Ichiro Fukuda is Chief Architect of Infrastructure at NTT Innovation Institute in Palo Alto. He has been at NTT Innovation Institute for 3 years working on realizing NTT's Cloud and Software-Defined networking vision. Prior to joining NTT Innovation Institute, Ichiro worked for NTT Communications over 10 years. He led various development projects including ATM and IP/MPLS technology based network services. He is a member of CTO Council of Open Networking Foundation(ONF), and OpenContrail Advisory Board.