250 VIP invitations. This one's yours

Former Google Cloud Distinguished Engineer, Open Source Contributor, Author, Investor, and Minimalist

‍

Igor Racic is a Senior Staff Technical Marketing Engineer at Infoblox, where he sits at the intersection of product and go-to-market — turning complex networking and security technology into experiences technical audiences can actually understand. A network architect and technology leader by background, Igor has held senior roles at AWS, VMware, Aruba, and Prosimo, spanning cloud networking, SASE, zero trust, and DevOps.

Keith Manville is a Customer Engineer for Security Operations & Threat Intelligence at Google Cloud, where he spends his days making complex security technology click for technical buyers through demos, POCs, and hands-on evaluations. His path to that role runs through two decades in the trenches — security architecture and endpoint security at Cisco, cybersecurity roles at Lockheed Martin and RTX, and systems administration at Intel — so he knows both sides of the demo: building the environment and being the skeptical practitioner in the audience.

Adam Close is a Solutions Engineer at Octopus Deploy, where he helps customers untangle and improve their CI/CD pipelines. Before Octopus, he spent years in healthcare software automating application and database deployments for organizations serving the NHS — so he knows firsthand what it takes to make complex delivery processes feel simple. Adam is a natural educator: he regularly creates blogs, webinars, and workshops, and has spoken at events like NDC DevOps and Microsoft Reactor.

Chris Clarkson is Senior Director of Global Partner Solution Engineering at Illumio, where he leads the pre-sales engineering program behind the company's global partner ecosystem. A solutions engineer at heart with 25+ years across networking, identity, and security — including SE leadership roles at BeyondTrust and SecureAuth — Chris has spent his career translating complex security technology into experiences technical audiences can actually get their hands on. At Illumio, he's built the partner enablement motion from the ground up, including the company's pre-sales expert certification, and champions hands-on labs as the fastest way to turn partners into confident, credible sellers of Zero Trust Segmentation.

Dave Ahr is a Product Marketing Manager at Coder, where he helps engineering organizations adopt self-hosted cloud development environments. Before Coder, Dave spent a decade deep in technical pre-sales and platform architecture — as a Senior Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp and a Senior Platform Architect at VMware — translating some of the most complex infrastructure products on the market into stories technical buyers could see, touch, and believe. He's spent his career on the front lines of the technical sale: building demo environments, running POCs, and figuring out what it actually takes to get a skeptical engineer to say "okay, show me."

Alexander leads product and UX at Instruqt, where he shapes how technical, hands-on product experiences actually feel to use — turning complex sandbox environments into interfaces people can pick up and explore without a manual. Before Instruqt, he spent years designing learning experiences at Lobster Ink, an e-learning platform, and cut his teeth as an Art Director at agencies like Quirk and Mirum.

Adé Mochtar is the Co-Founder and CTO of Instruqt, where he leads the backend and infrastructure engineering behind the platform's sandbox-based, hands-on learning experiences. Before co-founding Instruqt in 2017, he spent nearly a decade as a cloud and DevOps consultant at Xebia, helping organizations adopt new technology through real practice instead of slide decks — the same "people learn best by doing" philosophy that led him to build Instruqt in the first place. Day to day, Ade is still hands-on with the Instruqt stack.

Raphaël is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer with Cloud Native networking and security specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium eBPF-based networking project. He works on Cilium, Hubble & Tetragon and the future of Cloud-Native networking & security using eBPF.