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Extended SONiC Workshop 2025
On October 17, 2025, we invite you to Google's MP3 Building in Sunnyvale, CA, for a full day dedicated to innovation and collaboration. Pre-registration is required.
Morning Program: Kickstart your day with their insightful submitted talks from industry leaders and SONiC experts that will inspire and educate you. The program includes several tracks covering Developer Experience, Virtual Data Plane (VDP), Telemetry, Platform, and Routing.
Afternoon Breakout Sessions: Engage in stimulating in-person working group sessions designed to foster collaboration and innovation among peers. Many working groups are planning to host a meeting.
This workshop is perfectly timed with the OCP Global Summit earlier in the week, ensuring a robust mix of attendees from across the globe. It’s a prime chance to expand your network and dive deep into SONiC’s future.
Update 10/14/2025: Please note that we made significant revisions to the preliminary agenda to accommodate a larger than expected number of attendees.
Start | Talk Title and Speakers |
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8:00am |
Registration & Light Breakfast Note: The building does not open until 8am. |
8:30am |
Welcome Mythil Raman (Sr. Director, Google) |
8:40am |
SONiC Mainline Branch Stability - Challenges and Potential Solutions Kartik Chandran (Arista), Bhagat Janarthanan (Google) |
9:00am |
Modernizing SONiC Builds to improve performance and reliability Brian O'Connor (Google) |
9:20am |
Leveraging SONiC for real-time adaptive routing in AI-centric Leaf-Spine Fabrics Jeff Chen (Marvell), Jithender Reddy (Marvell) |
9:40am |
Enhancing Network Scalability, Flexibility and Reliability: Decoupling RIB and FIB in SONiC Patrice Brissette (Cisco), Eddie Ruan (Alibaba) |
10:00am | Break |
10:20am |
High-fidelity simulation of deployed DCI routers based on Cisco NGDP Shenglin Zhu (Alibaba), Feng Xue (Cisco) |
10:40am |
Aktive: KNE multi-node virtual testbeds Sonika Jindal (Google), Marcus Hines (Google) |
11:00am |
SONiC gNOI: Advancing Standardized- API-Driven Operations for Open Networking Neha Das (Google), Dawei Huang (Microsoft) |
11:20am |
HFT: High frequency telemetry for SONiC Ze Gan (Microsoft), Janet Cui (Microsoft) |
11:40am |
Standardizing Network Observability: Mirror-on-Drop with Dropmon Ravindranath C Kanakarajan (Marvell), Madhu Paluru (Aviz Networks) |
12:00am | Lunch |
12:50am |
SONiC-on-Bare Metal: How Lightweight Can SONiC Be While Still Remaining SONiC? Leonid Khedyk (PLVision), Taras Chornyi (PLVision) |
1:10pm |
Using BTRFS and its features for a compact and resilient SONiC image Saikrishna Arcot (Microsoft), Vaibhav Hemant Dixit (Microsoft) |
1:30pm |
In-Service SONiC Upgrade Manas Kumar Mandal (Cisco), Jihong LI (Cisco) |
1:50pm |
Live patching service via LibCare on white box devices Kang Jiang (Alibaba) |
2:10pm |
Closing Ming Tag (Director, Google) |
2:20pm | Break |
2:30pm | Working Group Meetings: Session 1 |
3:00pm | Working Group Meetings: Session 2 |
The Extended SONiC Workshop ends at 3:30pm.
Room | Session 1 - 2:30pm | Session 2 - 3pm |
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Room 1 |
Test Kartik Chandran (Arista) |
Virtual Data Plane (VDP) & SmartSwitch Murali Venkat (Cisco), Max Xiao (Arista), Riff Jiang (Microsoft) |
Room 2 |
Layer-1 Bobby McGonigle (Nexthop AI) |
Routing Patrice Brissette (Cisco), Eddie Ruan (Alibaba) |
Room 3 |
Platform OS Saikrishna Arcot (Microsoft), Lotus Fenn (Nexthop AI) |
Chassis Eswaran Baskaran (Nexthop AI) |
Room 4 |
Unified Management Framework (UMF) Shashank Neelam (Google) |
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