Shawn Stephens
Solutions Architect, Enterprise/HPC/AI Solutions, Sirius
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Shawn Stephens
Solutions Architect, Enterprise/HPC/AI Solutions, Sirius
Shawn Stephens has more than 23 years of experience focused on designing high-performance computing, enterprise data center, and Artificial Intelligence solutions. Throughout his career he has worked with major commercial accounts in nearly every segment and every region across the country. Before joining Sirius, he was with Cray, Inc. designing large-scale Supercomputing solutions and working on several key AI initiatives. In August 2019, Shawn completed the MIT Sloan Artificial Intelligence- Implications for Business Strategy Program.
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Tony Paikeday
Sr. Director AI Systems, NVIDIA
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Tony Paikeday
Sr. Director AI Systems, NVIDIA
Tony Paikeday is Senior Director of AI systems at NVIDIA, responsible for the go-to-market for NVIDIA’s DGX portfolio of AI supercomputers. In his role, Tony helps enterprise organizations infuse their business with the power of AI with infrastructure solutions that enable insights from data. Tony was previously with VMware, responsible for bringing desktop and application virtualization solutions to market, as well as key enabling technologies including GPU virtualization and software-defined data center. Prior to joining VMware, Tony was at Cisco, building its data center solutions. Prior to Cisco, he held business development roles working with enterprise and service provider accounts, after having started his career as a Manufacturing Engineer for Ford Motor Company. Tony holds an engineering degree from the University of Toronto.
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Amrinderpal Oberai
Director of Data and AI, Groupware Technology
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Amrinderpal Oberai
Director of Data and AI, Groupware Technology
Amrinderpal Oberai is Director, Data & AI at Groupware Technology. He is in a leadership role responsible for strategy, roadmaps, requirements, validation and Benchmarking of DL, ML and Analytics Software Products in its fast-growing Data & AI practice. Previously, he was a Sr. Director of Cloud Operations at Arlo Technologies leading a globally diverse team of engineers and technologists responsible for supporting their world class security products running on global AWS infrastructure.
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Holland Barry
Sr. VP and Field CTO, Cyxtera
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Holland Barry
Sr. VP and Field CTO, Cyxtera
Holland Barry is a technology executive with over two decades of experience in a variety of technology-focused roles. His expertise spans the spectrum of traditional IT infrastructure, public + private cloud, automation, and network + cloud security. Holland has worked with public and private sector companies, across all major verticals.
Holland is currently focused on Cyxtera’s technology alliances, enterprise bare-metal compute platform, and AI/ML/DL.
Prior to Cyxtera, Holland was the CTO of Catbird Networks and an Enterprise Technologist at Dell.
Holland currently resides in Santa Cruz, CA with his wife and two children.
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Lael Hester
Solutions Architect, Cyxtera
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Lael Hester
Solutions Architect, Cyxtera
Lael is a Solutions Architect and Technology Sales Leader with experience in data center, networking, and cloud services. He is passionate about technology improving people’s lives by making work more efficient and collaborative, and evangelizes how tech can actually simplify our daily personal lives as well.
Lael lives in the Denver area and has spent much of his career at Cyxtera, CenturyLink, and AT&. He has a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and earned his MBA at the University of Denver in 2012. Specializing in hybrid IT environment design and channel partner business development he facilitates mutual success through technology innovation.
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