Kurt Garloff
Kurt Garloff - after his university life as physicist - has spent his professional life in the Open Source IT world. He started as Linux kernel developer and had the privilege to build up SUSE Labs as team lead, department and engineering manager. He is convinced that importnat base technology should be developed collabratively and openly to achieve transparency, innovation, and trust.
After many years at SUSE, he has spent the last 14 years as part of the Open Infrastructure Community, building cloud (and later container) infrastructure, last not least as head achitect for Open Telekom Cloud at T-Systems.
He was co-creator of the Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) project in late 2019. The SCS project received funding from the German goverment from 2021-24, technically lead by Kurt. SCS has the vision of achieving a high level of digital sovereignty by creating joint technical standards (for easy provider switching and provider federation), a production-grade openly developed open source reference implementation and joint knowledge building especially around operational processes. SCS standardization is supported by meanwhile 18 organziations in OSBA's Forum SCS Standards and the reference implementation is used by more than half a dozen public clouds plus some private installations. Kurt supports this with his own company S7n Cloud Services GmbH.
Events
| Title | Day | Room | Track | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Public Infrastructure for the World |
Saturday | AW1.120 | Building Europe’s Public Digital Infrastructure | 10:30 | 10:55 |