Nurit Sprecher

Nokia - Head of Management, Virtualisation & Application Enablement Standardisation

Nurit initiated and led the industry effort to set up the ETSI ISG MEC and successfully positioned the MEC technology as a key building block and enabler for 5G, IoT and mission-critical, vertical solutions. Nurit worked to establish strong collaboration across the industry to ensure the leverage of the MEC work. She has driven a powerful industry effort with members and officials of the ETSI MEC and 3GPP SA6 groups to create a synergic edge computing architecture, to avoid industry fragmentation and to accelerate time-to-market.

Nurit played an instrumental role in the creation of the ETSI ISG ZSM, and has worked to strengthen the cooperation with the relevant standard bodies and open-source projects to promote alignment, leverage synergies and ensure that end-to-end AI-empowered automation can be efficiently achieved.

Nurit has spent many years working as an expert system architect and technologist, defining the carrier-grade network and service architecture evolution. She contributed to many projects carried out in IETF, ITU-T SG15, IEEE and BBF and has participated in core discussions on the Next Generation Network with Tier-1 carriers and several governments.

Nurit leads Nokia’s standardisation strategy and activities in the areas of management & automation, virtualisation and application enablement. She is also a distinguished member of the Nokia technical committee.