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The OpenStack Summit, November 5-8, 2013 brings together the brightest technical minds to discuss the future of cloud computing. With OpenStack software quickly gaining adoption around the world, the Summit will feature case studies, visionary keynotes, hands-on workshops and technical sessions for cloud operators and developers. Register NOW.
 

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Chris

Chris Alfonso has worked as a software engineer for nearly 15 years. Since joining Red Hat in January 2006, Chris has built many of the redhat.com web application and along they way has taken note of how complicated production systems and infrastructure are to setup. Chris has spent a great deal of time in the evolution of systems automation tools - from informal scripts, to configuration management, to infrastructure providers. Chris now spends his time working on automating the end-to-end setup of compute services needed to write and host applications using OpenShift, OpenStack, and Red Hat Enterprise... Read more
Company OpenShift
Position Principal Software Engineer

 

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Dan

Does stuff with computers.
Position Consultant

 

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Lew

Lew Tucker is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cloud Computing at Cisco, where he is responsible for helping to shape the future of cloud and enterprise software strategies.

Tucker has more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry, ranging from distributed systems and artificial intelligence to software development and systems architecture. Prior to joining Cisco, he was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems, where he led the development of its infrastructure-as-a-service offering and the development of Sun Cloud... Read more
Company Cisco Systems
Position VP/CTO

 

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wujieke

Jieke is Currently leading the development and operation of cloud computing in iQiyi and driving the openstack project adoption. Before joining iQiyi, he was an employee of Intel , and focusing on open source project
Company iQiyi
Position Engineer Manager
Location Beijing
URL http://www.iqiyi.com/

 

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Niki Acosta

Niki Acosta is a Cloud Evangelista for Rackspace. A Racker since 2008, she has held numerous roles throughout the organization covering public and private cloud-based products and services in the Rackspace portfolio. As an active OpenStack participant, tweeter, and blogger, she has become a recognized name in the cloud industry. Follow her on Twitter at @nikiacosta.
Position Cloud Evangelista

 

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Rohit Agarwalla

Rohit Agarwalla is currently part of the Cloud Platform and Solutions Group within Cisco. As a cloud computing expert, Rohit is the primary architect for the Cisco-Google open hybrid cloud solution and is a cloud architect and technical product manager in areas of cloud native, multi-cloud and networking. Recently, he lead the technical product team at Cisco where he helped shepherd development of container products that included a container platform based on Kubernetes and an open source container networking and policy project - Contiv. Rohit represents Cisco in various customer and partner engagements... Read more
Company Cisco
Position Senior Technical Leader

 

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Brian Aker

Brian Aker is an HP Fellow in the Cloud Services organization. He is responsible for infrastructure engineering, technical operations and customer satisfaction. Aker is also a core developer and member of the Drizzle Foundation Board. He brings more than 22 years of IT experience to HP. Aker has an extensive background in both technical and business leadership, along with in-depth experience in next generation open source technologies. 

Prior to joining HP, Aker was a Distinguished Engineer for Sun Microsystems where his team was responsible for the next generation of MySQL and Drizzle... Read more
Company HP Cloud Services
Position Fellow
Location United States

 

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Sajid Akhtar

Sajid has 10+ Years of experience in Strategic Consulting, Evangelism, Cloud Computing , OpenSource, Pre-Sales, Business Development and Datacenter Consolidation. He has a strong record of innovation, thought leadership and publishing white papers. Very passionate about Open source cloud technologies ,involved in hosting OpenStack India meet ups across India and regular speaker at various technical conferences about happenings in the Openstack world. His hobbies includes Terrace barbeque, travelling and skating.
Company Reliance Jio
Position Platform Evangelist
Location Bangalore, India

 

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Sam Alba

https://github.com/samalba
Company Dagger, Inc
Position Founder
Location San Francisco, CA
URL https://dagger.io/

 

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Subbu Allamaraju

Subbu is the Chief Engineer of cloud at eBay Inc. His team builds and operates a multi-tenant geographically distributed OpenStack based private cloud. This cloud now serves 100% of PayPal web and mid tier workloads, significant parts of eBay front end and services, and thousands of users for their dev/test activities.
Company Expedia Inc.
Position Vice President

 

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Rehan Altaf

Rehan Altaf is a Cloud Architect for IBM Cloud Labs, a division of IBM Software Group. He has been with IBM for six years and currently works with customers in designing cloud computing solutions. Before joining Cloud Labs, Rehan was part of the IBM Support Services for the Tivoli team where he implemented private cloud solutions for customer in production data centers. He also worked in Lotus helping customers develop applications on Domino.
Position Cloud Architect

 

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Riz Amanuddin

Position IBM Sr. Certified IT Architect, STG Cloud Solutions, & OpenStack Development

 

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Jason Anderson

Jason Anderson is a Cloud Architect for IBM Cloud Labs in Silicon Valley, California. For the past three years, Jason has been engaging customers with IBM Cloud technologies including IBM PureApplication System. His previous roles have included product development and solution enablement. Jason received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the California Polytechnic State University.
Company IBM
Position Cloud Architect
Location Silicon Valley

