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Open Networking Summit North America 2018

March 26-29, 2018 - Los Angeles, CA
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Paul-André Raymond

B·Yond
SVP Technology

Paul-Andre Raymond is SVP of Technology at B.Yond, currently focused on the strategic development, advancement and utilization of innovative technologies and intelligent network solutions. Prior to B.Yond, Paul-Andre held roles in networks and technology development at Nexius, TIW, BNR/Nortel. Paul-André graduated from McGill University in 1985 with a degree in Electrical Engineering and holds Master and PhD degrees in Telecommunications from INRS. He is a professional engineer and a member of IEEE.

8:00am PDT

LF Networking Developer Forum Kickoff Wilshire Grand Ballroom I

9:00am PDT

Acumos Mini Summit: Acumos Welcome - Mazin Gilbert, AT&T (RSVP Required) Hollywood Ballroom II

9:15am PDT

Acumos Mini Summit: Acumos Keynote - Jack Murray, AT&T (RSVP Required) Hollywood Ballroom II

10:00am PDT

Acumos Mini Summit: Acumos Overview - Sachin Janokar and Rajaram Balasubramanian, Tech Mahindra (RSVP Required) Hollywood Ballroom II

11:30am PDT

Acumos Mini Summit: Model Use Cases - Ofer Hermoni, Amdocs (RSVP Required) Hollywood Ballroom II

12:30pm PDT

Acumos Mini Summit: Lunch on own Hollywood Ballroom II

1:00pm PDT

ONAP Project Breakout: ONAP Use Cases and Functional Requirements Wilshire Grand Ballroom I

1:45pm PDT

ONF Vision Day: Reference Designs to Deployment - Al Blackburn, AT&T (RSVP Required) Roosevelt A&B

2:00pm PDT

OpenDaylight Project Breakout: What Utilities are Available to You From Project Infrautils Echo Park

3:00pm PDT

Acumos Mini Summit: Acumos Panel Discussion - Moderated by Eyal Felstaine, Head of Technology Office, Amdocs (RSVP Required) Hollywood Ballroom II

4:00pm PDT

Acumos Mini Summit: Community Deep Dive - LF IT Staff, Bryan Sullivan, AT&T, and Sachin Janokar, Tech Mahindra (RSVP Required) Hollywood Ballroom II

8:00am PDT

LFN Dev Forum: LF Networking TAC Meeting Wilshire Grand Ballroom I

9:30am PDT

ONAP Project Breakout: DCAE - MS Onboarding and Lifecycle Management Wilshire Grand Ballroom I

11:15am PDT

ONAP Project Breakout: ETSI/ONAP Alignment Wilshire Grand Ballroom I

11:30am PDT

LF Networking Developer Forum Wrap-Up Hancock Park

1:00pm PDT

Keynote: What a Year for Networking, Where Do We Head Next? - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director and Arpit Joshipura, GM of Networking, The Linux Foundation Wilshire Grand Ballroom

1:25pm PDT

Keynote: Flipping the Switch to 5G - Andre Fuetsch, President, AT&T Labs and Chief Technology Officer, AT&T Wilshire Grand Ballroom

1:50pm PDT

Keynote: Journey to Transformation - Dan Rodriguez, Vice President, Network Platforms Group General Manager, Communications Infrastructure Division & Melissa Evers-Hood, Sr. Director of Cloud & Edge Software, Open... Wilshire Grand Ballroom

2:10pm PDT

Keynote Panel: SDN/NFV Deployment Progress - Ecosystem Perspective - Ayush Sharma, Reliance Jio; Ron Haberman, Nokia Software; Alla Goldner, Amdocs; Jehanne Savi, Orange; Adan Pope, Ciena; Chris Rice, AT&T Wilshire Grand Ballroom

2:50pm PDT

Keynote: Making the Best Out of Your Time at ONS - Arpit Joshipura, GM of Networking, The Linux Foundation Wilshire Grand Ballroom

3:00pm PDT

Coffee Break Wilshire Grand Foyer

3:45pm PDT

Platform Approach for SDN Predictive Management Using AI and ML - David Lu & George Sultana, AT&T Hollywood Ballroom I

4:45pm PDT

Economic Gains from Enterprise IT DevOps, Data Analytics and Open Source - Robert Cohen, Economic Strategy Institute Hancock Park Panel Discussion: If It’s Edge It's Containers! But Not Exclusively - Moderated by Ildiko Vancsa, OpenStack Foundation Hollywood Ballroom I Panel Discussion: Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Networks - Moderated by Mazin Gilbert, AT&T Roosevelt A&B AT&T Blueprint for a Successful Edge Cloud - Kandan Kathirvel, AT&T Wilshire Grand Ballroom III

