Giada Landi received the degree in Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2005. Currently she is project manager at Nextworks, where she is the R&D leader of architecture design. Her main research areas include 5G networks, NFV/SDN, MEC, cloud and edge computing, orchestration and cloud-to-network interactions. Some of her past research activities focused on ASON/GMPLS and PCE architectures, control plane for wireless access networks and inter-technology mobility. She has participated in several national and EU FP7 and H2020 projects, as well as in industrial projects on PCE, SDN and NFV topics. She is currently active in the H2020 VITAL-5G, Hexa-X and knowlEdge projects and she is participating in the ESA ANChOR project, where she covers the role of technical manager. She has also contributed in ETSI MEC, as member of the special task forces on MEC Testing Framework and MEC API definition.