Bina Hallman

Matthias Funke

I believe in the fundamental importance of data and enjoy to help IBM help our clients tackle the challenges around that: managing complex data architectures enabling the collection and processing of all relevant data in support of scalable, self-service access for end users.
I co-lead the IBM Analytics Hybrid Data Management business segment.

Ed Walsh

Edward J. Walsh is General Manager, IBM Storage & Software Defined Infrastructure, a business division that is part of the company's IBM Systems Unit. In this role he is responsible for all facets of the Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure business including strategy, architecture, operations, technology development and overall financial performance.

Daniel Berg

Daniel is an IBM Distinguished Engineer responsible for the container and service mesh technical strategy within IBM Cloud. He has direct responsibility for the technical architecture and delivery of the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service providing managed kubernetes clusters worldwide. Daniel has deep knowledge of container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes and has extensive experience building and operating highly available cloud-native services. Daniel is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee for the Istio.io open source service mesh project and he is responsible for driving the technical integration of Istio into IBM Cloud.

Jamie Thomas

Jamie Thomas is the General Manager for Strategy & Development, IBM Systems. She is responsible for strategy, development and client experience for IBM's Power, Mainframe and Storage, and Quantum Offerings. She also owns IBM's worldwide supply chain and manufacturing operations.

Nataraj Nagaratnam

Dr. Nataraj (Raj) Nagaratnam is CTO for IBM Cloud Security. As Distinguished Engineer, he drives technical strategy and architecture for cloud security solutions

Jozef de Vries

Jozef de Vries has been leading database product and engineering teams for the past 6 of his 14 years at IBM. With the belief that open source should be available to all, his teams' efforts have been focused on the management and orchestration of Cloud database technology, and where facilitated by the open source communities, contributing to the development of those respective technologies as well.

Jason McGee

Jason McGee, IBM Fellow, is VP and CTO, IBM Cloud Platform. Jason is currently responsible for the IBM Cloud's foundation  services, including Kubernetes Containers, Functions, MessageHub, Logging, Monitoring, Container Registry, Terraform and Activity Tracker. Jason is also responsible for the technical strategy and architecture for all of IBM's Cloud Developer Platform (PaaS). Previously Jason has served as CTO of Cloud Foundation Services, Chief Architect of PureApplication System, WebSphere Extended Deployment, WebSphere sMash, and WebSphere Application Server on distributed platforms.

Conor Walsh

Conor Walsh is a Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the John A. Paulson Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a Core Faculty Member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
He is the founder of the Harvard Biodesign Lab, which brings together researchers from the engineering, industrial design, apparel, clinical and business communities to develop new disruptive robotic technologies for augmenting and restoring human performance. This research includes new approaches to the design, manufacture and control of wearable robotic devices and characterizing their performance through biomechanical and physiological studies so as to further the scientific understanding of how humans interact with such machines.

Stefanie Chiras

Stephanie L. Trunzo

Stephanie Trunzo is the Global Head of IBM Cloud Garage, a collaborative environment with diverse experts working with clients to meld industry practices, startup culture, and IBM's expertise to drive meaningful business outcomes. Stephanie has more than 20 years experience in the IT industry, Most recently Stephanie was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Digital Officer for PointSource, a company she was instrumental in building from a mobile-focused boutique into a digital transformation powerhouse, and then leading through an acquisition to a public company. Stephanie has also held various executive roles in the former IBM Rational group running the Jazz platform and open standards. Stephanie is an accomplished speaker and author, and has been recognized for her leadership by The Cube, Princeton Review, and Best in Biz. She also sits on the TechGirlz Advisory Board and was on the IBM Global Business Partner Council.

Carlo A. Appugliese

Carlo Appugliese is Program Director of Machine Learning and AI for IBM Analytics. Carlo is a technologist with a track record of leveraging emerging technologies and trends to drive business transformation. Carlo has held previous positions as Software Engineer, Director of Application Development and Director of Innovation.

Carlos Guevara

John Thomas

John is a Distinguished Engineer and Director in IBM’s Analytics business. He has 25 years of experience in enterprise architecture, competitive strategy and worldwide client facing engagements. John currently provides technical direction to IBM’s Data Science Elite team, comprised of data scientists who have successfully implemented AI in the enterprise.

Elenita Elinon

Taylor Richardson

Taylor Richardson, also known as Astronaut StarBright, is an advocate, speaker, and philanthropist with aspirations of becoming an astronaut. After visiting numerous NASA Space Centers and participating in the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Space Camp she was inspired to get more girls interested in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics).

This year a documentary on Taylor titled, "ASTRONAUT STARBRIGHT: The Story of a Young STEM Advocate" will be released on the film festival circuit, where it has already earned two awards.

Taylor has graced the covers of Women in Aviation and Scholastic Science World magazines, and her service and advocacy have earned her distinctions such as Teen Vogue 21 under 21 and Glamour's 17 Girls Who Really Changed the World.

Robert Thomas

Rob Thomas is a global software executive, with extensive experience in analytics, data, cloud, and digital transformation. Mr. Thomas is currently the General Manager of IBM Analytics, IBM's software unit focused on data management, data governance, data science and machine learning, business intelligence, and artificial intelligence.
In his current role, Mr. Thomas is responsible for all aspects of IBM's Analytics software, including product strategy, engineering, support, services, and sales & marketing. Mr. Thomas also has responsibility for appliance manufacturing and software development sites around the world, including the United States, Canada, Germany, Japan, China, and India. Mr. Thomas' previous roles include management responsibility for IBM's engineering services and semiconductor business in Asia Pacific. Based in Tokyo, Japan, he was responsible for this $1B operation, which included custom product design and manufacturing.

Greg Lotko

Clayton Donley

Clayton Donley is currently the Head of Broadcom’s Security and Integration Business, which delivers leading solutions for Privileged Access Management, Identity & Access Management, Payment Security, and API Management. Prior to Broadcom, Clayton held key engineering and product management leadership roles at CA Technologies and Oracle.

Harish Grama

Before his CIO role at JPMorgan Chase, Harish has held executive roles as IBM's Vice President and General Manager of Product Management, Development and Customer Support in Software. He brings over 28 years of enterprise technology leadership, and over the past six years he has been responsible for leading a multibillion-dollar P&L.

Ajay Patel

Ajay Patel, Senior Vice President and General Manager of VMware’s Cloud Provider Software Business Unit, leads the team that develops cloud software and manages one of the world’s largest Cloud and Manage Services Provider ecosystems through its VMware Cloud Provider Program. In this capacity, Ajay is responsible for product development, go-to-market, solutions development, sales and marketing, and all partner operational systems for the service provider segment. Ajay’s team is also responsible for driving VMware’s multi-cloud strategy and go-to-market of VMware Cloud Services. Previously, Ajay help build and subsequently led vCloud Air, VMware’s cloud service business.

Ajay holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine. He is also a board member and technical adviser to several private & venture funded software companies.

Calline Sanchez

Dave Russell

Dave Russell is a 30-year veteran of the storage industry and Vice President of Enterprise Strategy at Veeam. Prior to Veeam, Russell was Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner where he was the lead author of the Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup & Recovery Solutions from 2006 to 2017. Russell spent 15 years at IBM in storage product development and technical strategy.

Jason E. Kelley

Roberto Mancone

Chief Operating Officer of we.trade Innovation DAC, the Joint Venture owned by 12 European Banks (Caixa, DB, Erste Group, KBC, Natixis, Rabobank, Societe General, UBS, Uni Credit), developing, executing the strategy, designing the operating model of the company, and licensing the innovative Trade Platform based on Blockchain in 13 countries in Europe.

Previously in Deutsche Bank AG as Global Head of Disruptive Technologies and Solutions for Private Wealth and Commercial Clients Division (PWCC) of the Bank, responsible for definition, design and delivery of the Scalable Advisory Banking Model of the Division, through the implementation of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Internet of Things.

Matt Candy

Matt is the Global Leader for IBM iX, leading a team over 16,000+ and 42 studios worldwide who blend strategy, technology and creativity to tackle every client challenge. With over 20 years of experience, Matt has focused on complex multi-channel business transformation engagement for clients across multiple industries around the world.

Jon Svensson

Jon Svensson is the Marketing Manager of Vasaloppet, since 7 years, and also head executive for the Digital strategi and the process for its implementation in one of the worlds biggest sportcompetitions in the world! Jon has an background as an cross-country athlete and entreprenuer in the advertising branch.

Alex Willis

Alexandra has achieved industry recognition in her use of technology to transform the perceptions of a traditional brand in her role at Wimbledon, working with IBM to build an award-winning digital and marketing strategy that has tripled global digital audiences and more than doubled commercial return. A WEF Young Global Shaper alumnus, she was named one of the BIMA 100 and Drum Digerati 2018.

Tom Rosamilia

Tom Rosamilia is Senior Vice President of IBM Systems, with global responsibility for IBM server and storage systems and software, which enable an IT infrastructure that is purpose-built for the performance, agility, and security that enterprises need today and in the future. Tom also has global responsibility for IBM's Global Business Partner organization.
Previously, Tom served as Senior Vice President of IBM Systems and Technology Group and IBM Integrated Supply Chain. Prior to that, he was Vice President of IBM Corporate Strategy and General Manager of Enterprise Initiatives.
In April 2016, Tom was elected to the board of directors of Rockwell Automation. In 2015, Tom was appointed as Economic Advisor to the Governor of Guangdong Province of the People's Republic of China and was re-appointed in 2017. In April 2018, he completed a year-long assignment in Beijing, China, where he continued to lead IBM Systems and acted as a local representative of IBM Corporate Headquarters.

Terri Quinn

Agus Sudjianto

David Marshak

David Marshak focuses on IBM’s Application Security portfolio, including the AppScan product line, Application Security on Cloud, and applying cognitive computing to application security.

Prior to joining IBM in 2005, Marshak was an internationally known industry analyst and consultant with Patricia Seybold Group for 18 years.

Marshak has spoken worldwide on emerging technologies and future trends and has been a featured speaker and panel moderator at industry conferences such as IBM InterConnect, Connect, Pulse, VoiceCon, Collaboration Technologies Conference, Burton Group Catalyst Conference, COMDEX, InternetWorld, Groupware, VON, NetWorld, and Lotusphere, among others. He has appeared as an expert commentator on PBS, CNBC, and on National Public Radio and has lectured on collaboration at MIT and Babson College. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New York Times, Business Week, and Investor’s Business Daily as well as the technical press.

Scott Souder

Scott is the Program Director and leader in the IBM Security division where he is responsible for the products in the Application Security portfolio. In addition to setting the direction and the overall strategy for AppScan and ASoC (Application Security on Cloud), Scott's focus is on extending and growing the success of these solutions through customer engagement, partner ecosystem development, and harnessing the breadth and depth of the IBM organization. In his spare time, Scott enjoys family, antique tractors, and playing the 5-string banjo.

Mohammed Ahmed

Mohammed Ahmed is a Business Development Executive at Cisco where he manages the global strategic partnership with IBM. As part of his responsibilities, Ahmed leads the architecture alignment and Go-To-Market efforts between the two companies for Security, Internet of Things (IoT), Collaboration, and Blockchain. He has led the development and delivery of various transformational solutions between the two companies.

Ritika Gunnar

Ruchir Puri

Erwin Rademaker

Sreeram Visvanathan

Sreeram is the Global Managing Director for Government at IBM. Sreeram and his team cover all of IBM's activities across Federal, State, Local Governments and Defence industries across the world. Sreeram works with Government clients around the world and is a passionate advisor on how Governments can leverage digital technologies to shape society for future generations.

