About

With over 15 years working both in IBM directly and leading one of their most successful European Business Partners, Tomás understands the issues and dynamics at play in the rapidly changing ICT services landscape. Subsequently, Tomás has spent the last number of years building a business which is rapidly becoming a recognised global leader in the independent support of IBM software, Origina. Origina enables large organisation to enhance their software budgets through cost reduction in relation to software support they already have, as to enable them to obtain the technology they really need.

Tomás is a recognised thought leader and vocal member of the secondary ICT market. He both understands and is passionate about the importance of representation and co-operation to achieve common goals. A consistent advocate for the promotion of choice for large ICT users, he has been an avid campaigner against the lock-in practices that can dominate the ICT industry. These passions coupled with an informative and enlightening time with the SIA’s Advocacy Group, (which ultimately became Repair.org), Tomás then went on to help found Free ICT Europe Foundation in 2014.

Habibou M'BAYE is the founder and CEO of SOFTCORNER, a digital exchange dedicated to the software licence circular economy.

Frenchtech ambassador and awarded by European Commission, SOFTCORNER is recognized as one of the most innovative marketplayer in the industry.

In the last few years, while developing its knowledge of software licensing and intellectual property issues, Habibou became aware of the need for the ecosystem to organize itself and act as closely as possible to the European institutions, in order to defend a fairer, more affordable and sustainable conception of the IT market."

Habibou joined the board of Free ICT Europe in 2017.

Change will continue to happen, influence matters. It is Jan’s drive to work on these changes; unite & represent SME’s, call for a fair market and participate in legislative processes to make the connection.

With cars becoming computers on wheels two main sectors in his career came together. Jan’s education has been in Automotive followed by a Bachelor in Business Administration and a master in Total Quality Management.

Since 2001 most of his time in the secondary IT market with roles in the organisations; Computer Brokers Exchange (CBE), the AscdiNatd and the Free ICT Europe Foundation. Since 2016 Jan works part-time for Free ICT Europe, next to his consultancy activities.

Jan has worked for large businesses and SME’s. As advisor and analyst he was involved in M&A projects, business development and creating strategic change. For Free ICT Europe he takes the lead in participation of EU projects, key contact for alliance partners and responsible for daily operations.

Kjell Olsson is co-founder and CEO of Shibuya Crossing, a key player in the IT infrastructure specialist business in Sweden.

Shibuya Crossing is a skilled system integrator that provides services and solutions in the areas of server, storage, security and communications. Our goal is to build long-term sustainable IT solutions together with our customers, that contribute to increased competitiveness and growth.

Kjell Olsson has played a key role in developing Shibuya Crossing by a number of mergers and acquisitions and he has started up the TPM business which offers Independent services to extend systems life cycle and reduce cost of operations.

“Astrid Wynne is a chartered environmentalist and a full member of IEMA. She is Sustainability Lead at Techbuyer, a global specialist in sustainable IT hardware provision with a specialism in data centre IT equipment such as servers, storage and networking.

Astrid is a subject matter expert in circular economy and wider sustainability issues such as energy efficiency, carbon footprints, environmental impact and ESG risk. She is a published author in multiple peer-reviewed journals on topics related to these issues, most recently in the IEEE Journal of Sustainable Computing (2020) and Elsevier Journal of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (2021).

Astrid also works with the data centre industry to increase circularity and sustainability with the adoption of heat reuse, more efficient material management, Net Zero plans and social impact assessments. She is Chair of the Sustainability Special Interest Group at the Data Centre Alliance and collated the first Sustainability Best Practice document for the association in 2022.”