ONUG Spring 2022 | Open Networking User Group (ONUG) | 27 April 2022 | Meadowlands Exposition Center, 355 Plaza Dr, Secaucus, NJ 07094, USA

This is where the Enterprise Cloud Community gathers to address challenges and develop solutions to some of the most pressing issues faced by today’s hybrid multi-cloud enterprise consumer.

Brands in all industry sectors need to become digital to survive and thrive

We explore the solutions and technologies required to build cost effective, networked, secure and observable multi-cloud architectures PLUS a dedicated Spring program to address the challenges inherent in operationalizing in the enterprise.

2022 Speakers

Johna Till Johnson
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Nemertes Research

Mark Tierney
Chief Technology Officer, ONUG

Ben Cooper
Senior Director, Corporate Innovation, Flex

Ernest Lefner
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, ONUG

Aryo Kresnadi
Technical Director, Global Network Architecture, FedEx

Yesim Akdeniz
Managing Director Global Head of Network Engineering, Citigroup

Peter Campbell
Director of Global Security Engineering, Cigna

Tsvi Gal
Head of Enterprise Technology Services Infrastructure, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Johnnie Konstantas
Group Vice President, Cloud Engineering, Oracle

Michael Wheeler
Managing Director: Enterprise Cloud and Data Center Engineering, Cigna

Vishal Goradia
Director, Network Engineering & Architecture, Gap Inc.

Karl Miller
Director of Product Management, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Security Products

Kyle Rose
Senior Manager & Capability Architect of the Adversary Management, Intuit

Swamy Kocherlakota
EVP, Chief Information Officer, S&P Global

Preeti Krishna
Principal Product Manager, Cloud Security, Microsoft

Christopher Moretti
Vice President, Global Technology & Cloud Transformation, Cigna

Steve MacIntyre
Director, Technology Risk Management, Fidelity

Umesh Shankar
Chief Technologist, Google Cloud Security

Shafeeq Shaikh
Head of Global Network Architecture, Engineering & Automation, Johnson & Johnson Healthcare

Steve Wood
Principal Engineer, Wide Area Network Architecture & Software-Defined WAN, Cisco

Brian Silverman
Network & Cloud Architect, McKesson

Janet Van
Product Manager, IBM

Nabil Bitar
Chief Technology Officer, Head of Network Architecture, Bloomberg LP

Vesko Pehlivanov
Former Senior Managing Director, Security and Technology Services, Solution Strategy and Architecture, Sterling National Bank

Don Duet
Chairman & Co-Founder, Concourse Labs

Mark Eisenberg
Developer Support Account Manager, Microsoft

Gosia Steinder
IBM Fellow, Hybrid Cloud Research, IBM

Pablo Espinosa
Vice President, Network Engineering, Target

Cathy Horst Forsyth
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Strongbow Consulting Group

James Walker
Managing Director, Network Services, Bank of America

Michael Thomas Clark
Technology Industry & IT Consulting Executive, Renaissance Tech & Media, Co-Chair, DevSecOps Spring ‘22

James Wickett
Head of Research

Verica
Co-Chair, DevSecOps Spring ‘22

Toni de la Fuente
Founder, Prowler Open Source, the AWS security tool

Joe Friedrichsen
Managing Director, Infrastructure and Operations, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island

Greg Ferro
Co-Founder, Packet Pushers Interactive LLC

Xiaobo Long
Sr. VP of Cloud Platform Security Engineering, Citi

Dr. Douglas Comer
Distinguished Professor, Purdue University

Donna Johnson
Sr Vice President of Marketing, Cradlepoint

Daniele Loffreda
Head of Enterprise Solutions Marketing, Ciena

Mark Molitor
Senior Director, Network Architecture, Ciena

Michael Hawkins
Director of Field Systems Engineering Ciena

Jeremiah Ginn
Director, Innovation & Strategy Advisory, AT&T

Nate Foster
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University

Jennifer Rexford
Chair, Computer Science Department, Princeton University

Dr. Theophilus Benson
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Brown University

