Dennis Lauwers

Dennis Lauwers is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Hybrid Cloud in EMEA, focusing on client leadership.
He has been bringing new technologies to the market, making Europe a leading geography within IBM for hybrid cloud solutions. His impact stems from his keen ability to position and explain complex solutions clearly at all levels of a client’s organization – business strategy discussions down to hands-on demonstrations.

At the same time, he is a vocal advocate for customers, sharing his insights to influence product roadmaps and go-to-market strategies. He has built a strong reputation with the IBM technical community through the creation of solution point of views, architectural assets, enablement material and a community of practice across business units.

Dennis joined IBM in 1997 and had different positions within IBM: support, system engineer, application & integration architect, ISV architect, client trusted advisor, European Technical leader and today Distinguished Engineer.

Domains of expertise: hybrid cloud, distributed cloud, edge computing, complex architectures, AIOps, Application modernization, high-volume low-latency transaction environments, AI embedding.