diff --git a/src/content/speakers/speakers.yml b/src/content/speakers/speakers.yml index 800d6d3ed..4092b77de 100644 --- a/src/content/speakers/speakers.yml +++ b/src/content/speakers/speakers.yml @@ -1258,16 +1258,18 @@ photo: 'annette_clewett.jpeg' - speaker_id: 'hugo_guerrero' name: 'Hugo Guerrero Olivares' - role: 'Developer Advocate' + role: 'Chief Software Architect, APIs & Integration Developer Advocate' url: 'https://redhat.com' company: 'Red Hat' photo: 'hugo_guerrero.jpeg' + intro: 'Hugo Guerrero is a Developer Advocate at Red Hat with over two decades of experience in software development. Throughout his career he has taken on diverse roles, including developer, consultant, architect and software development factory manager. Passionate about event-driven architecture, Hugo actively promotes the adoption of AsyncAPI, volunteering his time to raise awareness of this technology as an AsyncAPI ambassador. He is also a dedicated contributor to open-source projects and is responsible for maintaining the Microcks Docker Desktop Extension.' - speaker_id: 'andrew_block' name: 'Andrew Block' role: 'Distinguished Architect' company: 'Red Hat' url: 'https://www.redhat.com/' photo: 'andrew_block.jpeg' + intro: 'Andrew Block is a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat who works with organizations to design and implement solutions leveraging cloud native technologies. He specializes in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies with a focus on security to reduce the overall delivery time. Andrew is the author of several publications on solutions within the Kubernetes ecosystem, a maintainer on the Helm, ORAS and SOPS projects, and a contributor to several Open Source projects including Sigstore.' - speaker_id: 'peter_hunt' name: 'Peter Hunt' role: 'Senior Software Engineer' @@ -1453,10 +1455,8 @@ role: 'Vice President and General Manager, Red Hat Hybrid Platforms' company: 'Red Hat' url: 'https://www.openshift.com' - intro: 'Mike Barrett is the Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat Hybrid Platforms. He looks after Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Cloud Services, Red Hat OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, and most of Red Hat’s Cloud Native Computing Foundation investments. - - He joined Red Hat in 2013 and specializes in accelerating application platforms through the use of operating systems, cloud and hardware technologies. Mike has more than 25 years of experience in datacenter architecture. He previously worked in both services and product management roles at Sun Microsystems and Oracle before joining Red Hat.' photo: 'mike_barrett.jpg' + intro: 'Mike Barrett is the Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat Hybrid Platforms. He looks after Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Cloud Services, Red Hat OpenStack, Red Hat Virtualization, and most of Red Hats Cloud Native Computing Foundation investments. He joined Red Hat in 2013 and specializes in accelerating application platforms through the use of operating systems, cloud and hardware technologies. Mike has more than 25 years of experience in datacenter architecture. He previously worked in both services and product management roles at Sun Microsystems and Oracle before joining Red Hat' - speaker_id: 'derek_carr' name: 'Derek Carr' role: 'Senior Principal Software Engineer' @@ -1792,9 +1792,9 @@ name: 'Doron Caspin' company: 'Red Hat' url: 'https://www.redhat.com' - role: 'Senior Principal Product Manager' - photo: 'doron_caspin.jpeg' - + role: 'Senior Product Manager, Security Product Platform Development' + photo: 'doron_caspin.jpg' + intro: 'Doron Caspin is the Senior Principal Product Manager for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security, based in Chapel Hill, NC. He has 25 years of experience in the industry and holds both an MBA from North Carolina State University and CSSLP certifications.Doron joined Red Hat from IBI, where he was Director of Product Management and led the company’s transition to the cloud. Before IBI, he was a Senior Offering Manager at IBM, overseeing QRadar Security SaaS products. He also served as a Senior Product Manager at Dell-EMC, focusing on Data Protection and Security for Hybrid Cloud Solutions. Doron has also worked as a Principal Architect at RSA Security. Doron enjoys the outdoors, building things, and listening