Asim Usman is working as Director of Software Engineering at DreamBig Semiconductor. Asim has more than 18 years of experience in different Ethernet related technologies. Ranging from real time stock feed handler, protocol accelerators, automotive Ethernet and now SmartNIC, he brings a diverse Ethernet experience with him. He was part of AUTOSAR standardization body while at Mentor Graphics (SIEMENS). He has delivered multiple successful projects and has great team-building skills. At DreamBig Semiconductor, he looks after software modeling with special focus on RDMA, OVS, eBPF and QUIC.

Chetan Sehgal is a Distinguished Engineer at Marvell, leading the Compute Solutions team in the Custom Compute and Storage (CCS) BU. He has been with Marvell for more than 19 years. He is currently leading projects focused on DPU infrastructure, Compute security solutions, and Automotive Compute Software.

Dror is currently the Senior Vice President of Nvidia Networking Software Architecture. He leads Nvidia’s DPU, NIC and Switch product lines architecture. His focus is on software strategy and enabling networking innovation through software stacks and APIs, strategic partnership, open source strategy and hackathons. Prior to that, Dror served as Senior Vice President of Software Architecture at Mellanox Technologies.

Joel Moses is currently serving as the domain CTO for Systems & Platforms at F5, as well as attaining the rank of Distinguished Engineer. He has over 30 years of industry experience in cybersecurity and networking fields.

Prior to joining F5, he designed large scale security and infrastructure architectures for consulting clients and served as the lead US Security and Infrastructure Architect for one of the largest accounting/consulting firms in the world.

At F5, he is a founding member of the Office of the CTO, and is principally responsible for advanced research, intellectual property, proof-of-concepts, and strategic studies related to security, hardware, and cloud technologies. He holds several US patents related to encryption techniques.

An engineer at heart with a passion for innovation, Marc is never far from a soldering iron or a pile of design books. After years of leading engineering teams in live-video production, mobile devices, and Fintech, Marc gravitated towards intercompany leadership roles that focus on common architectures to accelerate high tech innovation. As the Director of Ecosystem Development, Marc leads projects in security and networking as part of the Infrastructure line of business at Arm. To nurture a global framework for these projects, Marc sits on the governing board for the Confidential Compute Consortium and the Open Programmable Infrastructure project.

Mike Lynch is a Senior Director in Intel’s Network & Edge Cloud Networking Group. He is currently responsible for building networking solutions and ecosystem scale for Intel’s Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) across Cloud, Enterprise and Telco market segments. He was previously Director of Strategy & Business Development for Networking & 5G in Intel’s Data Center & AI group, and over the last 10 years has held senior positions in Product, Program and Engineering Management supporting Intel’s networking business.  Prior to Intel, Mike held several technical and managerial roles in Ericsson, across multiple product lines.

Shekhar Mishra is the Director for the Emerging Networking business unit at Dell. As part of this role, his team drives the strategy and roadmap for Dell’s networking business for core datacenter, cloud and Edge. He also leads the SONiC strategy and roadmap. Before Dell, Shekhar was the Director &GM for the Lenovo Software Defined Business unit. He was responsible for the Strategy and roadmap of the Lenovo Software Defined portfolio. Shekhar managed the portfolio strategy and roadmap to drive Lenovo’s success in Hyperconverged and Hybrid / Private Cloud segment. Before this role, Shekhar was responsible for driving the product strategy for Flex System, Solutions and Systems management for Lenovo.
Prior to Lenovo, Shekhar managed the Blade portfolio at IBM – BladeCenter and Flex System. Shekhar joined IBM in 2008 and he was responsible for the overall product portfolio roadmap and strategy for Flex System and BladeCenter. Previously Shekhar was working for Verizon where he managed a Software development team. Shekhar has over 20 years of datacenter experience across compute, network and storage. Shekhar earned his MBA from Kenan Flagler Business School (UNC) and holds a BS in Computer Science.

Sushil Kulkarni is a Director at Red Hat and responsible for Linux Kernel networking that includes drivers, new hardware enablement and the core networking stack. He has 30+ years of industry experience and proven track record in contributing to very successful world class networking products. Prior to Red Hat, he worked at Tata Consultancy Services, Nokia-Siemens and Acme Packet-Oracle where he focused in areas such as Networking, VOIP and Telco services. He is passionate about driving technology innovations and customer success.

Venkat Pullela is currently the Chief of Technology, Networking for Keysight Technologies, responsible for Strategy and Emerging Technologies. His current focus is on open networking, and evolving testing architectures. He was previously Co-Founder at OpenNets, a company that develops tools for programmable networks and software-defined networking (SDN) solutions. He has also worked at Broadcom as a Distinguished Engineer and at Cisco as a Sr. Director of Engineering. His areas of interest include efficient switching architectures, pipeline description languages, hardware abstraction and interfaces. He has been an invited speaker at ONF Connect, OCP, Supercomputing, Linux Foundation and SIGCOMM events. He holds 25 patents. He earned an MS in CS from IIT, Kanpur and MBA from ISB, India.