he
represented NTT.
Dr. Ejiri has also been deeply involved in academic activities as a regular
writer and speaker on the telecommunications management field and has submitted
many papers to journals and conferences. He has also given many keynotes, panels
and invited speeches at IEEE sponsored conferences, was IEEE ComSoc Enterprise
Networking Technical Committee chair in 2000-2002 and has served as general
co-chair, advisory board member, organizing committee member, principal guest
editor, etc for a number of international symposia and conferences. He has also
served as a Board member of the TMF (TeleManagement Forum).
In the Asia Pacific regions, he initiated the TM (Telecommunications
Management) Committee in the IEICE of Japan in 1995 and he founded APNOMS
(Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium) in 1997. He has
received B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo and is also an
IEICE/Japan Fellow.