to music outside of work. He lives in Chapel Hill with his four daughters.' - speaker_id: 'camila_macedo' name: 'Camila Macedo' company: 'Red Hat' @@ -1955,6 +1955,7 @@ url: 'https://www.RedHat.com' role: 'Senior Principal Architect' photo: 'raffaele_spazzoli.jpeg' + intro: 'Raffaele Spazzoli is a full-stack enterprise architect with 20+ years of experience. Raffaele started his career in Italy as a Java Architect, then gradually moved to Integration Architect and then Enterprise Architect. Later he moved to the United States to eventually become an OpenShift Architect for Red Hat consulting services, acquiring in the process, knowledge of the infrastructure side of IT. Currently Raffaele covers a consulting position of cross-portfolio application architecture with a focus on OpenShift. For most of his career Raffaele has worked with large financial institutions allowing him to acquire an understanding of the processes, security and compliance requirements of large enterprise customers. Raffaele has become part of the CNCF TAG Storage and contributed to the Cloud Native Disaster Recovery whitepaper. Recently Raffaele has been focusing on how to improve the developer experience by implementing internal development platforms (IDP).' - speaker_id: 'roland_barcia' name: 'Roland Barcia' company: 'AWS' @@ -1997,6 +1998,7 @@ url: 'https://www.redhat.com' role: 'Principal Software Engineer, Technical Lead' photo: 'joel_speed.jpg' + intro: 'Joel is a Principal Software Engineer with Red Hat focusing primarily on integrating OpenShift and the cloud. He’s been working with and building on Kubernetes since 2017. With Red Hat since 2020, he now leads the team behind Machine API and Cluster API as well as Cloud Controller Manager and autoscaling integrations. Joel is also one of the OpenShift API review team and is responsible for assisting OpenShift engineers across the board with their architecture and API design.' - speaker_id: 'damiano_donati' name: 'Damiano Donati' company: 'Red Hat' @@ -2201,6 +2203,7 @@ name: 'Adam Sykes' company: 'Deloitte Consulting' photo: 'adam_sykes.png' + intro: 'Adam Sykes is a Deloitte Engineering leader in building Developer Platforms in the Cloud and an overall Developer Experience for enterprise. He serves customers across Government and Commercial sectors and strives to bring acceleration to environments for happy developers.' - speaker_id: 'randeep_khaund' name: 'Randeep Khaund' company: 'Deloitte Consulting' @@ -2295,11 +2298,13 @@ name: 'Ju Lim' company: 'Red Hat' role: 'Senior Manager, OpenShift Product Manager' + intro: 'Ju Lim is a Senior Manager, OpenShift Product Management and Distinguished Engineer. She works on the core Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments to enable customers to run Red Hat OpenShift anywhere. Ju leads the product management teams responsible for installation, updates, provider integration, and cloud infrastructure.' - speaker_id: 'peter_lauterbach' name: 'Peter Lauterbach' + role: 'Senior Principle Technical Product Manager' company: 'Red Hat' - role: 'Senior Principal Technical Product Manager' photo: 'peter_lauterbach.jpeg' + intro: 'Peter is a product manager in Red Hat Hybrid Platforms, focused on OpenShift, virtualization, and performance & scale. He’s been building high-tech solutions for enterprise storage, virtualization, databases, hyperconverged infrastructure, and cloud for longer than he cares to admit.' - speaker_id: 'jeremy_eder' name: 'Jeremy Eder' company: 'Red Hat' @@ -2315,6 +2320,7 @@ company: 'Red Hat' role: 'Product Manager' photo: 'christophe_fargette.jpg' + intro: 'Christophe Fargette is a Product Manager at Red Hat, specializing in the development and enhancement of the Red Hat Developer Hub. With a passion for empowering developers and optimizing workflows, Christophe leads initiatives to create user-centric solutions that streamline internal development processes. With his extensive expertise in developer experience, Christophe brings a unique blend of technical expertise and strategic vision to his role. He is committed to understanding the diverse needs of developers within the organization and works closely with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative tools and resources that enhance productivity and collaboration.' - speaker_id: 'tracy_rankin' name: 'Tracy Rankin' company: 'Red Hat' @@ -2750,7 +2756,9 @@ - speaker_id: 'salaboy' name: 'Mauricio ''Salaboy'' Salatino' company: 'Diagrid' - photo: 'salaboy.jpeg' + role: Software Engineer + photo: 'salaboy.jpg' + intro: 'Mauricio “Salaboy” Salatino works as an Open-Source and Ecosystem Software Engineer at Diagrid, contributing to and driving initiatives for the Dapr OSS project. He also serves as a Steering Committee member for the Knative Project, Co-chair of the Application Development Working Group at the CNCF, and Dapr Maintainer. He published a book titled Platform Engineering on Kubernetes for Manning Publishing and previously worked at both VMware and Red Hat, building tools to help developers be more productive.' - speaker_id: 'adrian_martin' name: 'Adrián Martín' company: 'Inditex' @@ -2775,8 +2783,9 @@ - speaker_id: 'michael_st_jean' name: 'Michael St-Jean' company: 'Red Hat' + photo: 'michael_st_jean.jpeg' role: 'Global Partner Business Executive' - photo: 'michael_st-jean.png' + intro: 'Michael St-Jean collaborates with partners across Red Hats partner ecosystem to develop solutions and cross-route initiatives that deliver business value for organizations around the world. For more than 2 decades, Michael has worked with cross-functional teams to help organizations solve complex business challenges with innovative technology solutions and strategies.' - speaker_id: 'walter_bentley' name: 'Walter Bentley' company: 'Red Hat' @@ -2928,9 +2937,11 @@ photo: 'federico_beux.png' - speaker_id: 'francisco_meneses' name: 'Francisco Meneses' - role: 'Senior Architect - STP LATAM' + role: 'Senior Architect' company: 'Red Hat' photo: 'francisco_meneses.jpeg' + intro: 'Francisco Meneses is Senior Architect - STP for Latin America at Red Hat. His main role is to help the consulting and TSM team define architectures and support in generating commercial proposals that allow the generation of new opportunities for the company, ensuring the best practices and recommendations. +With more than 12 years of experience in the IT industry, Francisco has been with Red Hat since 2016. During his professional career there, he has served as an architect and a Practice Leader, ensuring the adoption of product stack integration technologies. In addition to supporting the transformational processes of all clients (in areas of education, retail, banking, and telecommunications)' - speaker_id: 'marcelo_duarte' name: 'Marcelo Duarte' role: 'Jefe infrastructura cloud y Base de Datos' @@ -2995,36 +3006,43 @@ role: 'Account Executive' company: 'Crunchy Data' photo: 'blair_mcduff.jpg' + intro: 'Blair McDuff is an Account Executive at Crunchy Data. She works with enterprises across North America to ensure the backend data store for their applications is highly available and secure. She focuses on providing open-source software solutions, an exceptional customer experience, and business value.' - speaker_id: 'andy_gower' name: 'Andy Gower' role: 'Head of Partner & Solutions Marketing' company: 'Portworx' photo: 'andy_gower.jpeg' + intro: 'Andy is the Head of Partner & Solutions Marketing at Portworx by Pure Storage, a role he has held since May 2021. In this role, Andy is responsible for driving the GTM and strategic efforts with key technology and channel partners. Prior to Portworx, Andy held multiple product management and product marketing roles at IBM with a focus on Red Hat OpenShift solutions. Andy has also spent time as a management consultant with a focus on the healthcare and higher education industries. Andy received both his BA and MBA from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he still resides with his wife, son, daughter, and 90 pound Great Pyrenees.' - speaker_id: 'alireza_rahmani' name: 'Alireza Rahmani' role: 'Senior Cloud Success Architect' company: 'Red Hat' photo: 'alireza_rahmani.jpeg' + intro: 'Alireza Rahmani is a dynamic Senior Cloud Success Architect at Red Hat who blends technical mastery in cloud computing with a passion for education. With a strong foundation in both software engineering and business, Alireza excels at developing forward-thinking strategies and solutions. As an innovative educator and curriculum developer, he champions open-source technologies, inspiring the next generation of tech leaders. His commitment to advancing technological progress and driving community engagement underscores his role as a true leader in the cloud and academic spheres.' - speaker_id: 