Building a consortium of often competing, industry, government, academic and research leaders can be difficult. While all members may agree that they are dedicated to building a great open source community, their competing interests, motivations and business models, can create a barrier to bringing people together for a common cause. In this session, two successful consortium models from: Japan’s Okinawa Open Laboratory (OOL) and Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN), will be presented. Both are running OpenStack environment to test, validate and commercialize SDN and NFV prototypes, products, applications and services. And both centres have similar mandates: to bridge the gap between research and industry and ensure they are global leaders in the innovation and commercialization of the technologies that will underpin the next generation of converged global communication networks.
Creating consortiums and communities that are made up of members with competing interests can be challenging. Both centres will share their models and experience on leveraging limited government funding to support efforts to attract paying members who wish to collaborate with each other, SMEs and academia on commercialization projects leveraging an OpenStack-based testing infrastructure. Attendees will learn from Japan’s Okinawa Open Laboratory (OOL) and Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN) best practices for; building and managing member based industry, academic, research and government consortiums; validating and commercializing SDN and NFV prototypes, products, applications and services (PoCs), leveraging an OpenStack-based testing infrastructure.
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