Samita Chakrabarti currently works as an Architect in a Strategy and Architecture team at Verizon, US, working on next generation technologies in the Networking and Service Assurance and applying them on end-to-end architecture and use cases. She hasworked in the Internet Industry for 25 years in various R&D roles from Software development to Technology Architecture and Strategic Innovations. Before joining Verizon, she worked at Ericsson Silicon Valley, IP & Technology office developing end-to-end architecture for IOT Edge computing, SDN and Network virtualization. Samita co-chaired IETF 6lo working group from 2013 to 2018 and currently co-chairing IOT-Directorate group at IETF. She holds a MS in Computer Science degree from State University in New York at Albany, USA.