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September 23-25 | Antwerp Belgium
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Sukhdev Kapur

Juniper Networks
Distinguished Engineeer
Sukhdev Kapur is Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks. He is part of Contrail Software Development team. He is on Technical Steering Committees of Tungsten Fabric as well Akraino Edge Stack (open source projects under Linux Foundation). He is also on Technical Advisory Council of LF Edge.
Sukhdev is a networking veteran with over 20 years’ experience in highly available distributed systems, cloud computing, virtualization, disaster recovery, policy based mobile workloads management, and software defined networks. He has held architectural positions in Arista Networks, F5, Cisco, Alteon, and others.
Sukhdev holds several patents in cloud computing, hierarchical data center deployments, cloud based disaster recovery, high availability, etc.
Monday, September 23
 

08:00 CEST

Registration Atrium Technical Showcase Atrium

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)

09:00 CEST

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)

12:00 CEST

Lunch Break (Attendees on Own)

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)

16:15 CEST

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)

17:00 CEST

Panel Discussion: Akraino - Balaji Ethirajulu, Ericsson; Tapio Tallgren, Nokia; Tina Tsou, Arm; Kandan Kathirvel, AT&T; Sukhdev Kapur, Juniper Networks Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

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

11:45 CEST

Towards Open Network Intelligence - Faseela K, Ericsson & Frederick Kautz, doc.ai Okapi 2 (Floor 0)

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) EVPN Networking between Kubernetes Containers and Openstack VMs - Vyshakh Krishnan, RtBrick & Faseela K., Ericsson Marble Hall (Floor 0)

14:35 CEST

Seamless Transition to CNFs with Tungsten Fabric - Magdalena Zaremba & Jaroslaw Lukow, Codilime Marble Hall (Floor 0)

15:20 CEST

Akraino KNI: Project Update - Ricardo Noriega & Yolanda Robla Mota, Red Hat Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

15:50 CEST

Coffee Break Atrium

17:05 CEST

Aggregating Mobile Operator Edge Compute Infrastructure with End to End Network Slicing - Sukhdev Kapur, Juniper Networks & Rolf Muralt, MobiledgeX Okapi 3 (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

Orange WAN Automation Vision Leveraged by ONAP - Olivier Augizeau, Orange Okapi 2 (Floor 0) Unconference Sessions - See Description for Details Gorilla 4 (Floor 1)

12:00 CEST

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) NUMA Awareness in Kubernetes with Topology Manager - Louise Daly, Intel Corporation & Feng Pan, Red Hat Marble Hall (Floor 0)

12:30 CEST

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

13:50 CEST

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

14:35 CEST

Cloud Native Network Provisioning with Network Service Mesh in the CNF Testbed - Taylor Carpenter, Vulk Coop & Nikolay Nikolaev, VMware Marble Hall (Floor 0)

15:20 CEST

Kubernetes for NFV - VNFs and CNFs - Srinivasa Addepalli & Ravi Chunduru, Intel Corporation Marble Hall (Floor 0)

15:50 CEST

Coffee Break Atrium

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)