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2019 AGENDA

// D: All Things Decentralized Summit / December 9th

// Edge Computing World / December 10th-11th

// Edge Economics / December 12th


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DRIVING THE NEW ERA OF HIGH GROWTH APPLICATIONS

December 9th-12th 2019

Computer History Museum, Mountain View

The future is breaking the internet

The next evolution of the internet is upon us. A diverse range of high growth application areas including

AI, IoT, NFV, Augmented Reality, cloud gaming & self-driving vehicles, are creating new demands that

cannot be met by existing infrastructure. This next generation of applications is driving requirements such

as low latency, application autonomy, data security and bandwidth thinning that require greater capability

closer to the point of consumption. The current cloud architecture, which has served us so well through

the application explosion of the last decade, cannot cope.

This new edge computing market is the next evolution of the internet and will scale both capability and

market size 10x. This is a fundamental change that will establish the next era of the internet. A diverse

range of players are bringing their experience and capabilities to bear to contribute to the next generation

solution, including data center, colocation & hosting players, CDN providers, IoT platforms providers,

cloud infrastructure providers, and cable and telco networks service providers. New processor & memory

innovation and open source hardware and software will all play a role.

These companies are collaborating to define edge architecture and meet the challenges of load balancing,

identity, privacy and security, edge networking fabrics and application orchestration in this next

generation capability.

The mission of Edge Computing World is to support the diverse elements of the new edge computing

community. We will bring together all elements of the ecosystem including cloud and telco communities,

with application providers to learn, collaborate and partner as they drive this new wave of computing

capability and deliver on the next generation internet.

Join us in December in Silicon Valley. The Action is at the Edge.


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PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Pre-Conference Summit

D: All Things Decentralized Monday December 9th 2019

The Rise of DApps & Decentralized Computing

Edge Computing World Tuesday December 10th 2019

Day One Keynote

Use Case Studies: Manufacturing, Retail, Automotive, Games, AR

Track A: Track B: Track C:

Edge Application

Requirements:

Latency Driven

NFV

Gaming

AR/VR

NFV

Edge Implementation

Security & Networking

Edge Developers

Conference


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Edge Computing World Wednesday December 11th 2019

Day Two Keynote: Service Providers Strategies for the Edge – Cloudco’s & Telco’s

The Investment Environment for the Edge

Track A: Track B: Track C:

Requirements: Edge

Application Requirements:

Bandwidth Driven

Industrial IoT, AI & Video

Edge Implementation

Application Deployment & Management

Edge Developers

Conference

Post-Conference Workshop Thursday December 12th 2019

Edge Economics


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D: All Things Decentralized

Pre-Conference Summit // Monday, December 9th, 2019

10.00 AM The State of Web 3.0, DApps, and Decentralization

Throughout 2019 we’ve witnessed the continued evolution and reshaping of the blockchain & distributed ledger technologies (DLT) landscape from early pilots and conversations to becoming an integral part of the enterprise and any future business strategy. During this talk we’ll examine the overall state of the industry and provide you with the roadmap needed to successfully navigate our decentralized future including future business models, applications (DApps), technical stacks, and Web 3.0.

Kyle Ellicott - Chief Labs Officer, Topio Networks

10.30 AM Everything that Can be Decentralized, Will be Decentralized

An in-depth look at decentralized applications (DApps) and what it takes to build in a decentralized world. What makes a DApps different from applications of today inside and out? What are the current state of DApps including leading use cases, technical hurdles, classifications, and economic models that apply to DApps? How can you use the General Theory of Decentralized Applications (DApps) to ensure success?

11:00 AM The Unintended Consequences of Platforms

The majority of new start-ups and the biggest tech giants are platform based. Both new and old platforms are built on the same business models: Foster user engagement, gather as much user data as possible, use that data to enhance advertising. This model has become incredibly profitable for some but has had unintended consequences such as data breaches, loss of consumer trust, and stakeholder misalignment all of which need to be addressed by next-generation solutions. We believe there is a new way for platforms and stakeholders to build open applications that create healthy, competitive and sustainable ecosystems. An Open Applications Network can serve as the public utility with open standards for participation that is owned by everyone. Open applications provide compounding innovation and are fundamentally accessible, privacy-focused, and have mathematically verifiable guarantees.

