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Jason Valdina is an accomplished customer experience professional and is the Senior Director of Engagement Channel Strategy at Verint, the CX Automation company. The world’s most iconic brands – including more than 80 of the Fortune 100 companies – use the Verint Open Platform and its team of AI-powered bots to deliver tangible AI business outcomes across the enterprise.
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David Van Heerden is the manager of IT operations at Automox. He’s focused on process definition, automation and helping business partners leverage technology to get more done.
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Brianna Van Zanten passionately combines her love for meaningful connections, her academic background in user experience and human behaviors, and her devotion to service. As a Black female in the tech world, she aspires to be recognized not only as an advocate for diversity and inclusion but also as a future mentor for young professionals like herself. She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and pursued her studies in Cognitive Science and Psychology at Case Western Reserve University. During her college years, Van Zanten also seized the opportunity to play soccer, which ignited her passion for coaching. Currently, she coaches three youth travel soccer teams, a journey that has further fueled her love for mentoring and developing young players.
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Rick Vanover is Vice President, Product Strategy at Veeam. Rick’s passion for challenges led to his commitment to educate and communicate at all levels—engaging those new to availability technologies as well as those who are experts. As a blogger, podcaster and active member of the IT community, Rick builds relationships and spreads excitement about Veeam solutions.
Before becoming the “go-to” guy for Veeam questions, Rick was in system administration and IT management. His community designations include Microsoft MVP, VMware vExpert and Cisco Champion.
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Manasi Vartak, CEO of Verta, has a PhD from MIT, worked on deep learning at Twitter and Google, and consults with companies focused on model risk management (MRM), compliance risk management and Ethical AI. She has appeared in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, VentureBeat, AI Business and elsewhere, and was named one of Silicon Valley Business Journal’s “40 Under 40.”
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka sjvn, has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting-edge PC operating system, 300bps was a fast Internet connection, and WordStar was the state-of-the-art word processor. And we liked it!
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Krish Venkataraman is the President of Dataiku, bringing over two decades of experience driving operational excellence and market expansion at prominent technology and financial companies. One of the nation's leading experts in financial services, AI, cybersecurity, payments, and big data, Krish has a proven track record of turning cost centers into profit centers and exceeding Wall Street's growth expectations. With his extensive experience leading successful acquisitions and IPOs, Krish will guide Dataiku through its next phase of rapid growth.
Prior to joining Dataiku, Krish served as Co-President & CFO of KnowBe4, where he orchestrated one of the highest-performing tech IPOs of 2021. He has also held senior leadership roles at Socure, Dealogic, Syncsort, and NYSE Euronext, Lehman Brothers. Krish holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from Cornell University - Johnson School of Management.
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Sanjeev Verma, the CEO of Biz4Group LLC, is a visionary leader passionate about leveraging technology for societal betterment. With a human-centric approach, he pioneers innovative solutions, transforming businesses through AI Development, IoT Development, eCommerce Development, and digital transformation. Sanjeev fosters a culture of growth, driving Biz4Group's mission toward technological excellence. He’s been a featured author on IBM and TechTarget.
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Krish Vitaldevara is a passionate product leader and engineer with demonstrated success at building compelling multiyear strategies for large platform and product teams and delivering significant impact for large enterprises and billions of consumers. Krish is the SVP for Shared Platform at NetApp, responsible for unified storage platform, manageability platform, Customer eXperience Office (CXO), and Chief Design Office (CDO). His team enables delivery of various NetApp offerings across On-Premise, Hybrid Cloud, and Data Services.
Prior to joining NetApp, Krish spent six+ years at Google in multiple roles, including leading product for Android and Plays Trust and Safety and Product for Google Maps. Krish joined Google after a long stint at Microsoft where he led product teams for O365 Foundations, Outlook.com, and Microsoft Consumer Trust and Safety teams. Early in his career, Krish worked at startups such as LoudCloud, started by Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreesen, and Brience, which enabled enterprises to customize customer experiences on mobile. Krish is also a proven innovator and hacker with more than 30 patents, primarily in distributed systems and spam-detection models, using graphs and networks for anomaly detection.
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Frank Vizard was the motoring correspondent for Departures Magazine for over a decade. Most recently, Vizard test drove the Maserati MC20 Ciero in Sicily for an upcoming issue of Luxury Magazine. Among Vizard’s media credentials is a posting as the technology editor for Popular Science magazine.
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Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.
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Abhishek Vyas is a product manager with 18 years of experience in enterprise planning, machine learning, generative AI, conversational AI, machine learning, and analytics. He specializes in engineering and product management disciplines and has broad-based experience in retail, e-commerce, banking, financial planning, and workforce planning. Abhishek holds a master’s degree in computer science from Symbiosis International University, Pune, India. Connect with Abhishek at [email protected].
