John Strassner, Motorola Fellow and Vice President, Autonomic Networking and Communications, Motorola Research Labs

John Strassner is a Motorola Fellow and Vice President, directing autonomic networking and communications at Motorola Research Labs. He is also responsible for directing policy management and knowledge engineering. Previously, John was the Chief Strategy Officer for Intelliden and a Cisco Fellow. John invented DEN (Directory Enabled Networks) and DEN-ng as a new paradigm for managing and provisioning networks and networked applications. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Autonomic Communications Forum. He also has authored two books, Directory Enabled Networks and Policy Based Network Management, has contributed chapters for three other books, and has over 160 refereed conference and journal publications. John is a TMF Distinguished Fellow, a member of the TMF Advisory Board, and a member of the Industry Advisory Board of the University of California, Davis. He is also an associate professor for the Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland.