Arvind Krishna

Arvind Krishna is chief executive officer of IBM. As a business leader and technologist, he has led the building and expansion of new markets for IBM in artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing, and blockchain. He has also played a significant role in the development of innovative IBM products and solutions based on these emerging technologies.

Over his 30-year career at IBM, Arvind led a series of bold transformations and delivered proven business results. He most recently led the successful $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, the largest software acquisition in history and one that has defined the hybrid cloud market.

Arvind previously was senior vice president of Cloud and Cognitive Software. He also headed IBM Research, was general manager of development and manufacturing for IBM Systems and Technology Group, and led IBM Information Management.

Rajeev Ronanki

Rajeev Ronanki serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Officer at Anthem, Inc. He leads the transformation of Anthem to become a digital/AI-first enterprise by driving the vision, strategy, and execution of Anthem's Digital, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Exponential Technology, and Innovation Portfolios. Through these efforts, Rajeev enables Anthem to harness the power of AI and data to better understand healthcare consumers and provide tailored, personalized care. His experience spans over 20 years of innovation-driven industry and social change across healthcare and technology.

Prior to joining Anthem, Rajeev was a Partner at Deloitte Consulting, LLC where he established and led Deloitte's Life Sciences and Healthcare Advanced Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Innovation practices. He was also instrumental in shaping Deloitte's blockchain and cryptocurrency solutions and authored pieces on various exponential technology topics.

Additionally, Rajeev led Deloitte's strategic partnerships across a wide range of innovation programs that sought to evangelize disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and precision medicine.

Alex Hawley

Alex leads change delivery and the security consulting function in the Barclays Chief Security Office (CSO).  He has global responsibility for the delivery of Group-wide security change and the provision of security support to Barclays’ own technologists and the establishment of a DevSecOps model.
Alex began his security career as an infantry officer in the British Army, seeing service in Iraq, West Africa and the Balkans before retiring from the military and joining Barclays in 2012.
He has worked in various teams across operations and technology before finding his new home in the CSO three years ago.  Alex holds an MBA and mentors service leavers seeking to build second careers.    

Eric Hanselman

Eric is the Chief Analyst at 451 Research and coordinates industry analysis across the broad portfolio of 451 research disciplines, with an extensive, hands-on understanding of a range of subject areas, including information security, networks, and semiconductors and their intersection in areas such as SDN/NFV, 5G, and the Internet of Things. Eric helps 451 Research’s clients navigate these turbulent waters and capitalize on potential outcomes. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a VMware Certified Professional (VCP), a member of 451’s Center of Excellence in Quantum Technologies and is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences.

Bart Van den Daele

Bart Van den Daele is General Manager for Worldwide Infrastructure Services within IBM´s Global Technology Services division since January 2020. In this role, he has global responsibility for end-to-end integration of infrastructure services capabilities, from sales and go-to-market to delivery, revenue and profit.

Prior to this position, Bart was General Manager for GTS´ Worldwide Delivery & Integrated Operations where he led the global delivery of the Infrastructure Services business. Before assuming that role in 2018, Bart was General Manager for Global Technology Services Europe, where he was responsible for the sales and operations of the unit.

Since joining IBM in 1996, Bart has held various senior leadership positions in the Software, Industry, Solutions and Services divisions. He has extensive experience and deep industry knowledge across all parts of IBM's services business.

Bart holds a Master in Electromechanics and Automation.

Tosca Colangeli

Tosca is responsible for the day-to-day running of this large organisation which runs the architecture & platform transformation of Foundational Services that Clients rely on to deliver operational excellence & business value. This continues on from Tosca’s extensive leadership experience; including international assignments leading IBM’s Infrastructure Services & Application Service Provision solutions into Global Financial Markets Clients as well as running Systems Hardware Group in the UKI, focused on driving strategic change & transformation; as well as building new markets such as Cloud and Analytics. Tosca has extensive experience of working with senior business leaders across industries & markets to help them develop & implement strategies to innovate & drive growth augmenting technology & skilled professionals.

David La Rose

David leads the organization's worldwide channel business. He engages with more than 160,000 Ecosystem Partners around emerging opportunities in the channel through cloud, analytics, mobile, security, AI and modern infrastructure. 

Bridget van Kralingen

As Senior Vice President, Global Markets, Bridget van Kralingen is responsible for IBM’s revenue, profit, business development and client satisfaction worldwide. Global Markets combines top client accounts, strategic partnerships, and industry capabilities in a single go-to-market to provide a superior sales, service and delivery experience for our clients. Previously, Bridget led Industry Platforms, a business unit that conceives, develops, and scales disruptive software cloud platforms for specific industries; opens new markets for the Watson artificial intelligence platform; and established IBM as the clear leader in the emerging market for blockchain. Bridget holds a Masters of Commerce degree from the University of South Africa and Bachelors of Commerce degree from the University of Witwatersrand. Since 2011, Bridget has been listed as one of Fortune Magazine's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business." She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Bank of Canada.

Michelle Peluso

As Senior Vice President of Digital Sales and Chief Marketing Officer, Michelle oversees all global marketing and brand initiatives, strategy, response lead management, customer relationship management and execution for the IBM company. Her team includes thousands of marketing professionals and digital sellers located in 100+ countries worldwide. Michelle brings to IBM deep, customer-centric marketing, sales and leadership experience, as IBM accelerates its transformation to an AI & Cloud platform company.

Jim Whitehurst

Jim Whitehurst is the President of IBM. He is responsible for the IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software organization, and Corporate Strategy. He is an advocate for open principles as a catalyst for business innovation. With a background in business development, finance and global operations, he has proven expertise helping companies flourish — even in the most challenging environments.

Prior to IBM, Whitehurst served as the President and CEO of Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise software solutions. At Red Hat, Whitehurst grew its influence with key milestones — including becoming the first $1 billion revenue open source software company in 2012 and, most notably, the landmark acquisition of Red Hat by IBM for $34 billion in 2019. He has grown revenue from more than $500 million for its 2008 fiscal year to $3.4 billion for its 2019 fiscal year.

At Delta Air Lines, Whitehurst drove significant global expansion and, as chief operating officer, oversaw all aspects of airline operations, from sales to strategy. He began his career at The Boston Consulting Group in 1989.

Hillery Hunter

Hillery is CTO of IBM Cloud, responsible for technical strategy for IBM's cloud-native and infrastructure offerings. Prior to this role, she served as Director of Accelerated Cognitive Infrastructure in IBM Research, leading a team doing cross-stack (hardware through software) optimization of AI workloads, producing productivity breakthroughs of 40x and greater which were transferred into IBM product offerings. Her technical interests have always been interdisciplinary, spanning from silicon technology through system software, and she has served in technical and leadership roles in memory technology, Systems for AI, and other areas. She is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and was appointed as an IBM Fellow in 2017. Hillery is a BS, MS, and PhD graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Vishant Vora

Vishant Vora is the Chief Technology Officer of Vodafone Idea Limited, India’s largest telecom service provider, effective 31stAugust 2018. A member of the National Leadership Team, Vishant is responsible for networks, IT operations and overall technology strategy. Prior to his present role, Vishant was Director–Technology at Vodafone India where he spearheaded the technology and network infrastructure for the company. A career telecom professional, Vishant has spent more than two and half decades in telecom technology building his expertise across three continents –USA, Europe and Asia. He graduated as Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Lawrence Technology University in Michigan, USA.

David La Rose

David leads the organization's worldwide channel business. He engages with more than 160,000 Ecosystem Partners around emerging opportunities in the channel through cloud, analytics, mobile, security, AI and modern infrastructure. 

Francois Nicolas

Mandy Long

Justin Youngblood

Justin Youngblood is the Vice President of IBM Security, with responsibility for Offering Management and Development. In this role, Justin leads the innovation and delivery of security solutions that enable enterprises to rapidly and effectively detect and respond to security threats, protect data and privacy, govern users and identities, and secure workloads across hybrid cloud environments and endpoints.

Mary O'Brien

Mary O’Brien is the General Manager of IBM Security, the largest enterprise security company in the world. She leads a global team, focused on delivering IBM’s extensive security product and services portfolio. She is a strategic partner to many CEOs, CISOs, and CIOs on cybersecurity, AI, and IT strategy.

Before taking over as head of the IBM Security unit, Mary led Research and Development for the division. Having joined IBM in 2007, she spent her time making sure the research, proof of concepts and thought leadership evolved into viable products. In charge of progressing IBM’s security portfolio, she examined which incubators had the potential for success and aligned with IBM’s strategy to manage those products all the way through to delivery and support in the field.

A lifelong engineer, Mary’s career started with the last indigenous Semiconductor manufacturer in the UK. In 1994, she joined the Motorola GSM systems division and developed her skills in ASIC, PBC and Software development of telco products. Mary earned her Bachelor’s in Engineering from Dublin City University.
With more than 30 years of industry experience developed through tenures in the UK, US and Ireland, Mary spends a lot of her time mentoring others and ensures that those who work for her have mentors as well. She is a passionate fan of all local sports teams and enjoys running and swimming in her spare time. She is a self-proclaimed “foodie,” and a keen gardener that grows her own vegetables. Mary currently resides in Ireland with her family but frequently makes trips to the IBM Security headquarters in Cambridge, MA.

