Open19 Foundation Summit 2019
The 2019 Summit theme is “Accelerating Open19 Adoption”
Join us to learn all the latest news, views, and projections in the open data center and edge movement from the experts working and innovating in this space. You’ll also receive updates about the Open19 Project — the cross-industry solution for data center and edge environments of all sizes. The Summit is FREE to attend.
Sponsorship opportunities are available for Open19 Foundation members only. Download our sponsor packet for more information.
Agenda
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 8:00 a.m. | Registration Opens / Breakfast Offered / Expo Area Open | |
| 9:30 a.m. | Sessions Begin / Fastest Installed Rack Row Competition Starts | |
| Yuval Bachar, President, Open19 Foundation | Welcome and Open19 Update – Accelerating Adoption | |
| Matt Trifiro, CMO, Vapor IO | State of the Edge and Open19 | |
| Arpit Joshipura, GM Networking, Edge & IoT, Linux Foundation | Linux Foundation Edge & Open19 | |
| 10:45 a.m. | Break / Expo Area Open | |
| Raejeanne Skillern, President of Communications & Enterprise Compute, Flex | Cloud & Data Center in 2020 | |
| Adam Tarnowski, VP Business Development for Cloud & Data Center, Flex | Flex Lightning Talk – Open19 Turnkey Solutions for Cloud | |
| Salim Fedel, Associate VP Enterprise Solutions Business Group, ASUS | ASUS Lightning Talk: Innovative Server Designs on Open19 Platform | |
| Jason Rylands, VP of Data Center Strategy & International Sales, German Edge Cloud | Open19: A Solution for the German Edge Cloud | |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch / Expo Area Open / Fastest Installed Rack Row Competition Continues | |
| 1:30 p.m. | Lior Gal, CEO, Excelero | Conquering the Last Storage Frontier with Open19 and NVMe |
| Philip Wong, Wiwynn | Wiwynn Lightning Talk: Bringing Hyperscale Performance to Open19 | |
| 2:00 p.m. | Paul Mockapetris, Computer Scientist, Internet Pioneer & Co-inventor of DNS | Keynote Presentation + Audience Q&A – Scaling Ecosystems and Standards-based Approaches |
| Scott Burns, Senior Director R&D, Packet; My Truong, Senior Director, Packet Labs; Carl Perry, Ecosystem Engineer, Packet | Packet Panel Discussion: Lab Rat Innovating on Hardware with Open19 | |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break / Expo Area Open / Fastest Installed Rack Row Competition Ends | |
| 3:25 p.m. | Brian Karstetter, Senior Director Product & Strategy, Packet | A Day in the Trenches – Open19 Deployment in Real Time |
| Dolly Wu, VP/GM USA Cloud Datacenter, Inspur | Inspur Lightning Talk: Leading the Adoption of Open19 | |
| Skip Fry, Lead Product Application Engineer, Amphenol | Skip Fry, Lead Product Application Engineer, Amphenol | |
| 4:20 p.m. | Kamal Deva, Director of Software Engineering, Salesforce | Innovation Projects Around Open19 |
| Adam Tarnowski, Flex; Dolly Wu, Inspur; Nelson Wang, ASUS | Open19 Adopters’ Corner – Open19 Solutions for the Data Center of the Future | |
| 5:00 p.m. | Yuval Bachar, President, Open19 Foundation | Closing Remarks / Raffle / Competition Winners / Expo Area Open |
| 5:30 p.m. | Reception Sponsored by Packet | |
| 7:30 p.m. | Summit Close – See You Next Year! |
Thank you to our sponsors!
