Paul Turner
VP
Broadcom/VMWare
Paul Turner, is the Vice President of the vSphere Product Management team, covering vCenter, ESXi, vMotion and Project Pacific. He is leading our next generation of vSphere and moving the platform to become the leading infrastructure platform for all apps – VMs, Containers and Machine Learning applications. Paul brings more than 20 years expertise in enterprise software product management and marketing - having held leadership roles at VMware, NetApp, Oracle, Cloudian and Scality. Under his leadership, Scality was recognized as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant and also by IDC in their Marketscape report for Object Storage. Prior to this at NetApp, he led the product management and technical marketing for their management software and also ran the Product Strategy Office, where he guided their investments into all-flash, Iongrid, CacheIQ, Onaro and Akorri.
Paul holds an computer science degree from Trinity College in Ireland. He lives in Los Altos, Silicon Valley with his wife Kristy and their children Conor and Aoife..
Arun Raman
Deep Learning Solutions Architect
NVIDIA
Arun Raman is an AI solution architect at NVIDIA, adept at navigating the intricate challenges of deploying AI applications across edge, cloud, and on-premises environments within the consumer Internet industry. In his current role, he works on the design of end-to-end accelerated AI pipelines, for consumer internet customers meticulously addressing preprocessing, training, and inference optimizations. His experience extends beyond AI, having worked with distributed systems and multi-cloud infrastructure. He shares practical strategies and real-world experiences, empowering organizations to leverage AI effectively.
Khaled Hassan
Head of MENA Desk
SQOPE Intelligence
Miriam Goldman
Chief Operating Officer
SQOPE Intelligence
Katherine Delikoura
Managing Director, Chief Compliance Officer
Council Europe Development Bank
Janos Kühn
Global Head of Customer & Third Party Compliance
Ericsson
Ola Tørudbakken,
Director AI Systems
Meta
Ola has 30 years of experience building distributed systems and high-performance networking across AI, HPC, Enterprise and Telco.
Ola currently serves as Director of AI Systems at Meta. Previously Ola was SVP Systems at Graphcore, driving their 2nd generation AI systems. Ola came to Graphcore through the acquisition of Skala Technologies, an AI startup he co-founded. Prior to Skala, Ola worked as Chief Architect of Networking and Netra Servers at Oracle. Ola joined Oracle through the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. At Sun, Ola served as Distinguished Engineer, amongst many things responsible for the famous 3456-port Magnum Infiniband Switch now on display in the Computer Museum, Silicon Valley. Prior to Sun Ola was at Dolphin ICS, acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2000. Ola started his career as a research scientist at SINTEF, a Norwegian industrial research organization.
Ola is a recognized industry expert in distributed systems, holds over 48 patents, has published several papers in leading publications, and participated in numerous standardization bodies. Ola holds an MSc degree in Computer Science from University of Oslo in 1994