George Eapen

George Eapen is the Global CISO and Group Head of Cyber Security for Petrofac, one of the world's largest O&G EPC Companies with 11,500 employees.
-Previously, responsible for defining Cyber Security strategy for Enterprise IT & OT for the GE Global regions as a Chief Information Security Officer.
-14 years of global experience with multiple businesses as Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Digital, etc.., and in diverse domains (Software development, Quality, Auditing, Infrastructure, Operations & Cyber Security).
-Presented over 30+ conferences in the Middle East, USA, Europe including conferences like Gartner, GISEC, MILIPOL, Cloud MENA, CISO 360, etc..
-Serves as a non-Executive Board member for many Cyber Organizations and Cyber Committees.
-Recipient of multiple awards globally which includes MESA, CXO 50, CISO 30, etc..
-Holding an Electrical Engineering degree from MG University, an MBA from Symbiosis and an Executive MBA from MIT Sloan.

Wendi Whitmore

Wendi Whitmore is a technical leader with over 15 years of experience in incident response and data breach investigations, strategic information security services, and threat intelligence analytics. At IBM, Wendi was instrumental in creating IBM X-Force IRIS which includes the global X-Force Incident Response, Proactive Services, and Threat Intelligence practices. In her role, she leverages people, infrastructure, data and technology to drive the capabilities of detection and defense against targeted threats for global client organizations.

Before joining IBM, Wendi held executive level positions at CrowdStrike Services and Mandiant, where she was responsible for growing and implementing all professional services offerings and engagements delivered, including building IR capabilities for several federal government agencies and leading data breach investigations for global commercial clients. Wendi began her career as a Special Agent conducting computer crime investigations with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).

Jim Whitehurst

Jim Whitehurst is the President of IBM. He is responsible for the IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software organization, and Corporate Strategy. He is an advocate for open principles as a catalyst for business innovation. With a background in business development, finance and global operations, he has proven expertise helping companies flourish — even in the most challenging environments.

Prior to IBM, Whitehurst served as the President and CEO of Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise software solutions. At Red Hat, Whitehurst grew its influence with key milestones — including becoming the first $1 billion revenue open source software company in 2012 and, most notably, the landmark acquisition of Red Hat by IBM for $34 billion in 2019. He has grown revenue from more than $500 million for its 2008 fiscal year to $3.4 billion for its 2019 fiscal year.

At Delta Air Lines, Whitehurst drove significant global expansion and, as chief operating officer, oversaw all aspects of airline operations, from sales to strategy. He began his career at The Boston Consulting Group in 1989.

Rosalva Nunez

Christopher Oliver

He is tasked with developing and executing strategies to accelerate the revenue and value created through our ecosystem.

Meredith Whalen

Susie White

Craig Weathers

Virginia M. (Ginni) Rometty

Ginni Rometty is Executive Chairman of IBM. She was previously Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.

During her tenure she made bold changes to reposition IBM for the future, investing in high value segments of the IT market and optimizing the company's portfolio. Under Ginni’s leadership, IBM built out key capabilities in hybrid cloud, security, quantum computing, industry expertise, and data and AI.

Ginni also established IBM as the model of responsible stewardship in the digital age. She was the industry's leading voice on technology ethics and data stewardship, working to safely usher new technologies into society. She enabled people of diverse backgrounds and education levels to participate in the digital economy by building talent, skills and opportunity for disadvantaged populations. IBM also achieved record results in diversity and inclusion under Ginni’s leadership.

Ginni held a series of leadership positions across IBM and led the successful integration of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, creating a global team of more than 100,000 business consultants and services experts.

will.i.am .

will.i.am is a creative innovator and tech investor/entrepreneur who has been recognized by seven Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a CLIO Award, the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award, and an Honorary Fellowship by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

As Founder and CEO of I.AM+, he leads a team focused on artificial intelligence (AI) for enterprise, including Omega for Enterprise, an AI voice computing platform built to be conversational, contextual and cross-domainable for B2B and B2C settings.

He serves on the World Economic Forum’s Fourth Industrial Revolution Advisory Committee and the organization’s Global AI Council. will.i.am and his brands/companies have collaborated with a diverse array of brands including: Accenture, Apple, Atom Bank, Chase, China Everbright New Economy Fund, Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, Epic Records, Horizon Ventures, IBM, Intel, Lexus, Marvel, Nestle and Pepsi.

Archana Vemulapalli

Archana has end-to-end responsibility for IS offering design and co-creation with clients, offering management and development of market-led digital.

Aki Duvvur

Aki Duvvur has held various leadership positions within IBM’s Cloud organization since January, 2010.  Roles have included:  VP Cloud & Cognitive, North America, Cloud Platform for North America, Cloud Innovation and Enablement, Global Cloud Strategy, and Integration Executive for the SoftLayer Acquisition.  Aki’s current role is as VP & CPO, IBM Public Cloud.
Prior to joining the IBM Cloud team, he was Acquisition Executive for IBM’s Novus and Softek acquisitions and Business Leader in North East Europe based in Zurich.  
Prior to IBM’s acquisition of Novus, Aki was CTO for Novus Consulting Group.  
Aki holds a patent for “method and system for determining a management complexity factor for delivering services in an environment” (United States 7979513) – issued July 12, 2011.
His education includes a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.

Bobby Cameron

Bobby serves CIOs. He is a leading expert on best practices for IT, including: business technology (BT), the empowered BT archetype, transformation from IT to BT, BT demand management, driving business innovation, business alignment, the business value of IT, BT strategic planning, IT governance, IT structure, IT/BT maturity, the marketing of IT, architecture and technology strategy, application development, IT operations, and serving the business.

His specialty is transformative technology use that drives business success in the emerging world of business technology (BT), like IT value creation, technology-based business innovation, and digital business networks.

While Bobby focuses his research on delivering IT excellence on the road to BT, he continues his close work with members of The CIO Group in the Forrester Leadership Boards, which he conceived and piloted in 2002. In this role, he writes CIO-targeted research, answers individual members' business and technology inquiries, and facilitates CIO Group member exchange meetings where CIOs discuss member-selected topics.

Fikri Larguet

Fikri Larguet is Director of Cloud Product and Services  at GEICO, an IT Division that he created 3 years ago after successfully leading GEICO’s journey into Microsoft Cloud making GEICO one of the top 5 Azure private consumers in the US. Recently Fikri  took on additional responsibilities  in leading all IBM Cloud Products and Services  initiatives. 
Prior to that, Fikri ran all of Digital Sales at GEICO and drove various efforts to increase GEICO’s new business by integrating the Sales Digital Experience with Watson Services. 
Fikri possesses a great blend of technical and business abilities that uniquely positions him to drive many of the strategic initiatives at GEICO. His substantial knowledge and experience in both the Cloud and Digital space make him a unique player with strong strategic insights as to what IBM Cloud can be for a customer like GEICO.
Specialties: Cloud , Automation, Digital Customer Experience  , Architecture, Database , Microsoft Azure. CI/CD

Michael Fino

Vice President & COO, Global Business Partners.  Operations executive with experience leading all key functional areas of integrated operations and has overall responsibility for transformation and operations supporting IBM’s 15,000 business partners. 

Rachel Cordrey

Rachel Cordrey graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Biological Sciences from the University of Maryland College Park in 2011, then a Doctorate of Pharmacy from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore School of Pharmacy in 2014. Dr.Cordrey is currently working towards a Master’s in Healthcare Administration from the University of Maryland Global Campus. She has served as the Pharmacy Supervisor of inpatient operations at Peninsula Regional Medical Center since 2016. In January 2019, Peninsula Regional was the first hospital in the nation to integrate IBM’s artificial intelligence, Watson, into the electronic health record system, Epic. In June 2019, IBM nominated Dr.Cordrey for the “Top Women Leader in AI” award for the work that PRMC did to pave the way for AI integration. Dr. Cordrey also teaches Biostatistics s at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore School of Pharmacy.

Mark Weisman

Amber Armstrong

Amber Armstrong is a passionate CMO that thinks like a CEO. She currently serves as a strategic leader and CMO of AI Applications at IBM. As CMO, Amber leads all aspects of marketing inclusive of brand, product, digital, and demand generation. She is dedicated to the application of both the art and the science of marketing to improve client experiences through account based marketing and strategic product marketing approaches. Amber serves her teams to inspire innovation, continual learning, and agile marketing execution. As an Artificial Intelligence (AI) enthusiast, Amber has focused her career in applying AI across customer experience, commerce, marketing, development, and supply chain across a series of divisions at IBM and other technology companies.

Kareem Yusuf, Ph.D

Kareem Yusuf leads the AI Applications business at IBM, focused on enabling clients to transform enterprise operations and supply chains through intelligent insights and execution. His team owns a portfolio of market-leading business applications including Maximo, TRIRIGA, Sterling, Engineering and Weather Business Solutions offerings. 
 
Kareem has been with IBM for over 20 years and has held senior leadership positions in a variety of disciplines across the company. These have included Offering Management, Software Development, SaaS Operations, Mergers & Acquisitions and Field Technical Sales. Kareem has a Ph.D from the University of Leeds, focused on Decision Support Systems for Civil Engineering construction. He maintains an active interest in all things technical, with a particular interest in digital photography and programming languages. He is a TED Speaker and also the author of “Enterprise Messaging Using JMS and IBM WebSphere.”

