Building an AI-Ready Network Foundation
Session Abstract:
As manufacturers accelerate the adoption of AI-driven operations, the underlying network infrastructure has become the backbone of industrial transformation.
This session explores the architectural requirements for building an AI-ready industrial network. We will delve into:
- The Infrastructure Gap: Identifying why legacy networks fail to support data-intensive workloads like machine vision and real-time analytics.
- Defining the Modern Network: Key requirements for enterprise-grade OT, including high-bandwidth connectivity, high-wattage Power over Ethernet (PoE), and embedded OT security.
- Operational Foundations: Leveraging validated architectures to bridge the IT/OT divide, ensuring the determinism and resilience necessary for scalable, software-defined manufacturing.
Join this session to explore how to modernize your network foundation to unlock the full potential of AI-driven processes.
Speaker:
With a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering and a post-graduate degree in Networking, Richa is as technical as you can get. She has vast experience working in the telecom and optical networking domain and was a professional embedded software engineer at Ciena. She has also worked at Cisco Research and Development offshore center and had worked for the development of products on SONET, OTN, ETHERNET technologies from scratch. She has worked in the data plane area for the bring-up of line cards, FPGAs, and ASICs device drivers and has been a part of the customer response team handling live customer network issues on the deployed products.
She was the chairperson of the IEEE Women in Engineering branch of her alma mater and headed/hosted/judged various seminars, presentations, and organized state/national events.
She has technical papers published in national conferences and has been conferred with the best orator award at many gatherings. She received an outstanding student volunteer award in the Women in Engineering field in AGM-2011 by the Delhi section of IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Being an all-rounder, she believes in investing in knowledge and sharing with other women in tech via communities. She is a member of the shespeaksbureau and believes in supporting Diversity and Inclusion. She was a speaker at the past IoT Slams where she shared her insights regarding 5G, IoT, Smart Grids, Edge Cloud, and optical technologies. Richa is based out of New Delhi, India.