"Through our decade-long partnership with the OpenInfra Foundation, we've embraced a commitment to community building and advancing data control across Europe. The shifting political landscape's impact on data localization emphasizes the critical importance of data sovereignty, particularly in this region. Adopting a private cloud infrastructure has become essential, ensuring not only control but also compliance amidst changing regulations. At our core, we prioritize open source and collaboration as the bedrock of our service offerings. We're dedicated to delivering an effortlessly operational platform while simplifying complexity and enhancing convenience and control. Open source, especially in terms of control, takes center stage, empowering organizations with full code visibility and freeing them from reliance on some vendor practices." “As CTO of Fairbanks, I started in 2011 to work in the arena of cloud services offered, at the leading OpenStack and Ceph company. With our partners I provided early feedback to drive the development off new software defined components for OpenStack and Ceph to create abilities to extend service portfolios. Making use of my years experience with designing, realizing and maintaining Complex Infrastructures, I developed a best practice deployment for OpenStack, Ceph and Kubernetes. Resulting in a short deployment phase and a optimally cloud solution with fully aligned support services” My roles:Community builder: As a member of the OpenInfra Advisory board I'm promoting and building the OpenInfra foundation in Europe and organizing technical OpenStack end Ceph events together with vendors, customers and sponsors.Product manager: Work with strategic partners like IBM, Red Hat and Veritas to define use cases and prioritize integration of the associated requirements into the Cloud Platforms to create innovative solutions built and take them to the marked.CTO / CISO: Managing an organisation with high tech solution experts to deliver well aligned and secure services to achieve the goals of our customers and to make complex infrastructure based on OpenStack, Ceph and Kubernetes consumable.