Webinars

The Ethernet Alliance provides support to organize webinars on topics relevant to its members.

Past Webinars

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Presenters

Val Oliva served as the Director of Product Strategy for Foundry’s Enterprise Business Unit and as President and board member of the Ethernet Alliance Organization. 

Before 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) was a standard, Oliva lead the 10 Gigabit Ethernet efforts at Foundry. Oliva was a 10GEA Vice President, a Member of the Board of Directors with the 10GEA, and the Chair of the 10GEA Technical Committee. Oliva led the efforts to demonstrate the first and the largest 10GbE network vendor interoperability.

Prior to Foundry, Oliva held a Product Line Management position at Network Equipment Technology. Oliva also spent 10 years building IP networks since 1988, and was employed as a Network Architect and Network Manager at Hewlett-Packard and Bay Networks, respectively.


Daniel Feldman serves as a Senior Product Line Manager at Microsemi’s Analog and Mixed Signal Group, in charge of the P&L Management of all products in the Power over Ethernet, xDSL remote power feeding and Telephony Ring Generation markets, including ICs, modules and Midspans. He is an active member of the IEEE 802.3at Task Force and Chairs the Ethernet Alliance PoE/PoEPlus Technical Committee.

Previously, Mr. Feldman worked for PowerDsine as a Senior Product Manager responsible for Outbound Marketing activities in the Americas, at IC4IC as the System Architecture Group Manager, responsible for the specification of a wireless access VLSI product line for 3G infrastructure equipment vendors, as a VHDL Engineer at NICE Systems and as VLSI Engineer at RAFAEL.

Mr. Feldman holds a B.Sc. (Cum Laude) in Computer Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel and is an MBA candidate at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business