Full Name
Haseeb Budhani
Job Title
Co-Founder and CEO
Company
Rafay
Speaker Bio
Haseeb Budhani is Co-Founder and CEO of Rafay, a leading platform provider for AI infrastructure. He works with NeoClouds, telecommunications providers, sovereign AI operators, and enterprises around the world to transform accelerated computing infrastructure into secure, governed, and consumable AI platforms.
Under Haseeb's leadership, Rafay has become a strategic technology partner to organizations building and operating large-scale AI infrastructure, helping them accelerate time to market, improve developer access to compute, and create new revenue opportunities from GPU and AI investments. Haseeb is a frequent industry speaker on AI infrastructure, sovereign AI, AI Factories, and the rapidly evolving economics of AI services.
Under Haseeb's leadership, Rafay has become a strategic technology partner to organizations building and operating large-scale AI infrastructure, helping them accelerate time to market, improve developer access to compute, and create new revenue opportunities from GPU and AI investments. Haseeb is a frequent industry speaker on AI infrastructure, sovereign AI, AI Factories, and the rapidly evolving economics of AI services.
Full Name
Warren Barkley
Job Title
VP, Product, DSX
Company
NVIDIA
Speaker Bio
Warren Barkley is vice president of product management of DSX at NVIDIA. Prior to NVIDIA, Warren led core AI/ML platform teams in Google Cloud. Before Google, he held executive roles managing AI and machine learning product groups at Amazon Web Services and at Microsoft, where he helped drive several major cloud and communications products.
Full Name
Ashin Uday
Job Title
Product Lead
Company
Yotta Data Services Private Limited
Speaker Bio
Ashin is a technology and business leader at Yotta, working at the forefront of India’s AI infrastructure revolution. He is helping build a full-stack AI Factory at scale bringing together massive GPU compute, AI factory, and an ecosystem of technology partners to enable the next wave of AI innovation. His focus is on turning compute into capability: enabling enterprises, startups, and governments to build, train, and deploy AI at scale.
12:45 - 13:15 | Session: Lessons Learned from Deploying 35+ Multi-Tenant GPU Clouds and AI Factories
Full Name
Alex Saroyan
Job Title
Co-Founder & CEO
Company
Netris
Speaker Bio
Alex brings more than 25 years of architecting and building large-scale networks. He co-founded Netris in 2018 and pioneered the NAAM category - network automation, abstraction, and multi-tenancy for cloud and AI infrastructure operators.
Full Name
Noam Rosen
Job Title
Director of Enterprise AI, Europe & META
Company
Lenovo
Speaker Bio
Noam Rosen leads Hybrid AI and Cloud AI for Lenovo across Europe and the Middle East. He works with enterprises, cloud providers, and technology partners to develop and deploy large-scale AI infrastructure, enterprise AI platforms, and advanced computing solutions.
With more than a decade at Lenovo, Noam has held leadership roles across high-performance computing, enterprise AI, cloud AI, and enterprise infrastructure. He also oversees Lenovo's European Presales Center of Excellence and European Innovation Center, supporting customers and partners with technical expertise, solution development, and AI demonstrations. Noam is a qualified attorney and holds an MBA.
With more than a decade at Lenovo, Noam has held leadership roles across high-performance computing, enterprise AI, cloud AI, and enterprise infrastructure. He also oversees Lenovo's European Presales Center of Excellence and European Innovation Center, supporting customers and partners with technical expertise, solution development, and AI demonstrations. Noam is a qualified attorney and holds an MBA.
Full Name
Rod Evans
Job Title
EMEA VP - Supercomputing & AI Cloud Infrastructure
Company
NVIDIA
Speaker Bio
Rod Evans is NVIDIA’s Vice President for AI Cloud Infrastructure for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Rod is an accomplished entrepreneur and international business leader, with a proven track record of driving success across Data Center and Cloud businesses.
Rod’s 30+ years of international experience enables him to lead teams with passion, integrity, and confidence. He is a committed innovator with a keen interest in increasing awareness of AI’s potential. He works tirelessly to encourage the early adoption of AI by showcasing what it can do, how it works, and why implementing an AI strategy is critical.
He joined NVIDIA in 2018 and has overseen strong growth in the Artificial Intelligence businesses at NVIDIA across Europe. Before joining NVIDIA, Rod led the European direct sales force at Intel Corporation and previously held European Vice President Positions at Silicon Graphics, Rackable Systems, Copan Systems and EMC. Currently based in Reading, United Kingdom; he has worked in the UK, USA, and Germany.
