Name: Sana Tariq

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• Organization: Telus

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• Short biography: Sana Tariq, Ph.D. in Computer Science and Fulbright alum, brings over 15 years of expertise in telecom and cloud-native technologies. As Principal Architect at TELUS, she drives 5G core and O-RAN evolution and API-driven innovation to enable automation and programmability. A pioneer in cloud-native adoption, she co-founded TELUS's Open Source Program Office
  and Project Nephio, received Nephio's Top Contributor award ((2024) and has been serving as TSC Chair (2025). Sig Architecture Vice-chair (2025) and GenAI and Nephio lead (2025)

• Intent: Drive Nephio vision and architecture around service providers requirements.

• Role: Vice Chair

Name: Ciaran Johnston

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• Organization: Ericsson

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• Short biography: Ciaran Johnston is a senior expert in OSS and programmable network architecture, and he is the chief architect of Ericsson’s network management product portfolio. He joined Ericsson in 2000 and has over 25 years’ experience in software development and architecture in the OSS domain.

• Intent: Industrialize the core Nephio platform, decouple and independently lifecycle the use cases and provide clear guidance for the development of new Nephio use cases to enable broader adoption.

Name: Liam Fallon

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  Liam Fallon is a practitioner working on delivering Network Automation in open source. He is helping to build the software frameworks that we need to realize the promise of real automation in modern telecommunication systems.

  Liam has architected, designed, and implemented a variety of systems, one of which was the first packet analyzer for the Ericsson AXE switch. From there he moved to work on management of Ericsson's ATM switches (a connection tracing system), and onto mobile network management (a number of systems including a batch job management system, a session tracing system, and a complex event processing system). He believes that system architects and designers should follow their designs, and should be involved in the implementation and deployment of their designs so he has led the implementation teams for most of the systems he has designed.

  In his time in Applied Research,he led the development of the APEX adaptive policy engine, which Ericsson contributed to the Linux Foundation ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform) project.

  He followed APEX into the ONAP project and into the Open Source world. He worked on the design and implementation of the TOSCA driven Policy Framework architecture in ONAP. He also designed and and led the implementation of Automation Composition Management, which is the core of the rApp Manager in OSC.

• Intent: Continue the work in SIG-Automation

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