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Param Kahlon is the EVP and GM of Automation and Integration at Salesforce, provider of the world’s #1 CRM. Param brings to Salesforce more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise software space, having led the development and management of successful products for some of the industry’s leading companies. Param will be bringing hyperautomation to the future of Salesforce with Data, AI, and CRM.
Prior to joining Salesforce in 2023, Param was at UiPath where he was Chief Product Officer, leading the organization to become the leading automation platform. Param began his product management career at Siebel Systems, where he played a critical role in managing products for Field Service, Call Center, and Customer Order Management.
Param holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS Computer Science from Punjabi University, India.
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Kevin Kamel – Vice President of Product Management – Mirantis
Kevin is a multidisciplinary executive with 20 years of experience in product development, software engineering, marketing, and customer success. His senior management role focused on AI products reports to the CEO.
Kevin put himself through school at the University of Maryland working as a system safety and reliability engineer at NASA. After graduating with a B.S. in Computer Engineering, he joined the faculty at his alma mater to start his career.
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A Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in ASP.NET, Speaker, and Author of several books and articles. More than 25 years of experience in the IT industry.
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Neil Kanungo, VP of Product Led Growth, KX - Neil is a passionate data scientist with a strong background in data science, engineering, research and leadership roles. With a foundation in Physics and Mechanical Engineering, he possesses a unique blend of analytical thinking, problem-solving abilities and a strong thirst for knowledge.
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Eric Karofsky, CEO of VectorHX, can share more about the strategy and tactical steps necessary to embed a customer experience focus into AI development, including the five key experience stages that represent the progression from initial discovery to sustained engagement with an AI service or tool.
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DeeDee Kato is responsible for leading Foxit’s industry solutions. She has over 20 years of experience in product management and product marketing working at HP, TIBCO, Fujitsu, Synactive (SAP Partner), and Accellion to create and market software products for commercial businesses and Government agencies. DeeDee has a Computer Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Brittany Keil is Senior Manager, Media and Research, at Apptegy.
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Ed Keisling is the Chief AI Officer at Progress Software, where he leads the company’s global AI strategy and drives the development of responsible, AI-powered solutions across its product portfolio. With more than 30 years of executive engineering leadership, he has spearheaded innovation in complex system architectures, cloud computing, and large-scale infrastructure management. His experience includes serving on the executive leadership team at Vecna Technologies and holding senior engineering positions at Pegasystems. Ed is also committed to developing future technology leaders through mentorship programs at the University of New Hampshire and MIT’s Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP).
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Ron Kerbs is the founder and CEO of Kidas. He holds an MSc in information systems engineering and machine learning from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and an MA in global studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. Ron was an early-venture capital investor, and prior to that, he was an R&D manager who led teams to create big data and machine learning-based solutions for national security.
Ron Kerbs served in the Israeli military as an engineer and software developer before moving to the US to complete his education. During his research on leveraging his technical skills to tackle software-related problems, he learned about the dangers children face from financial scammers, predators and cyberbullying while playing online games. This was highlighted by a story about a girl from Philadelphia who was sexually assaulted by someone she had met online. He realized gaming and communication in online multiplayer games was a big part of the exploitation and that gaming companies lacked a solution. This motivated him to use his expertise to help protect children and, after extensive research, in 2021 his proprietary software, ProtectMe, was released.
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Induprakas Keri is the SVP and GM Hybrid Multi-Cloud at Nutanix. Before joining Nutanix, Keri held various leadership positions at companies like Intuit and Oracle.
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Rajesh Kesavalalji is a seasoned software engineer with over 18 years of experience spanning backend development, AI infrastructure, cloud computing, and observability solutions. With expertise in multiple programming languages including Java, Go, Scala, and Python, Rajesh has led cross-functional teams to implement innovative solutions across supply chain, warehousing, and enterprise application domains. His technical prowess extends to microservices architecture, ETL pipelines, and distributed systems, complemented by multiple AWS certifications. Having worked with companies like Nordstrom and British Telecom, Rajesh specializes in enhancing system performance through comprehensive monitoring strategies and analytics solutions.
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Aniket Khosla is the VP of Wireline Product Management at Spirent Communications. He has over 20 years of experience in the networking industry and is responsible for Spirent’s Ethernet and Security test business, with a focus on transformative technologies like SDN, 800G, Security and Automotive.
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Joongi is the creator of Backend.AI and the CTO of Lablup. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from KAIST by creating a GPU-accelerated packet processing framework. His major areas of interest include scalable and automated backend systems, as well as their analysis and design. He's also a big fan of open source, having contributed to projects like CPython, aio-libs, and many others.
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Denis King is Solace’s president and chief executive officer. After kicking off his career with Celestica, which was acquired by IBM, and Newbridge Networks, which was acquired by Alcatel, Denis joined Solace when it was a startup to help build the ground-breaking technology that introduced event-driven architecture to the financial services and telecommunications industries.
Since that time, Denis has been instrumental in leading the proliferation of EDA across industries and spurring Solace’s success, having held successive leadership positions as the company’s VP of systems engineering, SVP of global field operations, chief product officer and chief operating officer. Denis earned a bachelor’s of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Brunswick.
Nick King
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Nick King is the CEO and Founder of Data Kinetic, who has been working on enterprise technology platforms for the last 20 years. In his role at Data Kinetic, he has focused on driving the applied use of AI/ML with enterprise companies. Previous to Data Kinetic, Nick has worked across multiple startups and open source projects from Snowplow, to DataRobot. He has also held roles at Microsoft, Google, VMware and Cisco, focusing on applied technologies and platforms.
