Angelo Corsaro of ADLINK Technology Inc.

Abstract of the talk: The past decade has been characterised by the raise of the data center, the relentless dominance of the GAFAM and overall a trend toward “centralised” systems. This model has helped propelling the growth SaaS, mutualise the IT infrastructure of several companies and bootstrapped Consumer IoT (Internet of Things), but it has also started to crack under the pressure and shown clear limitations in supporting Industrial IoT use cases. At about the same time, additional concerns around sovereignty, confidentiality, and energy efficiency, started to grow and eventually led to the realisation that we needed to get back to the future. We needed to get back to decentralised architectures. In this presentation, we will motivate the need for decentralisation by providing a sufficient number of real-world use cases that can hardly work with a different approach. We will share our experience in trying to define a decentralised data, control and management plane for Fog/Edge computing and share our research results.

Biography:

Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D., is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at ADLINK Technology Inc. where he looks after corporate technology strategy and innovation, leads the Advanced Technology Office. Angelo is a world top expert in Edge/Fog computing and a well known researcher in the area of high performance and large scale distributed systems. Angelo has over 100 publications on referred journals, conferences, workshops, and magazines. Angelo has co-authored over ten international standards and is leading some of the most innovative Edge-Native Open Source initiatives.