Jonathan Wright

Jonathan Wright, global leader for Cognitive Process Re-engineering at IBM, has spent his career enabling large, multinational corporations to achieve high performance through convergent technology, operating model, and business transformation. Throughout his consulting career, he has gained a reputation as a “practice builder” by developing trusted client relationships, delivering complex programs and building high-performing consulting teams.

Jonathan is recognized globally for his thought leadership and his work in the area of Supply Chain and Operations across many industries. He has supported the World Economic Forum, has presented numerous papers in Davos, and recently received Supply & Demand Supply Chain Executive 2020 Provider Pros to Know award. Jonathan operates at the intersection between technology, cognitive and business. Working with the C-Suite, he is able to shape strategies to address the new business imperatives around Business Model, Op Model, Core Process Redesign and Customer Experience. He is experienced at taking these strategies through to outcome by implementing regional or global transformation and expansion programs.

Jon Young

Jon is a Supply Chain executive at Telstra, Australia’s largest mobile network. He is an experienced leader with a proven ability for immediate and positive impact on team and business performance. He currently leads Supply Chain at Telstra where he is responsible for Telstra’s integrated supply chain strategy with ownership of the retail, industrial, and enterprise supply chains end to end operations. Previously, he spent 7 years at Amcor in several global delivery roles. Jon holds degrees from Monash University and Melbourne Business School.

Joe Harvey

Joe Harvey is Vice President of Technology – Enterprise Technology Solutions of Southern Company, one of America’s most respected companies and a leading producer of clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy. Harvey leads the technology
teams that develop, implement and maintain the enterprise-wide corporate business solutions, work and asset management solutions, GIS systems, and database systems leveraged across Southern Company’s subsidiaries, including Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Mississippi Power, Southern Power, and Southern Company Gas.  Harvey has spent twenty five years in the technology industry leading the strategic planning, implementation, and support of critical systems in the energy industry. In 2009, he implemented the Maximo Center of Excellence responsible for the company’s work and asset management, scheduling, and supply chain functions. He is currently leading the enterprise-wide transformation and modernization of the technology and business processes in the Accounting, Finance, HR, Supply Chain, and Work and Asset Management areas of the business. 
 
Harvey holds a bachelor degree in Decision Sciences from Georgia State University. He is a graduate of Southern Company’s Technology Leadership Development program and Southern Company’s Leadership Academy program. Joe was awarded the Project Manager of the Year award in 2003 and the Inclusive Workplace award in 2010.  Joe is a Deacon and member of Double Oak Community Church in Birmingham.  Joe and his wife, Val, along with their two daughters, Emma and Abby, currently reside in Birmingham, AL.  With more than 9 million customers and approximately 52,000 megawatts of generating capacity, Atlanta-based Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is the premier energy company serving the Southeast through its subsidiaries. Named Conexx 2017 U.S. Company of the year, Southern Company has also been recognized as one of the 100 “Best Places to Work in IT” by IDG’s Computerworld for nine consecutive years and top 50 companies for Diversity by DiversityInc for 2017. 

John Teltsch

John is the general manager of IBM Systems Sales. He leads worldwide sales for the IBM Storage, IBM Cognitive Systems, IBM Z, Lab Services and Technical Sales teams. In collaboration with his peers in Systems’ product development and offering management, John owns and executes IBM’s go-to-market strategy for hardware products and related software offerings in IBM Systems.

Sebastian Krause

GM, IBM Cloud & Cognitive Solutions, IBM Europe

David La Rose

David leads the organization's worldwide channel business. He engages with more than 160,000 Ecosystem Partners around emerging opportunities in the channel through cloud, analytics, mobile, security, AI and modern infrastructure. 

Mark Treshock

Janakiraman Gopinath

Megan Biernat

Tegan Keele

Jesus Mantas

Jesus Mantas serves as Managing Partner, Global Strategy, Platforms and Innovation. He is an award-winning, globally recognized thought leader in AI, Design, Digital and Technology and is one of IBM's foremost leaders in unlocking innovation and growth through research, alliances, partnerships and new ventures.

Bob Lord

Bob is Senior Vice President, Cognitive Applications, Blockchain, and Ecosystems at IBM, where he is responsible for infusing AI technology across the business. He leads IBM’s blockchain business and oversees the company’s partner ecosystems including developers, global systems integrators, and independent software vendors to help clients accelerate their journey to the cloud.

He was appointed in 2016 as the company’s first Chief Digital Officer, changing how IBM innovation is delivered and consumed across the globe. He was previously the President of AOL and served as the CEO of Razorfish, a pioneering digital transformation consultancy.

A board member for Williams-Sonoma and Screenvision Media, Bob graduated with an Industrial Engineering degree from Syracuse University before pursuing his MBA from Harvard University.

Sai Vennam

Sai Vennam is a Developer Advocate at IBM with expertise on Kubernetes, OpenShift, and managed cloud offerings. He has a large presence on YouTube creating developer-friendly videos, but also develops samples to showcase the latest and greatest cloud technology. He’s passionate about connecting developers with technology that allows them to be successful. As a hobby, he works on his home automation using Raspberry Pis and serverless technology.

Salome Valero

Ph.D in Engineering. Master in Technological Management. Certified Project Manager and Scrum Master. With experience in consulting and delivery of IT outsourcing services for Telecommunications and Banking sectors. Developer. Passionate about innovation, cloud and open source communities. Learning IoT and cognitive services. Technology for good as inspiration. Winner of 2019 Call for Code global Challenge with Prometeo to help firefighters control the cumulative effects of smoke and toxic substances. Working to make my dream come true with Code&Response initiative. Engineer with purpose and mother of two children.

Kait Szydlowski

A VP at Morgan Stanley, Kait Szydlowski leads Morgan Stanley’s Global Technology Philanthropy, a global program creating opportunities for employees to Give Back using their technical expertise. In addition to Call for Code, Kait also oversees Technology Change Makers, a global program that embeds teams of Morgan Stanley Technologists in local non-profits to address a technical need and Morgan Stanley Makerspace, a workshop-based program that teaches kids & teens living in shelters how to code using robotics and games.
As a former private sector strategy consultant, a founder of a Beijing for-profit social enterprise bringing medical devices to China for children with disabilities, and a U.S. Department of State Fulbright Research Fellow to China, Kait is passionate about bringing technical expertise to the organizations and communities that need it the most. Kait graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2009, where she served as a Trustee from 2015-2019.

Marion Vincent

Marion Vincent is a Vice President at Morgan Stanley in the Technology division. She is the Chief of Staff for Corporate and Funding Technology. Marion has been with Morgan Stanley Technology for 8 years. She is a strong advocate of Diversity at Morgan Stanley through its Women in Technology programs and she leads the Codeathon for Good working group within the Global Technology Philanthropy team. Marion has been managing the Call for Code partnership at Morgan Stanley since 2019.
Marion moved to the United States from France in 2005 to earn her Bachelor’s degree in Finance and International Management from Pace University. In her spare time, she is an endurance athlete. She has completed over 15 marathons, multiple Ironman and most recently a six-day running race in the Moroccan Sahara to raise funds for the Malala Fund.

Catherine Solazzo

Catherine Solazzo is currently the VP of Ecosystem Performance Marketing supporting Business Partners with Sales Enablement, Marketing Programs & Platforms.

Debasis Roy Choudhuri

Suman Mishra

Matthew Porta

Robin Hauser

Robin Hauser is the director and producer of award-winning documentaries made to illuminate causes she is passionate about - from the gender gap in tech, to unconscious bias, and financial literacy. Her combined talents as a storyteller, professional photographer and business woman produce films that transform fields and open minds. Her work has carried her around the world, from the TED stage to the White House, to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, and to conferences worldwide, talking to audiences about mitigating bias in AI; diversity, inclusion and gender equality. A disruptor, Robin is described as “engaging, insightful, and thought-provoking in addressing the most important socio-economic issues we face today.” Robin is a diplomat for the American Film Showcase and has been featured internationally in Forbes, Fortune, The Atlantic, Fast Company, USA Today, Wired, San Francisco Business Times, Bloomberg TV, CNN, NPR, CNBC, and others.

Arvind Krishna

Arvind Krishna is chief executive officer of IBM. As a business leader and technologist, he has led the building and expansion of new markets for IBM in artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing, and blockchain. He has also played a significant role in the development of innovative IBM products and solutions based on these emerging technologies.

Over his 30-year career at IBM, Arvind led a series of bold transformations and delivered proven business results. He most recently led the successful $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, the largest software acquisition in history and one that has defined the hybrid cloud market.

Arvind previously was senior vice president of Cloud and Cognitive Software. He also headed IBM Research, was general manager of development and manufacturing for IBM Systems and Technology Group, and led IBM Information Management.

Rajeev Ronanki

Rajeev Ronanki serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Officer at Anthem, Inc. He leads the transformation of Anthem to become a digital/AI-first enterprise by driving the vision, strategy, and execution of Anthem's Digital, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Exponential Technology, and Innovation Portfolios. Through these efforts, Rajeev enables Anthem to harness the power of AI and data to better understand healthcare consumers and provide tailored, personalized care. His experience spans over 20 years of innovation-driven industry and social change across healthcare and technology.

