NFV World Congress - Day 2, Thursday 4th May - Plenary Session

(Timezone: PST)

09:30 Opening remarks
Mark Lum | Chair | NFV World Congress
Co-Founder & Market Lead | Layer123

09:35 Chair's Opening Address

Peter Jarich | Chief Analyst | GlobalData

KEYNOTES – MAKING NFV A REALITY

09:40 KEYNOTE
Geng Lin | CTO, Enterprise Network & Infrastructure Services | Google

10:00 Confronting Threshold Guardians and Orchestrating for Business
Simon Osborne | CTO Service Orchestration | Comptel

10:20 KEYNOTE
Jehanne Savi | Executive Leader, All-IP & On-Demand Networks Programs | Orange

10:40 Refreshment & exhibition break

11:05 Chair's Market Highlights
Michael Howard | Sr. Research Director & Advisor, Carrier Networks | IHS Markit

11:10 KEYNOTE – Building the new Telefónica Core with NFV
Francisco-Javier Ramón | Head of Network Virtualisation, GCTO | Telefónica
Chair | ETSI OSM

11:30 KEYNOTE – Customer Defined Networking: The Journey Continues
Travis Ewert | SVP – Network SW Development | Level 3 Communications

When the expedition began, On-Demand Networking and Self-Serve through Portals/UI's was the target to enable the customer. This "single-pane-of-glass" approach for network control functions is quickly becoming more of a secondary, or administrative, role. The Enterprise, Datacenter, Cloud Exchange, and Next-Generation Communication Providers now seek to more intelligently integrate their software-centric ecosystems with those that provide a Network-as-a-Service platform.

Travis will provide customer updates and trends toward a model that is more 'defined' by the customer through advanced API's and/or programmed against Data & Analytics.

11:50 KEYNOTE
Ichiro Fukuda | Chief Architect, Infrastructure | NTT Innovation Institute

12:10 KEYNOTE
Patrick Lopez | VP Networks Innovation | Telefónica