Rod is a British national and alumnus of Queen Mary University, London.
Rod’s 30+ years of international experience enables him to lead teams with passion, integrity, and confidence. He is a committed innovator with a keen interest in increasing awareness of AI’s potential. He works tirelessly to encourage the early adoption of AI by showcasing what it can do, how it works, and why implementing an AI strategy is critical.
He joined NVIDIA in 2018 and has overseen strong growth in the Artificial Intelligence businesses at NVIDIA across Europe. Before joining NVIDIA, Rod led the European direct sales force at Intel Corporation and previously held European Vice President Positions at Silicon Graphics, Rackable Systems, Copan Systems and EMC. Currently based in Reading, United Kingdom; he has worked in the UK, USA, and Germany.
Rod is a British national and alumnus of Queen Mary University, London.
Full Name
Izhar Sharon
Job Title
SVP AI Customer Advocacy
Company
DDN
Speaker Bio
Izhar Sharon is Senior Vice President of AI Customer Advocacy at DDN, where he works with enterprise and public sector organizations to build and scale AI infrastructure that delivers measurable business outcomes. A technology executive with more than 30 years of leadership experience, Izhar has led companies across enterprise storage, cloud, and high-performance computing. Today, he advises organizations on data infrastructure, GPU utilization, and operational strategies required to deploy AI at scale, helping bridge the gap between technical innovation and business value.
Full Name
Haseeb Budhani
Job Title
Co-Founder and CEO
Company
Rafay
Speaker Bio
Haseeb Budhani is Co-Founder and CEO of Rafay, a leading platform provider for AI infrastructure. He works with NeoClouds, telecommunications providers, sovereign AI operators, and enterprises around the world to transform accelerated computing infrastructure into secure, governed, and consumable AI platforms.
Under Haseeb's leadership, Rafay has become a strategic technology partner to organizations building and operating large-scale AI infrastructure, helping them accelerate time to market, improve developer access to compute, and create new revenue opportunities from GPU and AI investments. Haseeb is a frequent industry speaker on AI infrastructure, sovereign AI, AI Factories, and the rapidly evolving economics of AI services.
Under Haseeb's leadership, Rafay has become a strategic technology partner to organizations building and operating large-scale AI infrastructure, helping them accelerate time to market, improve developer access to compute, and create new revenue opportunities from GPU and AI investments. Haseeb is a frequent industry speaker on AI infrastructure, sovereign AI, AI Factories, and the rapidly evolving economics of AI services.
Full Name
Franck Jonas
Job Title
Head of Telco France
Company
NVIDIA
Speaker Bio
Franck Jonas leads NVIDIA's Telco business in France. His job is making AI real for operators — turning networks, data centers and data into assets that generate revenue, not just cost. Twenty-five years spent optimizing enterprise business efficiency across the full IT stack.
Full Name
Simon Dumbleton
Job Title
CTO Europe
Company
WWT
Speaker Bio
Simon Dumbleton is CTO Europe at World Wide Technology, leading the European systems engineering organisation. An engineer by background with several patents filed, Simon established the Telco Cloud team at Telefónica UK (now VMO2), where he first met WWT as a customer. He then led technology at Capgemini, pioneering 5G network slicing, public safety networks and AI inference on low-power edge devices. One of his current focus areas is the pragmatic sovereignty of AI and how to secure technology in the age of AI and Quantum.
Full Name
Jon Evans
Job Title
EMEA AI Hyper Specialist
Company
Cisco
Speaker Bio
Jon Evans leads go-to-market for sovereign AI and Neocloud at Cisco, enabling and co-creating joint capabilities with partners for enterprise customers. He is a champion for the Office of the CFO and can attest first-hand to the potency of finance-led transformation: the discipline that keeps a company's balance sheet, and the return on its future AI spend, at the centre of the decision rather than an afterthought. Unifying finance with the business and IT is critical if AI is to deliver the value it can.
