Advisors

Dr. Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez obtained his Telecommunications Engineering degree in 1988 at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and his PhD in 2013 at the Universität Paderborn with a thesis on BGP-4 anomalies. He joined Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo in 1989, where he started designing hardware modules for Telefónica's experimental ATM demonstrator. He then moved on to design inter-domain IP networks for the Telefónica group. During all his professional life he has been involved in different international collaborative projects of the different framework programmes of the E.U.

Currently he is working at the Network Innovation & Virtualisation directorate at the GCTO Unit of Telefónica I+D in the Technology Exploration Group. He is acting as Technical Manager of the NetIDE and Architect of the Trilogy2 EU-funded projects and overlooks control plane evolutions like OpenFlow and SDN in general as well as their interaction with Cloud Management frameworks.

Jamil Chawki

Dr Jamil Chawki leads cloud computing and future networks standardization department (SDN and NFV) at Orange. Before this position, Jamil was a deputy director of Enterprise 2.0 research program working on Software as a Service marketplace architecture for France Telecom. In 2004 he was in charge of the first Fibre To The Home ‘FTTH’ Triple Play pilot project for Jordan Telecom. From 2000 to 2002, Jamil was Chairman and CEO of a fixed telecom operator ‘Ogero Telecom’. His main responsibilities were to manage the network and Information System (OSS/BSS) restructuring and to supervise the implementation of the first Gigabit Ethernet network in the Middle East region.

Before 2000 he worked for 10 years as an R&D engineer and manager in the field of optical WDM and IP transport networks at France Telecom. He published numerous technical IEEE/IET papers and holds over 15 patents. In addition, he is an active contributor to the cloud computing Blog of Orange Business Services.

Jamil is currently chairman of ITU-T cloud computing working party and was convenor of the collaborative teams between ITU-T and ISO/IEC JTC1 on cloud computing vocabulary and reference architecture.

Margaret Chiosi

Margaret Chiosi, Distinguished Network Architect AT&T Labs, has been involved in data networking for 30+ years. Margaret’s current focus is on implementing AT&T’s Domain 2.0 which is based on SDN and Virtualization building blocks. She has led large organizations responsible from concept through development and deployment of emerging global network services, development of data networking equipment, and strategic direction for data services and products. Margaret was one of the key members in the creation of the ETSI ISG – Network Virtualization Forum as well as the Linux Foundation Open Platform for NFV, OPNFV.

Chris Donley

Chris Donley serves as Director, Virtualization and Network Evolution at CableLabs. Mr. Donley is leading CableLabs’ research efforts on Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network function Virtualization (NfV), Metro Ethernet, IPv6, and Home Networking. He has been with CableLabs for eight years. Mr. Donley received a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Dartmouth College and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado. He holds Cisco CCIE and (ISC)2 CISSP certifications, and has been granted six US patents.

Jay Etchings

Director of Operations, Research Computing, and Senior HPC Architect at Arizona State University, Jay Etchings is a well-known industry professional with 20 years of progressively versatile, cross-platform experience in management of open systems architecture. With the bulk of a 10 year technical consulting career spent in gaming and connected lotteries, emerging network technologies have been a longtime passion deploying the first of its kind, next generation WAN connected Class 2 Lottery System. As an audit contractor for the centers for Medicaid/ Medicare (CMS-RAC) he focused on DISA-STIG compliance and networked systems.

Currently Etchings and his team are deploying campus wide SDN-Biomedical Informatics Networks on Internet2 supporting inter-intra university NSF funded projects as well as international research efforts such as ICTBIOMED.

Chris Luke

Chris is a technologist who currently concerns himself with the architecture and practical application of programmable behaviors in the Comcast network. As a Sr. Principal Engineer within the Network Architecture group, Chris is building the framework for network automation which provides the foundation for Comcast’s SDN strategy. Chris also actively acts as teacher and mentor for internal training programs aiming to give network engineers the skills and mental tools to operate in a more software-driven world. Chris joined Comcast in 2011. Prior to Comcast, Chris was the Principal Technologist at Easynet Global Services where he developed the architectural foundations for their global multi service network and its support systems. Chris is an active open source participant with code contributed to several well-known projects, including Linux, FreeBSD, Open vSwitch, Bird, Quagga and others.

