Speakers Bureau

Abhi leads Edge strategy for Dell EMC.

Arpit Joshipura is an executive leader and open source software evangelist across carriers, cloud and enterprise IT – spanning technology areas like networking, orchestration, operating systems, security, AI, edge, hardware and silicon. He was voted “Top 5 Movers and Shakers” in the Telecom Industry. At the Linux Foundation, Arpit leads open source projects in Networking (ONAP, OPNFV, ODL, FDIO, OvS, DPDK, OpenSwitch, DENT and others) as well as Edge/IOT (Akraino, EdgeX Foundry, EVE and others). As an industry thought leader, he is driving major disruptions including 5G, Edge, AI, Cloud Native (VNFs to CNFs). Arpit brings 30 years of networking expertise and vision to The Linux Foundation, with both technical depth and business breadth across IP, broadband, optical, mobile, routing, switching, L4-7, cloud, disaggregation, SDN/NFV, Cloud Native, open networking, and has been an early evangelist for open source. Arpit has served in CMO/CTO, VP, and Engineering leadership roles within both startups and larger enterprises.

Balaji Ethirajulu is a senior director of product management at Ericsson, driving technologies in the areas of open source, automation, orchestration, NFV, SDN, 5G, cloud native, edge computing, AI/ML and IoT. He has more than 25 years of experience in product management, technology strategy, marketing, engineering, and consulting covering telecom, enterprises and other vertical industries. Over the years Ethirajulu has worked in many technology areas, including IP, Mobile networks (3G and 4G), IMS, Intelligent networks, OSS, network management, service assurance, monitoring & performance management systems. For the past several years, he has been serving the Linux Foundation open source projects in various industry elected leadership roles. Ethirajulu holds an MBA (Hons.) from the University of Dallas, Certificate of Business excellence – Hass school of Business, Berkeley and a B.E. in electronics and telecommunication engineering from Coimbatore Institute of Technology in India. Industry speaker – Open networking summit, Kubecon, Open source summit, MEF, SDN/NFV world congress, NFV/Automation and other industry events.

I have 17 years working experience in telecom industry with technical marketing skills. I have been involved in Telecom open source projects in recently 5 year, including ONOS, ONAP, OPNFV, LF Networking and LF Edge. I give a lot of public speeches on china SDN/NFV and Open Source events.

Bill Hunt is the CTO and Co-Founder of Dianomic, creator of the Linux Foundation’s Fledge project, an IoT and ML framework for the Industrial Edge. Previously, he was Group Vice President at Oracle, where he led an 1,100-person software development team and managed a $126 million budget. Bill has founded and/or been a senior exec at multiple venture-backed software companies, each an innovator and the leader in their space. Five of his companies were acquired for $700m by Oracle, Avaya, Alcatel and others. He has also acquired multiple companies.

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.

Senior Marketing Manager of Huawei Cloud Network OSDT, Master of Science in Microelectronics, Tianjin University. Joined Huawei in 2010, has three years of experience in SDN controller and network open source, and has an in-depth understanding of network open source projects such as ONAP/OPNFV in LFN and AKraino in LF Edge.

Chitti Nimmagadda is a Senior Director – Network Virtualization at the Ericsson Digital Services Business Unit. He has over 20 years of experience in software industry, and his current focus and passion is in bringing the cloud native technologies to the telecom industry. Most recently, he was a Principal Architect at Citrix and helped build the high performance datacenter networking product NetScaler SDX from the ground up using virtualization technologies. Previously, he worked in many technology areas, including embedded systems, real time operating systems and data warehousing. Chitti holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

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 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).

Erik is a member of the LF Edge Technical Advisory Committe, a member of the Internet Architecture Board, and the Chief Architect at ZEDEDA. He has designed and implemented substantial parts of the EVE implementation in LF Edge. He is an expert on architecting and implementing secure large scale software systems, with a deep understanding of the implications of the Internet on system design. Prior to joining ZEDEDA he was developing software at Arista Networks, architecting the evolution of core software as a Cisco Distinguished Engineer, and earlier had a long and varied career as a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. Erik has been involved in standardization in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) since the very early days of IPv6 and continues to drive IoT-related issues in the IETF and IAB. Erik holds over 29 US parents, and has a Technical Licentiate degree from Uppsala University and a MS from Stanford University.

Gavin Lu runs an innovation team focused on edge computing and intelligence in VMware Office of CTO. He joined VMware in 2009 and worked on multiple products on virtualization, networking, cloud management, big data, OpenStack, container, IoT and ML. He has 17 years’ industrial experience of software development and project management, at Sun Microsystems, Aol, Microsoft and VMware altogether. He is also LF Edge, DMTF, OASIS and IIC member. He was one of the legacy engineers and evangelists of OpenOffice.org. He holds Bachelor and Master degrees of Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University. He presented or is accepted to presented at Data Center World 2020, Open Edge Symposium 2019, OSS EU 2019, OSS NA 2019, AII Summit 2019, Interop China 2018, & Open Source World Summit 2010.

