San Jose 2014

Through understanding how to manage cloud, network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networks (SDN), the most successful digital businesses will lead the way by providing innovative new services to their customers, at minimal cost.

This track will provide up-to-the minute analysis, opinion and information from world leaders in virtualization – including TM Forum members – through a variety of interactive formats. Sessions will be interspersed with proof of concept and early deployment case studies.

We will outline how TM Forum’s NFV activities complement ETSI’s Management and Orchestration (MANO) work for end-to-end management and explain how delegates can join TM Forum’s exciting initiative.

Key Outcomes

Understand virtualization’s expanding role in digital business
Grasp how virtualization is set to disrupt employees, organizational culture, supply chains and ecosystems
Learn how to implement NFV, including open source initiatives, DevOps best practices, APIs, end-to-end management, procurement, and security
Explore opportunities for monetizing NFV

Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday

All Events
Tuesday

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Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 08.30 - 08.45 Keynotesundefined
	Virtualization Disrupting the status quo 08.45 - 10.00 Chair: Ken Dilbeck, Vice President, Collaboration R&D, TM Forum Virtualizationundefined




Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 10.00 - 10.15 Keynotesundefined
Morning Break Refreshments 10.15 - 10.45 Morning Breakrefreshments

Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 10.45 - 11.00 Keynotesundefined
	Virtualization Supply chains and ecosystems: Disruption and creation 11.00 - 12.15 Virtualizationundefined




Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 12.15 - 12.30 Keynotesundefined
LUNCH 12.30 - 14.00 LUNCHlunch





	Virtualization Supply chains and ecosystems: Disruption and creation 14.00 - 15.15 Virtualizationundefined




		Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 15.15 - 15.30 Keynotesundefined
Afternoon Break Refreshments 15.30 - 16.00 Afternoon Breakafternoon-break

	Virtualization State of the nation – breaking news 16.00 - 16.50 Virtualizationundefined Virtualization Readiness – are you planning the right moves? 16.50 - 17.15 Virtualizationundefined

1st Column Tues-Thurs

Keynotes
08.30 - 08.45
Keynotes
10.00 - 10.15
Morning Break
10.15 - 10.45
Keynotes
10.45 - 11.00
Keynotes
12.15 - 12.30
LUNCH
12.30 - 14.00
Afternoon Break
15.30 - 16.00

2nd Column Tues-Thurs

Virtualization
08.45 - 10.00
Virtualization
11.00 - 12.15
Virtualization
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Virtualization
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Virtualization
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4th Column Tues-Thurs

Keynotes
15.15 - 15.30

1st Column Tues-Thurs	2nd Column Tues-Thurs	4th Column Tues-Thurs
Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 08.30 - 08.45 Keynotesundefined
	Virtualization Disrupting the status quo 08.45 - 10.00 Chair: Ken Dilbeck, Vice President, Collaboration R&D, TM Forum Virtualizationundefined




Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 10.00 - 10.15 Keynotesundefined
Morning Break Refreshments 10.15 - 10.45 Morning Breakrefreshments

Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 10.45 - 11.00 Keynotesundefined
	Virtualization Supply chains and ecosystems: Disruption and creation 11.00 - 12.15 Virtualizationundefined




Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 12.15 - 12.30 Keynotesundefined
LUNCH 12.30 - 14.00 LUNCHlunch





	Virtualization Supply chains and ecosystems: Disruption and creation 14.00 - 15.15 Virtualizationundefined




		Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 15.15 - 15.30 Keynotesundefined
Afternoon Break Refreshments 15.30 - 16.00 Afternoon Breakafternoon-break

	Virtualization State of the nation – breaking news 16.00 - 16.50 Virtualizationundefined Virtualization Readiness – are you planning the right moves? 16.50 - 17.15 Virtualizationundefined

1st Column Tues-Thurs

Keynotes
08.30 - 08.45
Keynotes
10.00 - 10.15
Morning Break
10.15 - 10.45
Keynotes
10.45 - 11.00
Keynotes
12.15 - 12.30
LUNCH
12.30 - 14.00
Afternoon Break
15.30 - 16.00

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Virtualization
08.45 - 10.00
Virtualization
11.00 - 12.15
Virtualization
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Virtualization
16.00 - 16.50
Virtualization
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4th Column Tues-Thurs

