Jan Soderstrom

Vice President and Head of Advanced Technology U.S., Ericsson

Jan Soderstrom is Vice President and Head of Advanced Technology U.S. based in Silicon Valley California and reporting to Ericsson Group CTO. In this capacity he drives the technology leadership and innovation initiatives in 5G and 6G, including co-creation with ecosystem partners. He has built up the Ericsson D-fifteen Lab network platform for use case innovation and testing on 5G. Jan is also engaged in the quest for American leadership in 6G – he serves as the Vice chair of the NextG Alliance and as a board member of ATIS. Jan is also a member of the Board of Trustees for University of California Merced. From 2013 to 2017 Jan was driving the NFV and cloud transformation program at Ericsson. Prior to this Jan had a decade long engagement at Ericsson Research heading the research in IP and Cloud, including three years in San Jose building up the Ericsson Research lab there. Jan has a PhD in Applied Physics from Chalmers University of Technology and spent his early career working with optoelectronic devices and optical networking.