(Timezone PST: UTC−8:00)

09:10 Congress Welcome
Robert Jones | Co-Founder & Managing Director | Layer123

09:15 Opening Remarks
Mark Lum | Chair | NFV World Congress
Co-Founder & Market Lead | Layer123

The reality of NFV and SDN will be examined closely at this third World Congress dedicated to NFV, and Layer123 is delighted to announce the first NFV World Marketplace, hosted in the Congress EXPO.

The past year has brought tremendous progress towards commercial and production reality of NFV. Solutions development is increasing in momentum, while new Orchestration and Modern OSS mechanisms are being defined and road-tested.

KEYNOTES – NETWORK VIRTUALISATION: A NEW PLATFORM FOR BUSINESS INNOVATION

09:25 KEYNOTE
Ken Duell | AVP, New Technology Product Development & Engineering | AT&T

09:45 KEYNOTE
Shawn Hakl | Vice President | Verizon

10:05 Intelligent Network transformation
Dan Rodriguez | VP Data Center Group, GM Communication Infrastructure | Intel

10:25 Topic in development
Ron Haberman | VP Emerging Products | Nokia

10:45 KEYNOTE
Mansoor Hanif | Director of Converged Networks Research Lab | BT
Member, Technology Steering Board | BT

11:05 Refreshment & exhibition break

11:30 KEYNOTE
Vijoy Pandey | Head of Engineering, Networking | Google

11:50 Is Your Business Ready for the Next Phase of SDN/NFV?
Bipin Mistry | VP of Product Management | NEC/Netcracker

12:10 KEYNOTE
Phil McKinney | President & CEO | CableLabs

12:30 EXECUTIVE PANEL – Automating the Network for Zero Touch

Industry leaders debate the issues for advancement

The advent of NFV+SDN presents a great opportunity for – and is the necessary prerequisite to – a dramatic increase in the automation of network operations and service delivery, and also answers calls for a re-working of established OSS/BSS. Already, there is much talk of the "Self-Driving Network", Cognitive Networks, AI (Artificial Intelligence), ML (Machine Learning), and so on.

As NFV+SDN approaches large-scale deployment in production networks, Network Automation – a challenge that has long existed in one form or another- is now the renewed focus of fresh industry thinking.

This interactive Executive Panel will cover key themes, including:

• Zero Touch as an ideal, is a distant goal and a huge endeavour. So, where is the best place to start, and with what scope?
• What new mechanisms and instruments are available to help bring about Zero Touch and how will concepts like AI and open source tools be productised for application?
• How fast can the pace of change be? Is this a business-case initiative, or a generational infrastructure evolution?

Andrew Dugan | CTO | Level 3 Communications
Shawn Hakl | Vice President | Verizon
David Hughes | VP Engineering | PCCW Global
Patrick Lopez | VP Networks Innovation | Telefónica

Moderated by:
Martyn Warwick | Editor in Chief | TelecomTV