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Exoscale acceler8 | Vienna

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Exoscale acceler8 | Vienna

14 June 2023 12:00–19:15 CEST

Vienna, Austria

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When
14 June 2023 · 12:00–19:15 CEST
Where
Lassallestraße 9Leopoldstadt1020 Vienna, AustriaView on OpenStreetMap
Format
In person
Languages
German, English

Cloud, Kubernetes (K8s), DBaaS, those and similar topics are on top of mind of many IT people and business decision makers. With our event Exoscale acceler8 | Vienna we give detailed insights into exactly those topics. Get first-hand insights on how to best use the Exoscale cloud to enable your projects, ideas and workloads. Success Stories & Use Casesof our partners and customers give you practical insights into the manifold possibilities and help you to accelerate your business.

Start easy into the cloud! Meet our partners, customers and members of the Exoscale Community and benefit from an exchange of experiences.

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See also in the acceler8 by Exoscale series: acceler8 | Zurich, acceler8 | Munich and the previous acceler8 | Vienna — our last event took place in Vienna.

Agenda

  • 12:00–13:00

    Registration & Lunch

    Details
    Registration and time for refreshments and networking.
  • 13:00–13:15

    Welcome

    Mathias Nöbauer

    Details
    Registration and time for refreshments and networking.

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  • 13:15–13:45

    Glasskube - Integration of a Kubernetes Operator to the Exoscale Marketplace

    Erik Auer, Philip Miglinci, Louis Wäfler

    Details
    Experience report how to integrate a Kubernetes operator into the Exoscale Marketplace. Learn how to use open source tools like Odoo or Gitlab with Kubernetes operators.

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  • 13:45–14:15

    Building foundations of identity security on Exoscale infrastructure

    Dr. Mark Vinkovits

    Details
    Zero trust and identity security are popular approaches for modern security.Although the focus is often on buying vendor solutions, security guarantees can also be achieved within Exoscale.

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  • 14:15–14:45

    Nordcloud SaaS Image Factory for Exoscale

    Mario Kleinsasser, Nicolai Descovich

    Details
    Nordcloud offers as European-wide partner with more than 10 years of experience cloud-native solutions and strategies for multi-cloud workloads. The SaaS Image Factory is thus an important part for the secure and sustainable provision of compute templates for customers. Learn more how you can use the advantages of this solutions on Exoscale for yourself.

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  • 14:45–15:15

    How Gepardec and VSHN brought their Enterprise Java software 24x7 to Exoscale (German) DE

    Aarno Aukia, Günter Pirklbauer

    Details
    Gepardec, a leading Austrian company for Java Enterprise Development and cloud technologies is working together with VSHN, a Swiss brand for Kubernetes and OpenShift. In this talk Günter Pirklbauer, CEO of Gepardec, and Aarno Aukia, co-founder of VSHN - The DevOps Company and APPUiO, show how Java applications can be lifted to the cloud. Learn more about the benefits of the shared offering of Gepardec, VSHN and Exoscale for customers.

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  • 15:15–15:45

    Break

    Details
    Break
  • 15:45–16:15

    FinAPU: Risk Managment, simplified mit A1 Exoscale als Infrastrukturpartner DE

    Karl Tasch, Peter Gansterer

    Details
    FinAPU ist eine Risikomanagement-Plattform, die Unternehmen und Organisationen eine nahtlose Berechnung von Ausfallrisiken in Portfolios in Echtzeit und die Implementierung von effizienten Prozessen zur Risikominderung ermöglicht. Die intelligente Risikomanagementplattform baut dabei auf namhafte Partner wie Refinitiv (LSEG), Fitch und Standard & Poors als Datendienstleister. Erfahren Sie im Vortrag von Karl Tasch, CEO FinAPU, und Peter Gansterer, CTO FinAPU, welche Vorteile die Zusammenarbeit mit A1 Exoscale als Infrastrukturpartner bringt und wie FinAPU im Daily Business Risikomanagement vereinfacht.

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  • 16:15–16:45

    State of Cloud Compliance in Europe & Market Update

    Antoine Coetsier

    Details

    This insightful presentation from Antoine, founder of Exoscale, provides an overview about the latest developments within the organization and gives and outlook to the road map.

