Vancouver, BC
May 21-24, 2018

Event Details

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KEYNOTE: Akraino Sponsored Keynote

Kandan Kathirvel, AT&T, and Melissa Evers-Hood, Intel, will talk about the Akraino project and the role it will play in creating horizontal, scalable Edge stacks built on open infrastructure and where the community is headed in development to enable broad application and use case expansion.

Wednesday, May 23, 9:15am-9:25am (4:15pm - 4:25pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: N/A
Sr. Director, System Software Products, Intel Corporation
Melissa Evers-Hood is the Sr. Director of Cloud Software Engineering within the Open Source Technology Center in the Software and Services Group at Intel Corp.  She has managed Chrome OS, Android development, Graphics, Media, Audio amongst other responsibilities.  Joining Intel 14 yrs ago, Melissa has worked in Finance, Product and Program management, as well as Engineering management. ... FULL PROFILE
AT&T, Lead System Architect
Kandan Kathirvel is Director at AT&T and responsible for AT&T's Cloud Strategy and Architecture. Kandan is the TSC-Chair at Akraino Edge Stack, Linux Foundation. Kandan served on the OpenStack board of directors from 2017 to 2018. Kandan leads AT&T’s technology efforts around Edge Computing, NFV, and SDN. Kandan has led several opensource initiatives, and a big Open Source... FULL PROFILE