Matt Spoke - Founder, Aion

11.30 AM Decentralized Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Network

The majority of new start-ups and the biggest tech giants are platform based. Both new and old platforms are built on the same business models: Foster user engagement, gather as much user data as possible, use that data to enhance advertising. This model has become incredibly profitable for some but has had unintended consequences such as data breaches, loss of consumer trust, and stakeholder misalignment all of which need to be addressed by next-generation solutions. We believe there is a new way for platforms and stakeholders to build open


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applications that create healthy, competitive and sustainable ecosystems. An Open Applications Network can serve as the public utility with open standards for participation that is owned by everyone. Open applications provide compounding innovation and are fundamentally accessible, privacy-focused, and have mathematically verifiable guarantees.

Hrish Lotlikar - Advisor, SingularityNET

12.00 PM Networking Lunch 1.30 PM Panel Session: Will Blockchains Be the Foundation Layer of the Decentralized Stack??

As the technical stack continues to evolve beyond what today’s applications require, what will blockchain’s role shape to be? Will blockchains – public, permissioned, hybrid or otherwise – be the foundational layer of the decentralized stack? If not, what other technologies will replace or complement blockchain within the decentralized & DApps technical stack?

Kyle Ellicott - Chief Labs Officer, Topio Networks Gili Ovadia - VP, Head of Global Business Development, Orbs Cooper Kunz - Developer Evangelist, Hedera Hashgraph

2.00 PM Fireside: The New Standard for Digital Asset Custody Kyle Ellicott - Chief Labs Officer, Topio Networks Diogo Mónica - Co-Founder and President, Anchorage

2.30 PM Data Storage Wars In A Decentralized Future

How will the shift from traditional to distributed storage affect the future development stack of enterprise applications and the data structures supporting them? What solutions are available for developers today (ex. off-chain) and those to be prepared for as the landscape continues to evolve? Will organizations benefit from this emerging area within the blockchain landscape with increased security, storage, and performance? Join this session to learn more around these questions and how to prepare for the coming future of distributed storage.

Saswata Basu - CEO & Founder, 0chain

3.00 PM A discussion on the evolving and growing importance of creating useful smart contracts that connect to the real world.

Fireside Session: Are Smart Contracts The Traffic Cop for Data in a Decentralized Application World?

3.30 PM The Internet as we Know It, Is Broken

The Internet of today is ill equipped to support the services we, as humans, want to offer and consume. Autonomous cars, remote surgery, real time AR/VR, smart grids, next gen gaming, etc. all require single digit latency and without a zero touch, distributed footprint these services will live just out of reach.


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Cole Crawford - CEO & Founder, Vapor IO

4.00 PM Fireside Session: What Are Decentralized Driven Business Models??

Join our panelists as they discuss the new business models that have begun emerging as the applications of tomorrow (DApps) become more distributed, see an increased flow of data once unrealized, and customers who are demanding a share of your revenue for their participation in your business’s growth.

Joel Neidig - CEO, SIMBA Chain Biser Dimitrov - Enterprise Blockchain Architect, Tata Consulting Robert Mao - Founder & CTO, ArcBlock Kent Makishima - CEO & Co-Founder, Armada Chain

4.30 PM Panel Session: Token Economics and Models for Applications

Our panelists will be discussing the rise of new frameworks for token economics that will be leveraged to support decentralized applications (DApps) and finance (DeFi) ranging from non-fungible tokens (NFT) and asset-backed stablecoins to Libra/Venus and new tokenized consumer.

5.00 PM Blockchains to Decentralization Applications: The Future of DApps in the Enterprise

The session will discuss how DApps will create a shift in applications built by and for the enterprise including Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things (IOT), and more.

Biser Dimitrov - Enterprise Blockchain Architect, Tata Consulting Joel Neidig - CEO, SIMBA Chain Robert Mao - Founder & CTO, ArcBlock Kent Makishima - CEO & Co-Founder, Armada Chain 5.10 PM Panel Session: Investing in the Future of Compute and Applications (DApps)

Discussion around the evolving venture capital marketing’s with the emergence of digital assets and securitization. Additionally, our panel of industry-leading investors will provide an outlook on the shifting landscape of new decentralized businesses and the upcoming trends with investing in decentralized applications (DApps) along with the frameworks, infrastructures, and marketing that will power them.

Angela Dalton - Managing Partner of Technology, Signum Global Advisors Galen Danziger - Co-Founder & CTO, Mousebelt Accelerator


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Edge Computing World

DAY 1 – TUESDAY DAY 2 - WEDNESDAY

Track A: Edge Application Requirements - Latency Driven

Track A: Edge Application Requirements - Bandwidth Driven

Track B: Edge Implementation: Security & Networking

Track B: Edge Implementation: Application Deployment & Management

Track C: Edge Developers Conference Track C: Edge Developers Conference

Keynotes

General Sessions

Networking

Day 1 // Tuesday, December 10th, 2019

7.45 – 8.30 AM One to One Meetings

7.45 AM Pre-Keynote Briefing: The State of the Edge

Jim Davies, Co-Author, State of the Edge Report & Founder, Edge Research Group

Keynote Case Studies: User Requirements at the Edge

8.30 AM Welcome & Chair’s Opening Remarks Maribel Lopez - Founder & Principal Analyst, Lopez Research

8.40 AM Clarifying the Edge Opportunity

● Edge computing has been hyped as the next big technology in tech, and the enabler of the next

generation of the internet.

● But is edge computing truly the essential platform for a multitude of new services?


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● And why should enterprises care about edge?

Alan Boehme, CTO & IT Innovation Officer, Procter & Gamble

9.05 AM Autonomous Vehicles at the Edge Gatik is one of the leading autonomous vehicle companies in Silicon Valley, focusing on B2B short haul logistics with known journeys, such has the moving goods from a warehouse to these micro fulfillment centers, which is a high growth part of the market with currently high operating costs. This is strong market for scaling and commercialization of autonomous technology. Gatik are is currently trialling B2B short haul autonomous delivery with Walmart. This presentation will examine the B2B short haul autonomous logistics delivery, and the role that edge computing will play now and in the future. Arjun Narang, CTO, Gatik

9.30 AM Edge Requirements for the Connected Vehicle

Connected Vehicles are swiftly transforming the automotive industry, with emerging services driving major new

requirements for data communications. In principle, every new vehicle manufactured will be continuously connected and will generate massive volumes of data to be transferred between vehicles and the cloud. New Connected Vehicle services are expected to make the Automotive sector the industry segment with the fastest-growing demand for mobile machine-to-machine connectivity. Stakeholders in this industry vertical include vehicle OEMs, technology solution vendors, network operators, cloud infrastructure and service providers. The challenge is in designing and deploying the communication networks and computing ecosystem required to efficiently deliver and process the new high-volume data requirements.

Considering the global nature of this challenge, stakeholders should consider how communication networks and

computing resources could be orchestrated to enable secure, cost-effective data delivery and processing on a global scale. To address this challenge, we focus on three of the key issues pertaining to data integration within a Localized Network. These are:

● Edge data offloading.

● MSP Server Selection.

● Vehicle System Reachability.

Vish Nandlall - Member of the Board of Directors, Automotive Edge Computing Consortium

10.00 AM Networking Refreshment Break & One to One Meetings


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11.00 AM VR Requirements for the Edge computing

Augmented and virtual reality markets are set for significant growth over the next few years, with key application cases in training, medical, and sports and entertainment. However, the brain in unable to tolerate a mismatch in perception with the image viewed of more than a few milliseconds, making untethered AR & VR prime use cases for localized computing. This presentation will explore likely use cases for Virtual Reality and examine where edge computing is required for services to achieve their full potential.

Amy Peck - Senior Director of Enterprise Content, HTC Vive Studios

11.25 AM Augmented Reality & Gaming Driving the Edge Ninantic are the creators of immersive games including Pokémon GO, which is one of the most successful

mobile games of all time, having so far been downloaded over one billion times. It has also broken records including the fastest game to earn $100 million and most-downloaded in its first month of release.

But beyond that, the company see itself as the world’s leading augmented reality company, seeing a future where their technology paves the way for new entertainment experiences, advanced robotics, and scaled adaptive computing – building the world’s only planet-scale augmented reality platform for current and future generations of augmented reality hardware. This presentation discussed the future of edge computing in that context.

