Open Networking Summit Europe returns, 23-25 September, Antwerp

Open Networking Summit Europe returns, 23-25 September, Antwerp

When and where is it on?

Open Networking Summit Europe will take place on 23-25 September in Antwerp, Belgium this year.

How many years has it been going?

The conference has been running in the US for 9 years and this will be the second event in Europe.

What was the inspiration to start it?

The event is the industry’s premier open networking event and its main inspiration to start it was to enable collaborative development and innovation across enterprises, service providers and cloud providers.

What exciting things can people look forward to?

Attendees will be able to discuss the future of Open Source Networking, including SDN, NFV, VNF, CNF/Cloud Native Networking, Orchestration, Automation of Cloud, Core Network, Edge, Access & IoT services. Edge computing and containers/cloud native are becoming increasingly important within the open networking space and attendees can expect to hear more about both in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning; IoT & Edge; Cloud Native Networking; 5G, Network Automation & DevOps; and Enterprise IT tracks.

Who will be speaking?

Open Networking Summit in Antwerp will feature cross-industry speakers from AT&T, Bell Canada, Cisco, China Mobile, CNCF,  Dell Technologies, Deutsche Telekom, doc.ai, Ericsson, ETSI, Huawei, Intel, Loodse,  Nexomo, Nokia, Nutanix, Orange, Red Hat, Supergiant, Swisscom, TATA Communications, Telecom Italia, VMware, Vodafone, Vulk Coop, and more.

Keynote speakers and panelists this year include:

Beth Cohen, NFV/SDN Product Strategist at Verizon

Melissa Evers-Hood, Senior Director, Google OS Division, System Software Products at Intel

Heather Kirksey, Vice President, Ecosystem & Community at The Linux Foundation

Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Philippe Lucas, Senior Vice President, Strategy, Architecture & Standardization at Orange

Roman Shaposhnik, Co-Founder & Vice President, Product & Strategy at ZEDEDA

Will Townsend, Senior Analyst, Carriers and Enterprise Networking, Moor Insights & Strategy & Forbes Contributor

Amy Wheelus, Vice President – Network Cloud at AT&T

Dr. Junlan Feng, Chief Scientist, China Mobile Research Institute

Lincoln Lavoie, Senior Engineer and Industry Lead for the Executive Steering Body, University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL)

Bill Ren, Chief Open Source Liaison Officer & General Manager, ICT Infrastructure Open Source, Huawei

Luis Jorge Romero, Director-General, ETSI

Jason Shepherd, Chief Technology Officer, IoT & Edge Computing, Dell Technologies

Lance Tatman, Director, Measurement Analytics and Software, Keysight Technologies

Mohammad Zebetian, Senior Director of Datacenter Network and NFV Architecture, Charter Communications

For a detailed agenda please visit: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-networking-summit-europe-2019/program/schedule/

What opportunities are on offer for those attending?

The community-curated schedule will feature sessions from industry-leading technologies spanning a range of relevant topics, including:

AI & Machine Learning

Network Traffic Analytics through Accelerator and SmartNIC at Edge – Yuming Ma & Mrittika Ganguli, Intel Corporation

Towards Open Network Intelligence – Faseela K, Ericsson & Frederick Kautz, doc.ai

Edge & IoT

Your Path to Edge Computing – Akraino Edge Stack Update – Kandan Kathirvel, AT&T & Tina Tsou, Arm

OSF Edge Computing Activities – Building a Solid Foundation – Beth Cohen, Verizon; Ildiko Vancsa, OpenStack Foundation; Gergely Csatari, Nokia; and Chris Price, Ericsson

Cloud Native Networking

ONAP Native VNF Onboarding with NETCONF / YANG – Sharing of Learnings by Working with ONAP Fundamentals – Marc Fiedler, Deutsche Telekom

Embracing Cloud Native on the Path to 5G – Taylor Carpenter, Vulk Coop; Frederick Kautz, doc.ai; Heather Kirksey, The Linux Foundation; Lincoln Lavoie, University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab; and Rabi Abdel, Vodafone

Enterprise IT

Driving to the Edge: How Open APIs and Open RAN will Transform Ordinary Parking Lots into Dynamic Data Centers – Natasha Tamaskar, Radisys

Running VM Workloads Side by Side with Container Workloads – Sebastian Scheele, Loodse

5G, Network Automation & DevOps

Experience for Bringing up 800 Nodes NFV Cloud Using AUTO in China Mobile – Qiao Fu, China Mobile

Extendable Workflow for ONAP Service Orchestrator – Seshu Kumar Mudiganti, Huawei & Alexis de Talhouët, Bell Canada

Developer Unconference and Meetups

What tips would you give to people attending to get the most out of it?

To get the most out of the experience, we encourage attendees to download the Networking App – more info on this will be available in the coming weeks.

How can people book tickets / when does it usually sell out?

Conference standard Registration is $1200 through 8 September, with additional registration options available including $275 Hall Passes, $600 Day Passes, and $500 Student Passes.  Non-profit and group discounts are available as well; details are available on the event registration page. Members of The Linux Foundation and Linux Foundation Projects receive a 20% discount on all registration fees; contact [email protected] to request a discount code. Applications for diversity and needs-based scholarships are currently being accepted;  for information on eligibility and how to apply, please click here.

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