Dave Ward

Dave is the CEO of PacketFabric, which is looking to shape the future of networking with its network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform. Previously, Dave had served as Chief Architect at Cisco Systems, where he was responsible for architectural governance, definition of strategy, development of new technology and use-inspired research. Working via tight partnerships with customers, partners, developers and academia, he is also leading co-development and co-innovation initiatives. He has been the Routing Area Director at the IETF and the chair of four working groups (IS-IS, HIP, BFD and Softwires) and has also worked with the ITU-T, ONF and several Open Source consortia. Dave was also a Juniper Fellow and Chief Architect working on the operating system and next-generation routing systems.