Dipa Velagapudy is a senior international business unit leader with 20+ years from the IT industry and currently leads Kyndryl’s Cloud Services unit in Strategic Markets (Asia/Europe/Latam). Her passion is to help clients generate business value by transforming with the help of cloud services and technologies. Her key skills are business leadership, driving enterprise transformation initiatives and being the client’s trusted advisor on their cloud and AI journeys in areas such as: cloud strategies & legacy transformation, IT automation, modern operations, data management etc. She also has a broad international leadership experience such as account executive roles of large enterprise outsourcing contracts, transformation program manager of application & infrastructure contracts, sales management and leading cloud professional services in Europe.

Shivshanker Shenoy is an IT Professional with over 33 years of service in the services Industry, who throughout his career has succeeded in assignments that are progressively demanding of technical leadership and business leadership roles at IBM and now at Kyndryl. Shenoy is currently working with clients across the globe who are seeking options to incorporate modern methods and tools to manage their applications on the mainframe platform or provide alternative solutions using a cloud solution provider of choice.

Tapio has 35+ years of experience on working in IT in various positions. He started his career with mainframes in the early 1980s as a DB2 specialist and systems programmer in a bank that is today called Nordea. He then worked for IBM from 1996 to 2010 as a consultant in project/program management and as an architect.

In 2010, he returned to Nordea to take on the chief technical architect role and build technical architecture competence. Today, he heads Nordea’s Mainframes and Datacentres unit.

After long international career leading some of the world’s most complex and innovative IT transformation engagements Arto Sorvoja is now leading Finland based Financial IT-Solutions company Samlink. Samlink is providing full “banking-as-a-service” solutions for it’s current bank-customers and combines a legacy banking solutions with enablement and integrations of modern, often cloud based, technologies. Samlink was acquired by Kyndryl early 2022 and one of the unique value propositions is to combine extremely deep and localized banking expertise across the full IT stack with global scale and expertise from Kyndryl to run mission critical operations.

Mike Liberman, a professional services engineer for Model9, has more than 25 years of experience in the IBM mainframe ecosystem. In his many roles in his career, spanning government and private sector organizations, he had the opportunity to work with IBM mainframe systems as a developer, database administrator, data architect and database system programmer. In addition, Mike was involved in a few mainframe modernization efforts, passionate about successfully delivering mainframe to object-storage solutions.

Katarina Strömberg is the Event Manager at IDG Sweden, overall responsible for the event business, and the host of Webbdagarna, Scandinavia’s leading event for digital business and marketing. She has been a tech journalist for over 25 years, and has worked as editor in chief and managing editor at several IT magazine, as well as editorially with IDG’s events. She is an experienced moderator, working from her long experience as a journalist. She also teaches writing at IDG Sweden’s Webbdagarna Academy.