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.

Agenda

Morning Talks

Start	Session	Session
8:00	Registration & Light Breakfast Note: The building does not open until 8am.
8:20	Welcome: Mythil Raman (Sr. Director, Google)
	Room 1	Room 2
8:30	SONiC Mainline Branch Stability - Challenges and Potential Solutions Kartik Chandran (Arista), Bhagat Janarthanan (Google)	Enhancing Network Scalability, Flexibility and Reliability: Decoupling RIB and FIB in SONiC Patrice Brissette (Cisco), Eddie Ruan (Alibaba)
8:50	Using BTRFS and its features for a compact and resilient SONiC image Saikrishna Arcot (Microsoft), Vaibhav Hemant Dixit (Microsoft)	Leveraging SONiC for real-time adaptive routing in AI-centric Leaf-Spine Fabrics Jeff Chen (Marvell), Jithender Reddy (Marvell)
9:10	Modernizing SONiC Builds to improve performance and reliability Brian O'Connor (Google)	Live patching service via LibCare on white box devices Kang Jiang (Alibaba)
9:30	Break
9:45	SONiC-on-Bare Metal: How Lightweight Can SONiC Be While Still Remaining SONiC? Leonid Khedyk (PLVision), Taras Chornyi (PLVision)	SONiC gNOI: Advancing Standardized- API-Driven Operations for Open Networking Neha Das (Google), Dawei Huang (Microsoft)
10:05	Aktive: KNE multi-node virtual testbeds Sonika Jindal (Google), Marcus Hines (Google)	Network impact for Distributed Inferencing Udhaya chandran Shanmugam (Dell)
10:25	High-fidelity simulation of deployed DCI routers based on Cisco NGDP Shenglin Zhu (Alibaba), Feng Xue (Cisco)	HFT: High frequency telemetry for SONiC Ze Gan (Microsoft), Janet Cui (Microsoft)
10:45	In-Service SONiC Upgrade Manas Kumar Mandal (Cisco), Jihong LI (Cisco)	Standardizing Network Observability: Mirror-on-Drop with Dropmon Ravindranath C Kanakarajan (Marvell), Madhu Paluru (Aviz Networks)
11:05	Break
11:20	Panel: SONiC TSC
12:00	Lunch

Afternoon Working Group Meetings

Room	1pm Session	2pm Session
Room 2	Test Kartik Chandran (Arista)	Virtual Data Plane (VDP) Murali Venkat (Cisco), Max Xiao (Arista)
Room 3	Layer-1 Bobby McGonigle (Nexthop AI)	SmartSwitch Riff Jiang (Microsoft)
Room 4	Routing Patrice Brissette (Cisco), Eddie Ruan (Alibaba)	Unified Management Framework (UMF) Shashank Neelam (Google)
Room 5	Platform OS Saikrishna Arcot (Microsoft), Lotus Fenn (Nexthop AI)	Chassis Eswaran Baskaran (Nexthop AI)

The Extended SONiC Workshop ends at 3pm.