Open Networking Summit 2012 Program

Your Guide to the OpenFlow and SDN Revolution

Please click on the tab for each day to see a detailed schedule for that day.
Monday, April 16, 2012

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Tutorial One: SDN For Engineers

Note that exact times and subjects may be subject to change.

8:00am-9:00am:

Registration and Breakfast

12:00pm-1:00pm:

Lunch

9:00 - 10:00am:

OpenFlow/SDN Introduction

10:00 - 10:30am:

The SDN Stack, Part 1: Switches & Controllers

10:30 - 10:45am:

Break

10:45 - 12:00pm:

The SDN Stack, Part 2: Virtualization & SDN Applications

12:00 - 1:00pm:

Lunch

1:00 - 3:00pm:

Controllers: NOX/POX

, Trema

, Beacon

, Floodlight

, RouteFlow, and questions

3:00 - 3:15pm:

Break

3:15 - 4:15pm:

Hands-on

4:15 - 4:20pm:

Break

4:20 - 4:50pm:

Deployments and Experience

4:50 - 5:00pm:

Wrap-up

Tutorial Two: SDN for Product Managers

9:00 - 9:45am:

Introduction to OpenFlow and Software-Defined Networking
Dan Pitt - Open Networking Foundation - Executive Director
Dan Pitt, Executive Director of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), will give an overview of OpenFlow-based SDN and the contribution of ONF and its members to this emerging industry.

The following sessions will focus on different environments describing the typical network design and its associated challenges, how SDN is solving them and associated business benefits observed post implementation. Each session will close with presenters answering questions from the audience.

9:45 - 10:00am:

Break

10:00 - 11:00am:

WAN and Carrier Networks

Harry Petty - Vello Systems, Inc. - Vice President, Marketing and Business Development
Matt Palmer - Wiretap Ventures - Partner

11:00am - 12:00pm:

Enterprise Data Center Networks
Jim Harding - CTO, Sabey Data Centers, President, CODONiS

Isabelle Guis - Big Switch Networks - Vice President of Marketing

12:00 - 1:00pm:

Lunch Break

1:00 - 2:00pm:

Large Scale Global Data Center Networks

Amit Agarwal - Google - Product Manager
Rakesh Saha - IBM Systems & Technology Group - Director Product Management

2:00 - 3:00pm:

Enterprise Campus Networks

Matt Davy - Indiana University - Chief Network Architect and Executive Director of InCNTRE
Steve Brar - HP Networking - Global Product Marketing Manager

3:00 - 3:30pm:

Break

3:30 - 4:00pm:

OpenFlow and SDN in the Financial Industry – Peter Krey

4:00 - 5:30pm:

Predictions 2012 & Q&A

7:30am - 8:30am

Registration and breakfast

8:30am - 10:00am

Keynote Session

Session Chair: Guru Parulkar
OpenFlow @ Google

Urs Hoelzle, SVP Google
Proven and Emerging Use Cases of Software Defined Networks

Kaoru Yano, NEC Chairman of the Board and former CEO

10:00 - 10:30am

Break

10:30 - 12:00

SDN for Scale-out and Enterprise Data Centers
Session Chair: Dan Pitt, Exec Director, Open Networking Foundation
SDN in Warehouse Scale Datacenters v2.0

Igor Gashinsky, Yahoo!
Data Center Networking in the Era of Overlays

Martin Casado, Nicira
Industry Perspectives of SDN: Technical Challenges and Business Use Cases

Geng Lin, Dell
Opening Up Your Network to Cloud Innovation with SDN

Guido Appenzeller, Big Switch Networks

12:00 - 2:00pm

Exhibition, Demos, and Lunch

2:00 - 3:30pm

Standardization and Adoption
Session Chair: Bob Laliberte, Sr. Analyst, Networking, Enterprise Strategy Group
SDN Standards: What and Whatnot

Dan Pitt, ONF
Carrier Adoption of Software-defined Networking

Stu Elby, Verizon
Looking at SDN Beyond the Data Center

Shehzad Merchant, Extreme Networks
Venture Opportunities for SDN

Greg Papadopoulos, NEA

3:30 - 4:00pm

Break

4:00 - 5:30pm

Research on SDN Tool Chain
Session Chair: Jennifer Rexford
Software Defined Service-Centric Networking

Jen Rexford, Princeton
Consistent Updates in SDN

Nate Foster, Cornell
Event-driven Programming in Lithium

Nick Feamster, Georgia Tech
The Challenges of SDN/OpenFlow in an Operational and Large-scale Network

Jun Bi, Tsinghua University

8:30 - 10:00am

Keynote Session

Session Chair: Guru Parulkar, Stanford
Expectation for OpenFlow/SDN as Carrier's Network

Yukio Ito, SVP NTT Communications
Making SDNs Work

Nick McKeown, Stanford

10:00 - 10:30am

Break

10:30 - 12:00pm

SDN for Enterprise Networks

Session Chair: Nick Lippis
SDN Deployment in a University Enterprise and Lessons Learned

Matt Davy, Indiana
Challenges in Enterprise Networking and How SDN Can Help

Eric Murray, Kindred Healthcare
Enterprise Data Center and Networks

Michael Beesley, Juniper Networks
OpenFlow in the Enterprise Data Center - Products, Lessons and Requirements

Renato Recio, IBM

12:00 - 2:00pm

Exhibition, Demos, and Lunch

2:00 - 3:30pm

SDN for Service Provider Networks
Session Chair: Stacey Higginbotham, GigaOm
Revolutionizing Carrier Service Delivery using a Software Defined native IP Network

Axel Clauberg, Deutsche Telekom
SDN Stack for Service Provider Networks

Amin Vahdat, Google
Cisco's Service Provider Approach to SDN

David Ward, Cisco
OpenRadio: Software Defined Wireless Infrastructure

Sachin Katti, Stanford
Q&A Session

3:30 - 4:00pm

Break

4:00 - 5:30pm

Closing Panel: OpenFlow/SDN Opportunities and Challenges

Ernest Lefner, Fidelity Investments

Allwyn Sequeira, VMWare

Saar Gillai, HP

John Vrionis, LightSpeed Venture