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PREVAIL2020
An IBM Academy of Technology Conference on Performance, Availability, Security, and SRE organised by the IBM Performance and Availability Community, and IBV
About the conference
An IBM Academy of Technology Conference on Performance, Availability, Security, and SRE organised by the IBM Performance and Availability Community, and IBV
In recent times we have seen a growing interest in Agile ways of working, DevOps pipelines and toolchains, microservices development and deployment onto cloud-native container-platforms. The promises of these new methods and computing paradigms are manifold but as solution complexity increases the non-functional aspects might suffer. The recent COVID crisis has made it very clear that services from the cloud are expected to be fast, always ON and secure but it requires insight, skill, and professionalism to achieve those qualities! PREVAIL 2020 is organized by and for technical IT professionals who are passionate about IT resilience, security and performance. We offer a large variety of keynotes, breakout sessions, panels, workshops and posters from the best subject matter experts in the field.
An IBM Academy of Technology Conference on Performance, Availability, Security, and SRE organised by the IBM Performance and Availability Community, and IBV
In recent times we have seen a growing interest in Agile ways of working, DevOps pipelines and toolchains, microservices development and deployment onto cloud-native container-platforms. The promises of these new methods and computing paradigms are manifold but as solution complexity increases the non-functional aspects might suffer.
The recent COVID crisis has made it very clear that services from the cloud are expected to be fast, always ON and secure but it requires insight, skill, and professionalism to achieve those qualities!
PREVAIL 2020 is organized by and for technical IT professionals who are passionate about IT resilience, security and performance. We offer a large variety of keynotes, breakout sessions, panels, workshops and posters from the best subject matter experts in the field.
Availability
Learn how to make your IT systems always-on
Day 1: September 15, 2020
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Speakers: Richard Hopkins
Day 1 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
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Speakers: Ingo Averdunk
This presentation describes key architectural patterns available to implement reliability into a software component or service. With the skill and experience in these techniques, the engineering professional can have a meaningful conversation with product owners on implementing reliability targets for a given service.
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Speakers: Haytham ElnahasHaytham Elkhoja
In this session, we'll discuss the output of the AoT OpenShift Design - Resiliency Squad and its recommendations We'll go through the following points: - Is DR still a valid option for OpenShift, in the traditional sense? - What to do and not to do regarding Openshift high availability - Discuss workloads, including the Active/Active and Active/Passive discussion from a workload perspective - How to backup the Openshift elements - How to backup workloads and data
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Speakers: Benjamin Walterscheid
Driven by recent advancements in the emergence of data processing, acquisition (IoT) and analysis technologies, the era of data-driven products has arrived and traditional enterprise IT landscapes have been reshaped. Data is generated throughout the product development process in a virtual environment (computer-aided engineering, PLM) and continues whenever a product is used in the physical world. Despite this continuous generation of data, there is no exchange of information between virtual and physical systems. Both are considered in isolation from each other and as a result of this, there is no stateful representation of a product. Therefore, this work introduces Digital Twin Operations (DTOps), a perpetually evolving concept which places an emphasis on the interlocking of virtual and physical systems to achieve a complete virtual mapping of a physical object using continuous and pervasive real-time data exchange combined with the capability of cloud and edge computing.
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Speakers: Allen DownsAndrea SaylesBj Klingenberg
AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
**Resiliency and Business Update Panel Discussion**
Andrea to give a perspective on Business and Operational Resiliency – especially in light of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and she will host a panel to discuss the market/client view of Business and Operational Resiliency, as well as the current state of accelerated cyber security attacks given the vulnerabilities caused by COVID-19. She will also give a view of what the IBM company is doing for Business Continuity Management (BCM) and how we are keeping our employees and clients safe in this highly volatile environment. Her guests on the panel will be:
Allen Downs, VP, Global Sales, Business Resiliency Services
BJ Klingenberg, CTO, Business Resiliency Services -
Speakers: Eduardo PatrocinioJohn Webb
In this session, I will describe how IBM Multicloud Manager can be used to achieve resilience for an application. I will start with a simple application, deploying manually in multiple clusters. Then, I will present the challenge to have application consistency and a solution on how to achieve it using MCM capabilities. The audience will learn how to use MCM concepts to have a consistent and resilient application.
