Public sector driven by the urgency to carry out daily activities and increased demand for certain services started considering modernization of the infrastructure and applications as a key element of their success. What are the main challenges, opportunities and best practices? How to accelerate your IT modernization while reducing costs and benefit from the power of data to operate and serve your citizen?
Research Director
IDC
Massimiliano (Max) Claps is the research director in European IDC Government Insights team. His research empowers technology suppliers and public sector professionals to embrace disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, edge computing, and cloud, to realize the benefits of strategic initiatives such as smart cities and citizen-centric government services. Max Claps has almost 20 years of public sector experience. After starting his career as a management consultant, he joined IDC in 2002 as the lead analyst for the government, healthcare, and education industries in Europe. He then held various analyst and management roles at both Gartner and IDC. In those roles he advised technology suppliers and professionals in the public sector globally.
Worldwide Greenlake Cloud Service GTM & Sales Leader
HPE
Anuraag Gupta is responsible for HPE’s Greenlake Consumption business, as part of the World-wide GTM team. He has expanded the presence of this unique on-premise consumption business from inception to a rapidly expanding model of choice across vertical segments & regions. Anuraag has worked in various business, sales and management roles in Digital, Compaq and Hewlett Packard Enterprise over the past twenty seven years.
Omniverse & vGPU Solutions Senior Specialist, CEMEA
NVIDIA
Uwe is part of the Professional Visualization Team at NVIDIA in CEMEA. His job and passion is helping partners and customers with latest NVIDIA technologies and selecting the right solution/GPU for their graphics demand for all workloads - delivered either from graphics cards in workstations or graphics performance in virtualized environments from the datacenter. Uwe joined NVIDIA in November 2018, having previously held multiple sales roles with various system integrators as well as vendors in the IT industry. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling the world with his camper and various kinds of sports like running, hiking, cycling and golf.
EMEA Director, Products and Go To Market
Red Hat
Morten has 25 years of professional experience in leading European positions at services companies and product companies like IBM, Capgemini, Micro Focus, DXC and Red Hat. He is an expert for application modernization and cloud solutions to help clients with their digital roadmap.
Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe
HPE
Gilles is responsible for driving growth and extending HPE’s leadership position the region. His prior tenures include Managing Director for France, Vice President of Partner Sales in Europe, Middle East, and Africa and Vice President of Datacenter digital infrastructure Sales for the Western Europe. Over the course of his extensive career in the European IT industry, Gilles a deep expertise and view on Europe's digital strategy through a consistent engagement with key EU stakeholders. Gilles sits in the Executive Committee of the AmCham EU and is a regular keynote speaker to events on digitalization and the transition to a data economy.
