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Welcome Remarks - Tina Tsou, TSC-Chair, Akraino Edge Stack

Introduction to Akraino  - Akraino community member (TBD)

Speaker: Prof. Hazur Saran - IIT Delhi

Title of Talk: 5G Applications, Edge Computing and Networking for scaling Smart IOT Systems

Abstract: In this talk we will present various initiatives at IIT Delhi based on the approach of decomposition of Smart IoT apps across cloud,
edge, and sensor device components. Patterns of hierarchical, sequential decision making, contextual processing, and distributed learning
design. Our design approach is being validated in the context of an application deployment on IIT-D campus; i.e., an application for target
classification and navigation based on machine learned functions. Potential applications include pedestrian and traffic monitoring for security.
We will also present a discussion on systems support for programmability on edge server and IoT devices, while considering the edge network and
explore of limits of resource efficient processing on single microcontroller devices as well as new low power heterogeneous processing systems
on chip. The specific objective is: Design of resource efficient machine learning for IoT devices applications ―both shallow and deep― on
single/multi-processor IoT devices. 

Bio: Prof Huzur Saran is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science IIT Delhi. Prior to joining IIT Delhi in 1990, he did his Ph. D in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and, a B.Tech from IIT Delhi in 1983. His research is focused on Wireless Networks, Computer Systems & Security and Algorithms. He has served as the Head of the Computer Science Dept and the Amar Nath & Shashi Khosla School of IT, at IIT Delhi from 2007-2014 & 2015-18. He is currently the co-ordinator of the Centre of Excellence in CyberSecurity at IIT Delhi.

Prof Saran has been actively working in 4G and 5G wireless technologies. He is currently a PI at IITD for the 5G Testbed Project funded
by the Deportment of Telecom. During 2000-2002 he was a Visiting Professor at the Information Systems Lab, Stanford where he worked on
the media access control layer of an early 4G wireless system. Dr Saran was a consultant in the past with AT&T Research and Lucent Bell
Labs in the area of Network Performance Analysis.

Dr Saran has also been looking at various aspects of Computer Systems Security. Dr Saran was a consultant to Solidcore Inc, a Software Startup. He helped define and build a novel software protection technology. Solidcore was purchased by Mcafee in 2009 for its pathbreaking Dynamic Whitelisting technology.

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Speaker: Prof. D. Manjunath - IIT Bombay

Title of Talk: Coded caching at the edge: System details and measurement studies

Abstract: We will describe WiCode, a software defined framework which improves DASH video content delivery at the wireless edge. WiCode reduces the number of video segments transmission over the wireless network by performing index coding on video
segments before transmission, and index coding on UDP packets when re-transmission is needed. WiCode also reduces the latency by caching video segments at the wireless edge nodes. This paper describes the design and implementation of the WiCode index coding system. We describe our implementation that makes the index coding module available as a browser plugin at the client side. Hence it does not require any change in client side device configuration. The practical gains that are achievable on a real system, taking into consideration all the overheads introduced by the proposed framework are also reported via measurements on our implementation testbed. Measurements that compare the performance of our WiCode with a standard DASH system also indicate the significant performance gains that are achievable in a practical index coding system.

Bio: Prof D. Manjunath received his BE from Mysore University, MS from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, Troy NY in 1986, 1989 and 1993 respectively. He has worked in the Corporate R & D center of General Electric in Scehenctady NY during the summer of 1990. He was a Visiting Faculty in the Computer and Information Sciences Dept of the University of Delaware and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Computer Science Dept of the University of Toronto. He was on the Electrical Engineering faculty of the Indian Inst of Technology, Kanpur during December 1994 - July 1998.  He has been with the Dept of Electrical Engineering of IIT, Bombay since July 1998. 

Akraino  - Ike Alisson , Akraino Documentation Sub-committee TSC Chair

Bio: Tina Tsou is an Enterprise Architect at Arm, where she is responsible for designing and implementing robust strategies to establish first tier status for Arm architecture within open-source communities and projects. In this role, Tina employs a comprehensive knowledge of relevant NFV/SDN collaborative open-source initiatives, open-source development tools, processes, build systems, packaging, continuous integration, and test methodologies. Recognized as a thought leader, she forges powerful partnerships with open-source communities in support of multiple architectures, while prioritizing requirements for open-source enablement in collaboration with Arm key stakeholders and relevant ecosystem partners. Tina also drives and empowers Arm’s Edge Computing Team.  

Ike Alisson has competence and experience from E2E Cellular Network Systems and Mobile Internet Platform Sales, New Account Management, Deployment of New/Pioneering Technologies/ Platforms, Strategic Partnerships, Solution Management of New Services running on 5G (SBA & NSA/LTE), CIoT with ETSI SAREF), IIoT, Global Standard oneM2M IoT SL (Service Layer) Platform with ETSI SAREF and SmartM2M, ETSI MEC, TM Forum ODA (Open Digital Architecture), AI/ML on the Edge Services, Digital Twin/Cybertwin.

