In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Marjolein Opsteegh who is the Senior Power BI consultant of the ilionx company, and she is based out of Papendrecht, South Holland, The Netherlands.

a) Elaborates about who she is beyond her job titles where curiosity for her has always acted as a complete constant.

b) Talks about her 35 years of journey in corporate and tech where she has experienced a huge growth by learning and getting hands-on with new technologies and skills.

c) Though having transitioned from corporate roles to that of now being a Power BI Consultant at ilionx, on a modest note she still claims to be a learner despite such a huge rise in her journey.

d) Mentions about why she perceives the Power BI dashboard to be a product rather than assuming it to be a UX and UI design in the first place.

e) Her take on staying close to the end-user and, learning from the people she is building for and have collaborated with.

f) Talks about working smarter with an AI like ChatGPT is not a shortcut but a learning pattern altogether

g) Her view on the notion of content creation in a fast-moving world.

h) Sheds some spotlight into her tenure of Speaking, hosting & community building at different Tech events.

I) Her take on the importance of Women in the IT industry.

j) Gives an insight into her becoming a Microsoft MVP of Netherlands and highlights it is a next recognition of learning but not the end goal on the whole.

k) Shares few of her interesting stories, lessons and conveys one clear message to the listeners across the world.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Vijay Poondy who is the Managing Director of the reputed MNC company Yexle Limited and he is based out of Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.

a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT industry.

b) Talks about his inception behind the creation of Yexle Limited and also shares an interesting backstory associated with it.

c) Provides an overview on the exponential business reach/growth in the recent times across the regions of US and Australia and across the globe alike and also talks about the key initiatives taken by him in achieving those ranks.

d) Shares a few points about the recent acquisition of Yexle Limited by IGT Solutions.

e) Post the acquisition by the MNC company "IGT solutions", mentions about Yexle's roadmap and, goals for the future and, ahead to further strengthen and, drive innovation and also deliver world-class customer experience and service.

f) Talks about Yexle's differentiators in the market on the lines of capability, competency and trust.

g) Going by Yexle's tagline “Innovation driven. Quality assured.”, mentions about his personal connect with it and the way he sees it come alive in Yexle’s work.

h) The Host - Akhil Navuluri shares experience being part of Yexle Limited a years ago, a company where he began his IT career.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Antonio Ganzerli, who is the Sustainability, Innovation and Digital Transformation Expert of Ordine degli Ingegneri della Provincia di Torino and author of the book "Sustainability is Digital" and he is based out of Turin, Piedmont, Italy

a) Gives an inception of his journey from research and engineering in IT space to management and governance in Corporate roles until lecturing for Business Schools.

b) Gives an overview in particular of his roles and responsibilities in Sustainability, Innovation and Digital Transformation based on his Corporate experiences.

c) Sheds a spotlight into him being the pioneer in Digital Sustainability field and also the father of the concept "Sustainability BY and IN Digital".

d) Provides an insight into his top-rated book "Sustainability is Digital" that is written in both Italian and, English and also shares an interesting backstory associated with its creation.

e) Mentions about that talent of his into balancing multiple roles in multiple organizations - Innovation Manager, Sustainability Builder, Sustainability Community Member and Corporate Sustainability Manager acting as an inspirational roadmap for the listeners across the world.

f) His take on the importance of Green Tech in the industry and also illustrates one of the real-life use case associated with it.

g) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in his IT journey, that he would like to share in this podcast session.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Ritesh Arora, who is the FS DCX- Low code No code and, AI leader of The Big Four Companies and he is based out of Kolkata, West Bengal, India

a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT space.

b) According to him, justifies why will love and empathy continue to be the biggest reason that some teams scale up and some teams don't

c) Mentions out the reasons of why he wishes everyone enough rain/struggle in life.

d) Gives an insight of working on the latest tech that will keep everyone in demand.

e) Talks about the importance of having a right manager/mentor to guide an individual in the IT industry.

f) Gives a spotlight into latest trend - "The Race with AI".

g) According to the famous saying "Eating the big fish", mentions out why challenger brands can beat the bigger competition.

h) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in his IT journey, that he would like to share in this podcast session.

I) His take on the role of Autism Spectrum in the IT industry.

j) His view on the talent of the women workforce in the IT industry.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mr. Georgios Christou, PhD, who is the Founder and CEO of George Christou Research and Consulting company. He is based out of Nicosia, Cyprus

a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT space.

b) Talks about his source of inspiration and drive to start his company "George Christou Research and Consultancy" and also shares an interesting backstory behind its inception.

c) As a founder and CEO of his company "George Christou Research and Consultancy", mentions about his key responsibilities and, also talks about the sector/industry he is currently eyeing on.

d) Talks about his key learnings of being an eCREDO Chair Associate Professor of Computer Science for CIIM - Cyprus International Institute of Management a few years ago.

e) Shares his experience of designing, building and deploying the infrastructure and front end of the electronic money services in the past, to the listeners around the world.

f) Gives a spotlight into the plethora of his publications and collaboration with his fellow authors.

g) His take on the growth of the IT industry in Cyprus.

h) Shares few of his interesting anecdotes and success stories that he has experienced in the IT industry.

