Since launching the event in late February the interest for a Nordic OpenStack Day has been great. With leading people within the OpenStack community announcing their interest to speak at the first ever OpenStack Days Nordic and ticket sales starting to take off we are very excited moving forward.
We are delighted to present the lineup OpenStack Days Nordic in Stockholm on the 22 of September.
Thierry Carrez
Thierry Carrez is the Director of Engineering at the OpenStack Foundation, helping ensure the long-term health of the OpenStack upstream open source project. He has been the Release Manager for the OpenStack project since its inception, coordinating the effort and facilitating collaboration between contributors. He is the elected chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee, which is in charge of the technical direction of the project.
Monty Taylor
Monty is a long time Free Software Hacker and a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. He is founder and currently a core team member of OpenStack Infra – which runs OpenStack’s massively scalable dev/test and CI system. Because of that, he’s one of the world’s largest OpenStack end users. You should never let him name projects, because if you do, you’ll end up with something like “jeepyb”. Before OpenStack he was a MySQL consultant and a core dev on the Drizzle fork of MySQL. Outside of technology, Monty has a degree in Theatre, lives in Brooklyn, and is an Associate Artist with Seattle’s Satori Group.
Jan van Eldik
Jan van Eldik studied experimental High-Energy Physics at the University of Amsterdam, working on the DELPHI experiment during the 1990’s. He joined CERN’s IT department in 2000, and has been working as a Service Manager in a variety of services – monitoring, data, virtualization.
Since 2012, Jan has been leading the team that operates CERN’s private OpenStack cloud. This service provides resources to the physics experiments and other customer groups in the organization, and has grown to an infrastructure of 150.000 cores, providing Virtual Machines, Block Storage and Containers to end-users.
More speaker announcements are to come – we hope to see you at the OpenStack Days Nordic!