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Open Networking Summit Europe 2019

September 23-25 | Antwerp Belgium
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08:00 CEST

Morning Coffee Hour Atrium Registration Atrium Technical Showcase Atrium

08:45 CEST

Tutorial: MEC in 5G Era: From Requirements and Standards to Practice in Delivering Differentiated Services - Sponsored by Huawei (Pre-registration Required) Okapi 2 (Floor 0) Tutorial: Take a Test Drive with the Cloud Native Network Function (CNF) Testbed - Sponsored by Cloud Native Computing Foundation (Pre-registration required) Darwin (Floor 2)

09:00 CEST

Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details Gorilla 4 (Floor 1) Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details Gorilla 5 (Floor 1) Tutorial: The Role of Cloud Native, Edge, & Orchestration in the Evolution of 5G Networks and Its Use Cases - Sponsored by Ericsson (Pre-registration Required) Marble Hall (Floor 0)

10:45 CEST

CNCF Telecom User Group Meeting Darwin (Floor 2) Tutorial: 5G Network Test with OpenTAP - Sponsored by Keysight Technologies (Pre-registration Required) Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

12:00 CEST

Women in Networking Lunch (Pre-registration Required) Grand Café Paon Royal (Floor 0) Lunch Break (Attendees on Own) Visit the Antwerp ZOO! (Complimentary with Conference Badge) Antwerp Zoo

13:15 CEST

Keynote: Open Source: From Community Collaboration to Commercialization - What's Next?- Arpit Joshipura, General Manager of Networking, Edge/IoT, The Linux Foundation Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

13:40 CEST

Keynote: Open Source and Standards: Better Together - Luis Jorge Romero, Director-General, ETSI Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

14:05 CEST

Keynote: Why Open Source SW, Cloud Native Implementation, and Automation through AI/ML is Essential to Succeeding with 5G and Edge - Anders Rosengren, Head of Architecture & Technology Business Area Digital Services... Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

14:25 CEST

Keynote: O-RAN: Goals and Challenges - Olivier Simon, Director, Radio Innovation, Orange Labs Networks Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

14:50 CEST

Coffee Break Atrium

15:30 CEST

5G RAN Optimization Using the O-RAN Software Community’s RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) - Thoralf Czichy, Nokia Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) AI Powered Edge Computing - Sergio Gonzalez, Microsoft Okapi 2 (Floor 0) Kernel-based Forwarding Plane for Network Service Mesh - Radoslav Dimitrov, VMware Marble Hall (Floor 0) Accelerating to the Future of the Edge - Ian Wells, Cisco Okapi 3 (Floor 0) How Open Networking can Manage Large-Scale VPCs on Top of Clos Network Architecture - Honghui Xiao & Honghao Wang, ByteDance Gorilla 3 (Floor 1) Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details Gorilla 4 (Floor 1) Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details Gorilla 5 (Floor 1)

16:15 CEST

Lightning Talk: Cloud Native for Non-Coders - Bill Mulligan, Loodse GmbH Gorilla 3 (Floor 1) End-to-End 5G Network Solutions: A Telco Perspective - Cecilia Corbi & Alessandro D'Alessandro, Telecom Italia Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) Simplifying Network Automation in 5G Deployments with AI - Shamik Mishra, Altran Okapi 2 (Floor 0) Who says You Shouldn’t Run VMs and Containers Together? - Ian Jolliffe & Glenn Seiler, Wind River Systems Marble Hall (Floor 0) Blockchain Enabled IoT Edge Computing - Pankaj Mendki, Talentica Software Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

16:25 CEST

Lightning Talk: Advancing CPU Management in Kubernetes - Levente Kálé, Nokia Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

16:35 CEST

Lightning Talk: Telemetry Aware Scheduling: Let the (Scheduling) Magic Unfold!! - Swati Sehgal, Intel Corporation Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

17:00 CEST

An Exclusive Deep Dive into Collaboration Activities between ETSI and Linux Foundation’s ONAP - Alla Goldner, Amdocs Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) Bridging the Gap in AI/ML from Cloud to the Edge - Peter Van Ackeren, NXP Okapi 2 (Floor 0) Large-scale Network Simulations in Kubernetes - Michael Kashin, Arista Networks Marble Hall (Floor 0) Panel Discussion: Akraino - Balaji Ethirajulu, Ericsson; Tapio Tallgren, Nokia; Tina Tsou, Arm; Kandan Kathirvel, AT&T; Sukhdev Kapur, Juniper Networks Okapi 3 (Floor 0) Demystifying Open Source Network Operating System - Stefan Bokaie, Dell Technologies Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

18:00 CEST

ONS Partner Reception (Invitation Only) Chocolate Nation, The Belgian Chocolate Experience

