Claus Schaale heads the worldwide team of Cloud Business Development for Cisco Systems, identifying and developing key partners and cloud related projects.
Claus has worked primarily in the Service Provider an IT Managed Services, holding sales and management positions in companies such as Telefónica, 3Com and Cisco Systems in Latin America, USA and Europe.
Claus holds a BS/MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Chile and an MBA in International Business from Florida International University (USA). He speaks Spanish, English, German and basic Portuguese.
At Microsoft, Matthias helps companies and organisations for their digital transformation journey. He has a breadth of experience in liaising with customers in different sectors including public transportation, logistics, eGovernment, security, retail, media.
He is a design thinker and develops hands-on workshops together with customers, build prototypes, and loves to organize hackathons. He also supports the startups in the Microsoft ScaleUp program and voluneers in the REDI-school.org and Code for life initiatives.
He is specialized in Cloud Infrastructures, DevOps, Artifical Intelligence, IoT and Cyber security
Stefan Zippel has expert-level experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems in various companies and profound knowledge of Smart Manufacturing, the internet of things (IoT), industrial internet of things (IIoT), and Industry 4.0
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He enjoys working through these challenges and finding the best solution, both specific for the situation and widely applicable. This embraces a wide range of activities and skills, from consulting to active trouble shooting, through to customized application development and training.