Akraino’s Debut at China Mobile’s “Innovation 2020 Cloud Technology Week”
Written by Tina Tsou, Co-Chair of the Akraino TSC, and Su Gu, Senior Researcher with China Mobile
On June 17, China Mobile Science and Technology Association held the “Innovation 2020 Cloud Technology Week” forum, which officially opened a series of cloud related activities that included product launches, lectures, networking opportunities and more. For example, there was an announcement of “NEST+” plan geared for external industrial ecological cooperation. The event theme was innovation and celebrated the collaboration, openness, and win-win of technology companies both big and small.
The event was attended and viewed by more than 734,000 people ranging from academicians, scholars, thought leaders and industry experts. There was a lot of buzz around the 5G development and collaboration in the innovation, 6G frontier, artificial intelligence, Internet of Vehicles, Internet of Things, and other fields.
As an important part of this ecosystem, LF Edge was represented at this event through project leaders and members. LF Edge’s Tina Tsou, Co-Chair of the Akraino TSC and Enterprise Architect at Arm, was on-hand to host a workshop with China Mobile Technology (USA) about the trend of edge computing and LF Edge’s Akraino Edge Stack project.
Other member speakers include Dr Oleg Berzin, Senior Director at Equinix, Jason Shepherd, LF Edge Governing Board member, Project EVE leader and Vice President at Zededa and Tapio Tallgren, a member of the LF Edge Technical Advisory Council and Lead SW Architect at Nokia, to introduce their contributes to Akraino and share their views on MEC.
Joe Ward, CEO at EdgeVideo, Arif Khan,CEO at ParserLabs and China Mobile’s Su Gu, Senior Researcher, and Dr Jian Li also shared their views on Telco MEC and how to interwork with public clouds on MEC.
The “Innovation 2020 Cloud Technology Week” was a great success. To learn more about Akraino Edge Stack, click here.