Phil Keslin, CTO, Niantic (Pokemon Go)

11.50 AM Edge Computing - the $4.1 Trillion Market Chetan Sharma CEO, Chetan Sharma Consulting

12.15 PM New Compute Architectures Advancing Edge Capabilities Couple some local intelligence to each sensor and the internet of things is becoming the sensory cortex of the planet, with countless data-collecting-devices. All of this ‘big data’ would be a big headache but for machine learning to find patterns to make it actionable, and edge computing to shift the processing to the periphery and avoid network overload. In short, the edge needs AI, and AI needs the edge. The compute architecture for machine intelligence is shifting to specialized processors optimized to the task, a biomimicry of the human cortex in compute substrate and algorithms. We are also learning how to improve the process of training with model compression and continuous learning. The march to specialized silicon, from CPU to GPU to FPGA to ASIC is now going further, to analog and quantum processing. At a high level, we are recapitulating our evolutionary computational march in silicon, and an ever-growing percentage of our compute will be massively parallel and in-memory processing, just like our cortex. Steve Jurvetson, Co-Founder, Future Venture

12.40 PM Networking Lunch Break & One to One Meetings


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2.00 PM Break to Tracks

Track A - Edge Application Requirements - Latency Driven

2.00PM Track Chairman’s Introduction

James Staten - VP & Principal Analyst, Edge Compute, Forrester Research

2.05 PM Telcos as Edge Users – Virtualizing the Network

● How will Telcos develop their edge strategies?

● What is the internal use case that will trigger telco deployment?

● How does edge support and enable 5G deployment?

● Evaluating NFV, its status and its prospects, as the central use case to drive telco deployment.

Christos Kolias, Technology Principal, Orange

2.30 PM Panel: Virtualizing the Telco Network - the Anchor Application for Telcos?

● What is the status of deployment of Network Function Virtualization – is it stalled or in progress?

● How far is Network Function Virtualization necessary for telcos for the deployment of edge?

● If telcos can justify their edge deployment for the NFV use case, does that allow them to leverage these

assets for other edge use cases?

Joe Madden, Founder, Mobile Insights Mark Bridges, Vice President, Future Infrastructure Group, Office of the CTO, CableLabs Dr. Ganesh Sundaram - Founder & CEO, AlefEdge

3.00 PM Networking Refreshment Break & One to One Meeting

4.00 PM Case Study: Enabling the Edge for Multiplayer Gaming Haste is a dedicated network built for the internet of gaming. The global games market will grow 13.3% and eclipse $137 billion this year. The PC gaming arena, where Haste is focused, is worth some $32 billion. In the more serious e-sports category, total revenues are expected to hit $906 million in 2018, up 38.2% year-on-year (data: NewZoo).

● This presentation will cover:

● Understanding the global market for gaming

● Clarifying the challenge: Lag, Ping, Packet Loss & Jitter, and why they are inherent in today’s networks

● Building the solution: Haste’s approach a building the internet of games


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● Opening up the opportunity: how the gaming internet will develop and future participation and partnership

opportunities

Lynn Perry, CEO, Haste

4.30 PM Panel Session: Autonomous Edge Control for Drones & Robotics Whilst full scale Level-5 autonomous car driving is arguable some way off, there are nonetheless a diverse range of devices, drones, vehicles and robots that are becoming increasingly automated and autonomously controlled.

● Is edge computing a significant factor in the potential growth of this market?

● What is the latency requirement of these systems? What other factors might favor edge deployment?

● How should the decision making loads be distributed between device, edge and cloud? Which decisions

should be made at the edge or on device?

● What are the factors to consider when coordinated multiple controlled devices, such as drone fleets with

UTM (unmanned traffic management) systems

● At what rate is this market developing, and in what phases will systems be deployed?

Greg Belaus, Network Infrastructure, Uber Elevate Mark Godwin, Co-Founder & CTO, Boxbot Rich Arnold, Executive Director, WiTronix (#1 provider in autonomous heavy rail)

5.30 PM Evening Networking Reception

Track B – Edge Implementation: Security & Networking

2.00 PM Managing Data Security at the Edge Edge compute solves the common problem of monitoring and preventing failures. Utility providers and oil & gas companies have critical infrastructure that have limited external connectivity. While latency is the main driver for edge computing in general, the primary consideration in these sectors is security of the on-premise data. Operational data is collected and analyzed close to the source. This eliminates the security perils of sending critical data to the Cloud. However, these installations are still vulnerable to attacks since they lack the implied security features afforded by Cloud computing. A practical and defensive approach is essential in order to reduce the attack surface of the on-premise edge compute solution. This presentation discusses security considerations covering:

1. A high-level analysis of the security threat model ranging from the edge compute host to the humans interacting with the system.

