I started my IT careen in 2000 as the owner of my small business for training solutions in Germany. I provide Linux courses Development trainings in C and Java as well a lot of Infrastructure and collaboration topic like Lotus or Exchange. Later I was joining a hardware manufacture company Fujitsu and become responsible for Fujitsu OpenStack initiative. After servaral years and project me and my team could develop this initiative into a real product. With this entry into Cloud and Linux I followed the open-source path to the cloud world and got part of the OpenStack and OpenInfra family. 

Since 2019 I'm with T-Systems in the role Chief Architect of Open Telekom Cloud (OTC)! 

As the architecture lead, I am responsible for everything between the upper edge of operating system to the outer edge of Service Delivery. Open Telekom Cloud is by now one of the largest OpenStack-based clouds in Europe, providing full GDPR-compliance and the full stack of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings.

Some personal stuff from myside, I am married, have tree sons, and a passionate kitesurfer, spending time with my family close to the ocean around the world.

Allison is an open source software/hardware developer and strategist. She is a board member of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, chair of the board at the Software Freedom Conservancy, a board member of LLVM Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for open source leaders. She previously served as chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, president of the Open Source Initiative, president and board member of the Perl Foundation, board member at the Python Software Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, chair of the board at the Parrot Foundation, Conference Chair of OSCON, Technical Architect of Ubuntu, Open Source Advisor at Canonical, Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. She participates in the Debian and RISC-V projects, and has a PhD in hardware security from the University of Cambridge.

 I am Anwar Rizaee, an experienced IT professional with expertise in cloud infrastructure, OpenStack, and Linux administration. With over four years of experience in IT operations and a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Bamyan University, I have designed and implemented scalable cloud solutions and managed IT systems effectively. I hold more than 20 professional certifications, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Red Hat, which reflect my commitment to continuous learning and technical excellence.

Currently, I work as a Cloud Infrastructure Expert at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, where I design and optimize cloud environments using open-source technologies. Additionally, I share my knowledge through my YouTube channel, OpenStack and Linux Learning, helping others explore cloud computing and Linux administration.

I am passionate about leveraging technology to drive innovation and collaboration in the global IT community.

ChangBo Guo is consulting architect at EasyStack. As founding engineer of EasyStack, he has held various roles, including engineer, product manager, architect, and participated in every aspect from product design to delivery, and online operation. He attended the earliest of large-scale OpenStack adoptions in China, such as Lenovo, Postal Savings Bank of China, China Telecom, State Grid, etc.

He was one of the earliest OpenStack contributors in China. He has been working on the OpenStack since 2012, when he worked on the PowerVM driver under Nova to support IBM Power Systems. He has been contributing several projects like Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Oslo, etc. He was the organizer of China OpenStack user group, and promote OpenStack technologies in several meet-ups in China including Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Shenzhen, etc.  He is also keen to help others learn how to contribute in upstream and delivered presentation about upstream contribution for several companies. He attended several design summits and delivered presentations. He served as track chair of upstream development in Barcelona, Boston and Sydney design summit.

He served as Individual Director of OpenStack Foundation in 2017- 2019 and Oslo PTL for Pike and Queens.

My name is Christian Berendt and I currently live in the south of Germany. I am the father of 2 children and I like to run very long distances in the mountains. About 10 years ago I founded OSISM (a lifecycle management for lifecycle managements to build cloud infrastructures based on OpenStack). I love to build small clouds and large clouds, public clouds and clouds on the edge. Also I like to work with Kubernetes (larger fleets on heterogeneous clouds).

Eoghan is the Senior Director of OpenStack Engineering at Red Hat. He has been part of the Red Hat investment in OpenStack for the past decade, first as an individual contributor and upstream project leader, and then later as a manager. He has a long background with open source and with cloud technology, having contributed to the Apache community for many years and also worked on AWS monitoring while at Amazon. Eoghan is based in Dublin, Ireland though he's also part of a highly globalized team at Red Hat.

Ghanshyam is currently serving multiple roles in OpenInfra/OpenStack Community. He is the Individual Board of Directors in OpenInfra Foundation, a Previous Chair and current member of the OpenStack Technical Committee, a Core developer in various OpenStack projects (Nova, QA and a few more), and also served as OpenStack QA project PTL. He started working in OpenStack with NEC in 2012 as a cloud support engineer, and since 2014, he has been involved in upstream development. His main upstream focus is on Nova, QA, API stability, and CI/CD. In addition, he is passionate about bringing more contributors to the Open Infra family and helping them onboard in the community via different programs like First Contact SIG, Upstream Institute Trainings, and mentorship. Before OpenStack Upstream, he worked in different domains like Avionics, Storage, Cloud, and Virtualization. Ghanshyam started his career in technology as a C++ software developer to automate the flight management system, which reduces flight operating costs and the pilot workload. He has also been a frequent speaker at various Open Source events such as OpenStack summit, Open Infra summit, Open source summit, Open Infra Days, and LinuxCon on various topics like RESTful API, QA, Cloud Backup, Open Source Community Building, Open Source Governance. In addition, he has been actively involved in various PoC and solutions designs around Cloud OSS. 

