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Ajith Pai
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Ajith has 22+ years of experience in leading and driving various customer focused initiatives in business and delivery-based roles. He has worked on multiple programs and projects across customers in the banking, financial services, and hi-tech businesses. He is currently responsible for driving the global delivery and operations for strategic relationships within the hi-tech vertical of Tech Mahindra.
On the delivery front, key experiences include managing delivery for some of the largest financial services customers, building technology capable teams, Agile transformation to being the operations head for BFSI ANZ business and one of the key leaders of the North America BFS Ops team. In addition, he has led various teams focused on enterprise testing, data management, merger and integrations, and application development in his career.
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With more than 7 Years of IT experience, Devang is currently the Director of Technology Solutions and IT Operations at Computer Data Source, Inc. Devang has held several positions in the past including Sr. Systems Engineer, Sr. Network Engineer, Technical Support Manager, Director of Storage Support & Operations. He has been responsible for creating and managing worldwide technical support teams, technology solutions team, operations management, service delivery, pre and post sales support, marketing and business planning. In his current role Devang oversees multiple aspects of the Technology Solutions Group that works with various Multinational and Fortune 500 companies providing them infrastructure services. Along with various industry certifications, Devang holds a Bachelor of Science from South Gujarat University, India and a Master of Science in Computer Science from North Carolina A&T State University.
Keith Parsons
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Keith Parsons is Managing Director of Wireless LAN Professionals, Inc. A gifted presenter, Keith is known for his wit and broad technical experience. He holds 68 technical certifications (11 Wireless) and has earned an MBA from the Marriott School of Management. He is author (or editor) of a 30+ technical publications and has developed nine technical industry and vendor certifications.
Mr. Parsons is a sought after presenter for a variety of technical conferences on the subjects of Wireless LAN and Network Security/Penetration Testing. He travels throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia in behalf of a wide variety of IT vendors, explaining their products to networking professionals.
Keith is on the CWNP and CWNE Advisory Boards – and is CWNE #3. For the past 10 years Mr. Parsons has focused on Wireless LANs, both in providing high-quality customized training as well as WLAN design and consulting services with a variety of global corporations.
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Raghav Parthasarathy is a seasoned finance leader specializing in cloud economics and infrastructure cost optimization for hyperscale platforms. He has led high-impact initiatives that align financial strategy with cloud architecture, driving measurable improvements in cost efficiency, scalability, and infrastructure investment planning. Raghav’s work has shaped pricing strategy, modernization frameworks, and GPU capacity forecasting for one of the world’s most complex cloud systems. Known for bridging finance and engineering, he brings a unique blend of analytical rigor, strategic insight, and operational fluency. His thought leadership and cross-functional impact have positioned him as a leading voice in cloud transformation and FinOps at scale.
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Devin is editor-in-chief of ReHack Magazine at ReHack.com. Devin is especially interested in projects related to technology, startups, women in tech, the IoT and data security.
Kenneth Patchett
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Ken Patchett is a seasoned infrastructure executive with over two decades of experience leading transformative programs across the data center, AI, and cloud industries. He has held leadership roles at many of the world’s top hyperscalers—including Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle—where he built and scaled some of the most demanding computing environments on the planet. Today, Ken is building the infrastructure to establish Lambda as a next-generation AI factory operator.
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Amit Patel is Senior Vice President at Consulting Solutions (Home - Consulting Solutions), one of the fastest-growing IT workforce and consulting services providers in North America, where he leads its national consulting practice.
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David Samuel Peñaloza Seijas works as a Senior Network Consulting Engineer at Verizon Enterprise Solutions in the Czech Republic. Previously, he worked as a Network Support Specialist in the IBM Client Innovation Center in the Czech Republic. David is an expert interested in all topics related to networks. However, he focuses mainly on data centers, enterprise networks, and network design, including software-defined networking (SDN).
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I have been working in the IT industry for more than 15 years. Passionate about technology and what we can do with it to make our lives better. Focusing lately on IT Security and Datacenters.
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Joep Piscaer is an IT architect with a focus on VMware virtualization, enterprise shared storage and backup products at OGD ict-diensten. As such, he designs and implements complex virtualization and storage and backup solutions based on VMware, EqualLogic, StoreVirtual 4000 and VSA, Nimble Storage, Nutanix and Veeam products. He specializes in tight integration of these building blocks, making day-to-day operations as easy as possible through a consolidated management interface and procedures.
Pietro Piutti
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Systems Engineer by day and vCommunity agitator by night.
Former Ctera SE, VMware Italy PSO Alumnus. Sometimes an international civil servant.
8x vEXPERT and retired VMUG Italy Leader. Blogger at http://blog.vgeek.it.
Slowly and painfully refactoring his skillset for the modern era.
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Jack Poller is the founder and principal analyst for Paradigm Technica, an independent research, analyst, and and content creation company. Jack uses his more than 30 years of industry experience across a broad range of security, systems, storage, networking, and cloud-based solutions to help marketing and management leaders develop winning strategies in highly competitive markets.
Previously, Jack led marketing and engineering teams for pre-revenue and early-stage multiprocessor systems, storage, networking, and SaaS startups.
Jack was recognized in the ARchitect Power 100 ranking of analysts with the most sustained buzz in the industry, and has appeared in CSO, AIthority, Dark Reading, SC, Data Breach Today, TechRegister, and HelpNet Security, among others
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Chris Porter is an Infrastructure Architect working for a bank in central London. He writes about technology and the tech community, mainly in relation to VMware and AWS.
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Adam Post is a solutions architect with over 12 years of experience in consulting and managed services roles, providing technical expertise to organizations across a wide range of industry verticals. He is experienced in virtualization, storage, backup, and cloud technologies and holds several technical certifications, including the VMware VCIX-DCV, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Veeam Certified Architect, and HPE Master ASE. He can be found on Twitter as @Semi_Technical.
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I work with Top Managers of Large Enterprises and Founders of Startups to help them make better technology decisions and support Change Management in IT.
Over the years, I’ve led complex projects in different domains - Banking and Finance, Healthcare, Retail, Automotive, Real Estate, Manufacturing, Cybersecurity, etc. - and managed cross-functional teams across the EU, the US, LatAm and Asia.
What makes me different is the mix of deep technical and business understanding. Except 20+ years of experience, I hold two degrees in Computer Science, along with various specializations in AI, Machine Learning, Cloud Architecture, Cybersecurity, Business Administration, Finance, etc., from prestigious Universities. This helps me better understand problems and provide a broad vision and best fit solutions to clients.
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Jeffrey Powers covers consumer, enterprise, auto, and music technology, along with audio/video podcasting. His web brand – Geekazine.com – keeps you up to date with interviews, reviews, and much more. Geekazine LIVE! is the live stream, which can be seen on Twitch and YouTube, and covers events for many clients. Jeffrey is also one-half of Build Day LIVE! – an event covering Enterprise Day-One installations.
Anjan Prabhashwara
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Guru Prasad Selvarajan is a seasoned Data Architect and Sr. Data Analyst with over 13 years of experience in designing and optimizing cloud-based data platforms, specializing in Snowflake Architecture. He combines expertise in advanced data modeling techniques with strong leadership in cross-functional and Agile/Scrum teams to deliver scalable, high-performance data warehousing solutions across manufacturing and insurance sectors. A published author and speaker, Guru has contributed to multiple international conferences on topics including Augmented Business Intelligence and Data-Driven Strategy, while also holding several patents and prestigious memberships including BCS fellowship and a chair position at IEEE. His visionary approach to data solutions focuses on transforming complex datasets into actionable insights that drive business intelligence and strategic decision-making.
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Dr. Anshu is a persuasive thought leader with 24+ years of experience in digital & cloud services, technical solution architecture, research & innovation, agility & devSecOps. She heads multi-cloud & digital services at Enterprise Technologies unit of TechM. In her last role she was Global Head of Solutions & Architecture of Google Business Unit of Tata Consultancy Services where she was responsible for programs across the GCP spectrum including data modernization, application & infrastructure modernization and AI. She has extensive experience in designing large scale cloud transformation programs and advising customers across domains in areas of breakthrough innovation.
Anshu holds a PhD in Computer Science. She has special interest in simplification programs and has published several papers in international journals like IEEE, Springer & ACM.
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Dr. Darren Pulsipher is the Chief Solution Architect for Public Sector at Intel. He works directly with governments (Federal, State, and Local) and enterprise organizations such as IBM, GE, and Toyota to help them modernize their IT organizations. Through several executive and management positions (CIO, Director of Engineering), Darren has developed a unique ability to bring technology, people, and processes together to provide real transformational change to organizations. He focuses on data transformation through data architecture, workload migration, cloud-native application development, service orchestration, and multi-hybrid cloud data center architectures. His research resulted in 8 patents in Cloud and Grid computing architectures, helping companies decrease product development lifecycle time through build, test, deployment optimization, virtualization, and containerization. Darren shares his passion for digital transformation on his weekly podcast "Embracing Digital Transformation." He is a published author with three books on technology and technology management and over 100 articles in various industry trade publications.
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Michael Pytel is a lead technologist for VASS U.S. & Canada and a Denver‑based innovator who scales a practice that fuses SAP Business AI, Analytics Cloud, BTP and agentic AI on Google Cloud to help enterprises prototype, pilot and productionize game‑changing ideas in weeks.
Pytel earned his reputation as co‑founder and CTO of Fulfilld, the machine‑learning WMS that delivers consumer‑grade UX and 30 % faster pick rates through proactive recommendations and embedded analytics. Before Fulfilld, he grew NIMBL from a basement start‑up to an award‑winning SAP consultancy, guiding Fortune‑class clients through dozens of brown‑ and green‑field transformations until its acquisition by Europe’s Techedge Group.
A certified SAP Business Data Cloud Blackbelt and GS1 Standards Advocate, Pytel writes, advises and keynotes on AI‑powered supply chains, data culture and the future of warehouse automation. Offstage, he’s a board member, investor, avid soccer fan, husband, father and inveterate traveler.
