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South Coast Summit 2025

Kirk Ryan

Principal Engineer - Office of the CTO
NetApp

Biography

- Leading development of the NetApp Connector for M365 Copilot, an innovative scalable solution unlocking secure, AI-powered access to business intelligence without data migration.
- Leading the development and delivery of agentic AI sales tooling to deliver real-time competitive analysis, market research and opportunity intelligence for global sales teams, to drive smarter, faster decisions
- Providing Gen AI guidance and consultation to several technology companies
- Industry analysis (API Security | AI Assisted Code Editors | GitOps)

Formerly:
- Co-founder/CTO (and later CEO) of Flare where we raised over £1.4m to address micromobility safety issues for companies like Deliveroo and JustEat.
- Microsoft MVP and user group founder for Azure
- Northern TechStar winner (x2) - (NatWest | KPMG | EMC)
- Bathgate Tech Winner (LJMU Entrepreneur)

Let’s connect if you’re interested in AI-driven enterprise transformation, sales enablement, or the future of secure, scalable knowledge integration.

About NetApp
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Our strategic partnership with Microsoft enables organizations to manage data across any environment with performance and simplicity, whether your data is on-premises,in Azure, or a combination of both. With Azure NetApp Files, companies can build, deploy, and scale Enterprise applications and AI workloads in Azure while driving efficiencies across the board.

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Keynote - South Coast Summit 2025

18th Oct 8:50am - 9:50am BST

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Keynote - South Coast Summit 2025

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