MPLS SD & AI Net World Congress 2024 | Upperside Conferences | 8 April 2024 | Le Palais des Congrès de Paris: An Iconic Building, 2 Pl. de la Prte Maillot, 75017 Paris, France

For 25 years now, the Congress have highlighted and explained the softwerization, disaggregation and cloudification processes.
The 2024 edition will give a special highlight on network performance with a special focus on Integrated Performance Measurement. IPv6 only networks will also be given a large echo, through a debate and a rich set of service providers experience reports. Other main sessions will cover AI/ML challenges and deployments, with a specific session on digital twins, 5G evolution, network programming and IP/Optical convergence.

In overture of the Congress this year, “The Global IP Assembly” will gather some of the most renowned experts of the Industry. They will discuss aspects of what they see for IP going forward :
• Enhancements to IP
• Evolution of higher-level protocols above IP
• Intent Based Networking
• Automation/programmability
• Topology attestation : path validation, trusted networking
• Converging IP and Optical
• From Telco to Tech-co

2024 Speakers

Rahul Aggarwal
Founder & CEO, Augtera Networks

Mustapha Aissaoui
Product Line Manager, IP Networks Division, Nokia

Silvia Almagia
Director of Software and Standards, ETSI

Colin Bannon
CTO for Business, BT

Jahanzeb Baqai
Director, Product Line Management, Ciena

Michael Beesley
CTO SP Networking, Cisco

Tayeb Ben Meriem
IPv6 Enhanced Council Community & WBBA

Dan Bernier
Technical Director, Bell Canada

Gautam Billa
Vice President, International Sales Engineering, Ciena

Jean-Charles Bisecco
ARCEP

Alex Bogdanov
Distinguished Engineer & Principal Architect, BT Group

Patrice Brissette
Distinguished Engineer, Cisco

Riccardo Burrai
CTO, Sirius

Shelly Cadora
Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco

Yannick Chauvel
Network Automation Regional PLM, Nokia

Weiqiang Cheng
Chief Architect of IP Network, China Mobile Research Institute

Roy Chua
Founder & Principal, AvidThink

Benoit Claise
Intelligent Operations & Management CTO, Huawei

Bruno De Troch
Director of EMEA PLM IP Routing, Nokia

Jie Dong
Senior IP Standards Representative, Huawei

Stephen Douglas
Head of Market Strategy, Spirent

Siegfried Droogmans
Network Consulting Engineer, Nokia

Wanting Du
Machine Learning Engineer, Swisscom

Clarence Filsfils
Cisco Fellow

Robert Friskney
Director of Product Line Management, Ciena

Ori Gerstel
CTO for Routed Optical Networking, Cisco

James Glover
Director, Product Line Management, Ciena

Dennis Hagarty
Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, Data Center & Provider Connectivity Group, Cisco

Michael Heffner
General Manager Business Solutions, Adtran

Wim Henderickx
Head of Technology and IP Architecture, Nokia

Xu Huan
VP of Data Communication Product Line Router Domain, Huawei

Kashif Islam
Principal Telco Architect, Red Hat

Bart Janssens
Senior Specialist Packet Architecture, Colt Technology Services

Minwei Jin
Chief Expert of Metro Router Solution, Huawei Technologies

Dr. Thomas King
Chief Technical Officer, DE-CIX

Kireeti Kompella
CTO PSD, Juniper Networks

Latif Ladid
Founder & President, IPv6 Forum

Jérémie Leguay
Chief Expert, Datacom R&D, Huawei Technologies

Dr. Xing Li
CERNET2

Zhenbin Li
Chief IP Standard Representative, Huawei Technologies

Dr. Diego R. Lopez
Senior Technology Expert, Telefonica I+D

Julian Lucek
Juniper Networks

Joe Marsella
Vice President, PLM – Routing & Switching, Ciena

Taras Matselyukh
CEO & Founder, OPT/NET

Satoru Matsushima
Softbank

John McKinnon
Vice President of Software Engineering, Ciena

Neil McRae
Chief Network Strategist, Juniper Networks

Jerome Meyer
Security Researcher, Nokia

Paul Meyers
Senior Product Line Manager, Nokia

Greg Mirsky
Technology Specialist, Standardization, Ericsson

Gyan Mishra
Associate Fellow, Verizon

Rajesh Mongia
Associate Vice President, Tata Communications

Subhankar Pal
Global Innovation Leader – Intelligent Networks, Capgemini

Michel Ploeg
Product Line Manager, Nokia

Guofeng Qian
Metro IP Protocol Expert, Huawei Technologies

Reza Rokui
Senior Director of Product Line Management, Ciena

Carsten Rossenhoevel
Managing Director, EANTC

Etienne Roux
IP Network Engineer, Orange

Eddie Ruan
Senior Staff Engineer, Alibaba

Christian Schmutzer
Distinguished Engineer, Cisco

Nancy Shaw
Principal Engineer, Juniper Networks

Elea Siegele
Solution Consultant, Ribbon

Jan Straznicky
Senior Director, Product Line Management, Ciena

Paweł Świerszcz
Business Architect, Comarch

Krzysztof Grzegorz Szarkowicz
Juniper Networks

Roland Thienpont
Director IP Division Product, Nokia

Krishnan Thirukonda
Principal Engineer, Cisco

Denice Tuinhof
Senior AI Architect, KPN

Michael Valentine
Technology Fellow, Network Architecture, Goldman Sachs

Mirko Voltolini
VP Innovation, Colt Technology Services

Eric Vyncke
Internet Area Director at IETF and Distinguished Engineer at Cisco

Dr XiPeng Xiao
Head of Standard & Industry Development, Huawei Technologies

Sharada Yeluri
Senior Director of Engineering, Juniper Networks

Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang
Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks

Wu Zhengguang
Marketing Director of NM&Controller, ZTE Corporation

Amir Zmora
CEO & Co-founder, flexiWAN

2024 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• Ciena
• Cisco
• Huawei
• Juniper Networks
• Nokia

GOLD SPONSOR:
• ZTE

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Comarch
• Keysight
• OPT/Net
• Ribbon
• Sparkle