164. How to make best use of Artificial Intelligence in your career

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Jan-Willem Middelburg is the CEO of Cybiant, based in Kuala Lumpur. He started Cybiant with the mission to make a more sustainable world for the Next Generation through Best Practices. Jan-Willem authored and co-authored numerous books, including Serious Gaming (2013), The Service Automation Framework (2017) and recently The Enterprise Big Data Framework (2018).

A pioneer and advocate for professionalization in Automation and Big Data, he is a frequent keynote speaker and moderator at universities and technology conferences around the world. Jan-Willem holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, a Master’s in Supply Chain Management from the Rotterdam School of Management, and is currently pursuing a second Master’s degree in Computer and Information Technology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Germany and The Netherlands

on behalf of APMG Stephan is working with Channel Partners and Trainers in the education space. He achieved business growth in the region and has used many of his capabilities in the IT Service Management and Project Management environment to engage with the community and to improve the relationships with his customers. Prior to his career with APMG Stephan has been the Managing Director of a training and consulting company. From his studies in law and communication sciences he started his career with IBM and a Germany based systems integrator.

Stephan is a member of the BPUG and a board member of itSMF. His engagement in the community helps him to contribute to a variety of topics in the industry. He is certified in IT Service Management, Project Management and is a Business Relationship Management Professional.     

Dierk Söllner helps his clients with the vision of "strengthening people and teams - empathically and competently" as a trainer and coach. As a certified business coach, he supports teams as well as specialists and managers with current challenges through professional business coaching and training. Combined with his long-standing and comprehensive professional expertise in IT methodological frameworks, makes him a competent and empathetic companion in personnel, team and organisational development. Dierk runs the German speaking business podcast "Business Akupunktur”, has a teaching assignment on "Value Stream based Design for IT Organisations" at NORDAKADEMIE Hamburg and also has published the reference book "IT Service Management with FitSM". Dierk's clients range from DAX corporations to medium-sized companies to smaller IT service providers. 

• DASA DevOps Ambassador for Germany
• Book author of: IT-Service Management mit FitSM (German) which will be available in English in 2024 by TSO 

Dierk's proudest achievement is working successfully for more than 13 years as a self-employed consultant and trainer for a wide range of companies.

Falko helps leaders double the effectiveness of their teams in a matter of weeks. In the best case, this can be done without hiring new employees or reorganizing.

This can be achieved by different approaches that can be combined in a way putting value creation in the spotlight. To mention a few: making work visible, getting things done, team topologies, the art of business value, coaching habit and moving from a project to a product or even service mindset.

• https://vempio.de/podcast/ Podcast “DevOps from your ears straight to the brain” mostly in German language but with quite a few English episodes, too.
• Trainings in cooperation with DASA (DevOps Agile Skills Association)
  • DASA DevOps Professional - Specify and Verify – DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) co-author
  • DASA DevOps Certification Program (devopsagileskills.org) as trainer
• Trainings with colleagues of vempio
  • English: DevOps Basics, Scaling DevOps, DevOps in Embedded Systems, DevOps Value Streams
  • German: DevOps Grundlagen, DevOps in der Praxis, Skalierung von DevOps, DevOps Wertströme
• First graduate and best of class in Engineering IT Master at University Magdeburg

Ahmad is a digital transformation executive with diversified experience covering the full spectrum of the technology space. He has been in service leadership, managerial, technology pre-sales, and consulting. He has extensive experience in delivering large projects and a proven success of solving complex problems within time and budget. Ahmad has the ability to fuse business and technology interests into cohesive, value-driven, and delivery-focused operations. He is a highly respected builder of critical partnerships and strategic alliances and has proven to unite fractionalized groups for a shared sense of purpose. 

His specialties include cyber security, business resilience, strategic leadership, data privacy, information assurance and project management.