Keynotes
15.15 - 15.30

All Events
Wednesday

1st Column Tues-Thurs	2nd Column Tues-Thurs	3rd Column Tues-Thurs
	Virtualization Readiness – are you planning the right moves? 08.30 - 10.00 Chair: Carl Piva, Vice President, Strategic Programs, TM Forum Virtualizationtop-five-pre-requisites-virtualization, employee-organizational-culture-change, preparing-virtualization





Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 10.00 - 10.15 Keynotesundefined
Morning Break Refreshments 10.15 - 10.45 Morning Breakrefreshments

Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 10.45 - 11.00 Keynotesundefined
	Virtualization How to implement and manage NFV 11.00 - 12.15 Chair: Carl Piva, Vice President, Strategic Programs, TM Forum Virtualizationundefined




Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 12.15 - 12.30 Keynotesundefined
LUNCH 12.30 - 14.00 LUNCHlunch





		Virtualization How to implement and manage NFV (continued) 14.00 - 15.15 Chair: Carl Piva, Vice President, Strategic Programs, TM Forum Virtualizationundefined




		Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 15.15 - 15.30 Keynotesundefined
	Afternoon Break Refreshments 15.30 - 16.00 Afternoon Breakundefined

	Virtualization Tackling disruption... with a safety belt! 16.00 - 17.15 Virtualizationsecuring-tomorrow-today, securing-virtualized-infrastructure, generating-secured-computing-infrastructure

1st Column Tues-Thurs

Keynotes
10.00 - 10.15
Morning Break
10.15 - 10.45
Keynotes
10.45 - 11.00
Keynotes
12.15 - 12.30
LUNCH
12.30 - 14.00

2nd Column Tues-Thurs

Virtualization
08.30 - 10.00
Virtualization
11.00 - 12.15
Afternoon Break
15.30 - 16.00
Virtualization
16.00 - 17.15

3rd Column Tues-Thurs

Virtualization
14.00 - 15.15
Keynotes
15.15 - 15.30

1st Column Tues-Thurs	2nd Column Tues-Thurs	3rd Column Tues-Thurs
	Virtualization Readiness – are you planning the right moves? 08.30 - 10.00 Chair: Carl Piva, Vice President, Strategic Programs, TM Forum Virtualizationtop-five-pre-requisites-virtualization, employee-organizational-culture-change, preparing-virtualization





Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 10.00 - 10.15 Keynotesundefined
Morning Break Refreshments 10.15 - 10.45 Morning Breakrefreshments

Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 10.45 - 11.00 Keynotesundefined
	Virtualization How to implement and manage NFV 11.00 - 12.15 Chair: Carl Piva, Vice President, Strategic Programs, TM Forum Virtualizationundefined




Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 12.15 - 12.30 Keynotesundefined
LUNCH 12.30 - 14.00 LUNCHlunch





		Virtualization How to implement and manage NFV (continued) 14.00 - 15.15 Chair: Carl Piva, Vice President, Strategic Programs, TM Forum Virtualizationundefined




		Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 15.15 - 15.30 Keynotesundefined
	Afternoon Break Refreshments 15.30 - 16.00 Afternoon Breakundefined

	Virtualization Tackling disruption... with a safety belt! 16.00 - 17.15 Virtualizationsecuring-tomorrow-today, securing-virtualized-infrastructure, generating-secured-computing-infrastructure

1st Column Tues-Thurs

Keynotes
10.00 - 10.15
Morning Break
10.15 - 10.45
Keynotes
10.45 - 11.00
Keynotes
12.15 - 12.30
LUNCH
12.30 - 14.00

2nd Column Tues-Thurs

Virtualization
08.30 - 10.00
Virtualization
11.00 - 12.15
Afternoon Break
15.30 - 16.00
Virtualization
16.00 - 17.15

3rd Column Tues-Thurs

Virtualization
14.00 - 15.15
Keynotes
15.15 - 15.30

All Events
Thursday

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					Virtualization Monetizing NFV with new agile services 08.30 - 10.00 Moderator: Craig Matsumoto, Managing Editor, SDNCentral Virtualizationundefined





				Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 10.00 - 10.15 Keynotesundefined
				Morning Break Refreshments 10.15 - 10.45 Morning Breakrefreshments

				Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 10.45 - 11.00 Keynotesundefined
					Virtualization Monetizing NFV with new agile services 11.00 - 12.15 Virtualizationcreating-new-services-fast-10-minutes, quest-truly-automated-networks-10-minutes, service-exposure-apis-10-minutes

1st Column Tues-Thurs

Keynotes
10.00 - 10.15
Morning Break
10.15 - 10.45
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Virtualization
08.30 - 10.00
Virtualization
11.00 - 12.15

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					Virtualization Monetizing NFV with new agile services 08.30 - 10.00 Moderator: Craig Matsumoto, Managing Editor, SDNCentral Virtualizationundefined





				Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 10.00 - 10.15 Keynotesundefined
				Morning Break Refreshments 10.15 - 10.45 Morning Breakrefreshments

				Keynotes Lightning Presentation - Center Stage 10.45 - 11.00 Keynotesundefined
					Virtualization Monetizing NFV with new agile services 11.00 - 12.15 Virtualizationcreating-new-services-fast-10-minutes, quest-truly-automated-networks-10-minutes, service-exposure-apis-10-minutes

1st Column Tues-Thurs

Keynotes
10.00 - 10.15
Morning Break
10.15 - 10.45
Keynotes
10.45 - 11.00

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Virtualization
08.30 - 10.00
Virtualization
11.00 - 12.15

Virtualization snapshot: A view of the market landscape and the horizon

08:45 AM - ANALYST INTRO

Speaker:

Elisabeth Rainge - Research Vice President, Service Provider Operation, IDC

With 2014 the year of early proof of concepts/lab trials, where are we now?
What is the business case for this major paradigm shift?
Which service providers are exploring the opportunities? And where?
Who are the trailblazers to watch? What are their strategies?

Irrevocably transforming the foundations of the digital economy

09:05 AM - KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Speaker:

Bethany Mayer - President & CEO, Ixia

Out with the old, in with the new – what major changes are senior executives preparing for?
Why has virtualization been described as ‘the no.1 story of the decade’?
Eyeing the prize at the pinnacle of agile IT
Spearheading the redefinition of networks, globally

SUPER-HOT SESSION: The era of the software-defined operator

09:25 AM - KEYNOTE PANEL DISCUSSION

Panelists:

Brian Baird - former-CTO, Sasktel; CIO – Cloud infrastructure; Co-founder, Anera

Bethany Mayer - President & CEO, Ixia

Luigi Licciardi - Head of Standards, IPR & Research Coordination, Telecom Italia Group

Ray Bariso - Vice President - Operations & Business Support Solutions, Ericsson

In the quest for increasingly flexible services, this panel discussion focuses on realizing a truly agile, customer-centric experience, and achieving the ultimate objective – creating a successful digital business.

Increasing the efficiency of the infrastructure
Dynamic service composition and orchestration using a virtualized infrastructure
Decreasing the complexity of operations
How all-IP network, cloud data centers and real-time service provider IT interlock

Will the NFV & SDN business case be real and sufficient?

11:00 AM - PANEL DISCUSSION

Moderator:

Craig Matsumoto - Managing Editor, SDNCentral

Panelists:

Wendy Cartee - VP of Product and Marketing , PLUMgrid

Christos Kolias - Senior Research Scientist, Orange Silicon Valley

Eric Troup - CTO – Worldwide Communications and Media Industries, Microsoft Corp.

Vish Ishaya - Chief Technology Officer, Nebula

The cost savings are understood, but what will be the catalyst to change? What, if any, revenue opportunities will flow from NFV & SDN?
Will the business case be able to absorb the costly and timely systems and process changes required for NFV?
One size does not fit all – are there service providers for whom transforming to virtualization will not be possible?
Will those who cannot transform join Kodak et al in the digital disruption graveyard? If so, when?

Vive la revolution!

11:45 AM - PANEL DISCUSSION

Panelists:

Eric Carmès - Founder and CEO, 6WIND

Dr. Martin Wrulich - Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company, Inc

Plamen Minev - Director Engineering – Cloud and Virtualization Group, Cisco

Ravinder Shergill - Principal Technology Architect, TELUS

With revolution comes disruption – the great service chain overhaul
Who is pulling the shots? Service providers or technology vendors?
How will procurement be disruptive in the virtualized context? Will procurement of services disrupt the service chain?
Can NFV ultimately be of benefit to all parties?

