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CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF MONITORING EXCELLENCE – NOV 17.-19, 2026 | NUREMBERG
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Introducing Our First Speakers
- Thorsten Kuhn – Endress+Hauser InfoServe GmbH+Co. KG
- Birol Yildiz – ilert GmbH
- Mohamed Elsakhawy – Western University
- Prerit Munjal – Groupon

Thorsten Kuhn
Endress+Hauser InfoServe GmbH+Co. KG
Thorsten Kuhn is a Solution Architect for Security and Monitoring at Endress+Hauser. He focuses on enterprise monitoring strategies, observability and transforming reactive operations into proactive, data driven IT operations across complex environments.

Birol Yildiz
ilert GmbH
Birol Yildiz is the Co-founder and CEO of ilert, where he leads the company with a unique blend of technical and product expertise. Previously, he served as the Chief Product Owner for Big Data products at REWE Digital. With a solid background in computer science, Birol bridges the gap between developers and product strategists, continually striving to innovate and deliver customer-centric solutions at ilert.

Mohamed Elsakhawy
Western University
Mohamed Elsakhawy received his B.Sc. from Alexandria University, Egypt and his M.E.Sc. in Ph.D. in Computer Science from Western University, Canada. He served as the Operational Lead of Compute Canada’s Cloud National Team between 2017 and 2021.
He served as the Vice-Chair/Chair of the OpenStack user committee between 2019 and 2020. Between 2022 and 2023, he was an Adjunct Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Prerit Munjal
Groupon
Prerit is working as the CTO of KubeCloud, an umbrella company with multiple products in the Cloud-Native Space, directing his expertise towards harnessing Cloud Native Technologies to design resilient architectures that can seamlessly scale, all while prioritizing technical cost, security, availability and end-user experience.
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