Feb 8, 2018   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

Open Networking Summit North America Program Now Available, Featuring Topics for the Enterprise, Cloud and Service Providers

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the full schedule of sessions, speakers and activities for Open Networking Summit North America, taking place March 26-29 in Los Angeles. The theme for this year's event is 'Integrate. Automate. Accelerate.'

Open Networking Summit (ONS) is the industry's premier open networking event, gathering enterprises, service providers and cloud providers across the ecosystem to share learnings, highlight innovation and discuss the future of open source networking, including software defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), orchestration and the automation of cloud, network and IoT services.

Keynote speakers come from companies representing the growing networking ecosystem including Alibaba, Arm, Amazon Web Services, AT&T, Ciena, Dell EMC, Ericsson, Google, Huawei, Intel, LF Networking, Nokia, ONF, Uber and VMware.

Session highlights include:

    --  Automate or Die: 5 Network Automation Things You Have to Do - Eric
        Hanselman, 451 Research
    --  Platform Approach for SDN Predictive Management Using AI and ML - David
        Lu & George Sultana, AT&T
    --  Colt's Evolution: From MPLS to Cloud Networking - Javier Benitez, Colt
        Technology Services
    --  Containers and Clusters for Customer Success - Balasubramaniyan Kannan,
        Equinix
    --  K8Guard an Auditing System for Kubernetes - Medya Ghazizadeh, Google
    --  Intelligence Driven Network: The "Next Hop" of Internet - David Meyer &
        Zhibo Gong, Huawei
    --  Creating a Safer, Smart Ride - NFV for Automotive - Steven Furr &
        Trinath Somanchi, NXP
    --  Istio and Envoy: Enabling Sidecars for Microservices - Angela Chin,
        Pivotal
    --  5G and Open Source Networking - Jamil Chawki, Orange
    --  A New Software Engineering Methodology for creating Resilient
        Microservices - Pethuru Raj, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.

The full agenda can be viewed here.

Co-located events and onsite activities at ONS include:

    --  Open Networking Innovation Forum (ONIF) - An invitation-only think tank
        gathering leaders from across the networking ecosystem to discuss the
        opportunities and challenges facing open networking acceleration and the
        open source business model.
    --  Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR) - The premier venue for research
        publications on SDN.
    --  Developer Forums - LF Networking, Open Networking Foundation, and Acumos
        Project will be holding developer forums on Monday, March 26 and the
        morning of Tuesday, March 27, prior to ONS, to provide developers an
        opportunity for deep technical discussions, cross-project collaboration,
        hacking and more.
    --  Evening Events - ONS offers an invitation-only Partner Reception on
        Tuesday evening at the Grammy Museum, in addition to all-attendee
        receptions onsite Wednesday and at The Majestic on Thursday.
    --  Solutions & Demo Showcase - Expo floor featuring a combination of
        hand-picked demonstrations of collaborative multi-organization solutions
        at the cutting edge of open source networking, along with demos from
        leading networking organizations.
    --  Morning Activities - Attendees can participate in a 5K Fun Run or a
        Morning Meditation session.
    --  Child Care - To make the conference more accessible for parents,
        complimentary child care is provided onsite (RSVP required no later than
        March 2).

Registration is discounted to $1195 through February 11. Members of The Linux Foundation and the LF Networking Fund receive a 20% discount. Discounted academic and student rates are also available. Applications for diversity and needs-based scholarships are currently being accepted. For information on eligibility and how to apply, please click here.

The Linux Foundation events are where the world's leading technologists meet, collaborate, learn and network in order to advance innovations that support the world's largest shared technologies.

Members of the press who would like to request a press pass to attend should contact Dan Brown at dbrown@linuxfoundation.org.

This event is made possible thanks to Diamond Sponsor Arm; Platinum Sponsors Alibaba Cloud, Dell EMC, Ericsson and Huawei; Gold Sponsors Ciena and Nokia; and Silver Sponsors ADTRAN, Fujitsu, Inocybe, and Lumina Networks.

Additional Resources
YouTube: Why Attend Linux Foundation Events (https://youtu.be/X_rLxfmLlYY)

Open Networking Summit 2017 Event Recap (https://events17.linuxfoundation.org/events/open-networking-summit-north-america)

About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world's top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.

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Media Contact:
Dan Brown
The Linux Foundation
415-420-7880
dbrown@linuxfoundation.org

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