Amar Kapadia is co-founder at Aarna Networks, an open source software company creating a platform for orchestration, lifecycle management, and automation of 5G network services and edge computing applications based on the LF Networking ONAP project.

Prior to Aarna, Amar was the NFV product marketing head at Mirantis. Before Mirantis, he was responsible for defining and launching EVault’s public cloud storage service (acquired by Seagate) based on OpenStack Swift and a variety of marketing and engineering leadership positions at Emulex, Philips, and HP. Amar is also the author of the ONAP Demystified book and holds an MS EE degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Other resources:

ONES 2020 Keynote speaker https://ones2020.sched.com/list/descriptions/type/Keynote+Sessions

ONEEF 2021 speaker: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-networking-and-edge-exec-forum/

ONAP Demystified Book: https://www.amazon.com/ONAP-Demystified-Automate-Network-Services/dp/1720879915/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=onap+demystified&qid=1623881576&sr=8-3

Understanding OPNFV Book: https://www.opnfv.org/resources/download-understanding-opnfv-ebook

Blog on “Five Private 5G Management Requirements” https://www.aarnanetworks.com/post/five-private-5g-management-requirements