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He has been with Red Hat for 16 years, watching it grow from a single-product company to the multi-billion-dollar enterprise it is today. He was also one of the founding members of the OpenShift team and has been at the forefront of cloud computing ever since.

With more than 25 years of Linux experience and a background in computer engineering, Hicks has always had a passion for combining infrastructure and application technologies. His engineering background includes several years at IBM, as well as startup experience, where he served in various roles spanning engineering, IT, and consulting. This breadth of experience has allowed Hicks to use technology to solve customer and business problems across all areas of IT. With technology innovation converging on open source, Linux, and containers, his experience has placed him at the center of what he believes to be the most exciting time in industry history.

Wright’s organization includes: Office of the CTO, Ecosystem Engineering, Product Security, Global Engineering Associate Experience, Product Engineering, Experience Engineering, and CTO Customer-Led Open Innovation.

During his 25+ years as a software engineer, Wright has worked in the telecommunications industry and beyond on high-availability and distributed systems. He also has experience in the Linux industry on security, virtualization, and networking. Wright has been a Linux developer for more than 15 years, with most of this time spent working deep in the Linux kernel. He is passionate about open source software serving as the foundation for next-generation IT systems.

She focuses on setting the global partner strategy and establishing clear paths for partner success across the entire ecosystem. Chiras plays a critical role in articulating the value of Red Hat’s product portfolio and defining the strategy for partnering with Red Hat for customer success.

Chiras has held several senior product leadership positions at Red Hat, most recently as Senior Vice President of the Platforms Business Group, where she was responsible for defining, building, and executing the company’s cross-platform strategy and the products that support it.

Prior to that, Chiras was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux organization at Red Hat, where she was responsible for the entire product line.

Before Red Hat, Chiras served as Vice President of Offering Management at IBM Cognitive Systems. As part of the Cognitive Systems brand team, she led worldwide business for the systems and system software portfolios, AIX, IBM i, Linux, and the cloud stack. She also led the portfolio’s transformation to support enterprise workloads and artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning.

Chiras has extensive experience in both business and technology. Her technical roles range from silicon technology to system architecture, as well as both IBM Power Systems and IBMz processor design. She also has served as a member of IBM’s Research Division and IBM Systems and Technology Group.

His product responsibilities include Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, Red Hat OpenShift®, Red Hat Ansible Automation®, developer tools, and middleware, as well as emerging cloud services and experiences.

Previously, Badani was Senior Vice President of Cloud Platforms, where he helped solidify the company as a hybrid cloud and enterprise Kubernetes leader. Under his leadership, Red Hat has also expanded OpenShift® from an award-winning Platform-as-a-Service solution to the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, with 1,000+ customers spanning all regions and industries. Badani started at Red Hat overseeing product line management and marketing for the Red Hat JBoss® Enterprise Application Platform middleware portfolio.

Badani has played a significant role around strategy, analysis, and integration for key Red Hat acquisitions—including StackRox in 2021, CoreOS in 2018, and FuseSource in 2012—to bolster the company’s integration portfolio.

Prior to joining Red Hat, Badani served as Director of Product Management and Product Marketing of Integration and Application Platform Products at Sun Microsystems. He has more than 20 years of experience in the technology and finance industries at both established and emerging companies.

She advanced into product management and product marketing for Red Hat Linux and then moved into a pivotal leadership role—building an in-house Marketing Communications and Brand function responsible for simplifying, unifying and amplifying Red Hat’s unique messaging-voice to deliver noteworthy experiences for Red Hat customers and partners.

Day started at Red Hat in 1999 as employee number 139, collaborating to make Red Hat a world-class software company built around open source technology. She was an integral part of the Marketing team that launched Red Hat into "the enterprise" with Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2001, and has led the team responsible for Red Hat’s annual user conference, Red Hat Summit, since its inception in 2005. This gathering of Red Hat customers, partners, developers, and associates has become the industry's premier open source technology conference. Under Day’s leadership, Red Hat has launched many successful marketing programs like Command Line Heroes, redhat.com, Open Source Stories, Co.Lab, and more. Day also led the Marketing team for more than 20 acquisitions at Red Hat, helping to expand awareness of our portfolio as it grew and evolved.

Today, as an SRE Manager, Craig marries his varied experiences to offer a unique perspective, always striving to bridge the gap between technology and its real-world applications. As a champion of progress and efficiency, he remains committed to ushering in a future where automation serves as the backbone of seamless operations.

Craig is a 16-year veteran of the British Army and a chartered management accountant.

In the past decade, her center has raised $80M to support their research. Dr. Grant is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology and Senior Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). She received the Outstanding Contributions in Research Award from the American Society of Neuroradiology in 2021 and the Gold Medal Award from the American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology in 2022. She has published over 300 articles and is currently principal investigator (PI) on 8 major National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards.

He has almost 30 years of experience in various areas of cloud and application technologies, with the last 15 years of that experience with Red Hat as an original member of the OpenShift team. Prior to Red Hat, Chris spent a large portion of his early career at IBM, where he worked on cross-brand initiatives to bring the various IBM software products together as cohesive solutions. His experience has spanned many roles allowing him to research and work on ideas and solutions to address next-generation markets.

Kaete has more than 10 years of software industry experience in product marketing roles, and has led marketing for Ansible since joining Red Hat in 2016. Prior to joining the tech industry in 2013, Kaete led project and account management teams for nearly a decade.

In this role, she delivers innovative solutions for leading companies across multiple industries. She's a trusted partner who engages technical and business officers to define needs and align technology initiatives with broader organizational goals. Through her participation at industry events, she shares the Red Hat portfolio and engages with worldwide audiences.

Before joining Red Hat, she was a Product Manager at Dell and Tata Communications.

Sherard has spent his time at Red Hat advocating how customers can democratize access to scalable hybrid cloud AI technologies and platforms within their organizations. He is also responsible for Open Data Hub, a community-driven open source AI platform on OpenShift. Additionally, he works with hardware and software partners to build out an ecosystem of AI technologies optimized to run on OpenShift.

At BCH, he is a member of the Faculty Research Council, and consults on strategy with the Innovation Digital Health Accelerator. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), as well as the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) and has been invited lead editor on special editions of computing in medicine. He mentors graduate level computer science courses on advanced cloud computing at Boston University and Northeastern University. He has been funded by various National Institute of Health projects and also several corporate-sponsored research efforts, as well as BCH Foundational Radiology and Technology Innovation Development awards.

She was the driving force behind initiating and building a custom application that serves as a comprehensive hub for network automation, complete with self-service diagnostic tools and automations available at a single click. This work has significantly reduced network downtime and streamlined operations across various departments.

Mat advocates serverless and other cloud-native architectures for modern applications and site-reliability engineering (SRE) and platform engineering as go-to automation and DevOps strategies.

Relevant certifications and awards include:

• Top 10 Cloud Strategy Leaders in Europe in 2023, by CIOreview.

• AWS Certified Professional Solutions Architect and Certified DevOps Professional.

• Azure Certified Cloud Architect Expert.ilk

Prior to Red Hat, Dafné worked at Cisco Systems, helping service provider, government, and financial customers across the U.S., Canada, and Latin America design, implement, and adopt automation, orchestration, and network management solutions. She has more than 14 years of experience in the IT industry, with specializations in Cisco DevNet, IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), Scrum, consulting, networking, and automation.

He works with his team to provide Southwest’s network engineers and customers the automation they need to achieve their goals. Carlos also shares tips and ideas on network automation on his blog The Network Automator.

Throughout his 20+ years at Red Hat, Ferris has focused on the value of the company’s business model. He served as the first product manager for Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, and he later led the evolution of Red Hat’s subscriptions from capacity to consumption models. This allowed for Red Hat products on public cloud providers and led to the creation of the Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider Program, which includes 1,000+ Red Hat partners and lets customers use multi- and hybrid-cloud paradigms across the entire Red Hat portfolio.

Ferris has also worked to define the company’s business architecture, leading strategy and business negotiations on high-profile partnerships as well. These efforts have enabled Red Hat to combine the open source development model with its value propositions and various subscription models to meet changing market needs.

Ferris is either the sole or a teamed inventor of more than 85 issued U.S. patents in the space of cloud computing, all of which are covered under Red Hat's patent promise in support and defense of open source development.

A software industry veteran, Brown arrived at Red Hat in 2023 with more than 28 years experience in hybrid cloud and transformational technology. He began his career at IBM as an intern and held various positions working out of the UK, Japan and Canada. Most recently served as General Manager, Technology Group, IBM United Kingdom & Ireland, where he drove the business strategy, sales and marketing, and overall financial performance for Software & Cloud in EMEA. His passion lies in delivering superior customer experiences and success through trusted advisor relationships. On a personal front, he is a Foundation of Hearts board member, supporting Heart of Midlothian football club, the UKs largest professional fan owned club in the UK, and the community it serves.

In her current role, Rachel is focused on revolutionizing productivity and democratizing data access by introducing a natural language interface AI Assistant, to bolster the platform's effectiveness and usability. Prior to Adobe, she implemented healthcare software at Epic Systems and improved clinical workflows, and at Teach for America, she boosted mathematics students' outcomes in Phoenix.

He joined Red Hat in 2013 and specializes in accelerating application platforms through the use of operating systems, cloud, and hardware technologies. Mike has more than 25 years of experience in datacenter architecture. He previously worked in both services and product management roles at Sun Microsystems and Oracle before joining Red Hat.

This work has resulted in systems for natural language processing (SystemT) that are widely used in enterprise and distributed machine learning (SystemML), including an Apache open source project. He has published more than 40 papers at major conferences and holds more than 20 patents across these areas. Shiv is the recipient of the inaugural “Test-of-time” award from the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) for his seminal paper in sentiment analysis in 2002.

He is known for leading large engineering teams through transformational projects, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance. Varun has developed robust distributed architectures, cloud-native solutions, and scalable microservices, earning him multiple patents for his work on large-scale automated systems.