BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T112038Z UID:78BE9114-CA79-4C51-BCBE-F5BEAA49B4BF DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240325T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240325T171500 DESCRIPTION:IEEE Workshop on Network Automation\, March 25th\, 2024 (free v irtual event)\n\nNetwork Disaggregation and Network Softwarization are rev olutionizing the design\, deployment\, management\, and operation of netwo rks. The objective of Network Automation is to enable Service Providers to achieve "Zero Touch Provisioning" throughout the entire network\, encompa ssing physical and virtual domains across Transport and Data Center Networ ks.\n\nThe growing maturity of cloud technologies\, coupled with the adopt ion of open-source software and DevOps/GitOps principles\, is fostering an Open End-to-End Network Automation framework. Intent-based Networking is driving the demand for increased Network abstraction\, while Network Slici ng\, particularly in the context of 5G\, necessitates automation support a t the granular level of Slices. Furthermore\, Service Providers are harnes sing Artificial Intelligence\, including the latest advancements in Genera tive AI\, to plan\, deploy\, configure\, orchestrate\, analyze\, and assur e mobile networks and services. This simultaneously enhances Network effic iency\, reduces operating costs\, and improves both service quality and cu stomer experience.\n\nUnderpinning these advancements\, the IEEE Workshop on Network Automation is uniting leading experts from communication servic e providers\, telco vendors\, software service providers\, open-source net work automation projects\, industry consortiums\, and academia. They conve ne to discuss the latest technical innovations\, opportunities\, and chall enges in Network Automation. Co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society a nd IEEE Princeton Central Jersey Section\, this single-day workshop offers a unique platform for Architects\, Developers\, Testers\, Business Leader s\, students\, and researchers to gain insights into the evolving landscap e of Network Automation technologies\, deployment use cases\, business mod els\, and engage with industry experts.\n\nPlease provide your name\, affi liation\, email address and contact information\, so we can send out the z oom link!\n\nCo-sponsored by: Baltimore Section Communications Society\n\n Agenda: \nTime (US EST) | Speaker ---------------------------------------- - 09:00 – 09:15 AM | Welcome Remarks\, Workshop Chair 09:15 – 09:40 AM | COINS:Composable Orchestration of Infrastructure and Network Services\, Oleg Berzin\, Equinix 09:40 – 10:05 AM | How AI is shaping Telecom\, Ar vinder Anand\, Ericsson 10:05 – 10:30 AM | Building increasingly autonom ous networks: Learnings from Google and the Nephio Initiative\, Ramesh Nag arajan\, Google 10:30 – 10:55 AM | Cloud-native and AI-native Telco Oper ations\, Rajarajan Sivaraj\, Mavenir 10:55 – 11:10 AM | Coffee Break 11: 10 – 11:35 AM | RAN Automation\, Adam Loddeke\, AT&T (Keynote) 11:35 – 12:00 PM | Transforming Network Management with Intelligent Automation\, Ciaran Johnston\, Ericsson 12:00 – 12:25 PM | Automation for 5G Core Net works\, Bryan Monaghan\, Red Hat 12:25 – 12:50 PM | Automating Cloud Inf rastructure and Network Functions with Nephio\, Amar Kapadia\, Aarna Netwo rks 12:50 – 01:50 PM | Lunch Break 01:50 – 02:15 PM | Clusters\, Clust ers\, Everywhere\, Adam Dorenter\, Microsoft AON 02:15 – 02:40 PM | AI-D riven Slice Orchestration in 5G and Beyond Networks\, Raouf Boutaba\, Univ . of Waterloo 02:40 – 03:05 PM | Intent-based Services\, Mehmet Toy\, Ve rizon 03:05 – 03:35 PM | Intelligent Programmable 5G Network Automation on AWS\, Vara Prasad Talari\, AWS 03:35 – 03:50 PM | Coffee Break 03:50 – 04:15 PM | Striking a Balance: Automation for Agile Telco Operations\, Padma Sudarsan\, VMWare 04:15 - 04:40 PM | O-RAN Network Automation – A rchitecture and Open-Source Aspects\, N.K. Shankaranarayanan\, WINLAB 04:4 0 – 05:05 PM | Telco Cloud Native Automation – Challenges and Opportun ities\, Sana Tariq\, TELUS 05:05 – 05:30 PM | Enabling optimized network operations with data models\, open APIs and cloud-native architectures\, Raghavan Subramanian\, Fujitsu 05:30 – 05:55 PM | IEEE 5G/6G Innovation Testbed\, Ashutosh Dutta\, JHU/APL and Anwer Al-Dulaimi\, Veltris 05:55 – 06:05 PM | Closing Remarks\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/ m/408934 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/408934 ORGANIZER:dkinnovate77@gmail.com SEQUENCE:16 SUMMARY: IEEE Workshop on Network Automation\, March 25th\, 2024 (free virt ual event) URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/408934 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p style="font-weight: 400\;"><strong>IEEE Wo rkshop on Network Automation\, March 25th\, 2024 (free virtual event)</str ong></p>\n<p style="font-weight: 400\;">&nbsp\;</p>\n<p style="font-weight : 400\;">Network Disaggregation and Network Softwarization are revolutioni zing the design\, deployment\, management\, and operation of networks. The objective of Network Automation is to enable Service Providers to achieve "Zero Touch Provisioning" throughout the entire network\, encompassing ph ysical and virtual domains across Transport and Data Center Networks.