Maximilian Ahrens

Member of the Executive Board
Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange

Maximilian Ahrens is a member of the executive board of Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange AG and a frequent speaker at international conferences for service oriented architecture and virtualization. He is a co-founder of Zimory, a company providing carrier-grade cloud infrastructure software. Prior to that he served as a research scientist at the innovation development laboratory at Deutsche Telekom. Responsible for infrastructure and enterprise IT projects, spanning multiple divisions of Deutsche Telekom, Maximilian Ahrens is an expert on enterprise IT and business processes. Before Deutsche Telekom, he led several business process reengineering projects for major German companies. Maximilian Ahrens studied Industrial Engineering at Berlin Technical University.

Sessions

Nov 19 2015

12:00

Panel: Hybrid-ready data centers – overcoming security, data privacy and interoperability with new technology initiatives

Andy Lawrence, Research VP - Datacenter Technologies & Eco-Efficient IT, 451 Research John Gromala, Senior Director, Hyperscale Product Management, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Mariano Cunietti, CTO, EnterCloud Suite Maximilian Ahrens, Member of the Executive Board, Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange Timothy Creswick, Managing Director and Founder, Vorboss

What are the challenges in delivering scalable hardware solutions for the provisioning of cloud services to clients? As cloud service users’ demands are becoming increasingly complex, service providers must keep up in order to deliver (large) scalable and flexible cloud solutions to their clients. What are the challenges in delivering scalable services to cloud consumers? This panel evaluates the technical hurdles, including hardware, cloud interoperability, hybrid connectivity and reliability.

Colo + Cloud

12:40

Accelerating the move towards multi-cloud architectures – what cloud exchanges and cloud interconnectivity are all about

Maximilian Ahrens, Member of the Executive Board, Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange

With Google, Microsoft and private cloud platforms, such as OpenStack, cloud exchange is the next generation of an already evolving multi-cloud environment. Cloud exchanges offer a commoditised cloud platform for enterprises and cloud service providers. What are the core issues and challenges standing in the way of true cloud commoditisation?

Colo + Cloud

16:20

Final Showdown: Beers and some really big ideas

Aeron Buchanan, Head of European Operations,, Ethereum Dr. Jens Struckmeier, Founder and CTO, Cloud and Heat Technologies Ed Ansett, Co-Founder and Chairman, i3 Solutions Group Kfir Godrich, MD, Global Head, Technology, BlackRock Maximilian Ahrens, Member of the Executive Board, Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange Zahl Limbuwala, CEO/Co-Founder, Romonet

Top innovation thought leaders deliver their rapid-fire pitches (2 minutes) on their REALLY BIG IDEAS during this open-mic and open-bar session -- prediction, challenge, trend, amazing opportunity, pending apocalypse, end-of-the-world as we know it... A capstone closing event not to be missed!