Cole Crawford
CEO and Founder, VaporIO
Cole Crawford is CEO and founder of VaporIO, creators of the Kinetic Edge and the leading provider of tower-connected edge colocation and interconnection services.
Cole Crawford is CEO and founder of Vapor IO, creators of the Kinetic Edge and the leading provider of tower-connected edge colocation and interconnection services. He was previously the founding executive director of the Open Compute Project and a co-founder of OpenStack. He is a founding board member of the Open19 Foundation and has been a thought leader in data center technology for over a decade. He is leading Vapor IO in developing the largest nationwide edge colocation and interconnection platform at the edge of the cellular network. Cole has been named to Data Economy’s list of The World’s Most Influential Data Economy Leaders and The World’s First Top 50 Edge Computing Influencers.
Daniel Lazaro
Senior Technical Program Manager at AVEVA, TAC Vice-Chair
Daniel currently serves as a Senior Technical Program Manager at AVEVA and TAC Vice-Chair
Daniel currently serves as a Senior Technical Program Manager at the CTO office at OSIsoft, focusing on technology, research and innovation projects related to IIoT, Open Source and Energy (Distributed Energy Resources). Daniel acts as technical liaison for strategic partners and represents OSIsoft at the Industrial Internet Consortium. Prior to joining OSIsoft in 2010, Daniel collaborated in various international research and development projects related to both edge and cloud.
Daniel holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Valladolid University (Spain) and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Aalborg University (Denmark).
Dave Denison
Vice President Software Applications at Emerson Automation Solutions
Vice President Software Applications at Emerson Automation Solutions
Vice President Software Applications at Emerson Automation Solutions
Eric Watko
Vice President of Innovation Product Line Management at American Tower
Eric Watko is a highly-accomplished, solutions-driven technology development leader and visionary business strategist. He is currently the Vice President of Innovation Product Line Management for American Tower’s Innovation business unit where he is responsible for bringing new edge data center infrastructure solutions to market for cloud, enterprise and private networks.
Eric Watko is a highly-accomplished, solutions-driven technology development leader and visionary business strategist. He is currently the Vice President of Innovation Product Line Management for American Tower’s Innovation business unit where he is responsible for bringing new edge data center infrastructure solutions to market for cloud, enterprise and private networks. Eric has held numerous senior management roles with companies such as SES Networks, iDirect and Cisco Systems. He has a consistent track record of delivering innovative business and technology solutions that have increased customer satisfaction and stimulated new markets and business/revenue growth. For more than 15 years he has also championed methods of improving product and process performance/functionality related to new product introductions.
Geng Lin
CTO & Executive Vice President at F5 Networks
Geng Lin is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at F5 Networks.
He is responsible for leading technology strategy, product portfolio evolution, system architectures, platform engineering, and organic and inorganic innovations to ensure F5’s leadership position in multi-cloud application services. Meet the diverse needs of NetOps, SecOps, and AppDev communities, and support our customers’ transformation journey towards application-centric digital businesses.
Hakan Sonmez
Product Strategy and Operations Manager, at IBM Edge Computing and Software Defined Networking Business Unit
Hakan currently serves as a Product Strategy and Operations Manager at IBM's Edge Computing and SDN business unit. His focus areas are Edge computing, Hybrid Multi-Cloud Networking and applying AI/ML to multi-cloud operations.
Hakan currently serves as a Product Strategy and Operations Manager at IBM’s Edge Computing and SDN business unit. His focus areas are Edge computing, Hybrid Multi-Cloud Networking and applying AI/ML to multi-cloud operations. He works closely with IBM technical leadership on the Open Horizon project of LF Edge. Previously, he was a lead consultant at IBM Corporate Strategy team.
Prior to IBM, Hakan held various technology roles in Networking and Telco industry, including Cisco Systems, Airvana Networks, Sycamore Networks and NextWave Wireless.
Hakan holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Middle East Technical University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, and an MBA degree from MIT Sloan School of Management.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hakansonmez/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hakansonmez
Hatsumi Iino (Haishima)
Senior Director of Strategic Planning Unit, Business Planning, Fujitsu Ltd.
Hatsumi is the Senior Director of Strategic Planning Unit in Fujitsu Ltd.
Hatsumi is the Senior Director of Strategic Planning Unit in Fujitsu Ltd. She is currently responsible for the open source and community strategy, and leading to create 5G era global network & business architecture. Her previous roles included director positions of both Product Planning and Business Management of global photonic business. She was assigned to Texas US for more than 8 years and her main business has been for big carries in US market.
She has BS for Mathematical Statistics, and resides in Kawasaki city, Japan.
Jim Xu
Principal Engineer, Zenlayer Inc. and Board Member, LF Edge
Jim Xu is a principal Engineer at Zenlayer. Zenlayer is an innovative company in the Edge Cloud business.
