Dr. Christos Kolias – Senior Research Scientist Keynote Title: “NFV: Empowering the Network” Keynote Abstract: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) envisions and promises to change the service provider landscape and has emerged as one of one of today’s significant trends. Although less than two years old, NFV has garnered the industry’s full attention and support. Moving swiftly, a number of key accomplishments have already taken place, and a lot more work is currently under way within ETSI NFV while we are embarking on its future phase. Various proofs-of-concepts (ranging from vEPC to vCPE, vIMS and vCDN) are being developed while issues such as open source and SDN are becoming key ingredients as the can play a pivotal role. Dr. Christos Kolias' Bio: Christos Kolias is a senior research scientist at Orange Silicon Valley (a subsidiary of Orange). Christos is a co-founder of the ETSI NFV group and had led the formation of ONF’s Wireless & Mobile working group. He has lectured on NFV and SDN at several events. Christos has more than 15 years of experience in networking, he is the originator of Virtual Output Queueing (VOQ) used in packet switching. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA. --------------------------------------------------- ★ Resources ★ Zerista: http://lcu14.zerista.com/event/member/137765 Google Event: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cpeksim4hr4ghhuufv5ic4viirs Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFDnj_342n4&list=UUIVqQKxCyQLJS6xvSmfndLA Etherpad: http://pad.linaro.org/p/lcu14-400a --------------------------------------------------- ★ Event Details ★ Linaro Connect USA - #LCU14 September 15-19th, 2014 Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport --------------------------------------------------- http://www.linaro.org http://connect.linaro.org