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Keynote Speakers

Stephen B. Alexander

Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Ciena

Chris Benson

Vice President, Cloud Engineering, Oracle

Eric Cevis

President, Verizon Partner Solutions

Jeffrey Cohen

Azure Network Partner Program Manager, Microsoft

Travis Ewert

Senior Vice President, Global Network Software Development, Level 3 Communications

Josh Goodell

Vice President, AT&T Network on Demand

Chad Haggerty

Senior Director, OSS Systems, Comcast

Marc Halbfinger

Chief Executive Officer, PCCW Global

Michael Kearns

VP Open Source Ecosystems, Huawei Technologies

Sankaran "Ram" Ramanathan

Executive Director, Network Support Systems, Verizon Wireless

Tom Siracusa

Executive Director, AT&T Labs

David J. Stern

Electronics Engr, Advanced Optics & IP Engr, Joint Enabling Capabilities Branch (ID24), Cyber Directorate (ID), Defense Information Systems Agency

Jack Waters

Chief Technology Officer & President, Network Solutions, Zayo

Featured Speakers

Nan Chen

President, MEF; Executive Vice Chairman, CENX,

Axel Clauberg

VP Aggregation, Transport, IP , Deutsche Telekom

Jim Fagan

Head of Global Platforms, Telstra

Nicolas “Neela” Jacques

Executive Director, OpenDaylight Project

Allan Langfield

Executive Director, Product Development, Comcast Business; Director; MEF; Operations Area Co-Director, MEF

Pascal Menezes

Chief Technology Officer, MEF

Robert (Bob) O’Brien

VP of Connectivity and Security Solutions – Americas, Orange Business Services

Adam Saenger

Vice President of Product Development & Product Management, Level 3 Communications

Karen Schmidt

Vice President, Products and Marketing, Intelsat

Michael Strople

President, Zayo Managed Services & Managing Director, Canada, Zayo
Chairman, MEF

Gert Vanderstraeten

Network Architect, Microsoft IT

Steve Vogelsang

Chief Technology Officer, IP & Optical Networks, Nokia

Huiling Zhao

CTO of ChinaTelecom Beijing Research Institute, Director of the Cloud Research Center in China Telecom

Event Speakers

Carol Wilson

Editor-at-Large, Light Reading

Divesh Gupta

VP, Technology and Sales Operations, Presales, PCCW Global

Robert Schult

Research Director, TeleGeography

Abel Tong

Senior Advisor, Product Marketing, Ciena

Bill Bjorkman

MEF Distinguished Fellow

Jeff Brown

Director of Carrier Product Marketing, Windstream

David Hughes

Vice President of Engineering, PCCW Global

Eitan Schwartz

Vice President, Service Provider Line of Business, North America, RAD Data Communications, Inc.

Erik Kreifeldt

Senior Analyst, Telegeography

Brendan Gunn

Director of Global Ethernet & IP Services, Verizon

Ian Redpath

Principal Analyst, Ovum

Chris Alberding

Senior Vice President, Product, Global Capacity

Jeff Schwartz

Associate Vice President, Managed Network Services & Cloud Enablement, TATA Communications

Kevin Vachon

Chief Operating Officer, MEF,
MEF16 Executive Director

Prem Kumar Menon

Senior Principal Consultant, Operation & ICT Transformation, Huawei Technologies

Justin Rivera

Sr. IP Network Engineer, C&W Networks

Tariq Rafique

Manager, Network Architecture & Planning, Zayo

Robin Mersh

CEO at Broadband Forum

Daniele Mancuso

Director of Innovation & Engineering, TI Sparkle

Bob Mandeville

President, Iometrix

Charlie Reed

Partner, ATLANTIC-ACM

Jeff Babbitt

Optical Solutions Architect, Fujitsu Network Communications

Mike Sapien

Principal Analyst, Large Enterprise Services, Ovum

Andy Mayer

Principal Member of Technical Staff, Domain 2.0, AT&T>/p>

Erin Dunne

Director of Research Services, Vertical Systems Group

Zeev Draer

Vice President, Strategic Marketing, MRV Communications

Michael Genovese

Managing Director, Communications Equipment Analyst, MKM Partners LLC

Ihab Mahna

Solution Architect, EXFO

Brian Washburn

Service Director, Global Business Network and IT Services, Current Analysis

Mark Bunn

Vice President, Network Orchestration, Oracle Communications

Rosemary Cochran

Principal & Co-Founder,
Vertical Systems Group

Shahar Steiff

AVP, New Technology, PCCW Global; Director, MEF; Technical & Operations Committee Co-Chair, MEF

