Cedric has more than 26 years of professional experience in the IT and Telco industries. He started his career at Mitsubishi Electric and then at Orange Labs, where he contributed to multiple industrial standards including 3GPP, W3C, and MPEG. As an entrepreneur, he founded a mobile multimedia company acquired by Amdocs Ltd. in 2010. He then took the lead in Amdocs’ cloud-native strategy until he joined Canonical in February 2023. He owns more than 27 patents and holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He is a seasoned innovation catalyst and a passionate promoter of open source and intrapreneurship in large organizations.