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March 26-29, 2018 - Los Angeles, CA
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Rick Davis

Verizon Connect
Infrastructure Architecture & DevOps
Atlanta, GA
Websitehttps://linkedin.com/in/rickdavis404
Rick Davis is an Infrastructure Architect and DevOps Leader for Verizon Telematics (now Verizon Connect). He joined the Verizon Connect team two years ago to drive the design and development of the next generation infrastructure platform for hosting of Verizon Connect’s core applications. Prior to Verizon Connect, Rick has served in various roles at Verizon in many key divisions such as Verizon FiOS, VZ Hub, Media Manager Online, Redbox Instant by Verizon, go90, and Verizon IPTV/OnCue. He has also spent time at various Fortune 100 companies in systems and infrastructure roles. Rick is an open source enthusiast with over 17 years of experience in design, implementation, and support of large-scale server, storage and network infrastructure, and he also serves as an Operator Member on the board of the Linux Foundation’s OpenSwitch project.
Tuesday, March 27
 

11:00am PDT

Intel Tutorial: High-Performance Virtual Switching for Mobile Core and Edge - Deepal Mehta, Heqing Zhu & Gerald Rogers, Intel Hollywood Ballroom I

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

3:45pm PDT

Kubernetes Should Scare You - In a Good Way - Sidhartha Mani, koki.io Hollywood Ballroom II Automate or Die: 5 Network Automation Things You Have to Do - Eric Hanselman, 451 Research Hancock Park Can Humans Efficiently Deal with ALL the Complexities of the NFV Network, or are We Ready for Artificial-intelligence-assisted Network Orchestration and Management? (Will it be Cyber-Security Safe?) - Dr. Eyal Felstaine... Roosevelt A&B Intelligent Network Infrastructure: The "Next Hop" of Internet - David Meyer & Zhibo Gong, Huawei Wilshire Grand Ballroom I Panel Discussion: Team Work Makes the Dream Work - How Open Source Technical Communities Collaborate - Moderated by Heather Kirksey, The Linux Foundation Wilshire Grand Ballroom III

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 Multi-Cloud Practices with NFV and ONAP - Xinhui Li, VMware & Lingli Deng, China Mobile Wilshire Grand Ballroom II

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
 
Wednesday, March 28
 

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

Secure DevOps - Luke Hinds, Red Hat Hollywood Ballroom II Network Reliability Engineering (NRE) and DevNetOps - James Kelly & Matt Oswalt, Juniper Networks Hollywood Ballroom I “Network Edge As Service" Experience Based on CORD - Wei Zhou & Tang Xiongyan, China Unicom Wilshire Grand Ballroom III

12:15pm PDT

SDN/Cloud Cybersecurity - Defending the Industrial Cloud - Brett Young & Siobhan Moran, Leidos Cyber Inc. Hollywood Ballroom I State of Container Networking: Where Are We and Where are We Going? - Frederick F. Kautz IV, Red Hat & Faseela K., Ericsson Wilshire Grand Ballroom I Verizon Connect – How Open Networking Enabled Our Next-Generation Infrastructure - Drew Schulke, Dell EMC & Rick Davis, Verizon Wilshire Grand Ballroom II

2:30pm PDT

NetDevOps Developer Environments with Vagrant - Hank Preston, Cisco DevNet Hollywood Ballroom II Using Microservices Architecture and Patterns to Address Applications Requirements on MEC - Prem Sankar Gopannan, Ericsson & Prakash Ramachandran, Dell Technologies Wilshire Grand Ballroom III 5G and Open Source Networking - Jamil Chawki & Vincent Colas, Orange Wilshire Grand Ballroom II

3:50pm PDT

The Networking Challenges Enterprise IT in a SD-IoT World - Said Ouissal, ZEDEDA, Inc Hancock Park 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 Future Broadband Network Virtualization – Cloud Central Office - Yue Chang, Huawei Hollywood Ballroom II

4:50pm PDT

K8Guard an Auditing System for Kubernetes - Medya Ghazizadeh, Google Hollywood Ballroom II 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
 
Thursday, March 29
 

9:00am PDT

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

9:25am PDT

Keynote Panel: SDN@10 - Wendy Cartee, Sr. Director, Marketing, Cloud Native Applications, VMware; Guru Parulkar, Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation; Nick McKeown, Co-Founder of Barefoot Networks; Chris... Wilshire Grand Ballroom

9:55am PDT

Keynote: The Challenge and Opportunity to Build a Transparent Network - Yiqun Cai, Vice President, Alibaba Group 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

10:25am PDT

Keynote: Lessons and Rhythms from the Hybrid Cloud - Francis Arigo, Principal Architect, Ticketmaster Wilshire Grand Ballroom

11:20am PDT

A New Software Engineering Methodology for Creating Resilient Microservices - Pethuru Raj & Babu Jayaraj, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. Hollywood Ballroom II Creating a Safer, Smart Ride: NFV for Automotive - Steven Furr & Nelson Yang, NXP Wilshire Grand Ballroom II Colt's Evolution: From MPLS to Cloud Networking - Javier Benitez, Colt Technology Services Hollywood Ballroom I Challenges in Lifecycle Management for the Multi-Access Edge Cloud - Larry Peterson, Open Networking Foundation Wilshire Grand Ballroom I

12:20pm PDT

Container4NFV: How Refactoring VM-based VNF to Container-Based Microservice VNF - Fu Qiao & Xuan Jia, China Mobile Hollywood Ballroom II Building an Open, Transparent NOS and Ecosystem Using Linux as the Key - Shrijeet Mukherjee, Cumulus Networks Hancock Park Where Are We on Data Plane Acceleration and Where Do We Need to Go? - Margaret Chiosi & Kai Zhen, Huawei, inc Hollywood Ballroom I Panel: Open Networking Driving Data Center and Cloud Innovation - Moderated by Cliff Grossner, IHS Markit Wilshire Grand Ballroom II Open Source as a Platform for 5G Network - Juha Oravainen & Tapio Tallgren, Nokia Wilshire Grand Ballroom I

2:40pm PDT

Analytics-Driven Canary and Blue/Green Continuous Delivery of Cloud Applications - Gaurav Rastogi, Avi Networks Hollywood Ballroom II Enterprise Cloud Cost Management Framework - Faisal Mushtaq & Tushar Agarwal, GlobalLogic Hancock Park 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

3:40pm PDT

OPX and Open Networking 2.0 - Cliff Winchmann, Dell Hollywood Ballroom II Istio and Envoy: Enabling Sidecars for Microservices - Angela Chin, Pivotal Wilshire Grand Ballroom II Open Data Center Interconnect - Marc De Leenheer, ONF Wilshire Grand Ballroom III

4:40pm PDT

Using Route Reflectors to Setup a K8s Multi-Cluster - William Vail, Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks Hollywood Ballroom II Containers and Clusters for Customer Success - Balasubramaniyan Kannan, Equinix Hancock Park 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 China Mobile’s Network Vision and Architecture Towards an Automated Network - Yachen Wang, China Mobile Wilshire Grand Ballroom III Lab as a Service: Compose Your Cloud Automatically with Few Clicks - Fatih Degirmenci, Ericsson; Parker Barberian, UNH; Jack Morgan, Intel Wilshire Grand Ballroom I