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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. B. Thangaraju is a Professor at IIIT-Bangalore, where he leads the Open Source Technology Lab. With a PhD in Physics, he brings more than two decades of experience in Linux kernel programming, DevOps, and cloud-native technologies.

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.