Prior to joining Anthem, Rajeev was a Partner at Deloitte Consulting, LLC where he established and led Deloitte's Life Sciences and Healthcare Advanced Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Innovation practices. He was also instrumental in shaping Deloitte's blockchain and cryptocurrency solutions and authored pieces on various exponential technology topics.

Additionally, Rajeev led Deloitte's strategic partnerships across a wide range of innovation programs that sought to evangelize disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and precision medicine.

Alex Hawley

Alex leads change delivery and the security consulting function in the Barclays Chief Security Office (CSO).  He has global responsibility for the delivery of Group-wide security change and the provision of security support to Barclays’ own technologists and the establishment of a DevSecOps model.
Alex began his security career as an infantry officer in the British Army, seeing service in Iraq, West Africa and the Balkans before retiring from the military and joining Barclays in 2012.
He has worked in various teams across operations and technology before finding his new home in the CSO three years ago.  Alex holds an MBA and mentors service leavers seeking to build second careers.    

Eric Hanselman

Eric is the Chief Analyst at 451 Research and coordinates industry analysis across the broad portfolio of 451 research disciplines, with an extensive, hands-on understanding of a range of subject areas, including information security, networks, and semiconductors and their intersection in areas such as SDN/NFV, 5G, and the Internet of Things. Eric helps 451 Research’s clients navigate these turbulent waters and capitalize on potential outcomes. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a VMware Certified Professional (VCP), a member of 451’s Center of Excellence in Quantum Technologies and is a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences.

Bart Van den Daele

Bart Van den Daele is General Manager for Worldwide Infrastructure Services within IBM´s Global Technology Services division since January 2020. In this role, he has global responsibility for end-to-end integration of infrastructure services capabilities, from sales and go-to-market to delivery, revenue and profit.

Prior to this position, Bart was General Manager for GTS´ Worldwide Delivery & Integrated Operations where he led the global delivery of the Infrastructure Services business. Before assuming that role in 2018, Bart was General Manager for Global Technology Services Europe, where he was responsible for the sales and operations of the unit.

Since joining IBM in 1996, Bart has held various senior leadership positions in the Software, Industry, Solutions and Services divisions. He has extensive experience and deep industry knowledge across all parts of IBM's services business.

Bart holds a Master in Electromechanics and Automation.

Tosca Colangeli

Tosca is responsible for the day-to-day running of this large organisation which runs the architecture & platform transformation of Foundational Services that Clients rely on to deliver operational excellence & business value. This continues on from Tosca’s extensive leadership experience; including international assignments leading IBM’s Infrastructure Services & Application Service Provision solutions into Global Financial Markets Clients as well as running Systems Hardware Group in the UKI, focused on driving strategic change & transformation; as well as building new markets such as Cloud and Analytics. Tosca has extensive experience of working with senior business leaders across industries & markets to help them develop & implement strategies to innovate & drive growth augmenting technology & skilled professionals.

David La Rose

David leads the organization's worldwide channel business. He engages with more than 160,000 Ecosystem Partners around emerging opportunities in the channel through cloud, analytics, mobile, security, AI and modern infrastructure. 

Bridget van Kralingen

As Senior Vice President, Global Markets, Bridget van Kralingen is responsible for IBM’s revenue, profit, business development and client satisfaction worldwide. Global Markets combines top client accounts, strategic partnerships, and industry capabilities in a single go-to-market to provide a superior sales, service and delivery experience for our clients. Previously, Bridget led Industry Platforms, a business unit that conceives, develops, and scales disruptive software cloud platforms for specific industries; opens new markets for the Watson artificial intelligence platform; and established IBM as the clear leader in the emerging market for blockchain. Bridget holds a Masters of Commerce degree from the University of South Africa and Bachelors of Commerce degree from the University of Witwatersrand. Since 2011, Bridget has been listed as one of Fortune Magazine's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business." She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Bank of Canada.

Michelle Peluso

As Senior Vice President of Digital Sales and Chief Marketing Officer, Michelle oversees all global marketing and brand initiatives, strategy, response lead management, customer relationship management and execution for the IBM company. Her team includes thousands of marketing professionals and digital sellers located in 100+ countries worldwide. Michelle brings to IBM deep, customer-centric marketing, sales and leadership experience, as IBM accelerates its transformation to an AI & Cloud platform company.

Jim Whitehurst

Jim Whitehurst is the President of IBM. He is responsible for the IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software organization, and Corporate Strategy. He is an advocate for open principles as a catalyst for business innovation. With a background in business development, finance and global operations, he has proven expertise helping companies flourish — even in the most challenging environments.

Prior to IBM, Whitehurst served as the President and CEO of Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise software solutions. At Red Hat, Whitehurst grew its influence with key milestones — including becoming the first $1 billion revenue open source software company in 2012 and, most notably, the landmark acquisition of Red Hat by IBM for $34 billion in 2019. He has grown revenue from more than $500 million for its 2008 fiscal year to $3.4 billion for its 2019 fiscal year.

At Delta Air Lines, Whitehurst drove significant global expansion and, as chief operating officer, oversaw all aspects of airline operations, from sales to strategy. He began his career at The Boston Consulting Group in 1989.

Hillery Hunter

Hillery is CTO of IBM Cloud, responsible for technical strategy for IBM's cloud-native and infrastructure offerings. Prior to this role, she served as Director of Accelerated Cognitive Infrastructure in IBM Research, leading a team doing cross-stack (hardware through software) optimization of AI workloads, producing productivity breakthroughs of 40x and greater which were transferred into IBM product offerings. Her technical interests have always been interdisciplinary, spanning from silicon technology through system software, and she has served in technical and leadership roles in memory technology, Systems for AI, and other areas. She is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and was appointed as an IBM Fellow in 2017. Hillery is a BS, MS, and PhD graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Vishant Vora

Vishant Vora is the Chief Technology Officer of Vodafone Idea Limited, India’s largest telecom service provider, effective 31stAugust 2018. A member of the National Leadership Team, Vishant is responsible for networks, IT operations and overall technology strategy. Prior to his present role, Vishant was Director–Technology at Vodafone India where he spearheaded the technology and network infrastructure for the company. A career telecom professional, Vishant has spent more than two and half decades in telecom technology building his expertise across three continents –USA, Europe and Asia. He graduated as Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Lawrence Technology University in Michigan, USA.

David La Rose

David leads the organization's worldwide channel business. He engages with more than 160,000 Ecosystem Partners around emerging opportunities in the channel through cloud, analytics, mobile, security, AI and modern infrastructure. 

Francois Nicolas

Mandy Long

Justin Youngblood

Justin Youngblood is the Vice President of IBM Security, with responsibility for Offering Management and Development. In this role, Justin leads the innovation and delivery of security solutions that enable enterprises to rapidly and effectively detect and respond to security threats, protect data and privacy, govern users and identities, and secure workloads across hybrid cloud environments and endpoints.

Mary O'Brien

Mary O’Brien is the General Manager of IBM Security, the largest enterprise security company in the world. She leads a global team, focused on delivering IBM’s extensive security product and services portfolio. She is a strategic partner to many CEOs, CISOs, and CIOs on cybersecurity, AI, and IT strategy.

Before taking over as head of the IBM Security unit, Mary led Research and Development for the division. Having joined IBM in 2007, she spent her time making sure the research, proof of concepts and thought leadership evolved into viable products. In charge of progressing IBM’s security portfolio, she examined which incubators had the potential for success and aligned with IBM’s strategy to manage those products all the way through to delivery and support in the field.

A lifelong engineer, Mary’s career started with the last indigenous Semiconductor manufacturer in the UK. In 1994, she joined the Motorola GSM systems division and developed her skills in ASIC, PBC and Software development of telco products. Mary earned her Bachelor’s in Engineering from Dublin City University.
With more than 30 years of industry experience developed through tenures in the UK, US and Ireland, Mary spends a lot of her time mentoring others and ensures that those who work for her have mentors as well. She is a passionate fan of all local sports teams and enjoys running and swimming in her spare time. She is a self-proclaimed “foodie,” and a keen gardener that grows her own vegetables. Mary currently resides in Ireland with her family but frequently makes trips to the IBM Security headquarters in Cambridge, MA.

George Eapen

George Eapen is the Global CISO and Group Head of Cyber Security for Petrofac, one of the world's largest O&G EPC Companies with 11,500 employees.
-Previously, responsible for defining Cyber Security strategy for Enterprise IT & OT for the GE Global regions as a Chief Information Security Officer.
-14 years of global experience with multiple businesses as Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Digital, etc.., and in diverse domains (Software development, Quality, Auditing, Infrastructure, Operations & Cyber Security).
-Presented over 30+ conferences in the Middle East, USA, Europe including conferences like Gartner, GISEC, MILIPOL, Cloud MENA, CISO 360, etc..
-Serves as a non-Executive Board member for many Cyber Organizations and Cyber Committees.
-Recipient of multiple awards globally which includes MESA, CXO 50, CISO 30, etc..
-Holding an Electrical Engineering degree from MG University, an MBA from Symbiosis and an Executive MBA from MIT Sloan.