6:30pm PDT

ONS Partner Reception & Acumos Launch sponsored by Tech Mahindra and The Linux Foundation (Invitation Required, open to speakers, media and sponsors only) GRAMMY Museum

6:45am PDT

5K Fun Run (RSVP Required) InterContinental LA Downtown Gallery/Coffee Shop

7:30am PDT

Continental Breakfast Wilshire Grand Foyer

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Software-Defined Infrastructure at Uber Scale - Justin Dustzadeh, Head of Global Network & Software Platform, Uber Wilshire Grand Ballroom

9:25am PDT

Keynote: The Road to 1 Trillion Begins at the Edge - Bob Monkman, Director, Software Strategy and Ecosystem Programs, Network Infrastructure, Arm Wilshire Grand Ballroom

9:50am PDT

Keynote: Open Networking 2.0 – Raising the Game for the Networking Industry - Gavin Cato, Senior Vice President, Network Development Engineering, Dell EMC Wilshire Grand Ballroom

10:00am PDT

Keynote: Make Infrastructure Relevant to A Better Future - Bill Ren, VP, Network Industry & Ecosystem Development, Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd. Wilshire Grand Ballroom

10:15am PDT

Keynote: Inter-dependence of IOT & Network - Sarah Cooper, General Manager of IoT Analytics and Applications, Amazon Web Services Wilshire Grand Ballroom

11:15am PDT

“Network Edge As Service" Experience Based on CORD - Wei Zhou & Tang Xiongyan, China Unicom Wilshire Grand Ballroom III

12:15pm PDT

Why Businesses Need an Intelligent Network for Digital Transformation - Josh Goodell, AT&T Business Hancock Park Verizon Connect – How Open Networking Enabled Our Next-Generation Infrastructure - Drew Schulke, Dell EMC & Rick Davis, Verizon Wilshire Grand Ballroom II

2:30pm PDT

Shift to White Box & dNOS - John Medamana, AT&T Wilshire Grand Ballroom I 5G and Open Source Networking - Jamil Chawki & Vincent Colas, Orange Wilshire Grand Ballroom II

3:20pm PDT

Coffee Break Wilshire Grand Foyer

3:50pm PDT

Edge Computing: The Epicenter of 5G Service Innovation - Rajesh Gadiyar, Intel Wilshire Grand Ballroom I Delivering Network Services at the Edge with Open Source - Beth Cohen, Verizon & Ildiko Vancsa, OpenStack Foundation Wilshire Grand Ballroom III

4:50pm PDT

The ONAP Journey to Platform Maturity: Resiliency, Scalability, Security & More - Jason Hunt, IBM, Alexis de Talhouet, Bell Canada & Helen Chen, Huawei Hollywood Ballroom I Edge Compute - Oliver Spatscheck, AT&T Wilshire Grand Ballroom I Building and Operating a Virtualized Telecom Infrastructure - Amrith Kumar, Verizon Wireless & Fernando Oliveira, Verizon, Inc Wilshire Grand Ballroom III

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Social and Economic Effects of Open Networking - Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Wilshire Grand Ballroom

10:05am PDT

Keynote: 5G as Platform for Innovation and the Role of Open Source in the 5G Network Evolution - Mats Karlsson, Head of R&D and Portfolio, Ericsson & Anil Guntupalli, Executive Director – Architecture Planning... Wilshire Grand Ballroom

11:20am PDT

Challenges in Lifecycle Management for the Multi-Access Edge Cloud - Larry Peterson, Open Networking Foundation Wilshire Grand Ballroom I

12:20pm PDT

Where Are We on Data Plane Acceleration and Where Do We Need to Go? - Margaret Chiosi & Kai Zhen, Huawei, inc Hollywood Ballroom I

2:40pm PDT

Network Telemetry for Hyper-scale Data Center Network - Dennis Cai, Alibaba Wilshire Grand Ballroom II Architecting the Mobile Edge: SDN Versus NFV - Oguz Sunay, Open Networking Foundation Wilshire Grand Ballroom III

4:40pm PDT

MEF 3.0 – Agile, Assured, and Orchestrated Communication Services Across Multi-Providers’ Automated Networks Using ONAP - Rami Yaron & Dan Pitt, MEF Hollywood Ballroom I Packet Processing and Containerization for 5G - Sujata Tibrewala, Muthurajan Jayakumar & Jim Chamings, Intel Wilshire Grand Ballroom II

6:00pm PDT

Attendee Reception at The Majestic Downtown (All Attendees Welcome) The Majestic Downtown