Chief Architect, CTO Office and Global Engineering, Red Hat Asia Pacific

Andreas is leading the Intelligent Edge and MSR vertical related topics for Red Hat across Asia Pacific. His hands-on experience in startups as well as large scale enterprise transformation programs has given Andreas a solid understanding of business drivers and value creation. Andreas has worked on a wide range of initiatives across different industries in Europe, North America and APAC including full-scale automotive JIT/JIS production systems modernisation, ERP migrations, HR, finance and accounting, supply chain logistics transformations and scalable core banking strategies to support regional business growth strategies.

Since joining Red Hat in 2015, Andreas is focussed on helping Red Hat customers to build the necessary capabilities and to make the best-fit technology, methodology and architecture choices. Andreas is a published author on the topic of Technology Operating Models for Cloud and Edge.

Andreas got his first Commodore 64 when he was 12 years old and started to work as a software developer in 1996 with Krauss-Maffei in Munich building full mission simulators. Andreas holds an Engineering degree from the University of Ravensburg, Germany.

Industrial Technology Strategist, Red Hat

David Rapini brings over 25 years of experience in industrial automation, currently leading Red Hats strategy into the industrial automation space. David comes to Red Hat from Rockwell Automation where he was leading the PlantPAx product management team driving business strategy and growth initiatives for Rockwell Automation.

With a background that crosses thru most industrial verticals, David has field experience on projects ranging from ultra high-speed packaging equipment to large green field process startups. Experienced in networks, motion control, discrete and process control systems, with enterprise wide reporting and connections, he has a broad understanding of manufacturing technologies.

For the last 10+ years Dave has been filling various product management roles at Rockwell Automation with ownership of products ranging from Logix Controllers and their design tools, to HMI communications and the PlantPAx product offering. More recently David worked as the business manager for the PlantPAx offering working to drive growth through new innovative technologies in the Rockwell DCS offering.

Senior Specialist Solution Architect Manufacturing & Industrial Edge, Red Hat

Tim Mirth is Red Hat's industrial edge architect on the global edge architecture team. He has worked on the floor of manufacturing plants and built industrial control systems before moving over into enterprise architecture to handle IT/OT convergence. At Red Hat, he's been working with manufacturing companies on their approach to next generation compute at the industrial edge.

Tim has spent 20 years in industrial automation. Recently, he was a Platform Leader at Rockwell Automation, where he helped enhance the PlantPAx Distributed Control System with innovations like a patented fully redundant network and industry-first certified security architecture. He also worked on integrating Ansible and contributed to the early development of FactoryTalk Design Studio.

Tim has led research projects on SDN, 5G, and network determinism in industrial automation. He has multiple patents and has been a member of the OPAF, co-chairing the security group and authoring parts of the standard. Tim graduated from the University of Akron with a BSc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Head of AI, Asia Pacific, Red Hat

Sandip Sharma is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of cross-industry experience in Financial Services, Telco, Manufacturing, and Government. As a Head of AI - APAC, he will spearhead the AI/ML and GenAI SSP team across the region, driving the implementation of innovative AI solutions for enterprise customers.

Prior to his current role, Sandip worked at H2O.ai as Director of AI Solution Engineering for Asia Pacific and Japan, where he is responsible for setting up and leading the AI/ML and GenAI solution engineering team across the region.

Sandip holds a Master's degree in Business IT from Singapore Management University. He is also certified in Data Science and Machine Learning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).