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Meet our Content Team

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.

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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. Have long term experience as a software developer, architect, speaker and author. His focus is the practical implementation of custom solutions, which enable digital transformation.

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Lee Stott, Microsoft, United Kingdom, Principal Cloud Advocate 

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

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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 will help customers and partners deploy SAP on Azure infrastructures in an optimized and automated way. In addition to the development work he helps customers and partners with infrastructure design, automating deployments, overcoming technical blockers, and providing guidance on how to best leverage Azure.

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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 And blogs about those subjects at 4bes.nl.

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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 he is also an Infrastructure-as-Code enthusiast and DevOps Institute Ambassador. Mustafa often speaks at international conferences about cloud technologies. He has been awarded double MVP award both for Microsoft Azure and for Security since 2016 and C# Corner MVP since 2020. Mustafa also authored several books about Microsoft Azure and cloud computing.