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Panel Discussion: Embracing Cloud Native on the Path to 5G - Heather Kirksey, The Linux Foundation; Rabi Abdel, Vodafone; Lincoln Lavoie, UNH Interoperability Lab; Frederick Kautz, doc.ai; Taylor Carpenter, Vulk Coop
Wednesday September 25, 2019 16:15 - 16:45 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)
Communications service providers, from telcos to cable operators, continue to reimagine their networks and look towards next-gen services. As the industry move towards 5G, these next-gen services will increasingly need to include cloud native network functions (CNFs) running on cloud native infrastructure such as Kubernetes and Network Service Mesh using CI/CD and automated testing. Building on previous discussions, this panel of CNF experts will discuss how the path to cloud native is forming for CSPs, including lessons learned, progress to date, and where things are headed next.
Speakers
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Rabi Abdel

Network Virtualization and SSDN/NFV Lead Architect, Vodafone
Rabi Abdel is a lead NFV & SDN Architect and Vodafone with a practical experience in Building, Automating, Accelerating, and Operating Vodafone Telco Clouds. He holds 5 Patents in the field and have a PhD degree in Computer Networking and Engineering from the University of Nottingham... Read More →
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Lincoln Lavoie

Principal Engineer, Broadband Technologies, UNH-IOL
Lincoln Lavoie is a principal engineer and executive team member at University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). In his role, he is responsible for the strategic and technical management of the broadband and open-source technology groups in the lab, including... Read More →
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Frederick Kautz

Cloud Native Security Unicorn, TestifySec
Frederick has an extensive background in Cloud Native and Security. Some relevant highlights include previously Co-Chairing KubeCon, authoring NIST SP 800-204D, co-charing the CTA/ANSI working group in securing AI/ML pipelines. Frederick also has an extensive history in Cloud Native... Read More →
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Taylor Carpenter

Partner + Factotum, Vulk Coop
Partner at Vulk Cooperative - http://vulk.coop | Lead on CNCF CNF Testbed, Telecom User Group and CNF Conformance initiatives. OpenSource advocate, using Linux since 1994 with the 1.0 release and gnu tools on other unix systems before that. OpsDev geek. Elixir and Ruby programmer... Read More →
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Heather Kirksey

Vice President of NFV, The Linux Foundation
Heather Kirksey works with the community to advance the adoption and implementation of open source NFV platforms.

Before joining The Linux Foundation, she led strategic technology alliances for MongoDB. Earlier in her career she held various leadership positions in the telecom industry, including running a partner program for CPE, doing solutions marketing for the IP division at Alcatel-Lucent... Read More →
Wednesday September 25, 2019 16:15 - 16:45 CEST
Marble Hall (Floor 0)
  Cloud Native Networking
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