Nephio R3 Developer Event Agenda

Purpose of the meeting:

3rd Nephio developer/community summit to celebrate the second release, discuss upcoming third release goals, and next steps.

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

Location, registration, and additional information:

2024-05 LFN Developer & Testing Forum (Co-located with ONE Summit)

May 2, 2024May 3, 2024

San Jose McEnery Convention Center, room 212 C/D

150 W. San Carlos Street
San Jose, CA 95113

Registration | Sessions | Schedule

Meeting Type: In-person

Virtual option can be viewed on the D&TF Schedule.
ZOOM LINK TO THE EVENT: HTTPS://ZOOM.US/J/95931396930?PWD=UKL3ELFVB1LXDNA0OEVADEHNQMXJQT09
- Presentations will be shared virtually on a "best effort" basis. All presenters will need to be on-site and follow this process (remote speakers cannot be accommodated).
- Session recording will also be made available on a "best effort" basis, following the conclusion of the event.

Please note time zone is Pacific Timezone (California)

Agenda	Start time	End time	Speakers / Topic	Slides / Documents

Agenda	Start time	End time	Speakers / Topic	Slides / Documents
Intro	8:00 AM PT	8:05 AM PT	LF (Jenn & Arpit)
Nephio Current State and next steps	8:05 AM PT	8:30 AM PT	Kandan & Sana Sagar: Nephio R2 Demo
Invited speakers	8:30 AM PT	9:00 AM PT	DZS Benefits of TOSCA in Nephio Ability to rapidly fit into existing Service Provider infrastructure Support connectivity between Nephio containerized applications with legacy applications (e.g. VM-based or physical infrastructure) Advanced life cycle management (brownfield discovery)	Benefits of TOSCA Modelling.pptx
Invited speakers	9:00 AM PT	9:30 AM PT	Federico Cicchello, TIM Sylva + Nephio: a best fit! A PoC how Sylva v1 fits into Nephio R2 framework as a complementary element Start of a dialogue for collaboration between the two projects	https://wiki.nephio.org/download/attachments/59048002/Sylvav1%E2%80%93NephioR2PoC%20-%20Nephio%20Day.pptx?api=v2
Invited speakers	9:30 AM PT	10:00 AM PT	VisionWave GenAI company LLM for Nephio Demo
Break	10:00 AM PT	10:15 AM PT
Welcome to the Nephio project	10:15 AM PT	11:00 AM PT	Sana, Tal, Ciaran Present all sub-teams (with their respective lead if present) Architecture review (C4 Model) Nephio Modelling overview Getting started on Nephio	Working Groups Delivery Teams Architecture Modelling
Releases roadmap	11:00 AM PT	11:45 AM PT	Sana, Bala, Alexis Release planning process Rx process Present tentative R3 scope overview (user stories) Gather community feedback and discuss release cadence and expectations	Rx Scope Process Rx Scope Planning Github Issue boards
CNF Cloud Native testing program	11:45 AM PT	12:00 PM PT	Ranny Cloud native CNF requirements LFN Cloud Native testing initiative & session intro Connection to Nephio's success
Lunch (not provided)
Platform evolution	1:00 PM PT	2:00 PM PT	Liam / Tal Open discussion on future of Porch	Slides + whiteboard Notes
Onboarding	2:00 PM PT	2:30 PM PT	Stephen Network Function (helm support, SDK, operators, etc..) Cloud Platform (infra and tooling) What do we want from the Nephio SDK?
CI / CD / CT	2:30 PM PT	3:15 PM PT	Victor Tests (unit, integration, e2e) GitHub labels GitHub actions vs Prow Integration test frameworks K8s native test framework Discuss the integration with Production-Ready environments Interconnect clusters Infrastructure resources Validate instructions in Documentation
Break	3:15 PM PT	3:30 PM PT
Lesson learned on bare metal deployment	3:30:PM PT	4:00 PM PT	Sagar / Alexis O-RAN integration lessons learned/challenges from release 2 and release 3 (Sagar) Real-world challenges and use cases (real clouds, bare-metal, multi-cloud, hybrid cloud)
Security in Nephio	4:00 PM PT	4:30 PM PT	Rahul Identity, multi-tenancy, access (with SIG#4) Handling Secrets management Security Best Practices	Slide deck
TSC Birds of feather session	4:30 PM PT	5:00 PM PT	Kandan