Dimitrios Aivatoglou

Dimitrios Aivatoglou is Head of R&D at Nokia, a senior technology and product leader with 17+ years of experience building and scaling complex, real-time platforms and the multinational organizations behind them. He currently leads a 320-person R&D and product organization across four global hubs, owning the roadmap, delivery standards, and platform strategy for carrier-grade 5G core systems serving the world's largest operators. He has a proven track record in product-led transformation and agile delivery at scale, turning platforms into proactive enablers of commercial growth. He recently led company-wide AI adoption at Nokia, culminating in an agentic AI software delivery pipeline that compresses the path from requirement to delivered feature. He holds an MBA alongside dual UK engineering degrees, and is fluent in high-stakes, executive-level, international stakeholder management.