2. Establishment of a secure application environment that protects the delivery and deployment of the edge compute application and the related data at rest.

3. Simplicity and usability considerations.


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Shashi Sastry, Director of Product Management, ABB

2.30 PM Panel Session: Security Challenges for the Edge

Vandana Mansharamani, Security Manager, SAP

Andreas Vogel - AI Ethic Expert, Independent

2.50 PM Edge Cloud: Are We There Yet? The talk will discuss the evolution of the EdgeCloud definitions and architecture and will reflect on needed technologies and business cases to build the EdgeCloud moving forward from 2019. The talk will also address the assessment of the future of the EdgeCloud from a business viability and strategy, timing and technology perspectives for the next 5 years. Yuval Bachar - Principal Hardware Architect - Azure Platform, Microsoft

3.00 PM Networking Refreshment Break & One to One Meetings

4.00 PM Mesh Networking for the Edge

• Reducing latency at the edge by linking localized resources.

Todd Papaioannou - COO, Edgeworx

4.30 PM Towards Differentiated Services in a Converged Edge Cloud with Private 5G, SD-WAN & Local Compute SD-WAN and Local Compute complement each other to provide an Edge Cloud platform with full WAN connectivity for Enterprises. In this talk, we will examine how Private 5G with CBRS further adds value to the aforementioned Edge Cloud platform for Enterprises by enabling differentiated services.

First, we will examine the key enterprise use cases and market segments for a hyper-converged edge cloud platform with Private 5G/SD-WAN/Compute. Next, we will dive into the key architectural aspects such as Kubernetes as the single infrastructure orchestrator for Private 5G/SD-WAN network functions and Edge applications and Network Slicing for differentiated services. Last, we will touch upon the open source activities in this front.

Ramki Krishnan - Lead Technologist, Open Source, VMware

5.00 PM Panel session: Managing Diversity at the Edge: from the device to the aggregation point


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Balaji Ethirajulu, Head of Marketing, LF Edge Rags Srinivasan, Kinetic Edge Alliance Pierre-Damien Vaujour, Co-Founder, Loft Orbital

5.30 PM Networking Reception & One to One Meetings

Track C – Edge Developers Conference

2.00 PM Developer Workshop: LF Edge Zephyr RTOS Fast-growing – both in terms of contributions and adoption – Zephyr is an open source RTOS that is designed to be small, optimized, scalable and secure for resource constrained devices and applications. In this session, we will go through the detailed process of adding support for new architectures and hardware platforms in Zephyr, showing a step-by-step guide with a real example pointing out the caveats and some debugging tricks. Main topics of this presentation include hardware support implementation in Zephyr, adding a new HAL, adding a new SoC, adding a new Board, adding new drivers, and contributing to mainline. Balaji Ethirajulu - Chair, Marketing Committee, LF Edge (Linux Foundation)

3:00 PM Networking and Refreshment Break

4.00 PM Developer Workshop: Eclipse Edge Tools: ioFog and Fog05 The road to the Edge is paved with diverse solutions: why one size fits all doesn’t work on the Edge. From the outside, Edge computing looks very similar to Cloud computing. Many of the same tools and platforms can be used in both environments, after all. However, Edge comes with its own set of challenges: unreliable networks, physical constraints and power consumption are just three of the most common. To overcome those challenges, you need platforms that are build for Edge from the ground up. The Eclipse Foundation established an Edge working group to foster the growth and adoption of such platforms. In this session, you will learn about Eclipse ioFog and Eclipse Fog05, two distinct yet complementary projects that solve the challenges of Edge Computing in their own way. Frédéric Desbiens, Program Manager, IoT and Edge Computing, Eclipse Foundation Kilton Hopkins - CEO, Edgeworx Angelo Corsaro, CTO, ADLINK

5.30 PM Networking Reception


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Day 2 // Wednesday, December 11th, 2019