Alam Tamboli

Senior Analyst, Access, and Router & Carrier Ethernet Switch Market Research, Dell'Oro

Stan Hubbard

Director of Communications & Research, MEF, MEF16 Program Director

Casem Majd

Technical Director - America Fixed Network Solutions BU , Huawei Technologies

Jonathan Forrest

Vice President of Enterprise Products and Markets, InfoVista

Ezra Mizrahi

Director, Technical Marketing, MRV

Steven Wright

Chairman End User Advisory Group, OPNFV

Chris Donley

Sr. Director, Telco Open Source Ecosystems, Huawei

Isabelle Morency

Head of Engineering & Standards, Iometrix

Mark Gibson

Director of Product Management, Amdocs OSS

Jason Marcheck

Customs Solutions Director, North America, Current Analysis

Dan Blemings

Director, Ethernet Product Management, AT&T

Kenneth Dilbeck

Vice President of Collaboration and R&D, TM Forum

Bruno Giguère

Director, Product Marketing, MEF, MEF16 Proof of Concept Showcase Director

Roopa Honnachari

Industry Director, Business Communications Services & Cloud Computing, ICT, Frost & Sullivan

Stéphan Pelletier

Director, Product Management, Service and Network Orchestration, Oracle Communications; Orchestration Area Co-Director, MEF

Hayim Porat

CTO, ECI

John Hanton

Product Manager, WAN and International Services, XO Communications

Eric Puetz

Director, Strategic Standards and Industry Alliances, AT&T Labs; Director, MEF; Certification Committee Co-Chair, MEF; MEF Distinguished Fellow

John Hawkins

Senior Advisor, Product and Technical Marketing, Ciena; Certification Committee Co-Chair, MEF

Ari Banerjee

Senior Director, Strategy, Netcracker

Mark Daley

Director of Corporate Strategy & Product, Epsilon Telecommunications Limited

John Strassner

Chief Technology Officer, Software Laboratory, Huawei Technologies; MEF Orchestration Area Co-Director

Robert Shore

Director of Global Technical Sales, Coriant

Guru Parulkar

Executive Director, ON.Lab

Rick Bauer

Rick Bauer, Exec. Director (Interim) of ONF

Ilan Tevet

Head of Service Provider Line of Business, RAD

Bithika Khargharia

Director of Product and Community Management, ONF

Vishal Sharma

Principal, Metanoia; Group Owner & Moderator, Carrier Ethernet LinkedIn Group

Gabriel Kerner

VP and Head of OSS Product Management, Amdocs

Jack Pugaczewski

Distinguished Architect, CenturyLink

Chris Purdy

Chief Technology Officer, CENX

Scott Mansfield

Principal Engineer, Ericsson,
Director, MEF

Daniel Bar-Lev

Director, Certification and Strategic Programs, MEF

Michael Howard

Principal Analyst, Carrier Networks, IHS/Infonetics

Christopher Cullan

Director of Product Marketing, Business Services Solutions, InfoVista

Marc Cohn

VP Network Strategy, The Linux Foundation; Director, OPEN-O Project

Patrick Ostiguy

President & CEO, Accedian Networks

Ralph Santitoro

Head of SDN/NFV Solutions Practice, Fujitsu Network Communications; MEF Distinguished Fellow, Director, MEF

Vincent Alesi

Distinguished Member Technical Staff, Network Services Planning, Verizon

Rob Adams

Office of the CTO, Infinera

Don MacNeil

Chief Operating Officer, EdgeConneX

Olga Havel

Chief Strategy Officer of Fixed Network Single OSS Product Line, Huawei Technologies

Laurent Leboucher

VP of APIs and Digital Ecosystems, Orange

Keith Falter

Managing Director, SDN & NFV, Juniper Networks

Raghu Ranganathan

Principal & Distinguished Engineer, Office of CTO, Ciena

Sanjay Mewada

VP of Strategy, Netcracker

Rami Yaron

VP, Strategy & Business Development, Telco Systems, Co-Chair, Global Marketing Committee & Chair, Mobile Backhaul Focus Group, MEF

Scott Raynovich

VP of Content and Research, SDxCentral