Speaker

Sanjay Aiyagari is a Chief Architect in Red Hat’s Telco CTO Office working with service providers in their advanced technology initiatives including AI/ML and edge computing. With a long background in networking (Cisco) and virtualization (VMware), at Red Hat he is now helping enterprises use these capabilities to build out secure, decentralized data architectures to help customers escape lock-in. He is actively involved in ECMA TC 56 which develops NLIP to allow AI agents to work across all LLMs, and in O-RAN nGRG which is bringing AI capabilities to 6G networks.

Prior to Red Hat, he ran product management and strategy at Siaras, a startup and pioneer in the multicloud networking space. Before that, he spent six years at VMware, where he advised the world’s largest telcos in virtualizing their critical real-time network functions. Beyond typical product delivery roles at Cisco, he also contributed as one of the earliest key members to the OASIS AMQP specification, which is widely used in cloud management, financial trading, transportation and military systems today. Beyond ECMA and O-RAN, he has also contributed to numerous other industry groups, including OASIS, ETSI ENI, IOWN Global Forum, and the Enterprise Neurosystem's Secure Connectivity working group, as well as contributing to inputs for the White House's National AI Research Resource and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Technology Executive Committee.

Mr. Aiyagari has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MS in Computer Science from Columbia University.