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Dan Walsh is a Red Hat consulting engineer. Dan has led the Red Hat Container Engineering team since August 2013 but has been working on container technology for several years. He has made many contributions to the Docker project, has done a lot of the software development on the Atomic project, and has led the SELinux project, concentrating on applications and policy development. Dan helped develop sVirt, secure virtualization, and the SELinux sandbox, an early desktop container tool in Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 6. Prior to Red Hat, Dan worked at BindView (formerly Netect) on vulnerability assessment products and at Digital Equipment Corporation on the Athena project, as well as AltaVista on its firewall/tunnel (VPN) products.
Twitter: @rhatdan

Brian Harrington, also known as “Redbeard,” was chief architect at CoreOS and is now the product manager for Istio at Red Hat. He is a developer, hacker, and technical writer in the areas of open source development and systems administration. His time spent in both defensive and offensive computing have combined with his readings of classical anarchism to present new ideas in organizational hierarchies for software development. Redbeard has been featured on Al Jazeera as an expert in the field of computer security, and he has been seen and heard on Bloomberg Television and National Public Radio. He was grudgingly elected president of the hackerspace, HacDC.
Twitter: @brianredbeard

Erik Jacobs is a principal technical marketing manager for Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform. Erik was a solutions architect for 6 years prior to taking on this role and he’s a Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA). From his past work, he is well-versed in a wide range of high-tech arenas including satellite/broadcast, internet, and automotive. In addition to English and Japanese, Erik speaks some German and Spanish.

Chris Morgan is the director of technical marketing for Red Hat cloud platforms, which includes Red Hat® OpenShift®, Red Hat OpenStack® Platform, and Red Hat Virtualization. He has more than 20 years of experience in various areas of cloud and application technologies with the last 10 years of that being with Red Hat. Prior to Red Hat, Chris spent a large portion of his early career at IBM, where he worked on cross-brand initiatives to bring various IBM software products together as cohesive solutions. His broad experience has allowed him to research and work on ideas and solutions to address next-generation markets.

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Thomas Cameron is a Red Hat senior principal cloud evangelist who has been a top 10% presenter at Red Hat Summit for the last 8 years. Thomas has presented at industry events for HP, Intel, Dell, Red Hat, and many others. He has presented at LinuxFest Northwest, Southeast LinuxFest, Flock to Fedora, Texas Linuxfest, Southern California Linux Expo, All Things Open, and many others. Thomas specializes in making complex topics easy to digest, which is why he is consistently rated a top presenter. He has presented on deeply technical topics including Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, Security Enhanced Linux, high availability clustering, systems management, performance tuning, and security, as well as topics like Red Hat's relationship with open source.

Ken Chenis is an ACI Worldwide chief architect who provides architectural leadership and leads initiatives for ACI’s Product Development organization in the areas of payment intelligence, fraud prevention, security, and SaaS/cloud. In the evolution of ACI’s payment intelligence and fraud platform, Ken leads architects and engineers on innovative projects in the areas of microservices, big data, complex event processing, stream analytics, cloud computing, containerization, and data security. He has a diverse background in enterprise software technologies with a focus on the payments industry, the healthcare industry, and customer relationship management. Ken has three patents pending in the areas of complex event processing, machine learning, and payment initiation.

Timothy Hunt is a Red Hat senior architect for the Red Hat® Consulting container practice. He has worked on Red Hat OpenShift® Container Platform since its initial version. Tim has deep experience working with large enterprises to design and deploy OpenShift as well as assisting them in migrating workloads to containers.