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Speakers: Chad Andrews (moderator)J Gregory Land (greg)Jane CheungLauren IsbellNikiforos ChatzopoulosSashank Rao Yaragudipati
AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
PREVAIL2020 brings to you an amazing panel discussion featuring a number of industry experts from IBV and Industry Academy who speak about how businesses and industries are changing during pandemic and what will take precedence post pandemic. Our panellists are coming from Consumer and Travel & Transportation industries. Do not miss on this spectacular opportunity to hear from our experts. -
Speakers: Jyoti ChawlaSandeep Mangalath
Open Source Project Velero has picked up pace with its integration into VMware's Tanzu Mission Critical portfolio. This session provides an optioned view of Velero, covering the state of the project, its applicability to protecting Stateful applications, its limitations and strengths as being a Kubernetes aware backup and restore service. This will be followed by a hands-on walkthrough of protecting an Operator managed stateful application running on Kubernetes cluster using Velero. This will give an experiential demonstration of Velero in the context of a real world enterprise application. The participants will walk away with an understanding of Velero; what it is, when to use it and how to use it.
Day 2: September 16, 2020
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Speakers: Ralph Bateman
SRE is a term now used widely across our industry. But what does it mean and how can you do it? Ever wanted to know how to achieve high availability, but fast and frequent deployment to production. How can you enable Development squads to deploy to production as often as they want without risking outages? Learn how AIOps and Chatbots can help save you time and effort in a highly availably production system. This session will cover all these topics and more.
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Speakers: Karpagam Venkatraman
Rethinking Enterprise Backup and DR for the Cloud
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Speakers: Andrew P Roden
Andrew P Roden will discuss Red Hat Openshift and the potential paradigm changes that it offers regarding availability, disaster recovery, and performance engineering.
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Speakers: Richard Hopkins
Day 2 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
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Speakers: Stacy Joines
Hybrid Cloud brings not only new technology, but also a new culture to traditional IT. This culture change is most famous for its embrace of techniques like Design Thinking, Agile development, and pair programming. This presentation discusses how Hybrid Cloud technology and culture reaches into the space of performance and scalability. We’ll discuss considerations and lessons from real-world experiences to engage the scalability and power of the Hybrid Cloud. The presentation will also cover how one team, the IBM Garage, is working to incorporate operational success factors like Scalability and Security into the very fabric of the new development culture.
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Speakers: Chris Dotson
How does security affect resilience? For example, are your cloud security measures implemented in a way that can respond to changing demand quickly, and do your security measures make your environment more resistant to disruption from different types of attacks? In this session, we'll discuss the essentials of cloud security -- such as threats, vulnerabilities, risks, and preventive and detective controls, and how different security measures can both positively and negatively impact resilience.
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Speakers: Anil JainDhiraj KunwarHeather Fraser (moderator)Jianying HuPaolo Sironi
AMERICAS FRIENDLY:
PREVAIL2020 brings to you an amazing panel discussion featuring a number of industry experts from IBV and Industry Academy who speak about how businesses and industries are changing during pandemic and what will take precedence post pandemic. Our panellists are coming from Banking & Financial Markets and Health & Life Sciences industries. Do not miss on this spectacular opportunity to hear from our experts. -
Speakers: Amine AnoujaEduardo PatrocinioHaytham Elnahas
Redhat Openshift is a platform that is rich with features and capabilities, most of these are not activated by default when the platform is first installed, it’s the role of the admins/operators of the platform to have a strongly enforced boundaries and rules in place to prevent inappropriate use of the platform. Here we highlight a number of these features like, quotas, network policies, naming conventions and pod priority.
