The Linux Foundation, along with co-hosts LF Networking and LF Edge, have announced initial keynote speakers for Open Networking & Edge Summit (ONES) North America 2020. The event takes place April 20-21 in Los Angeles, California.

The open networking event has now been expanded to cover Edge Computing, Edge Cloud and IoT. The event focuses on collaborative development and innovation across enterprises, service providers/telcos and cloud providers to shape the future of networking and edge computing with a deep focus on technical, architectural and business discussions in the areas of Open Networking & AI/ML-enabled use cases.

A quick look at this year’s Keynote speakers:

Andre Fuetsch, Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, AT&T Services, Inc.
Dan Kohn, Executive Director, Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Alex Choi, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Technology Innovation, Deutsche Telekom AG
Farah Papaioannou, Co-Founder and President, Edgeworx, Inc.
Anders Rosengren, Head of Architecture & Technology, Ericsson
Justin Dustzadeh, Chief Technology Officer, Equinix
Aparna Sinha, Director of Product Management, Google Cloud
Bill Ren, Chief Open Source Liaison Officer, ICT Infrastructure Open Source GM, Huawei
Marisa S. Viveros, Vice President of Strategy and Offerings, IBM
Ashiq Khan, Head of Cloud and NFV, Rakuten Mobile, Inc.
Arpit Joshipura, General Manager, Networking, Edge & IoT, The Linux Foundation
Heather Kirksey, Vice President, Community and Ecosystem Development, The Linux Foundation

The Foundation has plans to attend additional keynote speakers, as well as the full schedule of sessions, in the first week of March 2020.