Bernard Bureau

VP Network and Architecture Strategy, Chief Technology Office, TELUS

Mr. Bernard Bureau is Vice-president of Wireless Technology and Services within the TELUS Chief Technology Office. He has end-to-end accountability for the wireless network strategy, including technology selection and development, design and optimization and deployment. 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, the core network and the voice platforms. He played an instrumental leadership role for several major projects, including spectrum auctions and transactions, as well as the rollout of Open RAN, VoNR, 5G SA, 5G NSA, LTE, LTE-A, 3G, Centralised RAN and HetNet. 

He received a Bachelor degree in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in 1995 and has been a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec since then. He is TELUS’ primary board member of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), the O-RAN Alliance, and of the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance.