Nicolas Maeding

Nicolas Mäding is Principal Product Manager at the IBM Lab in Böblingen, Germany. He received his Dipl. Ing. Degree in Electrical and Information Technology at the Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany. He joined IBM in 2001 and worked in various development and management positions in IBM Systems Hardware Development. He joined the Z-as-a-Service organization as Release Manager of the Hyper Protect Hosting Appliance in 2018 and became product manager for the Secure Execution based offerings. In 2023 he was appointed as Principal Product Manager for the Hyper Protect Platform and Confidential Computing on LinuxONE and Linux on IBM Z. He is author or co-author of more than 12 patents and several technical papers.