Rich Karlgaard

One of the most influential and respected figures in the technology, economic and business worlds, Rich Karlgaard advises audiences on how to harness an organization's disruptive spirits to maximize business opportunities in the global marketplace. As an expert in artificial intelligence, Blockchain and the internet of things Rich is also a regular panelist on one of cable news' most popular business shows, Forbes on FOX. He is a co-founder of Upside magazine, Garage Technology Partners (with Guy Kawasaki) and Silicon Valley's premier public business forum, the 7,500-member Churchill Club. For the latter, Karlgaard won an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Angela Patsios

Brenda Lech

My passion for checklists and timelines has lead me to Project Management. My college major in Computer Information Systems (CIS) gave me my technical start. My discovery of compliance, identity management and security gave me the foundation that brought me to Project Management in Cloud Identity Services (CIS). Who knew CIS would take me from the classroom to the Cloud!

Dirk Distelrath

I'm Senior Manager in the area of IT-Consulting with experience in the digitalization of Finance Business Processes. I led more than 100 different digitalization projects at a variety of companies. By managing these projects, I am able to proactively drive the development and application of the Blockchain technology while sparking a discussion about how the technology can be integrated into ERP.

Bruce Randall

Bruce Randall is a director of product marketing at ServiceNow. He has worked with IT teams worldwide for over 23 years. He is Scrum and ITIL certified and has a passion for working to solve customer problems with innovative solutions. Bruce has been a featured speaker at many industry events as well as multiple user forums for companies like HP, CA, Concur, SAP, and ServiceNow.

Carlo A. Appugliese

Carlo Appugliese is Program Director of Machine Learning and AI for IBM Analytics. Carlo is a technologist with a track record of leveraging emerging technologies and trends to drive business transformation. Carlo has held previous positions as Software Engineer, Director of Application Development and Director of Innovation.

Shadi Copty

Shadi Copty is responsible for the business and strategy for IBM Analytics' Data Science and Machine Learning offerings. Prior to this role, he led the Data Science practice in IBM Watson Customer Engagement and held various technical and business leadership roles in IBM Research. He holds a BSC in Computer Science and an MBA from the Technion, Israel.

John Ferguson

John is responsible for enterprise talent management including leadership, executive development, succession planning, performance management, and colleague career development. Prior to Citizens, he held leadership positions in management consulting, higher education, and with the U.S. government and military both domestically and internationally.

Aarti D. Borkar

Aarti Borkar is the Vice President of Offering Management and Design for for Watson Talent and Collaboration. She leads a worldwide team of offering managers and designers with responsibility for the suite vision and direction. She has a background in defining product direction and executing on the strategy through various Product Management and Development roles across IBM Cloud and Analytics.

Claus Torp Jensen

Claus is Aetna's Chief Technology Officer, leading the Architecture Planning, Architecture Delivery, Architecture Forensics, Technology Innovation and M&A teams in the CTO organization plus providing technology and architecture guidance for Aetna as a whole.

Claus is a transformational change agent. He and his team have been instrumental in critical initiatives such as defining and executing the Next Gen Platform strategy, creating a 3 year business platform transformation roadmap, launching the Digital Transformation program and optimizing the quality of Provider Directories.

Claus has been with Aetna since February 2015. His background prior to Aetna spans 20 years of transformational leadership roles at Danske Bank and IBM.

Claus has a PhD in Computer Science from Aarhus University, Denmark. He is a thought leader in business and IT integration, holds 14 patents, and is a published author of five books and numerous articles.

Ken Parmelee

Ken Parmelee leads the worldwide business strategy for IBM Integration Modernization and API Economy, which includes Cloud Integration Platform, API Connect and Datapower software offerings. Mr. Parmelee lead the acquisition of Strongloop as a critical part of IBMs API Economy strategy. Prior to IBM, Ken lead research for Gartner in Mobile.

Charaka Kithulegoda

Juan Carlos Soto

Dennis W. Ashby

Dennis Ashby is the Director of the Integration and Development SWAT organization. His organization has specialists that focus helping clients successfully deploy their Integration products (API Connect, APP Connect, Aspera, MQ, Event Streams).

Florin Coada

I'm a Technical Offering manager for IBM Application Security portfolio. I previously worked as a pre sales engineer focusing on the AppScna portfolio and worked with customers from various industries and of various sizes. I like to stay up to date with the latest technologies and try as many of them as I can.

Ed Stickney

Brian Cox

Brian has over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise IT industry, including executive positions with vendors such as Nutanix, EMC, NetApp, ADP, SanDisk and HPE in Product Management and Marketing.

At Nutanix, Brian is responsible for promoting the platforms and appliances from Nutanix and the other system vendors on which the Nutanix software runs.

Bala Rajaraman

Tiril Sommerfeldt syversen

Christer Idland

Katie Dunlap

Katie Dunlap is the Global Practice Lead for Commerce and Marketing at Bluewolf/IBM. Her focus is bring to the market innovative, intelligent, personalized and compelling solutions that enhance user experiences and increase customer. She also ensures that we can deliver on the promise of excellence in delivery.

Upasana Bhattacharya

Jean-Claude Mamou

Mark Slaga

Mark Slaga is General Manager of IBM Services for Managed Applications. Mark is responsible for the business transformation of clients as they plan, build, and run their enterprise applications on the cloud. Previously he served as CEO of Dimension Data Americas. Mark was chosen as one of the "Top 25 Most Influential CEOs in Technology" by CRN Magazine in 2014.

Ann M. Corrao

Ann is a Distinguished Engineer and CTO for IBM Services for Managed Applications. Specializing in storage and developing cloud services, she has been with IBM for 18 years. In her role as CTO, Ann sets the technical strategy and drives innovations. She has 18 patents issued and another 8 in progress.

Michael Berendsen

Berendsen has 30+ years of experience with Whirlpool including more than 13 years at the senior leadership level. His current responsibilities include enterprise strategy & architecture, information security & compliance, enterprise network, data center and operations. He and his team are working to transform Whirlpool's compute landscape to an asset light, cloud based contemporary footprint.

Lou Eng

I have been in the IT industry for 28 years, spending a majority of that time with Ogilvy, a leading global advertising agency that is part of the WPP Group. I am responsible for the SAP solution that services Ogilvy's US and Canada operations for Finance, HR, off-shore BPO operations, as well as middleware, applicant tracking and knowledge collaboration systems.

Hillery Hunter

Hillery is an IBM Fellow and CTO of Infrastructure in the IBM Hybrid Cloud business. She has served in technical and leadership roles in memory technology, IBM Research, Systems for AI, and other areas of hardware-software co-optimization. She is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

Michael C. Hollinger

Mike Hollinger is Principal Engineer for machine vision in IBM Cognitive Systems. Mike previously spent two years in Taipei, Taiwan as Lead Software Architect for Power Systems Firmware Development. Mike's also an IBM Master Inventor, recognizing his contributions to the IBM intellectual property. When he's not tinkering, he's either running on a trail in Austin, TX, or trying out a new recipe.

Kenneth S. King

Andrea Sayles

Andrea has an extensive career in IBM and built teams responsible for growth in our Global Markets. She was named the GM of Business Resiliency Services in 2018. Andrea was also a Managing Director in support of IBM's largest clients based in Singapore and London. She was awarded the prestigious Lou Gerstner Award for Client Excellence, IBM's highest recognition for dedication to client success.

Yatrik Vin

Mr. Yatrik Vin is the Group CFO of the National Stock Exchange of India Limited. As the CFO, he played a leading role in transforming NSE into one of the world's largest exchange through effective leveraging of Technology. Mr. Vin holds a masters degree in Finance & Economics and is also a fellow member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India.

Rajanish Nagwekar

Rajanish Nagwekar is the Vice President IT-Enterprise Solutions at National Stock Exchange of India. Rajanish provides leadership for Enterprise level software solutions, robust and secure environment throughout NSE. His experience spans design and development of real time systems, cloud-native implementations and web based application development.

Shailesh Katti

“Shailesh is Head of Americas for AI & Automation Ecosystem and responsible for helping customer in Enterprise AI Adoption across industry verticals.
The session will focus on how AI is impacting various departments in the enterprise and how use case approach ease the way for Applied AI.”

Shailesh Katti, Head Americas for AI, ML and Automation Ecosystem at Wipro Limited

Inderpal Bhandari

As the Global Chief Data Officer of IBM, Inderpal leads IBM’s data strategy. His mission is to deliver a trusted, secure, multi-cloud, data and AI backbone along with scaled use cases for transforming IBM into an AI Enterprise and to enable IBM clients to replicate the same.

Barry Becker

Greg Lotko

Tiffany Pham

Tiffany Pham is the Founder & CEO of Mogul, an award-winning platform enabling women to connect, share information, and access knowledge from each other. A coder, she developed the first version of Mogul, which now reaches millions of women per week from over 196 countries and 30,470 cities worldwide. Headquartered in NYC, with offices in San Francisco and Paris, Mogul was named one of the 100 Most Exciting Startups by Business Insider, Best Website for Finding Top Talent by Inc. Magazine, Top Website for Marketing Your Company Online by Forbes, and has been honored by the City of Fort Worth, City of New York, and City of Paris. Tiffany is a Judge on the TLC TV show "Girl Starter," produced by Al Roker, and Co-Host of the show "Positive Pushback" from the Producer of The View. She speaks regularly at the United Nations to present gender policy recommendations, as well as MSNBC, Bloomberg, Viacom, Microsoft, AOL, Prudential, SXSW, Harvard Business School and Wharton Business School.

Rashida Hodge

Alex Bewley

Alex is part of the VMware Global Services Digital Platform team which in one and a half years from concept to corporate strategic priority, launched a product called Skyline. Skyline radically transforms VMware's support organization from reactive to proactive by using machine learning techniques on real-time telemetry data from customer environments.

Donna Hill

Nathan Grzymkowski

Michael McCabe

Amit Jain

Amit is responsible for managing ADP's middle market benefits administration and talent solutions P&L. In addition, he is championing digital transformation initiative for ADP Major Accounts, ADP's middle market business including Payroll, HR, Benefits administration, Workforce management and other products.

Glenn Finch

Glenn Finch is the GM for Cognitive Business Decision Support. Mr. Finch’s emphasis on Process Re-Imagination, AI, Data and IOT is focused on the most challenging and transformative engagements which IBM undertakes. Those engagements have leveraged broader Customer Centricity, Customer Experience, and Operations work across the Customer Acquisition, Customer Management, and Servicing processes.

Zach Nimboorkar

Archana Vemulapalli

Archana Vemulapalli, General Manager, Global IS Offering Strategy, Management, and Development has end-to-end responsibility for IS offering design and co-creation with clients, offering management and development of market-led digital.

Himanshu Anand

Himanshu leads the cyber orchestration engineering and security information and event management (SIEM) engineering teams in North America at Ernst & Young LLP’s cybersecurity practice. He has over 10 years of experience in the areas of data management and data analysis tools for cybersecurity, web infrastructure architecture and web application performance management tools. He focuses on cyber threat management, performing architecture and design tasks for threat detection and response tools for clients, including the cyber-as-a-service (CaaS) service offering. He has experience in leading large-scale strategic IT initiatives, working directly with CISOs.

Renana Friedlich

Renana is the North America Incident Response leader at Ernst & Young’s Advanced Security Center (ASC) and has more than fourteen years of experience in information security. Over the last twelve years, she led breach investigations for global clients, detected nation-state APT campaigns at Fortune 500 companies, developed incident response plans and facilitated cyber simulations. Renana led EY’s response to several well-known security data breaches, where she directed the work of the technical groups and provided briefings to executives and C- Suites. Her experience includes responding to destructive malware attacks, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), data exfiltration, W2 fraud, and more

David Kulczar

David is responsible for the IBM Watson Media portfolio which is focused on bringing Artificial Intelligence solutions to the Media and Entertainment market.

