Sarah Putt is Editor CIO and Computerworld in NZ. She has been actively involved in the New Zealand technology sector for over a decade, including as a regular technology commentator for Radio NZ. She has also worked for leading technology companies MYOB and Orion Health, and as the Policy and Communications Manager at the Telecommunications Users Association.

Tim brings implementing Cloud, IoT, AI and Automation strategies
to the Ecosystm network, to support businesses in their IT
decisions.more than 20 years of experience in designing and

In his previous role, Tim spent 12 years at Forrester Research, most recently as a Principal Analyst, helping IT leaders improve their digital capabilities. Prior to this, he was Research Director for IT Solutions at IDC in Australia, where he assisted IT vendors in
designing solutions to better fit market requirements, and IT buyers
in improving the effectiveness of their IT functions.

Beyond the office, Tim boasts an international reputation as an entertaining and informative public speaker on the key trends in the IT market.

Tim graduated from University of Technology Sydney with a BA majoring in Marketing and Research. In his free time, Tim enjoys playing football (badly!) and tennis, and watching rugby. But while he may enjoy that, he spends most of his time driving his two children to various sporting and social activities.

Sheng Liang is President of Engineering and Innovation at SUSE where he leads SUSE’s global team of engineers, and is responsible for the rapid growth of SUSE’s expanding portfolio from the enterprise Linux operating system to the Rancher container management platform. Prior to SUSE, Sheng was Co-Founder and CEO of Rancher Labs, and CTO of the Cloud Platforms group at Citrix Systems. He started as a Staff Engineer in Java Software at Sun Microsystems, where he worked on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

Sheng has a B.S. from the University of Science and Technology of China and a Ph.D. from Yale University. He lives in the United States

Peter Lees is the chief technologist and director of sales engineering for SUSE in Asia-Pacific & Japan, responsible for developing awareness of SUSE products, technologies and capabilities throughout the APJ region.

As a technologist with an extensive background in open systems, IT infrastructure, and cloud computing, Lees has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including senior consultant roles at NetApp and Sun Microsystems that were also focused on customers across Asia Pacific. Before that, he was involved in the early development of the business Internet in Australia, creating some of its first commercial web and e-commerce sites during the mid-1990’s. He first started experimenting with Linux systems administration in 1993 and joined SUSE 20 years later in 2013 as the company’s principal evangelist in APJ.

Throughout his career, Lees has been mainly involved in infrastructure systems design and automation, emphasising networked systems and high availability that continues to be highly applicable in the world of cloud computing and agile systems operation.

Lees holds a Bachelor of Science in Computing Science from the University of Technology, Sydney and an MBA in Computing from Charles Sturt University.