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Craig Mackereth is the EVP of global service delivery at Rimini Street, the market leader in third-party enterprise software support services.
Andy MacMillan
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Andy MacMillan is the CEO of UserTesting.
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Lori MacVittie is a Distinguished Engineer & Chief Evangelist in F5’s Office of the CTO with an emphasis on emerging architectures and technologies including cloud and edge computing, digital transformation, and application delivery. MacVittie has over twenty-five years of industry experience spanning application development, IT architecture, and network and systems’ operation.
Prior to joining F5, MacVittie was an award-winning technology editor at Network Computing Magazine and an enterprise architect who helped lead a global transportation and logistics firm into the Internet age. MacVittie has developed software for Nokia phones, Autodesk, and regional telecommunications firms. She co-authored the CADD profile for ANSI NCITS 320-1998 and is a prolific author with books spanning security, cloud, and enterprise architecture.
She holds an M.S. in Computer Science and particularly strong opinions about cheese and gaming systems.
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Kevin Macwan is a software development manager for a major online retailer. Kevin holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Southern California. Connect with Kevin on LinkedIn.
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Anil Madithati is a technology leader with over 16 years of experience driving digital transformation and revenue system scalability as Director of Go-To-Market Systems at Wasabi Technologies, where he architects Salesforce and CPQ solutions and leads AI-driven automation initiatives. His career includes leadership roles at ForgeRock, Fivetran, Airtable, Samsara, and Riverbed Technology, where he has delivered enterprise application implementations, Quote-to-Cash automations, MuleSoft integrations, and compliance automation to enable IPO readiness and scalable go-to-market (GTM) operations. He holds an MSEE from San Francisco Bay University and owns two provisional patents for AI-driven exception diagnostics and test case generation within Q2C systems.
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Technology Analyst | Content Creation, Editorial Strategy, Producer-Host
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Harsh Maheshwari is Senior AI Architect at super{set}. He is the Engineering Lead creating solutions for Applied Search.
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I am an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with a strong background in software engineering, cloud computing, and cybersecurity. My research focuses on optimizing cloud infrastructure, enhancing system reliability, and integrating advanced observability techniques to improve system performance and security. With expertise in automation, DevOps, and incident management, I have successfully led projects that reduced downtime, increased system availability, and delivered significant operational.
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Cassandra Maldini is the Vice President of Privacy and AI Governance at Securiti AI, where she leads global strategy across data privacy, AI compliance, and automated governance. With deep experience advising both multinational corporations and high-growth startups, Cassandra brings a rare blend of legal rigor, product intuition, and practical wisdom to the evolving landscape of intelligent systems.
She is a frequent speaker and contributor on topics related to privacy, AI governance, and emerging technologies, known for turning complexity into clarity and helping organizations lead with integrity. Cassandra believes privacy and AI governance are not just regulatory requirements, but cornerstones of responsible innovation.
John Manganaro
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John Manganaro is the chief product officer of Bonterra —a social good software company focused on powering those who power social impact with donor engagement, supporter engagement, program management, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) tech solutions.
John leads product management, user experience and design, and data science teams across the organization to ensure Bonterra is building powerful, approachable, and data-focused software. Previously, John was the chief product officer at Social Solutions Global, now Bonterra’s Program Management solution, which serves nonprofit and public-sector organizations. In his expansive tenure, John has served as vice president of product and analytics for DRIVIN, where he and his teams worked to solve used vehicle inventory optimization and profitability problems for dealership partners, management consultant for Pricewaterhouse Coopers within their Pricing & Profitability group, and has held many product manager positions with SaaS companies in Chicago, including Apartments.com and Cars.com. John is based in Austin, TX, and received his MBA from Kellogg School of Business, and a BS in Communications and English from the University of Illinois-Champaign.
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Lucy Manole is a technical content writer and strategist specializing in security, emerging technology, and all things SaaS. When she's not writing or editing, she enjoys reading books, cooking and traveling.
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– Yashin Manraj, CEO of Pvotal Technologies, has served as a computational chemist in academia, an engineer working on novel challenges at the nanoscale, and a thought leader building more secure systems at the world’s best engineering firms. His deep technical knowledge from product development, design, business insights, and coding provides a unique nexus to identify and solve gaps in the product pipeline. The Pvotal mission is to build sophisticated enterprises with no limits that are built for rapid change, seamless communication, top-notch security, and scalability to infinity.
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Andrew Marshall is the VP of Product Marketing for Yugabyte, maker of YugabyteDB. His passion for technology and developer tools spans 25 years, encompassing stops at companies such as AWS, Microsoft, PagerDuty, and New Relic.
