Jonathan Monk
Head of Life Sciences Computing
College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee

Jonathan Monk has a background in physics and since completing a PhD in Remote Sensing has worked on large scale computing projects. He is currently employed at the College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee and manages an integrated portfolio of storage, compute, network, database and desktop systems.

Phil Butcher
Head of IT
Sanger Institute

Phil Butcher joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in 1993 coming from a commercial IT background and has been responsible for growing the institute's IT ever since in support of ground breaking genomic research. Sanger Institute's IT infrastructure has grown from a few servers with gigabytes of data in the early days to thousands of cores of computational capacity with well over 10 Petabytes (10,000 Terabytes) of useable disk storage space today.

While the Human Genome project delivered the sequence of one individual over a ten year period, the latest DNA sequencing technologies can now deliver many genomes worth of data in days. Over the next five years the Sanger Institute's scientific projects aim to produce in the order of 100,000 genomes worth of data from which a greater understanding of common illnesses and disease will be derived. It is estimated that they will have acquired in the order of 35-40 Petabytes of data in that time and many tens of thousands of cores of computational capacity. Regardless of the scale - like all other IT installations, the Sanger Institute looks for the right solutions and continue to learn something new every day...

Adam Jackson
UK Product Manager, Global Cloud Platform
Fujitsu

Adam is the UK Product Manager of Fujitsu's Global Cloud Platform. He is responsible for the full lifecycle of the platform, ensuring the service is competitive; is positioned as a leader within the Cloud Marketplace and meets the demands of UK & Irish businesses.

Mark Treweeke
Solutions and Services Consultant
S3 (Solid State Solutions Limited)

A recent addition to the S3 team, Mark has a background in enterprise storage, backup and cloud services. Twelve years of solution design and seven years of cloud backup experience has given Mark a comprehensive understanding of both onsite and cloud solutions and the challenges that exist for organisations looking to embark on their ‘cloud journey’. Mark will be developing S3’s range of relevant cloud services, ensuring S3 continues to meet the business requirements of its valued client base.