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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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Steve Carpenter is the Chief Operating Officer of North America for Creditsafe, a global company providing expertise in credit risk intelligence. Steve leads the Canada operation, which is a strategic alliance with Equifax Canada launched in 2020 that helps to deliver international data coverage. He is responsible for overseeing business operations, sales, P&L, and product & data. With an impressive 16-year tenure at Creditsafe, Steve previously held the position of Business Development Director for the Creditsafe Group, headquartered in the UK. In this pivotal role, he led the company's international expansion efforts, spearheading global data acquisition and fostering global partnerships.
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Joel Carusone is the Senior Vice President of Data and Artificial Intelligence at NinjaOne. A proven technical leader with an aptitude for innovation and success, Joel’s primary responsibility is to oversee research, development, and deployment of secure AI technology practices inside NinjaOne. Prior to NinjaOne, Carusone served as Chief Technology Officer at Zeno Technologies, where he oversaw product innovation and development for the energy-focused software development company. Before that, he held various technical roles at enterprise customer data platform Radius Intelligence (acquired by SoftBank-backed startup Kabbage in 2019), where he worked his way up to CEO. Joel holds a bachelor's degree in biology and information sciences from Syracuse University.
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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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Avi Cavale is the founder of Quarterback, the AI development platform that learns how your team builds. He is a serial entrepreneur, and a visionary and goal-oriented technology leader with demonstrated experience in planning, development and implementation of cutting-edge information solutions to address business opportunities.
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Adonis Celestine is Senior Director and Automation Practice Lead at Applause. In this role, Adonis helps Applause’s clients to take a customer-centric approach to quality as part of their quality engineering evolution. He is an expert in test data management and compliance, as well as automation tools including Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Tosca, UFT and Leapwork. Before joining Applause, Adonis was Associate Director and Lead Solutions Architect at Cognizant and held diverse quality engineering roles across the finance and telecommunications sectors, working for brands including Lloyds Banking Group, de Volksbank, DLL, Tele2 and Rabobank.
Adonis is an accomplished writer and public speaker. He is the author of “Quality Engineering: The Missing Key to Digital CX” (2022), “Continuous Quality: The Secret of the Pharaohs” (2021), which won the EuroSTAR Software Testing Award, and “As the World Turns: A Predictive Test Approach with Machine Learning” (2019). He has delivered speeches and keynotes at events including TestNet, Testdag, Testcon, EuroSTAR, Romania Testing Conference and Belgium Testing Days. Adonis regularly writes for multiple tech publications and his articles have been featured in AI Journal, Digital IT News and AT Today.
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César Cernuda has led NetApp’s integrated go-to-market organization since July 2020, delivering on the company’s promise to meet customers wherever they are on their digital-transformation journeys by providing the superior products, specialist skills, and services they need to architect, build, and manage their data fabrics.
César joined NetApp following a long career at Microsoft, where he served as President of Microsoft Asia Pacific, President of Microsoft Latin America, and Global Corporate Vice President of the brand. Having walked in the shoes of NetApp’s enterprise customers, he brings a customer-centric perspective to all he does as president. César serves as the non-executive director and Chairman of the ESG committee at Gestamp, an international organization dedicated to the automotive industry; as an advisory board member of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business; and as an international advisory board member of IESE Business School – University of Navarra.
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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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Kausik Chaudhuri is the Chief Innovation Officer at Lemongrass.
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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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Bill Church is CTO – Public Sector at F5, where he leads technical strategy for federal and public sector customers. He has a background in information security research, planning, and development, with expertise in malware research, vulnerability assessments, and security architecture.
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A distinguished Principal Architect at Insight with over 20 years of experience in IT specializing in data-center technologies, Dean excels in leading senior architect and engineering teams for complex projects. His expertise extends to cross-functional collaboration, evident in his strategic partnerships with global teams, driving cross-sell opportunities and significant business growth. Dean's ability to convey complex concepts effectively has been honed through his dedication to understanding client businesses and market dynamics, ensuring alignment with client strategies for optimal outcomes. His proficiency spans various technologies, including Cisco converged architectures, Nutanix hyperconverged solutions, data storage from Pure Storage and NetApp, and VMware products. Currently, he is engaged in designing private and hybrid cloud architectures to meet clients' evolving needs.