Seth E. Dobrin

Ibrahim Hassan

Ibrahim Hassan is the Executive Director of Investments, where he manages a fund of USD 100 million with a mandate to provide funding solutions to start-ups and SMEs to support their growth and global scalability. IH plays a vital role through QDB to reform the local ecosystem in Qatar and provide entrepreneurs with knowledge and mentorship.

Brad Gammons

Deepak Garg

Harman Sandhu

Ed Walsh

Edward J. Walsh is General Manager, IBM Storage & Software Defined Infrastructure, a business division that is part of the company's IBM Systems Unit. In this role he is responsible for all facets of the Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure business including strategy, architecture, operations, technology development and overall financial performance.

Gary Meshell

Gary Meshell leads IBM's World Wide Security business in financial services and is responsible for sales, business development, offering management and the overall go to market strategy for IBM's security offerings in financial services.
Gary is a recognized thought leader in the areas of security and cloud within the financial services industry

David Cass

Global responsibility for cloud security practices. Mr. Cass serves as a regulatory SME and an Executive Steering committee member for IBM’s International Banking Customers. David works closely with U.S., and International Regulators. David and his team have led large scale transformation projects at top global financial institutions. MSE from the University of Pennsylvania, and a MBA from MIT.

Mark D. Gildersleeve

Ryan Kush

Jennifer Brooks

Jennifer Brooks is a Senior Financial Services Marketing Manager on the Salesforce Industry Marketing team supporting Insurance and Wealth. In her role, Jennifer is responsible for shaping the marketing strategy in addition to providing product marketing support for Financial Services Cloud for wealth and insurance.

Mary O'Brien

Laura Laltrello

Laura is GM of Data Center Global Services for Lenovo. She has 20 years in services, products, strategy, marketing and operations in Fortune 500 tech companies. Laura founded Lenovo's NAF internship program for high school students. She was recognized by Working Mother magazine as "Lenovo's 2017 Working Mother of the Year" for her efforts to mentor working mothers about growth and balance.

Kevin Wahlmeier

Since joining IBM, Kevin has held various global operational, financial, support and management positions, including spending two years on an international assignment in Dublin, Ireland where he helped establish and manage a European and U.S. technical support center. He created and currently leads the information and analytics strategy, and works directly with IBM Research to drive key analytics initiatives, including creating the business architecture for the IBM Watson technology that is used in IBM technical support centers around the world to assist agents in delivering world-class customer support.

Sergio Saad

Sergio B. Saad is General Manager of GTS Worldwide TSS Multi-vendor Services and Offerings and mission is to drive IBM Multi-vendor Support Services and Offerings. Multi-vendor Services offers a wall-to-wall support approach, with advanced technologies to improve the client experience through automation. This integrated approach can produce big cost savings from improved IT asset management, reductions in complexity and in operating costs through outage mitigation and accelerated problem resolution. He excels at managing motivated and diverse integrated teams across the globe, as well as discovering and fulfilling the needs of many of the world'™s most essential enterprises. His combination of leadership, execution and expertise is key to driving success in the Multi-vendor Services business.

Dr. Rahul Singh

Rahul is an entrepreneur, passionate about innovating solutions that will drive service supply chains of the future. At Entercoms, he drives the vision for its operational analytics and AI platform that delivers outcomes for customers through insights and automation. He has over 20 years of experience impacting the service and supply chains of many Fortune 500 companies, helping them become more agile, manage their complexity, while driving results to their bottom-line.

Rahul holds a Ph.D. in Operations Management from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, and has published articles in academic journals on the topics such as statistical quality management, supply chain and product line design. He holds a B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, an M. Tech. in Industrial and Management Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Dr. Kate Darling

Robots are taking increasingly bigger roles in life and business - moving well beyond manufacturing and into transportation, education, medicine and care for the elderly. But ethics and law haven't caught up. Dr. Kate Darling, a pioneer in the fields, is helping quicken the pace.

A leading expert in robot ethics, she is a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab where she investigates social robotics and conducts experimental studies on human-robot interaction. Darling explores the emotional connection between people and life-like inventions, seeking to influence technology design and policy direction. Her writing and research anticipate difficult questions that lawmakers, engineers and the wider public must address as human-robot relationships evolve in the coming decades. Darling's work has been featured in the BBC, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, CBC, WIRED, and more.

Jay Bellissimo

Beth Smith

As the GM of Watson, Beth Smith is responsible for the overall success of IBM Watson's AI strategy and execution. She leads the end-to-end business including the engineering and delivery of the technology, and the global ecosystem of Watson partners and developers. Fueled by scientific innovations born out of IBM's research and engineering teams, Watson is IBM's flagship AI system.

Madhuri Chawla

Madhuri Chawla is the Global Director of Enterprise Application Cloud Solutions - her responsibilities include understanding the market and customer needs, shaping the cloud offering requirements and aligning with the IBM portfolio and market initiatives to create a managed applications platform cloud that is integrated with IBM’s IaaS offerings as well as IBM’s private cloud offerings to facilitate cloud adoption and support of hybrid cloud environments. Madhuri has extensive experience in building and managing partner alliances, and was instrumental in shaping SAP's strategy for HANA Enterprise Cloud and selecting IBM as their Global Partner. Madhuri manages a team of world-wide senior SAP & Oracle architects responsible for the architecture & development of IBM Managed Applications cloud solutions.

Matthew Hubbard

Matthew Hubbard, Senior Manager Infrastructure Delivery and Cloud Operations, has been with Whirlpool Corporation five years. Previously he served in the U.S. Army in Military Intelligence. Matthew’s focus for the last several years has been enabling Whirlpool’s transition to cloud computing, leveraging a multi provider strategy to shutter the companies legacy data centers.

David Collins

As the Director of Corporate Applications, I am responsible for the Oracle HCM & Payroll, Peoplesoft Financials and Hyperion applications at CKE.

Jason McGee

Jason McGee, IBM Fellow, is VP and CTO, IBM Cloud Platform. Jason is currently responsible for the IBM Cloud's foundation  services, including Kubernetes Containers, Functions, MessageHub, Logging, Monitoring, Container Registry, Terraform and Activity Tracker. Jason is also responsible for the technical strategy and architecture for all of IBM's Cloud Developer Platform (PaaS). Previously Jason has served as CTO of Cloud Foundation Services, Chief Architect of PureApplication System, WebSphere Extended Deployment, WebSphere sMash, and WebSphere Application Server on distributed platforms.

Don Boulia

Joao Mendes

Leads the Internet of Things Cloud and Mobile Services at Whirlpool. His accountabilities includes delivering digital experiences for connected appliances, new capabilities and 24/7 operations for the IoT group. He has teams in four different geographies and operating in an agile approach.
Has a MBA from Fundação Getúlio Vargas and Bachelors Degree from Mackenzie Presbyterian University.

Jeff Hahn

Jeff Hahn leads the Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) effort for Honeywell, and is responsible for product vulnerability management and incident handling across Honeywell's business groups.

Swapnil Khekale

Jay Warren

Matthew Cameron

Paul Zikopoulos

Tom Rosamilia

Tom Rosamilia is Senior Vice President of IBM Systems, with global responsibility for IBM server and storage systems and software, which enable an IT infrastructure that is purpose-built for the performance, agility, and security that enterprises need today and in the future. Tom also has global responsibility for IBM's Global Business Partner organization.
Previously, Tom served as Senior Vice President of IBM Systems and Technology Group and IBM Integrated Supply Chain. Prior to that, he was Vice President of IBM Corporate Strategy and General Manager of Enterprise Initiatives.
In April 2016, Tom was elected to the board of directors of Rockwell Automation. In 2015, Tom was appointed as Economic Advisor to the Governor of Guangdong Province of the People's Republic of China and was re-appointed in 2017. In April 2018, he completed a year-long assignment in Beijing, China, where he continued to lead IBM Systems and acted as a local representative of IBM Corporate Headquarters.

Rich Karlgaard

One of the most influential and respected figures in the technology, economic and business worlds, Rich Karlgaard advises audiences on how to harness an organization's disruptive spirits to maximize business opportunities in the global marketplace. As an expert in artificial intelligence, Blockchain and the internet of things Rich is also a regular panelist on one of cable news' most popular business shows, Forbes on FOX. He is a co-founder of Upside magazine, Garage Technology Partners (with Guy Kawasaki) and Silicon Valley's premier public business forum, the 7,500-member Churchill Club. For the latter, Karlgaard won an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Hilary Mason

Our speaker, Hilary Mason, is General Manager of machine learning at Cloudera, Inc. She was CEO and Founder of Fast Forward Labs, an independent data technology research lab that was acquired by Cloudera, Inc. in 2017. She is also Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm. She was Chief Scientist at bitly from 2009-2013, the link-shortening service that facilitates sharing across many social media platforms. While at bitly, Hilary sifted through the records of the hundreds of millions of clicks to find patterns. That's a lot of data. She can tell you, if people visit your website, what other pages they're probably looking at. Hilary is also a member of NYCResistor and Mayor Bloomberg's Technology and Innovation Advisory Council. She is on Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business 2013.

Jeff Jonas

Jeff Jonas is a three-time entrepreneur, acclaimed data scientist and privacy by design ambassador. Prior to Senzing, Jonas served as IBM Fellow, after IBM acquired his last company in 2005. He led a team at IBM creating next-generation AI for Entity Resolution technology, code named G2. In 2016, Jonas founded Senzing, based on a one-of-a-kind IBM spinout of the G2 technology and team.

Guillermo Miranda

Guillermo Miranda is VP & Global Head of IBM Corporate Citizenship. He leads IBM’s Citizenship Sustainability and Reputation (CSR) and Social Impact initiatives which drive the digital transformation of IBM's citizenship programs and initiatives to create the future. Guillermo is deeply engaged in using digital learning to transform the workforce for the future. He is passionate about the tangible benefits of diversity and inclusion. Since 1997, he has served IBM in various leadership roles around the world, beginning in Peru and extending across Europe, Latin America, North America, Africa and the Middle East. His previous leadership roles include IBM’s Chief Learning Officer, People & Talent Head for the Digital Business Group, Regional HR VP for Africa & Middle East, among others. Guillermo holds an MBA from Deusto University (Spain), and a Law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He and his family live near Washington, D.C.

Rachel Krausman

Julia D. Turek

Julia is an eighteen-year-old DACAmented student currently attending P-TECH Norwalk, the first P-TECH school to open in Connecticut. She will graduate with her Associate's degree in Software Engineering along with her high school diploma in the Spring of 2019. Julia currently serves as a Citizenship Intern at IBM. Julia plans to major in interdisciplinary studies where she will continue to forge her ability to solve for world issues through technology. After college, she plans on continuing to work on citizenship and education initiatives at IBM. Julia is committed to leveraging her story and skills to inspire the same passion and understanding within the next generation. She believes it is vital to teach students how to integrate technology into their interests because tech is no longer the future, it is the here and now.

Thomas Chu

Matthias Funke

I believe in the fundamental importance of data and enjoy to help IBM help our clients tackle the challenges around that: managing complex data architectures enabling the collection and processing of all relevant data in support of scalable, self-service access for end users.
I co-lead the IBM Analytics Hybrid Data Management business segment.

