San Francisco – November 06, 2026 -- Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) has named six keynote speakers for ONE Summit Japan 2026, from SoftBank, NTT, NGMN Alliance, AI-RAN Alliance, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Linux Foundation. The event runs Dec. 10-11 in Tokyo alongside Open Source Summit Japan.
Operators, alliances and the Pentagon fill the keynote stage
The lineup includes Ryuji Wakikawa, head of the Research Institute of Advanced Technology at SoftBank, and Masahisa Kawashima, IOWN technology director at NTT. Marlan Macklin, deputy principal director for FutureG in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, will also speak. Anita Döhler, CEO of NGMN Alliance, and Alex Choi, executive director of AI-RAN Alliance, complete the external speakers. Arpit Joshipura, general manager of Networking, Edge & IoT at the Linux Foundation, will also present.
Joshipura called the summit "the only neutral, global, open networking event" of the past decade and said the next generation will put AI at the center of all discussions.
Breakout sessions cover agentic AI, AI-RAN and edge AI
The community-selected breakouts address four areas: agentic AI and autonomous network operations; 6G, AI-RAN and open source RAN; edge AI and digital twins; and cloud-native infrastructure. Sessions also cover the open source projects OCUDU, CAMARA, SONiC and StratoWeave.
LFN member sessions include:
- Huawei's Hui Deng and Wenhai Li on AI-native network architecture across the edge-to-core continuum
- Infosys' Sreekanth Sasidharan and Ullas Krishnan on agentic AI orchestration in autonomous networks
- Red Hat's Hidetsugu Sugiyama on an AI-RAN platform for ISAC
- Nokia's Gergely Csatari and Ericsson Software Technology's Liam Fallon on the Config as Data approach
- Deutsche Telekom's Ian Farrer on closed-loop automation for transport networks with StratoWeave
Dedicated SONiC, RAN and OpenAN workshops run Dec. 11
Mini-summits and workshops on SONiC, RAN and OpenAN take place on the second day. They cover open source networking, AI-RAN and autonomous networks.
Registration at the Standard rate closes Nov. 23.