7.45 AM Analyst Breakfast Briefings Beat the traffic, arrive early and benefit from our extended learning and networking opportunities. These sessions allow you to deepen your understanding of key topic whilst connecting with like minded peers who share the same specialist interest. Each analyst will lead a discussion around a specialist topic within the area of edge computing. No pre-registration necessary, simply arrive, pick up your light breakfast, and join the table with the theme most of interest to you (first come, first served) Topics & coverage: SDWANs & the Edge Opportunity: Roy Chua, CEO, AvidThink Growth Forecasts for the Mobile Edge: Joe Madden, Founder & President, Mobile Insights Distributed Apps, Distributed Ledger, & Distributed Compute: Kyle Ellicott, Principal Analyst, Topio Networks

Keynote – Day Two

I: Service Provider Strategies for the Edge

8.30 AM Chair’s Opening

8.40 AM Carrier Strategies for the Enhanced Edge

● How do major carriers see the opportunity of edge computing?

● How do carriers view the new & emergent applications will drive the deployment of edge computing?

● How closely is the deployment of 5G tied to the deployment of edge?

● Will NFV (Network Function Virtualization) be a key factor in edge deployment?

● Who will the major carriers partner with to deliver edge services?

● How far will they collaborate with other major service providers, such as hyperscale cloud providers?

Vishy Gopalakrishnan, Vice President, Ecosystem & Innovation, AT&T


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9.10 AM Reaching the Edge from the Cloud

Enterprises are rapidly adopting the cloud for greater agility and cost savings. However, they often find that some applications need to be re-architected or “modernized” before they can be moved to the cloud. Others need to remain in the edge due to low-latency or data processing requirements. As a result, enterprises are looking to hybrid cloud architectures to integrate their on-premises and cloud operations to support a broad spectrum of hybrid use cases, such as data center extension, VMware cloud migration, or building and managing applications using a common set of cloud services and APIs across on-premises and cloud environments. Adrian Cockcroft, VP of Cloud Strategy at AWS, will share some strategic insights on how AWS enables customers to build their hybrid cloud architecture at the edge.

Adrian Cockcroft, VP Cloud Strategy, Amazon Web Services

9.50 AM The New Network Innovators: Market Disruption Driving the Edge Will it be new players who bring edge computing to market? New entrant are encumbered by legacy systems and can focus on the latest technology and on high growth opportunities such as edge computing. The combination of CBRS spectrum and edge computing is poised to eliminate the need for enterprises to use communications service providers to support some cloud applications. Federated Wireless also will play a role in supporting this new approach to cloud connectivity. Learn from Iyad Terazi, CEO of leading CBRS provider Federated Wireless, on how their approach could disrupt the market. Iyad Tarazi, President and CEO, Federated Wireless

10.20AM Networking Refreshment Break

11.20 AM Panel session: Service Provider Strengths & Collaboration to Efficiently Serve Market Needs In the emerging edge market, multiple players are vying for leadership, each with its set of advantages and challenges. The cloud players are driving towards edge from their centralized, hyperscale data centers. Established telco carriers have their customer relationships and extensive network & real estate assets. And new access entrants are active in carving a niche by addressing emerging applications and challenges that the telco & cloud players are not chasing. Do any of the players have a strong enough hand to win market leadership alone?

● Assessing the relative strengths of the cloud and telco service providers

● Assessing whether there is market need for collaboration

● Identifying where players might partner or pursue solo strategies.

Paul Savill, SVP, Core Network and Technology Solutions, CenturyLink Chair: Aex Reznik, Chair, Multi-Access Edge Computing, ETSI


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II: Edge Economics

11.50 PM Panel Session: The Investment Outlook for the Edge

● How do investors see the edge opportunity?

● Which sectors in the market are the seeing to be particularly promising?

● Where are the mid and long terms bets?

● What is the ultimate potential of this market?

Chair: Philippe Cases, CEO, Topio Networks Michael Dolbec, Senior Managing Director, GE Ventures Maryanna Saenko - Co-Founder, Future Ventures Andile Ngcaba - Chairman & Founder, Convergence Partners Todd H Poole, Associate Director, HPE Pathfinder

12.30 AM Edge Woman of the Year Award Presentation

12.40 PM Networking Lunch Break & One to One Meetings

Track A - Edge Application Requirements – Bandwidth Driven

2.00 PM Panel Session: Running AI at the Edge This session takes a pragmatic view of the very broad sector called AI. It focuses on specific use cases and real-world implementations across a range of sectors- from voice recognition (Amazon Alexa), edge voice recognition (Brighten.ai), to edge analytics, to customer experience at Chick-fil-A. The session promises to be a dynamic session with panelist sharing their individual experiences in focusing AI related technologies to specific outcomes and measurable KPIs.

