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Daniel Balsiger

Swisscom
Senior Innovation Engineer
Bern, Switzerland
Daniel Balsiger is working as Senior Engineer at the Innovation department of Swisscom since ten years. He has an extensive background in IP networks, cloud and Open-Source technologies. Lately he worked on innovation projects in the NFV area, e.g. a virtual BNG or Network as a Service (BNS). He is a member of the Linux Foundation and the OpenStack Foundation and active in the OPNFV community.

Daniel holds a MSc degree in Computer Science from Bern University, Switzerland
Monday, September 23
 

08:45 CEST

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)

10:45 CEST

CNCF Telecom User Group Meeting Darwin (Floor 2)

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

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)

16:15 CEST

End-to-End 5G Network Solutions: A Telco Perspective - Cecilia Corbi & Alessandro D'Alessandro, Telecom Italia Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

17:00 CEST

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
 
Tuesday, September 24
 

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

Your Path to Edge Computing - Akraino Edge Stack Update - Kandan Kathirvel, AT&T & Tina Tsou, Arm Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

11:45 CEST

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)

13:50 CEST

Experience for Bringing up 800 Nodes NFV Cloud Using AUTO in China Mobile - Qiao Fu, China Mobile Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

14:35 CEST

OpenStack at the vRAN Edge: PTP Live Demo, Up to Kubernetes - Franck Baudin, Red Hat Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

15:20 CEST

Pushing the Boundaries for Cloud-native Network Functions - Franck Baudin & Marc Curry, Red Hat Marble Hall (Floor 0)

16:20 CEST

Building a Unified Hybrid Cloud Networking Stack using Open Virtual Network (OVN) - Ankur Kumar Sharma & Manoj Sharma, Nutanix Inc. Marble Hall (Floor 0)

17:30 CEST

Onsite Attendee Reception & Tech Showcase Atrium
 
Wednesday, September 25
 

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

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) Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details Gorilla 4 (Floor 1)

13:50 CEST

BBS: Broadband Services Orchestration with ONAP - David Perez Caparros, Swisscom & Victor Gao, Huawei Technologies Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

14:35 CEST

Enabling DPDK in Akraino and Airship for 5G networks - Georg Kunz, Ericsson & Cheng Li, Intel Corporation Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

15:20 CEST

How LF Networking Projects Contribute to Service Provider Transformation - Cédric Ollivier & Morgan Richomme, Orange Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

16:15 CEST

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)

17:00 CEST

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)