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Siyuan Zhang

Lenovo, GM, China Telecommunications Operators Business

Speaker Bio


Zhang Siyuan, a member of the Communist Party of China and a Senior Engineer, currently serves as the General Manager of Operator Business at Lenovo Group.


Graduating from Sichuan University in 2003 with a degree in Automation, he is a seasoned expert in the communications field, possessing twenty years of composite experience spanning technology R&D, customer operations, and strategic management within the industry. Since joining Shanghai Bell Alcatel-Lucent in 2005, he has held positions including R&D Center Manager for Wireless Transmission and Director of Key Account Department. Starting in 2015, he served as the Deputy General Manager of the Optical Network Business Unit at Nokia Shanghai Bell, where he was responsible for comprehensively overseeing the optical transmission business in China. He spearheaded the development and business expansion of key technologies such as 100G/400G/1.2T domestically controllable ultra-high-speed optical transmission and intelligent optical networks, making outstanding contributions to the evolution of China's optical network technology. Under his leadership, his team achieved "three consecutive wins" (2017, 2022, 2024) in OTN centralized procurement bids and pioneered breakthroughs in markets with internet giants like BAT, driving the transformation of the optical network business towards a computing power network.


As an industry benchmark, he was consecutively named among Shanghai Bell's "Top Ten Employees" and won the Asia Pacific Optical Communications Annual Practical Pioneer Award (2016-2018). In 2022, he was honored as a "Dedicated and Hardworking Outstanding Youth" by Poly Huaxin and as one of the inaugural "Top Ten Outstanding Youths" of the Poly Group. In 2023, he became a trainee in the third phase of the Poly Group's "Young Marxists Training Program".


Joining Lenovo in 2025, he now comprehensively leads the layout of Lenovo's communications operator business in China. Leveraging his profound industry expertise and exceptional leadership, he drives industrial ecosystem innovation through technology and promotes the innovative application of intelligent solutions in operator networks. Throughout his career, Zhang Siyuan has consistently focused on the evolution of communication technologies and the construction of the industrial ecosystem, establishing himself as an industry leader with both technological foresight and business acumen.