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Martin Loschwitz is the founder and managing director of True West IT Services GmbH, which offers scalable IT infrastructure based on OpenStack and Kubernetes.

Jeff has been in the HPC business for over 30 years (starting when he was 4 years old). When he’s not grappling with a stubborn systemd script, he’s looking for deals for his home cluster.

Thomas Joos is a freelance IT consultant and has been working in IT for more than 20 years. In addition, he writes hands-on books and papers on Windows and other Microsoft topics. Online you can meet him on: http://​­thomasjoos.​­spaces.​­live.​­com.

Dr. Matthias Wübbeling is an IT security enthusiast, scientist, author, consultant, and speaker. He works on projects in network security, IT security awareness, and protection against account takeover and identity theft.

Freelance writer for ZDNET, Linux New Media, Foss Force, CIQ, and an author of over 70 novels of fiction. Jack is a professional actor, filmmaker, and producer/writer/actor in the Me And My Muse Series.

Holger Reibold is a computer scientist, who has worked as an IT journalist since 1995. Currently, he works as a key account manager for a German ISP. His main interests are open source tools and security topics.

Andreas worked as an IT magazine editor for 17 years, and then as a solution engineer at Dell and Vmware. In 2012 Andreas moved to Red Hat. There, he currently works as principal solution architect in the Technical Partner Development department.

Federico Lucifredi (@0xf2) is the Product Management Director for Ceph Storage at IBM and Red Hat, formerly the Ubuntu Server Product Manager at Canonical, and the Linux “Systems Management Czar” at SUSE.

Thorsten Scherf is the global Product Lead for Identity Management and Platform Security in Red Hat’s Product Operations group. He is a regular speaker at various international conferences and writes a lot about open source software.