Simon Briggs is having nearly 20 years of experience in the IT industry after starting out as a junior Unix system admin's and then into software support. Initially he was focused on Windows and Unix/Linux systems management and ITSM.

Though, as he enjoy presenting and meeting people the lions share of his career has been in Pre-Sales roles, this background then affording him the opportunity to join SUSE over 7 years ago.  Initially working as UK SUSE Solutions Architect but have now happily become the full time EMEA Lead Solutions Architect for SUSE OpenStack Cloud for a couple of years.

He is a keen advocate of Open Source and standards for what this offers to society as a whole and he is frequently involved in Meetups on related subjects, having presented at the London, Netherlands and Oslo OpenStack Meetup's and more general Linux sessions.