Jim Xu is a principal Engineer at Zenlayer. Zenlayer is an innovative company in the Edge Cloud business. Before joining Zenlayer, he was a Tech Leader in Cisco’s flagship products, a Principal Engineer at Futurewei Technologies enterprise networking and Edge Computing products. He also partnered with several companies before, on the Edge Computing IoT and on Decentralized Cloud. He has been granted over 20 US and international patents. He was actively involved in early DPDK community, managed the ODL projects within company, and advocated blockchain and Hyperledger technologies across other partners.
Joe Pearson
Edge Computing and Technology Strategist at IBM, TAC Chair
Joe is an Edge Computing and Technology Strategist at IBM.
Joe is an Edge Computing and Technology Strategist at IBM.
Justin Dustzadeh
Chief Technology Officer at Equinix
Lisa Caywood
Principal Community Architect at Red Hat
Lisa Caywood is a Principal Community Architect at Red Hat, focusing on projects and communities of interest to the telco and manufacturing industries.
Lisa Caywood is a Principal Community Architect at Red Hat, focusing on projects and communities of interest to the telco and manufacturing industries. She serves as the Red Hat representative on the LF Edge Board and Magma Core Outreach Committee. She has a long history with Linux Foundation networking and telco communities, starting with OpenDaylight while with a founding member company, and later serving as Marketing Director for LF Networking and LF Edge while at the Linux Foundation itself.
Michael Maxey
VP of Business Development at ZEDEDA
Maxey, aka Michael Maxey, is the VP of Business Development at ZEDEDA
Maxey, aka Michael Maxey, is the VP of Business Development, where he focuses on building and executing go-to-market (GTM) strategies with ZEDEDA customers and partners. Prior to ZEDEDA, Maxey held executive product management and business/corporate development roles at various infrastructure companies like Dell, Greenplum, Pivotal Software, Smallstep Labs, and EMC.
Moonki Hong
Staff Engineer at Samsung Research Open Source Group
Dr. (Peter) Moonki Hong has been taking responsibilities for technical and business enabling project management based on Edge/IoT open source ecosystem in Samsung Electronics.
Dr. (Peter) Moonki Hong has been taking responsibilities for technical and business enabling project management based on Edge/IoT open source ecosystem in Samsung Electronics. His open source contributions span from IoTivity and EdgeX Foundry to Home Edge Project in LF Edge since 2014 and he has one a several award like Outstanding Contributor Award from OCF (Open Connectivity Foundation) in 2017. He is currently leading Samsung’s open source activities in Home Edge in LF Edge, ONAP (Open Networking Automation Platform) in LF Networking, and O-RAN SC (Software Community) and so on, which must be core components to build up the innovative ecosystem in 5G and beyond 5G regarding open source projects. He is also a Samsung representative of OPC (Open Platform Communications) Foundation.
Ren “Bill” Xudong
General Manager of ICT Infrastructure Open Source Business at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd
Mr. Ren Xudong(Bill Ren)is a member of the LF Edge Governing Board. He also serves as the General Manager of ICT Infrastructure Open Source Business at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, and as the chief liaison officer of Huawei.
Mr. Ren Xudong(Bill Ren)is a member of the LF Edge Governing Board. He also serves as the General Manager of ICT Infrastructure Open Source Business at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, and as the chief liaison officer of Huawei. He is fully responsible for the implementation of open source solutions for operators/enterprises in the network automation industry, using open source means to build industrial ecology, expand industrial space, build a healthy and harmonious industrial environment, and support the success of the company’s business.
Bill Ren holds a Bachelor Degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Since Joining Huawei in 1998,Bill served as an Intelligent Network Research and Development Engineer, Product Manager and Architect of India Branch, General Manager of Business OSS, Vice President of Network OSS, Vice President of Network OSS Strategy and MKT, Vice President of Solution MKTG, etc. He has accumulated rich experience in R&D, marketing and product management.
Renu Navale
Vice President & General Manager, Edge Computing & Ecosystem Enabling at Intel Corporation
Renu N. Navale is vice president in the Data Platforms Group and general manager of the smart edge platforms division at Intel Corporation.
Sam Armani
Senior Vice President of Business Development at mimik Technology, Inc
Sam Armani is the Senior Vice President of Business Development at mimik Technology, Inc.
She is an experienced executive in the software technology sector. She brings a diverse skill set and expertise to mimik, including sales, business strategy, product management, and engineering. She has been with the company from an early stage and has made significant contributions to the development of the company and its products.
