Steven Dickens

Steven is an IBMer responsible for global sales of IBM’s premier Linux and Open Source server platform, LinuxONE. In this role he advocates, evangelizes and champions the adoption of LinuxONE in the Cloud, Managed Service Provider, Linux and Open Source market segments. Steven has spent 20-years plus in the Information Technology industry, with considerable experience in both hardware and software platforms with senior roles in: Offering Management, Marketing Specialist Sales and Client Management for organisations such as CA (now Broadcom), HP and latterly IBM.

Steven was a founding board member, former Chairperson for the Open Mainframe Project, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project promoting Linux and Open Source on the mainframe – www.openmainframeproject.org

Steven is an avid supporter of using social media tools to increase customer engagement and has spoken at Social Media conferences on the subject of Social Media advocacy. Steven has been the host of the Linux Foundation's "I am a Mainframer" podcast