As the Director and founding member of NFV Lab at Huawei R&D center at silicon valley, Sean Chen (Shiao-Yang) is focused on driving technical innovations and disruptive business models through open collaboration strategies. In addition to prototyping the next generation CloudEdge platform that seeks to unleash NFV s potentials, he is also responsible for facilitating external collaboration and open source initiatives to foster customer s excellence on NFV. Before Huawei, Sean co-founded two startup companies, SysFoundry Technologies and Mesh Innovation, which specialized in hybrid cloud solutions as well as IT automation/delivery. Prior to startups, Sean worked as an R&D manager and senior enterprise architect in IBM and AT&T Labs, where he established strong track records in applying modern innovative technologies to successfully start up mission-critical OSS systems.