The 2nd Annual SDN and Virtualization Summit will take place in the beautiful city of Prague from 30.09.2013 to 02.10.2013.
The conference is the flagship event in Europe for Operators looking into SDN and network virtualization, as well as the essential meeting place for telco network professionals.

The agenda includes:

∙    Leveraging Cloud to benefit Virtualization
∙    Network Functions Virtualisation
∙    Securing the Software Defined Network
∙    A review of OpenFlow & additional SDN protocols
∙    SDN investment opportunities 
∙    The business factors driving SDN & NFV
∙    A revolution at the Network Edge & the Data Centre
∙    SDN in the Optical Network
∙    Advanced Network Management with SDN

The speakers are:

∙    Jeff Barr, Chief Web Services Evangelist, Amazon Web Services
∙    Andy Reid, Chief Network Services Architect, British Telecom
∙    Shahar Steiff, AVP Business Operations, PCCW Global
∙    Axel Clauberg, VP - Aggregation, Transport & IP, Deutsche Telekom
∙    Ery Punta, AVP Business Innovation, Telekomunikasi Indonesia
∙    Victor Mendoza-Grado, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, Verizon
∙    Mirko Voltolini, Director - Design & Architecture, Colt Technology Services
∙    Igor Marty, Chief Systems Network Engineer, IBM
∙    Hans-Martin Foisel, Head of Hybrid Network Technology / Carrier Working Group Chair, Deutsche Telekom / OIF
∙    Ian Hood, Business & Technology Architecture, Cisco
∙    Manish Singh, CTO, Radisys
∙    Mitch Auster, Senior Director - Marketing Development, Ciena
∙    Wim Hendrickx, Director of Solutions & Consulting - IP Division, Alcatel-Lucent
∙    Thomas Rambold, CEO, DessCon