Data Science Leveraging Cloud to Manage the Business of IT
Channel: The Open Group
Date: 18/04/2019

Moderator Dana Gardner is president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, an enterprise IT analysis, market research, and consulting firm. Gardner, a leading identifier of software and cloud productivity trends and new IT business growth opportunities, honed his skills and refined his insights as an industry analyst, pundit, and news editor covering the emerging software development and enterprise infrastructure arenas for the last 19 years.

Andras Szakal is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer IBM U.S. Federal.
He is responsible for IBM’s industry solution technology strategy in support of the U.S. Federal customer. Mr. Szakal’s team provides deep industry and technical expertise necessary to address complex government challenges such as cybersecurity and cloud computing. Mr. Szakal represents the IBM Software Group on the Board of Directors of The Open Group and AFEI. He currently holds the Vice Chair of the Trusted Technology Forum and Chairs the Open Certified Architect (Open CA) standard.

 Gary Brandt has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry focusing on enterprise scale business solutions and IT Operations. He is currently a Senior Product Manager for Micro Focus ITOM Operations Bridge Suite, focused on advance analytics and machine learning.
Prior to joining Micro Focus, Gary worked as an enterprise architect and strategist in Hewlett Packard Enterprise Global IT organization and CTO-office. He has been a practitioner of hybrid IT operation solutions for several years and has implemented monitoring, automation, and analytic solutions at large enterprise scale.