Harvey Newman

Harvey Newman (Sc. D, MIT 1974) is a Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology, where he has been a faculty member since 1982. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and served as Chair of the APS Forum on International Physics in 2011. Newman co-led the MARK J Collaboration that discovered the gluon at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg in 1979, and was part of the team that discovered the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012. His current activities in physics include searches for new Higgs particles, supersymmetry, and other exotic new phenomena at then LHC, and the development of new particle detector technologies. Between 1998 and 2008 he was Chair of the Collaboration Board of the U.S. contingent of the CMS experiment, and he now chairs the US LHC Users Association.

In addition to his roles in physics discoveries over the last 40 years, Newman has had a leading role in the strategic planning, development, operation and management of international networks and collaborative systems serving research and education since 1982. He was a member of the Technical Advisory Group for the NSFNet in 1986. He designed the globally distributed Computing Model used by the LHC experiments in 1998. He now represents the science research community on the Internet2 Network Policy and Operations Advisory Group. Together with ESnet and other major research and education network partners, he and his Caltech team are now  developing the LHC Open Network Environment (LHCONE). Newman leads the international consortium that has set numerous wide area network throughput records at the annual Supercomputing conferences since 2002. His team has been developing new uses of dynamic software defined network technologies over 100 Gbps to 1 Tbps national and international networks since 2012, including work on Open Daylight since 2014.

Since 2002, as Chair of the ICFA Standing Committee on Inter-regional Connectivity, Newman has  worked to foster greater equality of opportunity to scientists and students in many regions of the world through the development of modern regional and international network and grid infrastructures, in collaboration with physics groups and networks in Brazil, Mexico, Pakistan, India, Romania, Slovakia and China. For this work he was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa degrees by the Politechnica University in Bucharest, Romania, and Pavel Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia in 2007, and he received the “Jose Bonifacio” medal of the State University of Rio de Janeiro in 2009.

Liang Ou

Liang Ou is the project manager of Data Network Communication Division in China Telecom Guangzhou Research Institute (GSTA). Currently, he works on enabling SDN/NFV technologies in fixed broadband IP network. Prior to this, he was responsible of CT’s R&D on intelligent carrier grade metro/backbone IP network, network planning and innovative networking services based on Internet technologies. He received Ph.D. degree in electronics and information engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.

Dominick (Dom) Paniscotti

Mr. Paniscotti manages the Systems and Performance Engineering team at NASDAQ where he is responsible for the architecture, design, and performance of NASDAQ’s U.S. market systems.
Dom’s experience spans over twenty-five years and he has been employed in senior technology roles in a variety of business organizations in the telecommunications, defense and securities industries. While at NASDAQ, Dom’s efforts have resulted in marked performance enhancements to the trading systems and, most significantly, the genesis of the NASDAQ’s next generation architecture for these systems.
As part of NASDAQ’s System’s Architecture team, Dom is tasked with the identification and integration of innovative technologies into NASDAQ’s trading platforms. These initiatives include Cloud Computing, Software Defined Networking, Big Data, Data Analytics, and Block Chain technologies.

Ralf Trezeciak

Ralf is an Network Architect of the Architecture Department in Deutsche Telekom Technik, where he is focused on cloud SDN and NFV architectures for data centers. Previously, he was a Network Engineer at Deutsche Telekom. He has spent over a decade working on data center networking including IP multicast environments for IPTV. He has a PhD in Physics and is looking for open source based software solutions and a generic SDN solution to be used by many environments requiring complex real time networks.

Beau Williamson

Beau Williamson is 10+ year Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and an award winning IP network engineer who has over 10 years of experience in IP networking and over 20 years of general networking experience. He has extensive experience with the design, implementation and troubleshooting of IP networks carrying Stock Market data for use by Financial Institutions, high-rate video for Video service providers, and strategic and tactical data for the U.S. Department of Defense, to name just a few. Beau is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at T-Mobile.

Alex Zhang

Alex Zhang is a network technologist involved in data networking for 25+ years. Currently working at China Mobile Technology US as a principal architect, Alex’s main focus is on the strategy, planning, solutions and deployment of SDN and NFV for the next generation service provider network. Alex also has rich experience with a wide range of networking products in areas of datacenter, cloud, mobile, WAN and transport networks. Alex is an active participant and contributor in various open projects and events including OPNFV and ONF. Alex received a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and a Master's degree in Communication Network from University of Toronto, Canada.