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.

Joshua Brooks is a Principal Solutions Architect at WorldTech IT, LLC, with a background in various technical roles, including Director of Cloud and DevOps, Director of Technology and Engineering, and ADC Architect. Prior to his current position, he worked at Sentrium as a VyOS – Network Engineer and at Rackspace Hosting in Network Security roles. He also has experience working at Hewlett-Packard in datacenter deployment roles. Joshua’s diverse technical background and leadership experience make him a valuable asset in driving successful customer outcomes and overseeing internal technology developments at WorldTech IT, LLC.

Highly energetic and productive Senior Marketing and Business Development Professional with unique blend of strong business acumen and technical know-how delivering outstanding revenue and market share growth. In-depth experience in automotive industry having worked for top semiconductor companies and well recognized for driving business growth capturing new opportunities. Possess high degree of passion for products with extreme discipline and strong work ethics and organization skills.

Krishna Ganugapati is a Corporate Vice President at Intel. He has deep expertise in the design of distributed systems (directory services, distributed security systems, file servers) and networking infrastructure (VPNs, IPSec and wireless technologies)

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.