Panel Discussion: AI for SCOM and beyond

Besides summarizing and diagnosing, AI could dispatch and even fix alerts too. But, to implement AI successfully for such tasks, a consistent event management process is vital.

In this discussion, we will look at what “event management” involves, how it relates to SCOM, how AI can help, and what it means for the future shape of roles in Ops.

Webinar speakers

Bob Cornelissen

Microsoft MVP & managing consultant @TOPQORE

Bob (AKA SCOM Bob) is a Managing Consultant at TopQore, a highly specialized Cloud and Datacenter Management consultancy from the Netherlands and operating world-wide. Bob is an 11 x MVP, blogs, wrote a book, presents at events in person or virtually world wide, and loves anything community related.

Bruce Cullen

Director of Engineering @ SquaredUp, Founding Member @ Cookdown

Bruce is a Director of Engineering at SquaredUp & a founding member of Cookdown. He is Product Manager for SquaredUp's Dashboard Server products, SquaredUp Cloud Datasources & Cookdown products as well as leading the engineering team building these things. He spent 10 years at Citrix, initially as a software tester but then he release managed XenApp and XenDesktop (aka CVAD) cloud and OnPrem, he also release managed the Citrix SCOM Management Packs through their journey from acquisition. Bruce started his career in IT support and is happy to be among IT Pros building awesome software.

Jason Baudreau

VP of Product and Marketing @ SquaredUp

Jason spent the first half of his career as a Systems Engineer at Raytheon, a large US defence contractor – developing, integrating, and testing network-centric systems for battlefield communications. He took his appreciation of network engineering to NetBrain, the creator of dynamic network mapping and automation software for enterprise IT, to develop the Marketing organization. Today, at SquaredUp, Jason is excited to engage with the Enterprise ITOps community and develop new solutions for data visualization and analysis.

Merijn Overgaauw

Product Architect & Developer @ Gripmatix

Merijn is Product Architect & Developer at GripMatix, which develops Citrix monitoring solutions with a strong focus on maximizing Business Continuity and lowering costs to achieve such.

Stoyan Chalakov

Microsoft MVP and Senior IT Consultant

Stoyan is a Microsoft MVP and works as a Senior IT Consultant at POHN IT-Consulting, a Swiss IT consulting company, where he is responsible for the Cloud and Datacenter Management technologies. His focus lies on private and hybrid Cloud management, involving number of technologies like Microsoft System Center, Hyper-V, Office 365, Microsoft Azure and covering topics like Datacenter monitoring, IT service management, orchestration and automation. Stoyan started his career as Support Engineer for the server platform team at the Microsoft Professional Support, supporting customers from the DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) region. As part of the Microsoft Support he was also involved in providing the highest level technical support to Microsoft Premier customers. In addition to Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter, Stoyan has an expertise in Microsoft Active Directory and the related technologies.

Vincent de Vries

Chief Innovation Officer @ OpsLogix

Vincent started as an infrastructure consultant over 20 years ago, focusing on Active Directory and Exchange in large corporate environments. Having had a keen interest in programming, he started developing custom tools for Exchange reporting and migrations. In the last ten years, his activities have shifted towards developing custom interfaces in C#, authoring Management Packs, and consulting on System Center Operations Manager. Currently, he spends most of his time authoring management packs and creating solutions in Microsoft Azure.

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Panel Discussion: AI for SCOM and beyond

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