Dr. Abhisak has been involved in Internet circle in Asia Pacific since 1999. He was the secretariat of ccTLD for three years during which he had participated in almost every ICANN meetings through out the world. He has experienced and understanding of how big impact of Internet has on this region. He single-handedly organized APRICOT 2002 in Bangkok (https://www.apricot.net/apricot2002/about/index.html) and was a chairman of APIA serving for three terms from 2004 – 2006 (https://www.apia.org/pdf/AGM2004.pdf) Here is more details of Dr. Abhisak qualifications and work history: 

Abhisak received his doctoral degree in Engineering from Cleveland State University, USA and spent 8 years as a senior research scientist at NASA John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He published over 20 international publications as lead author including presentations in France, Japan, and USA.

Moving back home in 1996, he worked as a Director of Thailand Science Park. He later turned entrepreneur setting up his own company called NIPA Technology Co., Ltd. He is the former Executive Director for ccTLD Secretariat for Country Code Top Level Domain Name. He was also in charge of ccTLD Name Server Training Program which is part of AP Outreach Seminar - ccTLD Secretariat. 

He has been appointed by the Cabinet of Thai Government on 17 June 2003 to be a member of Board of Directors of National Science and Technology Development Agency, Ministry of Science and Technology, Thailand.

Allison is a software developer and open source strategist. She is a board member and board chair (2021) of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, a board member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a board member of Open Usage Commons, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for open source leaders. She previously served as president and board member of the Open Source Initiative, president and board member of the Perl Foundation, board member at the Python Software Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, chair of the board at the Parrot Foundation, Open Source Evangelist at O'Reilly Media, Conference Chair of OSCON, Technical Architect of Ubuntu, Open Source Advisor at Canonical, Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. She participates in the Debian and OpenStack projects, and is currently taking a mid-career research sabbatical to complete a PhD at the University of Cambridge.

Amy Marrich is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat. She previously worked at a small Open Source e-assessment company in Luxembourg where she was the Open Source Community and Global Training Manager.  Previously she was the OpenStack Instructor at Linux Academy and a Linux System Engineer on the Platform Engineering Cloud Operations team at Rackspace. She currently serves on the OpenStack Board, is an active member of the Openstack Ansible project, chair of the OSF Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, and previously the chair of the OpenStack User Committee. Amy spends her free time competing in performance events (agility, FASt Cat, and dock diving) with her Dalmatians and competing in Dressage with her Connemara pony.

Belmiro Moreira is an enthusiastic mathematician and computer engineer passionate about the challenges and complexities of architecting and deploying large scale open Cloud Infrastructures. 

Belmiro works at CERN and during the last 10 years he has been responsible for the design, deployment and maintenance of the CERN Cloud Infrastructure based on Openstack.

Previously he worked in different virtualization projects to improve the efficiency of the large Batch farm at CERN. 

Belmiro is from the beginning an active member of the OpenStack community. 

Currently, he is a member of the OpenStack TC (Technical Committee) and the co-chair of the OpenStack Large Scale SIG. Previously he was also a member of the OpenStack UC (User Committee). 

Belmiro is particularly interested in the challenges that cloud operators face when maintaining large scale open infrastructures. He talks regularly about his experience in several conferences and events, (OpenStack Summits, OpenStack User Groups, OpenInfra Live, CentOS Dojo, ...) and helps in the organization of many other events.

Belmiro is committed to continue to support the OpenInfra community.

Erik (He/Him) works at Blizzard Entertainment as Lead Site Reliability Engineer for World of Warcraft. He started working for Blizzard back in 2009 and has since contributed to multiple iterations of the Blizzard infrastructure.

Blizzard runs an on-prem OpenStack Cloud with over 12,000 nodes has been in production since the release of Overwatch in 2015.

He has also been an active contributor to OpenStack since 2015, and is currently a Core Reviewer for Designate and Senlin.

Ghanshyam is currently serving as a Chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee and Core developer in various OpenStack projects (Nova, QA and a few more) and served as PTL of the OpenStack QA. project. He started working in OpenStack with NEC in 2012 as a cloud support engineer, and since 2014 he has been involved in upstream development. His main upstream focus is on Nova, QA, API stability, and CI/CD. In addition, he is passionate about bringing more contributors to the Open Infra family and helping them in onboarding in the community via different programs like First Contact SIG, Upstream Institute Trainings, mentorship. Before OpenStack Upstream, he worked in different domains like Avionics, Storage, Cloud, and Virtualization. Ghanshyam started his career in technology as a software developer in the Avionic domain with the C++ language.

He has also been a frequent speaker in various Open Source events such as OpenStack, Open Infra, Open source summit, Open Infra Days and LinuxCon on various topics like RESTful API, QA, Cloud Backup, Open Source Community Building, Open Source Governance. In addition, he has been actively involved in various PoC and solutions designs around Cloud OSS and currently serving as Cloud Consultant in NEC.

More Details: https://ghanshyammann.com/

Grace Lian is a senior director of Cloud Software Engineering team in Intel. She leads a global team to work on open source cloud software technologies, including OpenStack, k8s, Kata containers, Cloud Hypervisor, Envoy, Istio, Ceph, and Akraino etc. She also drives the strategy in the cloud native software domains for Intel.