New technology, new approach

2:00 PM - LIGHTNING TALK

Speaker:

Ken Dilbeck - Vice President, Collaboration R&D, TM Forum

Which portions of NFV orchestration and management can be tackled using open source technology and which cannot?
Is the issue less about open source and more about achieving pragmatic interoperability?
Working with other leading organizations to achieve the optimal balance for the wider digital economy

Like a wink and a smile: Open source and virtualization

2:15 PM - LIGHTNING TALK

Speaker:

Nabil Damouny - Liaison Officer, ONF & ETSI; Senior Director, Business Development, Netronome Systems

Accelerating standardisation, adoption and interoperability
How are the ONF currently working within the industry to promote open infrastructure?
Where has progress been made to date?

OpenStack, OpenFlow, OpenDaylight… open season? – in ten minutes

2:30 PM - LIGHTNING TALK

Speaker:

Vijoy Pandey - Lead Architect, SDN, Data Center Networking and I/O, Google

What is their role?
Are they friends or foe?

Does virtualization signal the end of proprietary standards? – in ten minutes

2:45 PM - LIGHTNING TALK

Speaker:

Christos Kolias - Senior Research Scientist, Orange Silicon Valley

Bringing together open standards, running code and rough consensus
Open standards versus vendor lock-in

Top five pre-requisites for virtualization

08:30 AM - THINK TANK SESSION

Ensuring resources are available for launching virtualization in terms of budget, long-term cloud strategy, technical expertise, and operational and procurement readiness
Five-minute intro by facilitator, 20-minute discussion in smaller groups, two-minute reports from each group and five-minute summary by facilitator

Employee and organizational culture change

09:10 AM - KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Speaker:

Roberto Kung - SVP Network Operations and Performance, Orange

NFV readiness – culture and organization changes required
Who is in charge? The CIO or CTO?
New skill mix requirements, such as IP, data-centre operations, programming
How severe is the skills gap for virtualized technology?

Preparing for virtualization

4:50 PM - CASE STUDY

Speakers:

Dave Duggal - Co-Founder & Managing Director, EnterpriseWeb

Fred Feisullin - Senior Network Architect, Office of the CTO, Sprint

Transforming from SysOps/NetOps to an agile DevOps approach
The impact on existing management systems – how to achieve full virtualization?
How is virtualization forcing businesses to evolve their IT strategies, and IT infrastructure?

TM Forum’s ZOOM program

11:00 AM - MASTERCLASS

Speaker:

Ken Dilbeck - Vice President, Collaboration R&D, TM Forum

A clear and thorough presentation of TM Forum’s ZOOM (Zero-touch Orchestration, Operations and Management) program with input by the experts working at the heart of the project and a focus on four over-riding themes:

Moving away from the traditional service provider operations model to a more agile development and operations model
Focusing on end-to-end virtual network and operations management
Working NFV procurement requirements
Clarifying how open source technology can be used

A gradual approach versus ‘rip and replace’

2:00 PM - PANEL DISCUSSION

Panelists:

Massimo Fatato - WW OSS Domain Business Lead, HP

Dr. Martin Wrulich - Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company, Inc

Victor Mendoza-Grado - Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Verizon

Should you start over or build on what you have? This panel discusses how to bridge the gap between today’s networks and the SDN-based networks of the future.

Legacy infrastructure versus brand new overhaul
Implementation costs versus CapEx/OpEx savings
Roadmap principles for achieving the virtualization vision – what’s on the migration dashboard
Leveraging silicon economics – Moore’s Law for virtualized networks

The service provider’s biggest ongoing challenge – in ten minutes

2:30 PM - LIGHTNING TALK

Speaker:

Victor Mendoza-Grado - Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Verizon

Integrating new NFV-based services into existing service provider IT

Dynamic APIs

3:00 PM - LIGHTNING TALK

Speaker:

Greg Tilton - Chairman and CTO, DGIT

Why are they critical to realizing a truly flexible rapid service delivery ecosystem?

