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As chief experience officer, Tim Callan leads efforts to optimize the customer journey across all aspects of the business. Tim has more than 20 years of experience as a strategic marketing and product leader for successful B2B software and SaaS companies, with 15 years of experience in the SSL and PKI technology spaces.
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Hugh has built practical mathematical solutions for enterprises, including staffing optimization for table games at Las Vegas casinos, an award winning staffing tool for large health systems, and a patented machine learning approach to data deduplication. Hugh has also worked on numerous M&A and venture capital deals with a focus on enterprise AI.
He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Connecticut, an MBA from Cornell University, and a BS in Computer Science from University College Dublin.
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Chaitanya is the Founding Head of Growth at Velt, a Y-Combinator. Previously at Writesonic, he led the charge to skyrocket the AI writing assistant from zero to 8 million ARR in just 14 months. Chaitanya's expertise spans go-to-market strategies, performance marketing, and product marketing, consistently driving growth and setting new benchmarks in early-stage and Series A companies.
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Nikhil is a Software Engineer with 10+ years’ experience in Backend and Frontend development, specializing in data security and authentication. He currently is a Senior Programmer Analyst at Droisys. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science – San Diego State University, San Diego and a Bachelor or Engineering in Electronics & Communication – JSS Academy of Technical Education, India.

Paul Chaney
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Paul Chaney is a seasoned digital marketing consultant, author, and writer with decades of experience helping businesses leverage emerging technologies to improve their marketing strategies. As the founder of Prescriptive Writing, Paul specializes in developing content solutions that enhance communication and engagement across industries.
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Sumit Chauhan is co-founder and chief operating officer of Cerebrum X, with more than 24 years of experience in automotive, IoT, telecoms and health care. Sumit has always played the leadership role that allowed him to manage a P&L of close to US $ 0.5B across various organizations, such as Aricent, Nokia and Harman, enriching their domestic as well as international business verticals. As co-founder of CerebrumX, he has applied his experience in the connected vehicle data domain to deliver the automotive industry with an AI-powered augmented deep learning platform (ADLP). Sumit is also passionate about mentoring and guiding the next generation of entrepreneurs.
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Rahulkumar Chawda is a seasoned product leader in the digital payments industry with a track record in driving innovative payment solutions. His expertise in digital transaction processing, tokenization, and API integration has contributed to the development of scalable enterprise solutions worldwide. Rahul leads initiatives that redefine digital commerce by combining technical expertise with strategic vision. He has a bachelor’s degree in physics and a master’s degree in computer applications. Connect with Rahul on LinkedIn.
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Terence Chesire is the VP of Product Management, Customer Workflows and Industry Solutions for ServiceNow.
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Jaret Chiles is the chief services officer (CSO) of DoiT and is responsible for all aspects of our client services organization. With 25+ years of experience across consulting and managed services, cloud adoption, technical sales, security and compliance, he is instrumental in building out a key value driver for DoiT’s business: services, consulting, and support offerings. Since joining the company, Jaret has led development of a scalable services strategy that enables DoiT to grow rapidly – without compromising its unrivaled expertise.
With engineering roots, Jaret held many technical certifications throughout his career and regularly spends time studying process improvement methodologies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
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Kiran Chintagumpula is a lead engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in data warehousing and cloud computing. The author of “The Future of Data: Trends and Predictions,” Kiran is a recognized expert in integrating AI, ML and cloud technologies. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from Texas A&M University and has been featured in Tech Times and Digital Journal. Kiran is a gold-level award winner with the 2024 TITAN Business Awards in the business technology solutions/big data solution category. Connect with Kiran on LinkedIn.
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Jacek is head of Avenga Labs focused on technology research and trend analysis as well as innovative technology-oriented proof of concept projects with business partners. He has played every role in the production process, overseen complex projects and successfully created concepts for highly sophisticated software and consulting services.
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Mr. Dharmendra Chouhan is the director of engineering at Kyvos Insights.
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Jon Clay is VP of Threat Intelligence at Trend Micro
GMI Cloud
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Kevin is a 25+ year pioneer of the digital experience space. Now at Vultr, Kevin is now working to build Vultr's global brand presence as a leader in the independent Cloud platform market.
