Open Networking & Edge Summit

Radia Perlman is a Fellow at Dell Technologies. She has made many contributions to the fields of network routing and security protocols.  Her IS-IS link state routing protocol design continues to be widely deployed today, and the principles have been incorporated into other routing protocols (such as OSPF).  Her spanning tree bridging design transformed Ethernet from a single shared link to a network that can support many links and still appear to IP as if it is a single link.  Her contributions to network security include designing systems resilient to malicious participants and storage systems with assured delete.  She wrote the textbook Interconnections (about layers 2 and 3) , and cowrote the textbook Network Security, the 3rd edition of which was recently published, and includes significant content about quantum computing and quantum-safe public key algorithms. She has received numerous awards including induction into the Inventor Hall of Fame, induction into the Internet Hall of Fame, lifetime achievement awards from ACM’s SIGCOMM and Usenix, election to National Academy of Engineering, election into the Washington State Academy of Science, and an honorary doctorate from KTH. She has a PhD in computer science from MIT.

Martin Casado is a general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz where he focuses on enterprise investing. He was previously the cofounder and chief technology officer at Nicira, which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012. While at VMware, Martin was a fellow, and served as senior vice president and general manager of the Networking and Security Business Unit, which he scaled to a $600 million run-rate business by the time he left VMware in 2016.

Martin started his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on large-scale simulations for the Department of Defense before moving over to work with the intelligence community on networking and cybersecurity. These experiences inspired his work at Stanford where he created the software-defined networking (SDN) movement, leading to a new paradigm of network virtualization. While at Stanford he also cofounded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company, which was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006.

For his work, Martin was awarded both the ACM Grace Murray Hopper award and the NEC C&C award, and he’s an inductee of the Lawrence Livermore Lab’s Entrepreneur’s Hall of Fame. He holds both a PhD and Masters degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Martin serves on the board of ActionIQ, Ambient.ai, Astranis, dbt Labs, Fivetran, Imply, Isovalent, Kong, Material Security, Netlify, Orbit, Pindrop Security, Preset, RapidAPI, Rasa, Tackle, Tecton, and Yubico.

Dr. Jan Uddenfeldt, is a principal innovator and pioneer of the wireless industry including GSM technology and mobile broadband 3G and 4G LTE technology. He is based in Silicon Valley since 2008.

He is the former global Chief Technology Officer of Ericsson, where he worked from 1978 to 2010 of which the last 20 years as CTO and Senior VP. He was responsible for the R&D for GSM, 3G, 4G, IP networks. He is still an advisor to the company.

Dr Uddenfeldt was also the global CTO and Senior VP at Sony Mobile Communications during 2010-2013 when the company transitioned to Android smartphones. He was also Senior Advisor to the Sony Corporation global CTO from 2013-2019.

Since 2013 he is CEO of jUTechnology LLC and is board director and advisor to a portfolio of startup companies in Silicon Valley . This consists of 16 companies of which 6 have made exits and 7 are active in areas such as: AI (conversational, vision, driving), wireless, IoT, navigation, displays.

He received his Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1978 and an honorary Doctor’s degree from the University of Lund in 1996. He has been awarded with several prestigious prizes in Europe, US and Japan and is a member of the Wireless Hall of Fame.

Arpit Joshipura is an executive leader and open source software evangelist across carriers, cloud and enterprise IT – spanning networking, orchestrations, operating systems, security, AI, edge, hardware and silicon. He was recently voted among the Top 5 Movers and Shakers in the Telecom Industry. At the Linux Foundation, Arpit leads open source networking, orchestration & edge/IOT, including LF Networking projects (ONAP, OPNFV, ODL, FDIO, OvS, DPDK, OpenSwitch, Akraino/Edge/IOT, etc.) as well as major industry disruptions including VNFs to CNFs (Cloud Native Network functions), 5G, AI, etc.

