Tilly is a consultant at STL Partners. She works on a range of client projects with a particular focus on helping telcos squeeze the business potential from artificial intelligence and data analytics.   She has a BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University and an MA in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania.

As director in the MEF's Office of the CTO, Daniel is responsible for the development and implementation of a range of strategic MEF programs that are central to MEF's transformation to an agile-process oriented standards development organization. These innovative programs - including the MEF Software Developer Community, MEFnet global implementation platform, and MEF Reference Implementations - enable MEF's 210+ member companies to implement draft and published service orchestration and definitions work in code, and to make available standardized open APIs that accelerate the availability of highly agile, assured and orchestrated services for today's hyper-connected world.   Daniel has been involved in the networking industry for 25 years holding a variety of positions in RAD Data Communications, as well as co-founding Resolute Networks where he held executive positions. Representing Resolute in the MEF, Daniel served for 3 years as MEF Global Marketing Co-Chair and was elected three times to the MEF Board of Directors. Since 2010, Daniel has been a senior member of the MEF staff.

Imen Grida Ben Yahia is currently with Orange Labs, France, as Orange Expert in Future Networks. She is leading a research project, on Autonomic & Cognitive Management for software networks. She received her PhD degree in Telecommunication Networks from Pierre et Marie Curie University in conjunction with Télécom SudParis in 2008.   Her current research interests are autonomic and cognitive management for software and programmable networks that include artificial intelligence for SLA and fault management, knowledge and abstraction for management operations, intent- and policy-based management. As such, she contributed to several European research projects like Servery, FP7 UniverSelf and the H2020 CogNet and authored several scientific conference and journal papers in the field of autonomic and cognitive management. Imen is Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Network Intelligence (ongoing). She is currently TPC chair of Netsoft 2018 and also a member of several TPCs and conference organizing committees.

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.

Jim Guichard,

Jim Guichard, a Distinguished Engineer and Head of IP protocol innovation at Huawei, is an experienced network and protocol architect with 25+ years of industry experience and expertise in areas such as Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), IP routing, L3VPN’s, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and Service Chaining.   Jim is the inventor of 100+ US & international patents related to IP, MPLS, and network services, and is widely respected for his MPLS/IP, routing, SDN/NFV expertise. He is also the author of several books including “MPLS & VPN Architectures, volumes I & II” and “Definitive MPLS Network Designs”.

Sunil leads the vision and direction at Nuage Networks, a Silicon Valley-based business that brings a combination of technologies and networking expertise to the enterprise and telecommunications industries.   He has built 15+ years of expertise in product management and consulting engineering in leadership roles working with the IP Division of former Alcatel-Lucent (now Nokia) and networking start-up TiMetra Networks, as well as Bay and Nortel Networks in New York and Santa Clara, California. His first professional job came before even earning his degree when he was able to convince a local company in his hometown to hire him as a design engineer during a university-wide strike.   Sunil believes that the key to successful leadership is having the ability to define your vision and inspire people to follow it. Nuage Networks’ success so far is due to hiring top talent and building a team of dedicated players focused on bringing new thinking to industry problems.  A co-author and contributor to multiple IETF drafts, he is also a regular speaker at industry events and conferences. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in CIS.

Mr.Wim Henderickx is Director Network Consulting Engineering & PLM – Technology in the ION Division at Nokia, based in Belgium. Mr. Henderickx provides senior level consulting on advanced IP solutions for Service provider and Enterprise customers around: Cloud Networking (SDN/NFV), Triple Play, Mobile, IOT, etc.  He has over 20 years’ experience in the communications and networking industry, and is a regular speaker at technical conferences all over the world. He is active in a number of SDO’s like IETF, BBF, openStack, etc.   Mr. Henderickx holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Data Communications and a Masters degree in Economy and is a Bellabs Fellow.

Aseem Parikh serves as Vice President of Solutions and Partnerships at ONF/ON.Lab, where he champions open source SDN projects – CORD and ONOS.   He is responsible for working with network operators and cloud providers to define POCs and help move those POCs to trials to deployments.   Aseem brings 20+ years of global operating experience in the computer networking industry and a deep passion for product management and strategy to ONF. His successful entrepreneurial pursuits include ventures acquired by Cisco in 1999 and Netlogic/Broadcom in 2008.   He was responsible for securing strategic customer wins at Fortune500 enterprises including AT&T, Cadbury-Kraft (Mondelez), Comcast, Fujitsu, Huawei, Kellogg, Verizon and Virgin Media; as well as federal agencies and contractors like Harris, Lockheed Martin and NASA. Aseem holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from UCLA.

