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October 15, 2026 | San Jose, CA.
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Thursday, October 15
 

8:30am PDT

Welcome & Opening Remarks - Venkat Pullela, CTO of Networking, Keysight Technologies
Thursday October 15, 2026 8:30am - 8:45am PDT
Bowsers Institute Room

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Venkat Pullela

CTO, Networking, Keysight Technologies

Thursday October 15, 2026 8:30am - 8:45am PDT
Bowsers Institute Room
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8:45am PDT

From Factory State To Platform Handoff: Automating DPU Onboarding With SZTP - Anssi Söderena, Fusionlayer, Inc
Thursday October 15, 2026 8:45am - 9:10am PDT
Bowsers Institute Room
A DPU is not ready for use simply because it has booted or received an IP address. It still needs a trusted identity, compatible software, network configuration, credentials, and evidence that it has reached the expected state. This session presents an OPI Blueprint that uses FusionLayer’s RFC 8572 sZTP server and client to prepare an NVIDIA BlueField-3 from a factory-default or reinitialized...
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Anssi Söderena

Senior Software Developer, Fusionlayer, Inc
Anssi Söderena is a Senior Software Developer at FusionLayer Group, working on infrastructure automation and software development. His recent work includes Secure Zero Touch Provisioning and the open source fl-sztp client. He has hands-on experience with Linux infrastructure, server... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 8:45am - 9:10am PDT
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9:15am PDT

Reimagining DPUs for Storage Control and End-to-End Confidential AI - Jitendra Singh & Anshuman Ghosh, Microsoft
Thursday October 15, 2026 9:15am - 9:40am PDT
Bowsers Institute Room
AI infrastructure is rapidly exposing new limitations in traditional cloud architectures. As models scale, the challenge is no longer limited to computation. Model checkpoints, embeddings, vector indexes, prompts, KV caches, and inference data must move efficiently and securely across storage, networks, processors, and accelerators. Historically, DPUs have been used to offload networking,...
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Jitendra Singh

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
Jitendra Singh is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft India with 10+ years of experience, following his tenure at IBM R&D India Software Labs. He specializes in developing cutting-edge solutions for hybrid, multicloud, storage, and edge deployments, including expertise in data... Read More →
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Anshuman Ghosh

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Thursday October 15, 2026 9:15am - 9:40am PDT
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  Session Presentation

9:45am PDT

Keep the SDK on the Card: Programming SONiC DASH Through OPI - Sridhar Rao, The Linux Foundation & Mounire El Houmaidi
Thursday October 15, 2026 9:45am - 10:10am PDT
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SONiC DASH programs tenant overlay objects — ENI, VNET, routes, ACL — through the SAI C ABI that dashorch already uses. On a DPU/IPU those objects must land in hardware tables on the card, not in a software switch on the host. The default path today is a vendor SAI library loaded into syncd. That library talks a proprietary SDK from the host. The SONiC image, the SAI .so, and the DPU firmware...
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Sridhar Rao

Senior Architect, The Linux Foundation
Sridhar received his Ph.D degree in computer science from National University of Singapore, in 2007. He has worked as Post-doctoral fellow at Microsoft Innovation Center, Politecnico Di Torino, Turin, Italy, senior researcher with NEC Technologies, as a research fellow at Institute... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 9:45am - 10:10am PDT
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  Session Presentation

10:15am PDT

Extending Host Storage to DPUs: Lessons in Architecture, Identity, and Fleet Management - Yash Bhatnagar & Tom Leibu IL, NVIDIA
Thursday October 15, 2026 10:15am - 10:40am PDT
Bowsers Institute Room
NVMesh is an open source distributed storage system that pools NVMe drives across many servers into one shared, high-performance pool. It was originally designed as a Linux kernel module - and while kernel mode is highly performant, what pulled us to the DPU was offloading storage software off the host, isolating it in its own secure domain, and decoupling it from whatever the host happens to be...
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Yash Bhatnagar

Senior Software Engineer, NVIDIA
Yash is working with Nvidia as Senior Software Engineer, and has 10 years of industrial experience with cloud architectures and micro-service development across Google & VMware.

