Rami has over 20 years of diverse experience in the telecommunications industry. Currently he Co-Chairs the MEF Global Marketing Committee, Chairs the Mobile Backhaul Focus Group, and is an inaugural member of the Marketing Leadership Council.   In his current role at Telco Systems, a leading provider of innovative, multi-service edge solutions, Rami oversees technology, strategy, and business development for the SDN, NFV, Carrier Ethernet, and IP/MPLS, product lines.   Previously, Rami held various senior level positions in engineering, architecture, product strategy, and business development at DragonWave, Axerra Networks, Carrier Access, and Paragon Networks. Rami holds an MS in Computer Science and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Haven.

Pascal serves as CTO and Advisory Director for MEF and is a former Principal at Microsoft Skype for Business Global Carrier Group.   Pascal is a proven technology thought leader, sales evangelist, product manager and seasoned IP architect with decades of experience in internetworking, next-generation information systems, and communication architectures.   As the founder of TSCM Technology he is focused on the building of cloud scale architectures and real-time media networks using Software Defined Networks (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO).   As one of the leading industry experts in Unified Communication (UC) and SDN he is a UCStrategies Expert, pioneer of Unified Communications (UC and Software Defined Networks (SDN), Chair of UC SDN Task Group at International Multimedia Telecommunication Consortium (IMTC), Vice-Chair of Open Network Foundation (ONF) NBI Working Group and Co-Founder and former Vice-Chair of Wi-Fi Alliance Task Group Mobile Multimedia Over Wi-Fi.   Pascal has done five startups with multiple successes, has received numerous industry awards and has presented extensively in numerous events globally . Pascal holds 4 patents with 25 additional patents pending and has co-authored many standards in the IETF, MEF, IMTC and Broadband Forum (MPLS).

Oliver Spatscheck received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1999 at which point he joined AT&T Labs. He was named AT&T fellow in 2013, holds over 100 patents, co-authored a book on Web Caching and Content Distribution and published over 75 articles. He was also the co-inventor of such systems as GS-Tool, IDNS and ARO which are used within and outside of AT&T. In his current role he is supporting AT&T’s open source ECOMP efforts.   He can be reached at spatsch(at)research.att.com and his home page is http://www.spatscheck.com/oliver.

Dr. Eyal Felstaine heads the ECOMP co-creation collaboration with AT&T around their software-centric Domain 2.0 vision of achieving 75% virtualization in their network by 2020.   Eyal has spearheaded the establishment of the NFV Unit in Amdocs since its inception.

Yaakov (Jonathan) Stein obtained his BSc (1977), MSc (1979) and PhD (1989) degrees in theoretical physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.   From 1980 to 1989 Dr. Stein worked as a research scientist for the Israel Ministry of Defense, and received the Israel Defense Award, Israel's highest award for defense-related research. He was employed by Comverse Technology from 1989 to 1998, first as Neural Network Applications Team Leader in Tel Aviv, and then as DSP and Advanced Technology Manager, stationed in New York. Between 1995 and 1998 he served as Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Polytechnic University, New York and has served in a similar capacity at Tel Aviv University since 1998.   In 1999 he was named Chief Scientist at RAD and became the company’s Chief Technology Officer in 2011.   Dr. Stein has authored numerous academic papers, standardization contributions and patent applications. He has chaired and given invited lectures at international conferences and is an active participant in several telecommunication industry standardization forums. He has coauthored and contributed many IETF RFCs, ITU-T Recommendations and MPLS Forum (now Broadband Forum) Implementation Agreements. He presently co-chairs the IETF’s Timing over IP Connection and Transfer of Clock (TICTOC) working group. His book, Digital Signal Processing - A Computer Science Perspective, was published by John Wiley and Sons in 2000.

Ahmed has 17 years of experience in telco, communication & IT industry. He joined Intel in September 2015 as the Telco Technical Sales Director covering MEA. His mission is to accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies within service providers focusing on SDN/NFV, 5G and IoT.   Previous to Joining Intel Ahmed has spent the last decade working within various multinational companies in the telecom sector. He spent 8 years working as a Senior Solutions Architect for Service Providers at Cisco, where he was responsible for designing state of the art networks and working closely with them to define the different services that they can offer to the market. Prior to that he worked for Nortel where he was responsible for Nortel VoIP & Contact Center products. Earlier in his career he was with 3COM as a Network Consultant covering MENA.   Ahmed holds a B.S. In Electronics & Communications from Cairo University

Dr. XiPeng Xiao is Head of CTO Office for Huawei West Europe. Prior to Huawei, he spent many years in Silicon Valley and served as Marketing Director at Riverstone

Niloufar Tayebi is a Senior Advisor, Global Carriers Consulting at Ciena. She specializes in managed services and is adept in services strategies, enterprise and wholesale market analysis and business case modeling.   Niloufar has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications starting her career as a network architecture, has held leading roles in 4G wireless networking and carrier core product marketing and planning.   In her role in Ciena she is responsible as a global consultant for helping service providers to create new services and drive new business models leveraging Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) with Ciena’s Blue Planet network virtualization, orchestration, and management software.   Niloufar holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Ottawa, Canada. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

Carl is part of the Tail-f team in Cisco’s NFV Business Unit. He focuses on orchestration of current and virtualized networks working with large customers, standards and strategic product development.  Carl is also a key contributor to many of the standards organizations including IETF, ETSI NFV, Cablelabs, ONF and MEF.

Sam Aldrin works as Network Architect @Google Network Operations. He is involved in architecting and operating of Google DC networks in order to meet the ever growing demands of Network Capacity and Bandwidth. He is also co-chair of Network Virtualization Overlay over Layer 3 Working Group at IETF.  Prior to Google, worked as Principal Engineer at Huawei Technologies and Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, developing various networking technologies. Author of various RFC’s and drafts in the area of Routing Protocols within IETF. Frequent speaker various networking conferences and forums related to SDN, NFV and other networking technologies.

Asaf is a seasoned engineering professional focusing on Networking and Cloud architecture, with over 15 years of experience in the Telecommunications market, having held various positions at different Telco equipment vendors.  Asaf leads the product management team for Nokia’s CloudBand Network Director, which addresses the NFVO piece in the MANO puzzle.

Peter is researching the future of networks covering everything from photonics to network applications.  He has been researching and developing Network Functions Virtualisation since 2011, he published the first carrier testing results in June 2012 and is co-inventor of the term “NFV”. Peter is currently leading BT’s research to improve NFV technology and address the challenges of down streaming it into BT’s services.   Peter previously worked on the development of PBB-TE, BT’s 21st Century Network Architecture and BT’s Internet service.

Marcel Wiget is a Product Manager at Juniper Networks for Automation based in Switzerland, joining the company in 2009 as a systems engineer for network service providers.  Networking and Automation based on IETF standards and open source tools have always been at the center of his professional carrier, starting as a UNIX administrator and software developer.   In his spare time, he likes to work on open source projects like Snabb and uses Docker Containers extensively.

Rihab is working as a Systems Designer in the field of cloud and SDN technologies at Ericsson Eurolabs, Germany.