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

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Colin Dixon

Brocade
Distinguished Engineer
Washington, DC

Colin Dixon is the Chair of OpenDaylight's Technical Steering Committee and a Distinguished Engineer at Brocade. In both roles, he focuses on leveraging open source software to build innovative networking solutions. Beyond that, he is active in open standards bodies including the Open Networking Foundation, where he has won two outstanding technical contributor awards for his contributions to Table Type Patterns that support using OpenFlow with diverse hardware. Colin is also a researcher focusing on distributed systems, networking, operating systems and security with over a dozen published academic papers. In addition, he occasionally teaches at the at his alma matter: the University Maryland. He holds a PhD in networking and distributed systems from the University of Washington. You can find more information at his website colindixon.com or follow him on twitter @colin_dixon.

9:00am PDT

SOSR: Software Award Announcement and Talk (RSVP Required- Limited Availability) 203 / 204

9:30am PDT

SOSR Keynote - Network Programming for the Cloud ERA - Ratul Mahajan, Co-founder and CEO, Intentionet (RSVP Required- Limited Availability) 203 / 204

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

Beyond Micro-Services Architecture - Larry Peterson, Open Networking Lab 209 / 210

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

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 SOSR: Keynote - The Next 700 Network Programming Languages, Nate Foster, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University (RSVP Required- Limited Availability) 203 / 204

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 Panel Discussion: IoT in Action - Architecting, Securing & Scaling Applications - Moderated by Cliff Grossner & Elizabeth Cruz, IHS Markit Grand Ballroom F Efficient Geographic Replication & DR Using Open Source Controller - Colin Dixon & Tom Pantelis, Brocade; Brian Freeman, AT&T Grand Ballroom D

2:00pm PDT

Enhancing Network Visibility Based On Open Converged Network Appliance - Dr. Dongheon Lee & Dr. Junho Suh, SK Telecom 209 / 210

3:00pm PDT

The Nirvana SDN Stack for NFV - Paul Carver, AT&T Grand Ballroom G

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

“Networking” the Logical Micro-Service Infrastructure - David Ward, Cisco Grand Ballroom E

11:30am PDT

Operationalizing Network Management with OpenConfig - Anees Shaikh, Google Grand Ballroom F

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 Making Strongly-typed NETCONF Usable - Colin Dixon & Ryan Goulding, Brocade 209 / 210

3:00pm PDT

Going Beyond Siri: Applying Machine Learning to Network Automation - Dave Meyer, Brocade Communications Grand Ballroom E

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

State of the OpenDaylight Union - Phil Robb & Colin Dixon, OpenDaylight 210

1:40pm PDT

OpenStack: Networking Roadmap, Collaboration and Contribution - Armando Miglaccio, SUSE; Ildiko Vancsa, OpenStack Foundation; Paul Carver, AT&T 209

3:40pm PDT

Open Compute Platform (OCP) Roadmap - Omar Baldonado, Facebook Grand Ballroom F