Senior technical leader with more than 25 years of experience in various leadership positions. Proven ability to manage the most challenging digital transformation programs. Creating relationships as a trusted consultant to CXO level. In-depth knowledge of technology and DevOps processes. Always looking for a high impact technical role to build winning teams and addressing technical challenges. Currently serving as the TSC Chair.

im has over 40 years of experience in the computing and communications industries. Throughout his career at Bell Labs, AT&T, Lucent, Intel, and Carnegie Mellon University, he has focused on the commercialization of emerging technologies at the intersection of media processing, networking, human interaction, and global distributed computing. At the CMU Living Edge Lab, he works with the world’s leading experts to explore the frontiers of edge computing. He loves to find real and valuable applications for new technologies – starting with his early work at Bell Labs in speech technologies through intelligent network services, software defined networks, server virtualization, cloud computing, video and artificial intelligence to his current work in edge computing and software defined networking. While keeping his technology edge, he has led organizations from small R&D and product management teams to entire business units and has a passion for applying systems engineering and business strategy to taking technologies across the chasm. He holds engineering and business degrees from the University of Michigan and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

I'm a technologist working on high-performance enterprise and cloud infrastructure projects with an emphasis on analytics and decetralization.  (Som Sikdar | LinkedIn)

• Founded four start-ups with 20 years of experience in start-up boards and management team and two public offerings
• Built over a dozen product delivery team from scratch with excellent first time and on-time success record
• Technology standard-setting body participation of 15+ years (IEEE-802 LAN/MAN Ethernet and Token-ring committees, ANSI T1)
• 30 patents in various tech fields of data center switching, routing, flash memory and databases
  

Senior technical leader with more than 25 years of experience in various leadership positions. Lead the largest commercial Magma deployment in US and the replacement of the existing Tier 1 core. Proven ability to manage the most challenging digital transformation programs. Creating relationships as a trusted consultant to CXO level. In-depth knowledge of technology and DevOps processes. Always looking for a high impact technical role to build winning teams and addressing technical challenges.