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Arunava Bag is an experienced IT consultant and leader with 25+ years of experience in the industry. He has been CTO of Digitate since early 2018, and with the company since July 2015. Arunava brings deep expertise in AI and machine learning based software products, performance engineering, capacity modelling, IT optimization, high performance computing, application development, and technology practice management. He has successfully evangelized emerging products, led technology practices, and delivered complex technology programs across various industry verticals and geographies.
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Ila Bandhiya is a Senior Digital Marketer at Middleware.io. She has an extensive experience in technology marketing. Over the years, she has adeptly navigated the fast-paced tech landscape, specializing in crafting targeted strategies that bridge technical innovation with market demand. Ila translates complex concepts into compelling narratives that drive product awareness and adoption. She is passionate about staying ahead of industry trends and leveraging data-driven insights to deliver impactful campaigns that exceed business objectives. Outside of work, she enjoys culinary adventures, exploring nature, and engaging in digital thought leadership.
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Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 1M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction.
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Andy has over 30 years of experience in high-tech industry giants. He worked on development teams at SCO, Sun Microsystems, VMware and NetApp-SolidFIre producing primarily storage and networking products. Andy is known for promoting simplicity and economy and has presented at numerous conferences, technology events and podcasts.
Outside of high tech, Andy is involved in auto racing, auto restoration and hiking. His interests include travel, wines and food.
Andy is currently working on personal projects.
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Bakul Banthia is the Co-Founder and Head of GTM and Product Design at Tessell. Before co-founding Tessell, Bakul spent a decade at Oracle as a principal engineer and was instrumental in developing the Oracle Enterprise Manager Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware Private Cloud. He is an expert in product design, data infrastructure, and thecreation of scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud-based solutions and holds more than five patents in data management.
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Helen Beal is an award-winning DevOps speaker, writer, and strategic advisor. As a humanologist, flowologist and wowologist, her goal is to help organizations find ways of working that bring joy to their individuals and teams through optimizing the flow and realization of value to their customers.
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Ather is a Solutions Architect and works for Rackspace. His focus is on all things related to cloud, technology, storage, virtualization and whatever comes in between.
Being in the industry for over 20 years, he feels ancient. If you feel that inclined, he can bore you with stories on how he used to manually park heads on a hard drive or bound protocols to network cards. Seriously though, he has designed, deployed and managed many enterprise environments, involving virtualization, storage, directory and mail services.
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Ned Bellavance is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience in the industry. He currently works as the Director of Cloud Solutions for a premier IT consulting company in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, specializing in Enterprise Architecture both on-premise and in the cloud. Ned holds a number of industry certifications from Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, and Cisco. He also has a B.S. in Computer Science and an MBA with an Information Technology concentration.
Jason Benedicic
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Professional consultant for over 10 years with 20 years in the IT industry, based in Cambridge, UK. I work with customers to design IT solutions that meet a variety of needs, including backup, virtualization, cloud storage, and containerisation. An expert in building and managing cloud services and professional services infrastructure. Experience working in all areas of business from sales cycle through to support. Able to communicate at all levels throughout the business and tailor messaging accordingly. Additional interests in Digital Ethics, Influencing, Marketing, Strategy and Business Processes. Outside of the technology industry, I enjoy all forms of gaming, ranging from classic table-top to online RPGs. I am also a keen cyclist.
Nathan Bennett
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Senior Network Engineer with multi-vendor experience on routing, switching, wireless, security. Passionate about scripting and automation.
He blogs at https://www.ifconfig.it/
Scott Bollinger
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I’m Scott Bollinger / @kfalconspb, and have been an IT professional for over 25 years. Half that time, in a Fortune 50 financial corporation, and the other half with small/medium size businesses.
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Rachel Braford is Senior Marketing Manager at HALOCK Security Labs, a U.S.-based risk and information security consulting firm. Braford has 13 years of experience in marketing and advertising. She has experience both creating content and managing all aspects of modern-day marketing strategies, from merchandising and branding to digital marketing, website strategy, and lead generation.
Grayson Brulte
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Nick currently works on the network planning and architecture team for a major international research network. He has also held Network Engineering positions at early regional broadband internet providers as well as at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He has been involved in cybersecurity from the campus, enterprise, and service provider perspective, as well as the FBI, and has been involved in numerous software-defined networking projects over the last 8 years. Find him on Twitter @ForwardingPlane or his blog ForwardingPlane.net.
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Justin Burdine is a veteran IT leader with nearly three decades of experience in technical sales, consulting, system administration and secured government hosting. Currently, he serves as the Director of Solution Engineering at CIQ, where he leads a team delivering innovative solutions for the Ascender Automation Platform and Rocky Linux.
Carol Byrne
