Johan Tordsson
Assoc. Prof. Umeå University, Sweden, CTO/Co-founder Elastisys
Today, we see a wave of applications of AI across virtually all industries, with promise of e.g., smart cities, smart farming, and self-driving cars. However, little attention is paid to the large-scale cloud infrastructures required to deliver all these smart services. Operation of cloud applications and infrastructure is a tedious process that is surprisingly manual today. This talk argues for self-management of clouds, discusses the role of AI to achieve this, and shares example results of intelligent steering of cloud infrastructures and applications.
Short bio: Johan Tordsson is Associate Professor at Umeå University as well as CTO and co-founder of Elastisys. He is passionate about cloud automation, DevOps, and autonomic computing and is a strong believer that artificial intelligent will revolutionize IT operations. After his PhD, Tordsson worked as developer, chief architect, and scientific coordinator in multiple large-scale European research projects on cloud resource management. In 2016, he won the Nordea Scientific Award for his research contributions within self-optimizing and self-healing data centers.