Steven Tan

VP & CTO Cloud Solution, Storage at Futurewei

Steven Tan is VP & CTO Cloud Solution, Storage at Futurewei where he is responsible for open source strategy and collaboration. Steven brought together leaders across industries, and founded the SODA Foundation which he currently serves as chair. SODA Foundation is a transformation of the Linux Foundation OpenSDS project which he initiated previously. Steven’s career brought him across Singapore, US, China and Taiwan, and includes roles as founder and CTO at Cloudena, VP Engineering at ProphetStor, and VP Engineering and Technology at CipherMax. Steven is an alumnus of Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore.

Yuji Yazawa

Principal Engineer / Group Manager, Toyota Motor Corporation

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

Rakesh Jain

STSM and Researcher – Cloud, IoT, Analytics at IBM Research

Working on setting the strategic vision and technical architecture for product and service offerings in the areas of integrated systems and storage management of large scale data centers, including software defined environments, information lifecycle management, optimization of resources in cloud environment and disaster recovery. In addition, Cloud native application architecture and their high availability and disaster recovery, AI enabled cloud resources management and distributed application deployment and monitoring of IoT environments. Exploring and prototyping new product ideas.

Kei Kusunoki

Technology Development, Storage Engineer , NTT Communications

Kei Kusunoki has worked on the storage service/solution for telecom carrier’s cloud service since 2012. He has joined OpenSDS Project since 2018, showed the pain point of storage management from Service Provider’s perspective and proposed use-cases/demands of　Japanese end-user community.

Anjaneya “Reddy” Chagam

Principal Engineer and Chief SDS Architect, Intel’s Data Center Group

Anjaneya “Reddy” Chagam is a Senior Principal Engineer and Lead Cloud Storage Architect in Intel’s Cloud and Enterprise Solutions Group. He is responsible for developing software-defined storage strategy, architecture, and technology initiatives. He was a member of the Technical Steering Committee for the OpenSDS Project and he represents Intel on the Ceph board. He is a Chief Architect responsible for delivering software optimizations in Ceph via Intel upstream contributions. He is a regular speaker at major industry conferences, including Storage Developer Conference, OpenStack, CloudNativeCon and Red Hat Summit, has published several white papers on flash-optimized storage solutions. He earned an MS in computer science from Arizona State University.

Yoshiya Eto

Principal Architect at Fujitsu and a Linux Foundation Fellow

Yoshiya Eto is a Principal Architect at Fujitsu and a Linux Foundation Fellow. He also served as Fujitsu’s representative to The Linux Foundation Board of Directors.
He has been involved in operating systems at the company, including development and management of Fujitsu’s proprietary operating systems and Linux. For more than 10 years, he led Linux community engineers in Fujitsu in working with the Linux community. Under his leadership, his team was one of the largest contributors to the Linux kernel and continuously contributed patches to improve features and the stability of Linux for enterprise use.

Cheryl Hung

Sr Director, Ecosystem at ARM

Cheryl brings technologists together to build the future of infrastructure, especially cloud native and open source.

As Senior Director at Arm, Cheryl leads strategy across the cloud and infrastructure ecosystem. She founded the Cloud Native London meetup and grew it to over 7000 members.

Previously Cheryl was VP Ecosystem at CNCF, expanding the End User Community to 150 organisations including Spotify, Apple and Airbnb. She built web-scale distributed systems at Google Maps, and high performing engineering teams at Apple.

Ji Chen

Storage Architect, China Unicom

With previous engagements at Huawei, LETV, and Unicloud, I specialized in storage product development. Actively involved in the Ceph community, notably contributing to Lifecycle features and serving as a core developer for the YIG project. Presently, I work at China Unicom, focusing on both object and file storage solutions.