Grace is an open source veteran. She started to work on open source software from Carrier Grade Linux project back to 2001. She was engineering manager for the first Linux team in Intel China. The team became OTC (Open Source Technology Center) China and has grown many open source talents for the community. She has long time experience leading global engineering teams on open source software development, touching layers of system software (OS, Web/HTML5, virtualization, orchestration, SDN/NFV, SDS, cloud and edge etc.), bringing open source values to business and successfully supporting many customers.

Grace's team started to work on OpenStack since 2012. In the past years, her team has contributed significantly to OpenStack and Kata Containers upstream development, actively led, participated and promoted many community activities. Intel is also one of the members who started Kata Container project and StarlingX project, and contributed them to Open Infrastructure Foundation.

I am a learner, problem solver, solutions bringer. I started to contribute in OpenStack in 2015. I was the PTL of OpenStack-Ansible during the Queens and Rocky cycle. I was member and chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee, and core reviewer on multiple projects. I was also an OpenStack release manager. I also worked on other projects of the OpenInfra foundation (outside OpenStack). 

I have my own company, and I focus on helping companies in their Open Source strategy.

I currently support City Network, as their CTO.

I am a lover of open source software, and am involved in other open source communities when I can (for example, Kubernetes).

If you missed me in OpenStack events or meetups, you can still meet me every year at the FOSDEM (when those happen in real life...), handling the openstack booth with fellow OpenStackers.

Johan Christenson is an entrepreneur whom has successfully exited multiple companies he founded. After receiving a graduate degree in Engineering, from Florida Institute of Technology, his focus turned to the digital space.

Johan is the founder and CEO of City Network (a part of Iver), which offers a global public cloud as well as private clouds for enterprises - all based on OpenStack. City Networks mission is to enable innovation and focuses on enterprises with regulatory challenges.

Johan sees OpenStack and open infrastructure as critical for all enterprises in order to provide options and create competition in an ever more centralized infrastructure world. He, and the team at City, empower new types of industries and markets to use the power of OpenStack, to enable and increase innovation in their organizations.

Julia started her career in technology over twenty years ago. It has surely not been an average career, but a career where I've continually learned and evolved to fulfill the need. In a sense, it all started with Linux and answering some questions about installing Linux. This started a journey into computer networking and eventually shifted to a systems engineering focus with a stop-over in data center operations.

The DevOps movement lead Julia more into software development and the operationalization of software due to the need to automate large scale systems deployments. This required bringing an operational perspective while bridging to the requirements, and often required digging deep into the underlying code to solve the problem of the day.

In a sense, Julia found a home in OpenStack in 2014 and the Ironic project in 2015 because of many years spent working with physical hardware in data centers. 

Julia presently works for Red Hat as a Senior Principal Software Engineer, where her upstream focus has been Ironic for the past few years, and her downstream focus has been on helping lead adoption and use of Ironic. 

I'm currently leading the European Cloud initiative Sovereign  Cloud Stack (SCS) as CTO - we have been able to get a grant from the  German government to fund the coordination and some of the development  work for this project. It's hosted by the Open Source Business Alliance  (OSBA), a non-profit that represents the open source industry in  Germany. The OSBA has joined the Open Infra Foundation as Associate  Member. SCS is closely linked to the European initiative Gaia-X. 

The idea behind SCS is to network the various Infra DevOps teams in  the industry that build Open Source cloud and container stacks for their  internal consumption or as public clouds. This avoids the duplication  of work and the slight incompatibility that all of these efforts would  have if not interlinked closely. SCS clouds are very compatible and can  be easily federated. SCS also puts a lot of focus on operational tooling  and processes, as high quality day 2 operations remains a challenge for  many operator.

Dec 2018 - Dec 2019, I was responsible for the Cloud and Storage  Departments in SUSE R&D. SUSE was a strong long-time supporter and  platinum member of the OIF, also hosting the HP Helion team after the  M&A transaction.

Before SUSE, I was leading the architecture, community and consulting teams in Deutsche Telekom's Open Telekom Cloud Team.
DT has been a vocal supporter of OpenStack since I joined in early 2012. 

I have personally supported the InterOp Workig Group. I was serving  in the board of the OIF in 2018 as Gold member director for DT and in  2020 and 2021 as individual director.

Before joining DT end of 2011 I was a long-time contributor to the  Linux kernel, which also gave me the privilege of building up and  leading SUSE Labs and work with a number of great engineers in- and  outside my company, contributing to the success of the Open Source technology.

I am Kai and am the CSO/Co-founder from 99CLOUD. I had been devoting myself for OpenStack for more than 9 years from 2012.  99CLOUD is one of the top code committer orgnization in OIF foundation.  We believe with Open Infra tech, we can some how change the world and help client better in their IT and bussiness transformation. I am currently in the OpenStack board in 2020. I am also in EdgeGallery (a MEC opensource project) as a baord member. Prior to 99CLOUD, I worked for Intel from 2006~2012 as a SW engineer and Accenture 2012~2014 as Cloud Manager.  

