Francois-Frederic is an entrepreneur with over 35 years of experience in technical, sales and marketing positions. Prior to joining Linaro, Francois-Frederic was VP Business Development at 6WIND where he has been instrumental in creating success for SDN and NFV offerings. Prior to that, he has been CTO and co-founder of Vedicis where he led architecture and development teams, and previously he held several technical and marketing functions at Olivetti, Unisys, Access360, Tempoline, Versada Networks, NetSecureOne and Radware. Francois-Frederic holds a degree in computing science from Universite de Paris VII. He is the author of seven granted patents.

Edge Computing ecosystem requires standardized firmware, a common device identity and device onboarding across processor architectures (Arm, Intel, Power, RiscV) and across processors. Those requirements are leveraging existing standards but are not merely a downsize of cloud technologies and best practices. The talk will present the use cases, the standardization efforts and open source implementation status on those topics.