Franck Baudin, Linux Foundation

Franck Baudin is responsible for the NFV technical strategy within Red Hat’s OpenStack product management team. He currently focuses on providing high performance network connectivity to VNFs: SR-IOV, OVS-DPDK, VPP.   Previously, within the Qosmos CTO team, Franck was responsible for technical Proof of Concepts and prototyping of emerging products, such as Service Function Chaining PoC in Telekom Malaysia lab and Qosmos L7 classification plugin. He also designed and led the implementation of DPI integration within DPDK based VNFs.   Formerly, Franck was managing the engineering team at 6WIND. On the technical side, his responsibilities included the development of strategic projects in the areas of SDN, Open vSwitch, and Intel DPDK. Before that, he led the porting of 6WIND portfolio from FreeBSD to Linux.

Timon Sloane is the vice president of standards and membership of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) leading the organization’s efforts with SDN standards, skills certification, and membership. In his role as vice president of standards, Timon’s primary focus is to drive activities within the organization relating to the OpenFlow® standard, bridging standards activities and open source initiatives to bring efforts in both areas under a single umbrella. Timon also leads efforts relating to the ONF-Certified SDN Professional (OCSP) Program to build and enhance the worldwide footprint of the ONF’s skills certifications. Timon works closely with current and potential ONF membership to ensure that the full community is working together towards a common goal of accelerating the adoption of SDN.  Prior to this new role, Timon provided product and management consulting services to numerous technology firms, most recently with Ericsson where he was driving product strategy for the networking product lines. His prior experience also includes executive roles in product management, marketing and engineering for firms such as Matisse Networks, Extreme Networks, NET, FlowWise and SCO. Timon received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Deeply engaged in strategy, innovation and engineering projects (incl. leading roles in cross-functional programs) within the DT group, Manuel coordinates Software-Defined Networking standards & collaborative community activities.   He is involved in the SDN movement since the early days, has driven and contributed to various related standardization activities, and serves in leadership positions at the Broadband Forum and the Open Networking Foundation.   He is co-initiator and leader of the 5G Convergence project stream within the BBF Wireless-Wireline-Convergence Work Area. In the past, he was also active in other standards developing organizations incl. the Internet Engineering Task Force.

Andrea Campanella, 25 from Milan, Italy, is employed as a Member of Technical staff (MTS) at Open Networking Foundation since February 2017, with a previous internship in 2015 and 2016.  Andrea obtained the Master's degree in computer science at the Public University of Milan in December 2016 after a Bachelor degree in Digital communication in July 2014 at the same institution.   Andrea’s main focus in ONOS are southbound protocols, device integration, P4 and packet-optical use case. Andrea also works on CORD both in the Enterprise use case team and in the Trellis Leaf spine fabric.

Kiran Makhijani works as Principal Research Scientist at the Future Networks, Huawei USA. Her current work includes exploring posibilities in the design of next-generation network architectures, technologies, protocols, and solutions. In particular, network slicing realization in the context of specialized, purpose built networks for Industrial Internet, reliability with ultra-low latency, and Edge Computing.   At Huawei, Kiran's contributions include an auto-scaling and auto-provisioning routing technology for cloud-centric networks, development of Topology-Transparent Zoning (TTZ), an IGP area virtualization technique to manage scale of route information; and Identity oriented services and communications in the 5G era.   Prior to Huawei, Kiran worked at Cisco where she led many projects in IOS-XR, ASR9K; such as SDN initiative, policy-based routing, service-centric forwarding plane customizations and building reliable edge-services on distributed network operating systems.

John Grant's career began at the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, and he wrote the operating system and BASIC compiler for the Sinclair ZX range of microcomputers. In 1981 he created local area networking technology which was used in both industrial and commercial environments. Since then he has created products for carrying video and audio over digital networks, including network switching equipment; this has given him an insight into the requirements of audio and other live media, which are very different from those for data traffic. More recently he has been researching how packet networking can meet these requirements as well as avoiding the various problems that have been identified with IP.   He is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society and chairs their standards subcommittee SC-02 (digital audio). He is also editor of several international standards documents including ISO TR 29181-3 (Future Network switching and routing).

Since October 2011 Diego R. Lopez is in charge of Technology Exploration at the Global CTO Unit, within Telefónica I+D. His responsibilities are related to the definition and coordination of research projects in the areas of new networking technologies and network infrastructures. He is directly involved in activities related to network virtualization, core optimization, AAA, traffic analysis, and infrastructure security.   He is actively participating in the ETSI ISG on Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), chairing its Technical Steering Committee. He is acting as representative of Telefónica in bodies related to network technologies, like the ONF and the BBF, and contributing to several working groups inside IETF.Diego have been appointed by the European Commission as member of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data e-Infrastructures (HLEG-SDI).   He received his MS from the University of Granada in 1985, and his PhD degree from the University of Seville in 2001. Since 1985 he have worked for several private and public organisations, developing and deploying communication services.   From 2000 to 2011 he was responsible for the Middleware Area of RedIRIS, the Spanish National Research and Educational Network. As part of these tasks he actively participate in national and international working groups and projects, and he have collaborated in several versions of the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group White Paper, under the auspices of the EU Presidency, in areas related to security and digital identity services.   His current areas of interest are network middleware and network intelligence, virtualization of network architectures, control and signaling protocols, infrastructural and mediation service, and new network architectures and services  Specialities: NFV and Software Networks. Internet middleware. Federated architectures. Directories (LDAP). Identity management systems: SAML, OpenID, OAuth. PKI. Internet security. RESTful services. RDF. SDN: OpenFlow