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Thabang Mashologu is the Vice President, Community and Outreach at the Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations. In this role, he leads the Foundation’s working groups, marketing, events, and community programs worldwide. He has over 20 years of broad experience in the tech industry, including engineering, product management, marketing, developer relations, and community development at startups, enterprises, and open source foundations. He is passionate about increasing opportunities for people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives to contribute to and participate in open source.
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Joseph Matalone is Executive Vice President of Swoon Staffing, where he is responsible for the execution of sales strategies with a particular emphasis on Swoon’s enterprise level-global clientele. He has 18 years of experience in the staffing industry. Matalone has a unique perspective on the business, having been Swoon’s first employee. He has helped shape the company’s strategies, culture and growth in the U.S., Canada and Australia.
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Jack McCurdy is DevOps Advocate with Gearset
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Reed McGinley-Stempel is the co-founder and CEO of Stytch, a developer-first identity and access management platform that makes it easy for companies to uplevel their security and build authentication – all while saving valuable engineering resources. Before Stytch, Reed worked with fellow co-founder Julianna Lamb at Plaid, where they first encountered the dearth of developer- or user-friendly auth solutions on the market. In 2020, they started Stytch with one product offering (email magic links) and a commitment to advancing passwordless solutions.
Since then, they have raised over $100M in funding and have grown the product suite into a full-spectrum identity and access management solution, complete with B2B and B2C offerings, breach-resistant password and passwordless auth factors, multi-factor authentication and fraud and risk protection.
As a CEO in cybersecurity, Reed combines the skepticism and rigorous market analytics he honed while a consultant at Bain and Co. with the optimism and obsession with eliminating user friction he honed at Plaid. Reed’s expertise lies at the intersection of cybersecurity and the larger ecosystem of how people live their lives online. Most recently, he’s been asked to contribute his thoughts on the impact AI will have on identity and access management, and how companies can best prepare. His writing has been featured in TechCrunch, RTInsights, Security Boulevard, and he has spoken at conferences like Web Summit and the Montgomery Conference. In the spring of 2023, Reed was named one of Business Journal’s 40 under 40.
Tim Menard
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Timothy Menard is the Founder and CEO of LYT, provider of cloud-based open-architecture smart traffic solutions. LYT makes traffic lights smart by enabling them to see and respond to traffic. By doing so LYT can prioritize first responders and public transportation vehicles so they can get to their destinations faster and safer. The additional benefit is that it streamlines overall traffic flow helping to reduce congestion and emissions in high traffic areas.
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Timothy Menard is CEO and Founder of LYT, an intelligent connected traffic technology provider that offers a cloud-based platform that orchestrates today’s Intelligent Transportation Systems. For more information, please visit LYT.ai.
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Krishna Menon is WeVideo’s president and chief technical officer, empowering educators to foster dynamic learning environments through rich multimedia creation tools. For more info, visit: https://www.wevideo.com/
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Yoni Michael is a seasoned data infrastructure engineer and entrepreneur, currently serving as co-founder and CTO of Typedef. He previously founded and led Coolan, a data center analytics company acquired by Salesforce, and has held infrastructure leadership roles at firms including Tecton and Salesforce. At Typedef, he’s building a serverless platform that enables teams to run scalable AI and unstructured data pipelines, bringing the rigor and reliability of traditional data systems to modern inference workloads.
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Philip Miller is an AI strategist for Progress and was named a Top Influencer in Onalytica's Who's Who in Data Management. Outside of work, he's a father to two daughters, a fan of dogs and an avid learner, trying to learn something new every day.
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Gaurav Mittal is an accomplished author and international speaker, recognized for his published articles, including Cracking the Code: Why White-Box Testing is the Key to Better Bug Hunting in The CTO Club newsletter and Time-Cost Effective ML Model Deployment Using AWS Lambda in Informs Analytics magazine. He has spoken at global conferences and served on several judging panels. In addition to his professional achievements, Gaurav actively contributes to non-profit organizations through volunteer work. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his children and playing sports.
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Humberto Moreira serves as a Principal Solutions Engineer at Gigster, a leading software development services company. He has over 15 years of experience in the software industry, including work at Cloudflare and InMobi. In his current role, Humberto focuses on identifying customer solution needs and transforming them into actionable plans to be fulfilled by Gigster’s Talent Network of over 900 engineers. Humberto is an avid contributor to various publications on the subjects of AI, data analytics, intelligent manufacturing, and IoT. To learn more about Gigster, visit https://gigster.com/.
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Tobie Morgan Hitchcock is CEO & Co-Founder of SurrealDB. He is an experienced tech entrepreneur, developer, and software engineer, with 17 years’ experience in the software and cloud-computing industries. In 2021 he founded SurrealDB, the first multi-model, AI-native database designed for the agentic AI era. He has experience in a wide range of different software stacks and development languages, with a focus on distributed databases, and highly-available architectures. Tobie founded SurrealDB with his brother Jaime Morgan Hitchcock who is the company COO.