 

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Simon Anderson

Simon is CEO of DreamHost, and Co-founder and Chair of Akanda, Inc. Simon was also Co-founder and Chair of Inktank Storage, Inc., acquired by Red Hat in April 2014. 
Simon has been a Gold Member Director since the Foundation was established in 2012. He Chairs the Committee of the Board that provides guidance to companies considering Platinum or Gold Membership, and is a member of the Compensation Committee and Elections committee.
DreamHost has been a major contributor to the OpenStack software and community since 2011. DreamHost has launched DreamCompute, a public cloud computing service powered by OpenStack, Ceph and Akanda... Read more
Company DreamHost
Position CEO, DreamHost
Location Greater Los Angeles Area

 

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Syed Armani

Syed is an expert in OpenStack high availability and security, and one of the many organizers of meetups and community gatherings in the OpenStack community in India. He frequently speaks about OpenStack at user group meetings in India, and has extensive experience deploying OpenStack in production. He has alos spoken on OpenStack at CloudOpen Japan, OpenStack Korea Day(Seoul) and OpenStack Summit(Hong Kong).
Position Senior Technical Consultant at hastexo

 

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Joe Arnold

Joe founded SwiftStack to deploy high-scale, cloud storage systems using OpenStack.

Joe managed the first public OpenStack launch of Swift independent of Rackspace deploying multiple large-scale cloud storage systems. He went on to co-found SwiftStack and serves as CEO. SwiftStack powers enterprises with a software defined storage platform, built on the OpenStack Swift object storage engine, to build a massively scalable private cloud.

Prior to working with OpenStack, Joe was the Director of engineering at Cloudscaling, where he managed OpenStack deployments at KT and Internap. Joe also headed u... Read more
Company SwiftStack
Position Founder / CPO SwiftStack
Location San Francisco, California
URL http://swiftstack.com

 

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Guillaume Aubuchon

Guillaume Aubuchon has spent the past decade melding the latest in technological innovation with the century old tradition of filmmaking. He has helped keep DigitalFilm Tree at the forefront of innovation in Hollywood, as highlighted by DigitalFilm Tree’s recognition in 2014 by the Hollywood Post Alliance for the innovative implementation of OpenStack based software in cloud-based workflows on recent hit television shows Mistresses and Perception, and long-running series like The Simpson’s and NCIS: Los Angeles.

Guillaume continuously advocates for the adoption of OpenStack in entertainm

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Company DigitalFilm Tree
Position CTO

 

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Anand Avati

Anand Avati is the lead architect of GlusterFS. He is also the initial author and top code contributor to the project
Company Red Hat
Position Senior Principal Software Engineer

 

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Fred Baker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Baker_(IETF_chair)
Company Cisco Systems
Position Cisco Fellow and IETF WG Chair

 

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Mark Baker

Mark Baker is the Ubuntu server and cloud product manager at Canonical where he has spent the last 4 years helping drive the platform for next generation application delivery. Prior to Canonical Mark worked at MySQL and Red Hat where he enjoyed disrupting large Billion dollar encumbant technology companies. With OpenStack and Ubuntu Mark continues to have fun followng this same path.
Company Canonical
Position Ubuntu Server and Cloud Product Manager

 

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Peter Balland

Peter is currently in the office of the CTO for networking at VMware where he focuses on cloud operations, security and policy. He joined VMware by way of Nicira where he was an early employee, and lead architect of multiple components of the product. Prior to Nicira, Peter was a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked in information operations, and network security.
Company VMware
Position Office of the CTO, Networking

 

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Mohammad Banikazemi

Mohammad is a research staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His research interests include cloud computing and software-defined networking. He is a senior member of the ACM and the IEEE and an active contributior to Neutron. Mohammad lives with his family in NYC.
Company IBM Research
Position Research Staff Member
Location New York City
URL http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-mb

 

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Vinay Bannai

Networking professional with expertise in networking design, architecture and software development. Have been involved in products at the access, edge, distribution and core of the network. Have managed engineering teams, product lines and customer interactions and presentations.
Presently working on cloud orchestration of Data Centers using Openstack, Openflow, Network Virtualization and SDN controller.
Company PayPal
Position Cloud SDN Architect, eBay
Location San Francisco Bay Area

 

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Nick (Nicolas) Barcet

Nick is the Director of Product Management for OpenStack at Red Hat.  Nick joined Red Hat in June 2014, as part of the acquisition of eNovance, where he was VP of Products. Prior to that role, Nick was Ubuntu Server and Cloud Product manager at Canonical, where he participated in the definition and success of Ubuntu as a platform above and under the cloud. Nick joined the OpenStack project since its first summit in Austin and founded the Ceilometer project, now known as OpenStack Telemetry, at the Folsom summit in April 2012, to handle centralised metering on OpenStack. He has been project leading... Read more
Company Red Hat
Position Director of Product Management - OpenStack
Location Westford, MA
URL http://redhatstack.redhat.com

 