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Speakers: Michael Mitchell
Michael will present a brief summary of hybrid & multi cloud approaches and explain the rationale of a multi cloud architecture. Then Michael, will discuss a few multi cloud architectures and follow up with a use case. Michael will continue with application resiliency in a multi cloud environment and finally, conclude with the containers hosted on multi cloud environments.
Day 3: September 17, 2020
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Speakers: David Coleman
Is cloud availability something new? Don't the usual rules for availability design apply? Well, yes and no. The usual rules do apply, but the content is different. And interestingly, that means what is likely to fail changes quite a bit.
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Speakers: Richard Hopkins
Day 3 welcome by IBM Academy of Technology President
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Speakers: Chet KarwatowskiRahul NaharThomas Ward
Double Trouble: how Operations Risk Insights mitigates the pandemic and global cyclone threats for IBMers and Non-profit Disaster Relief Agencies
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Speakers: Haytham Elkhoja
We will discuss and show how we can guarantee strong data integrity and consistency by relying on Event-driven Architectures and new Cloud-native patterns. I present architectural methods and principles that were recently delivered in a large financial institution in Europe during their journey to an Always On / Multi-Active architecture. In a microservices and Cloud-native world, where applications must be de-coupled from the underneath platform and hardware, architects and developers have to re-think how to achieve transactional consistency by modernizing applications to new patterns such as Saga, Outbox, Event Sourcing and relying on an Always On/Always Consistent Kafka Event Stream platform.
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Speakers: Haytham Elkhoja
I present architectural methods, patterns and practices that are to be followed by developers, SREs and software architects when building and maintaining cloud-native applications and services that need to provide the highest levels of availability. The methods describe how to provide *true* five nines (99.999%) for end to end business services by incorporating Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, Microservices, Chaos Engineering, Cloud-native Architectures, Application Modernization, Multi-Availability Regions, Geo-dispersity, Data Consistency, Performance and Scalability, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), and Software-defined Environments (SDE).
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Speakers: Sam Lightstone
AI is disrupting system performance. In this session CTO and IBM Fellow Sam Lightstone will highlight some of the emerging AI technologies that are creating knew opportunities for performance engineering. From Machine Learning to Deep Learning to Neuromorphic computing, learn how performance engineering is entering a new era beyond the fundamentals of throughput and latency of compute, storage and network. Profound changes are occurring as every layer of the stack is increasingly infused with AI.
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Speakers: Rama Akkiraju
Recent advancements in Cloud computing, which makes compute available for rent, Natural Language Processing via pre-trained language models such as Bi-directional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) for language understanding, and Machine Learning via interpretable machine learning models are all making it possible to infuse AI into traditional business processes by tapping into semi-structured and unstructured data that was not effectively tapped into before. In this talk, I will discuss the opportunity to infuse AI into IT operations management. I will demonstrate how AI enables us to mine application and infrastructure logs, tickets, and IT Operations managers’ collaboration chat conversations in addition to metrics that are traditionally analyzed to better diagnose, repair and resolve problems. In addition, I’ll discuss how we can proactively avoid issues from happening by improving the quality of the software development lifecycle artifacts via feed-forward and feedback loops.
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Speakers: Alan Lee
The Db2 High Availability Feature which enables integration between Db2 server and Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms (a.k.a. TSA) has been the best practice for automated failover to HADR standby in the past 10+ years. It is popular, well-adopted and continues to attract many mission critical deployments world-wide. To align with the overall IBM cloud strategy while at the same time, address recent surge of requests to deploy this solution in non-containerized cloud environment and to resolve existing limitation in TSA, Pacemaker has been anointed the new 'cluster manager of choice' going forward, with goals to enhance existing integration, further lower total cost of ownership and provide superior service than its predecessor...
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Speakers: Dale Mcinnis
In this presentation we will detail several DB2 resiliency patterns that customers have deployed. We will review the customer’s requirements, discuss alternatives and detail the final architectural chosen outlining both the pros and cons. Monitoring is key to success in building a resilient environment this we will detail what needs to be monitored.