I) His take on the impact of AI in the IT industry.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Helen Blaikie, who is the Chief Data & Analytics Officer of Aston University. She is based out of Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

a) Walks us through the key milestones in her journey into data and leadership.

b) Shares her experience of being the Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Aston University

c) Having led teams across finance, data, commercial and business development, talks about the reasons that has underpinned her success across such varied environments.

d) Her philosophy when it comes to data strategy, governance, literacy and building a data culture.

e) Mentions about the moment that has really sparked her passion for data.

f) Having worked in both corporate and higher education, talks about the differences that she has seen in how organizations use data.

g) Having recently attended the DataIQ World Congress, mentions about her biggest takeaways.

h) Having spent her career in male-dominated industries, talks about how being a woman professional has shaped her leadership.

I) Across all her transitions, mentions about the skills that has mattered the most to her in becoming an effective data leader.

j) Having the research showing women applying differently for roles than men, talks about her take on confidence, recruitment and representation.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Sarah Kenyon, who is the Delivery Manager of Mantel Group company, and is also the Podcast Host of Data and Drams. She is based out of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

a) Gives a timeline of her journey in the IT space.

b) Provides an overview on her roles and responsibilities of being the Delivery Manager of the Mantel Group company

c) From a podcaster to another podcaster, talks about her drive and inspiration to start her own podcast initiative "Data and Drams" and also shares an interesting backstory associated with it.

d) Gives an insight into the projects that she was part of "FRT Proof of Concept" and "Data Acceleration Program" to the listeners around the world.

e) Mentions about the key initiatives taken by her in successfully delivering multi-million dollar projects across diverse industries including the likes of education, healthcare, digital experience, retail, wagering, and insurance

f) Talks about her expertise being part of different volunteering initiatives pertaining to "Cyber Security Champions of Tomorrow", "Last Conference", "Women in Digital" and "BeerOps" in the past, acting as an inspiration for the listeners

g) Shares few of her interesting anecdotes and success stories that she has experienced in her IT journey that she would like to share in this podcast session.

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and collaborate with Mrs. Kim King, who is the Owner and Senior ITSM / ITIL Consultant of CAKE IT Consulting company and is also the author of the book "Rid the Rot: The Fixer’s Guide to ITSM Health". She is based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

a) Gives a timeline of her journey in the IT space.

b) Sheds some spotlight into her being the Owner and Senior ITSM / ITIL Consultant for her company "CAKE IT Consulting".

c) Gives an overview of what her company "CAKE IT Consulting" is to the listeners and, which sector/industry and regions it is currently focused on.

d) Provides an insight into her recently released book "Rid the Rot: The Fixer's Guide to ITSM Health" and having said that also shares an interesting back-story associated with respect to the creation of her book.

e) Having worked 25 years overall in managed services with respect IBM - Kyndryl, mentions her key learnings that she has grabbed and the way it has shaped her career.

f) Shares her experience of helping the companies and business integrating the human side, the broken processes, the stalled initiatives and the tools as well.

g) Shares few of her interesting success stories and anecdotes that she has experienced in her entire journey with the listeners around the world.

In this continuation episode of our previous rendezvous with Mr. Till Kamppeter, the Co-Founder and Organization Lead, Co-Founder and Project Lead of OpenPrinting organization and Co-Founder and Organization Lead of OpportunityOpenSource initiative, who is based out of Vienna, Austria.

Till:

a) Gives an insight into his involvement with "The Linux Foundation".

b) His take on the importance of Linux in the European Union.

c) Shares few of his interesting success stories and anecdotes that he has experienced in his IT journey.