Paul Acito

Satinder Sethi

Yi Wang

Davy now is leading the technical team in Tencent Cloud America. Previously he worked as the regional director of Amazon AWS Greater China Region and was the first in the country to obtain AWS expert level certification. He used to be a senior technical expert and director of Alibaba Cloud. Also worked at IBM as a Senior Architect Manager at IBM Global Services.

Matthew Prince

Matthew Prince is co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare and is the co-creator of Project Honey Pot, the largest community of webmasters tracking online fraud and abuse. Matthew holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago, and received a B.A. in English Literature and Computer Science from Trinity College.

Raejeanne Skillern

Raejeanne Skillern is VP in the Data Center Group and GM of the Cloud Service Provider Platform Group at Intel. She manages Intel’s business, roadmap and customer engagements for public cloud infrastructure deployments and leads the team responsible for working closely with the world’s largest cloud service providers to optimize Intel’s data center solutions for their unique needs.

Vikram Chhabra

Vikram Chhabra is a Global Director with IBM Security Services. He is responsible for security services offers across cloud security, network, data, identity and compliance. Vikram is driving the next generation of security transformation services through IBM X-Force Platform to protect clients from advanced threats. Vikram has an MBA from Babson College and a MS in Computer Science from WPI.

Anirban Ganguly

Anirban has played a variety of roles in North America for over a decade, w/ customers in BFS, INS, & LS. His experience encompasses customer relationship handling, large scale program management, BD, Marketing & Partnerships. In his current role he is responsible for growing market-share & mindshare for IBM in data, analytics & cloud portfolios, administer JGTM solution development & enablement.

Vikas Kumar

Vikas is the Head of Strategic Alliances for Cognizant Digital Business. Over the last 20+ years of his career, he has held multiple leadership responsibilities across both Product and Consulting organizations, in multiple geographies. With a strategic focus on creating innovative, next-gen Analytics solutions; Vikas drives transformation initiatives and key customer & partner relationships.

Sarah Saund

Saran Saund is a virtuoso Silicon Valley entrepreneur. As CEO of PointR Data Inc., he leads a team of versatile data scientists and engineers in democratizing AI applications in the Enterprise. From scan less stores like Amazon GO to inspecting rail carriages in remote areas, Saran is deploying deep neural networks at the edge to replace human vision with machines.

Steve Hill

Laurence Guihard-Joly

Laurence Guihard-Joly is GM, leading the Global Cloud Migration Factory, accountable for strategy, business performance, delivery excellence & client satisfaction; covering of all types of migration from anywhere to anywhere, across all Geos and Industries. From Data Center relocation to Cloud migration for Infrastructure, Data & Applications in hybrid & multi-cloud environments, the Factory is helping Clients complete their journey to the cloud and achieve their business objectives. During 33 years at IBM, Laurence worked from Europe, North America and in Asia Pacific. She held GM roles in sales, services and P&L management in Industrial Sector, ERP, Networking, Security, Resiliency, Outsourcing, Transformation & Change management, Communications. Laurence earned her Master from Lille Business University, France. She moved to NY with her Family in 2003 and likes travels, horse riding, wild nature, mindfulness & meditation, and is engaged in support of people with disabilities.

Harish Grama

Before his CIO role at JPMorgan Chase, Harish has held executive roles as IBM's Vice President and General Manager of Product Management, Development and Customer Support in Software. He brings over 28 years of enterprise technology leadership, and over the past six years he has been responsible for leading a multibillion-dollar P&L.

Ajay Patel

Ajay Patel, Senior Vice President and General Manager of VMware's Cloud Provider Software Business Unit, leads the team that develops cloud software and manages one of the world's largest Cloud and Manage Services Provider ecosystems through its VMware Cloud Provider Program. In this capacity, Ajay is responsible for product development, go-to-market, solutions development, sales and marketing, and all partner operational systems for the service provider segment. Ajay's team is also responsible for driving VMware's multi-cloud strategy and go-to- market of VMware Cloud Services. Previously, Ajay help build and subsequently led vCloud Air, VMware's cloud service business.

Christopher Catterfeld

Christopher Catterfeld (41) has more than 15 years of extensive experience transforming and managing international organizations in the technology space, most recently in CMO, Managing Director, and Board positions at global cloud software businesses. His driving factor is the injection of customer excitement creating tangible growth to top and bottom line.

Currently as CMP, CPO and Partner at Iptor Supply Chain Systems accounting for the transformation of one of the leading global ERP & Supply Chain vendors resulting in the company's most significant growth momentum in recent history.

Prior to that, he led product and marketing activities as European CMO as well as drove the European HCM units as Managing Director at Sage Group plc.

With his passion for transformation, Christopher also acts as Angel Investor and Advisor in the IT sector and holds Non-Exec Board positions in the business software area.

Albert Martin

Jeff Jonas

Jeff Jonas is a three-time entrepreneur, acclaimed data scientist and privacy by design ambassador. Prior to Senzing, Jonas served as IBM Fellow, after IBM acquired his last company in 2005. He led a team at IBM creating next-generation AI for Entity Resolution technology, code named G2. In 2016, Jonas founded Senzing, based on a one-of-a-kind IBM spinout of the G2 technology and team.

Gary Delooze

Chief Technology Officer since 2017, Gary has shaped & built the Nationwide’s Technology function and led the development of the Technology Strategy, resulting in $4 billion of investment over the next 5 years to exploit Cloud native architectures, Analytics and AI. He previously led IT Strategy and Architecture teams over for 20 years in Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, PwC, EY and IBM

John Granger

John Granger is the Global Leader for Cloud Application Innovation at IBM Global Business Services (GBS). In this role, John is responsible for helping clients€™ transform their business with technology at scale with quality, speed and consistency. His responsibilities cover Enterprise Applications (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Workday). In addition, John is responsible for clients€™ Cloud Application Migration: the modernisation and migration of applications to the Cloud, as well as native Cloud development. He is also responsible for the Application Maintenance business (AMS). He is charged with building these services end-to-end across geographies, in addition to managing GBS network of global delivery centers.

Paul Cormier

Paul Cormier leads Red Hat's technology and products organizations, including engineering, product management, and product marketing for Red Hat's technologies. His leadership and experience in enterprise technology helped to pioneer a commercial business model for open source software, moving open source innovation from passionate communities to broad adoption from the datacenter to the cloud.

Frank Dickson

Frank Dickson is a Research Vice President within IDC’s Security Products research practice. In this role, he provides thought leadership and guidance for clients on a wide range of security products including endpoint security, identity and access management, authentication, threat analytics, and emerging products designed to protect transforming architectures and business models.

Chandrasekhar Pulamarasetti

Chandra, visionary founder/CEO of Sanovi Technologies, an IBM company, currently drives the Cloud Resiliency Orchestration software business for IBM Resiliency Services as Global VP. He has 25+ years of experience in enterprise systems and co-authored five patents. Chandra actively promotes Mindfulness Meditation at workplace and outside.

Edwin Van Megesen

Motio delivers software solutions to optimize BI and Analytic implementation at organizations. Our solutions help companies to lower the total costs of Business intelligence, but also solve day-to-day problems in the development process, during BI upgrades and migrations.

Rohit Badlaney

Michael J. Jordan

Michael is a IBM Distinguished Engineer focused on IBM Z security and is the overall technical leader for IBM Z pervasive encryption. He has over 29 years of IBM Z experience; including 25 years of development experience, 4 years in a client facing role leading complex and large-scale IBM Z projects and holds over 20 patents in the areas of IBM Z Security, Cryptography, and Parallel Sysplex.

Thomas Agan

Tom Agan is a partner in the Digital Business Strategy group at IBM. His experience is across industries with an emphasis in go-to-market/growth, big data & analytics, and technology. Tom has written numerous articles for leading publications such as the Harvard Business Review, been widely interviewed by outlets such as NPR/Marketplace, and spoken at many major industry and client conferences.

Tyler Steben

Tyler Steben leads the consumer offering management team within IBM Watson Health’s Payer business. Tyler has been a product leader for over 20 years and is passionate about innovate consumer health solutions. Tyler lives in Michigan with three kids, two dogs and a spouse who is tolerant of Tyler’s early adopter tendencies.

Ramesh A. Gopinath

Ramesh is responsible for blockchain solutions at IBM. He led the development of the IBM Food Trust solution currently used by many retailers and food companies. He also helped develop the TradeLens technology currently used by members of the shipping supply chain. Ramesh graduated from Rice University (Ph.D. 1993, M.S. 1990) and IIT, Chennai (BTech, 1987)

Bob Wolpert

Bob Wolpert is the Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Golden State Foods, one of the largest diversified suppliers to the QSR industries. Bob is also the Chair of the Food Trust Advisory Council with IBM. He's also worked for ITT Corporation, and earned an MBA from Harvard University and serves as board member and executive committee member for LeadersUp and Second Harvest Food Bank of OC.

Rohit Badlaney

Ross A. Mauri

Lauren Nelson

Johan Bosch

Johan Bosch is the Executive Director, Emid South Africa. He has more than 20 years of experience managing technology and strategy at various companies within the financial and ICT services market as CEO, COO and CIO. As a leader and an analytical thinker with a strategic and innovative approach to resolve challenges, he leads Emid in growing the business with a passion for serving their clients.

Abdul Masnan Qureshi

Manan in his previous tenures has worked in leadership roles both on the management consulting side and on the consumer side across APAC, Middle East, Europe and North America managing multi-country portfolios across Cyber ,Organisational Resilience and GRC in a range of verticals including Finance, Defence, Telecom, Government and R&D.

Larry Ponemon

Dr. Larry Ponemon is Chairman of the Ponemon Institute and he was appointed by the
White House to the Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee for DHS. Dr. Ponemon was also an appointed to two California State task forces on privacy and data security laws.

Patrick G. Corcoran

Pat is the Global Strategy Executive, responsible for creating/managing the overall strategy for Business Resiliency Services, which includes Cyber Resilience, BaaS, DRaaS, Consulting, and Site & Facilities. In addition, he is responsible for marketing, analyst relations and external communications. He has been with IBM over 41 years and worked in many different leadership positions.

Allen Downs

Allen Downs is the Global Vice President for IBM Resiliency Services in IBM Global Technology Services. He is focused on addressing Business Resiliency needs of clients in all industries across the enterprise, from DC/ facilities, compute platform, data, applications, organization skills and processes aligned to the strategy and vision of our clients. IBM Resiliency Services is recognized as the leading provider of Resiliency Managed services around the world. 
Since joining IBM in 1996 in London, England, Allen has held a broad range of leadership positions in IBM, including Business Development and Sales Leadership across the board spectrum of the IBM Global Technology Services Businesses. He has vast global experience, working with Global Clients around the world, covering multiple industries from Manufacturing, Banking and Finance to Distribution.

Jerry Smith

Dr. Jerry A. Smith is a visionary entrepreneurial data scientist with 20 years of cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, enterprise data sciences, and machine learning experience. Jerry is recognized as a leading expert in the simulation of human thought and the development of enterprise cognitive and data sciences capabilities.

David Gibbons

David is a Product Marketing leader at Salesforce, and has over 20 years experience with technology products. Prior to Salesforce, David has held senior marketing and product roles in both B2B and B2C organizations.

Jesse Lund

Ram Komarraju

Michael Warner

Michael Warner is a Senior Strategist in IT at the San Francisco Federal Reserve.

Tammy Camp

Tammy is the CEO of Stronghold, a financial services platform that is native to distributed ledger technology (DLT). Tammy served as the first Head of Growth at Stellar, helping the network grow to 4 million users in its first two months. A former partner at 500 Startups, she invested in portfolio companies and ran the growth and marketing curriculum for its flagship Silicon Valley location.

