Cloud evangelist and inspirer, specialised in Cloud infrastructure/cost optimisation (budget contraction pa by 60% for AWS and 50% for Azure) with strong application performance acumen (increased 400% organic traffic on 16 sites for 0.3 million unique users monthly) in 1.5 years, with above 99% uptime – SLA within the business as well as for end users.

Gerald is an AWS Partner Network Ambassador and Technical Principal at Contino, focusing on AWS cloud native solutions. He is passionate about solving business problems with strategic Serverless solutions to enable quick release cycles, whilst also reducing cloud hosting fees. As a public speaker he is keen on sharing his insights and learnings with the community to make the cloud an even better place.

In his presentation, Cornelius talked about containerisation and how they can facilitate the decoupling of monolithic applications.

In his presentation Amin discussed the concept of time-series and why it is important in driving better business outcomes.

In his presentation Jason talked about AWS Direct Connect and Transit Gateway, and provides insights into how they can help you connect your on-prem environments to AWS.

In his presentation, Laurie discussed how to back up your AWS environment and protect it from threats such as ransomware, AZ failure and human error.