Sanjay Aiyagari is a Principal Architect at Red Hat working with service providers in their advanced technology initiatives as they embrace the intelligent networks of 5G.  Prior to Red Hat, he was head of product management and strategy at Siaras, an OpenStack startup.  He spent six years at VMware, where he advised the world’s largest telcos and NEPs in virtualizing their critical real-time network functions.  Previously, he led key engineering projects in Cisco's access routing, application delivery, and network management products, and was one of the earliest key contributors to the OASIS AMQP specification, which is widely used in cloud management systems today. He is currently working on improving the automation of network management systems by using AI/ML techniques, and is a contributor to the ENI working group of ETSI as well as the IOWN Global Forum.