The Linux Foundation Seeks Technical and Business Speakers for Open Networking Summit 2017

Help shape the future of open networking! The Linux Foundation is now seeking business and technical leaders to speak at Open Networking Summit 2017.

On April 3-6 in Santa Clara, CA, ONS will gather more than 2,000 executives, developers and network architects to discuss innovations in networking and orchestration. It is the only event that brings together the business and technical leaders across carriers and cloud service providers, vendors, start-ups and investors, and open source and open standards projects in software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV).

Submit a talk to speak in one of our five new tracks for 2017 and share your vision and expertise. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 21, 2017.

The theme this year is “Open Networking: Harmonize, Harness and Consume.” Tracks and suggested topics include:

General Interest Track

State of Union on Open Source Projects (Technical updates and latest roadmaps)
Programmable Open Hardware including Silicon & White Boxes + Open Forwarding Innovations/Interfaces
Security in a Software Defined World

Enterprise DevOps/Technical Track

Software Defined Data Center Learnings including networking interactions with Software Defined Storage
Cloud Networking, End to End Solution Stacks – Hypervisor Based
Container Networking

Enterprise Business/Architecture Track

ROI on Use Cases
Automation – network and beyond Analytics
NFV for Enterprise (vPE

Carriers DevOps/Technical Track

NFV use Cases – VNFs
Scale & Performance of VNFs
Next Gen Orchestration OSS/BSS & FCAPS models

Carriers Business/Architecture Track

SDN/NFV learnings
ROI on Use Cases
Architecture Learnings from Cloud

See the full list of potential topics on the ONS website.

Not interested in speaking but want to attend? Linux.com readers can register now with the discount code, LINUXRD5, for 5% off the attendee registration price. Register by February 19 to save over $850.

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