Prof. Roch H. Glitho of Concordia University holds currently a senior Ericsson Industrial Research Chair, has held a Canada Research Chair and has worked as Principal Engineer/Expert at Ericsson Research. He has made truly exceptional technical contributions to the networking and service/application engineering aspects of mobile systems, spanning from the second generation (2G) to the fifth generation and beyond (5GB). These contributions include concrete systems engineering/deployment, international standards setting, patents, and publications. His work has had a tremendous and lasting impact on the signaling system of 2G, the multimedia infrastructure of 3G/4G, and network softwarization (a pillar of 5GB).