Dr. Bithika Khargharia is a principal solutions architect and intrapreneur at Extreme Networks as well as director of product and community management at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). At Extreme Networks, she brings disruptive technologies to market and is spearheading the innovation charter via the US Ignite SDN Innovation Challenge. At ONF, Dr. Khargharia drives the open SDN movement based on real-world market needs through the organization’s open source software development community and code repository website, OpenSourceSDN.org. Dr. Khargharia has 20+ years of technology research and development experience spanning systems engineering. She has most recently spoken at events including Interop Las Vegas 2016, NFV World Congress 2016, and OpenDaylight Summit 2015.