Yuji Yazawa

Principal Engineer / Group Manager, Toyota Motor Corporation

Responsible for researching & designing hybrid cloud infrastructure (including datacenter itself, cooling mechanism as well) which dedicated for Connected vehicle & Autonomous vehicle.

Cosimo Rosetti

Lead Infrastructure Architect – Storage, Backup and Data Protection, Vodafone

Define a Global Target Architecture and Strategy, Architectural Standards, Solutions and Roadmaps through the evaluation, recommendation and selection of key vendors that will supply Data Centre based IT Infrastructure products working with Global Supply Chain Management.

Lead the advancement of infrastructure use for Storage, Backup/Recovery and Archive technical specialisations, and take an active supporting role in the others: (Infrastructure) Solutions: Cloud, Servers and Database.

Responsible for the definition of the infrastructure architectural strategy, solutions and roadmap

Managing the relationship with relevant vendors and partners

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.

Tomoko Kondo

Director, Softbank Corp.

Managing a technical team that is related to Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, IBM, AWS. It is  an authentication gateway, and individual hosting team.

Looks forward to SODA realizing a world where data can be used transparently wherever it is.

Wim Jacobs

Storage Architect, KPN

Storage Architect at CTO level at KPN.

Kaneda Katsumi

Systems Architect, Manager of Advanced Engineering office at IIJ

Responsible for research and evaluating advanced technologies for IIJ.

He has over 25 years expertise in IT infrastructure. He has been explored an efficient IT infrastructure in the datacenter before cloud.

Shinya Tsunematsu

Chief Technical Lead, GMO Pepabo, Inc.

Shinya Tsunematsu is the Chief Technical Lead at GMO Pepabo, Inc.

GMO Pepabo, Inc. is Tokyo and Fukuoka-based tech company that has strong advantages in technologies including hosting, e-commerce services. He has been working at GMO Pepabo, Inc. from 2009. He started to manage and build a private cloud by using OpenStack. He focuses on improving the IaaS environment and operation automation from the infrastructure side.