Andy Thurai is an accomplished IT executive, strategist, advisor, and evangelist with 25-plus years of experience in executive, technical, and architectural leadership positions at companies such as IBM, Intel, BMC, Nortel, and Oracle. He also advises many start-ups. He has been a keynote speaker at major conferences and served as host for many webcasts, podcasts, webinars, and video chats. Andy has written more than 100 articles on emerging technology topics for publications such as Forbes, The New Stack, AI World, VentureBeat, DevOps.com, APM Digest, and Wired magazine. Andy’s topics of interest and expertise include AIOps, ITOps, observability, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud, edge, and other enterprise software. His strength is selling technology to the CxO audience with value proposition rather than a technology pitch. You can find more details and samples of Andy’s work on his website at www.thefieldcto.com