Alessandro Pilotti is the CEO of Cloudbase Solutions, a company focused on cloud computing interoperability with a strong open source contribution background, especially around OpenStack, Kubernetes and Ceph. Alessandro has been a speaker for many years at key international industry conferences, including the OpenStack / OpenInfra Summits, Cephalocon, //Build, Oracle OpenWorld, KubeCon and many other cloud related events. He recently completed a Master of Research (MRes) in Bioinformatics at Birkbeck, University of London, where his research focused on applying AI/ML methodologies to immunology.