Industry and academia are two extremely important participants in the network research. For decades, both industry practitioners and academic investigators have contributed numerous intellectual results to the community. On one side, some academic researchers will worry that it'll be difficult to make research contributions without the evaluation over large-scale production-level deployments. On the other side, seeing more experience papers from the industry is also a valuable opportunity for researchers to understand how the real network systems work in production. In this talk, I will share some of our observations about industry and academic collaborations.