1ST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON

INTENT-BASED NETWORKING

— HOT TOPICS IN IBN PANEL —

June 28th, 2021Virtual conference

PANEL CHAIR

Éric RENAULT

ESIEE Paris, FranceÉric Renault is Full Professor at ESIEE Paris and a member of LIGM (UMR CNRS 8049) at Université

Gustave Eiffel, France. He received a MSc in Computer Engineering (diplôme d’ingénieur) from ISTY and a

MSc in Computer Science (DEA) from UVSQ in 1995, a PhD in Computer Science from UVSQ in 2000 and

the qualification in advising PhD students (HDR) from UPMC in 2011. His research interests include

high-performance computing and messaging, compilation, virtualization, positioning and lightweight security

for mobile, sensor and vehicular networks. He worked on several European projects and served as an

expert for the evaluation of French national projects (ANR), private company research works (MESRI) and

Eiffel Excellence Scholarship Program applications (Campus France). He authored more than 100 articles in

international journals and conferences.

PANELISTS

Magnus BUHRGARD

Ericsson, SwedenMagnus Buhrgard is Open Source and Standardization Manager at Ericsson. He is engaged in ONAP,

where he is responsible for coordination with SDOs regarding network management. He is also Ericsson’s

primary delegate to ETSI ISG ZSM. With 30 years of experience in the telecommunication industry, his work

has spanned a multitude of architectures and technologies, reaching from fiberoptic research to network and

service automation. He has a long-term engagement in carrier-grade network architecture. Magnus is also

engaged in the challenge of merging standardization, open source, and R&D ways of working. He holds an

M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Lund University, Sweden.

PANELISTS

Molka GHARBAOUI

CNIT, ItalyMolka Gharbaoui is a technologist at the Scuola Superiore Sant’anna, Pisa, Italy. She received her Ph.D.

degree in Innovative Technologies of Information & Communications Engineering and Robotics in 2012 from

the Scuola Superiore Sant’anna, Pisa. Her main research interests are in the field of software-defined

networking, network function virtualization and network orchestration.

PANELISTS

Diego LOPEZ

Telefonica, SpainDr Diego R. Lopez joined Telefonica I+D in 2011 as a Senior Technology Expert and is currently in charge of

the Technology Exploration activities within the GCTIO Unit. Before joining Telefónica he spent some years

in the academic sector, dedicated to research on network services, and was appointed member of the

High-Level Expert Group on Scientific Data Infrastructures by the European Commission. Diego is currently

focused on applied research in network infrastructures, with a special emphasis on virtualization, data-driven

management, new architectures, and security. Diego chairs the ETSI ISG on Permissioned Distributed

Ledgers and the Network Operator Council ETSI ISG on Network Function Virtualization.

PANELISTS

Kevin MCDONNELL

Huawei, IrelandKevin McDonnell is a consultant research director at Huawei’s Ireland Research Centre. His recent work is

focused on intelligent automation and autonomous networks using knowledge management, intent-based

networking, and control loop automation. Kevin is co-lead for the technical architecture workstream in the

TM Forum’s Autonomous Network project and also participates in standardization activities related to

network and service automation in 3GPP, ETSI, GSMA and the Linux Foundation.

PANELISTS

Dong WANG

China Telecom, ChinaDr. Dong Wang currently works as a research engineer at China Telecom Research Institute. He also

services as an ONAP TSC member. His current researches are around the development and application of

Intent-based Networks to support the AI-based closed-loop autonomy in next generate networks.

QUESTION 1

Is the industry devaluing the IBN concept with immaturetechnology?

What are the areas of IBN still requiring research?(The industry-research paradox)

QUESTION 2

What are the real needs in standardization and open sourcefor IBN technology to thrive?

QUESTION 3

What can telco/networking learn from other domains?

QUESTION 4

Why Open Source projects keep “failing”?(repeatedly facing same hard problems requiring more thancode? – or implementation “limited” to application domain,

then done deal)

QUESTION 5

In the next 3-5 years, what are the major areas of researchand engineering to make IBN technologies real?

How should the industry collectively address them?

Thank you for attending !