OpenDaylight Summit 2015: Full Schedule

8:30am PDT

Keynote: Opening Remarks - Neela Jacques, Executive Director, OpenDaylight Project

Speakers

Neela Jacques

Executive Director, OpenDaylight

As OpenDaylight's executive director, Nicolas “Neela” Jacques works with the OpenDaylight community to advance SDN and NFV with a developer-driven open source platform for products and technologies that expand the intelligence, programmability and performance of network infrastructures... Read More →

Tuesday July 28, 2015 8:30am - 9:15am PDT
Grand Ballroom A-D

Keynote

9:15am PDT

Keynote: AT&T’s Software-Centric Network and the Role of Open Systems - Al Blackburn, Vice President-Domain 2.0 Architecture & Planning, AT&T

Speakers

Al Blackburn

Vice President-Domain 2.0 Architecture & Planning, AT&T

Al Blackburn, Vice President – Domain 2.0 Architecture and Planning, is responsible for leading the transformation of AT&T’s network to be the premiere secure, open/programmable, software driven network in the industry. His responsibilities include end to end architecture leadership... Read More →

Tuesday July 28, 2015 9:15am - 9:45am PDT
Grand Ballroom A-D

Keynote

9:45am PDT

Keynote: OpenDaylight Advisory Group Panel - Moderator: Nav Chander, Enterprise Telecom IDC; Panelists: Chris Luke, Comcast; Chris Donley, CableLabs; Margaret Chiosi, AT&T and Christos Kolias, Orange

The OpenDaylight Advisory Group brings together end users from some of the world's most demanding networks to share technical requirements and challenges directly with the OpenDaylight community. In this panel they'll discuss key SDN and NFV use cases for their industries and what they'd like to see from open source SDN solution in the short- and long-term.

Moderators

Nav Chander

Nav Chander is a Research Manager for telecom business services and associated carrier network infrastructure within IDC’s Worldwide Telecom Division. His primary focus is managing the research agenda for the U.S. Enterprise Communication Services program and Worldwide Wireline... Read More →

Speakers

Margaret Chiosi

Margaret Chiosi, Distinguished Network Architect AT&T Labs, has been involved in data networking for 30+ years. Margaret is currently focused on implementing the virtualization platform for network functions as well as SDN in the L1-L3 and mobility space (D2.0 Architecture). She has... Read More →

Chris Donley

Chris Donley serves as Director, Virtualization and Network Evolution at CableLabs. Mr. Donley is leading CableLabs’ research efforts on Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network function Virtualization (NfV), Metro Ethernet, IPv6, and Home Networking. He has been with CableLabs... Read More →

Christos Kolias

Orange

Christos Kolias is a senior research scientist at Orange Silicon Valley (a subsidiary of Orange). Christos is a founding member of the ETSI NFV group and he has served as the first chair of ONF’s Wireless & Mobile working group. He has lectured on NFV, SDN and OpenFlow at several... Read More →

Chris Luke

Sr. Principal Engineer, Comcast

Since joining Comcast in early 2011, Chris has taken a lead role in the architecture and practical application of programmable behaviors in the Comcast network. As a Sr. Principal Engineer within the Network Architecture group, Chris developed the framework for network automation... Read More →

Tuesday July 28, 2015 9:45am - 10:30am PDT
Grand Ballroom A-D

Keynote

11:00am PDT

Keynote: Accelerating SDN & NFV in 2015 – Moving Community Contributions to Production Deployments - John Healy, General Manager, SDN Division, Network Platforms Division, Intel Corporation

Speakers

John Healy

John Healy is the GM of the “Software Defined Networking Division” in NPG. He is one of the leading strategists behind software-defined networking. John’s leadership in intelligent systems for the communications industry is comprised of 25 years of experience in engineering... Read More →

Tuesday July 28, 2015 11:00am - 11:20am PDT
Grand Ballroom A-D

Keynote

11:20am PDT

Keynote: Future Shock: The New Normal - Kelly Herrell, SVP & GM, Software Networking Business Unit, Brocade

In just over two years ODL has made history, overcoming the intense initial skepticism of those fearful of its vendor-sponsored origins and the broad scope of intent. In record time ODL has evolved into a rapidly advancing and thriving community that has formalized the role of open-source in New IP architectures and has already earned its first large-scale production deployments. During this presentation, Kelly Herrell will examine how the next two years will likely produce a wave of innovation that will illustrate the true creative disruption of the industry.