Pierre BICHON has been working in the Telecom industry for the last 30 years after a Computer Science Engineering Degree in Paris and a Master’s in Network Architecture in Sophia-Antipolis, France.  After working for various networking vendors and telecom operators, he joined Juniper Networks in year 2000 where he held various technical and management positions. He is currently Product Manager for Telco Cloud Solutions.

Jan Marien is Product Marketing Manager for Ethernet and Mobile Access products for the OneAccess brand and joined the company in 2006. During his over 25-year career he held positions in engineering, product management and strategy. With a background both from vendor perspective in OneAccess Networks and Integration business with Telindus Networks, he is very much focused on integration and business development of new technologies in service provider access networks worldwide.

Rajesh Rajamani,

Rajesh Rajamani is the leader of Product Management for Spirent’s Cloud and NFV portfolio of product lines and services. In this role, he is responsible for helping validate and assure NFV and Cloud deployments of Cloud Providers and Telcos. Prior to this role, he was Director of Product Marketing for Routing, MPLS and Switching product lines at Spirent.   Rajesh has worked at CenturyLink as Strategic Planning Manager and at Nortel and Redback as Senior Software Engineer. Rajesh has an MBA degree from Duke University and attended the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai, India.

Yaakov (Jonathan) Stein joined RAD in 1999, and has been CTO since 2011. He presently chairs the Neptune consortium – the Israel consortium for network programming, and is additionally adjunct professor of computer science at Tel Aviv University.   He obtained his PhD in theoretical physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1989. In 1992 he received the Israel Defense Award, Israel's highest award for defense-related research. His book, Digital Signal Processing - A Computer Science Perspective, was published in 2000.

Carsten Rossenhövel is Managing Director and co-founder of EANTC AG (European Advanced Networking Test Center). Based in Berlin, Germany, EANTC is a test lab specializing in telecommunication technologies and offers vendor-neutral network testing services for manufacturers, service providers, and enterprise customers.   In this role Carsten has over 20 years of experience in telecommunication networks testing and is responsible for EANTC's business development and marketing. His technical areas of expertise include Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and transport network solutions (MPLS; SDN; Carrier Ethernet).   Before joining EANTC, he studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin and worked as a Software Engineer as well as Consultant in the financial services and media sector. In 1999 he founded EANTC together with Gabriele Schrenk and Herbert Almus.

Sonny is Product Line Manager in Cisco Service Provider Networking Automation and Analytics Business Unit and currently manages the product line of WAN AutomationEngine (WAE), including WAE’s integrated solution with Cisco’s XR Traffic Controller (XTC).   Sonny has over seventeen years’ experience in the industry. He has spent a good number of those years in the field as a Consulting System Engineer, working with service provider customers, helping them with solutions for network management, planning, and optimization. He has also worked as a Network Engineer for several global service providers, providing him with an intimate insight and understanding of the challenges and needs of service provider customers.   Sonny holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from National University of Singapore, and Master’s degree in Finance from Singapore Management University. He is also a CCIE holder.

Michael Habib is a Solutions Director SDN/NFV at Netcracker. In his role Michael is responsible to drive Netcracker’s SDN/NFV Solutions portfolio through interfacing with customers, partners and internally with Product Management and Engineering. Michael’s recent focus has been to realize the impact of Orchestration on SDN/NFV and 5G, taking a pragmatic approach to helping Netcracker’s customers adopt Domain Orchestration successfully.   Prior to Netcracker, Michael has gained a wide industry experience in multiple technologies such as IP/MPLS, 4G and was one of the leading figures in his region in SDN/NFV technologies early days  

25+ years experience in developing networking solutions and further advancing networking technology. Area of research - network resiliency and quality assurance by enhancing fault management and performance monitoring methods.   An active contributor to SDOs (IETF, BBF, and MEF).   An inventor with 10+ granted patents.   BS in Physics degree from Latvian University (Riga, Latvia). .

Azam Beyk is currently with Comarch UK as an expert in OSS and future technologies. He provides senior level consultancy to biggest UK telecom operators on OSS solutions and transformation, SDN/NFV, AI, Orchestration and 5G. He has over 10 years’ experience in the telecommunications, and has become a regular speaker at technical conferences in Europe.  He is active in a number of SDO’s like MEF, ONF and IET. Azam Beyk hold master’s degree in mobile and satellite communications and is an IET Fellow. Currently, Azam’s research interest is focused on 5G, NS, AI and Cognitive Orchestration, and he actively contributes into research papers. .

Over 12 years’ experience in network design, research and standards Work extensively in Routing, MPLS, VPN, SDN, 5G Transport, etc. Secretary of IETF IDR working group 8 RFCs and more than 10 active IETF drafts RFC 6608, 6232, 7571, 7795, 8184, 8185, 8227, 8348. More than 40 patents in packet networking. .