Seb Wains

Solutions Architect & Automation Specialist - Red Hat

Loic Avenel

Senior Principal Product Manager, Ansible Automation platform - Red Hat

Working in Software Enterprise Solution business for 25 years.Joined Red Hat in 2014 to embrace the OpenSource Philosophy and help customers to manage and automate their digital transformation. Ansible Product Manager for more than 3 years focusing on Cloud Adoption and User Development Experience

Maarten Vandeperre

Specialist Solutions Architect (AppDev) - Red Hat

Maarten Vandeperre is an experienced software professional who joined Red Hat in 2023 as an Appdev Specialized Solutions Architect (recently AI as well). Maarten's primary focus is on application development, with a particular emphasis on leveraging Red Hat's OpenShift platform from a developer's perspective. One of Maarten's true passions lies in advocating for "clean architecture" as a guiding principle in software development. He firmly believes in the importance of designing software systems that are modular, maintainable, and scalable. As part of his dedication to this approach, Maarten strives to map these principles to infrastructure solutions, ensuring that the underlying technology supports and enhances the overall architecture.

James Tate

Senior Systems Engineer - Kasten

I have a long history in the IT industry, starting in storage and fiber channel networking, moving onto HCI and virtualization, cloud, and finally Kubernetes. I currently work in the Kasten business unit within Veeam and am focused on driving data protection for native Kubernetes applications. I live in Birmingham, UK with my partner and 3 greyhounds.

Sergio Perez

Solution Architect - NVIDIA

Sergio Perez is a Solution Architect at NVIDIA specialised in Conversational AI. He has experience in optimising training and inference of LLMs, building RAG systems and working with companies in different sectors to leverage AI. His area of expertise at NVIDIA is quantisation and inference serving. Previously he worked as AI engineer at Graphcore and Amazon, and got a PhD in computational fluid dynamics from Imperial College London.

Laurent Plichart

Dynatrace

With over 25 years of experience in IT and Telecommunications, Laurent Plichart is an experienced technologist and esteemed Solution Engineer at Dynatrace. With a passion for innovation and a knack for problem-solving, Laurent specializes in empowering businesses to achieve peak digital performance through cutting-edge observability and automation solutions. As a captivating speaker, he shares his expertise with audiences, inspiring them to embrace transformative technologies and unlock new opportunities in the digital landscape.