Eric Hardouin leads the "Ambient Connectivity" research area at Orange, which investigates future access and transport networks and technologies as well as the associated business models. Eric Hardouin received his PhD in signal processing and telecommunications in 2004 from Telecom Bretagne and the University of Rennes 1, France. Since 2004, he has been working at Orange, where he deals with the interference suppression of mobile networks. Between 2008 and 2013, he represented Orange in the 3GPP physical layer standardization group (RAN WG1) for HSPA, LTE and LTE-Advanced. From 2012 to 2015, Eric led the research on wireless networks at Orange. Eric had a leading role in the NGMN 5G white paper, co-leading the work on the 5G requirements. Eric is the author of the book "LTE et les réseaux 4G" (in French).