Speakers

Kelly Herrell

As Senior Vice President and General Manager of Software Networking at Brocade, Kelly Herrell leads software networking strategy and execution at the company. He leads an organization responsible for driving growth through the delivery of an innovative virtual networking platform... Read More →

Tuesday July 28, 2015 11:20am - 11:40am PDT
Grand Ballroom A-D

Keynote

11:40am PDT

Keynote: OpenDaylight Developer Panel: Lithium, Beryllium and Beyond - Moderated by Phil Robb, OpenDaylight Project; Panelists: Colin Dixon, Brocade; Daniel Farrell, Red Hat; Brady Allen Johnson, Ericsson; Tony Tkacik, Cisco and Ed Warnicke, Cisco

OpenDaylight's third platform release "Lithium" will be out in June and planning for the fourth release "Beryllium" is underway. In this panel the developer community will discuss key use cases and PoCs that users can expect to see, and a look at the roadmap toward delivering a carrier-grade, production-ready release.

Speakers

Colin Dixon

Distinguished Engineer, Brocade

Colin Dixon is the Chair of OpenDaylight's Technical Steering Committee and a Distinguished Engineer at Brocade. In both roles, he focuses on leveraging open source software to build innovative networking solutions. Beyond that, he is active in open standards bodies including the... Read More →

Daniel Farrell

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Daniel Farrell is a Software Engineer on Red Hat’s SDN Team, where he contributes to upstream ODL and OPNFV. He has been involved in SDN since it emerged from Stanford, including early OpenFlow and OpenStack work. He’s now an active committer on ODL’s Integration Team. During... Read More →

Brady Allen Johnson

Phil Robb

Vice President - Operations, Networking & Orchestration, Linux Foundation

Phil Robb’s experience spans more than 30 years of work on the leading edge of software and networking technology, beginning with the launch of the personal computer in the early 1980s. He began working with open source in 2001 at Hewlett Packard, where he formed and led the company’s... Read More →

Tony Tkacik

Cisco Systems

Tony Tkacik is an architect and key developer of the Model-Driven SAL. He has vast experience with model-driven architectures & designs, and has been working on SDN controllers for the past several years. He's been working on OpenDaylight since April 2013.

Ed Warnicke

Tuesday July 28, 2015 11:40am - 12:30pm PDT
Grand Ballroom A-D

Keynote

8:30am PDT

Keynote: Innovating The Network - Phil McKinney, President & CEO, CableLabs

With the need to support a rapidly growing range of new services, the network needs to innovate in areas, and at a pace, never before considered. This talk will discuss the challenges of network innovation and the role SDN and NfV will have on transforming the way innovative services are enabled in the future.

Speakers

Phil McKinney

Phil McKinney is President and CEO of CableLabs. In this capacity he heads the research and development organization responsible for charting the cable industry’s technology and innovation roadmap. Prior to joining CableLabs, he was the vice president and chief technology officer... Read More →

Wednesday July 29, 2015 8:30am - 9:00am PDT
Grand Ballroom A-D

Keynote

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Driving Innovation with OpenDaylight - Dr. Gee Rittenhouse, Senior Vice President/General Manager, Cisco

Speakers

Gee Rittenhouse

Gee Rittenhouse is Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Cloud and Virtualization Group (CVG), a market-driven organization leading industry transformation in cloud infrastructure software and services.Before joining Cisco, Gee helped launch Alcatel-Lucent's Software, Services... Read More →

