Bernard Bureau

VP Network and Architecture Strategy, Chief Technology Office, TELUS

Mr. Bernard Bureau is Vice-president of Network and Architecture Strategy within the Chief Technology Office at TELUS. He has end-to-end accountability for TELUS’ 5G and spectrum strategy, Internet of Things strategy and our fixed and mobile network architecture. Since he joined TELUS in 1997, Mr. Bureau has held several management positions, including VP of Mobile Broadband Network Engineering, where he led the planning and engineering teams responsible for the wireless access and core network and for the voice platforms. He played an instrumental leadership role for several major projects, including the rollout of UMTS, HSPA, LTE, LTE-A VoLTE and C-RAN HetNet. He received a Bachelor degree in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in 1995 and has been a member of the Ordre des ingenieurs du Québec since then.