Christoffer von Schantz is a seasoned telecommunications executive with more than 20 years of experience of building market leading growth and introducing new services.

Today Christoffer works at Skyfora where he leads global telco partnerships for Telecom GNSS Meteorology, a patented approach generating ~1000× more observations to power modern AI weather forecasts from Nvidia, Google and others. The solution helps to improve weather resilience for a range of weather impacted industries, including the telco sector. He is also a senior advisor for a +1BEUR Infranode fund focusing on sustainable investments in the Nordics and a board member in two companies.

Previously Chief Strategy Officer at DNA (a Telenor company) and later the CEO of the subsidiary responsible for the Broadband, TV & Smart Energy business he helped DNA grow market cap by more than 300%, become the number one broadband provider and number two mobile provider in the market and introduce novel services such as 5G FWA in 2019 and Smart Heating Solutions to MDU’s in 2022. Earlier, he held director roles in Nokia across strategy, partnering, and business development functions and worked on many of the transformative projects for Nokia in 2006 - 2012.

At Capacity Europe, Christoffer will show how telcos can monetize data from millions of  GPS/GNSS timing receivers they own - without any new hardware - and why “weather observations  as a network feature” should belong on every telco’s roadmap.