06:45 CEST

5K Fun Run at the Zoo! Atrium

07:30 CEST

Morning Coffee Hour Atrium Registration Atrium Technical Showcase Atrium

09:00 CEST

Keynote: Scaling DevOps – Moving from Mechanization to Automation - Amy Wheelus, Vice President, Network Cloud, AT&T Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

09:20 CEST

Keynote: Driving Network Automation and Cloud Native - Matt Beal, Director, Technology Strategy & Architecture, Vodafone Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

09:40 CEST

Keynote: Build 5G Deterministic Network Empower Digital Transformation - Bill Ren, Chief Open Source Liaison Officer & General Manager, ICT Infrastructure Open Source, Huawei Technologies Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

09:50 CEST

Keynote: Why Open Source for Test Automation? - Pierre Lynch, Lead Technologist, Keysight Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

10:00 CEST

Keynote Panel Discussion: Survey Says: How does Compliance Jumpstart Deployment the Open Way - Henry Calvert, GSMA; Beth Cohen, Verizon; Lincoln Lavoie, UNH InerOperability Laboratory; Thomas Nadeau, Red Hat; and... Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

10:30 CEST

Coffee Break Atrium

11:00 CEST

Resiliency Closed Loop: Telco Self-healing and Maintenance - Sunku Ranganath, Intel Corporation & Tomi Juvonen, Nokia Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) Network Traffic Analytics through Accelerator and SmartNIC at Edge - Yuming Ma & Mrittika Ganguli, Intel Corporation Okapi 2 (Floor 0) Connecting Kubernetes Clusters Across Clouds With Kilo - Lucas Servén Marín, Red Hat Marble Hall (Floor 0) Your Path to Edge Computing - Akraino Edge Stack Update - Kandan Kathirvel, AT&T & Tina Tsou, Arm Okapi 3 (Floor 0) Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details Gorilla 5 (Floor 1) Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details Gorilla 4 (Floor 1)

11:45 CEST

Extendable Workflow for ONAP Service Orchestrator - Seshu Kumar Mudiganti, Huawei Technologies & Alexis de Talhouet, Bell Canada Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) Towards Open Network Intelligence - Faseela K, Ericsson & Frederick Kautz, doc.ai Okapi 2 (Floor 0) Approaches for Plumbing Hardware Accelerated Interfaces to Containerized Network Functions - Thomas F. Herbert, Red Hat Marble Hall (Floor 0) Success at the Edge - Leveraging Open Source at the Edge as a Bridge to Critical Operations in Industry - Richard Beeson, OSIsoft & Bill Hunt, Dianomic Okapi 3 (Floor 0) SDN in the World of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning - Abhijit Kumbhare, Ericsson Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

12:15 CEST

Lunch Break (Attendees on Own) Visit the Antwerp ZOO! (Complimentary with Conference Badge) Antwerp Zoo

13:50 CEST

Experience for Bringing up 800 Nodes NFV Cloud Using AUTO in China Mobile - Qiao Fu, China Mobile Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) Veo5G Project: A 5G Use Case for Network Data Analytics - Carlos Giraldo & Lorenzo García Cortiñas, Gradiant Okapi 2 (Floor 0) EVPN Networking between Kubernetes Containers and Openstack VMs - Vyshakh Krishnan, RtBrick & Faseela K., Ericsson Marble Hall (Floor 0) Project EVE - Enterprise/On-prem Edge Virtualization - Erik Nordmark, Zededa Okapi 3 (Floor 0) Blockchain-based Solution for Reducing the Cost of Settling Inter-carrier Charges - Vipin Kumar Rathi, Delhi University & Sunay Zelawat, Subex Ltd. Gorilla 3 (Floor 1) Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details Gorilla 5 (Floor 1) Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details Gorilla 4 (Floor 1)

14:35 CEST

Lightning Talk: Automated AI Model Deployment within ONAP - Alassane Samba & Nicolas Edel, Orange Okapi 2 (Floor 0) OpenStack at the vRAN Edge: PTP Live Demo, Up to Kubernetes - Franck Baudin, Red Hat Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) Seamless Transition to CNFs with Tungsten Fabric - Magdalena Zaremba & Jaroslaw Lukow, Codilime Marble Hall (Floor 0) Android at the Edge - Melissa Evers-Hood, Intel Corporation Okapi 3 (Floor 0) The Secret Sauce for Profitable Next Generation Managed LAN Service - Amit Navon, Huawei Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

14:45 CEST

Lightning Talk: Deploy my AI Model using Acumos - Alassane Samba, Orange Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

14:55 CEST

Lightning Talk: Change Your Control Loop Logic at Runtime with Adaptive Policy - Liam Fallon, Ericsson Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