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Speaker: Stephen Ozoigbo, Arm

Title of Talk: (E³)NGAGE - Arm's Africa Engagement

Bio: Stephen Ozoigbo is a Senior Director, Emerging Economies at Arm. He leads regional strategies around business development, technology, and ecosystem engagement activities across Arm’s multiple lines of business in South America and Africa. He also supports Arm’s Sustainability strategies across industry and partner networks, including government, education, and impact stakeholders within the emerging digital economies. 

Speaker: Andile Ngcaba, Inq.

Title of Talk: EDGE Technologies in Africa

Bio: Dr. Andile Ngcaba is the Executive Chairman of Inq. and the Chairman of Convergence Partners. Inq. is a Pan African digital solutions provider that delivers business-relevant services in Edge AI, SDN/NFV, Cloud Based Solutions and Intelligent Connectivity.

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Speaker: Erik Hersman, BRCK

Title of Talk: Rugged Internet of Things

Bio: Erik Hersman is the CEO of BRCK Inc., the first integrated hardware and software services company out of East Africa, which focuses on internet connectivity across the region. He leads a team that has built the largest public Wi-Fi network in Africa covering 2 million people across Kenya and Rwanda called Moja. Erik has also created one of the first IoT hardware solutions in Africa and has built out extensive relationships with Facebook, Internet Solutions and more.

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Speaker: Srinivasan Ramanujam Olivier Bernard, IntelArm

Title of Talk:  Integrated Cloud Native NFV (ICN) stack Blueprint

Bio: As Market development manager for Intel Network Platforms group (NPG), Srini drives Network and Edge Cloud transformation with Indian Communication Service providers and ecosystem partners leading to 5G build-out.

Srini brings strong technical and domain expertise having worked over 20+ years of experience in architecting and building Telecom Software Products & Services. He had worked in multiple wireless domains like 3G, WiMAX, LTE, 5G and network management solutions. His specialties include Product management in networking domain. He had been associated with Alcatel Lucent-CDOT, Radisys, Altran, Wipro and TCS.

Srini has done Bachelor of Electrical & Electronics Engineering from A.C.Tech Government College of Engineering and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from NMIMS

  Unlocking the Edge's Potential with Project Cassini

Bio: Olivier Bernard is currently the Director of High-Performance IoT at Arm, responsible for identifying and building IoT opportunities for OEM and ODMs through ecosystem development, uses case concepts and strategic partnerships across the IoT value chain. Prior to joining Arm, he was the Executive Vice-President for Maestro Wireless, a Hong Kong based IoT start-up where he founded their American subsidiary. Before 2008, he held various leadership positions with a few start-ups, and additional management positions in Business Development, Strategy and Engineering for CEL (Renesas), Litton Industries and California Amplifier.

Speaker: Khemendra Kumarkhemendra kumar, HuaweiHuawei 

Title of Talk: Enterprise Edge Lightweight and IOT (ELIOT) Blueprint 

Bio: Khemendra Kumar has 11+ years of experience in embedded, networking, SDN and Cloud/Edge computing. He worked in FD.io and DPDK community for VPP performance optimization, porting on multiple platforms, lightweight Host stacks like DMM with LWIP etc. Currently he is active in Akraino community to build lightweight Edge stack ELIOT for resource constraints devices. In Akraino, he is Project Team Lead (PTL) for Enterprise Edge Lightweight and IOT (ELIOT) Blueprint and is a Akrino Technical Steering Committee (TSC) member.

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Speaker: Deepthi V V, Lumina Networks

Title of Talk: Composable Network Services for the Edge

Abstract: The next generation infrastructure needs composable architecture to realize the needs of 5G/Edge requirements. This talk will explore a step by step approach to interconnect Edge compute applications to core network functions using open source tools. The talk will also delve into scaling such a solution using cloud native technologies.

Bio: Deepthi V V is a Senior Software Engineer at Lumina Networks. She has experience in working with open source projects such as OpenDaylight and Openstack and has worked on OpenDaylight since its inception. At Lumina, she is developing applications on OpenDaylight for data center networks.

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Speaker: Li Mingxuan, China Unicom

Title of Talk: EdgeFaaS for Open Edge Scenarios

Bio: Li Mingxuan is a Senior member of IEEE, senior member of Chinese Institute of Electronics, and a Senior Engineer of the China Unicom Research Institute. In this role, he is engaged in technology research and development and standard tracking work. His main research directions are big data technology, cloud computing technology, business platform technology and IT support system technology.

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Speaker: Dr. Hideyuki Saso, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Title of Talk: Introduction of the Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP)

Bio: Dr. Saso joined Fujitsu in 1976. He became Corporate Senior Vice President in 2009 and was promoted to Corporate Executive Vice President in 2010, in charge of Fujitsu’s ICT Business. He then was nominated as Corporate Senior Executive Vice President and Representative Director, CTO & CMO in 2012. After that, he took office as Chairman and Representative Director, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. in 2016. He has also been serving as Program Director in Intelligent Knowledge Processing Infrastructure, integrating Physical and Virtual Domains, Japanese Government Public R&D Investment Expansion Program, Cabinet Office from 2017.He has also served as Chairman of the Japan MOT Society and Chairman of the Japan Institute of Electronic Packaging. From 2021 he started new carrier as and is now a specially appointed professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Closing Remarks - Tina Tsou

Closing Remarks