Bert Desmet is a consultant and system engineer and dba at Deloitte Belgium where his primary goal is to maintain and further develop the 'Deloitte Analytics Platform', a cloud platform for business intelligence and analytics.
His passion is automation and data. Therefore Bert is responsible for everything 'DATA' in the Deloitte Analytics cloud: The database part and the data transformation part.

Bert got involved with the open source movement in 2008 as a Fedora ambassador and mentor. He was also involved in the OLPC movement and helped bootstrap some smaller conferences such as 'Loadays' in Belgium.

Bert lives in Ghent, Belgium and enjoys the sun, travel, good food and music.