Nick McKeown kicked off
the virtual Netdev
0x14 conference with a talk on extending the programmability of
networking equipment well beyond where it is today. His vision
is of an end-to-end system with programmable pieces at every level.
Getting there will require collaboration between the developers of the
networking stacks on endpoint operating systems as well as those of
switches, routers, and other backbone equipment.
The keynote was held on July 28, a little over two weeks
before the seven days
of talks, workshops, and tutorials for Netdev, which begins on August 13.

Source: LWN.net – [$] End-to-end network programmability