Agenda (Final)

Purpose of the meeting:

1st developer/community summit to establish the process, 1st release goals, and next steps.

Participants: Everyone in the Telco industry is welcome to join the summit. Participation is free.

Location, registration, and additional information: See this parent page - (June 2022) Nephio Technical Steering Committee and Developer Summit

Meeting Type: In-person ( Everyone is encouraged to join In-person, Virtual meetings will be added but will be very limited due to in-room discussions)

Virtual meetings will use Google Meet, as this is integrated with Google's in-room video conferencing. 

Google Meet does not require a Google account. See this help article for how to use Google Meet without a Google account.

 

 

Please refer here for the Google Meeting link  - (June 2022) Nephio Technical Steering Committee and Developer Summit

 

Please note time zone is Pacific Timezone (California)

Day 1

Topic

Speaker(s)

Day 1

Topic

Speaker(s)

7:30-8:00 AM PT

Breakfast (Google Sponsored)

N/A

8:00-8:15 AM PT

Welcome Note

Arpit Joshipura, GM, Linux Foundation

Gabriele Di Piazza, Sr. Director Telecom Products, Google Cloud

8:15:9:00 AM PT

Nephio Introduction

Q & A Document

Kandan Kathirvel, Group Product Manager, Telecom, Google Cloud

9:00-9:15 AM PT

Executive Keynote - Google vision on Edge & Network Automation and Nephio Journey

Bikash Koley, Vice President, Global Networking, Google

9:15-9:30 AM PT

Executive Keynote - Google Nephio vision and commitment

Amol Phadke, General Manager, Global Telecom Industry, Google Cloud

9:30-10:00 AM PT

Executive Panel - Voice of Telecom - Learnings, and requirements for Nephio community

Moderator: Gabriele Di Piazza, Google

Panelists: 

10:00-10:10 AM PT

Executive Keynote - Voice of Vendors -  Learnings and requirements for the Nephio community

 

Sudhindra Chada, Director of Product Management, Ericsson 

10:10-10:20 AM PT

Executive Keynote - Voice of Vendors -  Learnings and requirements for the Nephio community

Jitin Bhandari, CTO, Cloud and Network Services, Nokia

10:20-10:30 AM PT

Executive Keynote - Voice of Vendors -  Learnings and requirements for the Nephio community

Jane Shen, VP, Technology and Strategy, Mavenir

10:30-10:45 AM PT

Coffee Break (Google Sponsored)

N/A

10:50 - 11:00 AM PT

Executive Keynote - Voice of Vendors -  Learnings and requirements for the Nephio community

Christopher Berluti – Director of product management and technology, Casa-Systems

11:00 - 11:10 AM PT

Executive Keynote - Voice of Vendors -  Learnings and requirements for the Nephio community

Steve Wehrend - VP of Engineering, VMware

11:10-11:20 AM PT

Executive Keynote - Voice of Vendors -  Learnings and requirements for the Nephio community

Rakesh Kumar - Senior Distinguished Engineer, Juniper

11:20 - 12:15 PM PT

KRM, CAD, Config Sync, Porch - Overview & Vision and Technical deep dive

Brian Grant, Distinguished Engineer, Google Cloud

12:15-1:15 PM PT

Lunch (Google Sponsored)

N/A

1:15-2:00 PM PT

Kubernetes CRDs and Operators - Technical Deep Dive into SIG Automation Machinery

Q & A Document

Stephen Wong, Staff Software Engineer, Telecom, Google Cloud

2:00 -2:45 PM PT

Nephio Reference Implementation - Technical deep dive into SIG Platform

Q & A Document

John Belamaric, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Kubernetes/Anthos, Google Cloud

3:00-3:15 PM PT

Coffee Break (Google Sponsored)

N/A

3:15 -4:00 PM PT

Community structure and next steps

Q & A Document

Working group structure, Chair/Co-chair elections, TSC member selections

Kandan Kathirvel, Google Cloud

Arpit Joshipura, LF

Scott Nicholas, LF Legal

4:00 -4:40 PM PT

Developer office hours - How do I engage & contribute to Nephio?