    Antoine will also share his thoughts and ideas regarding the current state of Cloud Compliance in Europe, offering valuable insights and discussing key trends and challenges.

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  • 16:45–17:15

    Streamdiver AI-powered media asset management with Exoscale as infrastructure partner

    Christian Kollegger, Markus Tautschnig

    Details
    Dealing with rapidly growing volumes of diverse media resources is increasingly challenging for businesses and organizations. Streamdiver provides a self-organizing multimedia platform for an end-to-end workflow - from content creation to smart management with searchability to public playout. With audiovisual deep search based on machine learning extracted metadata, content, including video, becomes content searchable. Using GPU hardware and Kubernetes on the Exoscale Cloud, Streamdiver can provide a high-performance and scalable service.

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  • 17:15–17:30

    Closing words

    Mathias Nöbauer

    Details
    Closing words by CEO Mathias Nöbauer.
  • 17:30–19:15

    Get together

    Details
    Summary of the day and conclusion with refreshments and snacks for relaxed networking.

Speakers

  • Antoine Coetsier

    Antoine Coetsier

    COO

    Exoscale

    Biography
    Antoine Coetsier ist Mitgründer und COO von Exoscale. Antoine widmet sich der Schaffung und dem Aufbau hoch industrialisierter und gesicherter innovativem Business. Mit mehr als 20 Jahren Erfahrung im Service-Provider-Geschäft beaufsichtigt Antoine die geschäftlichen und operativen Aspekte der Exoscale Cloud-Plattform. Vor der Gründung von Exoscale im Jahr 2011 hat er bei Bouygues Telecom Innovationen in die IT-Ressourcen der Telekommunikationsbranche gebracht. Später hat er 2009 eines der ersten europäischen Cloud-Computing-Angebote speziell für Presse und Medien gestartet.

  • Christian Kollegger

    Co-Founder

    Streamdiver

    Biography
    Christian Kollegger is COO and shareholder of Streamdiver GmbH. He is responsible for the operational agendas at Streamdiver and brings here a technical and business background of over 20 years in process and organizational development for digital strategies of well-known companies. His goal is to make companies and organizations’ existing knowledge accessible in the simplest way possible.

  • Markus Tautschnig

    CTO

    Streamdiver

    Biography
    Markus Tautschnig is CTO and shareholder of Streamdiver GmbH. Markus has a research background in computer simulation in physics and in the past led the development of an AI platform for the Materials Services business area at Thyssenkrupp, among others. Under his leadership, Streamdiver is developing a new generation of multimedia platform, with automatic AI driven content discovery.

  • Nicolai Descovich

    Country Manager Austria

    Nordcloud, An IBM Company Austria

    Biography

    Since joining Nordcloud on 1st July 2022, Nicolai Descovich has been advising companies on cloud transformation journeys, helping them to maximise value from the cloud. Bringing 20 years of experience in IT and expertise and insights from advising numerous companies in DACH on their digitization journey, Descovich became an expert in digitization solutions and supports Austrian companies to overcome common cloud challenges in the market. Leading the business in Austria, he drives the full cloud journey from the initial vision and strategy of how to move over to the cloud, to setting up the right governance and processes. In addition, his focus is to accompany cloud transformation by a cultural change of mindset and organisation, to deliver a winning competitive advantage through elasticity, transparency and higher automation in the operations.

    In his previous role he successfully led the Strategic Sales team in the DACH region as a Director at IBM, and managed the enterprise service, storage and network division at Hewlett-Packard.

  • Peter Gansterer

    CTO

    FinAPU

    Biography
    Peter Gansterer ist CTO von FinAPU, einem innovativen FinTech-Unternehmen mit Sitz in Wien, das sich auf die Entwicklung einer Risikomanagement-Plattform als SaaS spezialisiert hat. Peter hat einen Abschluss in Informatik und bringt mehr als 15 Jahre Erfahrung in der IT-Branche mit. Er ist ein Experte in den Bereichen Technologie, Softwareentwicklung und Risikomanagement. Mit seinem fundierten Fachwissen und seiner Leidenschaft für innovative Technologien treibt Peter die technologische Entwicklung von FinAPU voran und trägt dazu bei, das Unternehmen zu einem Vorreiter im Bereich Risikomanagement zu machen.