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Ganesh Kirti, CTO, Co-Founder, Board Chairman, TrustLogix
Ganesh drives TrustLogix's vision to deliver unified, AI-powered data security and access control across modern enterprise data ecosystems. A security solution innovator and serial entrepreneur, Ganesh has built multiple security products successfully deployed by thousands of enterprise customers worldwide. Prior to founding TrustLogix in 2020, Ganesh was Co-founder and CTO of Palerra, a cloud security (CASB) pioneer that delivered LORIC, the industry's first cloud security automation platform. Oracle acquired Palerra in 2017, where Ganesh served as Vice President responsible for Oracle's cloud security products.
A Founding Partner of Reaction, a global community of entrepreneurs and investors promoting innovations to solve global issues at scale, and a member of the Forbes Technology Council, Ganesh specializes in building innovation at scale across cloud security, data security, authorization and entitlements, identity management, and application security for enterprises around the world.
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Nandakishor Koka is a seasoned technology architect with over 20 years of experience and deep expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data engineering. He specializes in building RAG applications, agentic workflows, and knowledge graph solutions while demonstrating proficiency in various ML algorithms including reinforcement learning, neural networks, and computer vision. Nanda is currently working on launching his own startup focused on agentic AI, aiming to create a platform that transforms how organizations integrate and discover information through artificial intelligence.
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Ronen Korman is co-founder and CEO of Datorios, a venture-funded Apache Flink developer.
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Durga Krishnamoorthy is a product leader, specializing in AI-driven product-led growth and monetization strategies.
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Artem Kroupenev is VP of Strategy at Augury, where he oversees Augury’s AI-based machine health, performance and digital transformation solutions. He has over 12 years of experience in technology, product, innovation and business development and has co-founded enterprise companies in Israel, New York and West Africa. Artem holds and BA and MA from IDC Herzliya. in Israel.
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Ambuj Kumar is co-founder and CEO of Simbian.ai, the Gen AI fueled security company whose mission is to solve security with AI. Ambuj is a recognized leader in cryptography with more than 30 patents in the field. Prior to founding Fortanix, Ambuj was lead architect at Cryptography Research Inc. where he led and developed many of the company's security technologies that go into millions of devices every year. Previously, he worked for NVIDIA where he designed world's most advanced computer chips including world's fastest memory controller.
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Animesh Kumar is an enterprise IT, senior solution architect with over 22 years of industry expertise, including more than 10 years of experience designing highly scalable, fault-tolerant applications and cloud-based solutions. Animesh is also actively engaged in research on emerging technologies such as AI, machine learning, and cloud computing. He has authored peer-reviewed articles and participates in judging and reviewing scholarly works. Animesh has a master’s degree in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in computer technologies from Nagpur University in India.
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Madhukar Kumar is the chief marketing officer at SingleStore, where he leads the go-to-market strategies with product-led growth principles for developer audiences. He has more than 15+ years of experience leading global product and marketing teams at fast-moving startups and multi-billion dollar Fortune 100 companies. Kumar has spent several years teaching a class on new product development and PLG at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.
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Vivek Agrawal is a senior director of software engineering for a leading e-commerce retailer. He has over 17 years of experience working with large-scale systems, information retrieval, runtime scaling, and performance. He currently manages a team of over 80 engineers responsible for a search runtime platform serving more than 200 million requests per day. Vivek holds an M.tech in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur in Kanpur, India
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Sushil Tiwari has 17 years of hands-on experience in enterprise data architecture, cloud data engineering, and ETL pipeline optimization, I specialize in designing and deploying scalable, secure, and performance-driven Data Warehouse solutions across AWS, Azure, and Snowflake ecosystems. My work spans across key industries such as finance, insurance, retail, and healthcare, where I've led large-scale data migration, real-time analytics, and business intelligence modernization projects.
Currently integrating Agentic AI principles into data systems, I focus on building self-evolving pipelines that can intelligently adapt to schema changes, automate anomaly detection, and dynamically optimize performance without constant human oversight. By leveraging agent-driven orchestration tools and LLM-powered assistants, I’m enhancing traditional data platforms with autonomous monitoring, healing, and augmentation capabilities
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Harikrishna Kundariya, is a marketer, developer, IoT, Cloud & AWS savvy, co-founder, and Director of eSparkBiz, a Software Development Company. His 14+ years of experience enables him to provide digital solutions to new start-ups based on IoT and SaaS applications.
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Matt Kunkel is Co-Founder and CEO of LogicGate, a market-leading SaaS platform that operationalizes Regulatory, Risk & Compliance programs for organizations. Prior to LogicGate, he spent over a decade in the management consulting space building technology solutions to operationalize regulatory, risk, and compliance programs for Fortune 100 companies. It was during this time he learned the skills to realize his true calling: building world-class companies that meaningfully affect the lives of others through user-friendly technology. Matt is recognized as a thought leader in the governance, risk, and compliance space and regularly speaks and consults on risk and compliance topics.
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Thomas Kunnumpurath is the vice president of systems engineering for Americas at Solace where he leads a field team across the Americas to solution the Solace PubSub+ Platform across a wide variety of industry verticals such as finance, retail, IoT and manufacturing.
Prior to joining Solace, Thomas spent over a decade of his career leading engineering teams responsible for building out large scale globally distributed systems for real time trading systems and credit card systems at various banks.
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Gregory Kurtzer is the CEO and Founder of CIQ and a longtime open source advocate for infrastructure, HPC principles, and efficient system design. He founded and led multiple foundational open source projects including CentOS, Rocky Linux, Warewulf, and Apptainer (formerly Singularity). Previously, Gregory served as lead HPC Architect for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley, and now focuses on helping organizations navigate the intersection of AI, Linux, and modern infrastructure.