   2017, I joined China Telecom and have been working on Cloud & Network infrastructure products since then. In the past years, I used to led a team to design and develop VIM products based on OpenStack and ETSI MANO specifications; and participated in design China Telecom's NFV three-layer decoupling scheme and implemented multiple projects such as 5GC, vIMS, and vBRAS. Our CT Cloud based on OpenStack have been deployed in 31 provinces and maintain upgrading with new Cloud & Network technologies. I believe it is precisely the mutual promotion with the open source community that has helped the industry to grow rapidly. 

I started my working career in technology close to twenty years ago. It has surely not been an average career, but a career where I've continually learned and evolved to fulfill the need. In a sense, it all started with Linux and answering some questions about installing Linux. This started a journey into computer networking and eventually shifted to a systems engineering focus with a stop-over in data center operations.

The DevOps movement lead me more into software development and the operationalization of software due to the need to automate large scale systems deployments. This required bringing an operational perspective while bridging to the requirements, and often required digging deep into the underlying code to solve the problem of the day.

In a sense, I found a home in OpenStack in 2014 and the Ironic project in 2015 because of many years spent working with physical hardware in data centers. 

I presently work for Red Hat as a Principal Software Engineer, where my upstream focus has been Ironic for the past few years, and my downstream focus has been on helping lead adoption and use of Ironic. 

I’m Kevin Carter, a leader known for tackling the challenges others shy away from and consistently delivering results that once seemed impossible, always with a smile and a quick “ship it.” Whether it’s data centers, cloud technology, or large infrastructure projects, I’ve led teams through the fire and emerged with innovative, practical solutions that get the job done. As a leader in open-source technologies, I embrace complexity, turning challenges into opportunities to drive innovation and push boundaries while simplifying outcomes. I take a dynamic and adaptable approach to leadership, believing that transparency, collaboration, and the courage to release early and often are crucial to success. By iterating rapidly and learning from every step, I cultivate an environment where experimentation leads to progress and where failure is a steppingstone to improvement. For me, leadership is about more than just managing people or products; it’s about empowering individuals, fostering a culture of continuous growth, and delivering results that stand the test of time. My goal is to make a lasting impact on both the team and the broader community, ensuring that our work leaves a positive and enduring legacy.

With Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS), we have a publicly funded project to build cloud standards, software and operational knowledge. The reference implementation is openly developed open source and contains Linux, kvm,ceph, ovn, OpenStack, Kubernetes, K8s-CAPI along with operational and IAM tooling. The project is carried out in the OSBA and the standardization will continue there in 2025.

Dec 2018 - Dec 2019, I was responsible for the Cloud and Storage Departments in SUSE R&D.
SUSE was a strong OpenStack supporter but then changed direction in ways that I could not support.

Before SUSE, I was leading the architecture, community and consulting teams in Deutsche Telekom's Open Telekom Cloud Team.

DT has been a vocal supporter of OpenStack since I joined in early 2012 -- we have been able to run several OpenStack projects. I personally supported the InterOp Workig Group, when DT became gold member of the OpenStack Foundation in 2016. I was serving in the board in as DT rep as well as individual member after moving on from DT.

Before joining DT at the end of 2011 I was a long-time contributor to the Linux kernel, which also gave me the privilege of building up and leading SUSE Labs and work with a number of great engineers in- and outside my company, contributing to the success of the Open Source technology.

Over the past 10 years, I’m happy to have watched the hosting industry transform and be part of the transformation process as it evolved from traditional physical hardware to cloud-native infrastructure, powered by OpenStack.  Since the creation of VEXXHOST, I have had the chance to work with different sorts of customers, ranging from growing small businesses to helping architect solutions for large Fortune 500 companies, based on OpenStack.  I've helped integrate other open infrastructure projects into our commercial offering.

By fostering OpenStack at it’s early days in 2011, it has helped improve the project and our service as a whole. I’ve been a contributor to the project since and I have contributed code to almost every release of OpenStack since then.  I've also served as PTL for Puppet OpenStack, continue to serve as a PTL for OpenStack-Ansible and serve on the technical commitee, chairing tthe commitee for a term.

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 mainframe to enterprise computing and then to cloud in addition to popularizing the cloud server "pets vs. cattle" meme. 

Randy was an early and vocal supporter of the OpenStack project and Cloudscaling was part the initial OpenStack launch in summer of 2010.  He led the teams that deployed the first public OpenStack storage cloud (Swift) outside of Rackspace, and the first public OpenStack compute cloud (Nova). He was a founding Board Member of the OpenStack Foundation. He continues to be a vocal advocate of OpenStack, through his company, his writing and his speaking engagements. 

