Wilfried Grommen is Chief Technology Officer within HP for the large international governmental organizations like UN, NATO and EU. In this role he acts as the technology visionary from HP, offering a total viewpoint on the offerings of HP. At this stage the core debate mostly focuses around the cloud readiness of an organization, the internet end to end security architecture, and the overall application maintenance.  Before that time, Wilfried worked for 10 years within Microsoft EMEA and CEE. He was chief technology officer dealing with interoperability, innovation, standards and the dialogue with governments around e-government and public private partnerships.  He managed the project office to launch Microsoft’s citizenship or corporate responsibility program, and launched the new software tools .net within the EMEA market place. Prior, to these roles, Wilfried acted as CTO for Capco, active in financial markets, and as head of the IBM global services consulting team in Belgium. He has a master degree in electronics from KU Leuven, Belgium.