Simon is a EMEA Solution Architect working on Red Hat's offerings on AWS . Before joining the team he worked as a Sales Engineer for SUSE working as an OpenStack specialist, giving him a fantastic appreciation of building, managing and consuming cloud services. A true evangelist, Simon takes any opportunity to extol the value of Open Source.

Rhys Powell is a Senior Black Belt in Managed Cloud Solutions at Red Hat, following years of experience in both consultancy and client-side positions, across DevOps and Cloud. In his current role he works with businesses to help them understand ways of working with platforms in the cloud and across hybrid environments, showing business benefits and value at all levels of the organisation and helping strengthen technical ability and release technical blockers from teams.

Before starting at RedHat I worked at AWS in the EMEA Cloud Economics Organization. In that role I was engaging with customers to run Business value assessments for moving workloads to AWS either from on-prem or other platforms. Many of the modernization projects and migrations included containers and kubernetes. ROSA was a big part of the high end turn key solution and service that added additional value for the customer.

Fabio Alessandro Locati - commonly known as Fale - is a Principal Specialist Solution Architect at Red Hat, public speaker, author, and Open Source contributor. His primary areas of expertise are Linux, automation, security, and cloud technologies. Fale has more than 20 years of working experience in IT, with many of them spent consulting for many companies, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of the books Practical Ansible 2, Learning Ansible 2, Learning Ansible 2.7, and OpenStack Cloud Security. In the spare time he helps in the Kubernetes, Fedora Project, Ansible, Wikimedia, Open Street Map communities as well as in many smaller projects on GitHub and similar platforms.

With nearly two decades in Enterprise IT across the UK and EMEA, Oliver has built a comprehensive background in end-user sales, partner management, and business development spanning hardware, software, and cloud solutions. His expertise is particularly strong in IBM and Red Hat software, complemented by strategic secondments at technology partner, Logicalis and leading IT distributor, Arrow, which have further enriched his understanding of integrated ecosystem motivations, all geared towards ensuring ultimate customer success.

In his current role as EMEA Cloud Marketplace Sales Leader at Red Hat, Oliver leverages this extensive experience to bring together customers, partners, and sales teams, fostering mutual growth and acting as a trusted advisor to drive innovation within the dynamic cloud marketplace landscape.

Thanos Terentes Printzios is a Senior Partner Development Manager under the EMEA Tech Partnerships and Marketplace at Amazon Web Services (AWS). With over 2 decades experience in IT, working with leading technology companies, he has demonstrated expertise in cloud transformation, partner ecosystem development, and enterprise solution delivery.

Juan van der Breggen is an EMEA Associate Principal Specialist Solution Architect for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. He has worked with Linux and other operating systems since the early 1990s and has a career in software engineering, including operating systems, middleware, and cloud computing.

As founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, Alan manages a broad array of businesses and brands including Techstrong Media, Techstrong Live, Techstrong Research, Devops.com, Security Boulevard, Techstrong TV, and Techstrong Learning. To do so and succeed, Alan has to be attuned to the world of technology, particularly DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud-native and digital transformation.

With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations.

Shimel is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chat podcast, TechStrong TV and Digital Anarchist audio and video appearances are widely followed.

Alan attributes his success to the combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality.

Mr. Shimel is a graduate of St. John's University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.