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Speakers: Eduardo Patrocinio
So you think that if you containerize your application and run in a Kubernetes environment, it will provide the resilience is expect. You are wrong... This session will present the steps required to take a simple Kubernetes application and redesign it to be more resilient to disruptions.
Meet the speakers
We've assembled the best technical leaders across IBM to share their expertise and experience in the fields of Performance, Availability, Security and SRE.
Ahmed Abdelaziz
Senior Solutions Architect – IBM Garage for Technical Solution Acceleration
Alan Lee
Senior Technical Development Manager, Db2 pureScale & HA Architect (IBM)
Alan Piciacchio
STSM in GTS (IBM)
Alex Zverev
Performance Architect
Allen Downs
Vice President, Global Sales, Business Resiliency Services (IBM)
Amine Anouja
Cloud Architect, IBM Garage Solution Engineering
Andrea Crawford
IBM Distinguished Engineer, DevOps (IBM)
Andrea Sayles
General Manager, Business Resiliency Services (IBM)
Andreas Wespi
Research Staff Member, IBM Research - Zurich (IBM)
Andrew P Roden
Senior Chief Solutions Architect (IBM); Co-Lead IBM Academy of Technology STEM 2020 TC; IBM worldwide Community of Practice for Performance and Availability - Leadership Team
André Fachat
Executive IT Architect IBM GBS
Angel Policarpo Soteldo Malave
SRE Technical Lead (IBM)
Anik Manik
Performance Test Engineer (IBM)
Anil Jain
MD, FACP; VP & Chief Health Information Officer (IBM)
Aslam Shaik
Managing Consultant - Performance Testing/Engineering (IBM)
Bj Klingenberg
IBM Distinguished Engineer, CTO – Client Resiliency Technology Enablement, IBM GTS
Benjamin Walterscheid
Application Architect (IBM)
Chad Andrews (moderator)
Global Leader for Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment (TME) within the IBM's Institute for Business Value (IBV)
Chet Karwatowski
IBM CIO Digital Change Lead for Buy@IBM, STSM and AoT Blockchain TC Leadership team
Chris Dotson
Distinguished Engineer, CTO IBM Public Cloud Security IBM Cloud
Chris Giblin
Senior Software Engineer, IBM Research - Zurich (IBM)
Chris Tobey
Executive Project Manager in GTS Service Delivery (IBM)
Dale Mcinnis
Certified Executive Technical Sales Specialist Level 3 (IBM)
Dave Ryan
Risk and Controls Leader, Global Chief Data Office (IBM)
David Coleman
Chief Architect Intelligent Infrastructure (IBM)
David Leigh
STSM in the IBM CIO / Finance & Operations organization
Dhiraj Kunwar
Managing Director Business Banking, RAKBANK in UAE
Dr. Paul Lekkas
IBM Distinguished Engineer
Eduardo Patrocinio
Chief Technology Strategist, IBM Garage for Cloud, Distinguished Engineer
Fimy Hu
Software Engineer (IBM)
Geethu Aravind
Security Consultant (IBM)
Gillian Yu
DSW Commerce PAO Architect, CIO (IBM)
Goutham Krishnan E S
Performance Test Specialist (IBM)
Grant Miller
STSM, GCDO Security Engineering, Member IBM Academy of Technology
Haytham Elnahas
Cloud Architect, IBM Garage Solution Engineering
Haytham Elkhoja
Chief Architect & Global Technical Leader – Always On – IS Offerings & Office of the CTO – IBM Services (IBM)
Heather Fraser (moderator)
Global Life Sciences & Healthcare Lead, IBM Institute for Business Value. IBM Industry Academy Member
Hemankita Perabathini
Cloud Solution Engineer (IBM)
Himika Gupta
Performance Test Specialist (IBM)
Hollis Chui
Senior DevOps Engineer; IBM Garage Technical Solution Acceleration
Ilya Hardzeenka
Category Architect and Technical Delivery Lead
Ingo Averdunk
