Elected Officers

Starlord is the founder of Zilliz, an open source software company with a mission to reinvent data science. He has more than 20 years of experience in database, distributed system, and AI. Before Zilliz, he worked many years at Oracle headquarters, developing the Oracle 12c cloud database system.

He received a master’s degree in computer science from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a bachelor’s degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Since November 2018, Dr Jamil Chawki is Founder and CEO of Internal Start-up Orange AI Marketplace. He is in charge of the development of Artificial Intelligence ecosystem fitting the needs of the enterprise’ businesses.

From 2008 to 2018, as a Director of IT & Network Standards and Open Source, Jamil leads cloud computing, network virtualisation and Artificial Intelligence activities at Orange Labs. Jamil was active in the governance of several standard organisations and open source projects:

• Chairman of the Outreach committee of Linux Foundation Deep Learning project
• Technical Steering Committee member of Linux Foundation Networking for Network
  Automation project (ONAP)
• Advisory Group member of the SDN Controller project (Opendaylight)
• Board member of the NFV Infrastructure project (OPNFV)
• Chairman of the cloud computing working party in ITU-T
• Convener of the collaborative team between ITU-T Future Networks Study Group and
  ISO/IEC JTC1 on cloud computing vocabulary and architecture

Before this position, Jamil was a director of Enterprise 2.0 research program working on Cloud Computing marketplace architecture for France Telecom. In 2004 he was in charge of the first Fibre To The Home ‘FTTH’ Triple Play pilot project for Jordan Telecom.

From 2000 to 2002, Jamil was Chairman and CEO of ‘Ogero Telecom’ fixed network telecom operator in Lebanon (2700 employees). His main realisations:

• Restructuring Information System Customer care and Online billing system
• Supervising the implementation of the first Gigabit Data network in the Middle East
  region for ADSL and internet connectivity
• Prior to 2000 Jamil worked for 10 years as an R&D engineer and manager in the field of optical
  and IP transport networks at France Telecom. He published numerous technical IEEE/IET papers
  and holds 20 patents

Jim Spohrer directs IBM’s open source Artificial Intelligence developer ecosystem effort. He led IBM Global University Programs, co-founded IBM Almaden Service Research, and was CTO IBM Venture Capital Relations Group.

After his MIT BS in Physics, he developed speech recognition systems at Verbex (Exxon) before receiving his Yale PhD in Computer Science/AI. In the 1990’s, he attained Apple Computers’ Distinguished Engineer Scientist and Technologist role for next generation learning platforms. With over ninety publications and nine patents, he received the Gummesson Service Research award, Vargo and Lusch Service-Dominant Logic award, Daniel Berg Service Systems award, and a PICMET Fellow for advancing service science.

Open source enthusiast and Head of Open Source Initiatives in Nokia, Jonne serves as a board member of Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) and Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP). Prior to Nokia, he worked in different positions with Nokia: Nokia Siemens Networks, Renesas Mobile, and Broadcom and has an extensive history in telecommunications ranging over 15 years.