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Oleg Barenboim

Oleg Barenboim is a Senior Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat. His technical leadership within software engineer includes over 20 years of experience in systems management software including configuration management, communications, database and systems monitoring. He has extensive experience in evaluating and leveraging emerging technologies, system design and enterprise architectures. Broad platform expertise from enterprise mainframes, servers and desktops to ATMs, embedded systems and smartphones. Oleg has co-authored and worked on numerous commercially successful products, including... Read more
Position Senior Director, Software Engineering

 

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Himanshu Bari

Himanshu Bari is a senior product manager at Hortonworks. He drives the product roadmap and strategy for integrating Hortonworks Data Platform, the only 100-percent open source Apache Hadoop distribution, with existing enterprise architectures, such as Teradata and enabling it across public/private cloud platforms like OpenStack. He has a Master's in Computer Science from SUNY Binghamton and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Walter A. Haas School of Business
Position Sr. Product Manager

 

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Ayal Baron

Company Red Hat
Position Cloud Storage Engineering Manager
Location Kiryat Ono, Israel

 

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Keith Basil

As a Principal Product Manager, Basil is focused on Red Hat's overall OpenStack product management, development and strategy with emphasis on elastic cloud management and security features for scaled deployments.   Basil was instrumental in the formation of the vision for Tuskar, a project initiated by Red Hat  designed to provide awareness and modeling of OpenStack infrastructure.   

Basil has also had the privilege of working with members of the OpenStack community to co-author the first edition of the OpenStack Security Guide - a document designed to provide an overview for increasing... Read more
Company Red Hat
Position Principal Product Manager, OpenStack
Location Washington D.C. Metro Area

 

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Ben Basler

Ben Basler is part of the VMware product management team responsible for networking & security where he has a strong focus on network virtualization. He joined VMware from Nicira where he led technical marketing and developed in depth understanding of the network virtualization platform. Prior Nicira, Ben spent 12+ years at Cisco where he worked on high performance switching platforms such as the Nexus 7000 & NX-OS. As part of a deep focus on data center network design and new data center interconnect technologies, he helped designing numerous customer networks ? from small all the way to largest... Read more
Position Group Product Manager - VMware/Nicira

 

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Andre Beausoleil

Over 15 years industry experience managing hardware and software solutions for storage network environments. I've worked with OpenStack community members in driving Fibre Channel Storage Area Network support into Cinder (Grizzly release) and delivered the first FC SAN session at an OpenStack summit in Portland, Oregon.
Company Brocade Communications
Position Sr. Product Manager

 

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Tim Bell

Tim is currently responsible for the team at CERN that manages the operating system and infrastructure services. He previously worked as a Unix kernel developer at IBM and managing large-scale Unix production deployments and services for Deutsche Bank. As part of CERN's data centre expansion, Tim has been involved in the implementation of the CERN private cloud and is an elected member of the OpenStack management board.
Company CERN
Position Infrastructure Services Manager
Location Geneva Area, Switzerland

 

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Vijay Bellur

Vijay Bellur is a co-maintainer for the upstream GlusterFS project and
was an architect at Gluster before its acquisition by Red Hat in 2011.
He has been involved with building enterprise storage and scalable,
distributed systems for the past decade. Vijay works out of the Red Hat
office in Bengaluru and his topics of interest include : disk file
systems, distributed systems, cloud technologies, and big data.
Company Red Hat
Position Senior Principal Software Engineer and GlusterFs co-maintainer
Location Bangalore, India

 

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Jon Benedict

Jon Benedict is a Principal Solutions Architect for Red Hat, based in North Carolina. Jon's I.T. career started out by building database queries on an IBM AS/400 all in support for an automated dialer system in a call center. From there he moved on to building custom RISC-based servers, performing integration work, tool building, and eventually a became Linux Consultant. As a consultant, Jon provided services to many Wall Street customers, federal agencies, and telco providers. Jon also worked as a Principle Tech Marketing Engineer at one of the biggest enterprise storage providers in the world... Read more
Company NetApp
Position Technical Marketing Engineer
Location North Carolina, USA
URL http://CaptainKVM.com

 

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Dr. Malini Bhandaru

Malini Bhandaru is a Sr. Cloud Architect with the Open source Technology Center, Intel and has been involved with OpenStack for over three years. Her tenure at Intel spans work on cloud and security, fast encryption algorithms, and Xeon platform power and performance. Prior to Intel she worked on speech recognition, remote monitoring and management, and web applications. She has a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst. She lives in the Bay Area and enjoys gardening but lack of rain has been a “damper”!
Company Intel
Position Architect
Location Santa Clara, CA

 

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Randy Bias

His prescient views on the profound disruption caused by cloud computing have made Randy Bias one of the industry’s most influential voices. He is an evangelist who was among the first to articulate the generational transition of IT from the “first platform” (mainframe computing) to the “second platform” (enterprise computing) and then to the “third platform” (cloud computing). He also popularized the cloud server "pets vs. cattle" meme. He has been called a “top ten cloud pioneer” (InformationWeek), “top cloud 5 can’t miss bloggers” (SearchCloudComputing), and “top cloud

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Company EMC
Position VP Technology, Emerging Technology Division
Location San Francisco Bay Area

 

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Mario Blandini

Technology and marketing enthusiast, Swift lover, fan of disruption and new ways of doing things. Previous member of SwiftStack team, now working with HGST as Sr. Director of Marketing in the area of storage systems.