Henry leads system and software architecture for HP retail, hospitality, healthcare products and solutions. Henry has over 30 years of experience developing embedded systems, VOIP gateways, and mobile phones from startups to global companies.

Henry holds a M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Southern California and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of California San Diego.

Jason Shepherd is VP of Ecosystem at IoT Edge orchestration company ZEDEDA. Prior to joining ZEDEDA, Jason was CTO for the Dell Technologies Edge and IoT Solutions Division. His proven track record as a thought leader in the market is evidenced through his leadership building up the award-winning Dell IoT Solutions Partner Program and establishing the vendor-neutral, open source EdgeX Foundry project to facilitate greater interoperability at the IoT edge. Jason is active various industry efforts focused on IoT and edge computing and was recognized as one of the Top 100 Industrial IoT influencers of 2018 and 2019. He has spent his career in roles spanning CTO, engineering and marketing functions and holds 14 granted and over 20 pending US patents.

Jim St. Leger has been creating, nurturing, and growing open source projects for more than ten years. He was part of the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) and the Fast Data I/O (FD.io) open source project creation teams. Today he holds community leadership roles in DPDK and LF Edge. His focus is on networking and edge computing projects. His personal pursuits include lifelong learning, outdoor recreation, and advancing STEM disciplines.

Jim has over 25 years of experience in software development for IoT Edge systems, enterprise application integration and mobile applications. Most recently, Jim was a Distinguished Engineer and Director of the IoT Platform Development Team within the IoT Solutions Division of Dell Technologies, where he was the chief architect for Dell’s largest open source effort to date, EdgeX Foundry™. EdgeX is an open framework for building industrial IoT Edge computing systems and is now a Linux Foundation (LF) Edge project. Jim will continue to serve as Vice Chair of the EdgeX Technical Steering Committee. Prior to Dell, Jim was a partner at Intertech, specializing in Java and .NET application development. Jim is co-author of ‘Java2 Micro Edition: Java in Small Things’, a Lynda.com author, and a frequent conference speaker.

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.

Mr. LI Leding is Principal Architect of Baidu Cloud IoT and also serves as member of Linux Foundation Edge Technical Advisory Council. Mr. Li joined Baidu in 2010, and is responsible for architecture and development of platform focused around Edge computing, 5G and Internet of Things, and the owner of open source edge computing framework called Baetyl. In previous roles at Baidu, he was the lead architect for Baidu Open Search, and has worked extensively on the SOA framework of both Spider and Indexer of Baidu Search. Mr. Li was also an early participant in introducing machine learning to Web mining.

Lisa Caywood is a Senior 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 as Vice Chair of the eBPF Foundation. 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.

Dr. Bhandaru brings deep technical knowledge and engineering leadership in Cloud technologies, the Internet of Things, and Machine Learning. She is also an open source developer with contributions to EdgeX Foundry, OpenStack, and OpenDayLight, and serves currently as a co-chair of the security work group for EdgeX Foundry and on the conference program committees for ONES-NA 2020 and OSS NA 2020. Early at Intel she architected and delivered various Intel Xeon Server power and performance features. She also has contributions to openSSL to speed cryptography using Intel’s vector and crypto instruction sets. Malini recently started exploring energy sustainability/Smart Grid and is involved with the open source project Kinney. Dr. Bhandaru was a Principal Engineer at Intel and is currently a Senior Staff member at VMware in the Open Source Technology Center. She has a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from the University of Massachusetts and has 20+ patents. She is a frequent technology public speaker, a STEM volunteer, and a mentor for women in technology.

Matt Trifiro is the chief marketing officer of Vapor IO where he leads the company’s global marketing, branding and communications efforts. He is an expert in edge computing, is co-chair of the State of the Edge Report and Chair of The Linux Foundation’s Open Glossary of Edge Computing. He is a technology industry veteran and a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded or led over a half dozen startup companies. Prior to joining Vapor IO, he was entrepreneur in residence at Xseed Capital and chief marketing officer and senior vice president at Mesosphere. Prior to Mesosphere, Trifiro was chief marketing officer at Heroku, a division of Salesforce, and prior to that he served as senior vice president of marketing for Salesforce Desk.com. He was also a co-founder and CEO of e-commerce startup 1000 Markets (sold to Bonanza) and co-founder and vice president of marketing for interactive television pioneer Wink Communications (NASDAQ IPO). He currently holds advisory roles with a number of venture-funded startups, including Buoyant and Move37 Marketing, and is working on a book about Open Source Marketing.

25 years in networking industry, switching, routing, data center, product management, P&L management ($250M)

14 years of work experience in Huawei, responsible for MEC open source planning.

