Randy Bias is a recognized influencer in cloud computing. An entrepreneur, writer, speaker and futurist, Randy accurately predicted the geometric growth rate of AWS. He is an advocate for open source technology as a foundational business model element in companies traditionally tied to proprietary models. He was declared a top 10 cloud pioneer by InformationWeek & Digital Influencer by Forbes. He currently runs the OSPO for Mirantis, a leader in open source infrastructure and a major player in OpenStack and Kubernetes ecosystems.
He led teams that achieved numerous cloud firsts, including the first public cloud in Korea, the first global carrier NFV cloud for AT&T, and the first “cattle cloud” for a Fortune 5 company (Walmart). Randy led the charge as change agent and expert disruptor within EMC for open source. At Juniper, he transformed their Contrail/OpenContrail initiative by rebooting and reinvigorating its open source community. This included rebranding of the open source project to Tungsten Fabric, induction into the Linux Foundation, and driving changes to processes, procedures, documentation, test/dev environments, and architecture.
