Keynote: The Challenge and Opportunity to Build a Transparent Network - Yiqun Cai, Vice President, Alibaba Group Today’s applications running in massive scale data centers demand the underlying networks to be not only fast and resilient but also transparent. The challenges we face test the principles we have followed to build the networks in the past. Scale, programmability, and interoperability are the ever-present and yet increasingly harder problems to deal with. But this is also an opportunity to create a new generation of networking infrastructure towards a better tomorrow. About Yiqun Cai Yiqun Cai is a Vice President at Alibaba Group. He is responsible for the development and operation of the global networking platform and infrastructures. Before joining Alibaba Group, he was a Microsoft Partner Engineer in Windows Azure networking team, and prior to that, a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems. He co-authored multiple Internet RFCs and holds many US patents in the area of computer networking. He graduated with a MSc degree from the University of Alberta in Canada and BSc degree from Fudan University in Shanghai.
