Christele Bouchat holds the position of standardization strategy executive at Nokia. She started standardization work in 2004, by joining DSL Forum and was appointed Board of Director in 2008 at the home gateway initiative Forum.She is co-director of Wireless-Wireline Convergence working Area of Broadband Forum, as well as co-director of the Town Hall Innovation Serie and editor of various BBF documents ranging from TR-069 to 5G WWC. She began her career in the Research and Innovation centre of Alcatel, in 1998. She graduated with the highest Honours and Jury’s congratulations as Civil Engineer in Physics, from the Polytechnic University of Liege, Belgium.