Over the past 10 years, I’m happy to have watched the hosting industry transform and be part of the transformation process as it evolved from traditional physical hardware to cloud-native infrastructure, powered by OpenStack.  Since the creation of VEXXHOST, I have had the chance to work with different sorts of customers, ranging from growing small businesses to helping architect solutions for large Fortune 500 companies, based on OpenStack.  I've helped integrate other open infrastructure projects into our commercial offering.

By fostering OpenStack at it’s early days in 2011, it has helped improve the project and our service as a whole. I’ve been a contributor to the project since and I have contributed code to almost every release of OpenStack since then.  I've also served as PTL for Puppet OpenStack, continue to serve as a PTL for OpenStack-Ansible and serve on the technical commitee, chairing tthe commitee for a term.

Rico Lin, OpenStack Technical Committee (TC) member, Individual Board of Director for OpenInfra Foundation, Heat PTL, char for Multi-arch SIG, Senior Software Engineer at EasyStack.

Experienced in OpenStack development (infra and app), Cloud architect, Container(docker and k8s), community(contribute and event host), and customer tech consults and supports.

Goals in OpenStack:

* Improve experiences of Cloud-native application on top of OpenStack(by improving infra and user experiences).
* Blending OpenStack with other cloud solutions to make it become one indispensable layer.
* Leverage the community differences across global (Include let Asia community get more actively join to others).

Shane Wang is an Engineering Director of Cloud Infrastructure Software at Software and Advanced Technology Group at Intel. He has participated in or led his team on research and development of open source software projects such as Xen, tboot, Yocto and OpenStack before. He has been serving as an Individual Director of OpenStack Foundation Board since 2015, with years of commitment to community development and building. Currently he and his team is focusing on cloud native, cloud workloads and benchmarking, software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined storage (SDS) technologies, edge computing, including OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes, Istio/Envoy, containerd, SODA (also known as OpenSDS), ONAP, Akraino, StarlingX, Smart Edge Open (also known as OpenNESS), OpenDaylight, OPNFV, DPDK, and so forth.

He got his PhD degree on Computer Science from Fudan University at Shanghai in 2004, and joined Intel after graduating from the school.

Shannon McFarland, CCIE #5245, is a Distinguished Engineer and Cloud Architect for Cloud Native and Application Infrastructure technologies at Cisco. He has been at Cisco for 22+ years. Shannon worked as a systems engineer at a system integrator for many years and as an end-user engineer in the medical industry prior to that.
 
Shannon has been involved with OpenStack since the Diablo release and has historically focused on Neutron, Heat, and Magnum related work. In addition, to OpenStack-specific projects, Shannon has been involved in the Kata Containers project. He is also working in the CNCF (Kubernetes, Network Service Mesh, Linkerd and OpenTelemetry) and Istio communities, with a distinct focus on all-things networking and observability. He is an author (“IPv6 for Enterprise Networks”) and a frequent speaker at various industry and community conferences to include OpenStack/Open Infrastructure Summits, Cisco Live, etc.
 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smcfarland/

Tytus has been a member of the OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors since 2020. He is a member of the Finance Committee and is actively involved in the OpenStack community. Over years he contributed numerous patches to the OpenStack codebase. He was also participating in the events organised by the OpenInfra Foundation, including summits and PTGs, supporting the foundation in its efforts to spread the awareness of open-source benefits.

As a Product Manager at Canonical, Tytus drives the evolution of Canonical’s products and services in the data centre space, including Canonical's Charmed OpenStack distribution. Tytus received his PhD with honours in telecommunications in 2018. His background is data centre administration and cloud engineering. His research interests focus on 5G networks, network function virtualisation, container network functions and unikernels.

 Vipin Rathi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Delhi. He is Chairperson of Linux Foundation Hyperledger Telecom SIG. He has board level experience as VP at Emerging Open Tech Foundation. He is the organizer of Openstack India, Magma India, CNCF Delhi, Open Edge Computing, Open Source Networking, Hyperledger Meetups. His research interest focus on 5G, Multi-Domain Orchestration. He is guiding a Research team to develop a Kubernetes-based Cloud-Native OpenStack named as KupenStack. He is an active member of Anuket, Magma Core. He attended and delivered presentations at various Open Source summits.

Zhiqiang Yu is the Chief Open Source Liaison Officer from research department of China Mobile. He is responsible for the open source strategies and acting as the primary contact point to various open source communities and foundations. Zhiqiang has about 20 years' working experience in ICT area. 

As an open source program manager, now Zhiqiang is focusing on standardization and open source strategies for different communities such as OpenStack, ONAP, OPNFV, XGVela, Open Daylight, CNCF, OCP, TIP and so forth. He is exploring new open source opportunities and projects in Telecom, Cloud Computing and Hardware.

As the co-chair of OSPO(Open Source Program Office) SIG in local open source community, Zhiqiang has organized 6 OSPO workshops in 2021. Due to COVID-19, there is no global event in these 2 years, the OSPO workshops help to strengthen the connections of open source partners.