APAN59

by Paresh Khatri, APAC CTO and Chief Architect, IP Network Infrastructure, Nokia (45 min)

The research community has been applying AI as a tool for scientific advancement. Along with compute and storage, networking is one of the three fundamental pillars necessary for a High-Performance AI Infrastructure. We will discuss setting up and managing High Performance Data Center or HPC clusters through a Networking lens, focusing on optimizing performances, automation and security. We will discuss architectural considerations and as well as unique ideas to provide automation and extensibility allowing you to keep pace with future technological advancements

2. Countermeasures for Research Education Networks to effectively Secure, Protect
and Mitigate from increasingly sophisticated Network Attacks
by Yasuo Kashimura, Japan Head of IP Networks for Nokia (45 min)

This session aims to be an actionable resource for security professionals, network engineers, and decision-makers who are grappling with the increasingly sophisticated nature of network infrastructure threats and specifically DDoS. We’ll go peak under the hood and look at how using AI/ML for Network-optimized DDoS Mitigation can greatly assist and ensure that your performance isn’t high-jacked for nefarious purposes and that your critical research and time sensitive experiments are protected. We’ll also touch on Quantum Safe Networking to protect your data from the risk of quantum computers coming in the near future.

Speakers Biographies

Paresh Khatri is the CTO and Chief Architect for the IP Networks Business Division for Nokia in APAC. In this role, Paresh is responsible for formulating platform and architecture strategies to meet the varied demands of enterprises, cloud and service providers in the Asia-Pacific region. He has been responsible for architectural design for the largest IP transformation projects in the region and is now working closely with our customers as they address the growing demand for scale and new services that will be enabled by the evolution to 5G/6G and increasingly AI workloads.
Paresh is a regular speaker at industry conferences in the APAC region and also actively participates in a number of telecommunications industry standards bodies.
Paresh holds a Bachelors of Electronic Systems Engineering (First Class Honors) and a Bachelor of Information Technology from the Queensland University of Technology.

Yasuo Kashimura is the Head of IP Networks for Nokia in Japan. In this role, Yasuo is responsible for IP business, strategies and technologies for Japan market.
He has 25+ years of experience in IP networking as a consulting engineer and architect to support customer’s network evolution.
Yasuo is a regular speaker at industry conferences in Japan, and received MPLS-JAPAN Award in 2022.
Kashimura holds a Bachelors of Bio Science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.