Wendi Whitmore

Wendi Whitmore is a technical leader with over 15 years of experience in incident response and data breach investigations, strategic information security services, and threat intelligence analytics. At IBM, Wendi was instrumental in creating IBM X-Force IRIS which includes the global X-Force Incident Response, Proactive Services, and Threat Intelligence practices. In her role, she leverages people, infrastructure, data and technology to drive the capabilities of detection and defense against targeted threats for global client organizations.

Before joining IBM, Wendi held executive level positions at CrowdStrike Services and Mandiant, where she was responsible for growing and implementing all professional services offerings and engagements delivered, including building IR capabilities for several federal government agencies and leading data breach investigations for global commercial clients. Wendi began her career as a Special Agent conducting computer crime investigations with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).

Jim Whitehurst

Jim Whitehurst is the President of IBM. He is responsible for the IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software organization, and Corporate Strategy. He is an advocate for open principles as a catalyst for business innovation. With a background in business development, finance and global operations, he has proven expertise helping companies flourish — even in the most challenging environments.

Prior to IBM, Whitehurst served as the President and CEO of Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise software solutions. At Red Hat, Whitehurst grew its influence with key milestones — including becoming the first $1 billion revenue open source software company in 2012 and, most notably, the landmark acquisition of Red Hat by IBM for $34 billion in 2019. He has grown revenue from more than $500 million for its 2008 fiscal year to $3.4 billion for its 2019 fiscal year.

At Delta Air Lines, Whitehurst drove significant global expansion and, as chief operating officer, oversaw all aspects of airline operations, from sales to strategy. He began his career at The Boston Consulting Group in 1989.

Rosalva Nunez

Christopher Oliver

He is tasked with developing and executing strategies to accelerate the revenue and value created through our ecosystem.

Meredith Whalen

Susie White

Craig Weathers

Virginia M. (Ginni) Rometty

Ginni Rometty is Executive Chairman of IBM. She was previously Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.

During her tenure she made bold changes to reposition IBM for the future, investing in high value segments of the IT market and optimizing the company's portfolio. Under Ginni’s leadership, IBM built out key capabilities in hybrid cloud, security, quantum computing, industry expertise, and data and AI.

Ginni also established IBM as the model of responsible stewardship in the digital age. She was the industry's leading voice on technology ethics and data stewardship, working to safely usher new technologies into society. She enabled people of diverse backgrounds and education levels to participate in the digital economy by building talent, skills and opportunity for disadvantaged populations. IBM also achieved record results in diversity and inclusion under Ginni’s leadership.

Ginni held a series of leadership positions across IBM and led the successful integration of PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, creating a global team of more than 100,000 business consultants and services experts.

will.i.am .

will.i.am is a creative innovator and tech investor/entrepreneur who has been recognized by seven Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a CLIO Award, the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award, and an Honorary Fellowship by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

As Founder and CEO of I.AM+, he leads a team focused on artificial intelligence (AI) for enterprise, including Omega for Enterprise, an AI voice computing platform built to be conversational, contextual and cross-domainable for B2B and B2C settings.

He serves on the World Economic Forum’s Fourth Industrial Revolution Advisory Committee and the organization’s Global AI Council. will.i.am and his brands/companies have collaborated with a diverse array of brands including: Accenture, Apple, Atom Bank, Chase, China Everbright New Economy Fund, Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, Epic Records, Horizon Ventures, IBM, Intel, Lexus, Marvel, Nestle and Pepsi.

Archana Vemulapalli

Archana has end-to-end responsibility for IS offering design and co-creation with clients, offering management and development of market-led digital.

Aki Duvvur

Aki Duvvur has held various leadership positions within IBM’s Cloud organization since January, 2010.  Roles have included:  VP Cloud & Cognitive, North America, Cloud Platform for North America, Cloud Innovation and Enablement, Global Cloud Strategy, and Integration Executive for the SoftLayer Acquisition.  Aki’s current role is as VP & CPO, IBM Public Cloud.
Prior to joining the IBM Cloud team, he was Acquisition Executive for IBM’s Novus and Softek acquisitions and Business Leader in North East Europe based in Zurich.  
Prior to IBM’s acquisition of Novus, Aki was CTO for Novus Consulting Group.  
Aki holds a patent for “method and system for determining a management complexity factor for delivering services in an environment” (United States 7979513) – issued July 12, 2011.
His education includes a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.

Bobby Cameron

Bobby serves CIOs. He is a leading expert on best practices for IT, including: business technology (BT), the empowered BT archetype, transformation from IT to BT, BT demand management, driving business innovation, business alignment, the business value of IT, BT strategic planning, IT governance, IT structure, IT/BT maturity, the marketing of IT, architecture and technology strategy, application development, IT operations, and serving the business.

His specialty is transformative technology use that drives business success in the emerging world of business technology (BT), like IT value creation, technology-based business innovation, and digital business networks.

While Bobby focuses his research on delivering IT excellence on the road to BT, he continues his close work with members of The CIO Group in the Forrester Leadership Boards, which he conceived and piloted in 2002. In this role, he writes CIO-targeted research, answers individual members' business and technology inquiries, and facilitates CIO Group member exchange meetings where CIOs discuss member-selected topics.

Fikri Larguet

Fikri Larguet is Director of Cloud Product and Services  at GEICO, an IT Division that he created 3 years ago after successfully leading GEICO’s journey into Microsoft Cloud making GEICO one of the top 5 Azure private consumers in the US. Recently Fikri  took on additional responsibilities  in leading all IBM Cloud Products and Services  initiatives. 
Prior to that, Fikri ran all of Digital Sales at GEICO and drove various efforts to increase GEICO’s new business by integrating the Sales Digital Experience with Watson Services. 
Fikri possesses a great blend of technical and business abilities that uniquely positions him to drive many of the strategic initiatives at GEICO. His substantial knowledge and experience in both the Cloud and Digital space make him a unique player with strong strategic insights as to what IBM Cloud can be for a customer like GEICO.
Specialties: Cloud , Automation, Digital Customer Experience  , Architecture, Database , Microsoft Azure. CI/CD

Michael Fino

Vice President & COO, Global Business Partners.  Operations executive with experience leading all key functional areas of integrated operations and has overall responsibility for transformation and operations supporting IBM’s 15,000 business partners. 

Rachel Cordrey

Rachel Cordrey graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Biological Sciences from the University of Maryland College Park in 2011, then a Doctorate of Pharmacy from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore School of Pharmacy in 2014. Dr.Cordrey is currently working towards a Master’s in Healthcare Administration from the University of Maryland Global Campus. She has served as the Pharmacy Supervisor of inpatient operations at Peninsula Regional Medical Center since 2016. In January 2019, Peninsula Regional was the first hospital in the nation to integrate IBM’s artificial intelligence, Watson, into the electronic health record system, Epic. In June 2019, IBM nominated Dr.Cordrey for the “Top Women Leader in AI” award for the work that PRMC did to pave the way for AI integration. Dr. Cordrey also teaches Biostatistics s at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore School of Pharmacy.

Mark Weisman

Amber Armstrong

Amber Armstrong is a passionate CMO that thinks like a CEO. She currently serves as a strategic leader and CMO of AI Applications at IBM. As CMO, Amber leads all aspects of marketing inclusive of brand, product, digital, and demand generation. She is dedicated to the application of both the art and the science of marketing to improve client experiences through account based marketing and strategic product marketing approaches. Amber serves her teams to inspire innovation, continual learning, and agile marketing execution. As an Artificial Intelligence (AI) enthusiast, Amber has focused her career in applying AI across customer experience, commerce, marketing, development, and supply chain across a series of divisions at IBM and other technology companies.

Kareem Yusuf, Ph.D

Kareem Yusuf leads the AI Applications business at IBM, focused on enabling clients to transform enterprise operations and supply chains through intelligent insights and execution. His team owns a portfolio of market-leading business applications including Maximo, TRIRIGA, Sterling, Engineering and Weather Business Solutions offerings. 
 
Kareem has been with IBM for over 20 years and has held senior leadership positions in a variety of disciplines across the company. These have included Offering Management, Software Development, SaaS Operations, Mergers & Acquisitions and Field Technical Sales. Kareem has a Ph.D from the University of Leeds, focused on Decision Support Systems for Civil Engineering construction. He maintains an active interest in all things technical, with a particular interest in digital photography and programming languages. He is a TED Speaker and also the author of “Enterprise Messaging Using JMS and IBM WebSphere.”

Jonathan Wright

Jonathan Wright, global leader for Cognitive Process Re-engineering at IBM, has spent his career enabling large, multinational corporations to achieve high performance through convergent technology, operating model, and business transformation. Throughout his consulting career, he has gained a reputation as a “practice builder” by developing trusted client relationships, delivering complex programs and building high-performing consulting teams.

Jonathan is recognized globally for his thought leadership and his work in the area of Supply Chain and Operations across many industries. He has supported the World Economic Forum, has presented numerous papers in Davos, and recently received Supply & Demand Supply Chain Executive 2020 Provider Pros to Know award. Jonathan operates at the intersection between technology, cognitive and business. Working with the C-Suite, he is able to shape strategies to address the new business imperatives around Business Model, Op Model, Core Process Redesign and Customer Experience. He is experienced at taking these strategies through to outcome by implementing regional or global transformation and expansion programs.