'alan_cowles' name: 'Alan Cowles' role: 'Principal Technical Marketing Manager' company: 'Red Hat' photo: 'alan_cowles.jpg' + intro: 'Alan Cowles is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager on the Customer and Field Engagement team at Red Hat. He specializes in hybrid data center architecture and the development of solution patterns using Red Hat OpenShift, with a particular focus on OpenShift Virtualization. These patterns combine both native features and partner solutions to demonstrate how to best meet customer needs. In the world away from work, Alan can often be found running or biking on one of the many trail systems in central North Carolina, playing softball or golf, or hanging out at home with his wife and two children.' - speaker_id: 'scott_berens' name: 'Scott Berens' - role: 'Senior Manager, Product Management, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes' + role: 'Senior Manager, Product Management' company: 'Red Hat' photo: 'scott_berens.jpg' + intro: 'Scott Berens is a Senior Manager, Product Management, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, with a focus on multicluster management. Scott has 20 years of experience with IBM and Red Hat working in virtualization, orchestration and management across private, hybrid and multicloud. Scott leads the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes product management team as part of the Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus offering. Scott likes technology that just works, live music, bbq, tennis, skiing and pretty anything outdoors [except yardwork].' - speaker_id: 'matt_slotten' name: 'Matt Slotten' role: 'Principal Solution Architect' company: 'Veeam' photo: 'matt_slotten.jpg' + intro: 'Matt brings over 15 years of experience to his role as Principal Solutions Architect at Kasten by Veeam. He has a background in cloud computing, DevSecOps, and IT infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure, virtualization, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and web application development' - speaker_id: 'matt_bator' name: 'Matt Bator' role: 'Principal Solution Architect' company: 'Veeam' photo: 'matt_bator.png' + intro: 'Matt is a 15+ year IT veteran with a passion for educating others about emerging technologies. From roles in development, to sales, to enablement, Matts career has continually focused on creating connections between customer value and technical problem solving. His work at Kasten includes designing and delivering training on Kastens product and Kubernetes ecosystem for employees, partners, and the community. Matt holds a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University.' - speaker_id: 'christophe_fargette' name: 'Christophe Fargette' role: 'Product Manager' @@ -3035,16 +3053,19 @@ role: 'Senior Solutions Architect' company: 'Trilio' photo: 'rodolfo_casas.png' + intro: 'Rodolfo Casás is a Senior Solutions Architect from Madrid, Spain, working for Trilio with a special focus on cloud-native computing, hybrid cloud strategies, telco and data protection. He started working with Solaris back in 1998, and GNU/Linux back in 2001 and developed a passion for Open Source software. His main fields of interest are cloud computing, data protection, automation, and systems performance tuning. He also is a Red Hat Certified Technology Instructor, teaching many classes about GNU/Linux, OpenStack, Ansible and OpenShift. He is an active member of the Open Source and Kubernetes community, and is often featured in thought leadership discussions and events.' - speaker_id: 'ryan_waller' name: 'Ryan Wallner' role: 'Senior Technical Marketing Engineer' company: 'Portworx by Pure Storage' photo: 'ryan_waller.png' + intro: 'Ryan is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Portworx by Pure Storage and host of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast. Ryan is a cloud native and Kubernetes enthusiast and dad of a fearless daughter. Find Ryan creating blogs, podcasts, light boards, demos, and hands-on labs within the container cloud native ecosystem. Before Pure, Ryan spent time at Dell, ClusterHQ, and Athenahealth where he focused on DevOps and Storage. In his free time, you can find Ryan spending time outdoors adventure riding dual sport bikes, hiking, and mountain biking.' - speaker_id: 'pavol_loffay' name: 'Pavol Loffay' role: 'Principal Software Engineer' company: 