Open Networking Summit North America 2019: Full Schedule

April 3-5 | San Jose, California
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1:00pm PDT

Keynote: Open Networking in the Brave New World of Today - Arpit Joshipura, General Manager, Networking, The Linux Foundation

This is a quick look at how far the Open Networking Industry has come, and how open source has become a de-facto building block for Telecom and adjacent industries.

Speakers

Arpit Joshipura

General Manager of Networking, IoT and Edge, The Linux Foundation

Arpit Joshipura is an executive leader and open source software evangelist across carriers, cloud and enterprise IT - spanning technology areas like networking, orchestration, operating systems, security, AI, edge, hardware and silicon. He was voted “Top 5 Movers and Shakers... Read More →

Wednesday April 3, 2019 1:00pm - 1:10pm PDT
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

1:15pm PDT

Keynote: Network Intelligence and Open Source: Practice and Thoughts - Dr. Junlan Feng, General Manager, AI & Intelligent Operations R&D Center & Chief Scientist, China Mobile

In this talk, Dr. Feng will share China Mobile’s vision, practice, and strategy on Network intelligence. She will address her insights on how to strengthen the collaboration and synchronization among stakeholders including operators, vendors, academic researchers, standard organizations, and open source communities to speed up telecom network innovation and meet business requirements of 5G.

Speakers

Dr. Junlan Feng

General Manager of the AI and Intelligent Operation R&D Center & Chief Scientist, China Mobile

Junlan Feng, Chief Scientist at China Mobile General Manager of AI and Intelligent Operation R&D Center. Dr. Feng has led R&D of China Mobile on artificial intelligence and big data since September 2013. She had been the architect of IBM Big Data from January 2013.1 to August 2013... Read More →

Wednesday April 3, 2019 1:15pm - 1:35pm PDT
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

1:40pm PDT

Keynote: Innovation of the Network Infrastructure at Alibaba - Haiyong Wang, Senior Director, Alibaba Group

Alibaba is one of the largest Internet companies in the world. It offers a wide range of services, including ecommerce, financial services, logistics and public cloud services. Running these services demands the network to provide stability, performance and scalability with extremely high standards. Building our own network infrastructure is an essential step to tackle these challenges. It also gives us the ability to customize the network for our diversified workloads. In this talk, we will share our journey of building our network infrastructure, what we have done, lessons learned and the future of our network.

Speakers

Haiyong Wang

Senior Director, Alibaba

Haiyong Wang is a Senior Director at Alibaba. He leads the development of network infrastructure technologies from host networking stack, NIC offload software, network OS, high performance packet processing platform to SDN solutions. Before joining Alibaba, Haiyong worked on network... Read More →

Wednesday April 3, 2019 1:40pm - 1:45pm PDT
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

1:45pm PDT

Keynote: Accelerating Innovation with Lean NFV - Scott Shenker, Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Sylvia Ratnasamy, Associate Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley & CTO, Nefeli Networks; Constantine Polychronopoulos, VP & CTO, VMware

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) technology has the potential to revolutionize the networking industry, yet the promise of NFV remains largely unfulfilled. Many NFV efforts today are plagued with complexity across deployment, automation and operation. At the same time, on-boarding virtualized network functions (VNFs) continues to be time-consuming and frustrating. LeanNFV is an open architecture that takes a minimalist approach to integration, enabling superior time-to-market, efficiency and automation. In this keynote, we will describe the impetus behind LeanNFV, what LeanNFV is and how to get involved.

Speakers

Scott Shenker

Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Sylvia Ratnasamy

Associate Professor of Computer Science & CTO, UC Berkeley & Nefeli Networks

Constantine Polychronopoulos

VP & CTO, TelcoBU, VMware

Wednesday April 3, 2019 1:45pm - 2:05pm PDT
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

2:05pm PDT

Keynote: Bring Disruptive Innovation to Deployment with Curated Open Source - Guru Parulkar, Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation

Speakers

Guru Parulkar

Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation

Guru Parulkar is Executive Director of ONF and ON.Lab, and Executive Director of Stanford Platform Lab, and Consulting Professor of EE at Stanford University. Guru has been in the field of networking for over 25 years. He joined Stanford in 2007 as Executive Director of its Clean... Read More →

Wednesday April 3, 2019 2:05pm - 2:25pm PDT
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Opening Up for 5G and Beyond - Andre Fuetsch, President, AT&T Labs & Chief Technology Officer, AT&T

Speakers

Andre Fuetsch

President, AT&T Labs & Chief Technology Officer, AT&T

Andre oversees the global technology direction for AT&T. This includes network planning, the company’s innovation road map, AT&T Labs, AT&T Foundry, and the intellectual property organization. His responsibilities include spearheading the design of the company’s next-generation... Read More →

Thursday April 4, 2019 9:00am - 9:20am PDT
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

9:25am PDT

Keynote: Cloud Native: Essential for 5G - Anders Rosengren, Head of Architecture & Technology – Digital Services, Ericsson

This keynote will discuss how cloud native design principles, cloud native applications and other key areas such as Automation, Orchestration and Open source playing a major role towards the evolution of 5G. This keynote also plans to demonstrate a demo in the area of cloud native operations.

