Featured speakers


Gurdip Sohal, Sales Director, Data Management at Covenco
Gurdip is an expert in the fields of data protection, disaster recovery, business continuity, and cybersecurity. He has over 26 years of experience in the IT industry, with a deep understanding of the evolving challenges businesses face in safeguarding their critical data assets.


Luca Dell’Oca, EMEA Principal Cloud Architect at Veeam Solutions
Luca Dell’Oca, Principal Architect at Veeam, collaborates with top service providers to maximise Veeam’s cloud technologies. He authored the Veeam Cloud Connect book and numerous technical resources. Starting in information security, Luca transitioned to virtualization. Based in Northern Italy, you can find Luca riding his mountain bike downhill on the Alps when not in front of a computer.


David Johnson, EMEA Account Manager at Object First
The UK/I Channel Account manager, for Object first to the thousands of partners who have a relationship with Veeam Storage solutions. David is here to share how OOTBI blocks encryption attacks and accidental deletion, and demonstrate how rapidly Local restores with immutable on-prem storage.


Ben Westlake, Head of Managed Services at Covenco
Ben Westlake is an experienced Cloud Solutions & Application Delivery specialist with a demonstrated history of working with multiple Cloud Architectures, Topologies and Data Resilience Solutions. As the Head of Managed Services at Covenco, he leverages his expertise to empower organisations with cutting-edge IT infrastructure solutions.