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Yasushi Okada
FUJITSU LIMITED [Bio] in April 1984, and had been engaged in development of wireless communication equipment such as satellite communication system and mobile base station system. In June 2012, he was assigned to the Deputy Head of Access Network Business Unit, and was in charge of expansion of LTE related product portfolio (mainly base stations) and global business promotion. In April 2014, he was moved to the Deputy Head of Network Integration Business Unit, and engaged in solution planning and global business promotion based on SDN/NFV technology. In July 2014, he was assigned to the Deputy Head of Global NI Project Office (present position) and has same responsibility. |
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Tom Fifield
OpenStack Foundation [Bio] After learning about scalability in computing from particle physics experiments like ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider, Tom led the creation of the NeCTAR Research Cloud - designed for the publicly-funded research sector in Australia. Part of a $47M government project, it currently serves more than 2500 researchers directly, and is expanding to a capacity of 30,000 cores over 8 sites distributed over every major city. Following working as a cloud architecture consultant and team lead for several years, Tom is currently harnessing his passion for large scale distributed systems by focusing on their most important part: people. As Community Manager at the OpenStack Foundation it's his job to make the users and developers of OpenStack happy. |
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Yuji Sekiya
The University of Tokyo [Bio] Dr. Yuji Sekiya graduated from Kyoto University and completed graduate school of Media and Governance at Keio University. He is an associate professor at the University of Tokyo, Information Technology Center. Also, he is a board member of WIDE Project. He had been working on developing IPv6 protocol stack, USAGI Project, and currently he has been working on cloud computing. SDN, NFV, and Cyber Security. |
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Paul Curtis
Ciena [Bio] |
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Wen-Chien Hung
Broadband Network Applications Center, SNSI/III [Bio] Mr. Wen-Chien Hung is the director of Broadband Network Applications Center of Institute for Information Industry (III), which is a Taiwan-government sponsored research institute. Mr. Hung is responsible for modern networking technology development and application integration, and his recent topics include LTE EPC, SDN, NFV, and vertical domain private networks. Mr. Hung is also highly involved in industrial promotion, and is one of the leaders of Taiwan SDN Alliance. Mr. Hung got his EE master degree from National Taiwan University in 1995. |
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Touru Makabe
Hewlett-Packard Company Cloud Chief Technologist [Bio] Toru has a responsibility for communicating HP's cloud technologies with customer, and gathering feedback in Japan. In addition, he is in charge of designing system as an architect. He has been working for HP about 13 years, a senior technologist with application and IT infrastructure development experience such as application for public services, IT platform for telco/xSP customer. |
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Steve Helvie
Open Compute Project [Bio] Steve recently joined the Open Compute Project as VP of Channel. In this role he works closely with vendors and Solution Providers to help drive customer adoption of Open Compute across all regions and segements of the market. Steve has spent over 10 years living and working in Asia…holding various Sales Leadership and Channel Development roles for companies like Rackspace (UK) and Microsoft (Asia Pacific) driving cloud services across Asia and Europe. He is currently based in Hong Kong. |
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Isamu Nerome
Information Industry Association of Okinawa [Bio] Mar 1972 Graduated from Wakayama University Faculty of Economics Sep 1972 Entered Okinawa Bank and was assigned to IT Department Jul 1998 Became Brach Manager at the Futenma Branch Jul 2000 Became Director of Administration Jul 2002 Became Executive Director of Administration Jun 2004 Became Member of the Board and Executive Director of Planning Jun 2006 Became Member of the Board and Senior Vice President Jun 2009 Became Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President Jun 2011 Became Standing Statutory Auditor Jun 2013 Retired from Okinawa Bank My 2014 Became Chairman of Information Industry Association of Okinawa |