Dr. Angel Luis Diaz, IBM’s Vice President of Cloud Architecture & Technology, is a champion of open technologies to reinvent the enterprise. He is leading a technology transformation to drive both IBM & the market toward a Next Generation Enterprise Software Platform to deliver accelerated client value through interoperability & portability, based upon standards & open source at scale. Passionate about the art-of-the-possible, Dr. Diaz leads a global team that works across open source communities, international organizations & standards consortia to foster development of the next generation of open technologies & to help clients realize their potential by innovating upon an open architecture. Additionally, Dr. Diaz’s Cloud Performance Solutions team works with leading customers on enterprise infrastructure, application architecture/platform & workload optimization.