Alan is founder, CEO & editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, the company behind DevOps.com, Container Journal, Security Boulevard and Digital Anarchist, as well as co-founder of the DevOps Institute. As such, he is attuned to the world of technology, particularly cloud, DevOps, security and open source. With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations. He is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at industry and government conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chats podcast, DevOps TV and Digital Anarchist audio and videos are widely followed. Alan attributes his success to a combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality. He is a graduate of St. John's University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.

Deepak Waghmare is Chief Technology Officer for Asia Pacific, Japan & Greater China at Dell Technologies, where he leads the regional CTO team across the company's most heterogeneous region - economies at entirely different stages of digital maturity, often inside a single customer's footprint.
He works where enterprise Al ambition meets operational reality. The constraint he sees across APJC is rarely model capability; it is the orchestration, data foundations, and governance that decide whether a pilot ever reaches production. That view shapes how he advises boards and CIOs on Al adoption, sovereign infrastructure, multi-cloud architecture, and the migration of intelligence toward the edge.
Two decades in, he has worked every side of the table — customer, systems integrator, and vendor - with organisations from startups to multinationals across North America, EMEA, and APJ. He has been the one buying, the one implementing, and the one selling, and he argues from all three.
He serves on the Singapore Computer Society's Digital Assurance committee and ISACA
Singapore's OT Special Interest Group - governance work that tracks the same IT/OT convergence he sees across customer estates - and is a Charter Member of TiE Singapore, where he mentors founders. He treats all of it as part of the job, not adjacent to it.

Geeta Raval Vaghela leads Partner Strategy and Solutions Engineering at WEKA. Before joining WEKA, she was Senior Director of Product Management for Unstructured Data Solutions and Head of AI Storage Strategy and Technical Computing at Dell Technologies, where she led Dell's Parallel File System work and worked closely with the Office of the CTO and strategic technology partners. Earlier, she managed next-generation platforms on the Isilon team. Her background in product management, systems architecture, M&A and partner work now shapes how she helps WEKA's partners build and deliver high-performance AI solutions. Geeta holds a Bachelor's (Hons) and a Master's in Mathematics, and she mentors young women in tech through Women in Cloud and Girls Who Game.

Alvin is in charge of SEA at Dify, leading market strategy and operations while partnering with service partners and ecosystem partners to help enterprises scale AI Agent and AI workflow adoption.

With cross-domain experience across hardware, software, and AI, he has led multiple 0-to-1 products from ideation to launch at both global enterprises and startups. Alvin specializes in end-to-end enterprise AI adoption and brings a well-rounded perspective from working across end customers, consultancies, and vendors, backed by solid project management and business fundamentals.

Ecosystem AI Sales Specialist at Red Hat with 24 years of software development and sales experience, including 10+ years specialising in AI and ML solutions.

I empower partners at Red Hat to co-create AI solutions and execute joint go-to-market (GTM) strategies.

My passion is democratising AI/ML and driving data-driven business decisions with solutions that are business-focused, not just technology-centric.

Key AI Experience:

AWS: I served as an AI specialist technical business developer, helping public sector organisations (Education, Government, Healthcare, Non-profits) across India to co-create cloud solutions leveraging Generative AI and LLMs for improved outcomes.

IBM Watson: I previously worked as a Tech Sales Architect, helping large enterprises adopt AI into their workflows using IBM Watson technologies.

Technical & Education: I hold multiple AI/ML certifications, including AWS Architect and Machine Learning Specialist, and patents. My technical background includes expertise in Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, IBM Watson and OpenShift AI. I have a Master's degree in Computer Sciences and an Engineer's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.