Jed McCaleb

Faizan Mustafa

Winner of 'CIO of the Year Award 2017' in Unified Communications. Winner of the 'Project of the Year' Award from PMI. With 18 years of demonstrated experience of transforming organizations through the best use of Technology, Faizan has a well-earned perspective on what works. Faizan graduated from Southern Illinois University and holds Bachelor's in Engineering and MBA in MIS.

Cameron B. Art

Cameron is the Managing Partner of IBM's Enterprise Cloud Applications business. Working with best-of-breed partners: SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Workday, his focus is on creating dynamic business platforms that deliver value, and developing thousands of brilliant IBMers to serve our clients.

Nic McKinley

Sam Fischer

Sam Fischer is a Sales Director for Veeam Software in the Cloud and Service Provider team. Sam leads the team responsible for managing Veeam's largest Cloud and Service Providers in the Americas, including IBM Cloud and Global Technology Services.

David Herman

Tom Cassell

Tom Cassell leads IBM's Next Gen Supply Chain Practice. He has over 20 years of experience in supply chain management, with an emphasis on planning, procurement, strategy, analytics and digital transformations. Tom serves as the global SAP Ariba lead for IBM GBS as well as lead for IBM's Cognitive Procurement offering, an initiative to embed IBM Watson into SAP Ariba solutions.

Bob Lord

Bob Lord is IBM's first Chief Digital Officer. His mission is to unleash IBM to empower the world - giving business leaders, developers, startups, and business partners an unparalleled experience with IBM's products and services. Bob leads the company's Digital Strategy & Platforms; Digital Sales & Routes to Market; Developer Advocacy and Venture Groups; Client Experience; and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) & Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) solutions. He has a wealth of experience in leading businesses through transformation. Before joining IBM, Bob was President of AOL, where he oversaw the company's unified global advertising operations and previously served as CEO of AOL's flagship technology group, AOL Platforms. Prior to AOL, Bob was Global CEO of Razorfish, one of the early web design and digital agencies. Bob holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in engineering from Syracuse University. He serves on the Boards of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. and Screenvision Media.

Chelsea Clinton

Chelsea Clinton is vice chair of the Clinton Foundation which works to improve lives across the United States and around the world by creating economic opportunity, improving public health, and inspiring civic engagement and service. She is also a bestselling author of She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World, She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Made History, It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!, Start Now! You Can Make a Difference, and, with Devi Sridhar, Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? She lives in New York City with her husband, Marc, their daughter, Charlotte, and their son, Aidan. You can follow her on Twitter at @ChelseaClinton or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/chelseaclinton.

Bryan Knouse

Bryan Knouse is a software developer based out of New York City and Co-Founder of Project Owl. Over the last decade, he has built a variety of cloud software tools for marketing agencies and enterprise companies in need of web development and data analytics. He has competed in and won numerous software competitions viewing them as an outlet to quickly ideate, design, and prototype software solutions for a wide array of customers.

Recently, Bryan has focused his efforts on AI technologies and how they are going to evolve much of the technology we use in everyday life. In particular, he is focused on natural language technology and its developing ability to improve the speed and simplicity of traditional enterprise processes such as accumulating, cleansing and analyzing data.

Ira Ehrenpreis

Ira Ehrenpreis is Founder and Managing Partner of DBL Partners, a leading impact investing venture capital firm, currently investing out of a $400M fund.

Ira is a recognized leader in the venture capital industry, having served on the Board, Executive Committee, and as Annual Meeting Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Ira currently serves as the President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC) and as the Chairman of the VCNetwork, the largest and most active California venture capital organization.

Ira has served as the Chairman of the Silicon Valley Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum (SVIEF) from 2014 through 2017. He is the Founder and Chairman of the World Energy Innovation Forum (WEIF), which convenes the who's-who in the industry to discuss the important energy issues and opportunities of our time. Ira also served for many years on the Advisory Board of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE).

Daniel G. Hernandez

As Vice President of IBM Analytics, Daniel G. Hernandez defines the direction and strategy for the IBM Analytics' three core businesses: Hybrid Data Management, Unified Governance, and Data Science & Machine Learning businesses.  Daniel’s team is responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and overall performance for IBM Cloud Private for Data, Watson Studio, Watson Machine Learning, Db2, Integrated Analytics System, Informix, Information Server, Data Replication, MDM, Optim, StoredIQ, SPSS, Decision Optimization offerings, and more. Major releases and partnerships during his tenure include IBM Cloud Private for Data, the Hortonworks IBM partnership, and several offerings that have won Red Dot Awards for Design.

Jamie Engesser

Patrick Murphy

Stephane Lannuzel

Imperial College (UK) and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees (FR) graduate, Stephane started his career in project finance for large-scale infrastructure projects in Asia-Pacific for a French bank, Caisse des Depots et Consignations. Stephane then moved to strategy consulting and spent 7 years with A.T. Kearney focusing on the luxury and FMCG industries on strategic planning and operations topics.

For the past 12 years, Stephane has worked in the cosmetics industry for Shiseido and L'Oreal as Operations Director. During the last 2 years, Stephane has been managing the digital transformation of L'Oreal operations on a world-wide basis, combining new technologies to develop new business models and to meet more and more demanding customers requests. Stephane's passion is to lead large-scale complex transformation projects involving strategic planning, technologies and change management.

Beyond his responsibility at L'Oreal, Stephane is also Board Member of Hub IA France.

Manish Chawla

Manish Chawla is the Global Industry GM for Industrial Products (Manufacturing, Resources & Construction). He leads strategic clients and the IBM strategy, solutions & partnerships for these segments. Manish is helping clients leverage exponential technologies to fundamentally re-imagine their enterprises in the platform economy as they transform their operations, customer experience and products.

Fabio Sorgesa

Fabio Sorgesa, Head of Corporate Partnerships and ABB Formula E Project Lead, ABB

Darren Kwok

Nataraj Nagaratnam

Dr. Nataraj (Raj) Nagaratnam is CTO for IBM Cloud Security. As Distinguished Engineer, he drives technical strategy and architecture for cloud security solutions

Brad Chun

Brad is the Chairman and CIO of Shuttle Holdings, a specialist investment company that focuses on disruptive technologies in areas of trust, identity, finance, and governance. Brad is a polyglot developer, experienced banker, and visionary leader with a current passion for all things blockchain. His utopia is a global economy unencumbered by artificial friction in trade and powered by blockchains.

Kerwin Guevarra

Kerwin leads the innovation and development of services and digital solutions across North America. He has helped lead the introduction of KONE 24/7 Connected Services and Advanced People Flow solutions. His various experience including multi-disciplinary engineering background and program management is instrumental in driving strategic innovative and industrialization of digital solutions.

Nick Thompson

Hands on management leader with a record of meeting / exceeding objectives in multiple business environments within Fortune 500, entrepreneurial firms, and non-profit organizations. Leverages strong functional and technical skills to design, develop, and deliver web transformations for enterprise level ecommerce and portal solutions.

Dan Poliquin

Daniel is currently an Advisory Principal in Deloitte’s Cyber Risk Services practice and the Identity Services Innovation Leader. He has over 23 years of consulting experience with the last 20 focused on Cyber Risk Services. Daniel advises Boards of Directors on Cyber Risk and has helped multiple clients establish or improve their security.

Tim Burke

Brandon Jung

Brandon serves as VP for Alliances at GitLab where he is responsible for partnerships, acquisitions, and industry groups. Before GitLab Brandon founded and built Google’s Cloud ecosystem with companies like Red Hat, Docker, IBM, CTP and Accenture. His career began at IBM where he built expertise in engineering, sales, marketing, corp strategy, and finally as a principal for cloud.

Debbie Vavangas

Debbie is a VP at IBM where she leads the DS&iX organisation for UK and Ireland. The UK iX is home to over 500 designers, creatives, technical superstars and data whizz kids and together they work hand-in-glove with clients to create human-centred best-in-class experiences using digital technology to solve their clients biggest challenges, or make best of the opportunities that new markets offer.

Rachel Higham

Claire Dickson

Accountable for provision of IT to Downstream businesses in 70 countries including pipelines, 8 refineries, manufacturing & movement of products to customers & airports, the Castrol business & operations for 18000 retail sites. A transformational CIO preparing for a resilient future, accelerating digital to enable speed to market of customer offers & enabling intelligent operations in Refineries.

Tia Silas

Tia Silas is Vice President, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer for IBM where she is responsible for driving the worldwide diversity and inclusion strategy. Prior to this role, Tia led Human Resources for the Watson Health division of the company supporting Watson’s mission to advance the quality of healthcare on a global scale, improve lives and enable hope through cutting edge technology.

Tia graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in industrial and labor relations and earned her MBA from New York University, Stern School of Business.

In addition to her professional and academic endeavors Tia has also worked to serve her community through board activities. Previously, she has served on the Connecticut Board of Make-A-Wish Foundation, The Mill River Collaborative Board, aimed at restoring green space for low income communities in Stamford and the Alumni Board of Miss Porter’s School focused on young women “shaping a changing world.”

David Galloreese

David Galloreese is the Executive Vice President, Head of Human Resources for Wells Fargo. He is responsible for building and implementing the strategies, programs, and infrastructure to develop, engage, and retain the best talent for the company. His team of HR professionals delivers a range of services, including learning, talent planning, talent development, operations, team member care, benefits, payroll, systems, and strategic insights.

Galloreese is deeply committed to developing talent, passionate about leveraging data and technology to modernize operations, and dedicated to diversity and inclusion.

A strategic leader with broad experience in human resources and compliance, Galloreese has a proven track record of partnership, execution, and successfully leading teams through change.

Jennifer Brown

JENNIFER BROWN is an award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, diversity, equity & inclusion consultant, and author. She is the founder, president and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting (JBC), a certified woman- and LGBT-owned global diversity and inclusion consulting firm, and is well-known for her bestselling book, Inclusion. Her new book, How to Be an Inclusive Leader, will be released summer 2019.

Dr. Dario Gil

Dr. Dario Gil is the Chief Operating Officer of IBM Research, a global organization with over 3,000 researchers across 13 laboratories and 21 locations devoted to advancing the frontiers of information technology. As COO, Dr. Gil is responsible for guiding the strategic agenda of IBM Research, defining IBM's annual Global Technology Outlook, driving operations and financial plan execution, and establishing partnerships with companies and universities worldwide. As the Vice President of AI and Quantum Computing, Dr. Gil is also responsible for IBM's global research efforts in artificial intelligence and for IBM's quantum computing program. He co-chairs the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab along with Professor Anantha Chandrakasan, Dean of the MIT School of Engineering. Dr. Gil's research results have appeared in over 20 international journals and conferences and he is the author of numerous patents. Dr. Gil is an elected member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

Rania Khalaf

Dr. Rania Khalaf is Director of Engineering, IBM Research AI leading teams innovating on AI platforms such as deep learning in IBM Watson and OpenScale. Prior, she was Director of Cloud Platforms, architect in IBM GTS, chief of staff to GM/CTO of IBM Cloud, and made seminal contributions in Service Oriented Computing. She serves on the board of Boston University's Hariri Institute for Computing.

Aleksandra Mojsilovic

Aleksandra (Saska) Mojsilovic is a scientist, Head of AI Foundations at IBM Research, Co-Director of IBM Science for Social Good, and IBM Fellow. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.

Juli Trexler

Juli Trexler is the Global Executive for IBM's Support as a Service Business Line. In this role, she leads the go-to-market strategy, offering portfolio and P&L, and manages some of the division's largest client accounts. Her experience spans many areas from Services Consulting, Business Transformation, and New Product Development to Global Supply Chain, Engineering, and Operations Management.