Arpit brings 30 years of networking expertise and vision to The Linux Foundation, with both technical depth and business breadth. He has orchestrated and led major industry disruptions across enterprises, carriers, and cloud architectures, including IP, broadband, optical, mobile, routing, switching, L4-7, cloud, disaggregation, SDN/NFV, and open networking, and has been an early evangelist for open source. Arpit has served in CMO, VP, and Engineering roles within both startups and larger enterprises.

Michael Maxey is the VP of Business Development at ZEDEDA, where he focuses on building and executing go-to-market (GTM) strategies with customers and partners. Maxey is also an LF Edge Governing Board Member, helping drive efforts around standardization, developer recommendations, and solution building. Prior to ZEDEDA, Maxey held executive product management and corporate development roles at various infrastructure companies like Dell, Greenplum, Pivotal Software, Smallstep Labs, and EMC.

As the Vice President of Platform Infrastructure at Walmart, Dave is responsible for networks, data centers, and supporting infrastructure. Previously, Dave assembled and led the team that built the world’s largest Content Delivery Network, for Netflix, as well as its global studio technical infrastructure including systems and storage.

Ankur Jain is a Google Vice President responsible for Google Cloud’s Telecommunications Industry and product development for Google Distributed Cloud. In his current role, he heads the Engineering, Product Management, Solutions and Partnerships teams.

Before this, Ankur was working in the tech office of the CEO on cross-Google strategic programs including 5G. He previously worked on Google’s connectivity and communication products including Google Fi, Loon, Google Station, Messages, Google Voice and CBRS-based networks. Before that he was instrumental in bringing software defined networking and disaggregation to Google’s edge network. He was one of the first engineers and later led Google’s content delivery network as it grew into the largest in the world, deployed today by several hundreds operators globally. 

Ankur holds a masters degree in computer science and engineering from University of Washington Seattle and a bachelor’s degree in the same from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has a few dozen patents and conference papers filed/granted/published. He led Google’s participation in several industry groups including Linux Foundation’s Nephio project, White House discussions on 5G security, O-RAN Alliance, Open RAN Policy Coalition, Open Networking Foundation, NSF RINGS, GSMA Industry Specifications Approval Group. His closest shot at stardom though was when he went to Los Angeles in 2013 as part of the team that collected the 65th Primetime Emmy Engineering Award for YouTube but he still remains happily at Google after nearly 18 years.

Kandan Kathirvel is a Product Management executive with over 20 years of experience in Cloud Automation, Edge, and AI infrastructure for telecommunications and various industries. Kandan currently leads his product management team at Google Cloud, where he and his product management team focus on developing and innovating edge automation products and edge platform capabilities. Prior to Google, Kandan held leadership roles in various initiatives at AT&T, including Domain 2.0, Cloud, O-RAN, and CDN.

An open-source enthusiast, Kandan has a long history of involvement in open-source projects. He played a key role in founding and growing influential projects like Nephio and the LF Edge. His contributions to O-RAN, ONAP, ONF, and OpenStack showcase his significance in the open-source community.

Dr. Junlan Feng, Chief Scientist at China Mobile, General Manager of AI and Intelligent Operation R&D Center. Dr. Feng has led R&D of China Mobile on artificial intelligence and big data since September 2013. She had been the architect of IBM Big Data from January 2013.1 to August 2013 and a principal researcher at AT&T Labs Research from August 2001 to January 2013. Dr. Feng received her Ph.D. on Speech Recognition in 2001 from Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is an IEEE senior member, an IEEE speech and language committee member and IEEE industry committee member. She is a reviewer for major data mining, speech, and natural language international conferences and journals. She has chaired and organized multiple conferences in these fields. Dr. Feng has over 50 professional publications and has been granted 33 U.S and international patents.

Dr. Alex Jinsung Choi is Chairman of the O-RAN ALLIANCE and Senior Vice President, Group Technology and Head of T-Labs, which is the central Research & Development division of Deutsche Telekom. In addition, he is member of the Technology & Innovation management board, where he has responsibility for several strategic topics.

Dr. Choi has been a thought leader for over 20 years in the mobile telecommunication industry & consumer electronics by driving forward key strategic and research topics in Telco and AI.

