IEEE ComSoc International Communications Quality and Reliability Workshop
16-18 May 2017 – Naples, Florida, USA

Day 1 Speakers

SDN/NFV Keynote: Machines and Millenials – Mastering the Changing Application Landscape
Shawn Hakl
Verizon
VP – Product and New Business Innovation

SDN/NFV Segment Chair
 
Rick Krock
GIIC
Chief Editor
SDN/NFV Session 1 – Pre-Emptive Strategies for Securing 2020+
Karl Rauscher (Chair)
GIIC
Managing Director & CEO
Qiang Li
CloudMinds Technologies
VP & Chief Scientist
Sam Sun
CNRI
Director – Standards/Technology Development
Paul Twomey
STASH
Co-founder

Technical Papers Session #1 – Network Management
Hede Nakazato (Technical Program Co-Chair)
Waseda University
Professor
Kai Zeng (Technical Program Co-Chair)
George Mason University
Professor
Yuncheng Zhu
Hitachi, Ltd.
Network Researcher
Hideaki Kinsho
Osaka University
Graduate Engineering Student

 


SDN/NFV Session 2 – Planning & Operational Challenges
Aeneas Dodd-Noble (Chair)
Cisco Systems
Principal Architect
Andrew Alleman
Radysis
Chief Technology Officer
Ian Hood
RedHat
Chief Architect, Global Service Provider
Ross Cassan
Spirent
Director of Product Marketing – Mobility Infrastructure

Technical Papers Session #2 – Bandwidth Related Quality Control
Gregory Cook
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
Senior Staff Research Engineer
Keita Nishimoto
NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories

SDN/NFV Session #3 – Security
 
Jerry Nichols (Chair)
Radware
VP- Sales

 

 
Mark Durbin
Verizon
DMTS – Network Security Infrastructure Planning
 
Jay Goswami
Ericsson
Senior Security Consultant
 
Travis Volk
Radware
Technical VP – Global Business Development and Carrier Sales

Technical Papers Session #3 – Network Optimization
Yusaku Hayamizu
Kansai University
Engineering Graduate Student
Nobuhiko Itoh
NEC Corporation
Senior Researcher