Speakers

Speakers

Aneesh AR

Senior Black Belt, Managed OpenShift, Red Hat

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Aneesh AR

Red Hat

Aneesh serves as one of the EMEA Black Belts at Red Hat, where he focuses on cloud services. Over the past two decades, he has built a career that bridges software development, security, and cloud-native innovation, supporting enterprise customers on their journey to open cloud adoption. Beyond work, Aneesh is passionate about nature - he enjoys watching wildlife documentaries and exploring the outdoors whenever he gets the chance.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aneesh-ar-tech/

Philipp Bergsmann

Senior Black Belt, Managed OpenShift, Red Hat

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Philipp Bergsmann

Red Hat

Philipp is part of the EMEA OpenShift Black Belt team at Red Hat, focusing on the managed cloud offerings. He has worked in the IT industry for about 20 years in various roles, from development to cloud infrastructure consulting. Over the last few years, Philipp has worked extensively on Kubernetes-related topics, planning and implementing Kubernetes platforms with various local and international companies.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phbergsmann/ 

Rhys Powell

Senior Black Belt, Managed OpenShift, Red Hat

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Rhys Powell

Red Hat

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.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhyspowell/?originalSubdomain=uk 

Alan Shimel

Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief Techstrong Group

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Alan Shimel

Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief Techstrong Group

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.