Chair: Param Singh, Head of Edge Product Management, Cisco

Brian Chambers, Director, Enterprise Architecture, Chick-fil-A

Asif Khan, Engineering Leader, Alexa AI, Amazon

John Burkey, Founder & CEO Brighten Ai

Richard Newman - Co-Founder & CTO, Reliant Solutions



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4.00 PM The Edge Enabling the Smart City

● How will the edge further enable the smart city?

● Early wins with edge for traffic management and safety enhancing applications

● Understanding how privacy requirements affect edge deployments in public environments

● Building towards advanced use cases for the edge in Smart Cities

Tony Batalla, CTO, City of San Leandro

4.30 PM Edge Processing in Video Surveillance

● Video has been one of the earliest boom applications for edge computing. The logic of detecting anomalies

at source, rather than broadcasting multiple video streams to the cloud for remote handling, is obvious.

● But how will the market progress from this base, and what service enhancements might be possible? How

might these enhancements create further opportunities for the ecosystem?

Jumbi Edulbehram,VP Global Cloud Services, Avigilon

Track B – Edge Implementation: Application Deployment & Management

2.00 PM Panel Session: Silicon & Hardware Advances Driving Capabilities at the Edge A number of market forces and technology developments are converging to create the edge computing opportunity. A key factor in edge development is every increasing processing capability for decreasing cost and power budgets, creating the environment to allow more and more data to be processed at the edge. How have new silicon, software and hardware advances enhanced the capability of the edge? What sectors of the market are being particularly affected my these advanced today? How should we expect to see this capability evolve in the near future to mid term? Jon Gelsey, CEO, XNor.ai

Nader Salessi, Founder & CEO, NGD Systems, Inc.

Gilles Hamou - CEO & Co-Founder, UPMEM

2.30 PM Serverless for the Edge Disrupt or be disrupted. And to become disruptors, visionary CTOs, architects and engineers are putting serverless infrastructure and technologies like geo distributed databases, and edge computing to work.


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The new serverless edge enables a holistic new approach to creating applications with rapid time to market, global scalability and extreme performance at a fraction of the cost of conventional and cloud native approaches. In this session, Chetan will talk about the need, promises, architecture and case studies of serverless edge computing. Chetan Venkatesh, Founder & CEO, Marcometa

2.55 PM Building IoT Apple with Serverless Edge Computing

• Why IoT, Serverless, and Edge Computing were made for each other

• How to build IoT backends using serverless edge computing

• How to build complex data pipelines with serverless edge computing

James Thomason - CTO & Co-Founder, EDJX

3.20PM Networking Refreshment Break & One to One Meeting

4.00 PM Case Study: Deploying with Kubernetes Cookin’ in the Chick-fil-A Kitchen w/ Kubernetes Chick-fil-A was an early adopter of Kubernetes at the Edge, beginning deployments to our 2,200 restaurants in 2018. Over the past few years, we have continued to iterate on our edge technology stack to further optimize in support of our growing business. In this session, we’ll answer several questions: Why did we invest in deploying computing at the Edge in each of our restaurants in the first place? Why Kubernetes? How has our architecture changed since late 2017? How do we monitor/manage/deploy to 2,200 restaurants at scale? We will answer these questions, share some lessons learned, and share where we’re headed in the future. Brian Chambers, Director, Enterprise Architecture, Chick-fil-A

Alex Crane, Cloud Architect, Chick-fil-A

4.30 PM Panel Session: Deploying & Managing Applications at the Edge Orchestrating Deployment at Scale Optimizing for your edge Who owns the deployment ? (IT/OT) Data Privacy & Data Sovereignty Jason Andersen - Vice President, Strategy and Business Line Management, Stratus Technologies

Mark Thiele - Executive Director, Edge Cloud, Edge Gravity by Ericsson

Simon Crosby - CTO, Swim.ai

Bill Pugh - Founder & Managing Parter, Smart Connections


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Track C – Edge Developers Conference