Distinguished Engineer in Service Management and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (IBM)
J Gregory Land (greg)
Global Industry Leader – Aviation, Hospitality & Travel Related Services Executive Director, Travel & Transportation Global Team
James Bradley
Senior Managing Consultant (IBM)
Jane Cheung
Global Research Leader for the Consumer Industry, IBM Institute for Business Value. (IBM)
Jerome Tarte
IBM Executive Architect Application specialty CTO for IBM Cloud Deployment Architects team - IBM Cloud Expert Labs IBM Academy of Technology member
Jeya Gandhi
Cloud Solutions Architect, Global System Integrator Labs (IBM)
Jianying Hu
BM Fellow, Global Science Leader of AI for Healthcare, and Director of Center for Computational at IBM Research
John Webb
Multicloud Lead, IBM Garage Solution Engineering
Jonathan Dunne
Senior Data Scientist (IBM)
Juel Raju
Certified IT Specialist , IBM Global Solution Center, Communications Market Team (IBM)
Julius Wahidin
Senior Managing Consultant, Garage Solution Engineering (GSE) for Cloud Service Management and Operations (CSMO) (IBM)
Jyothi Peddalingam
Performance Test Specialist (IBM)
Jyoti Chawla
CTO, Advisory Board Member, passionate about Cloud enabled Business Transformation (IBM)
Karpagam Venkatraman
CTO and distinguished engineer, IBM Business Resiliency Services
Ken Ueno
IBM Certified IT Specialist
Kevin Green
Management Solution Architect (IBM)
Kevin Yu
SRE Architect (IBM)
Larisa (laura) Shwartz
Distinguished Engineer in IBM Research
Lauren Isbell
Integrated Transformation Business Development Executive (IBM)
Lisa Cassidy
Data Scientist (IBM)
Lokesh Murthy
Software Architect (IBM)
Lydia Duijvestijn
Executive Architect - Chair WW CoP For Performance & Availability - Member IBM AoT Leadership Team
Marcelino Alvarez
SDM, Digital Operations Center - DPE, IBM@CEMEX
Mario Gaon
Executive Architect Global Business Services (IBM)
Mark Buckwell
Executive Security Architect, Cloud Engagement Hub (IBM)
Mark Nieuwmans
Senior IT Architect, Architect Profession Lead Netherlands, Technical Lead DevOps for Benelux (IBM)
Matanya Moses
Head of devops, IBM trusteer
Mathews Thomas
Executive Architect, IBM Global Solution Center, Telecom Media Labs (IBM)
Michael Mitchell
Expert IT Architect (IBM)
Monica Manni
Research Business Controls, IBM Research - Zurich (IBM)
Moss Uchida
Advisory Performance Engineer (IBM)
Mukesh Kumar
Test Specialist (IBM)
Narcisse Kamdem
Senior IT Architect
Neshoo Kachroo
Technical Specialist (IBM)
Nikiforos Chatzopoulos
Associate Partner Global Travel & Transportation & Client Executive Etihad Aviation Group (IBM)
Nithin S N
Senior Technical Service Specialist (IBM)
Paolo Sironi
Global Research Leader, Banking and Finance | IBM Institute for Business Value | IBM Industry Academy
Pascal Vetsch
Research Engineer, Security and Hybrid Cloud (IBM)
Pruthvi Bharadwaj
Advisory Technical Services Specialist (IBM)
Rafal Szypulka
Senior Solution Engineer (IBM)
Raghu Srinivasan
STSM - GTS Progressive Hybrid Services, Client Transformation SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) (IBM)
Rahul Nahar
SIBM CAO, STSM
Ralph Bateman
Distinguished Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering, IBM Cloud
Rama Akkiraju
IBM Fellow, CTO - AI for IT Operations. Master Inventor, IBM Academy Member
Rik Lammers
Senior IT Architect IBM Cloud Advisory Services (IBM)
Rima Bose
Advisor
Robert Barron
AIOps lead, IBM Garage for Technical Solution Acceleration, IBM Cloud & Cognitive.
Rod Anami
Chief Engineer (IBM)
Roxsana Vahdaty
Release Manager (IBM)
Sabitri Chakraborty
Senior Managing Consultant (IBM)
Saha Mukesh
Security Consultant (IBM)
Sam Lightstone
CTO for AI Strategy & IBM Fellow, IBM Data and AI
Sam Swaminathan
STSM & Certified IT Architect - M&EaaS & Automation (IBM)
Samir Nasser
Executive IT Specialist
Samvedna Jha
Security Architect
Sandeep Mangalath
Infrastructure Architect, Developer (IBM)
Sashank Rao Yaragudipati
Industry Leader for Retail in the IBM India Client Innovation Centre
Satheeshbabu K
Sr. Manager - Performance Testing (IBM)
Seewah Chan
Senior Software Engineer (IBM)
Session Facilitated By Ingo Averdunk
Distinguished Engineer in Service Management and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (IBM)
Sharath Prasad
Certified Senior IT Specialist (IBM)
Simran Solanki
Performance Test Specialist (IBM)
Sonya Leech
Data Scientist (IBM)
Stacy Joines
IBM Fellow, IBM Garage and Solution Engineering (IBM)
Stefaan Van Daele
Executive Security Architect
Stefan Liesche
IBM Distinguished Engineer - IBM Hybrid Cloud Z (IBM)
Sukumar Ganapathy
Test Specialist – Performance and Capacity Management (IBM)
Sukumar Reddy Machireddy
Senior Technical Services Specialist (IBM)
Suman Athuluri
Performance Architect (IBM)
Surya Duggirala
IBM Cloud Engineering Guild Leader (IBM)
Swathi S
Performance Test Specialist (IBM)
Swetha P J
Performance Test Specialist (IBM)
Thomas Ward
IBM CDO AI Project Leader, STSM, CSCMP and AoT ALT Member
Utpal Mangla
VP and Senior Partner, IBM Services Innovation Competency - TME (IBM)
Vandana Verma
Security Solutions Architect
Veng Ly
Software Engineer (IBM)
Vijay Vardhan
Performance Engineer
Vijaya Bashyam
Senior Architect (IBM)
Vijayanand Kuppurao
Advisory Technical Services Specialist – Performance and Capacity Management (IBM)
Vinay Nama
Performance Test Consultant (IBM)
Vishal Charegaonkar
Cloud Solutions Architect, IBM Global System Integrator Labs
Wesley Stevens
Chief Architect, IBM Services
Yanni Zhang
Senior Software Engineer in IBM Cloud Pak Foundation (IBM)
Meet the Sponsors and Champions
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Richard Hopkins
President IBM Academy of Technology
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Andrea_Sayle
Executive Champion Worldwide Performance and Availability Community of Practice
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Saikat Paul
Executive Champion Worldwide Performance and Availability Community of Practice
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Hillery Hunter
VP & CTO IBM Cloud; IBM Fellow
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Julie Schunemann
CTO cloud adoption
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Susan Malaika
STSM
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Anthony Marshall
IBV
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Wendy Olivier
IBM Industry Academy
Meet the Organizing Committee
Worldwide Performance and Availability Community of Practice
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Lydia Duijvestijn
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Dave Coleman
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André Fachat
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Andrew McDonald
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Dale McInnis
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Alex Zverev
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Andrew Roden
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Bhuwana Krishna
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Dino Quintero
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Mario Gaon
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Mark Nieuwmans
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Narcisse Kamdem
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Rik Lammers
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Robert Barron
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Taida Buljina-Prohic
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Uwe Baumbach
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Vandana Verma
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Vignesh Harish
Exhibits
Have a look at our excellent Poster Sessions
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