Charles is a developer evangelist in Cisco DevNet with a passion for open source and open standards.   His began his journey with open source in 1999 as a founding member of Vovida Networks, where he developed some of the industry's first open source Voice over IP (VoIP) protocol stacks and applications.   Now at Cisco, Charles is a recognized champion of open standards, open source, and interoperability. He runs the Open Source Dev Center, which focuses on Cisco’s major open source contributions, use, and community engagements, including OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and OPNFV.   In 2015, he successfully introduced open source hackathons into IETF and MEF, revolutionizing the way these SDOs operate and uniting open source software with open standards to maximize the pace and relevance of both.

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.

Antoine Clerget, as OneAccess’ CTO, is responsible for driving the vision for technological innovation and OneAccess technology roadmap.  Antoine is a Telecom and technology expert and thanks to his deep understanding and expertise in the software world, he is leading OneAccess’ technological strategy into service and product virtualization.   Prior to his role as CTO, Antoine was OneAccess’ VP of R&D. He joined OneAccess following the acquisition of UDcast in 2011, where he was one of the founders, CEO and CTO. UDcast’s solutions were focused on WAN Optimization over satellite and Mobile TV (DVB-H) networks. Antoine holds a phD in computer science and telecommunication, as well as engineering degrees from Telecom ParisTech and Ecole Polytechnique.

− Co-chair of IETF I2NSF (Interface to Network Security Functions) WG. I2NSF WG is to standardize interface for clients to dynamically specify/monitor/verify their security policies, providing a tool to achieve Software Defined Security Services.   − Lead network technology and architecture development for dynamic cloud VPN solution that intelligently integrates SD-WAN with MPLS based VPN so that enterprises can use their existing MPLS based VPN to connect to dynamic workloads instantiated in various cloud data centers reliably and securely.   − Lead Network Security initiative for securing workloads hosted in cloud data centers  − Secretary to ONUG SD-WAN Exchange Working Group  − Member of Technical Advisory Committee for NIA (New IP Agency) which focuses on interoperability testing of NFV & SDN.   Active Contributing to: ONUG (SD-WAN Exchange WG & Software Defined Security Services WG), IETF Routing, Internet, Transport Area, and OpArea. IETF OpArea Directorate, IETF Gen-Art Area Directorate.

Valéry Augais is a senior network architect in Colt’s Network On-Demand Architecture & Design team. He joined Colt’s engineering department in 1998 as an access and metro technologies specialist.  In the 2010’s he has been actively involved in: the design and roll-out of next-generation packet-based Carrier Ethernet networks and services; the modular integration of the optical, Ethernet and IP layers with the aim of simplifying the transport and service architectures; the evolution of the access network for a smarter mobile backhaul offering; the assessment and development of FTTx technologies and architectures for Colt. Since more recently his current research focus is on optical SDN services, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and NFV infrastructure.   Valéry holds two M.Sc. degrees in Telecommunications and Computing from Telecom ParisTech and UPMC University, France.

Bob Titus is Netcracker's VP of Digital Solutions. Bob works with CSP's around the globe to assess and define their Digital, Network and Operational needs and defines comprehensive software and operational solutions to meet those needs.   Bob has served in a variety of executive roles in Netcracker in Europe, NA, and LATAM over the last 12 years.  Prior to Netcracker, Bob spent 10 years architecting and delivering large scale BSS/OSS programs to CSP's while at Accenture.

Javier Antich is an experienced Networking Industry professional with 20 years of experience. He has spent the last 12 years at Juniper Networks on different systems engineering and architect positions.  Currently he is Product Line Manager in the JUNOS team at Juniper Development and Innovation (JDI), focused on Automation, Programmability, Telemetry & Analytics.   Previous to that, he experienced the raise on the Carrier Ethernet market at Riverstone Networks. He is passionate about networking technologies, economy and Ironman triathlons.   He holds a Masters Degree on Telecommunications by the ETSIT at the Polytechnic University in Valencia, and Executive MBA at the Instituto de Empresa Business School.

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Amir Zmora is CEO & Co-founder of SwitchRTC, a Real-time, interactive WebRTC based video CDN and B2B/B2C collaboration solution. Amir has been working for more than 15 years in the telecommunications industry with strong focus on VoIP and WebRTC.   For the last several years Amir is consulting companies in the fields of WebRTC and SD-WAN. Among his previous positions, Amir was VP Products & Marketing for the Technology Business Unit of RADVISION, an Avaya company, where he led the BU turnaround from low level SDKs to client solutions and complimentary products.   Amir is the author of TheNewDialTone and co-founder of WebRTCStandards.info and WebRTCIndex.

Stuart Borgman is a Director at Palo Alto Networks responsible for the Systems Engineering team working with Service Provider accounts in Europe. Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).   Stuart has over 25 years experience working in the security and networking industries, holding senior technical leadership roles with Cisco and Juniper Networks.  He also spent a several years designing and operating network and cloud solutions while Chief Technology Officer for MLL Telecom in UK, where he was responsible for driving their transition to a hybrid wireline and wireless managed service operator.

Prayson Pate is ADVA Optical Networking's chief technology officer for Ensemble and an evangelist for network functions virtualization (NFV). He speaks at industry events and writes posts and articles to inform, educate and entertain, mostly about NFV with plenty of innovation for good measure. These include The Real CTOs of NFV series.   Prayson received a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from North Carolina State University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Duke University. Prayson has contributed to standards bodies such as the MEF and IETF. He is a named inventor on nine patents.

Margarida Correia is an Architect at Juniper Networks. She is currently working within the Financial Services Architecture team devising Cloud Security solutions.   Prior to this role Margarida was in Juniper Professional Services where she led design and build of many innovative global and in-country MPLS networks used for a variety of services such as Broadcast Video, Mobile Services and Financial Trading. She has deep experience in large-scale MPLS, VPNs, Traffic Engineering, Multicast and CoS.   Prior to Juniper Margarida was in the Futures Networks Labs of BT’s Research Department working on Multicast, MPLS and VoIP. She received a 1st Degree in Telecommunication and Electronics Engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, an MSc in Telecommunication Systems from University of Essex, UK and holds Juniper Networks Certified Internet Expert (JNCIE) certification number 39.

Frank O. Miller is Chief Technology Officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Ciena, responsible for aligning Ciena’s technology solutions to the business challenges and opportunities of customers in the region.   Frank has over 25 years of experience with previous roles as principal engineer and strategist with deep experience working with access, transport, and wireless platforms. Mr. Miller is a globally recognized technology leader and innovator with prior leadership roles in telecom, cable and academia. Before joining Ciena, Frank was Vice President of Access and Chief Architect at CenturyLink.   He holds an MBA with distinction from Ashridge Hult International Business School and a BS in Information Technology with honors from University of Phoenix. Frank also attended Executive Training at Dartmouth University at Tuck and graduated from US Navy Dive School.

Jonathan is responsible for making ECI's elastic network solutions thought-provoking to ECI’s customers and the industry at large. Previously Jonathan was Vice President Architecture Marketing at Nortel Networks, and Vice President Business Development at Xtellus, an optical swtching startup.  He served on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions and the Multiservice Switching Forum. Jonathan has a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from McGill University.