</p>\ n<p style="font-weight: 400\;">The growing maturity of cloud technologies\ , coupled with the adoption of open-source software and DevOps/GitOps prin ciples\, is fostering an Open End-to-End Network Automation framework. Int ent-based Networking is driving the demand for increased Network abstracti on\, while Network Slicing\, particularly in the context of 5G\, necessita tes automation support at the granular level of Slices. Furthermore\, Serv ice Providers are harnessing Artificial Intelligence\, including the lates t advancements in Generative AI\, to plan\, deploy\, configure\, orchestra te\, analyze\, and assure mobile networks and services. This simultaneousl y enhances Network efficiency\, reduces operating costs\, and improves bot h service quality and customer experience.</p>\n<p style="font-weight: 400 \;">Underpinning these advancements\, the IEEE Workshop on Network Automat ion is uniting leading experts from communication service providers\, telc o vendors\, software service providers\, open-source network automation pr ojects\, industry consortiums\, and academia. They convene to discuss the latest technical innovations\, opportunities\, and challenges in Network A utomation. Co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Princeton Central Jersey Section\, this single-day workshop offers a unique platform for Architects\, Developers\, Testers\, Business Leaders\, students\, and researchers to gain insights into the evolving landscape of Network Autom ation technologies\, deployment use cases\, business models\, and engage w ith industry experts.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Please provide your&nbsp\;na me\, affiliation\, email address and contact information\, so we can send out the zoom link!</p>\n<pre class="center">&nbsp\;</pre><br /><br />Agend a: <br /><pre class="center">Time (US EST) | Speaker\n----------------- ------------------------\n09:00 &ndash\; 09:15 AM | Welcome Remarks\, Work shop Chair\n09:15 &ndash\; 09:40 AM | COINS:Composable Orchestration of In frastructure and Network Services\, Oleg Berzin\, Equinix\n09:40 &ndash\; 10:05 AM | How AI is shaping Telecom\, Arvinder Anand\, Ericsson\n10:05 &n dash\; 10:30 AM | Building increasingly autonomous networks: Learnings fro m Google and the Nephio Initiative\, Ramesh Nagarajan\, Google\n10:30 &nda sh\; 10:55 AM | Cloud-native and AI-native Telco Operations\, Rajarajan Si varaj\, Mavenir\n10:55 &ndash\; 11:10 AM | Coffee Break\n11:10 &ndash\; 11 :35 AM | RAN Automation\, Adam Loddeke\, AT&amp\;T (Keynote)\n11:35 &ndash \; 12:00 PM | Transforming Network Management with Intelligent Automation\ , Ciaran Johnston\, Ericsson\n12:00 &ndash\; 12:25 PM | Automation for 5G Core Networks\, Bryan Monaghan\, Red Hat\n12:25 &ndash\; 12:50 PM | Automa ting Cloud Infrastructure and Network Functions with Nephio\, Amar Kapadia \, Aarna Networks\n12:50 &ndash\; 01:50 PM | Lunch Break\n01:50 &ndash\; 0 2:15 PM | Clusters\, Clusters\, Everywhere\, Adam Dorenter\, Microsoft AON \n02:15 &ndash\; 02:40 PM | AI-Driven Slice Orchestration in 5G and Beyond Networks\, Raouf Boutaba\, Univ. of Waterloo\n02:40 &ndash\; 03:05 PM | I ntent-based Services\, Mehmet Toy\, Verizon\n03:05 &ndash\; 03:35 PM | Int elligent Programmable 5G Network Automation on AWS\, Vara Prasad Talari\, AWS\n03:35 &ndash\; 03:50 PM | Coffee Break\n03:50 &ndash\; 04:15 PM | Str iking a Balance: Automation for Agile Telco Operations\, Padma Sudarsan\, VMWare\n04:15 - 04:40 PM | O-RAN Network Automation &ndash\; Architecture and Open-Source Aspects\, N.K. Shankaranarayanan\, WINLAB\n04:40 &ndash\; 05:05 PM | Telco Cloud Native Automation &ndash\; Challenges and Opportuni ties\, Sana Tariq\, TELUS\n05:05 &ndash\; 05:30 PM | Enabling optimized ne twork operations with data models\, open APIs and cloud-native architectur es\, Raghavan Subramanian\, Fujitsu\n05:30 &ndash\; 05:55 PM | IEEE 5G/6G Innovation Testbed\, Ashutosh Dutta\, JHU/APL and Anwer Al-Dulaimi\, Veltr is\n05:55 &ndash\; 06:05 PM | Closing Remarks</pre> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR