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Erez Tadmor holds a two-decade career in the ever-evolving information security field, marked by his diverse background in managing various product portfolios and verticals. His expertise spans cloud and network security, automation & orchestration, IAM, fraud detection and prevention. As Tufin's Field CTO, he bridges the gap between customers, marketing, and product teams, educating stakeholders on network security technologies, cybersecurity best practices and Tufin's solutions. Erez holds a track record of strong leadership in both enterprise and startups cybersecurity product management and strategy development.
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Ran Tao is a Cloud Support Engineer at a top-tier cloud service provider with over five years of dedicated experience. He has developed extensive expertise in cloud-based messaging systems by guiding more than a thousand customers through migrations from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud, and by troubleshooting the complex issues that arise along the way. Tom is an active Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and serves as a member of multiple IEEE committees.
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Tom Taulli is an author, speaker, and startup advisor – with a focus primarily on technology. He has co-founded a variety of companies, including Hypermart.net (sold to InfoSpace), WebIPO and BizEquity
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Simon Taylor, as the Senior Vice President of Azul’s global channel and alliances, is a seasoned executive with a wealth of experience spanning over three decades in the industry. His expertise encompasses Software Asset Management (SAM), IT Asset Management (ITAM), machine learning, insight engines, data analytics, and information governance. Beginning his career with humble roots as a project manager at Glaxo Smithkline, Simon has since ascended to various executive roles in renowned organizations such as Commvault, Proofpoint, Firemon, Lucidworks, and Nitro. Throughout his career, he has demonstrated a remarkable ability to rapidly develop channel and partnership organizations. Simon’s strategic focus lies in core go-to-market areas, including application modernization, digital workplace, and transformative AI solutions. His leadership has been instrumental in driving innovation and growth within these sectors. As an accomplished industry speaker, Simon is a recognizable figure on the global stage, frequently traveling worldwide to support value-added SAM/ITAM practices. His engagements extend to advising integrator businesses and providing strategic insights to alliance organizations.
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Eero Teerikorpi is the founder, CEO and chairman of the board of Continuent, a leading provider of solutions for business-critical applications using MySQL and MariaDB databases, including cluster management, data replication and connectivity. Eero’s career spans more than 30 years and includes founding seven technology companies and playing a significant role in the development and growth of MySQL. Continuent is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Will Teevan is CEO of Recast Software
Rich Tehrani
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Rich Tehrani is CEO of TMC, the media company behind TMCnet.com and the global ITEXPO #TECHSUPERSHOW, collocated with SD-WAN Expo. A well-respected voice in the technology space, Tehrani has been interviewed and quoted by The Economist, Boston Globe, Newsweek, WABC Radio, WMAL, New York Times, BusinessWeek, USA Today, The LA Times and CGTN.
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Lino Telera is a Platform Engineer focused on Infrastructure Automation and DevOps strategies at InfoCert S.p.A. After earning the first VMware certification he joined VMware Users Group Italy in 2015, and he attended the first VMware {code} hackathon in 2016. Lino is a Tech Field Day delegate and he likes to spend his spare time authoring his blog https://blog.linoproject.net, running the Italian podcast “ThePipelineGuys” and teaching code to kids with CoderDojo initiatives. Recently he started teaching at the Università Cattolica del S. Cuore – CR.
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Kaushal Kishore Thakur has 15+ years of experience in Agile, DevOps, SRE, Operations Resilience and Product Centric transformations.
Andy Thurai
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Andy Thurai is a technology influencer and a thought leader who focuses on emerging technologies such as Cloud, AIOps, AI, ML, DL, Edge, IoT among others. He is a trusted advisor to many start-ups and enterprise C level executives. He is a consultant, advisor, technology strategist, keynote speaker, podcaster, and writer. His specialty is selling complex technologies in a much simpler manner to CxO level by demonstrating the value proposition.
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Architect and Advisor for ATvisement, Arjan uses his 20+ years in IT to help consultants, engineers, and architects grow in this fast-changing world. Through his blog at TECHunplugged.io, this VMware vExpert shares his insights and IT experience.
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Pravjit Tiwana is NetApp’s Senior Vice President and General Manager for Cloud Storage and Services. In his role, Pravjit is responsible for continuing the acceleration of our market leading first-party services in all three public clouds. Pravjit brings over 25 years of experience to the role, many of those in the cloud space. Most recently, he served as the CEO of Gemini APAC, leading a 1000-person team across engineering, product, program management, sales and Business Development functions. Prior to that, he held a variety of general manager roles at Amazon/AWS, leading the Productivity Applications business and then their Edge & Network Services business. Pravjit lives in Bellevue, Washington with his wife and two teenage daughters (and his best friend, golden doodle Nemo). He is an avid golfer and marathon runner (when it isn’t raining in Seattle).
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Sean Toohey is a freelance journalist and digital media specialist with extensive experience covering news, developments and emerging trends in the commercial security industry. Currently focused on emerging smart technologies, Sean’s work explores the adoption and impact of AI, the Internet of Things and cloud computing on modern industries.
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Keith Townsend is the founder of The CTO Advisor LLC and is an IT management consultant with more than 18 years of related experience designing, implementing and managing data center technologies. His areas of expertise include virtualization, networking and storage solutions for Fortune 500 organizations. He holds a BA in computing and an MS in information technology from DePaul University.
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Polly Traylor is the Director of Customer Advocacy at Komprise
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Karl Triebes is the Chief Product Officer for Ivanti, joining the company in January 2025. In this role, Karl oversees Ivanti’s product strategy and management, as well as engineering, product and SaaS operations for all Ivanti solutions. With over 30 years of extensive experience in technology leadership and product development, Karl brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the Ivanti team. Karl’s seasoned leadership and innovative vision have been instrumental in advancing technology solutions and enhancing product portfolios in previous positions at F5, Amazon, Imperva and Forcepoint.
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As a technical professional in the field of IT, I am dedicated to solving complex challenges related to virtualization, security, and performance in data centers. My expertise is evidenced by my 15-time recognition as a vExpert and 3 years of recognition as a vExpert Pro. Additionally, I hold the following certifications: VCP-DCV, VCP-NV 2019, and an expired VCP-DTM.
My specialties include virtualization, software-defined storage (vSAN), software-defined networking (NSX), and SDDC (VCF). I also possess advanced skills in security, firewalls, VPN, Linux, Windows, performance/resource troubleshooting, Powershell, Perl, Linux HPC clusters, automation/orchestration, and end-user computing (VDI).
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Tatum Tummins is a certified FinOps practitioner with 6+ years of experience in multi-cloud management (AWS, Azure, GCP) and currently holds the position of Senior FinOps Product Manager at Kion.
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Aharon Twizer is a twenty-year cloud industry veteran–a 2x start-up founder/CEO (including Spot, which was acquired in 2020 by NetApp for $400M+) and former AWS principal solutions architect. He’s currently CEO and co-founder of ControlMonkey, the world's only fully end-to-end Terraform governance platform.
