Austin
April 25-29, 2016

Event Details

Please note: All times listed below are in Central Time Zone


Keynote: Day 1
Monday, April 25, 6:00am-9:00am (11:00am - 2:00pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Open Infrastructure Foundation, Executive Director
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,... FULL PROFILE
VP, Distinguished Analyst
Donna Scott is a Vice President and Distinguished Analyst in Gartner Research. She is responsible for research in the areas of cloud computing, cloud management and governance, the role of IT as a service broker, and the trends toward a software-defined data center. She focuses on best practices for building and running private and hybrid cloud services, on cloud management platform and... FULL PROFILE
President- Business Operations, ATT Business Solutions
As the President- Business Operations, AT&T Business Solutions, Sorabh Saxena is leading AT&T’s transformation to a software-based company.  Towards that goal, he is leading the development of platforms that include AT&T’s Integrated Cloud (AIC), API, Data, and Business Functions. Additionally, he manages delivery and production support of AT&T’s software defined... FULL PROFILE
Co-Founder and CMO at Mirantis
Boris is responsible for helping define Mirantis’ strategic vision and executing on it in the marketplace across the OpenStack ecosystem and beyond. Boris’s influence was instrumental in Mirantis’ current focus on OpenStack. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the OpenStack Foundation. During the last 15 years, Boris held several executive positions with the companies he helped... FULL PROFILE
GM and Global Head of IoT and Innovation GTM
Nayaki Nayyar is the General Manager and Global Head of IoT and Innovation GTM at SAP. During her 20 year career, Nayaki has held various leadership positions at SAP and in the Industry. In her most recent  role, she led the product development organization for SAP’s Cloud for Customer product—comprised of sales, service, and social capabilities—and significantly... FULL PROFILE
Senior Manager of Cloud Services
Toshikazu Ichikawa is a Senior Manager of Cloud Services, NTT Communications Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. He manages the team in charge of virtual server service development and operation, which consists of ECL2.0 public cloud using OpenStack. Prior to this job, he was a Senior Research Engineer for NTT Software Innovation Center of NTT Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. He led a OpenStack... FULL PROFILE
NTT
He has been working on OpenStack development project in NTT R&D since 2011 and is currently a manager of OpenStack community team within NTT Software Innovation Center. He has been the chairman of the Japan OpenStack Users Group (JOSUG) since March 2016.   FULL PROFILE
Chief Technologist, Red Hat, Inc
Chris Wright is the Chief Technologist at Red Hat where he is leading engineers who work on cloud computing, distributed storage, network virtualization, containers, and continuous delivery.  During his more than 20 years as a software engineer he has worked in the telecom industry on high availability and distributed systems and in the Linux industry on security, virtualization, and... FULL PROFILE
Corporate Director IT Operational Services I
As Corporate Director IT Operational Services & Infrastructure Technologies, Mario Müller manages the solution and operation team responsible for the IT Infrastructure. Mario joined Volkswagen Group in October 2014. Before he joined Volkswagen Group, Mario worked the last 16 years for the BMW Group in various positions. Mario holds a master´s degree (Dipl.-Kfm.) in business administration. FULL PROFILE