15:20 CEST

Challenges in Implementing Closed-Loop Standard PNF-based Services in ONAP - Lessons Learned - Ali Fouladgar & Ahmad Khalil, Tata Communications Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) Responsible Use of AI and Blockchain in Telecommunications- Jason Hunt, IBM Okapi 2 (Floor 0) Pushing the Boundaries for Cloud-native Network Functions - Franck Baudin & Marc Curry, Red Hat Marble Hall (Floor 0) Akraino KNI: Project Update - Ricardo Noriega & Yolanda Robla Mota, Red Hat Okapi 3 (Floor 0) Zero Trust, Software Defined Perimeter and P4 - Omer Anson, Huawei Technologies Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

15:50 CEST

Coffee Break Atrium

16:20 CEST

Lightning Talk: AI Marketplace: We Make AI Accessible and Easy to Use - Jamil Chawki, Orange Okapi 2 (Floor 0) Automating the Deployment of 5G Network Slices with ONAP - Veronica Quintuna Rodriguez & Eric Debeau, Orange Labs Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) Building a Unified Hybrid Cloud Networking Stack using Open Virtual Network (OVN) - Ankur Kumar Sharma & Manoj Sharma, Nutanix Inc. Marble Hall (Floor 0) Addressing IoT Protocol Soup – Leveraging a Highly Interoperable, Flexible and Open Source Edge Platform - Jason Shepherd, Dell Technologies Okapi 3 (Floor 0) Driving to the Edge: How Open APIs and Open RAN will Transform Ordinary Parking Lots into Dynamic Data Centers - Natasha Tamaskar, Radisys Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

16:40 CEST

Lightning Talk: Can Blockchain and Machine Learning Cooperate? - Lorella Carbone, IBM Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

17:05 CEST

ONAP Controller Framework Evolution with CDS - Alexis de Talhouët & Marc-Alexandre Choquette, Bell Canada Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) ONAP Native VNF Onboarding with NETCONF / YANG- Sharing of Learnings by Working with ONAP Fundamentals - Marc Fiedler, Deutsche Telekom Marble Hall (Floor 0) Aggregating Mobile Operator Edge Compute Infrastructure with End to End Network Slicing - Sukhdev Kapur, Juniper Networks & Rolf Muralt, MobiledgeX Okapi 3 (Floor 0) Running VM Workloads Side by Side with Container Workloads - Sebastian Scheele, Loodse Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

17:30 CEST

Onsite Attendee Reception & Tech Showcase Atrium

08:30 CEST

Morning Coffee Hour Atrium Technical Showcase Atrium Registration Atrium

09:30 CEST

Keynote Panel Discussion: Unifying the Edge - IoT, Enterprise, Telco and Cloud - Melissa Evers-Hood, Intel Corporation; Erik Nordmark, ZEDEDA; Jason Shepherd, Dell Technologies; and moderated by Will Townsend, Moor... Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

10:00 CEST

Keynote: A Brief Update on Cloud Native Telecom - Dan Kohn, Executive Director, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

10:10 CEST

Keynote: 5G + AI + Orchestration: Where Do We Stand? - Dr. Junlan Feng, Chief Scientist, China Mobile Research Institute Queen Elizabeth Hall (Floor 1)

10:30 CEST

Coffee Break Atrium

11:15 CEST

Accelerating 5G Slicing Deployment via Open Source and Open Standards - Lingli Deng, China Mobile Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) Orange WAN Automation Vision Leveraged by ONAP - Olivier Augizeau, Orange Okapi 2 (Floor 0) The TOSCA Datacenter - Tal Liron, Red Hat Marble Hall (Floor 0) Panel Discussion: OSF Edge Computing Activities – Building a Solid Foundation - Beth Cohen, Verizon; Ildiko Vancsa, OpenStack Foundation; Chris Price, Ericsson; Gergely Csatari, Nokia Gorilla 3 (Floor 1) Provisioning IoT Devices - Cagdas Doner, AirTies Wireless Networks Okapi 3 (Floor 0) Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details Gorilla 5 (Floor 1) Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details Gorilla 4 (Floor 1)

12:00 CEST

Lightning Talk: Using Edge to Reduce Latency Between End Users and Cloud - Nathaniel Moore, StackPath Gorilla 3 (Floor 1) Panel Discussion: Tosca VNF Validation for OVP Program - Yan Yang, China Mobile; Rabi Abdel, Vodafone; Haibin Huang, Intel Corporation; Kanagaraj Manickam, Huawei Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) The Ideal ONAP - Eric Debeau, Orange Okapi 2 (Floor 0) NUMA Awareness in Kubernetes with Topology Manager - Louise Daly, Intel Corporation & Feng Pan, Red Hat Marble Hall (Floor 0) Multi-Access, Multi-Edge Access with Akraino - Tapio Tallgren, Nokia & Ferenc Szekely, SUSE Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

12:10 CEST

Lightning Talk: Auto Test Case Generation from Cloud Definition Using Rule-based Systems - Sridhar Rao, Spirent Communications Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