He came to the role from the other side of the table. Before rejoining Cisco he spent several years inside a large telco leading finance transformation for the CFO, running the financial assurance organisation across a substantial operating £8.5Bn P&L and, in parallel, transforming the operating model to unify data and process assurance across the business. He led a team of 40 data scientists and a wider programme of 100 people across 15 departments: data assurance linked directly to the P&L, with machine learning and AI driving measurable efficiency across the order-to-cash cycle. That experience taught him where enterprise AI actually breaks. Not in the models, but in the structural layer beneath them: whether the data can be trusted, whether the processes hold, whether the infrastructure can carry production AI securely and at scale.
It is why he stands behind the structural capabilities of the Cisco platform today. He speaks about it as someone who was the customer, who hit those foundational problems first-hand, and who sees in Cisco's networking, data and security layer the capabilities enterprises genuinely need to make AI work in production. Earlier in his career Jon trained as an engineer, founded and exited a venture-backed SaaS company, and led the incubation of Cisco's collaboration cloud go-to-market across EMEA, growing the business beyond $1BN. He writes and speaks from experience, with a particular passion for sovereign AI infrastructure and what it takes to make AI commercially accountable.
He came to the role from the other side of the table. Before rejoining Cisco he spent several years inside a large telco leading finance transformation for the CFO, running the financial assurance organisation across a substantial operating £8.5Bn P&L and, in parallel, transforming the operating model to unify data and process assurance across the business. He led a team of 40 data scientists and a wider programme of 100 people across 15 departments: data assurance linked directly to the P&L, with machine learning and AI driving measurable efficiency across the order-to-cash cycle. That experience taught him where enterprise AI actually breaks. Not in the models, but in the structural layer beneath them: whether the data can be trusted, whether the processes hold, whether the infrastructure can carry production AI securely and at scale.
It is why he stands behind the structural capabilities of the Cisco platform today. He speaks about it as someone who was the customer, who hit those foundational problems first-hand, and who sees in Cisco's networking, data and security layer the capabilities enterprises genuinely need to make AI work in production. Earlier in his career Jon trained as an engineer, founded and exited a venture-backed SaaS company, and led the incubation of Cisco's collaboration cloud go-to-market across EMEA, growing the business beyond $1BN. He writes and speaks from experience, with a particular passion for sovereign AI infrastructure and what it takes to make AI commercially accountable.
Full Name
Karan Kirpalani
Job Title
COO
Company
Neysa
Speaker Bio
Karan Kirpalani is the Chief Product Officer at Neysa, where he leads the development of AI Acceleration Cloud System. With over two decades of experience across NTT Ltd. and Netmagic Solutions, he has deep expertise in cloud services, data centers, and AI infrastructure. His expertise encompasses product development, management, and marketing across cloud solutions, data centers, disaster recovery, and application hosting services.
Karan is recognized for driving technological innovation, managing product lines' P&L, and collaborating with major consulting and technology partners to enhance sales efforts in medium and large enterprises. He is also an active thought leader in the tech community, sharing insights on AI infrastructure and cloud strategies through various platforms. Notably, he has discussed the challenges of AI project implementations and the importance of AI-ready data centers in industry forums and publications.
Karan is recognized for driving technological innovation, managing product lines' P&L, and collaborating with major consulting and technology partners to enhance sales efforts in medium and large enterprises. He is also an active thought leader in the tech community, sharing insights on AI infrastructure and cloud strategies through various platforms. Notably, he has discussed the challenges of AI project implementations and the importance of AI-ready data centers in industry forums and publications.
Full Name
Farul Mohd Ghazali
Job Title
Chief Technology Officer
Company
Aras Integrasi Sdn Bhd
Speaker Bio
Farul is the Chief Technology Officer of Aras Integrasi Sdn. Bhd., where he leads the development of sovereign AI platforms and digital infrastructure for government and enterprise customers in Malaysia. His career spans mission-critical technology across public sector cloud, healthcare, and financial services, giving him deep experience in regulated and compliance-driven environments. At Aras Integrasi, he focuses on turning emerging AI capabilities into secure, scalable, and operationally practical systems that can be deployed in real-world organisations.
Farul’s work sits at the intersection of technology strategy and execution, covering infrastructure, platform architecture, product development, and AI deployment. He also works with government, academia, and industry on responsible AI adoption, governance, digital sovereignty, and strengthening Malaysia’s long-term AI capabilities.
Farul’s work sits at the intersection of technology strategy and execution, covering infrastructure, platform architecture, product development, and AI deployment. He also works with government, academia, and industry on responsible AI adoption, governance, digital sovereignty, and strengthening Malaysia’s long-term AI capabilities.
