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John Bradshaw

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Title
Field CTO, EMEA — Akamai Technologies
Based
Scotland, United Kingdom
Track record
17 engagements across France, Germany, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom
Booking
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General enquiries
bradshaw.cloud/about

Short bio

John Bradshaw is Field CTO for EMEA at Akamai Technologies, working with enterprises on cloud infrastructure, edge computing and AI inference. He was previously Head of Cloud at WPP, where he led a $300M cloud transformation and built the group cloud team from 8 people to 150.

Long bio

John Bradshaw is Field CTO for EMEA at Akamai Technologies, where he works with enterprise customers across Europe and the Middle East on cloud infrastructure, edge computing and AI inference. Before that he spent his career on the buying side: as Head of Cloud at WPP he held P&L ownership of a $70M annual cloud spend, led a $300M transformation programme, and grew a global team from 8 to 150 in 18 months while cutting operational costs by around half. Earlier roles include Technical Director for EMEA and APAC at Skytap, and solutions architecture at a hyperscaler cloud provider and a global collaboration platform. He publishes open decision frameworks, diagrams and calculators at bradshaw.cloud, and speaks regularly to CIO, CFO and CISO audiences across the region.

Topics

The standing themes. Individual talks are shaped to the audience, so treat these as starting points rather than fixed titles.

Formats

Keynote
30 to 60 minutes, with or without slides.
Panel and fireside
As panellist, moderator, or in interview format with no deck.
Roundtable and closed-door session
Small groups, off the record.
Workshop
Half or full day, hands-on with the frameworks and calculators.
Webinar and virtual session
Remote-friendly, and straightforward to record.

Recent engagements

The six most recent. The full list and a map are on the site.

Reuse

The bios, headshot and stage photo above are free to use for event promotion. The diagrams in the diagram library are licensed CC BY 4.0 (opens in a new tab) and can go straight into a programme or a recap post with attribution.

Practicalities

  • Most conference talks are given in his Akamai capacity, so those bookings route through Akamai’s communications team. Send the enquiry here either way and it gets passed on — there is no second form to fill in.
  • Travels from Scotland; comfortable across Europe and the Middle East.
  • Slides supplied as PDF or 16:9 deck, typically a week ahead.
  • Standard AV only: HDMI or USB-C, a lapel or handheld mic, confidence monitor if there is one.
  • Happy to be recorded and for the recording to be published.
  • Speaks as a practitioner rather than delivering corporate messaging. Views are his own.
Send a booking enquiry

Four weeks' notice is enough for a keynote, a week for a panel. Fees, travel and anything else practical are handled in the enquiry.