Speakers

Anders Rosengren

Head of Architecture & Technology, Ericsson

Anders Rosengren is head of Architecture & Technology in Business Area Digital Services.Ericsson Digital Services provides solutions that realize our customers’ digital transformation including software and services in the areas of monetization and management systems (OSS/BSS... Read More →

Thursday April 4, 2019 9:25am - 9:45am PDT
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

9:50am PDT

Keynote: Transformation Success: The C-Suite’s View - Armughan Ahmad, Managing Partner & President, Digital and Technology, KPMG

Organizations around the globe are undergoing a transformation journey to meet their ever-changing customer needs. As more organizations modernize their business functions, their networks are under increasing demand to keep pace and anticipate customer needs. Armughan will speak to the pressures and challenges companies are facing, their viewpoints and how some have achieved a successful transformation by connecting their front, middle and back office business functions.

Speakers

Armughan Ahmad

Managing Partner and President, Digital and Technology Solutions, KPMG Canada

Armughan Ahmad is a technology executive with 23 years of experience delivering digital and technology solutions globally by building diverse teams that digitally engineer business functions and deliver client outcomes across all industry segments with next-generation technology solutions.Armughan... Read More →

Thursday April 4, 2019 9:50am - 10:10am PDT
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

10:10am PDT

Keynote: Accelerating Autonomous Driving Network via Industry Collaboration - Bill Ren, Chief Open Source Liaison Officer & General Manager, ICT Infrastructure Open Source, Huawei

The autonomous driving car has been put into commercial operation, and it is time to move to an Autonomous Driving Networking. In this speech, Bill will share ideas on why networking needs autonomous driving, what is the paradigm shifting to achieve autonomous driving networks, and the architecture of autonomous driving networking and how to get there with whole industry collaboration.

Speakers

Bill Ren

VP of Strategy, Huawei

Bill Ren holds an EMBA and Master Degree from Peking University, and a CS Bachelor Degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Since Joining Huawei in 2000, Bill served as an Intelligent Network Research and Development Engineer, Product Manager and Architect of India Branch, General... Read More →

Thursday April 4, 2019 10:10am - 10:17am PDT
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

10:20am PDT

Keynote: Network Transformation: Are We Ready for 5G and Edge Clouds? - Rajesh Gadiyar, VP, Data Center Group & CTO, Network Platforms Group, Intel & Kevin Shatzkamer, VP, Enterprise & Service Provider Strategy and Solutions, Dell EMC

We have made great progress in our NFV journey to drive a more flexible and scalable network infrastructure. We are working with our ecosystem partners to get ready for the 5G transition and deployment of 5G enabled Edge Services. With massive amounts of data generated by billions of connected devices, we have more work to do to fulfill the promise of NFV, and drive our industry towards Cloud Native solutions. In this presentation, Rajesh Gadiyar, VP & GM of Intel’s Network Architecture and Systems Engineering group, will discuss where Intel is in their network transformation journey. Along with special guest Kevin Shatzkamer from Dell EMC, Rajesh will also outline the work required to address the challenges of building Cloud Native solutions.

Speakers

Kevin Shatzkamer

Vice President, Enterprise and Service Provider Strategy and Solutions, Dell EMC

Kevin Shatzkamer is currently Vice President, Enterprise and Service Provider Strategy and Solutions at Dell EMC with responsibility for strategy and solution at the intersection points of network infrastructure technologies, cloud, data anlaytics and AI, virtualization platforms... Read More →

Rajesh Gadiyar

Vice President, Data Center Group & Chief Technology Officer, Network Platforms Group, Intel

Technology Officer (CTO) for the Network Platforms Group (NPG) at Intel. He leads the Architecture & Systems Engineering organization within the NPG. His focus is on the delivery of scalable and efficient architectures for next generation communications platforms. He leads these efforts... Read More →

Thursday April 4, 2019 10:20am - 10:40am PDT
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

9:00am PDT

Keynote: How Open Source and Open Standards are Collaboratively Accelerating Next-Gen Networks - Dan Pitt, MEF Forum; Axel Clauberg, TIP; Alla Goldner, 3GPP ETSI; Pierre Lynch, ETSI NFV ISG TST; Bill Carter, OCP; Pierre Gauthier, TM Forum; Phil Robb, LF

Standards bodies have been around almost as long as the telco industry itself. However, as open source has increasingly become a de facto approach to collaborative software development across sectors, the specific role of standards bodies vs open source communities can be complex. While standards should act as guidelines to keep technologies "open," especially for OSS developers, there's debate about what qualifies as open as well as who gets to pick what becomes a “standard.” This makes defining what “open standards” are - and how they integrate with open technologies themselves - more complicated. Representatives from both open software and open standards communities, will discuss how the two types of organizations work together to define and refine open source networking, as well as work together to change the way things operate based on lessons learned from the other party.

