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"Jason Buffington (@JBuff) is a Vice President within the Product Strategy team at Veeam. He has been in the data protection industry for over 30 years, working on a variety of backup, replication/failover and BC/DR solutions within data protection vendors and Microsoft. Prior to joining Veeam, Jason was the Principal Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), covering the myriad of data protection vendors and providers in the IT industry. Outside of IT, Jason is an active volunteer leader in Scouting BSA. At Veeam, Jason focuses accelerating the success of enterprise customers through Veeam's key alliance partnerships, as well as strategic special projects, evangelizing thought leadership at key industry events, and communicating Veeam’s long-term vision and strategy."

Michael Cade is a Senior Global Technologist for Veeam Software. Based in the U.K., he’s an IT professional with over 16 years of industry experience with a key focus on data center technologies, including virtualization, storage and the data center. Michael’s role at Veeam is to engage those new to availability technologies, as well as those who are experts, speaking at events and sharing the Veeam vision and strategy of the company, while providing feedback from the field into product management to shape the future success of Veeam Software. Michael is very active around the social media sphere, blogging and tweeting relevant technical content. His role at Kasten is to act as a technical thought leader, community champion and project owner to engage with the community to enable influencers and customers to overcome the challenges of cloud-native data management and be successful, speaking at events sharing the technical vision and corporate strategy, while providing ongoing feedback from the field into product management to shape future success. Michael is a leading member of multiple technology organizations, including VMware vExpert, Veeam Vanguards, Cisco Champions and the HashiCorp Ambassadors.phere, blogging and tweeting relevant technical content. Michael lives near Cambridge in the United Kingdom.