Lawrence Lai

Head of Global Alliances and Business Development for Storage, Futurewei

He is a business development professional with many years of experience in business development, alliance partnership building and management. He has extensive experience in cloud storage, mobile and embedded software development, project management.

He is highly recommended by executives as dependable, with can-do attitude, excellent technical and business skill, and proven record of success.

Shane Wang

Engineering Director of Cloud Infrastructure Software at Intel
Individual Director of Open Infrastructure Foundation

Shane Wang joined Intel in 2004 after he received his PhD degree on computer science from Fudan University. He has participated in or led the team to develop a few open source projects such as Xen, tboot, the Yocto project, and OpenStack. Currently, he and his team are actively working on cloud computing, cloud native, edge computing, networking and storage, covering OpenStack, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, Ceph, Akraino, ONAP, OPNFV, etc. He has been an individual director of Open Infrastructure Foundation (a.k.a OpenStack Foundation) since 2015, and been committed to community development of cloud computing for many years.

Shane Wang

Engineering Director of Cloud Infrastructure Software at Intel
Individual Director of Open Infrastructure Foundation

Shane Wang joined Intel in 2004 after he received his PhD degree on computer science from Fudan University. He has participated in or led the team to develop a few open source projects such as Xen, tboot, the Yocto project, and OpenStack. Currently, he and his team are actively working on cloud computing, cloud native, edge computing, networking and storage, covering OpenStack, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, Ceph, Akraino, ONAP, OPNFV, etc. He has been an individual director of Open Infrastructure Foundation (a.k.a OpenStack Foundation) since 2015, and been committed to community development of cloud computing for many years.

Pierre Zhang

R & D Director at China Unicom.

6 years of experience in communication system development and solution, 7 years of experience in cloud computing product planning and architecture, in-depth research in ICT product planning and cloud computing solution architecture. Deeply participate in Huawei’s public cloud work, and lead the work of LETV public cloud.

Xion Lai

Technology Platform Department PaaS Director, China Construction Bank Fintech

Responsible for establishing the container-cloud PaaS platform of china construction bank currently . Have many years of cloud computing experiences due to in charge of building cloud platforms for many Fortune 500 companies . Also dedicated great efforts in promoting the production and application of open source technology in the financial banking field .

Hang Geng

Open Source Expert at Tencent

Geng Hang, Tencent open source expert, also is the head of operation of Mulan open source community, the secretary general of China Association for Science and Technology Open Source Technology Dissemination Working Committee, executive member of CCF Open Source Development Committee, member of TOC of NextArch Foundation, ambassador of Ceph Foundation, deputy secretary general of China Open Source Cloud Alliance, and mentor of TengYuan Club.

He has been awarded the 2021 China Open Source 33 People, 2021 China Open Source Outstanding People, 2019-2020 Community Contribution Award, 2018 China Open Source Cloud Super People Award, 2018 Spike People Award, and 2016 Outstanding Individual of China Open Source Cloud Alliance.

Currently, he mainly focuses on research and promotion of open source project incubation, open source standardization, open source education, open source governance, and open source commercialization.

耿航，腾讯开源专家，同时也是木兰开源社区运营负责人，中国科协开源技术传播工委会秘书长，CCF开源发展委员会首批执委，NextArch基金会TOC成员、SODA基金会OC委员会成员、Ceph基金会大使、中国开源云联盟副秘书长、腾源会导师。曾获2021年中国开源33人，2021 中国开源优秀人物、2019-2020年度社区贡献奖、2018中国开源云超级人物奖、2018尖峰人物奖、中国开源云联盟2016年度杰出个人等。目前主要致力于开源项目孵化、开源标准化、开源教育、开源治理、开源商业化等方面的研究和推动工作。

Vivek Sridhar

Senior Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

Vivek is a technophile and an Open Source contributor with around 16+ years of experience in the Software Industry and works at Microsoft as Senior Cloud Advocate, Cloud + AI Engineering Team. In his previous role, he has mentored startups/developers, speaker at conferences/meetups for DigitalOcean as Senior Developer Advocate, Co-Founder / Chief-Architect of NoodleNext Technology. He was also heading DevOps at BlackBuck and was a solution architect at HCL (Australia) in client engagement. Vivek started his career with IBM Rational (India Software Labs) as a Software Developer. He has also published three papers in international forums, including one international journal.

Anvith K.S.

System Architect, Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.

Anvith KS is an architect, developer, community builder, Quizzer, Baker, Dancer, photographer, MC and an open source champion. Having worked as a full stack developer for most of his career, he now works at Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd, on the SODA Foundation projects (A sub foundation of The Linux Foundation).

He currently leads the ecosystem and community building activities at the SODA Foundation and is the maintainer for the Installer & Dashboard project, website, blog and the documentation.

In the past he has contributed to the Kubernetes website and documentation projects, KubeEdge project (CNCF incubated) website and documentation, Apache ServiceComb Transaction Management project, Mr Redis and consulted with other open source projects.

He has also been a community manager for Google Developers Group Belgaum, Bengaluru WordPress, the official WordPress meetup in Bangalore and currently volunteers with the local GDG chapters in Bangalore.

When not at work you’ll find him either quizzing, hosting quizzes, cooking, baking or photographing all of the above.

Ayshwarya Baburan

Professor of Computer Science department at Kristu Jayanti College

Ayshwarya B is a professor of Computer Science department at Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore and also her research works are related to Lung Cancer predictions in the field of Data Mining. She has more than a decade of teaching experience from Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore with subjects such as python, mobile application development, data visualization, .NET Technologies and other web development technologies. She Published papers in more than 20 international and national journals. She acted as a review member for international journals and various National and International conferences.

Masahiro Itoh

President, STUDIO Bookmark
SODA Japan Outreach Committee Lead, SODA Foundation

Systems Engineer for various system and Open Source Software.

Community member of …
Core member of Cobalt Users Group and Project BlueQuartz..
Representative of Endian Firewall Community Japan and Scalix community Japan.
Japan Community manager of SODA Foundation(former OpenSDS). and Xandros Linux, OpenStack, etc.

Volunteer Staff of LinuxCon Japan

Specialties: System designing, Linux, Security, Web Application Firewall, OpenStack and Consulting for IT systems

Kei Kusunoki

Technology Development, Storage Engineer, NTT Communications

Kei Kusunoki has worked on the storage service/solution for telecom carrier’s cloud service since 2012. He has joined OpenSDS Project since 2018, showed the pain point of storage management from Service Provider’s perspective and proposed use-cases/demands of　Japanese end-user community.

Yusuke Sato

Engineer, Yahoo! JAPAN

Yusuke Sato is responsible for private cloud compute and storage at Yahoo Japan Corporation. He has been engaged mainly in verification of server hardware, operation of storage systems, and establishment and operation of virtual environments. He led the server and OS team from 2013 to 2016, and started leading the storage team for private cloud environment in April 2017. Yusuke Sato graduated from Kyushu Institute of Technology with a master’s degree in Life Science and Systems Engineering and is a member of the OpenSDS End-User Advisory Committee since July 2017.