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Mel Morris is a visionary entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Corpora.ai, a groundbreaking AI-driven research platform transforming how we harness research. Known as the former chairman of King Digital Entertainment, creators of the global hit Candy Crush Saga, Mel has a proven track record of driving innovation and building market-leading companies.
With a deep passion for technology and its potential to transform industries, Mel now focuses on advancing AI to optimize research and decision-making. His leadership and forward-thinking approach continue to shape the future of technology and business.
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Jonathan Mortensen, Founder and CEO of Confident Security, currently leads the development of provably-private AI systems for industries with stringent security and compliance requirements. He also serves as a Founder Fellow at South Park Commons, where he explores the future of AI compute, memory, privacy, and ownership. Before launching Confident Security, he was a Staff Software Engineer at Databricks, integrating bit.io’s technology into its data platform with a focus on multi-tenant security, IAM/ACLs, VPC isolation, encryption, and data ownership. Earlier, he founded and served as CTO of bit.io, building a multi-cloud, multi-region serverless PostgreSQL service that supported hundreds of thousands of secure databases and was later acquired by Databricks.
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Yuval Moss is Vice President of Solutions for Global Strategic Partners at CyberArk. One of the first 20 employees to join the company, Yuval has been a key part of CyberArk’s 20+ years of growth, from its early days as a start-up to the global identity security leader CyberArk is today. He has held multiple strategy and leadership positions within the company, playing an instrumental role as privileged access management transformed from a historically neglected discipline to one that now globally recognized as a top cybersecurity priority.
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Janakiram MSV is a ReveCom consultant and the Principal Analyst at Janakiram & Associates, advising startups in Silicon Valley. With over two decades of experience, Janakiram has held roles at Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Bell Labs. He has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Cloud and IoT, and a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Ambassador.
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Sean Mullaney joins Algolia from Stripe, where he most recently acted as the chief information officer in Europe and led a global engineering organization overseeing the development and operations of 40+ local payment methods across Europe, Asia and the Americas that processed hundreds of billions of dollars. Prior to his time at Stripe, Mullaney oversaw the development of AI powered discovery experiences, including search, recommendations, personalization and browse as the VP of Engineering at Zalando, the largest eCommerce fashion retailer in Europe with nearly 50M active customers. Mullaney also spent more than seven years at Google heading various innovation teams, including three years at the Google research labs in Silicon Valley. In addition to serving as CTO of Algolia, Mullaney serves as a Board Member for Manna Drone Delivery, a Venture Advisory Board Member for Elkstone Ventures, is a member of the Market Advisory Group at the European Central Bank advising on the design of the Digital Euro and an active startup advisor and a Sequoia Scout angel investor. Mullaney earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Cambridge.
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Nithin is the founder and CEO of Infinity Loop, an AI-powered contract intelligence platform that automatically identifies savings opportunities in any third-party contract and equips teams with expert negotiation strategies to unlock their full value. Companies using Infinity Loop typically achieve 10–15% cost savings by eliminating overspending and securing stronger vendor terms. Before founding Infinity Loop, Nithin held leadership roles in procurement and program management, where he led an AI initiative that identified inefficiencies across departments and automated them through software solutions. Earlier in his career, he worked extensively in management consulting, helping companies across industries optimize operations and reduce costs, and in M&A and corporate development, advising businesses throughout the U.S. and Canada.
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Nikhil Mungel is Head of AI R&D at Cribl, where he leads efforts to bring AI from experimentation into dependable, real-world enterprise use. He specializes in operationalizing AI systems, improving data reliability, and helping organizations turn AI investments into measurable outcomes. His work focuses on the intersection of AI, data infrastructure, and business impact at scale.
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Chris Munroe is the Vice President of AI Programs at Applause. With a background in Agile methodologies, test automation, quality assurance, and enterprise software. Chris has a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Chris is one of Applause’s longest-tenured employees, having joined the company in 2012 in a sales engineering capacity. In his current role, Chris oversees Applause’s testing services and community. Prior to joining Applause, Chris worked as the Global Head of QA at BT Conferencing.
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Venkata Ramanaiah Muthyala is a lead system architect with 20 years of experience in the insurance, finance, technology, and healthcare industries. He specializes in designing scalable Pega applications, leading agile teams, and delivering end-to-end solutions. Venkata is skilled in system integration, workflow automation, and stakeholder collaboration, driving digital transformation and optimizing business processes.
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Mike Myer is the founder and CEO of Quiq, a technology company that enables conversations between brands and their customers via messaging across SMS, Facebook Messenger, Apple Messages for Business, Google Business Messenger, and several other platforms.
