Ian Hood

Ian is currently chief technology officer of Telecommunications for Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions. He is a strategic and trusted advisor engaging and leading the global industry community of customers and partners, focused on building innovative cloud-native solutions that improve their business outcomes. He is responsible for developing and driving solution reference architecture for global service providers. Over his career, Ian was the chief communications design architect for deployment of many global operator and enterprise systems (e.g. Petronas Towers, DISA, Bank of Canada, CSIS, MCI, SBC, and the global Canadian embassy system in 100+ countries around the world). Ian has been recognized in the telecom industry with the Chairmans’ Award for IEEE CommSoc, a Diamond member of the IBM Academy, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, with a B.A.Sc (Honours) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Ian grew up in Owen Sound, just a few hours north of Toronto, in Canada, and now resides in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.