Ulrich Kleber is a Chief Architect Cloud Platform in Huawei’s European Research Center. During his 30 years of work experience he gained extensive experience as system architect in all areas of telecommunication systems developing technology and architecture strategies according to customer requirements and business goals. He worked in open standards and open source development, including own code contributions. He contributed to ETSI ISG NFV to working groups and ISG level documents from its beginning. With the founding of OPNFV he started representing Huawei in the technical steering committee and started one of the first projects in the new organization. He represented Huawei in the Scope Alliance and was chairman of the board in 2013, earlier represented Siemens and NSN in the Service Availability Forum as chair of the technical working group and OpenSAF in the TSC.