Before OpenStack, did marketing at Drobo, following years as Director of WW Product Marketing at Brocade. Deployed large-scale SAN infrastructure and developed storage expertise in technical roles at Rhapsody Networks (now Brocade), Sanrise (now EMC), Adaptec, ADP, EDS, and the United States Marine Corps.
Company HGST
Position Sr. Director, Marketing
Location San Jose, CA, USA
URL http://hgst.com

 

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Kartik Bommepally

Kartik is a member of VMware's Storage Virtualziation Engineering team. He is the lead developer of the VMware VMDK Cinder Driver.
Position Member of Technical Staff

 

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Chmouel Boudjnah

Chmouel has been a long time OpenSource developer working on OpenStack since its near beginning originally focusing on Storage and now on Orchestration and Deployment at Red Hat/eNovance as a software architect.
Company Red Hat
Position Principal Engineer
Location Paris, France
URL http://blog.chmouel.com/

 

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Yuriy Brodskiy

Company Intapp
Position Sr. Director, DevOps
Location San Francisco Bay Area

 

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Jonathan Bryce

Jonathan Bryce, who has spent his career building the cloud, is Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation. Previously he was a founder of The Rackspace Cloud.


He started his career working as a web developer for Rackspace, and during his tenure, he and co-worker Todd Morey had a vision to build a sophisticated web hosting environment where users and businesses alike could turn to design, develop and deploy their ideal web site – all without being responsible for procuring the technology, installing it or making sure it is built to be always available. This vision became The Rackspace Cloud. Since then he has been a major driver of OpenStack, the open source cloud software initiative... Read more
Company OpenStack Foundation
Position Executive Director
URL http://twitter.com/jbryce

 

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Chet Burgess

Chet is the Vice President of Engineering and part of the founding team at Metacloud.

In that role, he is responsible for all engineering and architecture and helps ensure that the solutions delivered by Metacloud are available, redundant, and scalable.

Chet has more than 18 years of experience working on interesting problems in IT. His career started at a VAR building computer and small business networks. Since then he has held a number of positions including the Director of Enterprise Unix Systems at the University of Southern California (which he graduated from in 2006) and Senior Systems Architect at Ticketmaster Entertainment/Live Nation Entertainment. Immediately prior to helping launch Metacloud Chet was the Senior Systems Architect for Ticketmaster's Transactional API for Partners and iPhone application. Chet's passion is working on availability... Read more
Company Metacloud
Position Vice President, Engineering
Location Pasadena, CA
URL http://www.metacloud.com

 

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Glen Campbell

Glen Campbell is the manager of the Rackspace Developer Relations Group and the lead developer for the php-opencloud library and the little-known Siteframe website framework. His computing experience started in the 1970's programming the COSMAC ELF and changing tubes in an IBM magnetic ledger card reader. He worked on the OpenStack Compute project, including the integration of Rackspace's Next Generation Cloud Servers product, and has presented at various conferences since the early 1990's. Formerly a manager and senior architect at Yahoo!, he has experience in building and deploying extremely... Read more
Company Rackspace Cloud
Position Manager, Developer Relations Group
Location San Antonio, Texas
URL http://glenc.io

 

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Tony Campbell

Tony Campbell joined Rackspace in April of 2003 and currently serves as Rackspace's Director of Training and Certification. Tony and his team are responsible for educating Rackers and the public on OpenStack, Rackspace Cloud and cloud technologies in general. During his career at Rackspace, Tony has working in various software development roles, including work on our customer portal and our first cloud products. When Tony's head is not in the clouds, he enjoys spending time with his family, participating in sports and can occasionally be seen performing in local theater productions.
Company Rackspace
Position Director of Training & Certification

 

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Yu Zhong Cao

Yu Zhong Cao currently is a software architect for IBM SmartCloud Entry, an IBM OpenStack based IaaS Cloud product, a product of the IBM SmartCloud portfolio. He has more than ten years of experiences in enterprise IT infrastructure management, data center and Cloud Computing. IBM SmartCloud Entry has been widely used by a lot of large enterprise customers worldwide since early 2011. Since then Yu Zhong Cao visited and talked with many customers among them to better understand what is enterprise customer's requirement on private cloud, and currently he is struggling on getting OpenStack enterprise... Read more
Company IBM
Position Cloud Software Engineer
Location Beijing

 

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Scott Carlson

Scott Carlson has been with PayPal since the end of 2011. He’s spent the last 15 years in the Banking, Education, and Payment sectors perfecting the art of sys-admining, cloud-ifying and in keeping mission critical systems from falling to pieces. In 2013, he spoke at both the VMWorld and OpenStack Conferences on various OpenStack topics.
Company PayPal
Position Architect, Cloud Platform Security
Location Litchfield Park, Arizona
URL http://www.scottc.org

