Governing Board

Hakan currently serves as a Product Strategy and Operations Manager at IBM’s Edge Computing and SDN business unit. His focus areas are Edge computing, Hybrid Multi-Cloud Networking and applying AI/ML to multi-cloud operations. He works closely with IBM technical leadership on the Open Horizon project of LF Edge. Previously, he was a lead consultant at IBM Corporate Strategy team.

Prior to IBM, Hakan held various technology roles in Networking and Telco industry, including Cisco Systems, Airvana Networks, Sycamore Networks and NextWave Wireless.

Hakan holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Middle East Technical University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, and an MBA degree from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Padraig Stapleton is the SVP and Chief Product Officer at ZEDEDA. An experienced leader with a track record of developing innovative solutions leveraging AI/ML, big data, and cloud, Padraig has a proven track record of building and leading global engineering teams at both public and pre-IPO companies, and has been part of several IPOs as well as acquisitions. Before joining ZEDEDA, he was the Chief of Engineering at Mobileum, incubated and grew the Big Data Engineering and DevOps teams at AT&T, and has held senior leadership and engineering roles at companies like Argyle Data (acquired by Mavenir), Telephia (acquired by The Nielsen Company) InterWAVE Communications (acquired by Alvarion Technologies), and Lucent.

Joe is an Edge Computing and Technology Strategist at IBM.

Keesang Song is located in the Bay Area, working at AMD Santa Clara HQ, leading Telco Ecosystem SW Engineering projects for Enabling and Optimization.

Yuji is the Head of Strategy Office in Fujitsu Ltd. He is currently responsible for 6G infrastructure strategy and community planning.  He has worked various fields such as cloud services development, data analytics services, and digital marketing platform services and carrier’s network development both for wireline and wireless. He holds a master’s degree in information electronics and resides in Kawasaki-city, Japan.

Corporate Vice President at Intel

HUAWEI ICT Infrastructure Open source Software Industry Development Expert

Jason Shepherd is widely-recognized as a thought leader in edge computing and IoT, having spent a third of his twenty-five year career in the space. He has held various executive leadership roles spanning R&D to sales and commercialization, delivering edge and IoT solutions to customers in verticals such as manufacturing, energy, smart buildings, retail and transportation. Prior to Atym, Jason was VP of Ecosystem at the edge orchestration company ZEDEDA and he previously served as CTO for Dell Technologies’ Edge and IoT business. He has worked closely with the Linux Foundation for close to ten years and has a strong track record of fostering standards and open source communities. He holds over 40 granted and pending US patents.

Jefro manages Red Hat’s open source engagements covering edge, automotive, telco, and emerging hardware architectures. He has been a contributor, manager, and instigator for FOSS projects dating back to the early 1990s.

Director, AI & High‑Performance Computing Solutions at Supermicro