SODACON

Steven Tan is VP & CTO Cloud Solution, Storage at Futurewei where he is responsible for open source strategy and collaboration. Steven brought together leaders across industries and founded the SODA Foundation which he currently serves as chair. SODA Foundation is a transformation of the Linux Foundation OpenSDS project which he initiated previously. Steven’s career brought him across Singapore, US, China and Taiwan, and includes roles as founder and CTO at Cloudena, VP Engineering at ProphetStor, and VP Engineering and Technology at CipherMax. Steven is an alumnus of Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore.

Hilary Carter oversees the development of decision-useful research projects and content programs that support open source as a paradigm for mass collaboration at scale. Together, the Research and Communications department broadens the understanding of the impact of open source software, open hardware, open standards, and open data for people, enterprises, governments, and society at large.

Hilary’s career began in financial services with experiences in corporate finance, research and analysis, and global private banking. Her career pivoted to digital technology, where she focused on mobile communications and digital media consulting. Before joining the Linux Foundation, Hilary led a global, syndicated research institute focused on blockchain technology.

She earned an MSc in Management from the London School of Economics.

He is responsible for the cloud businesses of hyperscalers such as Azure, Google, Alibaba, IBM, and AWS, as well as SoftBank’s own services related to them. In SoftBank’s multi-cloud strategy, he is also paying attention to new technologies that can promote application development and data utilization without being aware of the cloud environment.

Responsible for researching & designing hybrid cloud infrastructure (including datacenter itself, cooling mechanism as well) which is dedicated for Connected vehicle & Autonomous vehicle.

Li Fei has more than 10 years of R&D experience in Storage/Cloud/BC&DR products and cloud services. He is now responsible for data center management, storage ecosystem and data management related product design, development, delivery and lifecycle management. He works very closely with SODA Foundation and focuses to build commercial products which has effective usages and contribution to SODA open source projects.