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Husam leads the Systems Technology Team at Microsoft’s CO+I CTO Office focusing on vertical integration (sw-chip-server-datacenter) of next gen tech for cloud & AI hardware and infrastructure. His team drives innovations across cooling, power, network, sustainability & material technologies, bringing them from incubation to production. His work has received many recognitions including DCD Award for Mission Critical Tech Innovation, IEEE Micro Top Picks, TCPMT Best Paper Award, & ASME InterPACK Outstanding Paper Award. Husam has more than 70 publications and +120 filed/granted patents and he is a member of IEEE, ASHRAE TC9.9, ASME, OpenCompute, & iMasons.

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Robert Novo has in-depth experience in service delivery, network operations, executive consulting, leading-edge technology and carrier-grade, resilient telecommunications. Robert is experienced with leading large team consulting projects, managing shifting priorities and delivering on-time with quality to CxOs of Fortune 500, multi-national customers.

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Stephanie serves as Vice President of Strategy at Flex Ltd, developing and implementing growth strategies for the Communications, Enterprise, and Cloud (CEC) business unit.

Previously, she spent 18 years at Intel Corporation, holding leadership roles such as General Manager of Strategy and Market Analytics in the Data Center and AI Group, where she focused on strategic planning for Xeon and Accelerator product lines, as well as Senior Director of Product Sustainability, Strategic Planning Director, and High-Performance Computing CFO.

Stephanie contributes to industry initiatives and speaks regularly at events on data center technology strategy, sustainability, and market trends. She holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Washington State University.

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Ali Heydari is the Data Center Technologist at Nvidia, the fastest growing AI-enabling technology company. In this role, he is the data center technologist in charge of hardware and data center design with focus on liquid cooling of high heat density data centers and hardware products. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana, M.S., Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and M.A. in applied mathematics from University of California, Berkeley

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Jeff Wittich is the Chief Product Officer at Ampere. Jeff has extensive leadership experience in the semiconductor industry in roles ranging from product and process development to business strategy to marketing. Prior to joining Ampere, he worked at Intel for 15 years in a variety of positions throughout the company. Most recently, he was responsible for the Cloud Service Provider Platform business, driving global market reach, product customization, and ultimately defining the products and platforms being used across the cloud worldwide. While at Intel, Jeff also led a product development team responsible for 5 generations of Xeon processors. He received an Intel Achievement Award for his work in developing the Custom CPU program.

Jeff has an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

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Steve is a HPC and Open Source Analyst at Northrop Grumman Corporation. He has expertise in technically oriented engineering and research with a focus on high performance computing and open source software implementation with application to internal processes and external business opportunities.

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Mr. Elissa is a 25-year veteran of the critical facilities industry as a recognized critical facilities technologist and leader in this field. He focuses on technology, critical facilities infrastructure, data centers, delivering engineering services as a project lead and is a subject matter expert in the data center strategy, planning, sourcing, designing, commissioning and operations of critical computer networks cabling infrastructure, and data center infrastructure management, as well as developing engineering databases.

As a technology consultant and a professional engineer, Mr. Elissa participated and led over 160 major projects of varying facility types totaling around 20 million square feet of data processing critical facilities space, such as data centers, call centers, trading floors, office buildings, hospitals, biotech pharmaceuticals clean-rooms, network operations control rooms, telco, higher education, corporate and university campuses, and varying government buildings.

At Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Center Facilities, Mr. Elissa is a worldwide Distinguished Technologist and client consulting principal with a focus on the Technology Infrastructure practice. In this role, he has the overarching responsibility for all the projects delivered for this specialty services. He is also a core contributor to data center product development at HPE. Mr. Elissa is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Delaware since 2004.

Mr. Elissa is sought globally to provide strategic consulting to international enterprise organizations in a variety of industries such as financial services, securities exchanges, information technology, telecommunications, national and international retail chains, pharmaceutical & research, higher education, healthcare, energy & petrochemicals, utilities providers as well as federal, state and local governments & defense entities, as well as Artificial Intelligence and high performance computing (HPC).

Mr. Elissa received his Master of Science in Technology Management from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 2001 in Hoboken, New Jersey and his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Marquette University in 1997 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

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Christian Roth is an experienced Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software and hardware industry in Architecture and Management positions for more then 30 years. Skilled in building Cloud Data Centers (EN50600, BICSI, TSI, EPI CDCP, CTDC, CDFOM certified), evaluation of co-location sites, Standardization, Structured Cabling, Enterprise Software, ITIL V3 Expert, Process design, IT and DC Strategy, Business Development, Pre-sales and Professional Services. Strong information technology professional graduated from University of applied sciences Fulda.

Today Christian is globally responsible for IT White space standardization including cabinets, power distribution, structured cabling, Co-location evaluation, DC design blueprints and influences DC Strategy at SAP SE Global Cloud Services, Data Center Management. Prior to his SAP engagement he has worked in post sales, presales, business development, Fujitsu SAP competence center and various management positions on regional and EMEA level.

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Ronna Davis has been in the networking and telecommunication industry for 26 years. She has been with CommScope for over 16 years and has held positions in product line management, sales, and the channel. She is currently on CommScope's Strategy and Technology Team for Buildings and Campuses. Ronna chairs the TIA SPEC, Single Pair Ethernet Consortium. Prior to CommScope, she worked in the design and construction of telecommunications networks for eight years and in wholesale distribution for two years. She is a LEED Green Associate, and member of the Ethernet Alliance. Ronna holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Marketing.

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Amanda Brock is CEO of OpenUK, the UK organisation for the business of Open Technology: open source software, open hardware, open data, open innovation, open standards and open access AI - with a purpose of UK Leadership and Global Collaboration in Open Technology. She is also the Executive Producer of State of Open Con 25 taking place 4 - 5 February 2025 in London and has produced 2023 and 24 events.

Appointed member of the Cabinet Office's Open Standards Board; and both UKRI’s UK Exascale Science and Industry Advisory Board and Digital Research Infrastructure Advisory Board, she is a commercial Advisory Board Member at California Cyber Security company Mimoto and at the Scottish Geo Spatial Data company Space Aye. She is also an Advisory Board Member of KDE and a European Representative of the Open Invention Network.

A lawyer of 25 years’ experience, Amanda previously chaired the Open Source and IP Advisory Group of the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs; sat on the OASIS Open Projects, Initiative; was a Member of the British Computer Society Inaugural Influence Board; and of the UK Government Energy Sector Digitalisation Task Force Advisory Board; as well as being an elected Board Member of the Open Source Initiative. Formerly General Counsel of Canonical a role she held for 5 years from 2008 she set up and ran their legal function and has been part of the open source contributing community since.

Amanda is a judge in the IDG Foundry CIO 100 in 2023 and 2024, having been a Judge in the We are Tech Women Rising Star Awards in 2020-22.  Listed as the 37th Most Influential Woman in UK Tech by Computer Weekly in 2023 and in Computing’s IT Leaders 100 2023, and the INvolve HERoes list of 100 global women executives driving change by example in 2022 -23. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards UK in 2022.

A regular contributor to the tech press, she is the editor of Open Source Law, Policy and Practice (2nd edition) published by Oxford University Press in October 2022, with open access thanks to the Vietsch Foundation https://amandabrock.com/books

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