Vikas Grover is a leading expert in open source technologies and has worked with a diverse range of clients from the finance and telecommunications sectors, providing innovative solutions in areas such as derivatives, credit cards, payments, telecom OSS/BSS, and the private cloud. He is a respected speaker at industry events. Vikas is dedicated to helping others succeed, guided by his personal motto, “Helping others get what they want is the key to getting everything you want in life.”

Ishu Verma is a technology advocate at Red Hat focused on emerging technologies such as edge computing, IoT, and AI/ML. He enjoys working with fellow open source hackers to work on ideas for next-gen open source technologies to benefit various industry verticals such as telco and industrial. Before Red Hat, Ishu worked at Intel and Wind River Systems on IoT gateways, embedded processors, platforms, and software. He is a frequent blogger and speaker at open source and industry forums. Ishu resides in the Valley of the Sun, Arizona with his wife and two boys.

Praveen Rajagopalan has over 20 years of experience in the field of information technology and started his professional career as a DevOps engineer. Praveen is currently a customer engineer at Google Cloud, helping enterprises with their digital transformation journey, which includes cloud transformation and application modernization across many different industry verticals. Recently, he has found passion in helping Google Cloud’s customers explore SaaS as a business model and helping them transform their applications to run as SaaS on Google Cloud. Praveen’s passion is to solve core business-impacting problems and help enterprises become more agile and accelerate their growth. Praveen currently lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and daughter.