The AI Factory in Action: Red Hat, NVIDIA and Dell Technologies

As the Director for Red Hat AI across the Asia Pacific region (encompassing China, Japan, India, ANZ, Southeast Asia, and Korea), I lead the specialized technical sales teams in building and executing the go-to-market strategy for Red Hat’s entire AI portfolio. My primary focus is driving the enterprise, commercial and public sector adoption of predictive, generative, and agentic AI solutions leveraging the Red Hat AI platform.

I work at the intersection of open-source innovation and high-performance infrastructure, helping customers deploy trusted Private AI solutions that are sovereign-by-design. My team is involves architecting environments utilizing Red Hat AI Enterprise, which leverages frameworks like vLLM and llm-d, and hosts leading open-weight models such as Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Nemotron and others. By applying advanced quantization techniques and optimizing the hosting layer with advanced LLM techniques (KV caching, PagedAttention, PD disaggregation, speculative decoding), we maximize efficiency and throughput.

To accelerate this mission, I drive strategic GTM alongside market-leading AI accelerators (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Google TPU) and tier-one OEMs like Dell, Cisco, and Lenovo. Together, we architect compliant, Sovereign AI solutions that bridge the gap between complex hardware ecosystems and scalable MLOps/GenAIOps pipelines.

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.