Related links for the show notes -

- OpenPrinting
Web: https://www.openprinting.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openprinting/posts/
Mastodon: https://ubuntu.social/tags/OpenPrinting
Telegram: https://t.me/+RizBbjXz4uU2ZWM1
GitHub: https://github.com/openprinting
More contacts: https://openprinting.github.io/contact/
About us: https://openprinting.github.io/about-us/
- OpenPrinting News
News, events, releases:
https://openprinting.github.io/news/
What we have done:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-The-amazing-work-is-going-on/
Recovering from the layoff:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Sovereign-Tech-Agency-is-investing-in-OpenPrinting/
- Google Summer of Code 2025
Project ideas posted:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Project-Ideas-List-posted/
Project work has started:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Contributors-selected-and-projects-started/
Work is going on:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-The-amazing-work-is-going-on/
Successfully concluded:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Our-most-successful-one/
Older GSoC news on https://openprinting.github.io/news/
- Opportunity Open Source conferences in India
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opportunityopensource/posts/
Opportunity Open Source 1.0 (2023) in the IIT Mandi
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-September-2023/#opportunitiy-open-source-in-the-iit-mandi-india
Opportunity Open Source 2.0 (2024) in the IIT Kanpur
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-August-2024/#opportunity-open-source-in-iit-kanpur
Opportunity Open Source 3.0 (2025) in the IIT Kanpur
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-3.0-in-the-IIT-Kanpur,-India/
- Till in videos and podcasts
Tech over Tea: Till Kamppeter about everything OpenPrinting, the layoff, and how
he is recovering
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Tech-over-Tea-300-Brodie-interviews-Till-Kamppeter/
Destination Linux: Till Kamppeter and Michael Sweet about the history of
OpenPrinting
https://youtu.be/CLEMiM0L2Jk
Ubuntu Indaba: Till Kamppeter and Michael Sweet about the New Architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P22DOu_ahBo
Ubuntu Office Hours: Till Kamppeter and Aveek Basu about the Google Summer of Code
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diB3wm4HB1Y
Ubuntu Summit 2022: Till Kamppeter hosting an OpenPrinting panel with Zdenek
Dohnal, Johannes Meixner, Aveek Basu, and Deepak Patankar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbgXmDjxYa4
Ask Noah: Till Kamppeter on how OpenPrinting improved printing with Linux/Unix
https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368?t=2837
Linux Saloon: Till Kamppeter about how he got Snap enthusiast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5QKJH9tDjQ
OpenPrinting - We make printing just work! Till Kamppeter, FOSDEM 2024,
Brussels, Belgium
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1930-openprinting-we-make-printing-just-work-/

In this podcast episode we are absolutely honored to interact and connect with Mr. Till Kamppeter who is the Co-Founder and Organization Lead, Co-Founder and Project Lead of OpenPrinting organization and Co-Founder and Organization Lead of OpportunityOpenSource initiative and he is based out of Vienna, Austria

a) Gives a timeline of his journey in the IT space.

b) Sheds some spotlight into his other initiative "Opportunity Open Source" and its collaborations with different IITs, universities, colleges in India.

c) Provides an overview about his organization "OpenPrinting" and also shares an interesting back-story associated with it.

d) Mentions about his roles and responsibilities of being a co-founder and organization lead of OpenPrinting organization.

Related links for the show notes

 OpenPrinting
Web: https://www.openprinting.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openprinting/posts/
Mastodon: https://ubuntu.social/tags/OpenPrinting
Telegram: https://t.me/+RizBbjXz4uU2ZWM1
GitHub: https://github.com/openprinting
More contacts: https://openprinting.github.io/contact/
About us: https://openprinting.github.io/about-us/
- OpenPrinting News
News, events, releases:
https://openprinting.github.io/news/
What we have done:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-The-amazing-work-is-going-on/
Recovering from the layoff:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Sovereign-Tech-Agency-is-investing-in-OpenPrinting/
- Google Summer of Code 2025
Project ideas posted:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Project-Ideas-List-posted/
Project work has started:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Contributors-selected-and-projects-started/
Work is going on:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-The-amazing-work-is-going-on/
Successfully concluded:
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Google-Summer-of-Code-2025-Our-most-successful-one/
Older GSoC news on https://openprinting.github.io/news/
- Opportunity Open Source conferences in India
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opportunityopensource/posts/
Opportunity Open Source 1.0 (2023) in the IIT Mandi
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-September-2023/#opportunitiy-open-source-in-the-iit-mandi-india
Opportunity Open Source 2.0 (2024) in the IIT Kanpur
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-August-2024/#opportunity-open-source-in-iit-kanpur
Opportunity Open Source 3.0 (2025) in the IIT Kanpur
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-3.0-in-the-IIT-Kanpur,-India/
- Till in videos and podcasts
Tech over Tea: Till Kamppeter about everything OpenPrinting, the layoff, and how
he is recovering
https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Tech-over-Tea-300-Brodie-interviews-Till-Kamppeter/
Destination Linux: Till Kamppeter and Michael Sweet about the history of
OpenPrinting
https://youtu.be/CLEMiM0L2Jk
Ubuntu Indaba: Till Kamppeter and Michael Sweet about the New Architecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P22DOu_ahBo
Ubuntu Office Hours: Till Kamppeter and Aveek Basu about the Google Summer of Code
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diB3wm4HB1Y
Ubuntu Summit 2022: Till Kamppeter hosting an OpenPrinting panel with Zdenek
Dohnal, Johannes Meixner, Aveek Basu, and Deepak Patankar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbgXmDjxYa4
Ask Noah: Till Kamppeter on how OpenPrinting improved printing with Linux/Unix
https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368?t=2837
Linux Saloon: Till Kamppeter about how he got Snap enthusiast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5QKJH9tDjQ
OpenPrinting - We make printing just work! Till Kamppeter, FOSDEM 2024,
Brussels, Belgium
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1930-openprinting-we-make-printing-just-work-/