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Ramki Krishnan
Distinguished Engineer, CTO NFV
Dell Networking
Ram (Ramki) Krishnan is an industry expert in the area of Networking. He combines deep technology
understanding with strategic thinking to bring customer-winning products and solutions to reality. His
expertise includes a wide range of technologies and market trends, including: Software Defined
Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Public and Private Cloud services, Network
Virtualization, Overlay and Underlay Networking, OpenFlow, Data Center, Mobile Networking and MPLS
etc. He has previous startup experience. He is a recognized innovator with 20+ US patents and several
IEEE conference papers. He is a thought leadership speaker in key conferences such as OpenStack,
OpenDaylight, OPNFV and ONS etc. He holds a leadership role in the NFV Research Group at IETF. He
is also an active participant in several research and standards organizations such as IRTF, IETF and ETSI
NFV etc.
Rajesh Gadiyar,
Director, Network Architecture,
Network Platforms Group,
Intel Corp.
Rajesh Gadiyar is the Director of Architecture in the Network Platforms Group at Intel and is responsible
for driving technology leadership for Communications and Software Defined Infrastructure (SDN/NFV).
He is focused on driving a scalable and efficient architecture for next generation communications
platforms.
Since joining Intel in 2000, he has held several positions in Engineering, Professional Services, Strategic
Planning and Architecture. Prior to joining Intel, he led various engineering teams at Trillium Digital
Systems and Wipro Ltd. Rajesh brings several years of experience in networking products, architecture,
protocols, standards and software development for Voice over IP, cellular, broadband, mobile telephony
and data networks. Rajesh has a B.S. in telecommunications engineering from National Institute of
Technology, Trichy India and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Don Clarke
Principal Architect, Network Technologies, CableLabs
Don Clarke is a leading member of the Network Technologies team at CableLabs. Don co-founded the
ETSI Network Functions Virtualisation Industry Specification Group (NFV ISG) and is a member of the
NFV ISG leadership team. He edited the joint-carrier white paper on NFV published in October 2012 coauthored by 13 carriers. This document is widely regarded as the seminal document heralding NFV as
the future direction for telecommunications networks. Working with industry colleagues, Don was also
instrumental in the creation of the open source community Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) launched in
September 2014. CableLabs is a founding board member of OPNFV.
He holds a BSc. (Hons) Degree in Computer Systems from the University of Essex, England. He has
co/authored nine patents relating to PON technology.
Don is based in Joplin-Missouri USA and commutes regularly to the CableLabs locations in LouisvilleColorado and Sunnyvale-California.
Sriram Natarajan
Senior Research Engineer
Deutsche Telekom- Silicon Valley Innovation Center (T-Labs), USA.
Sriram Natarajan is a Senior Research Engineer at Deutsche Telekom - Silicon Valley Innovation Center
(T-Labs), USA. Dr. Natarajan is engaged in research & development activities in the areas of Softwaredefined Networks, Network Function Virtualization, and Network Security. Previously, Dr. Natarajan
served as the Vice-Chair of Security group at Open Networking Foundation, where he led the
development of Florence - an open-source SDN security testing framework.
rior to joining T-Labs, he worked as a Senior Researcher for NTT Innovation Institute Inc, where he
designed and developed network services for NTT's SDN production deployment. Sriram holds a MS and
a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Wenjing Chu
Distinguished Engineer
High Velocity Cloud, Network Functions Virtualization, and mobility research at Dell
Wenjing Chu is a Distinguished Engineer, working on High Velocity Cloud, Network Functions
Virtualization, and mobility research in Dell. He joined Dell in February 2012 as a Distinguished
Technologist in the CTO office of Dell Enterprise Solutions Group (ESG) spearheading Enterprise
Mobility technology architecture and strategy.
Since the inception of Dell Research, Wenjing has been the leader of Network Functions Virtualization
(NFV) initiatives at Dell, representing Dell in ETSI and industry forums, leading NFV partner community
and open source initiative, organizing Proof-of-Concept NFV cloud demonstrations, and driving
technology strategy. He is currently leading research in High Velocity Cloud (HVC) as a new generation
of cloud computing foundation to support high velocity data path, high velocity service, and high
velocity data analytics. These new cloud capabilities will drive technology innovation and Dell’s
competitiveness in NFV and other demanding new workloads on cloud. In Mobility area, Wenjing
continues to lead research in seamless mobility that is helping Dell End User Computing and Dell
Software Group to significantly improve mobile User eXperience (UX) and to enable new mobile
applications.
Prior to Dell, Wenjing was CEO of Kaya Labs, a developer of proximity based mobile communication
software and contextual social circles. He was a cofounder of startup Sentient Networks, and a
development manager of Wi-Fi pioneer Airespace, both were major acquisitions by Cisco Systems. He
was a major contributor to the popular GateD® routing suite designing its virtual router, BGP and MPLS,
and management interface code base. He started his career at Bell Northern Research designing a
widely used kernel for high performance networking.
