Open Networking Innovation Forum (ONIF) is an invitation-only think tank, gathering an elite group of open networking visionaries, thought leaders and innovators in an intimate setting for valuable dialogue about the state of open networking (successes, hurdles, things to look out for in planning, picking and deploying SDN/NFV solutions), opportunities and challenges, accelerating adoption and more.

The event will be focused on group discussions with discussion topics crowdsourced and facilitated by attendees for more valuable dialogue and accelerated innovation.

ONIF 2019 will be held Wednesday, April 3rd at the San Jose Convention Center in downtown San Jose, CA at the Open Networking Summit. Attendee working sessions & discussions will take place from 9:00am to 12:00pm with an attendee lunch from 12:00-1:00 pm before ONIF attendees join ONS keynotes. Additional time will be available in the afternoon for ONIF attendees before an evening reception offsite, held jointly with the ONS Partner Reception for event sponsors, speakers and media.

ONIF was held for the first time in 2017 at Open Networking Summit and succeeded in providing an important forum to advance adoption and innovation. Past attendees have included industry visionaries Martin Casado from Andreessen Horowitz, John Donovan from AT&T, and Urs Hölzle from Google and VCs from firms including AH, Mohr Davidow, Sequoia Capital, and Wiretap Ventures as well as senior executives from:

Amdocs
Argela
AT&T Labs
Bell Canada
Bloomberg
British Telecom
Ciena
Cisco
Comcast
DellEMC
Delta Products
Deutsche Telekom
Equinix
Facebook
FedEx Services
Futurewei Technologies
Gap Inc.
Google
Microsoft
Radisys
Red Hat
Reliance JIO
Target Corporation
Turk Telecom
Verizon
Visa
VMware and more

Attendance to the Open Networking Innovation Forum is by invitation only. Contact us at events@linuxfoundation.org to be considered for attendance.