Laura Laltrello

Laura is GM of Data Center Global Services for Lenovo. She has 20 years in services, products, strategy, marketing and operations in Fortune 500 tech companies. Laura founded Lenovo's NAF internship program for high school students. She was recognized by Working Mother magazine as "Lenovo's 2017 Working Mother of the Year" for her efforts to mentor working mothers about growth and balance.

Robert Bernard

Bobby is Exec. Dir., Supply Chain Strategy and Strategic Partnerships for Lenovo Data Center Group. He holds a B.S. dual degree in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Bobby enjoys volunteering in youth sports and participating in Sitting Volleyball for disabled veterans.

Hilary Mason

Our speaker, Hilary Mason, is General Manager of machine learning at Cloudera, Inc. She was CEO and Founder of Fast Forward Labs, an independent data technology research lab that was acquired by Cloudera, Inc. in 2017. She is also Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm. She was Chief Scientist at bitly from 2009-2013, the link-shortening service that facilitates sharing across many social media platforms. While at bitly, Hilary sifted through the records of the hundreds of millions of clicks to find patterns. That's a lot of data. She can tell you, if people visit your website, what other pages they're probably looking at. Hilary is also a member of NYCResistor and Mayor Bloomberg's Technology and Innovation Advisory Council. She is on Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business 2013.

Arokiaraj Ignatius

Arokia Raj Ignatius is an ITIL, PMP, ISO 22301 Lead Auditor (BCMS). With over 28 yrs of experience in IT, mainly in BFSI segment. He started his career in India, working with large Private sector bank and then moved to USA and spent 12 years working in DR/BCP. In 2010, he joined HDFC Bank, India and is currently the VP & Head DR CoE & Delivery, as part of the DR & Availability Management practice.

Amarjeet S. Gill

Amarjeet Gill, Director Resiliency Orchestration has 24 years of global market exposure in managing strategic Sales/Presales and Delivery for storage, HA, Backup and DR. His leadership and innovation has driven business results successfully to implement effective sales models. He transitioned and transformed multiple projects, acquisitions, processes enhancement and enabling change management.

Julian van Velzen

Eric Herzog

Eric's responsibilities include worldwide product marketing and management for IBM's award-winning storage solutions and software defined storage, and responsibility for global storage channels. He has >32 yrs of product management, marketing, business development, sales, and channels experience in the storage market, managing all aspects of marketing, product management, sales, channels, and BD

Sandeep Chaudhary

John Wheeler

Imogen Heap

London based recording artist Imogen Heap blurs boundaries between pure art form and creative entrepreneurship. Writing and producing 4 solo albums and collaborating with music greats Jeff Beck, Mika and Josh Groban, amongst others, Heap has penned tracks for movies, TV shows and produced the score for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, winning the 'Outstanding Music in a Play' Drama Desk Award.

Curtis Tripoli

Curtis Tripoli is the Vice-President of FP&A at Ancestry. He is a technology & analytics oriented senior finance leader. His focus on developing relationships within the organization as a trusted adviser and leveraging the best technology has fueled his success in FP&A leadership roles. Mr. Tripoli holds a BA in Business Economics from UCLA and an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business.

Hans Mize

Hans Mize has spent the majority of his career in client facing management roles delivering high-value solutions in Analytics, ERP, and Supply Chain Management. This body of experience was the catalyst for founding Data41 in 2006. Hans holds a Business Administration degree in Management Information Systems from the Price School of Business at the University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK).

Dominique Dubois

Dominique Dubois is the Strategy and Innovation Executive for IBM’s Cognitive Process Transformation unit. She has spent the last 20 years focused on innovative solutions in business process redesign. Most recently, Dominique has focused on her passion to help companies build agility into their operations through the targeted application of automation, data and AI applications.

Tashina Charagi

Mike Croucher

Mike is Chief Architect and Head of Technical Strategy at Travelport, with 40 years experience implementing IT systems across large, global organisations and innovating IT and business change in the travel sector. Previous to Travelport Mike lead IT at British Airways (BA) for 15 years and spent his early career at Scandinavian Airlines in Copenhagen.

Jacqui Visch

Jacqui Visch
Director of Cloud Services
Group Technology, Westpac Banking Corporation
BIS, BBus (Marketing), Masters Business & Technology (MBT)
Jacqui is leading Westpac movement to Cloud Computing; enabling faster delivery, secure & reliable platforms & services. Key Achievements; Scaled Agile, Cloud, DevOps.

Hideki Shibata

Don Boulia

Santiago Paz

Alex Bewley

Alex is part of the VMware Global Services Digital Platform team which in one and a half years from concept to corporate strategic priority, launched a product called Skyline. Skyline radically transforms VMware's support organization from reactive to proactive by using machine learning techniques on real-time telemetry data from customer environments.

Ashutosh Muni

Mike Gilfix

Michael Gilfix is the Vice President of Digital Business Automation. In this role, he has global responsibility for offering management, engineering, and design for business process management, decision management, enterprise content management, and robotic process automation.

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Mike White

Mike is currently the CEO of Maersk GTD and is the Maersk Head of TradeLens. For the past two decades Mike has held senior management roles Across Europe and North America, most recently as President of Maersk Line North America. Prior to this Mike was CEO for Maersk Line Central Europe, CEO of Maersk Logistics North America, and President & CEO of P&O Nedlloyd North America.

Christopher M. Schnabel

As Director of IBM Q Offering Management Chris is responsible for ensuring that users and clients are able to extract value from quantum computing. He has extensive technical expertise, has led highly technical teams with complex stakeholder relationships and specializes in introduction of new technologies and executing transformational shifts.

Rania Khalaf

Dr. Rania Khalaf is Director of Engineering, IBM Research AI leading teams innovating on AI platforms such as deep learning in IBM Watson and OpenScale. Prior, she was Director of Cloud Platforms, architect in IBM GTS, chief of staff to GM/CTO of IBM Cloud, and made seminal contributions in Service Oriented Computing. She serves on the board of Boston University's Hariri Institute for Computing.

Jamie E. Lawrence

Jamie leads IBM's West Coast citizenship work, partnering with government, non-profits and the private sector to establish programs benefiting underserved communities. Prior to IBM, she worked at the White House, as advisor to Vice President Biden's Chief of Staff and then as Policy Director to Second Lady, Dr.Biden. Jamie earned degrees from Syracuse University and the London School of Economics.

Donna N. Dillenberger

Donna Dillenberger is an IBM Fellow. She has worked on analytic models for financial, insurance, retail, industries. She has designed new features for systems scalability and availability. She is a Master Inventor, an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, the CTO of IT Optimization and is currently working on artificial intelligence, counterfeits, blockchain and enterprise solutions.

Jose Bravo

31 years at IBM. I also have posted more than more than five hundred short YouTube videos with around than 780K views more than 4.5K subscribers, on QRadar and other components of the IBM Security portfolio. I have eleven security patents granted. BS in Electronic Engineering from Simon Bolivar University, and have a Master of Science in Computer and Systems Engineering from RPI.

Dale Hoffman

Dale is the Director of VMware Offering Management Solutions for the IBM Cloud. He is responsible for growing VMware workload and providing the path for Application Modernization on the IBM Cloud with VMware integration with containers. He also manages the partnership relationships with key VMware partners. Previously, he was Pgm Director Biz Dev & Strategic Alliances Linux Ecosystem.

Gene Quaglia

Gene brings together IBM & Intel executive, sales, technical, offering & delivery teams to bring value to customers thru differentiated IBM Cloud & Service offerings. Inc cloud, analytics, security, IoT & industry solutions. Gene has 35 years w/ Intel in management, strategy and sales roles. Gene led Intel US Financial & NY Districts & holds MBA & Bachelor of Engineering degrees.

Nataraj Nagaratnam

Dr. Nataraj (Raj) Nagaratnam is CTO for IBM Cloud Security. As Distinguished Engineer, he drives technical strategy and architecture for cloud security solutions

Rohit Badlaney

Bob Schultz

Bob Schultz oversees IBM's talent and collaboration management solutions business, which help companies transform their business by providing a unique combination of software, analytics and behavioral science to help clients source, attract, recruit and hire the right people, design the workplace to ensure people feel valued and engaged, and develop strategies to help people reach their full potential and optimize the business. Schultz is also responsible for driving and innovating a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of Saas and premised-based email, social and communication software, infused with cognitive and analytics capabilities.

Diane Gherson

Diane Gherson is the CHRO of IBM, a global cloud, technology and services company spanning 170 countries with more than 360,000 employees worldwide. As a member of the top leadership team, she has worldwide responsibility for the company's people and culture including HR offerings, workforce skills, leadership, and employee experience.

Barbry McGann

Barbry McGann is senior vice president of products at Workday, where she leads product management for Workday's applications including Workday Financial Management, Workday HCM, and Workday Student.

Barbry joined Workday in 2015, bringing more than 20 years of experience in product management and strategy. Prior to Workday, Barbry held several key product strategy, product marketing, and executive positions in leading enterprise software companies and start-ups including PeopleSoft, Oracle, and C3. At Oracle, Barbry was group vice president of product management for the CRM Division, responsible for product strategy, product management, and operations totaling $1.2 billion. Most recently, Barbry was a product strategy and management consultant for Medidata, Verizon, and New Relic.

Barbry holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Amy Wright

Pat Wadors

Pat Wadors joined ServiceNow in September 2017 and serves as the Chief Talent Officer and Chief Human Resources Officer for ServiceNow. Prior to joining ServiceNow, Wadors was Senior Vice President Global Talent Organization at LinkedIn where her focus was on recruiting and developing top talent, driving organizational transformation, supporting a highly engaged workforce and growing LinkedIn’s global footprint. Additionally, Wadors held human resources leadership positions at Plantronics, Yahoo!, Align Technology and Applied Materials. Wadors earned her B.S. in business management with a concentration in human resources management and a minor in psychology from Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Taylor Richardson

Taylor Richardson, also known as Astronaut StarBright, is an advocate, speaker, and philanthropist with aspirations of becoming an astronaut. After visiting numerous NASA Space Centers and participating in the U.S. Space & Rocket Center Space Camp she was inspired to get more girls interested in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics).

This year a documentary on Taylor titled, "ASTRONAUT STARBRIGHT: The Story of a Young STEM Advocate" will be released on the film festival circuit, where it has already earned two awards.

Taylor has graced the covers of Women in Aviation and Scholastic Science World magazines, and her service and advocacy have earned her distinctions such as Teen Vogue 21 under 21 and Glamour's 17 Girls Who Really Changed the World.

Matthias Biniok

Matthias Biniok studied computer science and IT management. He worked in several IBM departments before he started working as Cognitive Solution Architect at IBM Watson in Munich. Currently, Matthias is the Lead Watson Architect DACH. He is project lead and AI architect of Project CIMON (sending an autonomously free-flying robot with AI powered by IBM Watson to the international space station).

Steve Smith

Steve Smith is one of America's most experienced astronauts, a Stanford MBA, and 12-year Diplomat. He has an unrivaled mix of outer space experience, technology and manufacturing knowledge, and understanding of international business and diplomacy after 35 years at IBM and NASA. His abilities as a decision maker, strategic thinker, and international negotiator have enabled him to develop product and operations strategies which balanced financial, technical, and political realities.

Emily Calandrelli

Emily Calandrelli is an Executive Producer and an Emmy nominated host of FOX's Xploration Outer Space, a chief correspondent on Netflix's show, Bill Nye Saves The World, and writer and host of "Spotlight Space" a YouTube series from Lockheed Martin detailing their latest space projects in development.