Speakers

Axel Clauberg

VP Strategic Portfolio Management & CTO TC Services, and Chairman of the Board, Telecom Infra Project (TIP), Deutsche Telekom

Axel Clauberg joined Deutsche Telekom AG in September 2011. Within the Group CTO/Technology Innovation team, Axel is responsible for DT's Aggregation, Transport & IP and Infrastructure Cloud architecture. Axel has more than 30 years of experience in the IT and Telecommunications industry... Read More →

Dan Pitt

Sr. VP, MEF Forum, and President, Palo Alto Innovation Advisors

Dan Pitt has been a leading voice of the SDNFV movement since its inception. He served as executive director of ONF from its public launch in March 2011 until September 2016 and since January 2017 has been senior vice president of MEF, driving technical and ecosystem development... Read More →

Phil Robb

Vice President - Operations, Networking & Orchestration, Linux Foundation

Phil Robb’s experience spans more than 30 years of work on the leading edge of software and networking technology, beginning with the launch of the personal computer in the early 1980s. He began working with open source in 2001 at Hewlett Packard, where he formed and led the company’s... Read More →

Bill Carter

CTO, OCP

Bill is CTO for the Open Compute Project Foundation where he is a visionary and pathfinder on this open source journey. Bill works with the entire OCP Community and many other software groups, standards organizations, and industry consortiums to bring together people from around the... Read More →

Pierre Gauthier

Chief API Architect, TM Forum

Alla Goldner

Director - Technology, Strategy & Standardization, Amdocs

Recognized by Light Reading as one of the industry’s best Female Tech Pioneers in 2018, by capacity Media as the “Best Women in Network Orchestration” in 2019 and with multiple patents to her name, Alla Goldner is the Chair of ONAP Use-Case Subcommittee. She also leads all ONAP... Read More →

Pierre Lynch

Lead Technologist, Keysight Technologies

Pierre Lynch is a Lead Technologist for Keysight Technologies. Pierre has been working in the mobile network testing industry since the beginning of his 20 year career. He is responsible for representing Keysight at standards definition organizations (SDOs) and open source communities... Read More →

Friday April 5, 2019 9:00am - 9:30am PDT
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

9:35am PDT

Keynote: Lessons for Open Source Networking from the Growth of Cloud Native - Dan Kohn, Executive Director, Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Kubernetes is one of the fastest growing and widely adopted open source projects ever and CNCF is one of the fastest growing open source software foundations. Dan will share some lessons from those successes that open source networking projects might want to emulate.

Speakers

Dan Kohn

General Manager, Linux Foundation Public Health, Linux Foundation

Dan leads Linux Foundation Public Health, a new initiative to use open source software to help public health authorities combat COVID-19 and serves as VP, Strategic Programs for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes... Read More →

Friday April 5, 2019 9:35am - 9:42am PDT
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

9:45am PDT

Keynote: In Conversation with Marisa S. Viveros, Vice President of Strategy and Offerings, IBM & Mohamed Awad, Vice President of Marketing, Infrastructure Line of Business, Arm

Speakers

Mohamed Awad

VP Infrastruture Business Unit, Arm

Mohamed Awad is the vice president of Marketing for the Infrastructure Line of business at Arm. He and his team are responsible for driving go-to-market strategy, ecosystem development, and product marketing for the business unit. Prior to joining Arm, Mohamed spent 10 years... Read More →

Marisa S. Viveros

VP Strategy and Offerings, IBM

Marisa is a Vice President at IBM, leading Strategy and Solutions for the Global Telecommunications, M&E Industry. She is responsible for creating a portfolio of solutions to address the needs of clients as it relates to digital transformation, networks, optimizing core business functions... Read More →

Friday April 5, 2019 9:45am - 10:05am PDT
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any

10:10am PDT

Keynote: Powering Open Networking for Tomorrow’s Needs - Arpit Joshipura, General Manager, Networking, The Linux Foundation

The next 3 years are huge for networking as it starts impacting adjacent markets including Edge, IOT, AI, Auto, SmartCities and of course Cloud. This keynote will cover some of the upcoming initiatives on Open Source Networking that enables this fusion of technologies across industries.

Speakers

Arpit Joshipura

General Manager of Networking, IoT and Edge, The Linux Foundation

Friday April 5, 2019 10:10am - 10:30am PDT
Hall 3

Keynote Sessions

Experience Level Any