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Sana is a principal technology architect leading the architecture and long-term roadmap of E2E Service Orchestration for supporting 5G/edge services over a hybrid telco cloud. She has been leading initiatives to improve cloud-native adoption through DevOps, open source solutions, and implementing organization-wide automation principles, automation CoE, and an API program. She has been involved in leading industry initiatives on making telco automation agile and cloud-native, founding partner of TELUS OSPO, project Nephio and leading industry efforts around cloud-native automation.  She is actively working and leading various efforts with Linux Foundation, ATIS, and supporting research across North American universities. 

Sana Tariq is Ph.D. in Computer Science majoring in optical communications, cloud computing, and software-defined networking (Fulbright scholarship and CREOL fellowship awards)

Sana has given many presentations on service orchestration, cloud-native transformation, open source adoption, and telco transformation at the edge of 5G. One of the recent blogs published at Nephio website: https://nephio.org/on-the-road-to-public-cloud-5g-networks/

Having worked with many orchestration platforms across the industry (ONAP, OSM, and most vendors' solutions) over the last six years, I want Nephio's roadmap to drive simplicity, agility, and vendor-neutral automation that can deliver the promise of cloudification. Nephio community has to influence ecosystem standards, open source projects, and network function vendors to this cloud-native vision. We need to build a strong foundation for faster, easier network functions onboarding and runtime management to accelerate services delivery timelines, a need to support the 5G vision. 

We need to approach automation as bottom-up and solve the immediate challenges and complexities first. To ensure this open source project gets successful, we must focus on smaller targets, run in DevOps cycles and be pragmatic. 

1. Identify the use-cases that apply to the largest number of services providers' requirements in 2023+ (targeting greenfield 5G/IoT/.. that requires massive roll-outs)
2. Define a functional roadmap for Nephio that helps deliver production-ready increments of the project for faster adoption across major service providers
3. Aim to simplify the use/adoption of Nephio and development of Operators, CRDs (template sharing, GUI improvements, partial parsers, etc.)
4. Ensure Nephio can support automation of network functions, and services and is capable of integrating over standards-based interfaces to ecosystem components following ETSI, 3GPP, and ORAN interfaces. 
5. Ensure Nephio's adoption across all NFs vendors, and Public Cloud providers through service provider's joint collaboration
6. Ensure community members' participation and joint voice is reflected in requirements and roadmap.