Rodger Manning is the Storage Service Owner at Ford Motor Company. He is responsible for global service planning, delivery and strategy for File, Block, Object Storage and Data Protection Services.\nRodger has a proven track record of simplification and transformation having previously held positions with Plant Floor Systems, Dealer Systems, PD Systems and OS Engineering & Support, during which time he drove transformational changes, improved operational efficiencies and reduced time to customer.

Director of the Institute of Computer Technologies, and CTO of the Supercomputing Centre at the Technical University of Košice. Expert in IT infrastructure, HPC, cloud and data technologies, AI and cybersecurity, with a focus on advanced computing and digital transformation.