Hernan has spend his career building and leading technology teams with a focus on cloud technologies, systems automation, agile organizations, “DevOps” culture, and has been running OpenStack at scale since the Diablo release.
Currently, Hernan is the Vice President of Operations and Product at Blue Box, where he oversees all of technology from product development to customer support of the Blue Box Cloud.
Prior to joining Blue Box, Hernan served as Senior Director of Architecture and Operations at HP, where he built and managed technical operations for their public cloud offering and ar
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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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Jacki Bauer is a Senior User Experience Designer with more than 8 years of experience translating user needs into compelling online experiences. She has an MS in Human Computer Interaction from Indiana University. Before moving to Austin to work at Rackspace, she spent 6 years in DC designing solutions for government clients such as the EPA, CDC and DoD. She is currently the UX Lead for Rackspace Private Cloud and contributing member of the OpenStack User Experience community.
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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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.
Bob Callaway is a Technical Marketing Engineer with NetApp’s Cloud Solutions Group. He focuses on strategies, business development activities, and reference architectures that promote the benefits of NetApp storage and software into cloud computing environments. Prior to joining NetApp, he spent over 8 years in various roles within IBM focused on application integration middleware and cloud computing. He is an ATC on various OpenStack projects, and holds the PhD degree in Computer Engineering from NC State University. He also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NC State University.
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I am a linux systems engineer and developer currently working for Cisco on a PAAS deployed to OpenStack. Within the last few years I have become focused on bringing a more agile methodology to the platform, with a focus on automation and testing. I have been working with open source software for over a decade, and I have worked with various international groups to make these communities more accessible to women. When not in front of a computer, I can usually be found outside or climbing fake rocks.
Dan Conde is the Director of Products at Midokura, a network virtualization company. Dan has held product roles at VMware, Rendition Networks, NetIQ and Microsoft. He has also held software engineering positions at Digital Equipment Corporation and Xerox Corporation, both in Palo Alto, CA. His interests have mostly focused on system software and systems & network management but also had some detours into user interface design. Dan received his Masters of Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and his Computer Science degree from
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Dr. Angel Luis Diaz is IBM’s champion for open technology. As the Vice President of Open Technology & Cloud Performance Solutions for IBM Software Group, Dr. Diaz has led IBM’s & the IT Industry’s transformation toward a Next Generation Enterprise Software Platform that delivers accelerated client value through interoperability & portability, based upon standards & open source at scale. Passionate about the art-of-the-possible, Dr. Diaz leads a global team that works across open source communities, international organizations & standards consortia to foster development of the next generation
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Rob’s involvement in OpenStack dates to the origins of the community in 2010. He founded and continues to lead NetApp’s efforts in his role as Senior Product Manager for OpenStack. He¹s been engaged as an architect of deployments, an ATC (technical contributor to the community), is NetApp’sOpenStack Foundation representative, and is a regular speaker at OpenStack Design Summits, conferences and user groups. He’s charged with strategy, integration and development of NetApp portfolio technologies in and around
OpenStack as well as business development, organizational and process alignment for going to market. His tenure at NetApp began as the Technical Account Manager (technical liaison) to Oracle and then as a co-founder of NetApp’s telco & service provider cloud architecture team.In the 8 years prior to NetApp, Rob was at Apple serving in a variety of roles ranging from building and directing a team of pre-sales consultative subject matter experts, to serving as Technical Attaché to the CEO and the Board of Directors reporting to Steve Jobs. A former U.S. Marine, he resides in Austin, Texas with
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Ali Fenn is Sr. Director, Advanced Storage at Seagate, where she leads business development and product management for new platform solutions, open source engagement, and software innovation. Ali’s career includes 15 years in Business Development, Strategy, and Sales leadership roles across the enterprise software, infrastructure, and SaaS application market segments. Most recently Fenn founded and led the consulting firm, York Street Strategy, which helped to fund, launch and build 8 venture-backed start-ups in Silicon Valley. Prior roles and experience include: leading BD and Alliances
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Leading up to his role as the Head of Private Cloud Enablement at Wells Fargo, Glenn has gained significant experience in the area of Cloud Computing which began with his role as the first of four software engineers hired at LoudCloud to create Opsware. Most recently Glenn was the Director of Cloud Platform Engineering at Netflix and later headed the solution architecture function for HP Cloud Services. Along the way, Glenn has been listed on several patents related to cloud computing and participated in the formation of the Oasis DCML standard – an early attempt to standardize on how to describe
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Ryan is a founding general partner of Storm Ventures. At Storm Ventures, Ryan focuses on enterprise IT and web opportunities. He has primarily invested in SaaS (Crowd Factory / Acquired by Marketo, BlackStratus), mobile (Appcelerator) and cloud/internet related investments (Hubpages, Kidaro/Acquired by Microsoft, MetaCloud, Spalshtop and XDN). He has also invested in semiconductors/components as well (SandForce /Acquired by LSI and Ignis Optics /Acquired by Bookham).
Prior to founding Storm Ventures, Ryan directed the business development activities at E-TEK Dynamics where he focused on buildin