 

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Thierry Carrez

Thierry Carrez is the Vice-President of Engineering at the OpenStack Foundation, in charge of the long-term health of the open source projects under the Foundation. A long-time elected member of the OpenStack Technical Committee, he has been a Release Manager for the OpenStack project since its inception, coordinating the effort and facilitating collaboration between contributors.... Read more
Company OpenStack Foundation
Position VP of Engineering
Location France
URL https://openstack.org

 

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Martin Casado

Martin Casado founded Nicira, which pioneered network virtualization and was acquired by VMware. He received his PhD from Stanford University where his dissertation work led to ?Software-Defined Networking? and ?OpenFlow.? Currently, Martin is the Chief Architect and CTO for Networking & Security at VMware.
Position CTO for Networking at VMware

 

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Andy Cathrow

Andrew Cathrow serves as senior product manager at Red Hat and is responsible for Red Hat’s virtualization products. Prior to this position, Andrew managed Red Hat’s sales engineers. Prior to joining Red Hat in 2006, Andrew worked in product management for a configuration company, and also for a software company that developed middleware and messaging mainframe and midrange systems. Earlier in his career, Andrew held various positions at IBM Global Services.

Company Red Hat
Position Senior Manager, Product Management

 

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David Chadwick

Professor of Information Systems Security Publications My publications are available from the University of Kent's Academic Repository. Research Interests I belong to the following research groups: Programming Languages and Systems Group Security Group Future Computing Group My OpenStack profile is here: David Chadwick... Read more
Company University of Kent
Position Professor
Location Canterbury, UK
URL http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dwc8/index.local

 

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Raymond Chan

Raymond Chan is one of the coordinator of Hong Kong OpenStack User Group, working as an Assistant Manager in Cyberport Technology Centre. He is in charge of Cloud team in the Centre and responsible to drive the cloud adoption among the Cyberport tenants, incubates and startups in Hong Kong ICT community.

 

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Hui Cheng

Hui is the CEO & Founder of UnitedStack Inc., a OpenStack start-up with targeting on Great China and Asia open cloud market. As a new enterprenour who has deep engineering background in open source and cloud technologies, Hui gathered a group of powerful and talented OpenStack developers and top engineers from China and U.S., and founded this cloud company to build an open and commoditized cloud OS based on OpenStack as well as some other open source softwares in February 2013. Hui?s dream is to build a cloud software company to overthrow the traditional enterprise IT industry, as well as a respectable... Read more
Company UnitedStack Inc.
Position CEO
Location Beijing
URL http://www.ustack.com

 

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Peter Cheung

Peter Cheung, an active member of Hong Kong OpenStack User Group, is the Founder of Titan project from Hong Kong where his focus and interest lies primarily on OpenStack.  Peter designed the Pandora specifically to meets the current gaps of the administrating and monitoring OpenStack cloud.


 

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Dr. Tzi-cker Chiueh

The General Director of the Cloud Computing Center for Mobile Applications (CCMA) in Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). He was also the board of director of OpenStack Foundation in 2012.

 

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Soo Choi

Hello Stacker! I co-founded Anso Labs (acquired by Rackspace in 2011), a software consultancy who wrote Nova, a IaaS compute framework. Nova was adopted by NASA and soon became the OpenStack Compute Project. The rest is history. Rackspace allows me to be a cloud whisperer, evangelist, and customer advocate. My team developed Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition from proof of concept development, pilot implementations, to final product for roll-out in US, Europe, and Asia for the Austin - Essex release.
Position Director of Operation, Enterprise Cloud Solutions

 

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Brian Chong

Brian Chong is the Director of Global Technology Strategies at Symantec for the Cloud Platform Engineering (CPE) team. He is responsible for the lead design of the SDN and Security Component of the new Cloud Architecture for Symantec’s new SaaS offerings. His background is in leading and design Datacenter and Security systems for the Trust Services Division (formerly VeriSign Security Services) that runs Public PKI Infrastructure.
Company Symantec
Position Global Technology Strategist
Location San Francisco Bay Area

 

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Dr. David Chung

Dr. David Chung joined Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited as the Chief Technology Officer leading core public functions of Cyberport, namely IT&T services operations, Technology Centre, Collaboration Centre and Entrepreneurship Centre. Under his direction, Cyberport is continuing to focus significant resources on fostering the growth of local ICT startup and SME companies. Dr. Chung currently serves as member of the Expert Group on Cloud Computing Services and Standards, Working Group on Cloud Computing Interoperability Standards and Deputy Convenor of the Working Group on Provision... Read more

 

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Robert Clark

Robert is a HP Distinguished Technologist, the lead security architect for HP Helion OpenStack and the current PTL of the OpenStack Security team. His career has its roots in threat modelling, vulnerability analysis and virtualization security. He is passionate about security and driving up standards in OpenStack which he has been working on for the last four years.
Company HP
Position Lead Security Architect
Location Bristol, United Kingdom
URL http://www.hpcloud.com

 

