Individual Speaker Profile

• AT&T - From 2008-05-18 (Current)

Platinum Member Director, Board of Directors, OpenStack Foundation

• OpenStack
• Cloud Strategy and Architecture
• Telecommunications
• LAN and WAN network
• Server and Storage

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 advocate. He has been vocal about the potential of Edge Computing and frequent speaker on the IEEE, OpenStack, Linux Foundation and other Opensource forums. He has more than 16 years of experience in Telecommunication industry.

• Akraino BoF Session - Bring your questions

• Akraino BoF
• Akraino Edge Stack requirements to OpenStack Community

• KEYNOTE: Akraino Sponsored Keynote
• Akraino half-day workshop (RSVP Required)
• How to work with adjacent open source communities - user, developer, vendor, board perspectives

• Blueprint for a Successful OpenStack
• Implications of 5G RAN and IoT on OpenStack based edge computing.
• A slimmer, thinner, lightweight OpenStack – why it is needed for the success of Edge Cloud?

• Telco Edge Cloud Use Cases and Container Networking
• Implications of 5G and Edge Computing on OpenStack
• AT&T Container Strategy and OpenStack's Role in It
• Magic Wand Behind Large OpenStack and Virtual Network Functions (VNF) Orchestration - OpenECOMP

• Scaling OpenStack to Support Large Scale Compute – 500 Computes and Beyond

• Achieving Five-Nine of VNF Reliability in Telco-Grade OpenStack Cloud

• Achieving Five-Nine of VNF Reliability in Telco-Grade OpenStack Cloud
• Scaling OpenStack to large scale
  
• Magic Wand Behind Large OpenStack and Virtual Network Functions VNF Orchestration - OpenECOMP
• AT
• Telco Edge Cloud Use Cases and Container Networking

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