Dr. Choi was the first Chairman of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and previously served as CTO for SK Telekom. With the introduction of “NUGU”, the first AI- based virtual assistant in Korea, Dr. Choi was influential in the development of AI solutions.

Ahmet Fethi Ayhan joined in Türk Telekom in 1998 and he is Senior Network Director. Leading fix & mobile core & Access network planning and investment, network architecture, and operations. He started his career as ne network engineer and worked in different roles, Network Operation Center manager, Cyber Security Director, Director of network operations and he was appointed to this role in July 2020. Responsible for the preparation and transformation of Next-Gen, Open and Smarter Networks.

Alicia Miller leads Network API Ecosystem Development within the Corporate Strategy team at Verizon, including Verizon’s participation in GSMA’s Open Gateway and CAMARA, where she currently serves as Treasurer. As an active participant in these global organizations, Ms. Miller is driving this new ecosystem forward, helping to solve industry-wide problems. She holds a BA in International Affairs from The George Washington University and an MBA from New York University.

Arun serves as Radisys CEO where he is responsible for the vision, strategies, and execution to further Radisys’ role in transforming the telecom industry. He brings to Radisys a wide range of industry experience and a proven track record of leadership. Most recently as Chief Marketing Officer for MediaKind, Arun was responsible for creating and establishing the brand and marketing/communications functions for a joint venture media technology company of Ericsson and One Equity Partners. He has also held multiple vice president and senior leadership positions at Ericsson, including VP and Chief of Staff of Ericsson North America, VP of Sales, VP of Strategy and Marketing, VP of Customer Solutions, and SVP of Strategy, Marketing and CTO Office, and a global role as Chief Marketing Officer for the Ericsson Group.

Arun completed his Master of Science degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and is a Distinguished Alumni. In addition, Arun received an Executive Certificate in Business Marketing from the Kellogg School of Business and completed the Executive Program in Strategy and General Management from the Columbia Business School.

Leendert van Doorn holds the position of Senior Vice President at Qualcomm, where he leads the Central Software Engineering (CSE) organization. In this capacity, he oversees Qualcomm’s software strategy and spearheads the company’s AI Software initiatives.

Before that, he was a Distinguished Engineer/VP in Microsoft Azure Core team where he is best known for his work to enable ARM64 servers as first-class citizens in Microsoft Azure datacenters. He has also been working on disaggregation computing and he represented Microsoft on the board of Directors for the Compute Express Link (CXL) and the Gen-Z organizations.

Before joining Microsoft, he was a Corporate Fellow/CVP at AMD where he was responsible for AMD’s security efforts, software innovations and he was the technical executive during the creation of AMD’s China JV.
Leendert joined AMD from IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he was a Researcher and Sr. Manager leading the secure systems team, the ethical hacker’s team and a security usability and privacy team. At IBM he worked on secure coprocessors, secure Hypervisors, TPM, wireless security scanners and he added full virtualization support to Xen in collaboration with Intel and AMD.

When conference calls and meetings are getting too much, he has been known to find refuge at CMU ECE where he is an adjunct professor.

Leendert holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and an engineering degree from the HTS in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Dr. Tom Rondeau is the Principal Director for the FutureG Office for the US Department of Defense, serving in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)). In this role, Dr. Rondeau is responsible for the research, funding, and execution of programs to advance warfighting capabilities using future-generation wireless technologies.

Before assuming his role as Principal Director of the FutureG Office, Dr. Rondeau spent more than six years as a Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) program manager, where he led efforts that challenged and advanced studies in a variety of warfighting domains, earning him the Distinguished Public Service Medal.

Prior to joining DARPA, Dr. Rondeau was the Project Lead for the GNU Radio project, consulted on wireless communications problem sets, and worked as a visiting researcher with the University of Pennsylvania and as an Adjunct with the IDA Center for Communications Research in Princeton, NJ.

Dr. Rondeau holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech, where his dissertation won the Council of Graduate Schools’ 2007 Outstanding Dissertation Award in math, science, and engineering.