Emily, who was named to Adweek's "11 Celebrities and Influencers Raising the Bar for Creativity in 2017", is an accomplished writer and speaker on the topics of space exploration, scientific literacy, and equality.

Emily has given talks about the importance of science literacy, the benefits of space exploration, and the challenges for women in STEM careers for clients as well as dozens of K-12 schools across the nation. Her first two TEDx talks have garnered over 800,000 views on YouTube.

Emily attended West Virginia University, where she received degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, and MIT where she received two Masters of Science degrees.

Homer Ahr

Homer Ahr, a retired IBM Consulting IT Architect, is a self-taught computer programmer who graduated from St. Mary's after earning a degree in Mathematics and Physics in June, 1968. He immediately joined IBM and a year later was on the console in Mission Control for Apollo 11-the mission that landed the first man on the moon. The next year, he was a maneuver control operator in Mission Control for Apollo 13 and a part of the team that managed to safely bring the damaged craft back to Earth. The team earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award from President Richard Nixon for their efforts. After 17 years on the USA's space program, Homer worked at IBM's Austin Development lab for 10 years, and then became a Consulting Architect for IBM on Health and Human Services Systems. In 2011, Ahr was featured to represent the 4000 IBMers who worked on the Apollo Space Program in multiple events celebrating IBM's contributions to historic and technological achievements.

Miran Badzak

Herman Bennema

Herman Bennema is CEO of Vektis. Prior to Vektis Mr Bennema was boardmenber of Solera Netherlands. Herman started his career as a technical officer in the Royal Netherlands Airforce

Sean Reilley

Sean leads IBM Technology and Data Strategy consulting business. He brings his experience and the Agile transformation approach he has successfully created for IBM to our clients. Sean has an extensive background in both consulting and building start-ups with experience at Ernst & Young, Scient, Vonage and with IBM.

Lisa Stewart

Lisa Stewart, CLU, CLF is Vice President of Life/Health and Investment Planning Services at State Farm®.
She joined State Farm in 1991 and has served in numerous roles and leadership positions, including claim representative, Georgia State Farm agent, and executive roles in Agency and Corporate before entering her current role in 2015.
She is a graduate of Georgia State University.

Denis Kennelly

In 2017 Denis Kennelly was appointed GM, IBM Hybrid Cloud Integration, where he is helping customers along the journey from the data center to hybrid-cloud and finally to the public cloud destination.
Denis joined IBM through the acquisition of Vallent Technologies in 2007, leading a number of product development teams in various executive roles. In 2012, Denis joined the new IBM Security unit to lead Product Development, where he drove a major transformation of the IBM Security product portfolio while also integrating a number of strategic acquisitions. Denis has witnessed many innovations and disruptions that have shaped industries and those experiences are core to his philosophy of constantly embracing change and driving innovation.

Robin Hernandez

Robin is the Executive Director of Multicloud offerings at IBM. She has 20 years of experience in the software industry, and has been working in the Cloud Computing space for ten of those years. Her experience spans development, technical sales, and product management roles. She enjoys creating new products, developing new markets, and successfully executing across multi-discipline teams.

Baiba Grazdina

Cyber security and IT operations leader with several years of experience leading teams in agile transformation and managing cyber security program change and implementation.
Experienced with various facets of cyber security, including but not limited to incident response, threat management, firewall management, operations security, DevSecOps and application security.

Jason Pfeiffer

Jason Pfeiffer, VP of Product Management for ReliaQuest, responsible for the development and execution of their go to market strategy. He has spent his career building and leading world-class cyber security programs for global businesses, including Lockheed Martin and PwC. In 2015 Pfeiffer was awarded the Senior Information Security Professional of the year by ISC2.

Julie Lockner

Jay Limburn

Paul Papas

Paul is the Global Leader for IBM Digital Strategy & iX, a global professional services organization that helps our clients reinvent their business by design. Paul leads a team of "Renegades and Realists" who blend strategy, technology and creativity to tackle every client challenge. Strategists. Industry Experts. Researchers. Designers. Developers. Engineers. Artists. Facilitators. They imagine the businesses that will shape tomorrow's world and help our clients build them. His team provides next generation strategy and advisory consulting services helping CEOs and other C-suite executives leverage disruptive digital technologies to reinvent their businesses, by design. They also provide world-class design, creative, consulting and technology services that help our clients imagine and realize deeper customer relationships through new experiences, technologies and communications.

Ari Sheinkin

Kim Leible

Kim is an innovative business leader with a track record of developing effective cross-channel customer experience strategies. She has an expert understanding of channel management with extensive experience in Internet, Inbound and Outbound marketing and email.

Kim is currently responsible for the development, planning and execution of all direct marketing tactics at USAA with a focus on operational readiness to improve performance and delivery. In addition Kim is leading the Operational Transformation within marketing: how marketing works, how we train and definitional clarity on how we use new technology. She is responsible for process optimization as well as managing relationships with IBM, ADOBE and Cheetah Digital.

Jason Dennis

Jason Dennis, VP of Performance Marketing and Operations, is accountable for leading and optimizing the operations of marketing. This includes setting the strategic direction of the Media, Owned channels, Campaign Execution and Technology. Prior to this Jason served as AVP for Enterprise Client Management accountable for Military Affairs, ASC, Acquisition, On-boarding and Deepening programs. These programs support the achievement of our acquisition and deepening goals.

Becky Waddell

Becky Waddell is a Senior Product Manager at IBM where she leads the development of Pearl, an award-winning marketing analytics and reporting platform that is at the core of IBMs data-driven marketing transformation.

Spearheading an initiative that brings UX and design to the forefront of their work, Becky has reshaped how the Marketing Analytics team approaches projects, compelling teams to think about topics like scalability and driving user adoption from the onset.

Pearl has been featured in Business Insider and on CNBC, and has been recognized by I-COM and the Association of National Advertisers for its impact.

Greg Riedel

Greg is responsible for the leading the Marketing Technology transformation and Social Business teams at USAA. Over the last nine years, he has served in a variety of roles at USAA including marketing strategy, Product Line leadership and marketing Brand management for USAAs Life Insurance and Investment portfolios.

Prior to his work at USAA, Greg had diverse experience across several industries including franchise marketing with Sport Clips Hair Cuts as well as time in the beer business driving marketing for the Gambrinus Company - best known for their flagship brand, Shiner Bock.

Greg received his B.A. from St. Edward's University in Austin and his MBA from the University of Texas in San Antonio.

Other fun facts:
* Greg's Grandfather served on the Underwater Demolition Team (predecessor to the Navy Seals) in the Korean and Vietnam war.
* Singer/songwriter, but knows he should keep his day job
* Greg is married to his beautiful wife Andrea and has two boys Luke and Bryce.

Vinodh Swaminathan

Toby Cappello

Toby Cappello is the Vice President of WW Expert & Delivery Services for Watson AI. In this executive leadership role, Toby is responsible for ensuring our customers get value from our AI offerings and continue to drive adoption across the enterprise.

Toby has focused on working with Customers to drive business value through enablement and building competencies around transformational and disruptive technologies. He has done this by aligning people, processes and technology ensuring organizations are prepared to realize value from technology investments and business transformation.

Lee Hatton

James M. Lee

James M. Lee is co-founder and CEO of LegalMation. As a former experienced litigator, he has tried numerous cases in federal and state courts. He has been recognized as a top business litigator by various legal publications including the National Law Journal. He is a frequent and noted speaker and commentator in the field of AI and innovations in the field of law. He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School, and his B.S. from the University of Southern California. At LegalMation, James serves as the key driver of the Company's vision and strategy.

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Marisa Scirica

Anna Cole

Robert Sutor

Dr. Bob Sutor is Vice President for IBM Q Strategy and Ecosystem at IBM Research. He is responsible for driving the strategy, ecosystem, and awareness for the IBM Q quantum computing program. In this role he works across IBM to bring together essential functions to rapidly extend the footprint of IBM Q as the industry-leading quantum computing hardware/software platform.

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Nikitas Stamatopoulos

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Armando Ortiz

Armando Ortiz is the iX Mobile and Extended Reality Leader delivering digital experiences and transformation for over 24 years across 16 industries including airlines, retail, entertainment, utilities and telco. He teams with clients to accelerate their Digital Reinvention journeys by designing customer and employee experiences powered by AI and delivered through mobile apps and Extended Reality.

Daniel Magid

Daniel Magid is the Rocket Vice President in charge of Rocket IBM i solution sales. Through his many articles, speaking engagements and interviews in leading IT publications, he has become a recognized authority on the IBM i, DevOps, and application modernization. Under Daniel's leadership, Rocket has received industry recognition as the clear leader in IBM i application development solutions.

Sam Werner

Sam Werner is Vice President of Offering Management for Software Defined Storage and Storage Software at IBM. In this role Sam is responsible for the end to end product strategy, roadmaps, and GTM for the Spectrum family of products and on-premises commercial deployments of IBM Cloud Object Storage.

Eric Herzog

Eric's responsibilities include worldwide product marketing and management for IBM's award-winning storage solutions and software defined storage, and responsibility for global storage channels. He has >32 yrs of product management, marketing, business development, sales, and channels experience in the storage market, managing all aspects of marketing, product management, sales, channels, and BD

Paul Papas

Paul is the Global Leader for IBM Digital Strategy & iX, a global professional services organization that helps our clients reinvent their business by design. Paul leads a team of "Renegades and Realists" who blend strategy, technology and creativity to tackle every client challenge. Strategists. Industry Experts. Researchers. Designers. Developers. Engineers. Artists. Facilitators. They imagine the businesses that will shape tomorrow's world and help our clients build them. His team provides next generation strategy and advisory consulting services helping CEOs and other C-suite executives leverage disruptive digital technologies to reinvent their businesses, by design. They also provide world-class design, creative, consulting and technology services that help our clients imagine and realize deeper customer relationships through new experiences, technologies and communications.

Jen Taylor

Jen Taylor is head of product at Cloudflare where she leads the delivery of cloud-based performance, security, and reliability solutions. Previously she was senior vice president of product management at Salesforce and held a variety of senior product and marketing roles at Facebook and Adobe. Jen has a BA in Public Policy from Brown University and MBA from Harvard Business School.

Eric Berridge

Eric Berridge is the co-founder of global consulting agency Bluewolf, an IBM Company. Bluewolf is salesforce's longest standing services partner and supports thousands of Salesforce customers in every global market.

Parisa Naseralavi

Mike Gilfix

Michael Gilfix is the Vice President of Digital Business Automation. In this role, he has global responsibility for offering management, engineering, and design for business process management, decision management, enterprise content management, and robotic process automation.

Gene Chao

Gene globally leads the IBM Automation Services & Solution business. He has responsibilities to build/develop our services, technical platform, skills and competencies across automation/autonomics, artificial intelligence, and enterprise solutions.

Joseph Gownder

J. P. Gownder is a vice president and principal analyst serving CIOs, CTOs, and other technology and business leaders. He leads Forrester's research into the impact that automation, AI, and robotics have on the future of work, the future of jobs, and the economy. He holds MA and BA degrees from Harvard.

Kim Watson

As Vice President, Global Client Experience, Kim is responsible for the overall client satisfaction for the delivery of offerings for IBM Services for Managed Applications,.

Kim has been in the ICT (Information and Communications Technology) field for over 30 years in various leadership roles including development, sales, engineering, delivery, software, managed services and outsourcing.

Peter Caldwell

Pete has been in the IT Profession for over 30 years. His experience has been in the Consulting, Energy and Consumer Product Good markets. He has been with StarKist for the last 9 years and is on their Leadership Team as the Director of IT.

