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ONF Connect 2019

Amit Kulkarni

Sterlite Technologies Limited.
Senior Technical Manager
amit.kulkarni@sterlite.com

Amit is Senior Technical Manager at Sterlite focused on SDN Controller based solutions.
In this role, he leads development for technologies like Multi-Access Controller, RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC), Wifi SDN Controller, NOS, pWDM SDN Controller.
Before Sterlite, Amit was Technical Manager at Netcracker, and developed the NEC's MANO & EMS for eNB, vCPE, EPC.
Prior to working in Netcracker, he served as Product Manager at Tata Consultancy Services for 10 years. Some of the Major product development he has done are Nortel's CDMA OAM BSSM product. He started his career as a software engineer at TCS Ltd.

8:00am PDT

Registration & Breakfast Grand Ballroom Foyer

9:00am PDT

Tutorial: Mobile & 5G Grand Ballroom (Salon A) Tutorial: Next-Gen SDN Grand Ballroom (Salon B)

8:00am PDT

Registration & Breakfast California Ballroom Foyer

9:00am PDT

Keynote: "Open Source for Broadband Networking", Andre Fuetsch, President AT&T Labs and CTO at AT&T Salons 5-6

9:30am PDT

State of ONF: Guru Parulkar, Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Salons 5-6

10:15am PDT

Keynote: "How We Might Get Humans out of the Way", Nick McKeown, Stanford University, Professor of Computer Engineering and Barefoot Networks, Co-founder Salons 5-6

10:45am PDT

11:00am PDT

Plenary: "Who dares wins! How access transformation can fast-track evolution of operator production platforms" Salons 5-6

11:45am PDT

Panel: 5G and Open Source Salons 5-6

12:30pm PDT

Lunch & Expo Salons 1-4

2:00pm PDT

COMAC: Converged Multi Access and Core Grand Ballroom (Salon C) Open Source in Networking - Ecosystem Update Grand Ballroom (Salon A)

2:30pm PDT

The Future of Next-Gen Networks: Why 5G’s Success Depends on Disaggregation and Open RAN Grand Ballroom (Salon C) Using Akraino to Simplify Edge Stack Grand Ballroom (Salon A) An Overview of gNMI Support in Stratum Grand Ballroom (Salon D)

3:00pm PDT

ONAP Orchestration for Multi-Access Edge Grand Ballroom (Salon E)

3:15pm PDT

NEM Management: Service Lifecycle, Upgrades, API, and Tools Grand Ballroom (Salon B)

3:30pm PDT

Wireless SDN Models and Testing in ONF, ONAP and O-RAN Grand Ballroom (Salon C) P4 on FPM Switches with Stratum Grand Ballroom (Salon D)

4:00pm PDT

4:30pm PDT

vBNG Data Plane in P4-programmable FPGA-based Acceleration Card Grand Ballroom (Salon B) The Telecom Infra Project (TIP): Accelerating Rollout of Open Networks Grand Ballroom (Salon A) Extending and Reusing the New ONOS GUI2 Grand Ballroom (Salon E)

5:30pm PDT

The Result of P4 Usecase for Edge Cloud and Introduction of a New Usecase of P4 Grand Ballroom (Salon D) A gRPC Based Event Distribution System Grand Ballroom (Salon E)

6:00pm PDT

Reception & Expo Salons 1-4 Multi-Layer Multi-Domain Network Topology Abstractions Using ONF Transport API (TAPI) Grand Ballroom (Salon A)

7:00pm PDT

OCP Birds of a Feather (BOF) Session Grand Ballroom (Salon A)

8:00am PDT

Registration & Breakfast California Ballroom Foyer

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Jason Hoffman , President & CEO, MobiledgeX, Salons 5-6

9:30am PDT

Keynote: "Plotting a Course to a Continued Moore's Law" by Partha Ranganathan and Amin Vahdat, Google Salons 5-6

10:30am PDT

11:45am PDT

Panel: Edge Cloud - Different Perspectives on Edge Salons 5-6

2:00pm PDT

OMEC in a Kubernetes Orchestrated Environment Grand Ballroom (Salon C) Leveraging Dataplane Disaggregation to Improve Testing Pipeline Grand Ballroom (Salon D)

2:30pm PDT

OMEC - Architectural Challenges with Evolution Standards, Road Ahead, and 5G Grand Ballroom (Salon C) Implementing the Programmable Service Edge Grand Ballroom (Salon B)

3:00pm PDT

Magma and OMEC Grand Ballroom (Salon C)

4:30pm PDT

Extending Network Slicing to the RAN: Benefits, Requirements and the Road Ahead Grand Ballroom (Salon C)

5:00pm PDT

Building True Programmable, Open and Disaggregated Solutions to Meet the Requirements for Next Generation RAN Grand Ballroom (Salon C)

5:30pm PDT

Virtualized, Disaggregated 3GPP 5G RAN and Small Cells Grand Ballroom (Salon C)

6:00pm PDT

Reception & Expo Salons 1-4

7:00pm PDT

Cord Certification Brigade BOF Salon 9

8:00am PDT

Registration & Breakfast California Ballroom Foyer

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Elad Nafshi, Sr. VP, Next Generation Access Network, Comcast Salons 5-6

9:30am PDT

Distinguished Contributor Team Award Salons 5-6

9:45am PDT

Keynote: Trellis – The First ONF Production-Ready Solution Salons 5-6

10:30am PDT

11:00am PDT

Keynote: Jochen Appel, VP Access Network Engineering, Deutsche Telekom Salons 5-6

11:30am PDT

Keynote: CORD TAM Research Update Salons 5-6

11:50am PDT

Panel: Technical Leadership Team (TLT) Salons 5-6

2:00pm PDT

5G Mobile Platform with P4-Enabled Network Slicing and MEC Grand Ballroom (Salon C) μONOS Project Overview Grand Ballroom (Salon D)

2:30pm PDT

Enabling 5G Backhaul: 5G SDN Backhaul in the Post Release 16 Era Grand Ballroom (Salon C) Micro ONOS for Developers Grand Ballroom (Salon D)

3:00pm PDT

Device Configuration in µONOS Grand Ballroom (Salon D) VNFs in CNFs Environment Grand Ballroom (Salon E)

3:30pm PDT

Device Management and Monitoring Through Redfish Grand Ballroom (Salon B) What Can SDN Do For NFV Cloud Network Grand Ballroom (Salon E)