  • Karl Tasch

    Eigentümer

    FinAPU

    Biography
    Karl Tasch ist CEO und Eigentümer von FinAPU. Er hat das Wiener Technologie- und Datenunternehmen vor mehr als 10 Jahren gegründet, um eine innovative Lösungen im Bereich Risikomanagement zu entwickeln. Auf Basis seiner eigenen Erfahrungen als Risikomanager im Bankensektor ist FinAPU intuitiv in der Nutzung, revisionssicher und ESG-konform. Mit der ISO-zertifizierten Plattform werden komplexe Informationen in Echtzeit strukturiert und einfach handelbar gemacht. FinAPU kooperiert dabei mit globalen Datendienstleistern wie Standard & Poors, Fitch und Refinitiv.

  • Louis Wäfler

    Co-Founder

    Glasskube

    Biography
    Louis is Co-Founder of Glasskube, a DevOps infrastructure company that develops an Open Source Kubernetes Operator that automates deployment and day-2 operations of open source software solutions. Glasskube additionally provides intelligent Kubernetes cluster management with special AI-supported features to optimize computation efficiency, availability and makes sure all components are always up-to-date and secure.

  • Philip Miglinci

    Co-Founder

    Glasskube

    Biography
    Philip is Co-Founder of Glasskube, a DevOps infrastructure company that develops an Open Source Kubernetes Operator that automates deployment and day-2 operations of open source software solutions. Glasskube additionally provides intelligent Kubernetes cluster management with special AI-supported features to optimize computation efficiency, availability and makes sure all components are always up-to-date and secure.

  • Aarno Aukia

    Co-Founder

    APPUiO and VSHN - The DevOps Company

  • Dr. Mark Vinkovits

    Head of Data Protection

    XUND

    Biography
    Mark, Head of Data Protection at XUND, did his PhD in usable and secure computing. He believes in considering human behaviour, beliefs, and motivations when designing technical solutions. Mark has applied this approach since to understand how trust is formed in software, how to create trustworthy IoT platforms, establishing methods on integrating technology into conservative domains like healthcare, and building the bridge between developers and end-users.

  • Erik Auer

    Founder & CEO

    WhizUs GmbH

    Biography
    Erik is the founder and CEO of WhizUs, a DevOps consulting company specialising in Kubernetes and cloud topics. As a DevOps enthusiast and community supporter, he is speaking at conferences or meetups about best practices in various DevOps topics. He is the organiser of the Vienna DevOps & Security Meetup.

  • Mathias Nöbauer

    CEO

    Exoscale

    Biography
    Mathias Nöbauer, CEO and member of the supervisory board of Exoscale, has been an expert in the IT business for over 20 years. In the last 5 years Mathias has been essential for the further development of Exoscale. His goal is to provide the rock solid, innovative “European Cloud Exoscale” for everyone developing or running Cloud Native software. Mathias is motivated by the endless possibilities we possess and the opportunity to shape our future.

  • Günter Pirklbauer

    gepardec

    Biography

    Günter Pirklbauer is CEO and co-founder of Gepardec IT Services GmbH. Gepardec is Red Hat Premier partner for the Middleware sector and leading in the Java-Enterprise development and cloud technolgies/OpenShift.

    Günter has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry and is leading Gepardec to the next development phase. With the cooperation of VSHN and Exoscale the development will be further accelerated.

  • Mario Kleinsasser

    CTO Austria

    Nordcloud, An IBM Company Austria

    Biography
    Mario Kleinsasser has been working for more than 20 years in various areas of the ever-changing information technology, which still inspires him! Digital transformation is his constant companion, both in his current position as CTO at Nordcloud, An IBM Company Austria, and in his previous long-term role as team leader. As a speaker, he has already been a guest at various IT conferences such as DevOpsCon.io, GitLab Commit, ScaleUP 360 or the Confare CIO Summit. He organizes the Docker South Austria Meetup, acts as a GitLab Hero and supports several open source projects like CoreDNS and others.

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