Keynotes
Be inspired by industry thought leaders as the SUSECON Keynotes help you reimagine the possible, innovate without limits and secure your future.
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Overview
SUSECON Digital 2023 keynotes will be headlined by our executive team delivering inspiring messages and laying out our company direction for the future. In addition, the General Managers of our Business-critical Linux, Enterprise Container Management and Edge Solutions will be joined by key customers and partners such as BMW, Orange, Arm, Geberit, Dell and Fujitsu to discuss how SUSE helps empower you with knowledge of current technologies and upcoming innovations.
Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen Chief Executive Officer
The power of open collaboration
Join new SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen for his first SUSECON keynote. DP will outline why he believes open source will remain the driving force behind innovation (and why customers are its greatest catalyst), and how collaboration and compatibility are the secrets to unlocking the future with SUSE.
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
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.
Leilani Münter Professional Race Car Driver & Environmental Activist
Leilani Münter is an environmental activist, documentary filmmaker, biology graduate, and a retired race car driver. Leilani is vegan, drives an electric car and lives in a solar-powered home. Her motto is: never underestimate a vegan hippie chick with a racecar.
Vojtech Pavlik General Manager, Business-Critical Linux
Business-Critical Linux – Limitless Innovation
SUSE Business-Critical Linux solutions accelerate digital transformation with rapid instantiation of resources and scaling enterprise applications. See innovations in security, data protection, confidential computing, SAP solutions optimization, and next-gen Linux designed to be workload-centric, secure, and purpose-built to run specific workloads–like AI/ML–that your business relies on.
Peter Smails General Manager, Enterprise Container Management
SUSE - Your Trusted Partner in Cloud Native Transformation
Peter Smails will share SUSE’s mission in making cloud native technology simple and accessible to all. Guests Andrew Wafaa (Arm) and Jason Daniels (Fujitsu) will share the positive impact of the trust and collaboration generated from SUSE’s customer-first mindset. Sanjay Nadhavajhala, SUSE lead AI engineer, will give the inside scoop on SUSE’s vision for AI and what you can do with it today.
Keith Basil General Manager, Edge Solutions
Edge: Maturing the Spark of Innovation
Keith Basil will take us through SUSE’s edge journey from humble early beginnings to leadership in edge innovation today. He will share cloud-native best practices and our vision for tomorrow that spans Mission Critical Edge and Industrial IoT at scale. Kevin Tobias, from Kratos will be on stage to discuss how they are disrupting the space industry using SUSE’s Edge solution.
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.