He has been a speaker at several conferences such as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and Open Source Summit, w

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Tom Leibu IL

Team Leader, NVIDIA
Tom leads the NVMesh Management team at NVIDIA, building the control interface for software-defined block storage. A self-taught developer since his teenage years, he has worked in software engineering since age 21. He enjoys solving complex technical problems and turning them into... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 10:15am - 10:40am PDT
Bowsers Institute Room
  Session Presentation

10:40am PDT

Break
Thursday October 15, 2026 10:40am - 11:10am PDT
Foyer

Thursday October 15, 2026 10:40am - 11:10am PDT
Foyer
  Breaks

11:10am PDT

How Open Hardware Access Builds the Next Generation of Infrastructure Engineers - Sam Dasilva, Red Hat
Thursday October 15, 2026 11:10am - 11:35am PDT
Bowsers Institute Room
DPUs and SuperNICs sit at the center of AI factories, HPC and hyperscaler networking, but the hardware is still mostly locked behind vendor employment. Open-source software solved contributor access decades ago. Hardware has not. That leaves the infrastructure-acceleration contributor pipeline artificially narrow when the industry needs it wide. This talk follows one path through OPI's open...
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Sam Dasilva

Associate Software Engineer, Red Hat
Sam Dasilva is an Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat focused on high-performance infrastructure for AI, HPC, and telecommunications workloads on OpenShift. His work enables GPU-to-GPU communication across AI factory environments, spanning NVIDIA ConnectX-8 and BlueField-3 DPUs... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 11:10am - 11:35am PDT
Bowsers Institute Room
  Session Presentation

11:40am PDT

Network Engine's Hardware Matrix Problem, and Why DPUs Solve What NICs Can't - Josh Brooks, WorldTech IT/Network Engine
Thursday October 15, 2026 11:40am - 12:05pm PDT
Bowsers Institute Room
WorldTech IT builds Network Engine, a purpose-built hypervisor for network virtual appliances, on an open-source foundation. Today we don't ship with OVS. Our supported NICs span Intel E823 and X710, but only E823 supports switchdev offload, so there's no consistent path across the matrix. OVS-DPDK covers X710, but most of our NVAs already run their own DPDK fast path, so stacking DPDK in the host...
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Josh Brooks

Chief Solutions Architect, WorldTech IT
Josh Brooks is Chief Solutions Architect & Distinguished Technologist at WorldTech IT, where he owns revenue strategy and sets technical direction and product strategy for Network Engine, WorldTech IT's hypervisor platform for network virtual appliances. As a Governing Board member... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 11:40am - 12:05pm PDT
Bowsers Institute Room
  Session Presentation

12:10pm PDT

Demonstrating Open DSE Through Vendor-Neutral OPI Control - Sridhar Rao, The Linux Foundation & Serey Kong, Intel Corporation
Thursday October 15, 2026 12:10pm - 12:35pm PDT
Bowsers Institute Room
DPUs and IPUs can move networking, security, storage, telemetry, and other infrastructure services away from host CPUs. The operational challenge is that different devices expose different discovery, lifecycle, endpoint, forwarding, and evidence models. This session introduces Open DSE (open variant of vSphere's DSE), a demo-ready open-source framework for expressing, executing, and validating...
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Sridhar Rao

Senior Architect, The Linux Foundation
Sridhar received his Ph.D degree in computer science from National University of Singapore, in 2007. He has worked as Post-doctoral fellow at Microsoft Innovation Center, Politecnico Di Torino, Turin, Italy, senior researcher with NEC Technologies, as a research fellow at Institute... Read More →
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Serey Kong

Tech Lead - Driver Architect, Intel Corporation
Serey is a technology professional specializing in networking, virtualization, and data center infrastructure. With more than 15 years of industry experience, he has worked on Ethernet, VMware ESXi, SmartNIC, DPU/IPU, and infrastructure acceleration technologies. He is passionate... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 12:10pm - 12:35pm PDT
Bowsers Institute Room
  Session Presentation

1:15pm PDT

Panel Session To Be Announced
Thursday October 15, 2026 1:15pm - 2:00pm PDT
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Thursday October 15, 2026 1:15pm - 2:00pm PDT
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2:00pm PDT

Lunch
Thursday October 15, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Foyer

Thursday October 15, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
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