Prior to joining mimik in 2010, she held key leading positions at startups Mobidia and L3 Technology and before that she was with Sage Software. At Mobidia, Sam was part of a leading sales team, worked closely with the sales and engineering teams internally and held a key customer facing position focused on delivering network optimization solutions to large mobile operators. At Sage she held various positions including leading a product specialists’ team and delivering the right business software solutions to the business partners’ channel.
Sam holds degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering from University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada.
Sven van der Meer
Lead Architect at VMware
Sven van der Meer is a lead architect at VMware building an autonomic grid covering RAN, edge, core, and private mobile networks.
Sven van der Meer is a lead architect at VMware building an autonomic grid covering RAN, edge, core, and private mobile networks.
Tina Tsou
Enterprise Architect, Arm and Board Chair, LF Edge
Tina Tsou is an innovator and a visionary with far-reaching accomplishments within the technical engineering realm.
Tina Tsou is an innovator and a visionary with far-reaching accomplishments within the technical engineering realm. As Arm’s Enterprise Architect, Tina serves in the highly visible Technical Lead role for the Enterprise Open Source Enablement team, where she analyzes, designs, and implements robust strategies to establish first tier status for Arm’s architecture within open source communities and projects. Tina also serves as Arm’s Edge Computing Team Lead. As the company’s open source thought leader, she builds powerful partnerships with and influences open source communities in support of multiple architectures. Tina previously served as the Digital Domain Expert (Connectivity) for Philips Lighting, where she implemented NB-IoT in an outdoor carrier project with China Mobile and Huawei. She released Bluetooth + ZigBee combo chip architecture and delivered connectivity hardware/software platform (ZigBee 3.0, Wi-Fi). The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Tina 100+ patents. She earned her Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Xi’an University of Architecture and Technologies. Tina was the first woman to chair an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group from a Chinese business enterprise and was the youngest Asian rapporteur in ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) history. She currently serves as Chair of the Akraino Technical Steering Committee.
Tom Arthur
CEO, Dianomic and Board Member, LF Edge
Serial computer software and services entrepreneur in private and public companies.
Tom is the co-founder and CEO of Dianomic, a major contributor of the LF-Edge project “Fledge”; an open source framework and community for the industrial edge focused on critical operations. Fledge developers build smarter, better, cheaper industrial solutions for: condition-based monitoring, predictive maintenance, smarter machines and situational awareness all integrated with the operator’s existing “brown field” systems.
Tom is a serial computer software and services entrepreneur with broad experience in networking, security, database and cloud-based service offers. Tom and his teams have raised over $400M in funding and had 5 exits totaling more than $3.5B.
Trevor Conn
Technical Staff Engineer (DMTS) at Dell Technologies
Trevor Conn is Technical Staff Engineer (DMTS) at Dell Technologies and has been developing software for over 20 years.
Trevor Conn is Technical Staff Engineer (DMTS) at Dell Technologies and has been developing software for over 20 years. He has in-depth experience in designing and building distributed platforms based on event-driven, reactive programming models and microservices. Prior to his involvement with EdgeX Foundry his team pioneered Dell’s migration toward Pivotal Cloud Foundry, enabling application development and practices for robust support in the cloud.
Wenjing Chu
Senior Director, Open Source and Research, Futurewei Technologies, Inc. and Board Member, LF Edge
Wenjing Chu is a Senior Director of Open Source and Research at Futurewei Technologies, Inc. in Santa Clara, CA. His team leads strategies in open source and other open innovation activities in the US ranging from Trustworthy AIoT, Mobile, Software, Intelligent Computing, to RISC-V.
Previously, Wenjing was a Distinguished Engineer at Dell Research and a Chief Architect at VMware. He was an entrepreneurial technologist in the startups Sentient Networks, Inc. and WiFi pioneer Airespace, Inc., both of which were acquired by Cisco and whose flagship products became major business lines at Cisco Systems. He was a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco and also held the position of Senior Director of Product Management in Security at Nokia.
Yachen Wang
General Manager of The Wireless and IoT Network Center of Tencent
Mr. Yachen Wang is the General Manager of Wireless and IoT Network Center in Tencent. He is mainly leading in Tencent IoT Network, 5G, edge computing, Radio and wireless network related technical research, platform development and network deployment.
Mr. Yachen Wang is the General Manager of Wireless and IoT Network Center in Tencent. He is mainly leading in Tencent IoT Network, 5G, edge computing, Radio and wireless network related technical research, platform development and network deployment. before Mr. Yachen Wang joined in Tencent, he was the Deputy General Manager of Network Technology and AI R&D Center in China Mobile, President of ONAP, Vice Chair of Linux Networking Fund including ONAP, ODL, OPNFV etc. and Vice-Chairman of ITU-T SG13 IMT-2020/5G Working Party. He has much experience in 4G/5G, NFV/SDN, network evolution, international standardization, and open source etc.