Featured Speakers

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	Simon “Ted” Harrison Senior Vice President, Enterprise Sales at OpenText Simon “Ted” Harrison is the Senior Vice President of Enterprise Sales at OpenText, and is responsible for OpenText’s Enterprise business unit. Ted previously served as the Senior Vice President of Fast Growth Markets for OpenText, growing the business in high potential regions world-wide including LATAM, Eastern Europe, Japan, Africa, China, Middle East and India. Coming to OpenText through its IXOS acquisition, Ted has held a number of senior sales leadership roles throughout his 15 years with the company. Ted served as the Head of Global Services for Northern Europe before becoming Senior Vice President of Sales for the EMEA region. Ted has successfully worked throughout his 25 year career to match business imperatives with innovative technology solutions. Beginning his career as a technical consultant, Ted then bridged the gap between technical and business to serve as a Senior Business Consultant on projects such as the European roll-out for General Motors. He has also worked in the mobile solutions field for Psion Teklogix, specializing in Supply Chain Optimization. Ted holds an honors degree in Computer Science from Leeds University.
	Michael Cybala Vice President Product Management at OpenText Michael Cybala leads the definition of product portfolio strategy and it’s execution from creation to roll out for all solutions of the Enterprise Business Unit at OpenText. This comprises the Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Customer Experience Management (CEM) and Enterprise Applications (SAP, Microsoft, Oracle) Suites. In his previous role at OpenText Michael and his team formed a leading global software partnership with SAP and developed the market leading ECM for SAP solution portfolio, proven by significant growth and by seven SAP Pinnacle Awards won in a row since 2008. Michael has held several leadership positions in Marketing and Product Management since 1998 and joined OpenText via the acquisition of IXOS Software AG in 2004.
	Hans Ouwehand Executive Board Member at CIZ The Centre of Care Assessment (CIZ) assesses around 200.000 annual applications from Dutch citizens for long-term health care facilities. The organisation carries out the care needs assessments for the long care act (Wlz) for the Dutch Ministry of Health, Wellbeing and Sports. Currently CIZ employs around 800 people who are working from different offices around the Netherlands. In his role, Hans was also responsible for the development and roll out of a complete new IT system to support the people making a care assessment. Since 2013 Hans Ouwehand is Member of the Board of Directors for CIZ. Hans holds a degree in Law and worked as General Manager in both public and private organisations in the social security and welfare sector before joining the care sector in 2012.
	Thomas Rau Entrepreneur, architect, innovator and visionary Thomas Rau is entrepreneur, architect, innovator and visionary. His motto is ‘guided by the future’: his decisions and actions are not determined by what is deemed possible or culturally acceptable now, but by what is necessary for the future. For years Rau has contributed to national and international discussions about sustainability. He is promoting the use of renewable energy in the built environment and seeks to address the increasing worldwide resource scarcity. Putting words into action, RAU Architects have been on the forefront of designing environmentally conscious buildings and healthy indoor climates since 1992. The Oneplanetarchitecture Institute (OPAi) was founded in 2008, focusing on social and economic questions of our time with regard to architecture. RAU and OPAi have contributed several innovations and set new standards first in the field of CO2-neutral and energy neutral building, later for energy positive building and more recently circular architecture. Rau argues that our so-called energy problem can be addressed, because there is more than enough energy from renewable sources. It’s our attitude that fails us in this regard and our unwillingness to fully embrace renewable energy in its various forms. While energy doesn’t need to be a problem, the increasing scarcity of raw materials is much more acute. As an entrepreneur he doesn’t feel threatened by these shortages but sees opportunities. Due to the global scope of material scarcity, Rau wants to address this issue on a global scale. That’s why he established Turntoo, a company focussing on closing material loops and developing business models to put the circular economy into practice. “I don’t want ownership, I want performance. Who cares about lamps, I want light!” Thomas Rau stood at the cradle of the “Pay per Lux” concept, offering users lighting as a service instead of selling them lamps. In collaboration with a housing corporation and a consumer electronics company he offers the most energy-efficient refrigerators and washing machines to low income residents on a performance basis.