ONS2016

Guru Parulkar is a consulting professor of electrical engineering and the executive director of the Open Network Research Center (ONRC) at Stanford University. He is also the executive director and event chair of the Open Networking Summit. From 2007 to 2012, he was the execuitve... Read More →

Tom Anschutz is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T. In his role as a network architect, he is instrumental in the development of AT&T’s software-centric network, and in progressing the key technologies that support it - SDN and NFV.  He is the editor and chief contributor... Read More →

Zsolt Haraszti is responsible for Blue Planet's overall technology direction.Zsolt brings over 20 years of telecommunication software experience to Ciena. Zsolt joined Ciena through the acquisition of Cyan, where he led the development and introduction of many key software technologies... Read More →

Dr. Kang-Won Lee is a Senior Vice President of R&D for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) at SK Telecom. He is directing technology development in the areas of Network and IT Convergence. Specific areas of focus are Software-Defined Networks, Software-Defined Data Center... Read More →

Larry Peterson is Chief Architect at the Open Networking Lab. Prior to joining ON.Lab, he was at Princeton University, where he was the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Princeton-hosted PlanetLab Consortium. He served as chair of the CS Department from 2003-2009. In 2007, Peterson co-founded CoBlitz LLC to commercialize CDN technology developed on PlanetLab. CoBlitz was acquired by Veriue Inc. in 2010, and subsequently by Akamai in 2012. Peterson is co-author of the best-selling networking... Read More →

Gagan Puranik is director of Software Defined Network Architecture Planning for Verizon. His team’s current responsibility is to design new software-based network architecture to scale Verizon’s network to the meet the needs of the 21st century, including technologies such as... Read More →

Bryan serves as vice president of FlowEngine Product Marketing, bringing more than 20 years of telecom expertise to the role, including extensive experience working directly with communications service providers. Prior to Radisys, Bryan was most recently vice president of Professional... Read More →

Dr. Xiongyan Tang is now the Chief Technologist of China Unicom Network Technology Research Institute, vice chairman of China Communication Standardization Association (CCSA) TC10. He has more than 20 years of experience in telecommunication technologies. He received his Ph.D degree... Read More →