Simplify your multi-cloud and hybrid cloud

Daniel Pascua collaborates with companies to find the right path to Cloud by applying multifaceted strategies that align with their business goals and customer-centric approach.

Daniel, with over 16 years of experience working for several multinational Corporations all over the globe, also has a wealth of experience as an entrepreneur, consultant, technologist and cloud architect. This provides him with a unique perspective on different approaches that can be applied in challenging business environments.

As a VMUG Leader, vExpert and holder of several technology certifications he provides a refreshing perspective to advise companies of all sizes on how to assess, strategise, innovate and execute plans to increase revenue, reduce costs, find additional lines of revenue, improve operational efficiency and gain better positioning in market.

Happily married and a proud father of 3, he also enjoys spending time learning, riding motorcycles, flying, reading and improving his skills to always keep up with the industry.

Michele has more than 18 years’ experience in the IT industry. During the past 6 years, he has helped enterprises to adopt cloud computing, scaling from simple concepts to multi-million dollar programs. He served as senior architect in Amazon Web Services where he had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the fastest cloud adoptions in EMEA. Today, he is the Global Head of Cloud Adoption and Governance and is responsbile for DevOps and SRE teams in Yoox Net-A-Porter Group, the world's leading online luxury fashion retailer.

Professional and highly motivated senior IT manager, with a robust record of initiating and leading successful projects. Has over 18 years’ experience of delivering excellence and of raising the profile of IT as a driver of commercial benefit in the hospitality, retail, leisure, event mgt. and travel sectors. - Moet Hennessy, The Dorchester, London 2012, Virgin Holidays, Doyle Collection.

Vincent has been working in the event industry for past 20 years, having held an array of positions at UBM (now Informa Markets), ITE (now Hyve Group) and is currently Managing Director of CloserStill’s Tech portfolio. Prior to getting involved in the trade show industry,

Vincent was an undergraduate tutor at Swansea University’s Philosophy department – an academic background that he was able to utilise recently with the advent of home-schooling! (He did his own schooling in Wales and Hawaii and went to University in the UK and Belgium.)

Vincent has held roles in M&A, has launched events in South East Asia, and has run businesses in Brazil, Ukraine, Turkey and Kazakhstan. Having helped his last business implement a digital transformation journey, this put him in a great position to run events in the Tech space.
He has two young boys, and loves to cycle, swim, play tennis and basketball.

Tom joined GDS in 2018. He leads the ongoing GDS work on cloud strategy and runs the cross-Government Cloud Working Group. Tom has worked closely with a number of departments including the Home Office, National Cyber Security Centre and HMRC to provide architectural guidance and as part of the spend approvals process.

Before joining Government, Tom managed the private cloud pipeline for a multinational investment bank. He is AWS certified and has published several Alexa skills.