Technical Advisory Council (TAC)

Erik is a member of the LF Edge Technical Advisory Committe, a member of the Internet Architecture Board, and the Chief Architect at ZEDEDA. He has designed and implemented substantial parts of the EVE implementation in LF Edge. He is an expert on architecting and implementing secure large scale software systems, with a deep understanding of the implications of the Internet on system design. Prior to joining ZEDEDA he was developing software at Arista Networks, architecting the evolution of core software as a Cisco Distinguished Engineer, and earlier had a long and varied career as a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. Erik has been involved in standardization in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) since the very early days of IPv6 and continues to drive IoT-related issues in the IETF and IAB. Erik holds over 29 US parents, and has a Technical Licentiate degree from Uppsala University and a MS from Stanford University.

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.

Toshimichi Fukuda is a Senior Architect at Fujitsu.

With an eye towards solving future problems that are hidden in the implications of today’s investments, Brad leads a strategic architecture team in Intel’s Retail, Banking, Hospitality and Education Division. In particular Brad and the team focus on edge compute use cases, emerging technologies and the new experiences defining the next generation of customer interactions.

Brad also chairs the Vertical Solutions Working Group within EdgeX Foundry, an IOT middleware platform, in order to improve market adoption with particular verticals.

Over 22 years at Intel Brad has engineering software for manufacturing, print imaging, consumer electronics and retail security applications. He has spent the last ten years in retail markets, working with vendors, venture capital backed startups, and internal collaborators. Brad has 14 patents in these areas.

AI Software Engineer at Intel

HUAWEI ICT Infrastructure Open source Software Industry Development Expert

Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat