David Pearson is a senior Ecosystem Solution Architect at Red Hat, a lead technical member of the team responsible for the partnership with IBM EMEA. He works with all IBM business units helping them drive transformational business outcomes with using Red Hat's portfolio and Open Source leadership at scale. Prior to Red Hat he was with IBM for over 25 years where he held many client facing roles in both technical consulting and sales engineering. He is a certified Open Group TOGAF Enterprise Architect, a chartered engineer in the UK, a technical author and presenter with a proven track record of innovation, including many patent disclosures. He is passionate about Open Source and has been involved with up stream communities for over two decades. He is the chair of the BCS Open Source Specialist Group in the UK.
Email: davpears@redhat.com