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Nagaki Fujioka
ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation [Bio] Nagaki has been engaged in the computer and software technology and sales marketing. He has supported the business as a trading responsible for the product manufacturers with more than 50 companies in CTC. He has been responsible for the cloud service planning and development organization in CTC since 2012. |
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Guru Parulkar
ON.Lab [Bio] Guru Parulkar is Executive Director of Open Networking Lab and 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 director of the Clean Slate Internet Design Program at Stanford, whose mission was “to explore what kind of Internet we would design if we were to start with a clean slate and 20-30 years of hindsight.” Clean Slate led to OpenFlow and SDN among other interesting research results. |
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Dan Pitt
Open Networking Foundation [Bio] Dan Pitt has served as executive director of the Open Networking Foundation since its public launch in March, 2011. In this role he leads a team of several dozen employees and partners and over 2000 member volunteers focused on accelerating the adoption of open SDN. He spent 20 years in technical, managerial, and executive roles at IBM Raleigh and Zurich, HP Labs Palo Alto, Bay Networks, and Nortel Networks; served a five-year term as dean of the school of engineering at Santa Clara University; and advised and ran a number of startup companies in Silicon Valley, Australia, and Canada before coming to ONF. Dan received a B.S. in math from Duke University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois. |
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Hideyuki Shimonishi
NEC Corporation [Bio] HIDEyuki Shimonishi received M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1996 and 2002. He joined NEC Corporation in 1996 and has been engaged in research on traffic management in high-speed networks, switch and router architectures, and traffic control protocols. As a visiting scholar in the Computer Science Department at the University of California at Los Angeles, he studied next-generation transport protocols. He now works in 1st carrier services divison at NEC Corp. |
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Alex Henthorn-Iwane
Qualisystems [Bio] Alex Henthorn-Iwane is Vice-President of Marketing for QualiSystems, the industry's leading DevOps Orchestration and Infrastructure Automation software solution provider and an Okinawa Open Labs member company. Mr. Henthorn-Iwane has a 20 year history of working with carriers by serving in product management, marketing and executive roles at technology innovator companies. He first gained experience with global carriers at early Internet infrastructure pioneer Livingston Enterprises. Since then, Alex has continued working building carrier-oriented network infrastructure, security, policy and network management technologies at Lucent Technologies, CoSine Communications, and Packet Design, and is delighted to present to the Okinawa Open Days community. |
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Takanori Suzuki
Dell Japan Inc. [Bio] |
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Rob Sherwood
Big Switch Networks, Inc. [Bio] Rob serves as the CTO for Big Switch Networks, where he spends his time internally leading software architecture and externally evangelizing SDN to customers and partners. Rob is an active contributor to open source projects such as Switch Light and Floodlight as well as the Open Compute Project. He was the former Chair of the ONF's Architecture & Framework Working Group as well as vice-chair of the ONF's Testing & Interoperability Working Group. Rob prototyped the first OpenFlow-based network hypervisor, the “FlowVisor”, allowing production and experimental traffic to safely co-exist on the same physical network and is involved in various standards efforts and partner and customer engagements. Rob holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. |
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Akihiro Hasegawa
Bit-isle Inc. [Bio] |
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Jack Lai (Taiwan)
InWinSTACK [Bio] Jack is advocate of open source in Taiwan since 2000. He has been in the IT industry for the last 10 years, during which time he worked on Server OEM/ODM manufacturer, Software IT Company, and now Cloud computing company ? inwinStack as Project manager. He has extensive experience of various flavors of Linux distribution. He introduce OpenStack to enterprise as OpenStack evangelist 3 years ago. He also hosts OpenStack Taiwan User Group. He can be found on twitter as @macjacktw |
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Jaesuk Ahn (Korea)
cloud4U [Bio] Jaesuk Ahn got a Ph.D. degree at the University of Texas at Austin. has been involved at OpenStack since 2010. At Korea Telecom, he first led a research effort to follow-up various cloud open source software projects including OpenStack. Then, he worked as a project lead to develop kt.FN"s next generation cloud platform based on openstack. Currently, he has just joined a small start-up called “cloud4u” to develop services related to OpenStack cloud. He established OpenStack Korea User Group in early 2011, and has been a very active OpenStack community leader in Korea. |
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Kavit Munshi (India)
Aptira [Bio] Kavit is the CTO of Aptira and heads Aptira's Indian operations and with 15 years of experience in designing and deploying Enterprise and Telco solutions. Kavit is also the founder of the Indian OpenStack User Group and the OpenStack Ambassador for India. He has been a key member of teams that have successfully delivered cutting edge solutions to various Australian Telcos and corporations. He has also been the driving force behind several start-ups, helping them develop and innovate novel solutions and products. Kavit specialises in virtualisation and the cloud. Kavit has also been the driving force behind the Indian OpenStack community and Aptira's involvement with OpenStack. Kavit has helped organise OpenStack events in India and loves to work with professionals and students to drive their involvement with OpenStack. |