(October 2024) Nephio R4 Summit

Nephio R4 Developer Summit Agenda

Purpose of the meeting:

The 4th Nephio Developer/Community Summit is an opportunity for the Nephio community to come together and celebrate the successful release of R3. This face-to-face summit will focus on discussing the goals and next steps for the upcoming R4 release. Participants will engage in collaborative sessions to strategize, share insights, plan the future direction and dive into next set of user stories towards R4. The summit aims to foster innovation, strengthen community ties, and help developers solve technical issues while aligning on Nephio’s vision and direction.

Join us to contribute to shaping the future of Nephio and to connect with fellow developers and experts in the field.

Participants: Everyone in the Telco and Enterprise industry is welcome to join the summit.

Location:

Zig Zag Tech Talk

US-SVL-CRSM1265-2-2B01265

Crossman Ave, Sunnyvale, CA

Registration link:

Event Date & Time : October 15th (8-5 PM PT) and 16th (up to 8-12 PM PT)

Please note time zone is Pacific Timezone (California)

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Day1 (October 15, 2024)

Intro Welcome

8:00 am

8:10 am

LF (Jenn Bonner and Arpit Joshipura)

 

 

8:10 am

8:30 am

Nephio journey, progress and future outlook

TSC Chairs (Kandan Kathirvel and Sana Tariq)

 

Nephio External and Outreach (Telcos Panel Discussion)

8:30 am

9:00 am

Realizing Nephio Business Value for Telcos

Facilitator: Sana Tariq

Daniel Freiji - Telus Canada | Bernard Tsai- Deutsche Telekom | Eric Debeau - Orange | David Kinsey- ATT

 

Nephio External and Outreach (Cloud Panel Discussion)

9:00 am

9:30 am

Cloud Giants Weigh In: Perspectives on Nephio's Network Automation

Facilitator: Jenn Bonner

Balaji - Google | Bill Wright - RedHat | Tom Nadeau - WindRiver | Tomas Fredberg - Ericsson Cloud | VMware by Broadcom - Akshatha Sathyanarayan

 

Nephio External and Outreach (NF Vendors Panel Discussion)

9:30 am

10:00 am

Nephio Adoption: NF Vendors Navigate the Cloud Native

Facilitator: Kandan Kathirvel

Nokia - Wim Henderickx | Ericsson - Ciaran | Samsung - Avinash | Mavenir- Jane | Intel - Sundar Nadathur

 

Nephio External and Outreach

(Opensource Panel Discussion)

10:00 am

10:30 am

Open Source Synergy: Nephio's Collaborative Ecosystem with CAMARA, O-RAN- SC, Sylva, OAI, and Kubenet

Facilitator: Timo Perala

CAMARA - Bill Wright | Sylva- Orange, Eric | OAI - Sagar Arora | Kubenet - Wim Henderickx | O-RAN SC - Seshu

 

Coffee Break (10:30 am - 10:45 am)

Welcome to the Nephio project

10:45 am

11:15am

SIG Architecture principles, technology and evolution (SIG Chairs)

Wim Henderickx, Sana Tariiq, Tal Liron, Rahul Jadhav, Alexis, Bala

 

WG2: O-RAN

11:15 am

12:00

Accelerating O-RAN Automation Nephio R4 - Joey, Vish, Bala

 

Lunch Break (12:00 - 1:00 pm)

WG7: Transport

1:00 pm

1:15 pm

Kubenet architecture - Wim Henderickx

(Lightning Talk)

 

Nephio Core Evolution

1:15 pm

3:15 pm

Technology Comparison Matrix - SIG1 (Sana, Bala)

Ansible PoC/Presentation (Tal)

TKO/Porch learnings: PoC and Presentation (Liam)

Kubent PoC/Presentation (Wim)

Porch Evolution (Istvan) - TBD Tal to confirm

Config Sync User-stories - Nagy

 

 

Nephio Core Evolution

3:30 pm

4:00 pm

Technology Comparison and Evolution - Wim

 

WG2: Modeling and APIs

4:00 pm

4:30 pm

Nephio external APIs - Ciaran Johnston

 

WG6: Nephio and GenAI

4:30 pm

5:00 pm

GenAI and Nephio - Sana, Alexis + WG6

 

Happy Hour (5:15 pm - 6:15 pm)

 

Day 2 (October 16, 2024)- outreach talks, Nephio R4 Planning , Deep Dives on R4 User-Stories

Intro / Welcome

8:00 am

8:10 am

Sana, Kandan Kathirvel, Jenn Bonner, Arpit Joshipura (Welcome audience)

 

 

8:10 am

8:25 am

Lightning Talk - Service Experience and GenAI (Tomas Achaval - Wilab)

 

 

8:25 am

8:40 am

Lightning Talk - Paraglider (Sarah McClure,  Diego Vega)

 

 

8:40 am

8:55 am

Lightning Talk & Demo - Nephio for GenAI Automation Use cases (Josh Joseph, Stanford)

 

Nephio R4 Planning

8:55 am

9:30 am

Nephio progress Testing/Release - Rado, Bala

 

 

9:30 am

10:00 am

Transport User Stories Deep Dive - Zhukov

 

Coffee Break (10:00 - 10:15 am)

Nephio R4 Planning

10:15 am

10:30 am

SIG Security - Workload Identity - Rahul

 

 

10:30 am

11:00 am

R4 Planning and discussions- Bala, Tal, Sana, Rahul, Wim

Review R4 user-stories

Identify ownership

Finalize R4 scope

 

 

11:00 am

11:30 am

 

 

11:30 am

12:00

 

Lunch Break (12:00 - 1:00pm)

Nephio R4 Planning

1:00 pm

1:30 pm

Continue R4 Planning and discussions

 

Nephio Future Outlook and Closing Remarks

1:30 pm

2:00 pm

Closing Remarks

 

Dismiss - Close event

 

 

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