Oguz Sunay
Vice President of Research & Development, Open Networking Foundation

Eric Hanselman
Principal Research Analyst, 451 Research

Larry Peterson
Chief Technology Officer, Open Networking Foundation

Aaron Rinehart
Cofounder, Chief Technology Officer and Author, Verica

Rick Casarez
Technical Director, Network Software Engineering & Operations, eBay

Cody Rae Lazri
DevOps Engineer, Harvard University

Dan Capetta
Sr. Director, Enablement and Platform Engineering, Grainger

Forrest Bennett
Information Security Advisor, FedEx

Anna Phelan
IT Service Manager and Team Lead, Harvard University

Scott Kennedy
Security Architect for Adversary Management, Intuit

Woo Jin Ho
Senior Hardware Analyst, Bloomberg Intelligence

Michael Haugh
Vice President, Product Marketing, Gluware

Nuno Ferreira
Volterra Field Chief Technology Officer, F5

William Collins
Principal Cloud Architect, Alkira

Mark Fishburn
President, MarketWord, Inc.

Faraz Siddiqui
Head of Solution Architecture, Prosimo

Rabia Hammad
Pre-Sales Engineer, NetBrain Technologies

Kunal Thakkar
Head of Solution Engineering, Apcela

Jeremy Rossbach
DX NetOps/AppNeta Product Marketing, Broadcom

Brian Pavane
Senior Sales Engineer, Aviatrix

Natale Ruello
Sr. Director of Product Management & UX, Forward Networks

Koroush Saraf
Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, ZPE Systems

Rene Neumann
Director of Solution Engineering, ZPE Systems

Mark Inoue
Architect of Cloud Native Technology, Net One Systems USA Inc.

Dave Hegenbarth
Vice President, Systems Engineering, Pliant

Takefumi Murakami
Director of Advanced Technology Strategy, Net One Systems Co., Ltd.

Josh Hammer
Field Chief Security Architect, Oracle

Cameron Byers
Principal Solutions Architect, Concourse Labs

Ted Turner
Cloud Solutions Architect, Kentik

Mike Krygeris
Solutions Engineer, Kentik

Chris DeHoust
Sr. Director Americas SD-WAN, Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company

Erik Radvon
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Alkira

Tim Chase
Field Chief Information Security Officer, Lacework

John Heintz
Director of Sales Engineering, Augtera Networks

Jason Skrzypek
Sales Engineer, SUSE

David Bainbridge
Senior Director, Software Engineering Ciena

Ashish Swaroop
Director Product Management, Arrcus

Dan Baxter
Sales Engineering Manager, Americas, Opengear

Deba Mohanty
Vice President, Product Management, Selector Analytics

Robin James
Senior Product Manager, Alkira

Alec Peterson
Vice President, Amazon Web Services

Alec Pinkham
Head of Product Marketing, AppNeta by Broadcom Software

Alex Amaya
Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer, Product and Technical Marketing, Aruba, an HPE Company

Arun Satyanarayana
Sr. Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks

Ben Cooper
Senior Director, Corporate Innovation, Flex

Don Luchini
Staff Engineer, SimpliSafe

George Tchaparian
Chief Executive Officer, Open Compute Project

John Willis
Senior Director of the Global Transformation Office, Red Hat

Johna Till Johnson
Chief Executive Officer, Founder, Nemertes Research

Jon Pruskowski
Sr. Manager of Cloud and Connectivity Engineering, Capital One

Kelly Baig
Director of Market Strategy, Blue Planet a division of Ciena

Mark Hinkle
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, TriggerMesh

Mark Tierney
Chief Technology Officer, ONUG

Matthew Titmus
Author of Cloud Native Go (O'Reilly Media)
Engineering Team Lead, Yext

Michael D’Aniello
Senior Infrastructure Platform Architect, VMware Carbon Black

Neal Secher
Vice President, Head of Network Services, TD Bank

Nick Lippis
Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, ONUG

Paul McCluskey
Vice President, Global Enterprise GTM, Blue Planet Software, A Division, Ciena

Rick Hamilton
Senior Vice President, General Manager, Blue Planet Software, A Division, Ciena

Roopa Chowbey
Founder and President, FORMMI

Sachin Saswade
Director of Enterprise Product Line, Blue Planet a division, Ciena

Steve Bolding
Senior Director Enterprise Go-to Market, Blue Planet Software a division, Ciena

Steve Mullaney
Chief Executive Officer, Aviatrix

2022 Partners

• Vmb;og.cpm
• CIO Review
• CIO Coverage
• CIO Insights
• Open Compure Project
• ACG Research
• Avid Think
• TechTarget
• Alliance
• NY Tech Alliance