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Brian Cline

Company SoftLayer Technologies
Position Object Storage Application Lead
Location Addison/Dallas, Texas, US

 

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Joel Coffman

Joel Coffman is a Senior Cyber Engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), which he joined in 2012. Joel contributes to a variety of sponsored and internally-funded research and development projects where he applies software engineering expertise to improve software quality. Joel also serves as the technical lead for JHU/APL’s involvement in the OpenStack cloud computing project where he has overseen the contribution of a variety of security features to the community.Joel received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia under the... Read more
Company Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Position Senior Cyber Engineer

 

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Liran Cohen

Company Liveperson
Position Director of Cloud Platform
Location Israel

 

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Sean Cohen

Sean is a seasoned product manager bringing over 15 years of experience in senior engineering, global operations and services management roles in virtualization & cloud companies. He has international experience of storage virtualization products delivery & private clouds design for enterprise customers in various market segments in US, Europe & APAC. Sean is focused on cloud storage product management and strategy for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform cloud offering.
Company Red Hat
Position Principal Product Manager, Red Hat
Location USA
URL http://redhatstackblog.redhat.com/

 

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Uri Cohen

Uri leads the product team at GigaSpaces, and is interested in everything cloud, scalability and devops. He’s a spare time coder and proud father of 3. During the weekend, Uri masquerades as an all-mountain and occasionally downhill bicycle rider, trying his best to keep his body in one piece.
Company GigaSpaces Technologies
Position EVP Product Management
Location Israel
URL http://www.gigaspaces.com

 

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Clayton Coleman

Clayton is Architect for Red Hat Atomic and OpenShift and was Lead Engineer on OpenShift V3. He is also a top contributor to the Kubernetes project and has helped guide its development since it was launched. Prior to his work at Red Hat, Clayton developed social and collaborative software at IBM for 10 years on the WebSphere Portal and IBM Social Connections product families.
Company Red Hat
Position Architect for Red Hat Atomic and OpenShift

 

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Mark Collier

Mark has spent his career working on technologies that disrupt industries, from "a computer on every desk", when he worked at Dell in the 90's as a product manager, to the digital music shift as Senior Director of Business Development at Yahoo! Music, to the cloud computing era, where as VP of Business Development at Rackspace he led the effort to embrace an open source development model and build an ecosystem and community around it, resulting in the founding of OpenStack in 2010.

In 2012, he started the OpenStack Foundation, along with Jonathan Bryce, and now serves as it's Chief Operatin... Read more
Company OpenStack Foundation
Position COO
Location Austin, Texas
URL www.collierclan.net/mark/

 

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Robert Collins

Robert Collins is a Distinguished Technologist in HP Cloud. For the last 6 years he has been walking the fine line between development and operations. He is also a developer on the Debian project, and has contributed to many other projects, including (but certainly not limited to): bazaar, Launchpad, Ubuntu, subunit, testresources, testtools, testscenarios, testrepository, fixtures, zope fixtures, config manager, cygwin and squid. Robert has been involved with open source development and Python for a number of years, with a "tremendous passion for high quality, well tested software". He has been... Read more
Company HP Cloud Services
Position Distinguished Technologist
Location Rangiora, New Zealand
URL http://rbtcollins.wordpress.com/

 

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Alejandro Comisario

Alejandro has been on IT for over 11 years, Debian Linux and Python fan, Alejandro has been around OpenSource for quite long, born as a C++ developer on his early years, passed over Infrastructure and learned to love performance, scaling & automation on linux.
Passing thru companies like Techint (A leading global manufacturer and supplier of steel tubes) and Sony as a Linux Senior Sysadmin, Alejandro is now managing critical infrastructure tasks on Mercadolibre that goes from Administering the cloud solution, Investigate cutting edge technology to constantly implement to orchestrate the Openstack private cloud, to make sure the high availability and performance of the platform. Alejandro's role is currently Head Technical Leader in CloudServices in MercadoLibre... Read more
Position Head Tech Leader at Mercadolibre.com
URL @catintheroof

 

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Jim Curry

Jim Curry is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Rackspace?s Private Cloud business, which supports and operates OpenStack-based private clouds in any data center worldwide. He joined Rackspace in 2006 to run corporate development efforts, which included new business incubation, venture investing activities, and mergers and acquisitions, including the acquisitions of Webmail.us, Slicehost, Jungle Disk and Cloudkick. Three years later, Jim led the founding of the OpenStack project on behalf of Rackspace and was responsible for developing the community until its transition to the OpenStack... Read more
Position SVP and GM, Rackspace Private Cloud
URL http://@jimcurry

 

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Steve Curry

Steve Curry founded Metacloud in 2011 after compiling twelve years of global data center operations experience and concluding that there was an unmet need for open source-based private clouds in the enterprise market. Today Curry serves as Metacloud?s president, where he is responsible for establishing the company?s vision and strategy, growing its customer base, managing investor relationships, and increasing awareness of the firm with analysts community the media. Prior to Metacloud, he managed global storage operations at Yahoo!, where he led a team of 20-plus engineers and managers across ten... Read more
Company Metacloud Inc.
Position President, Metacloud
Location Pasadena, CA
URL http://www.metacloud.com