12:20 CEST

Lightning Talk: Observability for Containerized NW Slice with OSS vEPC - Yuki Kasuya, KDDI Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

12:30 CEST

Lunch Break (Attendees on Own) Visit the Antwerp ZOO! (Complimentary with Conference Badge) Antwerp Zoo

13:50 CEST

BBS: Broadband Services Orchestration with ONAP - David Perez Caparros, Swisscom & Victor Gao, Huawei Technologies Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) Panel Discussion: The Common NFVi Task Force (CNTT): Building Consensus on NFV Infrastructure - Beth Cohen, Verizon; Mark Cottrell, AT&T Labs; Rabi Abdel & Markus Wuepping, Vodafone; Qiao Fu, China Mobile; Vincent... Okapi 2 (Floor 0) IPv6-only Networks for Containers Orchestration - Valentin Ouvrard, Nautile.nc Marble Hall (Floor 0) Panel Discussion: Harnessing the Kubernetes (K8s) Ecosystem for Edge Automation & Computing - Ramki Krishnan, VMware; Davide Cherubini, Vodafone; Mike Elliott, Amdocs; Srinivasa Rao Addepalli, Intel Corporation... Okapi 3 (Floor 0) Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details Gorilla 4 (Floor 1) Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details Gorilla 5 (Floor 1)

14:35 CEST

Container Network Functions or Cloud Native Network Functions for 5G - Azhar Sayeed, Red Hat Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) Enabling DPDK in Akraino and Airship for 5G networks - Georg Kunz, Ericsson & Cheng Li, Intel Corporation Okapi 2 (Floor 0) Cloud Native Network Provisioning with Network Service Mesh in the CNF Testbed - Taylor Carpenter, Vulk Coop & Nikolay Nikolaev, VMware Marble Hall (Floor 0) Next Generation of SDN/NFV – A New Metro Computing Network - Ruobin Zheng, Huawei Technologies Gorilla 3 (Floor 1) Panel Discussion: Autonomous Smart Slices at the Edge - Lingli Deng, China Mobile & Jianguo Zeng, Huawei Technologies Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

15:20 CEST

Getting BSS/OSS Ready - Murat Turpçu, Turk Telekom A.Ş. Okapi 2 (Floor 0) How LF Networking Projects Contribute to Service Provider Transformation - Cédric Ollivier & Morgan Richomme, Orange Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) Kubernetes for NFV - VNFs and CNFs - Srinivasa Addepalli & Ravi Chunduru, Intel Corporation Marble Hall (Floor 0) China Mobile Edge Computing Platform Design - Xuan Jia, China Mobile Okapi 3 (Floor 0) ONAP Orchestrated Edge and Cloud Collaboration in China Unicom - Chen Qiu, China Unicom & Derek Chen, Huawei Technologies Gorilla 3 (Floor 1)

15:50 CEST

Coffee Break Atrium

16:15 CEST

ONAP from the Inside Looking Out (Journey, Status, Challenges and Upcoming Expectations) - Stephen Terrill, Ericsson & Catherine Lefevre, AT&T Okapi 2 (Floor 0) ONAP Test Automation – Optimization of E2E Testing the ONAP Framework by Adding CI/CD Pipeline - Andreas Geissler & Harald Fuchs, Deutsche Telekom Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) Panel Discussion: Embracing Cloud Native on the Path to 5G - Heather Kirksey, The Linux Foundation; Rabi Abdel, Vodafone; Lincoln Lavoie, UNH Interoperability Lab; Frederick Kautz, doc.ai; Taylor Carpenter, Vulk... Marble Hall (Floor 0) Edge Computation Offloading - Miroslav Mikluš, PANTHEON.tech Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

17:00 CEST

Lightning Talk: Cloud Native Resource Management - Sonam Saxena, Google Okapi 2 (Floor 0) Panel Discussion: How OVP will bring Interoperability Across the Networking Stack - Heather Kirksey, The Linux Foundation; Rabi Abdel, Vodafone; Lincoln Lavoie, UNH Interoperability Lab Gorilla 1 (Floor 1) Crafting Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNFs) Using the X-Factor CNF Methodology - Frederick Kautz, Doc.ai & Nikolay Nikolaev, VMware Marble Hall (Floor 0) Use Case: The Policeman's Camera is on Duty with Akraino+EdgeX Technology Embedded - Xuan Jia, China Mobile Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

17:10 CEST

Lightning Talk: Service Flavor Selector to Deliver Customer Service with ONAP Using TM Forum Standards - René Robert, Orange Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

17:20 CEST

Lightning Talk: Industry Harmonization for Shaping a Management Ecosystem and Promoting Innovation - Magnus Buhrgard, Ericsson Okapi 2 (Floor 0)