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September 23-25 | Antwerp Belgium
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Thoralf Czichy

Nokia
Technical Lead
Thoralf is an expert in telco platforms, with over 20 years of experience in building complex real-time systems. Recently, he has been the key contributor in RIC architecture work and he is the PTL of the near-realtime RIC open-source project in O-RAN SC.
Monday, September 23
 

08:00 CEST

Registration 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)

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

5G RAN Optimization Using the O-RAN Software Community’s RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) - Thoralf Czichy, Nokia Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

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

An Exclusive Deep Dive into Collaboration Activities between ETSI and Linux Foundation’s ONAP - Alla Goldner, Amdocs Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

18:00 CEST

ONS Partner Reception (Invitation Only) Chocolate Nation, The Belgian Chocolate Experience
 
Tuesday, September 24
 

07:30 CEST

Morning Coffee Hour 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

11:45 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)

12:15 CEST

Lunch Break (Attendees on Own)

13:50 CEST

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)

14:35 CEST

Lightning Talk: Automated AI Model Deployment within ONAP - Alassane Samba & Nicolas Edel, 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

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

15:50 CEST

Coffee Break Atrium

16:20 CEST

Automating the Deployment of 5G Network Slices with ONAP - Veronica Quintuna Rodriguez & Eric Debeau, Orange Labs Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

17:30 CEST

Onsite Attendee Reception & Tech Showcase Atrium
 
Wednesday, September 25
 

08:30 CEST

Morning Coffee Hour 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)

12:00 CEST

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)

14:35 CEST

Container Network Functions or Cloud Native Network Functions for 5G - Azhar Sayeed, Red Hat Gorilla 1 (Floor 1)

15:20 CEST

China Mobile Edge Computing Platform Design - Xuan Jia, China Mobile Okapi 3 (Floor 0)

15:50 CEST

Coffee Break Atrium