Main Conference (April 29, 2025)

Technology operating model for enterprise AI adoption

Morning Keynote Session

Andreas Spanner

CTO Office and Global Engineering at 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.

Ahilan Ponnusamy

Specialist in Application Platform Technologies at Red Hat

Ahilan Ponnusamy is a specialist in Application Platform technologies at Red Hat, based in Melbourne, Australia. With extensive experience in Hybrid Cloud Architectures and cloud-native application development and delivery practices, he collaborates closely with customers to design and implement cutting-edge enterprise solutions.

Ahilan holds a Master of Computer Applications degree from Madurai Kamaraj University, India. His career spans diverse roles across global technology leaders, showcasing a blend of technical excellence and strategic leadership.

His journey includes key initiatives in the Netherlands, India, Singapore, Australia and the USA. He honed his skills in customer-centric engineering and support as a key member of BEA Technologies. Moving into cloud computing, he served as a Pre-sales Tech Lead for Oracle USA's cloud platform team, where he focused on enterprise cloud adoption.

Further advancing his career, Ahilan took on the role of Principal Platform Engineer at Pivotal/ VMware, specializing in platform engineering for enterprise environments. At Dell Technologies in Singapore, he worked as a Global Architect, steering transformative technology initiatives across regions.