Keynotes

Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen Chief Executive Officer

Prior to joining SUSE, DP worked at Red Hat for 18 years holding a number of senior executive positions. From 2010 to 2021, he was Red Hat’s General Manager in Asia Pacific and Japan and from 2021 to 2022 their General Manager in North America. DP is on the board of the Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore and since 2017 has been a mentor for women in business with Protégé Business Mentoring.

Ivo Totev Chief Innovation Officer

Offense and Defense: playing to win in open source innovation

Join Ivo, Thomas, and three SUSE customers as they discuss how strategies from the sporting world can help the modern enterprise navigate the increasingly complex interface between business and technology.

Thomas Di Giacomo Chief Technology & Product Officer

Unleash Innovation, Protected from Risk

Your vision. Your choice. SUSE products and solutions empower you to innovate and transform, merging the best of open source with enterprise resiliency and security. Please join SUSE Chief Technology & Product Officer, Dr. Thomas DiGiacomo, and his special guests, to see learn more about how the unified SUSE’s platform is the best choice to help you modernize, embrace AI, and seamlessly interoperate your business critical workloads across your distributed enterprise, hybrid cloud, and edge environments.

Duncan Brown IDC Group, Vice President

Duncan Brown leads European research for the Software, Services, Cloud, Security, Sustainability, Digital Business and IPDS areas, as well as the Channel Partner and Ecosystems research teams. He is also responsible for IDC’s European research into the Future of Work, Future Consumer, and Smart Office areas. Brown started his career in the banking sector and then focused on building extensive experience in various roles in analyst firms including Ovum, PAC, and IDC. Most recently he spent time as Chief Security Strategist on the vendor-side where he developed a strong profile in the industry and is a well-known analyst with IDC customers.

Rick Spencer General Manager, Business-Critical Linux

Peter Smails General Manager, Enterprise Container Management

Peter joined SUSE with the Rancher acquisition where he was also CMO. In addition to his wealth of Rancher experience, Peter’s 25-year career includes building multiple successful start-ups, as well as leading marketing and product teams within large enterprise vendors. His combination of entrepreneurial spirit, strategic vision and leadership experience enable him to lead the Enterprise Container Management business unit at SUSE

Keith Basil General Manager, Edge Solutions

The SUSE Edge Journey continues: Enabling Industries make the cloud native transformation

Edge Computing is transforming Industries--from CSPs to Retail chains to Hospitals. Industries are collecting and curating data from billions of devices, sensors and controllers and gaining business transforming insights from the data. SUSE is thrilled to help accelerate this transformation, by offering an open, modular Edge computing platform that will support cloud native and VM workloads at the near and far edge locations.

Join us to learn more about the SUSE Edge 3.0 and the SUSE Adaptive Telco Infrastructure Platform 3.0 platforms and their capabilities support the high scale, high performance, zero touch provisioning and the stringent security needs of Edge deployments.

But that's not all. We're equally thrilled to share the stage at the Edge keynote with a customer, a leader in the maritime industry, who transformed and improved their operational efficiencies by deploying SUSE Edge in their ships. We promise a thrilling session where you can discover the potential of Edge computing and what makes SUSE Edge the choice for industries seeking to modernize their OT environments, and apply AI models to improve their businesses.

Thomas Di Giacomo Chief Technology & Product Officer

Demopalooza

You have seen all the technology and heard how it can transform and secure your business. Now Dr. T’s band of demo fanatics show how to build innovative real-world solutions that deliver secure computing from the core to the cloud, and to the edge. Watch as they bring all the pieces together.