Open Networking Summits

The organization sponsored a conference in June 2015 that drew 1200 attendees, attracted 38 sponsors and exhibitors, and featured several academic/research demonstrations. The conference featured 28 keynote and plenary speakers, and 80 breakout session speakers, who are thought leaders in industry and academia, and conducted five tutorial tracks. The conference furthered the organization's mission by (a) educating industry and the academic community about how SDN/NFV works and how it benefits network users, (b) disseminating information relating to key SDN/NFV developments and deployments, (c) providing a forum for high quality dialogue among industry and academic participants, and (d) facilitating the creation of an SDN/NFV community and ecosystem. All these accomplishments further ONS's exempt purpose by facilitating the development, improvement, and adoption of SDN/NFV, which will result in more programmable, simpler, more adaptable, less expensive, and less proprietary computer networks, and ultimately in a more open accessible Internet. A subsequent conference was held in March 2016 and additional conferences will be held in the future.