Norival Figueira, PhD
Office of the CTO, Brocade
Norival Figueira is a distinguished member of the Office of the CTO at Brocade, where he leads projects
in the areas of SDN/NFV and network policies and security. Previously, Dr. Figueira was on Brocade’s
product management team, where he led the development of SDN/OpenFlow and other advanced
features on Brocade router products. Prior to Brocade, Dr. Figueira served in senior leadership positions
with Foundry Networks, Hammerhead Systems, Nortel Networks, and Bay Networks. Dr. Figueira is
accredited with the issuance of 18 US patents in networking technology. Norival Figueira received Ph.D.
and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Dr. Jai Menon
Vice President and Chief Research Officer
Dell Research
Dr. Jai Menon is Vice President and Chief Research Officer, Dell Research. Dell Research delivers organic,
long-range, disruptive innovation for Dell, establishes research alliances with leading universities, and
creates the annual Dell Technology Outlook to help inform Dell’s strategy and product roadmaps.
Jai joined Dell in July 2012 as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Dell Enterprise Solutions
Group (ESG). As CTO, Jai guided the development of technical strategy, worked with VCs and start-ups,
developed alliances with industry partners, created the ESG Technology Council and created and
chaired the pan-Dell CTO Forum. Dell Research was formed in 2013.
Prior to Dell, Jai was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Technical Strategy for the Systems
and Technology Group (STG) at IBM. He was responsible for setting and communicating STG’s technical
strategy, for technical leadership and setting the direction for 15,000 developers, for driving new
business initiatives to create growth, for external alliances with industry partners, VCs and universities,
for research collaboration, and driving technical vitality.
Jai was an IBM Fellow, IBM’s highest technical honor, and one of the early pioneers who helped create a
technology called RAID that is now a $20B industry. He holds 53 patents, has published 78 papers and
reports, and is contributing author to three books on database and storage systems. He is an IEEE
Fellow and an IBM Master Inventor, a Distinguished Alumnus of both IIT, Madras and Ohio State
University, and a recipient of the IEEE Wallace McDowell Award and the IEEE Reynold B. Johnson
Information Systems Award. He serves on several university industry advisory boards.
Jai received a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in
1977 and earned M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science from Ohio State University in 1978 and
1981.
Dino Farinacci
Founder and Software Engineer at lispers.net
Dino Farinacci is a technologist advancing the state of the art for the next-generation Internet. He was
the original co-author for LISP (a fundamental concept of separating identity and location semantics
from an IP address) dating back to 2007 and has the pleasure of writing two implementations of the
protocol. He currently does consulting for large and startup networking vendors as well as users of such
products. He is a software engineer by trade and a technology visionary by passion. Dino holds over 40
patents and has been a major contributor and member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for
28 years. If you can name an Internet protocol, there is a good chance Dino has designed and
implemented it in widely deployed products. Over his career working at the NSA, CDC, 3Com, Procket,
and cisco he has designed and implemented dozens of networking protocols.
Dilip Krishnaswamy
Senior research scientist
IBM Research
Dilip Krishnaswamy is a senior research scientist at IBM Research. Previously, he was a platform
architect at Intel, and a senior researcher in the office of the chief scientist at Qualcomm. He is an
inventor on 34 granted US patents and has authored over 60 research publications. He has a PhD in
electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Sridhar Ramaswamy
Principal Engineer
Brocade's Software networking division
Sridhar Ramaswamy is a Principal Engineer working in Brocade's Software Networking division. Sridhar is
also the Project Technical Lead (PTL) for OpenStack Tacker project building an Open ETSI MANO NFV
Orchestrator and VNF Manager. Sridhar participates in OASIS TOSCA NFV work group advancing
Information Model standardization for NFV. Prior to Tacker Sridhar was an active technical contributor
in OpenStack Neutron project.
Before joining Brocade Sridhar has a long career in Cisco, most recently as a Senior Technical Leader
working on various Networking and Virtualization products including CSR1000V Virtual Router, LXC
Container Orchestration on network devices and UCS blade servers.
Anoop Ghanwani
Distinguished engineer at Dell
Anoop Ghanwani is a distinguished engineer at Dell working on architecture, technology strategy, and
standards for data center switches. Prior to Dell, he worked at several networking companies in
architecture and software development roles covering general system design, QoS, flow control, and
bridging and routing protocols. He has been an active participant at IEEE 802 and IETF standards
organizations. He received a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University.
Steven Wright
Chair at ETSI NFV ISG
Michael Tien
NFV Solution Advisor / Technical Marketing Engineer at Dell