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Mark Collier has been fortunate to participate in many disruptive technology shifts, from the introduction of the first GPUs at Dell, to the digital music/MP3 transition at Musicmatch, and the first on demand streaming music service at Yahoo! In 2010, while at Rackspace, an early pioneer in cloud computing, Mark co-founded a new open source cloud computing project called OpenStack, in partnership with NASA and 25 other organizations globally. In 2012, Mark co-founded the OpenStack Foundation and has served as COO for over a decade, managing one of the fastest growing open source projects in history. In 2020, the OpenStack Foundation became the Open Infrastructure Foundation. Mark is now helping to expand and evolve the Foundation’s mission, bringing the unique open collaboration method established by the OpenStack community to many new open source projects across the cloud infrastructure market, including Kata Containers, the Zuul CI/CD platform, and the StarlingX distributed computing platform.
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Derek Collison is a 30 year industry veteran, entrepreneur, and pioneer in secure and large-scale distributed systems and cloud computing. He helped change the way financial, transportation, and logistics systems fundamentally worked while spending over a decade at TIBCO, designing systems that still power much of those industries today. At Google, Derek co-founded the AJAX APIs group and created the largest CDN for popular javascript libraries, identifying the need for easy and secure access to Google’s services without the need for additional servers. During his time at VMWare, Derek designed and architected CloudFoundry, the first open-source enterprise PaaS. He then founded Apcera, a company designed to drive security and policy into easy to use platform technologies. After the successful sale of Apcera to Ericsson, Derek took the messaging technology he designed to power the CloudFoundry and Apcera systems, NATS.io, and created Synadia. Synadia is pioneering secure and global messaging as a digital utility to help drive security and powerful communication and collaboration into IoT, edge, and cloud computing systems. He is also a technology futurist around Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IOT and Cloud Computing.
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Elliot Colquhoun is VP of Information Security and IT at Airwallex where he built the global payments and financial platform’s security from near-greenfields state to support billions in annualized transactions around the world. Prior to joining Airwallex, Elliot led the cybersecurity vertical at Palantir.
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Stuart Cooke is the marketing manager at My Baggage, a luggage shipping company that helps students relocate around the world.
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Andrew Coward is GM of Software Networking at IBM. He has over twenty-five years of experience in telecommunications and networking, and has held executive management positions in Brocade, Juniper, Carrier IQ, and Unisphere in network engineering, product management, strategy, sales, and marketing. Prior to joining IBM, Andrew was CEO of Lumina Networks, an open-source networking vendor focused on SDN solutions.
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Mark Cox is a Managing Director at Riveron. Based in Dallas, he brings 15 years in accounting and financial leadership roles including time in client service in audit and consulting, as well as industry experience working at both public and private companies. In addition to providing thought leadership related to the practical uses of AI for accounting professionals, Mark has significant experience in accounting advisory and accounting operations across a variety of industries including technology (SaaS), business services, manufacturing, and energy.
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Lance Craving is a freelance content producer and researcher.
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Liam Crilly, senior director of product management at F5, wrote his first web app in 1993, and has enjoyed working with internet software ever since. Liam has led various products across F5, including NGINX open source projects.
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Sean Cronin is the CEO of ProcessUnity and has over 15 years of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software experience. Prior to joining ProcessUnity, Cronin was Global Vice President of Client Operations and Pre-Sales for the Risk Segment at Thomson Reuters. Before entering the GRC software space, he served as a Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy for six years.

Jay Crystal
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Jay Crystal is the Co-CEO of Corvex.ai, an AI infrastructure-as-a-service provider.
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Guy is the CTO, Visible Impact & Go-to-Market Specialist, responsible for positioning, GTM, and sales guidance across technologies and markets. He has decades of field experience describing technologies, their business and community value, and how they are evaluated and acquired. Guy’s specialty areas include AI, DevOps/cloud-native/12-factor, enterprise applications, application integration, Big Data, governance-risk-compliance, containerization, virtualization, HPC, CPUs-GPUs, xPUs, and systems lifecycle management.
Guy started his technology career as a research director for technology media company Ziff Davis, with stints at PC Magazine, eWeek, and CIO Insight. Prior to joining Visible Impact, he worked at Dell, including postings in marketing, product, and technical marketing groups for a wide range of products, including engineered systems, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and mission-critical cloud services. He lives and works in Austin, TX.