Full Name

Mr Venkat Pullela

Job Title

CTO, AI Infrastructure

Company

Keysight

Speaker Bio

Venkat Pullela is currently the CTO, AI Infrastructure at Keysight, responsible for Strategy and Emerging Technologies. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) at Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) and the Chair of the Governing Board at Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI), a Linux Foundation project. He was previously Sr. Technical Director at Broadcom developing programmable switching technologies like Trident 4, NPL, P4. Earlier he built 8 generations of switching engines for Cat6K switches at Cisco, as a Sr. Director, Engineering. He has been an invited speaker at industry and academic conferences like P4, ONF Connect, OCP, Supercomputing, Linux Foundation and SIGCOMM. He holds 25+ patents. He received the first Pioneer in Technology award from Cisco; Distinguished Alumni award from NIT Warangal. He earned a BS in ECE from NIT Warangal, an MS in CS from IIT, Kanpur and MBA from ISB, India.