Jon Young

Jon is a Supply Chain executive at Telstra, Australia’s largest mobile network. He is an experienced leader with a proven ability for immediate and positive impact on team and business performance. He currently leads Supply Chain at Telstra where he is responsible for Telstra’s integrated supply chain strategy with ownership of the retail, industrial, and enterprise supply chains end to end operations. Previously, he spent 7 years at Amcor in several global delivery roles. Jon holds degrees from Monash University and Melbourne Business School.

Joe Harvey

Joe Harvey is Vice President of Technology – Enterprise Technology Solutions of Southern Company, one of America’s most respected companies and a leading producer of clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy. Harvey leads the technology
teams that develop, implement and maintain the enterprise-wide corporate business solutions, work and asset management solutions, GIS systems, and database systems leveraged across Southern Company’s subsidiaries, including Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Mississippi Power, Southern Power, and Southern Company Gas.  Harvey has spent twenty five years in the technology industry leading the strategic planning, implementation, and support of critical systems in the energy industry. In 2009, he implemented the Maximo Center of Excellence responsible for the company’s work and asset management, scheduling, and supply chain functions. He is currently leading the enterprise-wide transformation and modernization of the technology and business processes in the Accounting, Finance, HR, Supply Chain, and Work and Asset Management areas of the business. 
 
Harvey holds a bachelor degree in Decision Sciences from Georgia State University. He is a graduate of Southern Company’s Technology Leadership Development program and Southern Company’s Leadership Academy program. Joe was awarded the Project Manager of the Year award in 2003 and the Inclusive Workplace award in 2010.  Joe is a Deacon and member of Double Oak Community Church in Birmingham.  Joe and his wife, Val, along with their two daughters, Emma and Abby, currently reside in Birmingham, AL.  With more than 9 million customers and approximately 52,000 megawatts of generating capacity, Atlanta-based Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is the premier energy company serving the Southeast through its subsidiaries. Named Conexx 2017 U.S. Company of the year, Southern Company has also been recognized as one of the 100 “Best Places to Work in IT” by IDG’s Computerworld for nine consecutive years and top 50 companies for Diversity by DiversityInc for 2017. 

John Teltsch

John is the general manager of IBM Systems Sales. He leads worldwide sales for the IBM Storage, IBM Cognitive Systems, IBM Z, Lab Services and Technical Sales teams. In collaboration with his peers in Systems’ product development and offering management, John owns and executes IBM’s go-to-market strategy for hardware products and related software offerings in IBM Systems.

Sebastian Krause

GM, IBM Cloud & Cognitive Solutions, IBM Europe

David La Rose

David leads the organization's worldwide channel business. He engages with more than 160,000 Ecosystem Partners around emerging opportunities in the channel through cloud, analytics, mobile, security, AI and modern infrastructure. 

Mark Treshock

Janakiraman Gopinath

Megan Biernat

Tegan Keele

Jesus Mantas

Jesus Mantas serves as Managing Partner, Global Strategy, Platforms and Innovation. He is an award-winning, globally recognized thought leader in AI, Design, Digital and Technology and is one of IBM's foremost leaders in unlocking innovation and growth through research, alliances, partnerships and new ventures.

Bob Lord

Bob is Senior Vice President, Cognitive Applications, Blockchain, and Ecosystems at IBM, where he is responsible for infusing AI technology across the business. He leads IBM’s blockchain business and oversees the company’s partner ecosystems including developers, global systems integrators, and independent software vendors to help clients accelerate their journey to the cloud.

He was appointed in 2016 as the company’s first Chief Digital Officer, changing how IBM innovation is delivered and consumed across the globe. He was previously the President of AOL and served as the CEO of Razorfish, a pioneering digital transformation consultancy.

A board member for Williams-Sonoma and Screenvision Media, Bob graduated with an Industrial Engineering degree from Syracuse University before pursuing his MBA from Harvard University.

Sai Vennam

Sai Vennam is a Developer Advocate at IBM with expertise on Kubernetes, OpenShift, and managed cloud offerings. He has a large presence on YouTube creating developer-friendly videos, but also develops samples to showcase the latest and greatest cloud technology. He’s passionate about connecting developers with technology that allows them to be successful. As a hobby, he works on his home automation using Raspberry Pis and serverless technology.

Salome Valero

Ph.D in Engineering. Master in Technological Management. Certified Project Manager and Scrum Master. With experience in consulting and delivery of IT outsourcing services for Telecommunications and Banking sectors. Developer. Passionate about innovation, cloud and open source communities. Learning IoT and cognitive services. Technology for good as inspiration. Winner of 2019 Call for Code global Challenge with Prometeo to help firefighters control the cumulative effects of smoke and toxic substances. Working to make my dream come true with Code&Response initiative. Engineer with purpose and mother of two children.

Kait Szydlowski

A VP at Morgan Stanley, Kait Szydlowski leads Morgan Stanley’s Global Technology Philanthropy, a global program creating opportunities for employees to Give Back using their technical expertise. In addition to Call for Code, Kait also oversees Technology Change Makers, a global program that embeds teams of Morgan Stanley Technologists in local non-profits to address a technical need and Morgan Stanley Makerspace, a workshop-based program that teaches kids & teens living in shelters how to code using robotics and games.
As a former private sector strategy consultant, a founder of a Beijing for-profit social enterprise bringing medical devices to China for children with disabilities, and a U.S. Department of State Fulbright Research Fellow to China, Kait is passionate about bringing technical expertise to the organizations and communities that need it the most. Kait graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2009, where she served as a Trustee from 2015-2019.

Marion Vincent

Marion Vincent is a Vice President at Morgan Stanley in the Technology division. She is the Chief of Staff for Corporate and Funding Technology. Marion has been with Morgan Stanley Technology for 8 years. She is a strong advocate of Diversity at Morgan Stanley through its Women in Technology programs and she leads the Codeathon for Good working group within the Global Technology Philanthropy team. Marion has been managing the Call for Code partnership at Morgan Stanley since 2019.
Marion moved to the United States from France in 2005 to earn her Bachelor’s degree in Finance and International Management from Pace University. In her spare time, she is an endurance athlete. She has completed over 15 marathons, multiple Ironman and most recently a six-day running race in the Moroccan Sahara to raise funds for the Malala Fund.

Catherine Solazzo

Catherine Solazzo is currently the VP of Ecosystem Performance Marketing supporting Business Partners with Sales Enablement, Marketing Programs & Platforms.

Debasis Roy Choudhuri

Suman Mishra

Matthew Porta

Robin Hauser

Robin Hauser is the director and producer of award-winning documentaries made to illuminate causes she is passionate about - from the gender gap in tech, to unconscious bias, and financial literacy. Her combined talents as a storyteller, professional photographer and business woman produce films that transform fields and open minds. Her work has carried her around the world, from the TED stage to the White House, to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, and to conferences worldwide, talking to audiences about mitigating bias in AI; diversity, inclusion and gender equality. A disruptor, Robin is described as “engaging, insightful, and thought-provoking in addressing the most important socio-economic issues we face today.” Robin is a diplomat for the American Film Showcase and has been featured internationally in Forbes, Fortune, The Atlantic, Fast Company, USA Today, Wired, San Francisco Business Times, Bloomberg TV, CNN, NPR, CNBC, and others.

David La Rose

David leads the organization's worldwide channel business. He engages with more than 160,000 Ecosystem Partners around emerging opportunities in the channel through cloud, analytics, mobile, security, AI and modern infrastructure. 

Shinoj Zacharias

Amit Saxena

Rajnish Kumar

Mark Foster

Mark Foster is Senior Vice President, IBM Services. Mark leads IBM’s professional services business, which spans Global Business Services and Global Technology Services – a combined $48 billion business and nearly 240,000 person workforce.

For GBS, Mark leads strategy, client value and business performance for IBM’s consulting, systems integration, digital agency, business process outsourcing and application management services businesses across all industries. Mark also leads GTS, IBM’s infrastructure services business, which includes mobility, resiliency, systems and networking and technology support services. Together, IBM Services professionals partner with leading clients around the world to set enterprise strategy, reinvent business processes with AI, modernize core applications and systems on the cloud and build, run and maintain IT environments.

Carol Chen

As VP of Global Marketing in the Global Commercial business at Shell, I manage a diverse team exceeding 120 people operating in more than 80 countries delivering circa. $25B in revenue. With a passion for keeping ahead of the ever accelerating digital transition, I champion teams to review smart data systems and strategies, personalized targeted marketing and customer-centricity to continue to change the way our business communicates and maintain growth across all lines of business as we lead the path through the energy transition. 
 With 20+ years experience in P&L, brand building, business strategy, full commercial acumen and multi- cultural team leadership, I have built high performance teams in 4 different regions: Greater China (based in China), North American (based in Canada & US HQ), Asia Pacific (based in Singapore) and Global (now based in London HQ). 
 I joined Shell in 2014 and have since focused on 3 key pillars that contribute to our ever growing success, firstly the critical role that global lubricants play in keeping the world moving while ensuring this is achieved through more and cleaner energy solutions and by continuously reducing our carbon impact, secondly I have an unwavering view on the importance of digital transformation and the role of smart data, and third I am an ambassador for gender equality, striving for a more balanced future where women have the same opportunities and influence as their male colleagues. 
 To achieve these goals I am continuously looking to professionalize our marketing capabilities and upgrade our team capability through building, developing and empowering people to reach their full potential - together, Let's Make The Future. 