Q & A Document

John Belamaric, Google Cloud

Stephen Wong, Google Cloud

4:40-5:00 PM PT

Q&A, Next steps, a summary of day 1, Day 2 agenda overview, open topics

Facilitated by Kandan Kathirvel and Arpit Joshipura

5:30-7:30 PM PT

Social Hours  (Google Sponsored)

N/A

 

 

 

Day 2

Topic

Speaker(s)

Day 2

Topic

Speaker(s)

7:30-8:00 AM PT

Breakfast (Google Sponsored)

N/A

8:00-8:15 AM PT

Welcome Note

Ranny Haiby, CTO, Networking and Edge, Linux Foundation

Gabriele Di Piazza, Sr. Director Telecom Products - Google Cloud

8:15-8:35 AM PT

Technical Keynote by Google

How Google uses automation to manage a large portfolio of applications? How are those best practices used within Nephio?

Ankur Jain, Vice President, Engineering, Telecom, Google Cloud

8:35-9:00 AM PT

Executive Panel - Startups -  How would you use and contribute to Nephio?

  • Moderator - Tina Tsou, Enterprise Architect, Arm & TSC Chair, Akraino, Board Chair, LF Edge

  • Amar Kapadia  Co-Founder & CEO at Aarna Networks

  • Prabhjot Singh Sethi, VP at CoreEdge

  • Sebastian Scheele, CEO & Co-Founder at Kubermatic

9:00-9:40 AM PT

Birds of feather session - TSC

Q & A Document

Formation & setting up regular cadence meetings, Charter, etc.,

Facilitated by Kandan, Google & All TSC Members

 

9:45-10:00 AM PT

Coffee Break (Google Sponsored)

N/A

10:00-10:45 AM PT

Roadmap to Release 1

Google Contributions overview, Draft features in Rel.1, Community work

Kandan Kathirvel, Google Cloud

John Belamaric, Google Cloud

Stephen Wong, Google Cloud

10:40-11:20 AM PT

Birds of feather session - SIG Network Architecture

Q & A Document

Requirements, reference architecture, interfaces, etc.

Scope, requirements, establish regular meeting cadence, roadmap, contribution, etc.

Facilitated by Telco members 

  • Sana Tariq, Principal Technical Architect, Telus

  • Daniel Bernier, Technical Director, Bell Canada

  • + other telco volunteers

  • Kandan @Google

 

11:20-12:00 PM PT

Birds of feather session - SIG Automation Machinery

Q & A Document

CRDs, Operators, SDK, kpt Packages

Scope, establish regular meeting cadence, roadmap, contribution, etc.

Facilitated by Stephen, John @ Google

Sudhindra Chada, Director of Product Management, Ericsson

Christopher Berluti – Director of product management and technology, Casa-Systems

Timo Parala, Head of Software, Nokia

Jane Shen, VP, Mavenir

+ other volunteers

12:00-1:00 PM PT

Lunch (Google Sponsored)

N/A

1:00-1:40 PM PT

End to End automation - Nephio interactions with other OSS communities (EMCO, ONAP, etc.), Standards

Conversation kick-off slides:Nephio E2E automation.pptx

Q & A Document

Facilitated by Ranny Haiby, Linux Foundation

+ Community volunteers

1:40-2:20 PM PT

Birds of feather session - SIG Platform

Q & A Document

Software architecture, end-to-end implementation, installation, packaging, user interfaces.

Scope, establish regular meeting cadence, roadmap, contribution, etc.

Facilitated by John, Stephen @ Google

+ Community volunteers

2:20-2:40 PM PT

Coffee Break (Google Sponsored)

N/A

2:40-3:30 PM PT

Birds of feather session - SIG Release

Q & A Document

CI/CD for Nephio, release testing, infra for releases, project administration.

Scope, establish regular meeting cadence, roadmap, contribution, etc.

Facilitated by John, Kaushik @ Google

+ Community volunteers

3:30-4:00 PM PT

Closing notes

Arpit Joshipura, LF