 

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Loïc Dachary

Loïc Dachary has been involved with the Free Software Movement since 1987, when he started distributing GNU tapes to the general public. In 2017 he became a core developer for SecureDrop to help journalists communicate with their sources securily and anonymously. In the past decades he contributed code to numerous Free Software projects. Dachary also helps non-profit organizations promoting Free Software such as April... Read more
Company SecureDrop
Position Developer
Location Paris
URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%C3%AFc_Dachary

 

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Sean Dague

Sean Dague is the Project Technical Lead of the OpenStack QA Program, and a core reviewer on Nova and Devstack. He's been an active contributor to OpenStack since the Essex release. He has been an avid Linux and open source user for over a decade. He managed to sneak Linux into the infrastructure for the Sydney 2000 olympic games, and joined IBM?s Linux Technology Center shortly after it?s creation in 2001. He?s worked on numerous open source projects from the LTC, including SystemImager, OpenHPI, Xen, OpenSim, NFS Ganesha, and OpenStack. He created the Mid Hudson Linux Users Group in 2003, and... Read more
Position Senior Software Engineer

 

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Lincoln Dale

Lincoln is a member of the technical staff at Arista toat who works on product direction and strategy around all hings ethernet switching, SDN and APIs.Prior to joining Arista in 2011, Lincoln spent 14 years at Cisco Systems where most recently he was Distinguished Engineer working on silicon, systems and software strategy for Cisco's Nexus and Catalyst ethernet switching portfolio. Before this he was a Distinguished Technical Marketing Engineer focused on Cisco's flagship Nexus 7000 ethernet switch and NX-OS software. Prior to this he was involved in SAN switching with Cisco's entry in the Fibre... Read more
Company Arista
Position Principal

 

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Julien Danjou

I'm a Free Software hacker working at Red Hat. I've been contributing to open source projects for more than 15 years now, in various area, such as Debian, Freedesktop, awesome, Python or Emacs.

Since 2011, I work on OpenStack Telemetry and act as its current Project Team Leader.
Company Red Hat
Position Principal Software Engineer
Location Paris, France
URL https://julien.danjou.info

 

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Aaron Delp

Aaron Delp is the Sr. Director of Technical Marketing for the Citrix Cloud Platforms Group. He currently leads the generation and publishing of reference architectures, technical documentation, competitive intelligence, and field enablement content. Prior to Citrix, Aaron led the Cloud Field Enablement team for VCE specializing in management, orchestration, and automation products from VMware, Cisco, and EMC. In addition, Aaron led a solutions team that designed, tested, and published the configuration of Cisco Unified Communications (UC) on the VCE Vblock Platform. Other past responsibilities... Read more
Company Citrix
Position Senior Director Technical Marketing, Cloud Platform Group
Location United States
URL aarondelp.com

 

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Boris Deschenes

Boris joined iWeb in late 2012 as Lead Cloud Architect, spearheading the development of the next generation iWeb Cloud, an IaaS solution built on the OpenStack platform. An open source advocate and enthusiast, Boris already has experience working with the OpenStack platform, the open source project of which iWeb is a sponsor. He spent the two years prior to joining iWeb building private clouds for video game developer Ubisoft, helping introduce the company into cloud gaming and cloud IaaS.
Company iweb
Position cloud architect
Location Montréal, Canada
URL iweb.com

 

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Dimitri Desmidt

Dimitri Desmidt is part of the VMware Technical Product division within the Network & Security Business Unit (NSBU). He joined VMware from Nicira where he deployed NVP Network Virtualization solution at various customers in the Service Provider and Enterprise space. Prior to Nicira, Dimitri spent 10+ years at Juniper and then A10 Networks where he worked on Application Acceleration with a deep focus on load balancing, WAN optimization + High-Availability.
Company VMware
Position NSX Senior Technical Product Manager

 

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Mark Detrick

Mark is a Data Center Solutions Architect and has been working for Brocade for over 10 years.  Mark meets with Fortune 500 IT folks around the world, playing a consultative role in major data center network design.  Mark is an expert in many technologies that are pertinent within the Data Center:

  • RDR (Remote Data Replication), Open Systems Tape, FCIP
  • Mainframe Extension, FICON XRC, FICON Tape
  • Advanced Storage Networking, FC Routing and large SAN design
  • Ethernet Fabrics (DCB, FCoE, TRILL & Fabric Adapters) and Ethernet Switching
  • MPLS, VPLS, Optical Networking (DWDM & SONET) and other W
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Company Brocade
Position Data Center Solutions Architect

 

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Sridhar Devarapalli

Sridhar manages product roadmap and strategy for the NetScaler ADC product line at Citrix. He has several years of experience in the design and architecture of load balancers at Foundry Networks and later on, at Brocade Communications. Sridhar joined Citrix from his most recent stint at Big Switch Networks, where he was instrumental in defining the product strategy of Big Switch's SDN based network virtualization and networking monitoring products. At Citrix, Sridhar contributes to NetScaler's SDN vision and roadmap and is responsible for product strategy for NetScaler's multi-tenant hardware appliances... Read more
Company Citrix
Position Director of Product Management