Michael Lindsey

Michael Lindsey is currently the Chief Transformation & Strategy Officer for PepsiCo Foods North America, comprising of Frito-Lay North America and Quaker North America. In his role, Michael leads a cross-functional organization tasked with developing the ‘next generation’ of PepsiCo’s Foods operations in NA. He is also responsible for strategic plans and M&A for Frito-Lay. Michael began his career with PepsiCo in 2009, holding a series of leadership roles in corporate strategy and as vice president (VP) of Strategy for the AMEA sector. In 2014, he moved to the Greater China Region as the SVP and GM of Nutrition Category and Commercialization, where he led the nutrition category, including profit and loss (P&L) ownership, brand communication, innovation and importantly, building a strong nutrition team. He was also responsible for cross-category commercialization.Prior to joining PepsiCo in 2009, Michael was an associate principal at McKinsey & Co. He holds a BA in Computer Science and Economics from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Michael enjoys traveling and spending time with his family. He resides in the Dallas area with his wife Christine and three children Vivian, Charlotte and John.

Svein Tore Holsether

Svein Tore Holsether (born 1972) is President and Chief Executive Officer of Yara, a global crop nutrition leader with about 17,000 employees worldwide.

Mr. Holsether is passionate about promoting the Sustainable Development Goals in the global business arena. To contribute to a thriving future and drive inclusive growth, he is a member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Food & Nature program for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). He was a Commissioner of the Business and Sustainable Development Commission (BSDC), and also serves on the Executive Committee and Board of the International Fertilizer Association (IFA). Previously, Mr. Holsether has held a range of executive and senior position in large industrial companies.

Mr. Holsether has a BSc degree, specializing in Finance & Management, from the University of Utah, USA.

Cameron O'Connor

As a marketing executive at IBM, Cameron is dedicated to designing and developing unforgettable experiences for clients around the world. Currently, Cameron is leading all worldwide marketing activities related to IBM's acquisition of Red Hat. At $34 Billion this is the largest software acquisition ever and has completely redrawn the enterprise cloud landscape.
Previously as Executive Producer, Worldwide Events, Cameron focused on strategy and content development at IBM’s largest conferences and other IBM investments at 3rd party events.
Cameron has also served as Director of Marketing for the Watson Talent business unit while his first few years at IBM were spent in corporate communications and focused on application development, data center operations and IT infrastructure. Prior to joining IBM, Cameron worked at Forrester Research where he held positions in research and consulting. Cameron is a graduate of St. Lawrence University.

Aithan Shapira

Aithan Shapira (MFA PhD), internationally acclaimed artist and lecturer at MIT Sloan, draws on 20+ years of experience helping individuals and organizations innovate at the speed of change. He is the founder of Tilt, a culture design and transformation firm enabling global entities and Fortune 100 leaders to create conditions for enduring cultures of innovation. 
Aithan serves McKinsey's think tank on Advancing Adult Learning and Development and has pioneered progressive curricula for the future of work at MIT Sloan, Harvard iLab, Stanford d.school, and Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship. 
Aithan developed his research on the creative process at the Royal College of Art & Design, lived in an Australian Aboriginal community for three years to study art’s impact on cultures of survival, and continues to be a visiting critic at international art institutions. He exhibits his artwork in global museums and galleries.

Sriram Raghavan

Sriram Raghavan is Vice President for IBM Research AI. In this role, he has overall responsibility for establishing IBM’s research portfolio in artificial intelligence (AI) and overseeing the execution of this agenda across IBM’s research labs across the globe. Sriram also works closely with all of the commercial divisions in IBM to drive research advancements in AI into IBM’s software and services offerings. Prior to his current role, Sriram was the Director of the IBM Research Lab in India and the CTO for IBM in India/South Asia. Sriram began his career in IBM at the Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, USA where he led a variety of research efforts at the intersection of artificial intelligence (specifically natural language processing), large scale data management, business analytics, and distributed systems. Sriram is an alumnus of Stanford University, USA and the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.

Rosalva Nunez

Christopher Oliver

He is tasked with developing and executing strategies to accelerate the revenue and value created through our ecosystem.

Meredith Whalen

Mani Dasgupta

Mani Dasgupta is Vice President Global Brand, Product & Content Marketing, IBM Services. She oversees all product marketing, content and brand strategy, and in-market execution for IBM Services which is the largest professional services business in the world. In addition to bringing Global Business Services and Global Technology Services positioning together Mani also leads IBM's Smarter Business initiative globally.

Dario Gil

Dr. Dario Gil is the Director of IBM Research, one of the world’s largest and most influential global corporate research labs - with over 3,000 researchers at 12 laboratories on six continents - advancing the future of computing. Dr. Gil leads innovation efforts at IBM, directing research strategies in Quantum, AI, Hybrid Cloud, Security, Industry Solutions, and Semiconductors and Systems. Dr. Gil co-chairs the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, a pioneering industrial-academic laboratory with a portfolio of more than 50 projects focused on advancing fundamental AI research. He has also served as COO of IBM Research and the VP of AI and Quantum Computing, leading IBM to be the first company in the world to build programmable quantum computers and make them universally available through the cloud. Dr. Gil received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and is a Trustee of the New York Hall of Science.

Amit Modi

Kelly Hartman

Kelly leads the ISV Ecosystem for the Red Hat Marketplace.  Talk to partners about opportunities to list on the marketplace as a new route to market.

Ryan King

Frans Klaassen

Rob Thomas

Robert D. Thomas is Senior Vice President of IBM Cloud and Data Platform. He directs IBM’s product design and investment strategy, expert labs, global software product development, marketing and field operations across the company’s vast software portfolio.

Rob was previously the General Manager of IBM Data and Watson AI. Under his leadership, IBM has emerged as a leader in data and AI, spanning databases, data integration and governance, business intelligence, financial planning, data science and AI tools, and AI applications. Since joining IBM’s software unit, Rob has held roles of increasing responsibility and overseen 4 acquisitions by the firm, representing over $2.5 billion in transaction value.

Born in Florida, Rob earned his BA in Economics at Vanderbilt University and earned his MBA at the University of Florida, Rob serves on the board of Domus (Stamford, CT), which assists underprivileged children in Fairfield county.

Mirco Bharpalania

Mirco Bharpalania is responsible for Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, API Management and Middleware for the core business of Lufthansa – Lufthansa Airlines, Swiss and Austrian and additionally has the role of Lufthansa Group Process Owner for Data & Analytics.
 
In this role he is responsible for the management of all relevant data (customer, sales, operations) up to generating insights out of this data through advanced analytics, BI or AI with teams in Frankfurt, Vienna and Zurich. 
 
During his 16 years at Lufthansa Group he has been in charge of several management positions including IT Governance and Strategy of Lufthansa Airlines. In his last role he was responsible for the IT applications for the worldwide ground operations processes of Lufthansa.
 
Mirco Bharpalania holds a German University Degree in Business Computer Science from Technical University Darmstadt.

Jessica Rockwood

Jessica is Vice President of Development, Hybrid Multicloud Management. She is responsible for building operational tool chains and packaged AI applications that infuse AI into enterprise IT workflows to drive business value. Prior to this role, she was director of IBM Db2, an AI database, leveraging AI to optimize development processes, enabling clients to bring AI applications closer to the data that matters most. Her passion for IBM is infectious, which is exactly why she has been an active part of the IBM Employee Experience Program - a series of activities that helps to educate, enhance and provide a positive on-boarding experience to new hires.

Melissa Molstad

Melissa is an experienced people and vendor manager with a demonstrated history of working in the internet and financial services industry. Skilled in risk management, user experience, business process improvement, and cross-functional team leadership, she is a strong program and project management professional. Melissa also serves on the PayPal Omaha Leadership Development Committee, PayPal Unity (Women in Technology), PayPal Aliados (Hispanic community) and PayPal Pride (ally for LGBTQ+) committees. In addition, she has been a sponsor for Unity Shadow which provides the opportunity for women to be mentored by women leaders in technology.

Aaron Levie

Aaron Levie is Chief Executive Officer, Cofounder and Chairman at Box, which he launched in 2005 with CFO and cofounder Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind the Box product and platform strategy, incorporating the best of secure content collaboration with an intuitive user experience suited to the way people work today. Aaron leads the company in its mission to transform the way people and businesses work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. He has served on the Board of Directors since April 2005. Aaron attended the University of Southern California from 2003 to 2005 before leaving to found Box.

Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield is the CEO and co-founder of Slack. Over the past 20 years, he has had a distinguished career as an entrepreneur, designer, and technologist. In 2014, Stewart helped found Slack, a new category of software that changed the way we work by bringing together people, applications, and data to help teams do their best work. Since then, over 600,000 organizations in over 150 countries have turned to Slack to increase their organizational agility--making it the place to communicate, collaborate, and get work done.
 In 2003, he pioneered a new way of sharing information on the Internet when he co-founded Flickr and built the company as CEO into one of the largest web services in the world.
 He was named as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time Magazine, and one of the Top 50 Leaders by BusinessWeek among many similar honors, such as Vanity Fair’s New Establishment List, the Recode 100, Advertising Age’s Creativity 50, and the Technology Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street Journal.
 Stewart has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Victoria and an MPhil in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. He retains academic interests in cognitive science, economics, organizational psychology, and the history and philosophy of science.

