SAP on the Cloud

students per year. His ambition is to transfer knowledge to allow customers to modernize their Business Critical Systems and benefit from modern high performance commodity platforms and cloud deployment options.

Joshua McCloud is a cyber security Business Development Manager and Solutions Architect with Cisco's Asia Pacific Enterprise Networking organization. Joshua works across various industry sectors throughout Asia, using architectural approaches to help customers improve operational effectiveness in cyber security. Joshua has worked for over 19 years in the public and private sector environment supporting customers in the US, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Joshua has deep expertise in the areas of architectural methodologies and frameworks, cyber security, cloud, IP mobility and military communications systems.

Mag. Robert Madl, MBA serves as Sales Specialist for SAP projects at Cisco Systems where he takes care of SAP projects in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia. Prior joining Cisco he was a Business Architect for a SAP hosting provider and system vendor. Coming from cloud based mobile device development his journey as a consultant in IT business led him through automated software provisioning, high-level network design, datacentre infrastructure projects, automated resource provisioning projects for large-scale virtualization environments to UNIX migration and SAP HANA projects. With his experience spanning from organizational management to command-line knowledge he often acts as the link between business and engineering. He studied Information Management at the Johannes Kepler University Linz where he earned his master's degree and he earned his MBA in Sales Management at the LIMAK business school of Johannes Kepler University Linz.

Mark Tempes is a Senior Architect and leads the SAP NetWeaver consulting team at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services South Pacific. He has more than 11 years of experience in the SAP service market and his main focus is the management, delivery and sales of largescale SAP NetWeaver engagements. Mark has managed implementation teams in Europe, Asia and Australia primarily for enterprise customers of Hewlett-Packard. He has both governance and sales responsibility and manages the commercial aspects for initiatives on which his team is engaged. In his current role, he leads initiatives around SAP on Hewlett-Packard's cloud and utility offerings including the transition, management and delivery of technical SAP projects from bid-phase through design and implementation, to go-live and support.

Dr George W. Anderson serves as the managing architect and senior director for Microsoft's mission critical IP development team. He is an accomplished consulting professional with 15 years of SAP experience spanning business application architecture, deployment, organizational transformation, innovation and operational excellence initiatives, and more. A frequent speaker at conferences and industry events, George's perspectives on SAP implementation and support are considered by many to be the reference standard for SAP projects around the world. He has authored or co-authored numerous books, articles and other papers relevant to how technology solutions may be used in conjunction with SAP to solve complex business problems. George's aspirations are modest: To redefine what it means to architect, build and operate the next generation of platforms underpinning mission-critical applications. He and his team are actively developing the architectural patterns and principles capable of enabling the kind of business agility and awareness that IT has been promising for years and business enterprises need more than ever. He is a regular speaker at events and is an instructor teaching a course on SAP on Microsoft platforms to several hundred students per year. His ambition is to transfer knowledge to allow customers to modernize their Business Critical Systems and benefit from modern high performance commodity platforms and cloud deployment options.