Program Committee

Chuanyu Chen serves as the Open Source Director of Cloudify Network of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, responsible for the Huawei open source solutions for network automation. Chuanyu Chen graduated from University of Science and Technology Beijing 2006. He joined Huawei in 2008, and served as Development Engineer, Project Leader of Data Communication area, Solution Architect and has rich experience in ICT network infrastructure. From 2016 until now, he has joined open source business, deeply participating in open source projects such as OPEN-O, ONAP, Anuket, CAMARA etc.

Ciaran is the chief architect for Ericsson’s Network Management product portfolio, and has over 25 years of experience working in the telecommunications industry as a software developer and architect. He has been active in the ONAP, Nephio and kpt community groups for over eight years, and believes strongly in the power of open source software to help deliver best-in-class solutions to complex industry challenges

Working in the telecom industry in the last two decades it was possible for Gergely to see the evolution from vendor specific hardware to virtualisation and cloud and a to cloud native. Currently Gergely is part of the OSPO team of Nokia CTO which is reponsible for open source. In the last year Gergely’s was working in Anuket, Nepio and several CNCF projects on the relationship of cloud native and telecoms. Gergely is a maintainer of the kpt CNCF Sandbox project.

Inderpreet is Omdia’s Principal Analyst specializing in Telco Cloud and Network Automation, where she provides strategic intelligence on the telecommunications industry’s transformation toward cloud-native and AI-native network architectures. Her research encompasses the full spectrum of communications service providers’ (CSP) technology evolution, from infrastructure modernization to autonomous network operations. Her work enables telecommunications providers to make informed decisions about infrastructure investments, vendor selection, and technology roadmaps as they transition from traditional network architectures to intelligent, self-optimizing, AI-native platforms.

Product Manager and Open Source Leader at IBM Software Automation, Chair of LF Edge TAC, and TSC Chair of the Open Horizon project. I’ve worked with edge computing for the last eight years, and as a software architect for the last 30.

Markus Kümmerle is working as independent managing consultant in IT and telecommunication. In 1995 Markus joined debis Systemhaus, at the time a subsidiary of Daimler, which was later transferred to the Deutsche Telekom Group / T-Systems. He worked as Executive Program Manager and Customer Service Delivery Manager in the automotive area for customers like Airbus, Audi, BMW, Boeing, Mercedes, VW. From 2014 until 2020 Markus was in addition responsible for project and service quality for the System Integration unit, later Digital Solutions unit of T-Systems. In 2020 he took over the responsibility for the Magenta API Capabilities Exposure Program of Deutsche Telekom which was transferred in early 2024 into a line organization. In this line organization he was responsible for the API engineering and customer service until YE2025. In early 2021 Deutsche Telekom, together with other partners initiated CAMARA, which then was launched at MWC2022. Markus drives the activities in CAMARA since the beginning and acts as marketing lead and CAMARA representative in GSMA Open Gateway.

Philippe is an Orange Fellow, VP Cloud and Software Engineering, and 2021 award-winning CTO championing at the crossroads of AI, Cloud Native, and platform innovation, currently driving telco-to-techco transformation and Telco cloud. A three-time CTO with 25+ years’ experience, he advises executives, VC funds, and tech startups. Board Advisor for Linux Foundation Europe, co-chair of LF Europe Sylva project governing board and active in open source communities, Philippe shapes technology strategy through advisory, mentorship, and thought leadership. Proud member of Tech.Rocks community.

Ranny is in charge of driving technical innovation further, creating opportunities for synergies among open source projects, and identifying emerging trends and projects. Ranny is a software veteran who has been focusing on pushing the envelope in open source innovation in recent years. Prior to joining the Linux Foundation Ranny was a director at Samsung Research America, leading the open source group. He provided leadership and guidance for engineering teams across Samsung who were actively contributing to open source projects such as ONAP, CNCF, ROS, and Matter (CHIP).

Roy Chua is a principal at AvidThink, an independent research and advisory service focused on infrastructure technologies. Roy is a frequent speaker at global technology conferences, and AvidThink has been quoted by and featured in publications including WSJ, Forbes, Reuters, Fierce Network, The New Stack, and Light Reading. Previously, Roy was a co-founder at SDxCentral, a technology media site. Roy has also worked as a management consultant for Fortune 500 and startup companies, specializing in go-to-market and product strategy. With over 20 years of experience in telecoms, enterprise computing, networking, and security, he has also founded Silicon Valley startups. Roy is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s electrical engineering and computer science program and MIT’s Sloan School of Business.

Sreekanth is the Global Technology Head for Network Engineering Services at Infosys. His focus currently is in building Autonomous Network solutions, AI for Networks and future technologies like Quantum Cryptography. He serves as a LFN board member and was instrumental in incubating multiple open projects at LFN.