Michael Berendsen

Berendsen has 30+ years of experience with Whirlpool including more than 13 years at the senior leadership level. His current responsibilities include enterprise strategy & architecture, information security & compliance, enterprise network, data center and operations. He and his team are working to transform Whirlpool's compute landscape to an asset light, cloud based contemporary footprint.

Thorsten Leiduck

As Global VP Ecosystem, SAP Cloud Platform, Thorsten Leiduck focuses on partner strategy, strategic partner adoption and go-to market growth initiatives to establish SAP Cloud Platform as the next generation development, data and business innovation platform for SAP'™s customer and ecosystem.

Lou Eng

I have been in the IT industry for 28 years, spending a majority of that time with Ogilvy, a leading global advertising agency that is part of the WPP Group. I am responsible for the SAP solution that services Ogilvy's US and Canada operations for Finance, HR, off-shore BPO operations, as well as middleware, applicant tracking and knowledge collaboration systems.

Joan Zerkovich

E. P. Moffatt

UK Design Manager for IBM Blockchain Platform.

Marley Gray

Marley Gray currently serves as the Principal Architect for the Azure Blockchain Engineering team leading the design and development of Microsoft's Blockchain Middleware platform code named Bletchley. Marley is a founding member of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and currently serves on the Board of Directors and Technical Steering Committee.

Gari Singh

As a Distinguished Engineer and the CTO of IBM Blockchain, Gari Singh has provided the guidance and leadership that has made IBM a leader in the blockchain space. He is responsible for IBM's core blockchain platform as well as IBM's blockchain as a service offering. Gari is also a core maintainer and contributor to Hyperledger Fabric, an open source blockchain technology for enterprises.

Eileen Lowry

Eileen is responsible for accelerating the adoption of IBM Blockchain and helping clients solve business network problems using blockchain technology. Her team of technical architects and developers educate clients on blockchain, design the solution architecture for blockchain applications, as well as build and deliver blockchain applications in order to drive business outcomes. She is based out of the IBM Cloud Garage in New York City, Soho. During her 10+ years with IBM, she's held various business and finance roles, including M&A strategy and business development, financial planning and analysis, as well as pricing strategy. She began her IBM career working as a software engineer for z Systems in Poughkeepsie, NY. Eileen holds an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business and BS in Computer Science from Union College.

Gennaro A. Cuomo

Christian Falco

Christian Falco is an Offering Manager for IBM Security, where he helps define, develop and deliver the IBM X-Force Exchange platform and Threat Intelligence Insights application.

Nick Rossmann

Nick Rossmann is the Lead for Intelligence Research and Operations within IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS). His teams hunt for evil and reverse engineer malware. Nick works closely with offering management across the IBM Security BU to integrate threat intelligence into the portfolio.

Murali Nemani

Joe Damassa

Riku Pulli

Andrew Bennett

Marianne B. Flores

Larry Wash

Larry Wash is Executive Vice President for KONE Americas and serves as a member of KONE's Executive Board.
In this role, he leads a $2 billion business that includes teams across the United States, Canada and Latin America.

Jack Oaks

Rama Vedula

Rama is a technology leader for Customer Digital Platforms and Digital Commerce in IBM iX. He has more than 20 years of experience in solutioning and building digital platforms for several of IBMs top clients, globally.

Steven Preston

David S. Hallagan

David Hallagan is an Associate Partner and Client Executive at IBM. In this role, he works with clients to identify - and realize - initiatives that put his clients in better competitive positions. He has worked in Retail for 20 years. Prior to IBM, David ran Staples' Direct Consumer Business Unit's IT department, managing eCommerce, Mobile, Customer Service, and Order Management teams.

Jamie Thomas

Jamie Thomas is the General Manager for Strategy & Development, IBM Systems. She is responsible for strategy, development and client experience for IBM's Power, Mainframe and Storage, and Quantum Offerings. She also owns IBM's worldwide supply chain and manufacturing operations.

Jay Allen

Jay is the Technical Alliances Director at Wandera, responsible for managing Global Technical Alliances and Strategic Partnerships. An experienced Technical Leader with a proven track record of leading global technical teams. He has also acted as a speaker at many industry events, conferences and trade shows.

Michael Covington

Michael J. Covington, Ph.D. is a seasoned technologist and the vice president of product for Wandera, a leader in mobile security and data management. Dr. Covington is a hands-on innovator with broad experience across the entire product life cycle, from planning R&D to executing on company strategy. He previously held leadership roles at Intel Labs, Cisco Security and Juniper Networks.

Alex Cherian

Alex has over 18 years of software development and product management experience in IBM. He has over 8 years of experience building cybersecurity products and currently handles product management and strategy for IBM MaaS360 with Watson a leading unified endpoint management and security solution.

Daniel G. Hernandez

As Vice President of IBM Analytics, Daniel G. Hernandez defines the direction and strategy for the IBM Analytics' three core businesses: Hybrid Data Management, Unified Governance, and Data Science & Machine Learning businesses.  Daniel’s team is responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and overall performance for IBM Cloud Private for Data, Watson Studio, Watson Machine Learning, Db2, Integrated Analytics System, Informix, Information Server, Data Replication, MDM, Optim, StoredIQ, SPSS, Decision Optimization offerings, and more. Major releases and partnerships during his tenure include IBM Cloud Private for Data, the Hortonworks IBM partnership, and several offerings that have won Red Dot Awards for Design.

Jason Caplan

Jason Caplan is currently the Senior Solutions Architect supporting Vanguard’s Enterprise Data Governance and Privacy Department. Jason has been at Vanguard for 25 years and has been part of the Data Governance program since its inception in 2012. In his current role, he is responsible for designing technical solutions to support the Company’s Data Governance Objectives, Controls, & Policies.

Thomas Lucey

Thomas is a management consultant with over 20 years™ experience in Master Data Management and Customer Relationship Management and has been advising financial institutions across Europe and Australia how to maximize customer information assets

Kumar Amitesh

John Ferguson

John is responsible for enterprise talent management including leadership, executive development, succession planning, performance management, and colleague career development. Prior to Citizens, he held leadership positions in management consulting, higher education, and with the U.S. government and military both domestically and internationally.

Amy Wright

Curt Burghardt

Christopher Moss

Christopher Moss is a Cloud Architect with the VMware on IBM Cloud offering who has merged a long history of Automation in the Cloud discipline. Christopher has a long history with Cloud and automation technologies.

Dale Hoffman

Dale is the Director of VMware Offering Management Solutions for the IBM Cloud. He is responsible for growing VMware workload and providing the path for Application Modernization on the IBM Cloud with VMware integration with containers. He also manages the partnership relationships with key VMware partners. Previously, he was Pgm Director Biz Dev & Strategic Alliances Linux Ecosystem.

Rahul Srivastava

Patrick G. Corcoran

Pat is the Global Strategy Executive, responsible for creating/managing the overall strategy for Business Resiliency Services, which includes Cyber Resilience, BaaS, DRaaS, Consulting, and Site & Facilities. In addition, he is responsible for marketing, analyst relations and external communications. He has been with IBM over 41 years and worked in many different leadership positions.

Gordon Millar

Gordon joined IBM in 2001, where he is now the WW Global Consultant Partner specialising in Resiliency in the Financial Sector although he has worked extensively in Retail, Airline, Oil & Gas Industries also.

Katie Baker

Katie Baker is a Manager in the Advisory Services practice of EY. She advises financial service providers in optimizing risk and control functions by establishing GRC foundational elements, designing processes, and working with stakeholders. Katie has over 5 years of experience in the financial services industry optimizing risk processes and implementing GRC tools.

Hiroki Shibayama

Hiroki is the Head of Product and Development of the Digital Makers Lab. where they fuse external technology with IBM assets to create new innovative solutions. Hiroki has experienced designing and implementing banking "KIOSK" system for about 5 years. After that, he has joined into the Digital Makers Lab. when the DML was set up.

Kei Shimada

Kei leads the Digital Makers Lab. where they fuse external technology with IBM assets to create new innovative solutions. Prior to IBM, Kei was Global Innovation Director at Dentsu, leading 10 labs in their business development expansion abroad. He has also created Japan's first national database of evacuation shelters and holds several patents. He is also a regular at global tech conferences.

Nagendra Ramamurthy Pattavardhanam

IBM DRM Product Manager, responsible for leading the offering, product development roadmap, and implementing the vision of IBM Security thought leadership. I help customers be successful in their data security initiatives, especially leading DRM deployments and realizing the business benefits of the solution.

Tanmay Sinha

Susannah Shattuck

Susannah Shattuck has spent her career connecting the dots between people and machines. Currently, she is an Offering Manager for Watson OpenScale, IBM's platform for monitoring, managing, and scaling AI performance in production. In previous roles at IBM, she helped Fortune 500 companies develop strategies for leveraging AI to help with everything from customer care to back office innovation.

Antoine Sater

Bob Burgarino

Craig Pawling

Craig Pawling serves as VP of Mobile at Apiture. Craig is a senior product, research, and tech strategist with over 15 years' experience. Previously, Craig served as Director of Product for First Data'™s mobile banking and has led industry consultative research for both the banking & technology sectors in prior roles. Craig holds a bachelor'™s degree in Government and Economics from Dartmouth.

Laura Donaldson

Laura Donaldson is a two-time Emmy award winning broadcast journalist, enterprise marketing expert and AI specialist. Laura currently leads marketing for IBM Watson Assistant where she develops strategies to support business development, partner and analyst relationships, thought leadership and product marketing. Prior to IBM, Laura was a broadcast journalist in her home state of Indiana.

Rachel Cordrey

Rachel Cordrey serves as the Pharmacy Supervisor of Inpatient Operations at Peninsula Regional Medical Center. Peninsula is a 280 bed non-profit hospital named among top 5% of all US hospitals and honored with a 'Five Star' CMS rating based on performance of 57 measures across the facility.

Yanni Kotziagkiaouridis

Robert H. High

Rob is the CTO for IBM's Edge Computing business. He is responsible for the development of our Edge computing offering. Prior to that he lead the technical strategy for IBM's Watson and Cloud Platform and was the CTO for IBM Watson setting the technical strategy for IBM's AI commercial business.

Kevin Murphy

Kevin looks after the Procurement Innovations team at RBS. The team lead all the Procurement activities across RBS Digital Customer Propositions, including the award winning Mobile app, Artificial Intelligence, Open Banking and several new innovative projects. Kevin has consistently driven innovation and change into the workplace in multiple industries, generating raving fans.

Holger Winkelmann

Dinesh Jain

Dinesh Jain is part of IBM Security division, working on Identity and Access Management (IAM) products since 2004. In his current job role, Dinesh is responsible for leading technical product strategy and roadmap for IBM Cloud Identity platform. He closely works with development teams, customers, business partners and sales teams worldwide.

Manfred Leistner

Daniel Lutz

Jaydeep Vasani

An Entrepreneur and Techno-Functional leader, driving Sales & Business development team of Data Science & Analytics at Veracitiz.

David Albert

Based in Ottawa, Dave is responsible for WW Sales for the Business Analytics segment in IBM’s business partner organization. Dave has 20 years experience in the BI and analytics space. His focus is on partner success and growth of IBM’s business partner community. His experience in sales, marketing and technical services have allowed him to be a positive influence in the BA space.

Jacky Patel

Business process mapping in a most effective and agile way is the key to success for Analytics. The step by step approach to solve any complex challenges gives the best comfort to clients and easy adoption to new business process change. Using these base principles, implemented Business Intelligence, Corporate Performance Management & Data Warehouse projects for all Industry verticals since 2005.