Securing tomorrow, today

4:00 PM - PRESENTATION

Speaker:

Doug Snyder - Technical Architect, Symantec Corporation

Understanding security threats in a virtualized environment
Keeping security threats at bay and responding rapidly to incidents
Security services and APIs for securing end-to-end network services
The security fabric necessary to support a virtualized services infrastructure
Best practice learned from data centers that can be applied to networks

Securing virtualized infrastructure

4:30 PM - PRESENTATION

Speakers:

Wendy Cartee - VP of Product and Marketing , PLUMgrid

Wendy Cartee - VP Marketing, PLUMgrid

Testing requirements in the security area

Keeping data away from scary places

4:50 PM - PRESENTATION

Speaker:

Bill Quigley - Deputy CTO, Riverbed Technologies

Leveraging data consolidation to secure data
Exploring techniques for pulling data out of “scary places” and into safe harbor—whether in the data center, or in the cloud
Examining data security from the perspective of recoverability and at-rest resistance to intrusion and data theft

Bringing home the bacon!

09:00 AM - PANEL

Speakers:

Jacques Benkoski - Partner, US Venture Partners

Stephen Fratini - TM Forum TIP Project Lead & BSS/OSS Portfolio Manager, Ericsson

What real potential do NFV & SDN have to increase service providers’ revenues?
New business area expansion: enterprise cloud, machine to machine, big data
Better network provision for a more competitive offering
Is network virtualization the CEM tool service providers have been waiting for?

Creating new services. Fast.

11:00 AM - LIGHTNING TALK

Speaker:

John Wilmes - Director - Open Digital Ecosystem Project, TM Forum

DevOps and microservicesIndividual components for rapid creation and alteration

The quest for truly automated networks

11:15 AM - LIGHTNING TALK

Speaker:

Dr. John Strassner - CTO – R&D, Huawei

How can DevOps and SDN reduce OpEx?
Automated management interfaces that are agile and automated sandbox testing
Eliminating the need to manually craft and update network policies continuously
Applying DevOps to the network – lessons learned and best practice

Service exposure APIs – in 10 minutes

11:30 AM - LIGHTNING TALK

Speaker:

Michel Burger - Lead Architect, Service Provider, Apigee Corporation

Managing the delivery of actionable information at the application level
Maximising network capabilities with minimal detail on their topology or functions
Minimizing diversity of management APIs
Network service as a service (NSaaS)

CASE STUDIES

4:00 PM

Speaker:

Don Clarke - Principal Architect, Network Technologies, CableLabs, Inc.

Presenting the most recent and innovative experimental deployments from TM Forum members and non-members to ensure you don’t miss out on updates in this fast-moving phase of technology adoption.

Beyond the Cloud: The Future of Distributed Applications

3:00 PM - LIGHTNING TALK

Speaker:

Vish Ishaya - Chief Technology Officer, Nebula

Containers or Virtual Machines?
Can we stop solving the same problems over and over?

The service provider’s biggest ongoing challenge

2:30 PM - LIGHTNING TALK

Speaker:

Victor Mendoza-Grado - Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Verizon

Integrating new NFV-based services into existing service provider IT

The VNF package – what’s in the box?

2:40 PM - LIGHTNING TALK

Speaker:

Jenny Huang - ZOOM Project Co-Chair, TM Forum; Standards and Industry Alliances, AT&T

NFV and cloud orchestration – transformation in a “Brown Field”

09:40 AM - KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Speaker:

Guy Daley - Director of Product Management, Cisco Office of Chief of Technology & Architecture, Cisco Systems

How to make end-to-end management happen

2:50 PM - Lightning Talk

Speakers:

Olli Andersson - Head of Silicon Valley Innovation Center, Nokia

Olli Andersson - Head of Silicon Valley Innovation Center, Nokia Solutions and Networks

• The common practices, architectural and integration principles needed to get there

MORNING BREAK

10:15 AM

LUNCH

12:30 PM

AFTERNOON BREAK

3:30 PM

Coffee Break

3:00 PM

Women of the Digital World

12:30 PM

Get connected. Share your story. Be part of the conversation.
Women delegates are welcome to attend and enjoy lunch, a few presentations, and networking.

Space is limited, email to RSVP.

ZOOM Networking Breakfast

08:00 AM

Interested in hearing a bit more in detail about TM Forum ZOOM Project? Join us for a networking breakfast and find out the current status of deliverable, work underway, how to get involved, and meet with the project leaders.

The breakfast is a great way to network with other attendees interested in the same topic, gain more insight into the project, and get involved.

Space is limited, email to RSVP.