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Open Networking Summit 2017
April 3-6, 2017 - Santa Clara Convention Center

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Amar Kapadia

Aarna Networks
Software Engineer
San Jose, CA

aarnanetworks.com

Amar Kapadia is the CEO and Co-Founder of Aarna Networks, a SaaS solutions provider that leverages open source, cloud native, and DevOps methodologies to provide zero-touch edge and 5G service orchestration and management services. Prior to Aarna, he was the NFV product marketing head at Mirantis. Amar has over 20 years of experience in storage, server, and I/O technologies through marketing and engineering leadership positions at Emulex, Philips, and HP. Amar is also the author of three books: "ONAP Demystified", "Understanding OPNFV" and "OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) Essentials", and has spoken at events such as the Open Networking and Edge Summit, OpenStack Summit, and VMWorld. He lives in San Jose, CA.

1:30pm PDT

Opening Keynote: What a Difference 5 Years Makes - The New Open World - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director & Arpit Joshipura, General Manager of Networking, The Linux Foundation; Guru Parulkar, Executive Director, ONF... Exhibit Hall A

2:00pm PDT

Keynote: Container Networking - Albert Greenberg, CVP, Microsoft Azure Networking Exhibit Hall A

2:30pm PDT

Keynote: Digital Transformation through Open Software Defined Infrastructure - Justin Dustzadeh, Vice President and Head of Global Infrastructure Network Services, Visa Exhibit Hall A

3:30pm PDT

Panel Discussion: Containers & Networking - Manohar Castelino, Intel; Fred Kautz, RedHat/ OpenDaylight; Guru Shetty, VMware; Avinash Sridharan, Mesosphere; Mari Mineta Clapp, Apstra Grand Ballroom F

4:30pm PDT

Implications of 5G to All Layers of Stack - Moderated by Prodip Sen, HPE Grand Ballroom G

6:00pm PDT

Open Source Community Reception (RSVP Required - See Description for Link) Levi's Stadium - Yahoo! Fantasy Football Lounge

7:30am PDT

Breakfast Main Lobby (SCCC)

8:30am PDT

Keynote: Make SDN Real - Martin Casado, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz Exhibit Hall A

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Disruptive Collaboration – The Next Generation of Network Software and Hardware - John Donovan, Chief Strategy Officer and Group President - AT&T Technology and Operations (ATO) & Andre Fuetsch, President... Exhibit Hall A

9:30am PDT

Keynote: Cloud Native Networking- Amin Vahdat, Fellow & Technical Lead For Networking, Google Exhibit Hall A

10:30am PDT

Software Defined Standards - Larry Peterson, Open Networking Lab Grand Ballroom G Panel Discussion: Silicon & Data Plane Innovations Enabling Future of Networking - Debashish Pratiher, Cavium; Amit Sanyal, Innovium; Jathin Ullal, Savgo; John Lockwood, Algo Logic; Sujata Tibrewala, Intel Grand Ballroom D

11:30am PDT

Rethinking NFV: Where Have We Gone Wrong & How Can We Get it Right? - Scott Shenker & Sylvia Ratnasamy, UC Berkeley Grand Ballroom G

2:00pm PDT

Accelerated SDN in Azure - Gabriel Silva & Daniel Firestone, Microsoft Grand Ballroom E

3:00pm PDT

Software Defined RAN - Dr. Oguz Sunay, Argela-USA & Tom Tofigh, AT&T 209 / 210

4:20pm PDT

Keynote: Redefining Travel Industry Tech: How Software Defined Networking and Data Centers Move Millions of People Every Day!- Rashesh Jethi, SVP Engineering, Amadeus Exhibit Hall A

4:50pm PDT

Keynote: Road to 5G with Open Source - Alex Choi, CTO, EVP and Head of Corporate R&D Center, SK Telecom Exhibit Hall A

8:30am PDT

Keynote: 5G is Now- Sandra Rivera, VP, Data Center Group & General Manager of the Network Platforms Group, Intel Exhibit Hall A

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Five Trends Enabled By 5G That Will Change Networking Forever - Dr. Jan Uddenfeldt, President & CEO, jUTechnology (Innovator, Entrepreneur, Board Advisor to Startups) Exhibit Hall A

9:30am PDT

Keynote: Open Source, Open Standards & Open Vendors - Margaret Chiosi, VP of Open Ecosystem, Huawei; Dr. Eyal Felstaine, CTO, Head of Technology Office, Amdocs; Srinivasa Kalapala, VP, Global Technology & Supplier... Exhibit Hall A

10:30am PDT

Programmable Services in Central Office Re-Architected as Data Center - Farid Singh, Telefonica 209 / 210

11:30am PDT

Cloud Native NFV Networking - Bin Hu, AT&T Grand Ballroom G

2:00pm PDT

NFV Deployment Blockers: What are the 3 Top Actions to Take in 2017 (Hint: No VNF Left Behind) - Uri Elzur, Intel Grand Ballroom G

3:00pm PDT

Opensource Approach to Design and Deployment of Microservice Based VNF - Prem Sankar, Ericsson Grand Ballroom G

4:20pm PDT

Keynote: Enterprise Data Center Migration to Hyperscale - Ihab Tarazi, CTO, Equinix & Zaid Ali Kahn, Sr. Director, Infrastructure Engineering, LinkedIn Exhibit Hall A

4:50pm PDT

Keynote: Solving Molecular Analysis of Cancer: From DNA to Proteins - Sam Greenblatt, CTO, Nano Global Exhibit Hall A

8:30am PDT

Keynote: Target: Delivering Guest Experience through Rapid Technology Innovation- Lakshmi Sharma, VP, Cloud and Compute, Target Exhibit Hall A

9:00am PDT

Keynote Panel: Intersection of Enterprise & Carriers...How will 5G Play Out? - Martin Backstrom, Head of Industry, Ericsson; Drew Schulke, VP, Dell; John Healy, VP & GM, Intel; Roz Roseboro, Sr. Analyst, Heavy Reading... Exhibit Hall A

9:30am PDT

Keynote: Harmonizing of Open Source Networking - Madam Yang Zhiqiang, Deputy General Manager, China Mobile Research Institute; Chris Rice, Senior Vice President AT&T Labs, AT&T; Arpit Joshipura, GM Networking, The Linux Foundation... Exhibit Hall A

10:30am PDT

Mini-Summit: CORD Grand Ballroom E OPNFV Update: The Danube Release and What Lies Around the Bend - Tapio Tallgren & Heather Kirksey, OPNFV 203 / 204