Roman is an open source software expert, currently serving on the board of directors for both The Apache Software Foundation and LF Edge. He is a co-founder and the vice president of product and strategy for ZEDEDA, an edge virtualization startup. Throughout his career, Roman has held technical leadership roles at several iconic companies, including Sun Microsystems, Yahoo!, Cloudera and Pivotal Software. He holds a master’s degree in mathematics and computer science from St. Petersburg State University.

Shamik Mishra is currently serving as Vice President at the Altran Group research and innovation. He is also the Global Chief Industry Architect for Altran’s communications business. Shamik Mishra has nearly nineteen years of experience in the telecom and software industry, providing engineering R&D services, frameworks and solutions to telecom operators, network equipment providers and software firms around the world. As a global lead for R&I in Altran, Shamik drives research and innovation in areas like virtualization, cloud native, edge computing, artificial intelligence and carrier cloud platforms.

He represents Altran in several industry forums including Linux Foundation Edge where is a board member of the technical advisory council. Most recently he was elected the deputy chair of the GSMA Operator Platform Group He is a regular speaker at industry and academic conferences and is often covered by the industry media. Shamik has a bachelor’s and a master’s degrees in mathematics and computing from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

Suresh Krishnan works as the Chief Technology Officer at Kaloom where his main areas of work are in data center networking, software defined networks, 5G and M2M. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Madras in India and a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University in Canada. He is currently serving as Internet Area Director at the IETF and is a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).He has multiple working groups and research groups and has authored more than 35 RFCs across multiple IETF areas. He is a holder of more than 30 US patents on several areas related to IP, wireless and mobility.

16+ years of experience in mobile technologies in Health, Messaging and IoT domain. Member of TSC for LF Home Edge. Passionate to create an intelligent platform for better user experience and insights in Home environment with heterogeneous connected IoT devices

Tina Tsou is an accomplished global industry leader. As a visionary, she develops and delivers infrastructure and enterprise products—through initial launch and iterations. She boasts expansive achievement in large-scale technical project management, software engineering, and strategic planning for complex organizational technologies, products, and solutions. She is demonstrably committed to designing products engineered for security, reliability, and scalability—and dedicated to helping clients and developers see benefits of technology come to life.

As Arm’s Director of Infra Ecosystem, Tina excels as an innovative and results-driven leader overseeing international teams on IP journey, where she manages phases 3 to 5, IP selection, bring up, and ramp. She consistently exhibits a solid grasp of “big picture” solutions.

As a previous Enterprise Architect at Arm, Tina served in a highly visible Technical Lead role for the Enterprise Open Source Enablement team, where she analyzed, designed, and implemented robust strategies to establish first tier status for Arm’s architecture within open source communities and projects.

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 a connectivity hardware/software platform (ZigBee 3.0, Wi-Fi). The China and United States Patent and Trademark Offices have granted Tina 100+ patents.

She earned her Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Xi’an University of Architecture and Technologies, and currently studies in Stanford University Graduate Business School. Recent appointments include SIG 3 Release, Vice Chair of Nephio (Driven by Google), and Board Chair of  LF Edge.

Senior Principal Software Engineer and Security Lead for Dell Technologies’ IoT Platform Development Team. Tingyu is an active member and co-chairperson of security working group of EdgeX Foundry, an open framework for building industrial IoT edge computing system under Apache 2 license project within Linux Foundation. Tingyu has over 15 years’ experience on software design and implementation with interests in security related issues with Endpoint, Network, IoT and Cloud.

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.

Tom is Technical Director for NFV at Red Hat where he leads a team of some 25 engineers focusing on the area of Open Source Networking including SDN, NFV, data plane acceleration, Open Daylight and container networking efforts. In addition, Tom works across Red Hat’s products and business to strengthen and sure up its networking technologies around these products by working on M&A, partner and company strategy. Tom continues working as an Apache Committer and as co-Maintainer of The Public Yang Repository on GitHub.

Prior to Red Hat, Tom was a Distinguished Engineer at Brocade where he was The Chief Architect of Open Source in the Software Business Unit. Tom lead teams responsible for building commercial products based on open source, as well as contributions to upstream open source projects such as Open Daylight, OPNFV and OpenStack. Tom is co-chair of the IETF NETMOD Working Group, which is responsible for the standardization of the Yang modeling language as well as Yang models.

Victor Gao have been served as VNFSDK PTL in the ONAP community and I also serve as CNTT RC workstream leader. I’m the LF Networking Community CVC Committee Huawei representative, mainly active in VNF certification, MANO, ETSI, Modeling related work, but also the core contributor of ONAP core projects, such as Modeling /VF-C/ SDC/SDNC. Currently, Victor is the architect in Huawei mainly focusing on a MEC project that will be open-source shortly.

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.

I am responsible for network edge open source field in Huawei. I am involved in Akraino as several BP’s committers and used to be the SPC member of LF Edge.