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European AI and Cloud Summit, 26–28 May 2025, Düsseldorf, Germany

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Get to know the content team behind the European AI & Cloud Summit: a group of professionals and globally recognized experts who are also renowned speakers. Their expertise ensures that the European AI & Cloud Summit will be the must-attend AI, Microsoft Azure, Open AI and Cloud Computing conference.

Damir Dobric, Microsoft Regional Director, Germany, CEO Daenet profile

Damir Dobric, Microsoft Regional Director, Germany, CEO Daenet

Damir Dobric is CEO and lead architect of DAENET Corporation, Microsoft Regional Director and Azure Most Valuable Professional working with Microsoft on helping customers to adopt modern technologies. He has long-term experience as a software developer, architect, speaker, and author. His focus is the practical implementation of custom solutions, which enable digital transformation.

Lee Stott, Microsoft, United Kingdom, Principal Cloud Advocate profile

Lee Stott, Microsoft, United Kingdom, Principal Cloud Advocate

An experienced business technology leader with extensive Data Science, Mobile, and Cloud industry knowledge. Lee has been helping academic institutions and businesses develop solutions using agile practices, Visual Studio, Microsoft Azure, and Open Source solutions.

Kimmo Forss, Microsoft, Finland, Principal Architect at Microsoft profile

Kimmo Forss, Microsoft, Finland, Principal Architect at Microsoft

Kimmo Forss is a Principal Architect in the Azure Global Customer Engineering Team at Microsoft focusing on Microsoft’s largest customers’ SAP on Azure deployments. He is the development lead for the SAP Deployment Automation Framework (https://github.com/Azure/sap-automation), which helps customers and partners deploy SAP on Azure infrastructures in an optimized and automated way. In addition to development work, he helps customers and partners with infrastructure design, automating deployments, overcoming technical blockers, and providing guidance on leveraging Azure.

Barbara Forbes, Microsoft MVP, Netherlands, Azure Technical Lead, OGD ict-diensten profile

Barbara Forbes, Microsoft MVP, Netherlands, Azure Technical Lead, OGD ict-diensten

Barbara Forbes is a Microsoft Azure MVP, MCT, and consultant. Her daily work includes Azure, Office 365, Windows Server, and automation. She loves working with PowerShell, Infrastructure as Code, and Azure DevOps. She also blogs about those subjects at 4bes.nl.

Mustafa Toroman, Bosnia, Microsoft MVP, CTO at run.events profile

Mustafa Toroman, Bosnia, Microsoft MVP, CTO at run.events

Mustafa Toroman is CTO of run.events and a solution architect focused on cloud-native applications and migrating existing systems to the cloud. He is very interested in DevOps processes and is also an Infrastructure-as-Code enthusiast and DevOps Institute Ambassador. Mustafa often speaks at international conferences about cloud technologies. He has been awarded a double MVP award for both Microsoft Azure and Security since 2016 and C# Corner MVP since 2020. Mustafa has authored several books about Microsoft Azure and cloud computing.

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