Cengiz has over 22 years of experience in sales, marketing, business and corporate development areas in telecommunications and IT sectors; building and managing large, diverse and geographically dispersed organizations. He has held a variety of senior management roles for multinational companies such as Boeing, Intel and Turk Telekom. He holds a BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and an Executive MBA from the University of Washington.

Cristina Conti is an experienced technology lead, focusing on helping customers in their journey transformation to the cloud, from migration to embedding AI applications. She currently leads a team of cross-vertical customer engineers at Google Cloud. Prior to Google, Cristina worked at SAS Institute for 10 years in the machine learning space.

Cristina holds a Master’s Degree in Statistics and Biostatistics from University of Bologna, preparing her thesis at University of California, Berkeley. She currently lives in Milan with her husband and two kids.

As both a Chartered Engineer and Chartered IT Professional with over 25 years of experience in the data centre sector Mark has been a specialist in the field of data centre operations and technical management for more than 2 decades. During this time he has focussed on the delivery of business critical services from highly reliable, world class data centres with 24×365 availability expectations.

Now operating as an Independent Consultant and Technical Advisor with extensive international experience and solid technical skills combining data centre facilities design, IT and facilities operational management, energy efficiency and engineering expertise to support all facets of the Data Centre Lifecycle.

A regular public speaker, conference host and industry thought leader on data centre technical issues as well as sitting on multiple technical and advisory boards. Mark is also involved in the development of International data centre Standards through ISO and CENELEC as the UK national representative as well as being the Technical Editor and Committee Chair of the European Commission Code of Conduct on data centre energy efficiency.