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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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John Coniglio is a Senior Consultant in OSF’s Digital Strategy group. As a digital commerce and marketing technology expert, John has 20+ years of experience helping companies drive incremental revenue and improve operations with strategic technology initiatives. John helps OSF’s clients create strategic plans that are aligned with their business goals.
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Paul Constantinides is the Executive Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce. He has an extensive history in the technology industry, and a 20-year career at the company. He holds both an M.S. and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, which he completed in 1998. In his current role, he leads the Hyperforce Platform Services team and is responsible for developing Hyperforce, Salesforce's public cloud-native architecture.
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Alastair has made a twenty-year career out of helping people understand complex IT infrastructure and how to build solutions that fulfill business needs. Much of his career has included teaching official training courses for vendors, including HPE, VMware, and AWS.
Alastair has written hundreds of analyst articles and papers exploring products and topics around on-premises infrastructure and virtualization and getting the most out of public cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Alastair has also been involved in community-driven, practitioner-led education through the vBrownBag podcast and the vBrownBag TechTalks.
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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.
Charles Crawford
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Charles Crawford is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Zapier, where he shapes enterprise go-to-market strategy and messaging for AI-powered automation. Drawing on a career that spans sales engineering, agency leadership, and product marketing for companies like Twilio and The NPD Group, he powers creative storytelling with technical depth, writing and speaking on automation, AI, and marketing strategy. He's also a father of two, and always up for a round of disc golf.
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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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As Vena's Chief Technology Officer, Hugh is responsible for powering scale and industry-leading growth.
For more than 20 years, Hugh has enjoyed career success as a proven product and technology leader, building and scaling some of the world’s most successful fintech platforms. He has led agile product engineering, UX and Cloud teams globally at companies such as Finastra, SecureKey Technologies and ADP Canada. Most recently, he served as Chief Information Officer and Head of Technology at Manulife Canada where he led the company's digital transformation efforts and created two of the highest-rated applications for banking and digital insurance claims in the Canadian market. Prior to Manulife, Hugh led the platform teams at Finastra launching an industry-first, cloud-based API developer platform for bank and fintech collaboration.
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Dr. Margaret Cunningham is the Technical Director, Security & AI Strategy at Darktrace, where she advises on AI security strategy, innovation, data security, and risk governance. She provides technical and strategic guidance to ensure enterprise security solutions evolve in response to emerging threats and customer needs. In this role she collaborates closely with security leaders, customers, and industry partners to advance AI-driven security solutions and best practices.
A recognized expert in human-centered security and behavioral analytics, Dr. Cunningham has spoken at major industry conferences, including RSA and Infosec, and her insights have been featured in leading cybersecurity and business publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, CyberWire, and Dark Reading.
With deep expertise spanning AI security, risk analytics, and behavioral modeling, Dr. Cunningham is a strong advocate for responsible AI and human-centric security design. Before joining Darktrace, she was the Principal Product Manager for Global Analytics at Forcepoint and Senior Staff Behavioral Engineer at Robinhood.
Cunningham holds a PhD in applied experimental psychology and has been awarded multiple patents on human-centric risk modeling, security persona development, and behavior-based threat detection.
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Chief Analyst, Visible Impact & Research Director, Ecosystems, Channels, & Marketplaces at The Futurum Group.
Guy is responsible for positioning, go-to-market, 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, 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.
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William J. Cuthrell (Jay) is an innovative technology executive and sought-after servant leader. He is a prolific influencer and writer who communicates with ease at C-suite and practitioner levels across traditional and emerging mediums on digital transformation strategy in holistic full-stack engagements. His passion is taking vision from design to reality to become growth engines. Jay’s expertise demonstrated through substantial growth and change cycles provides a unique perspective into the technology industry’s future.
Jay is currently Chief Product Officer at NexusTek where he focuses on practice dimensions across product, analyst relations, and marketing while contributing to a compelling composable consultancy culture. NexusTek drives business forward with comprehensive, secure, and scalable IT solutions.
Jay is also the founding partner of Cuthrell Consulting, a consultancy providing fractional leadership services as well as pragmatic Generative AI (GenAI) infused advisory services to service providers, startups, and investment groups. Cuthrell Consulting helps clients navigate, reach, and exceed their goals.