 

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John Dickinson

John Dickinson is Director of Technology at SwiftStack. SwiftStack is a technology innovator of private cloud storage for today’s applications, powered by OpenStack Object Storage. John serves as the Project Technical Lead for OpenStack Swift and has been involved in the development of Swift since 2009
Company SwiftStack
Position Director of Technology at SwiftStack & Swift PTL
Location United States
URL http://not.mn

 

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Jiangang Duan

iangang Duan manages Cloud Infrastructure technology lab in Intel Asia-Pacific Research & Development Ltd. He has worked on enterprise solution tuning and optimization for more than ten years, including several generation Intel processor performance evaluations and jointly working with local OEM to complete tpc-* and spec-* benchmark publications. His technical interests now focuses on Cloud Computing and big data (spark, hadoop and openstack etc). Before joined Intel, Jiangang got his bachelor degree in 1999 and Master degree in 2001 from EE department of Tsinghua University.
Company 英特尔亚太研发有限公司
Position Software Engineer Manager
Location shanghai

 

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Chuck Dubuque

Company Red Hat
Position Senior Director, Red Hat OpenShift Product Marketing
Location Portland, ME

 

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Justin Dustzadeh

Dr. Justin Dustzadeh is the CTO and VP Technology Strategy of Huawei’s fixed network business unit which delivers $7.8B in annual revenue for the company.
He leads a team responsible for Huawei's software-defined networking (SDN) technology direction, network architecture evolution, as well as standardization strategy for IP, packet and SDN, including collaboration with the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). He currently serves as the Chair of ONF's Migration Working Group and is also a founding Board member of the CloudEthernet Forum.

Most recently, he served as VP and Head of Network Archite... Read more
Company Huawei
Position CTO and VP Technology Strategy

 

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Debojyoti Dutta

Debo~ is a principal engineer in the Office of the Cloud CTO at Cisco Systems where he is involved in several efforts on Openstack including building out large scale big data systems. He is passionate about different aspects of large scale streaming data. He has years of data science experience, both as a postdoctoral research associate in Computational Biology at the University of Southern Califonia and later as a visiting researcher at Stanford (see http://widescope.stanford.edu/about.html). 
He has proposed a couple of key ideas in previous Openstack Summits. One of them was a recursive container architecture that was implemented and demo-ed at Portland by his team (and parts of it got incorporated into Horizon and the overall project will be soon be opensourced) - http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Donabe_for_OpenStack... Read more
Position Principal Engineer

 

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David Easter

Company Mirantis, Inc.
Position Director of Product Management
Location United States
URL software.mirantis.com

 

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Gregory Elkinbard

Gregory Elkinbard is Sr. Technical Director at Mirantis, where he is responsible for building on-demand IaaS and PaaS layers for public and private clouds at marquis Fortune 1000 and late stage venture-funded customers, with a focus on the intersection of cloud and distributed data storage strategies.
Company Mirantis
Position Senior Technical Director at Mirantis

 

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Ilya Elterman

Company Mirantis
Position VP Engineering, Upstream OpenStack
Location Mountain View, CA, USA
URL www.mirantis.com

 

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John Engates

John Engates joined Rackspace in August 2000, just a year after the company was founded, as Vice President of Operations, managing the datacenter operations and customer-service teams. Two years later, when Rackspace decided to add new services for larger enterprise customers, John created and helped develop the Intensive Hosting business unit

Most recently, John has played an active role in the evolution and evangelism of Rackspace's cloud-computing strategy and cloud products. John meets frequently with customers to hear about their needs and concerns, and to discuss Rackspace's vision for

... Read more
Company Rackspace, The Open Cloud Company
Position Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Location San Antonio

 

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Robert Esker

Sr. Product Manager for OpenStack
Company NetApp, Inc.
Position Product Management
Location Austin, Texas Area

 

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Michael Factor

Dr. Michael Factor is an IBM Fellow with a focus on storage and systems and is the CTO for Cloud Storage Services.   Michael has presented on a range of storage topics at three of the last four OpenStack summits. His interest in cloud storage includes a deep focus on object storage (aka fixed content clouds) as well as storage support for compute clouds; this work is directed towards consumption via OpenStack. He takes a leading role in storage-related research in his lab including topics such as distributed storage systems, advanced storage networking technologies, cloud data stores, and analytics... Read more
Company IBM, Haifa Research Lab
Position IBM Fellow, Storage and Systems
Location Israel
URL http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=il-FACTOR

 

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Matthew Farrellee

Matthew Farrellee is a Principal Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at Red Hat with over a decade of experience in distributed and computational system development and management. Matt has been involved with Savanna since it was renamed from EHO. He is a major contributor to diskimage-builder elements for Savanna and active participant of architecture design discussions. He is integrating Savanna within the Fedora Big Data SIG.
Company Red Hat

 
 
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