Wednesday July 29, 2015 9:00am - 9:20am PDT
Grand Ballroom A-D

Keynote

9:20am PDT

Keynote: ODL Use Cases and User Development Experience - Margaret T. Chiosi, Distinguished Network Architect, AT&T Labs and Brian Freeman, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs

Speakers

Margaret Chiosi

Brian Freeman

DMTS, AT&T Labs

Brian Freeman is an AT&T Fellow working as a software architect/systems engineer in emerging service technologies and large system design and delivery. Brian is currently leading the architecture and design efforts for the AT&T Software Defined Network Controller. The SDN Controller... Read More →

Wednesday July 29, 2015 9:20am - 9:50am PDT
Grand Ballroom A-D

Keynote

10:20am PDT

Keynote: Controllers and Orchestrators - Cacophony or Harmony? - Prodip Sen, Chief Technology Officer of Network Functions Virtualization, HP

Prodip Sen, Chief Technology Officer for HP’s NFV Business Unit, will discuss why NFV is the business case for SDN, how SDN and NFV relate to each other, and the issues that need to be to addressed in the intersection of these areas. He will also touch on the role of open source, as it relates to OPNV and ODL.

Speakers

Prodip Sen

Prodip Sen is currently Chief Technology Officer of Network Functions Virtualization at HP, where he is responsible for the technology strategy and industry engagement for the NFV business unit. His current focus is to foster the generation of solutions and techniques that will accelerate... Read More →

Wednesday July 29, 2015 10:20am - 10:40am PDT
Grand Ballroom A-D

Keynote

10:40am PDT

Keynote: Focus & the Big Tent: Models of Collaboration - Moderator, Neela Jacques; Panelists: Guru Parulkar, Dan Pitt, Prodip Sen, and Justin Pettit

In this keynote panel moderated by Neela Jacques; Guru Parulkar, executive director, Open Networking Research Center; Dan Pitt, executive director, Open Networking Foundation; Prodip Sen, board chair, OPNFV; Justin Pettit, lead developer, Open vSwitch; and Christos Kolias, senior research scientist, Orange will explore one of the key tensions of the largest open source projects: how to accommodate a wide range of technologies and projects while encouraging collaboration and focus around a common code base. These leaders of some of the most successful projects in the industry will discuss the key decisions and learnings as they seek to balance building a big tent and efficiently focusing resources on the most critical use cases.

Speakers

Neela Jacques

Executive Director, OpenDaylight

Guru Parulkar

Executive Director, Open Networking Research Center

Guru Parulkar has successfully played various roles within the field of networking: Professor, Entrepreneur, Advisor to Entrepreneur, and NSF Program Director. During the past six years, he has been in the middle of the SDN revolution and doing his part to make it a success. He cherishes... Read More →

Justin Pettit

Open vSwitch Committer

Justin Pettit is a lead developer on the Open vSwitch project. He was a founding employee at Nicira and is currently working at VMware. He was a co-creator of OpenFlow, working on both the specification and reference implementation. In addition to working on Open vSwitch, he is... Read More →

Dan Pitt

Open Networking Foundation

Dan Pitt has served as executive director of the Open Networking Foundation since its public launch in March, 2011. In this role he leads a team of several dozen employees and partners and over 2000 member volunteers focused on accelerating the adoption of open SDN. He spent 20 years... Read More →

Prodip Sen

Wednesday July 29, 2015 10:40am - 11:25am PDT
Grand Ballroom A-D

Keynote

11:25am PDT

Keynote: Closing Remarks - Neela Jacques, Executive Director, OpenDaylight Project

Speakers

Neela Jacques

Executive Director, OpenDaylight

Wednesday July 29, 2015 11:25am - 11:30am PDT
Grand Ballroom A-D

Keynote