'Red Hat' photo: 'pavol_loffay.jpeg' + intro: 'Pavol Loffay is a Principal Software Engineer, tech lead, Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry and OpenShift distributed tracing. He works on open-source observability technology for modern cloud-native applications. He contributes to and maintains the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects OpenTelemetry and Jaeger. In his free time, Pavol likes to hike, climb, and ski steep slopes in the Swiss Alps.' - speaker_id: 'aubrey_muhlach' name: 'Aubrey Muhlach' role: 'Senior Manager, Product Marketing' @@ -3070,11 +3091,13 @@ role: 'Principal Software Engineer' company: 'Red Hat' photo: 'doug_smith.jpeg' + intro: 'Doug Smith is a Principal Software Engineer for OpenShift Engineering at Red Hat. Focusing on Network Function Virtualization and container technologies, Doug integrates new networking technologies with container systems like Kubernetes and OpenShift. He is a member of the Network Plumbing Working Group and a contributor to OpenShift, Multus, and NFV-related projects.' - speaker_id: 'kevin_dubois' name: 'Kevin Dubois' - role: 'Senior Principal Developer Advocate' + role: 'Principal Product Marketing Manager' company: 'Red Hat' photo: 'kevin_dubois.jpeg' + intro: 'Kevin Dubois is a Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, where his deep passion for open source, Java and cloud-native development shines through. As a recognized Java Champion, accomplished software engineer, author, and keynote speaker, Kevin is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of modern software development. His role at Red Hat allows him to immerse himself in cutting-edge open source projects while enhancing the developer experience across the globe. A true advocate for the open source community, Kevin also contributes when he can to projects like Quarkus, Knative, Apache Camel and Podman (Desktop). He’s also an organizing member of the Belgian CNCF and the Belgian Java User Group. Multilingual and multicultural, Kevin speaks English, Dutch, French and Italian fluently. Currently based in Belgium, he has lived in Italy and the USA, giving him a global perspective that he brings to his work.' - speaker_id: 'mrunal_patel' name: 'Mrunal Patel' role: 'Distinguished Engineer' @@ -3090,6 +3113,7 @@ role: 'Principal Software Engineer' company: 'Red Hat' photo: 'surya_seetharaman.jpg' + intro: 'Surya is an Open Source advocate and contributor, active in the Kubernetes SIG-Network working group. She is working as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat on the OpenShift Networking team. Her areas of interest include Cloud Infrastructure and Networked Services and Systems. She loves solving problems in any sphere of life (specially if it involves coding and collaborating with people from diverse backgrounds). When she is not working, she loves to bike, swim and binge watch.' - speaker_id: 'younes_ben_brahim' name: 'Younes Ben Brahim' role: 'Senior Product Marketing Manager' @@ -3105,11 +3129,13 @@ role: 'Principal Product Manager' company: 'Red Hat' photo: 'anjali_telang.jpeg' + intro: 'Anjali Telang is a Principal Product Manager for Security and Identity in OpenShift at RedHat. She is a security, networking and cloud enthusiast with over 16 years of experience. Prior to joining RedHat, she worked in various product and engineering roles at VMware and NetApp. In her free time, she loves to read, cook and meditate.' - speaker_id: 'jamie_parker' name: 'Jamie Parker' - role: 'Product Manager' + role: 'Principal Product Manager' company: 'Red Hat' photo: 'jamie_parker.png' + intro: 'Jamie Parker is a Product Manager at Red Hat who specializes in Observability, particularly in the OpenShift Logging and OpenStack Telemetry areas. At Red Hat, Jamie works with organizations and customers to learn about their needs within the ever changing Observability landscape, and based on their feedback, helps to guide upcoming products within the Red Hat Observability Platform. Jamie enjoys sharing lessons learned to the community by frequently speaking at meetups and conferences and by blogging.' - speaker_id: 'amy_marrich' name: 'Amy Marrich' role: 'Principal Technical Marketing Manager' @@ -3118,5 +3144,4 @@ - speaker_id: 'jamie_magiera' name: 'Jamie Magiera' role: 'Senior Systems Engineer' - company: 'CSX' - + company: 'CSX' \ No newline at end of file