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Presenters
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Amanda Scheldt
Cybersecurity Writer and Webinar Host
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Asif Awan
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer - appCD
Asif Awan, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at appCD, is a visionary leader with a passion for applying disruptive technologies across diverse domains. With over 25 years of experience as a builder and technologist, and more than a decade as an entrepreneur, Asif has an eye for identifying early macro signals of major technological disruptions. His expertise includes architecting, developing, and managing large-scale distributed cloud-native applications and infrastructure.
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Hope Lynch
Sr Technolog Strategy Advisor
Hope Lynch is senior director, platform at CloudBees. In her role, Hope and her team analyze the market for data, insights and trends, put together competitive intelligence and support the overall competitive strategy for the company. Hope works to understand shifts and trends in the market and CloudBees' position in relationship to them, enabling her colleagues to have the right information at the right time.
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Kat Cosgrove
Lead Open Source Advocate - Dell Technologies
Kat is a Lead Open Source Advocate at Dell focused on the growth and nurturing of open source through authentic contribution. In particular, her specialties are approachable 101-level content and deep dives on the history of technology, with a focus on DevOps and cloud native. She was the Kubernetes v1.30 Release Lead, and currently serves as the Release Team Subproject Owner, as well as a SIG Docs Tech Lead. When she’s not at a conference, she spends her time playing video games, watching horror movies, or reading science fiction, but her current hyperfixation is film photography. She lives in Scotland with her cat, Espresso, who is the real brains behind the operation and actually ghostwriting all of her tweets.
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Justin Reock
Head of Developer Relations - Cortex
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Mitch Ashley
Chief Technology Advisor, The Futurum Group CTO, Techstrong Group
Mitch Ashley is a technology executive and entrepreneur who is an advisor, analyst, product creator and tech leader, bringing 30+ years in cybersecurity, cloud, AI, product development, software engineering and networking. Mitch is Chief Technology Advisor with The Futurum Group and CTO of Techstrong Group’s tech media platforms covering digital leadership, DevOps, cybersecurity, AI, cloud native, cloud infrastructure, platforms and ITSM. A highly sought-after advisor, analyst, CTO, CIO and head of engineering, Mitch’s analyst research is available on TechstrongResearch.com and FuturumGroup.com.