2.00 PM Developer Workshop: AWS Outposts This presentation will give a deep dive into AWS Outposts, and how customers are using a variety of AWS Services for Edge Computing. It will examine details about services – including the latest spec releases & updates from AWS – and share a couple of customer use cases. Meena Gowdar, Senior Product Manager, Tech Amazon Web Services


4.00 PM Developer Workshop: Get Started with LF Edge’s Project EVE and EdgeX Foundry Industrial IoT platforms and IoT Edge devices have been stuck in vertical silos. Yet with the explosion in connectivity more and more devices are coming online, these new devices have the promise of bringing new insights from the data collected by the world of PLC’s and edge devices. But these systems are trapped in a proprietary world of closed off systems. This was what happened to IT world a decade ago and the solution was virtualization. Now, virtualization is coming to the edge, through a number of open source projects like Project EVE (Edge Virtualization Engine), EdgeX Foundry (both projects hosted by LF Edge, an umbrella organization that aims to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system) and the Apache PLC4x project. Project EVE allows for the virtualization and freedom of running on any hardware with no touch updates. EdgeX Foundry can run on top EVE and gives you a common open framework for building IoT applications. And Apache’s PLC4x brings its set of libraries that allow for unified access across PLCs, while using EVE as its runtime. Participants will get hands on experience and learn how to get started with Project EVE, EdgeX Foundry and PLC4x. These technologies showcase a future where open source projects lead the flow of data from the Edge and the factory floor, allowing for faster development and easier maintenance.

Roman Shaposhnik - Governing Board Member and leader of Project EVE, LF Edge; Aaron Williams -

Developer Relations and Communities Lead, ZEDERA

Thursday, December 12th, 2019

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Edge Economics

The Edge Economics Issue

We are still at the early days of the edge cloud era. Multiple players are vying for leadership, each with

its set of advantages and challenges. The cloud players are driving towards edge from their centralized,

hyperscale data centers. New entrants are active in carving a niche by addressing emerging applications

and challenges that the cloud players are not chasing. They have been leading on defining new

technologies and processes for the edge. And the telcos are also strongly playing with their extensive

network & real estate assets.

The benefits of edge computing, low latency and backhaul efficiency are well understood. However,

there is a cost to realize these benefits through small data centers and edge processing. Hyperscale data

centers are the backbone of the cloud, & the cost structure and operation of these data centers is well

understood. On the other hand, different requirements govern the edge cloud leading to different

economics. Understanding these economics and monetization potential is fundamental to evaluating the

business case for edge computing.

Why This Workshop?

The Edge Monetization issue is by no means resolved. It is a live issue under discussion in all the

stakeholder organizations within the market, and evolving as the market is evolving. This workshop aims

to bring executives up to speed with the latest thinking in edge market economic modelling, and to give

them an opportunity to explore these ideas in discussion with peers from across the edge market.

Workshop Format

The workshop is designed to be both informative and discursive. The session will be held in an “off the

record” format, to encourage executives to share their thoughts and ideas with peers. The workshop is

the final activity of Edge Computing World, to allow participants to build on the knowledge and

relationships developed over the previous few days in very informal environment.

Program

8.30 Introduction Jean Marc Frangos - previsously SVP, External Innovation, BT

Session 1: Edge Economic Models

8.40 Edge Economic Models: Model 1

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Joe Madden, Founder & Principal Analyst, Mobile Experts

9.10 Edge Economic Models: Model 2 Frank Rayal, Founding Partner, Xono Partners

9.40 Edge Economic Models: Model 3

10.10 Open Discussion Session

10.30 Refreshment Break

Session 2: Interactive Session

11.00 Interactive Moderated Discussion After recapping on the main learning of session one, key challenges will be identified based on group consensus. Participants will then break into smaller focus discussion sub-groups to concentrate on these selected areas. Discussions will be facilitated by the speakers and workshop leader. After a period of in-depth discussion, sub-groups will report back to the main group, These findings will then be discussed in the wider group will all participants having the opportunity to listen to and comment on the findings of the focus groups. A final discussion will draw out key findings and identify some areas for ongoing work. Jean Marc Frangos - Advisor, Fujitsu Open Innovation Gateway Joe Madden - Principal Analyst, Mobile Experts Frank Rayal - Founding Partner, Xona Partners

12.30 Lunch & Discussion

1.30 Close & Depart

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