{"id":206,"date":"2024-05-28T01:36:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T01:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ieee-ras.conferences.computer.org\/2024\/?page_id=206"},"modified":"2024-05-28T01:38:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T01:38:18","slug":"keynote_george_tchaparian_bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ieee-ras.conferences.computer.org\/2024\/keynote_george_tchaparian_bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote_George_Tchaparian_Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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George Tchaparian is a seasoned technology executive with more than 30 years of industry experience in all corporate levels and functions.\u00a0He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), a non-profit consortium initiated in 2011 with the\u00a0mission to apply the benefits of\u00a0Hyperscale open-source innovations to meet the market and seed the IT Ecosystem industry increased transformation pace in, near and around the data center. OCP\u2019s strategies and the collaboration model are being\u00a0applied beyond the data center, helping to advance the telecom, enterprise industries & EDGE infrastructure.<\/p>

Prior to OCP, George was the longstanding President and CEO of Edgecore Networks Corporation, where he transformed the firm from a small, vertically integrated business into the industry\u2019s open networking leader and globally recognized brand. He led the business end-to-end into a multi-million-dollar portfolio of Hyperscale data centers, telecom\/managed service providers, and enterprise wired and wireless products. Within several worldwide open communities, George established strategic partnerships and Edgecore’s software strategy, including forming high-caliber software R&D engineering teams to develop ecSONiC (hardened and supported SONiC) open-source NOS and value-added software applications, APIs, and custom software distributions. \u00a0George also served as the General Manger for ALL Accton Group (Accton Technologies and Edgecore Networks Corporation), focusing on transformative next generation strategies for the group\u2019s Open Disaggregated Networking Business.<\/p>

Prior to leading Edgecore Networks, George served as senior vice president of worldwide research & development (R&D) for Accton Technology Corporation. Under his governance and tenure, Accton Group established a leadership position in the Open Networking industry, developing many OCP, Telecom Infra Project (TIP) first-to-market networking products and securing the top position for the largest Open Hardware portfolio offering of OCP-certified products. George also established the largest open ecosystem in the industry – Trusted Partnerships – with the leading Hyperscalers, network operators, both open source and open commercial software start-ups\/, silicon leader, visionaries, and tier one OEMs.<\/p>

George also held senior management positions at Hewlett\u2013Packard Corporation (HP) for more than 27 years, leading HP R&D, manufacturing, and business development teams, including establishing HP overseas R&D design and business\/sales centers.<\/p>

In 2018, George was recognized as one of “The World’s First Top 50 Edge Computing Influencers” (#EDGE50) and in 2019, one of “The World’s Most Influential Data Economy Leaders” (#POWER200).\u00a0

George holds an M.B.A. in Management of Technology from Lehigh University, where he also completed the HP- sponsored Executive \/ GM Leadership two-year program.<\/p>

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