His voice is frequently heard in media outlets such as GigaOm, InformationWeek, The Economist, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, ReadWriteWeb, O’Reilly Radar, Light Reading, and others, in addition to the Cloudscaling blog. He is a regular keynote speaker and panelist at events from the OpenStack Summit to VMworld, Structure, eComm, CloudConnect, Interop, CloudBeat, CloudExpo, The Web Summit, and Gluecon.

I am a System Engineer at NHN Cloud, working as an OpenStack Engineer since 2017. I am passionate about open-source communities and spend a significant amount of my time collaborating with them.

I primarily work with OpenStack Swift and develop internal tools for OpenStack deployment and monitoring.

I am also actively involved in the OpenInfra User Group. Since 2017, I have been serving as an organizer of the OpenInfra Korea User Group, working hard to foster the OpenInfra ecosystem in Korea. Additionally, in 2021 and 2022, I led the OpenInfra Days Asia event, bringing together user groups from various Asian countries.

In 2024, I successfully chaired the first OpenInfra Summit Asia, marking a significant milestone for the region.

Shane Wang is an Engineering Director of Cloud Native Software at Intel China. He has also served as an Individual Director of Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF) board from 2015 to 2023, as Alliance Committee Chair of the SODA Foundation under the Linux Foundation, as an Ambassador of CNCF, as the 1st chairperson of Technical Oversight Committee in China Open Intelligent Computing Industrial Alliance, as a Technical Oversight Committee member of the Mulan Open Source Community in China, and as one of the standing committee members of the Open Source Development Committee in China Computer Federation.

He has organized or co-organized multiple events such as cloud meetups, Days China, and Ceph Alocons. He has represented the community and Intel at numerous tech summits in China and abroad, presenting and evangelizing on their behalf. He co-authored the books like "System Virtualization", "OpenStack Design and Implementation", "Linux Networking: From DPDK to OpenFlow", "Linux Storage: From Ceph to Container Storage", "Edge Computing Technology and Applications", and "Innovative Case Analysis in Software Development Industry". He was recognized as a "China Open Source Software (OSS) Outstanding Person" in China in 2021 and was recognized as one of the Tencent Cloud Valuable Professional (TVP) in 2022.

He and his team now are on open-source cloud software, such as SDN and SDS, edge, cloud native, microservice benchmark and language runtimes, and cloud native AI including OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes, Istio & Envoy, containerd, FaaS, OPEA, etc..

He got his PhD degree on Computer Science from Fudan University at Shanghai in 2004, and joined Intel after graduating from the school.

Tony discovered Linux in 1994 and hasn't looked back.  His entire professional career has been spent working on or with Linux.  Tony's first role was as a Systems administrator and Network Engineer at a small Internet Service Provider.  During his 10 years there the customer base grew from "10s" to "1000s".  In Tony's next role was with the public service where he was responsible for the maintenance and availability of several national health services.  Tony then received a Masters degree from the Australian National University before joining IBM's Linux Technology Centre - OzLabs as a kernel engineer.  In 2013 Tony was first exposed to OpenStack and quickly ported it to the, at the time, unreleased OpenPower platform. Since then Tony has been employed, first by Rackspace and currently by Red Hat to work on OpenStack full time both as a member of the OpenInfra Community and a product developer.

Tytus has been a board member of the OpenInfra Foundation since 2020. He is a member of the Finance Committee and is actively involved in the OpenStack community. Over the years, he contributed numerous patches to the OpenStack codebase. He was also participating in the events organised by the OpenInfra Foundation, including summits and PTGs, supporting the foundation in its efforts to spread awareness of open infra benefits. As a Product Manager at Canonical, Tytus drives the evolution of Canonical’s products and services in the data centre space, including Canonical OpenStack. Tytus received his PhD with honours in telecommunications in 2018. His background is data centre administration and cloud engineering.

Xiangyu Li comes from China Mobile Cloud Centre and she has been working here for 8 years.   She currently serves as the leader of the General Computing Product Group of the Computing Product Department, taking responsibility for the R&D of the China Mobile Cloud elastic computing system.   China Mobile Cloud has become the fastest-growing public cloud in China with the highest revenue growth rate in the past several  years.   As a member of the China Mobile Cloud architecture team, she participated in multi-phase projects of the China Mobile Cloud and could be considered as the main contributor for guiding China Mobile Cloud to join the Million Core Club.   Xiangyu Li has considerable rich work experience in the development and operation of hyperscale public clouds.   The elastic computing R&D team which she is leading has achieve multiple great achievements, implementing the scheduling and concurrency optimization for hyperscale clusters carrying more than 100,000 servers.   With this optimization, the delivery of 5 thousand cloud hosts could be completed in several minutes.   Xiangyu Li is also very active to join community events.   She is a frequenter in OpenInfra Summit, China Day and Strategy Day activities.   Her team has published dozens of speeches in OpenStack-related community activities, sharing China Mobile's practical and innovation experience in cloud computing.