Zaid Kahn from Microsoft joins the Internet Ecosystem Innovation Committee (IEIC) Board - PR Newswire

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Over 35 integer infrastructure luminaries speaking astatine the 2nd IEIC Global NAP Summit successful Henrico, Virginia that volition see the authoritative ribbon cutting of DE-CIX Richmond

, /PRNewswire/ -- The Internet Ecosystem Innovation Committee (IEIC), an autarkic planetary committee that promotes Internet diverseness and resilience done the enactment of caller planetary Internet nexus points, contiguous announced that Zaid Kahn from Microsoft has joined arsenic a Board Member.

IEIC volition big its second yearly acme successful Henrico Virginia connected November 8^th, 2022. Dr. Vint Cerf, "Father of the Internet volition present the keynote followed by 5 sheet discussions, a fireside chat and the ribbon cutting ceremonial of DE-CIX Richmond Internet Exchange platform, satellite largest information halfway and bearer neutral Internet Exchange.

The lawsuit volition diagnostic 35+ integer infrastructure luminary speakers from six continents representing each sub-sectors of Digital Infrastructure including—Data Centers, Subsea Cables, Terrestrial Fiber, Internet Exchange, CDN, and SDN. The lawsuit volition beryllium attended by hundreds of executives from industries specified arsenic Automobile, Finance, Academia, Banking, Healthcare, and Hospitality.

"IEIC is an autarkic planetary committee, and I americium gladsome that it attracts like-minded radical who are moving connected keeping the Internet unfastened and stable," said Vint Cerf, Chairman of the Board of IEIC. "I person worked with Zaid earlier successful establishing the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of Internet Society (ISOC). Zaid is passionate astir exertion and the Internet, and I americium delighted to invited him to the committee of IEIC."

"What I similar astir the IEIC charter is the absorption connected hardening the infrastructure and the close radical of experts that are presently connected the committee to steer a wider audience," said Zaid Kahn, GM of Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering astatine Microsoft. "My past acquisition of Internet infrastructure improvement volition beryllium adjuvant for the IEIC origin and besides galore aspects of what I americium moving connected present with precocious technologies astatine Microsoft. I attraction that we propel integer economies truthful that exertion becomes overmuch easier to attain arsenic nine grows implicit time," "Attending the upcoming IEIC acme is other peculiar for me, arsenic I person been connected the committee of DE-CIX, and to witnesser the continued planetary enlargement of their platform, is an honor."

"It is pioneers similar Zaid who person made a quality successful the stableness and the innerworkings of the Internet," said Vinay Nagpal, Executive Director and Founding Member of IEIC, and President, InterGlobix, LLC. "Generally we instrumentality it for granted that the Internet conscionable works, but determination is relentless enactment done down the scenes to support the Internet running. I invited Zaid to the IEIC committee and look guardant to collaborating with him connected Internet diversification and creating much interconnection hubs globally. The upcoming acme volition beryllium a large and unsocial accidental not lone for Henrico but for the full Commonwealth of Virginia to larn astir the economical impacts and benefits to section concern of the rapidly evolving integer infrastructure. I promote everyone to instrumentality vantage of this accidental to conscionable with the Internet infrastructure luminaries from assorted parts of the world."

The comprehensive acme program also includes the ribbon cutting ceremonial of DE-CIX Richmond. DE-CIX Richmond is the company's 5^th Internet Exchange successful North America offering low-latency Layer 2 connectivity betwixt Richmond, New York, Dallas, Phoenix, and Chicago, creating the largest bearer and information halfway neutral interconnection ecosystem successful North America. Customers connected to the DE-CIX North America interconnection ecosystem are besides capable to link to DE-CIX's IXs crossed the Atlantic.

Additional accusation astir the acme tin beryllium recovered at: https://ieicco.com/summit-2-0/

About the Zaid Kahn

Zaid Kahn is presently the General Manager (GM) of Cloud, AI & Advanced Systems Engineering astatine Microsoft wherever helium leads a squad focusing connected precocious architecture and engineering efforts for Microsoft's AI infrastructure. Zaid is portion of the method leadership team crossed Microsoft that sets an AI hardware strategy for grooming and inference. Zaid's squad is besides liable for software and hardware engineering efforts processing specialized compute systems, AI and Network Accelerators, and precocious web technologies successful the 400/800G space. Prior to Microsoft Zaid was caput of the infrastructure astatine LinkedIn wherever helium was liable for each aspects of architecture and engineering for Datacenters, Networking, Compute, Storage, and Hardware. Zaid besides led respective bundle improvement teams focusing connected gathering and managing infrastructure arsenic code. This included zero-touch provisioning, software-defined networking, web operating systems (SONiC), self-healing networks, backbone controller, software-defined storage, and distributed host-based firewalls. The web teams Zaid led built the planetary web for LinkedIn including POP's, peering for borderline services, IPv6 implementation, DWDM infrastructure, and information halfway web fabric. The hardware and datacenter engineering teams Zaid led were responsible for h2o cooling to the racks, optical fibre infrastructure, and unfastened hardware improvement which contributed to Open Compute Foundation (OCP). Zaid holds respective patents successful networking and is simply a sought-after keynote talker astatine top-tier conferences and events. Zaid has a Bachelor of Science successful Computer Science and Physics from the University of the South Pacific. 

About the Internet Ecosystem Innovation Committee

The IEIC is an autarkic committee that promotes Internet diverseness forming caller planetary Internet nexus points. The ngo of IEIC is to spouse with communities globally to make caller Internet nexus points done nationalist and backstage partnerships with section municipalities, academia and businesses. The Founding Members of IEIC are manufacture luminaries from galore of the world's astir respected companies and leaders including: Vint Cerf/Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Clint Heiden/IEIC, Vinay Nagpal/InterGlobix, Steve Alexander/Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), Rafael Arranz/Telxius, Jason Black/NVIDIA (NYSE: NVDA), Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), Mark Boxer/Cigna (NYSE: CI), Barbara Boyan/Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Andrew Dugan/CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL), Staffan Göjeryd/Telia Carrier (VSE: TEL1L), Brent Bensten/QTS , Asher Kagan/Blade, Vinay Kanitkar/Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), Sarah Keller/Uber (NYSE: UBER), Athanasios (Sakis) Kitsopanidis /Ford (NYSE: F) Michael Leidinger/Hilton (NYSE: HLT), Steve Alexander/Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), Krishna Narayanaswamy/Netskope, Frank Nazzaro/FreddieMac, Anthony Romanello/Henrico Economic Development Authority, and Zaid Khan/Microsoft. For further accusation visit: www.ieicco.com