Dr. Mallory Freeman

Mallory Freeman leads the Advanced Analytics Group, the Enterprise Business Intelligence group, and the Data Strategy & Analysis group, all driving the development and implementation of the enterprise data strategy at UPS to manage data as a corporate asset. Previously, Mallory was instrumental in establishing data science practice within the Advanced Technology Group and in designing and launching sponsored research projects with major universities and research firms.  Mallory holds a bachelor’s in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, a master’s in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Mallory is active in her community having numerous accomplishments including a 2016 TED Talk. In 2019, she received the Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni Award from Georgia Tech.

Aleksandra Mojsilovic

Aleksandra (Saška) Mojsilović is an IBM Fellow, the Head of Trustworthy AI and Co-Director of Science for Social Good for IBM Research. She is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. Previously she was at Bell Laboratories. Saška received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Her main research interests include multidimensional signal processing, data science, machine learning and AI and she has applied her skills to problems in computer vision, healthcare, multimedia, finance, HR, economics, social good, and AI ethics. Saška has authored over 100 publications, holds 16 patents, and has received numerous awards, including the IEEE Young Author Best Paper Award, European Conference on Computer Vision Best Paper Award, INFORMS Wagner Prize, IEEE SOLI Best Paper Award, IBM Gerstner Award, IBM Market Intelligence Award and several IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards.

Michael Fino

Vice President & COO, Global Business Partners.  Operations executive with experience leading all key functional areas of integrated operations and has overall responsibility for transformation and operations supporting IBM’s 15,000 business partners. 

John Sieb

Rhett Wieland

Rob Thomas

Robert D. Thomas is Senior Vice President of IBM Cloud and Data Platform. He directs IBM’s product design and investment strategy, expert labs, global software product development, marketing and field operations across the company’s vast software portfolio.

Rob was previously the General Manager of IBM Data and Watson AI. Under his leadership, IBM has emerged as a leader in data and AI, spanning databases, data integration and governance, business intelligence, financial planning, data science and AI tools, and AI applications. Since joining IBM’s software unit, Rob has held roles of increasing responsibility and overseen 4 acquisitions by the firm, representing over $2.5 billion in transaction value.

Born in Florida, Rob earned his BA in Economics at Vanderbilt University and earned his MBA at the University of Florida, Rob serves on the board of Domus (Stamford, CT), which assists underprivileged children in Fairfield county.

Diane Gherson

Diane was named an officer of IBM and CHRO in 2013. Diane is responsible for the people strategy, leadership, skills, careers, engagement, employee services, labor cost, diversity and inclusion of the more than 350,000 person workforce covering 170 countries.

During her tenure as CHRO, as IBM has dramatically shifted its business portfolio, Diane has redesigned all aspects of the company’s people agenda and management systems to shape a culture of continuous learning, innovation and agility. At the same time, she has digitally transformed the HR function, incorporating AI and automation across all offerings, resulting in more than $100 million in net benefits in 2017. Diane has championed the company’s global adoption of design thinking and agile methods at scale, as an example, driving a company-wide, co-created overhaul of performance management.

Diane has been an external advocate for social issues affecting employees, such as DACA, transgender inclusion, and addressing bias in AI. Under Diane’s leadership in stewarding diversity and inclusion, IBM received the prestigious 2018 Catalyst Award for advancing women in business. The company was also named a Forbes’ Top 10 World’s Best Employer in 2017.

With a U.S. patent in the field of predictive analytics, Diane is a leading voice on the topic of reinventing the profession of HR to create consumer-grade experiences for employees, predictive advice for business leaders, and improved productivity for the business. Diane was recently interviewed on Fox Business News and CNN on automation and future of work and her leadership to transform IBM and HR has been profiled in Forbes, Fortune and Harvard Business Review.

In 2018, Diane was named HR Executive of the Year by HR Executive, and was elected as Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources (NAHR), the highest honor granted in the human resource profession. She serves on the board of directors of the HR Policy Association and the American Health Policy Institute.

Diane joined IBM in 2002 from consulting firm Willis Towers Watson where she led the global pay and performance management practice. Diane earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Trinity College, University of Toronto, and a master’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. She is all but dissertated in the PhD program at the Sloan School of Management.

Amy Wright

As the Managing Partner for IBM’s Talent & Transformation business, Amy is responsible for bringing innovative services and software to IBM clients to help with the transformation of talent across the business enterprise and the reinvention of the Human Resources (HR) function. IBM is in a unique position to work with clients at this game changing moment-in-time, serving as a real-life example of accelerating enterprise transformation through its own HR journey, which incorporates Augmented Intelligence (AI) technology advancements, skills shifts and new ways of working.

Prior to providing talent solutions for clients, Amy served as the HR VP for the Global Business Services unit, an organization of >125k employees worldwide. During her tenure in this role Amy was responsible for leadership development, recruitment and integration, building a culture of engagement, talent development, retention, and skills transformation. Amy led the workforce strategy of creating a global delivery network of centers, the shift to a learning-based culture, growing early professionals into leaders and levers of change, and introduction of cognitive into talent programs. In 2015, Amy was awarded a U.S. patent in the field of predictive analytics in resource management in one of many initiatives integral to a shifting ways of working in a services business.

Amy is the co-author of IBM’s Institute of Business Value’s “The enterprise guide to closing the skills gap - Strategies for building and maintaining a skilled workforce” report that was released in September 2019. She regularly speaks on IBM’s research on HR in the age of AI, closing the skills gap, employee engagement, and culture change.

Roberto Di Bernardini

Roberto di Bernardini is the Chief HR Officer at Banco Santander and the primary architect of the company’s human capital plan and related strategies that focus on making Banco Santander one of the most undisputed leaders in attracting, developing and engaging top talent. Roberto has been a leader in Human Resources for more than 30 years, and his expertise lies in the fields of cultural transformation, talent development, and focusing the organization on a socially responsible purpose.
Roberto’s role is to foster a Cultural transformation that puts People at the center and position Santander as a Company with a purpose that has a huge impact for the People, Customers, Shareholders and Communities. In his role he is helping translating the Company strategy into Global HR strategy aiming to make Banco Santander a Talent Magnet and a Company leader to attract, develop and engage talent.

Hermann Ballé

Craig Aston

Craig is a Chartered Accountant, with a over 20 years experience in various roles in the IT Industry. These roles include sales and sales leadership roles in IBM Global Financing and IBM Systems Group over a 14 year tenure with IBM, after which Craig has worked in business leadership roles for a Cloud Software Startup, a Global Channel Financing Business and since 2017 has been Chief Operating Officer of Celerity. Celerity are a Managed Service Provider and Reseller with significant experience in the IBM Ecosystem, where they have been a Platinum partner for a number of years. Craig's role with Celerity encompasses all aspects of the business, with particular focus on Finance, Operations and Sales.

David Brockschmidt

Mark Balding

Monique Ouellette

Monique is currently responsible for the Global Digital Workplace Solutions Offering and Center of Competency teams team of over 50 people working around the globe. In her role, Monique is responsible for developing offerings which leverage IBM’s Cognitive, Analytics and Automation solutions to assist our enterprise clients with their workplace transformation initiatives and building the standard solutions for our clients to leverage in their digital transformation. Monique has 25+ years of experience in IBM working with some of our largest global clients helping them leverage IBM's capabilities in the Digital Workplace, Networking, Data Center, Cloud and Security towers. Monique is, also, a certified Yoga instructor and active in a number of non profit organizations bringing yoga benefits to teens.

Donovan Roos

Paul Papas

Paul is a Global Managing Partner in IBM Services responsible for IBM's Strategy, Consulting, and Business Process Outsourcing businesses. His team helps CEOs and other C-suite executives leverage exponential technologies like AI, blockchain, and Cloud to reinvent their businesses, by design. His team seamlessly provides next generation strategy, consulting, experience design, analytics, and process outsourcing services to help clients reinvent traditional processes into modern Intelligent Workflows.

Ritika Gunnar

Ritika Gunnar is the Vice President of Data and AI Expert Labs. In this role, she and her team work with clients on their transformation journey through a data & AI first methodology and help implement Data & AI solutions using deep knowledge-based skills to accelerate the adoption of data & AI enterprise capabilities. Prior to this role, Ritika was the Vice President of Offerings for IBM Watson. In this role, she has responsibility for all of Watson’s Data and AI portfolio where she is responsible for defining the portfolio strategy, execution of product offerings, and driving business results. Previous to this, as Vice President of IBM’s World-Wide Cloud and Cognitive GTM organization she drove IBM’s mission to apply deep cloud, data and AI expertise to our clients most pressing needs Ritika has also been the Vice President of IBM’s Data and Analytics Business where she was responsible for the setting the strategy and execution of IBM’s data platform, data science, and analytics practices. Prior to this, she led and managed IBM’s Master Data Management & Information Integration and Governance business and IBM’s Data Warehousing & Analytics business. Ritika joined IBM as a software engineer in 1999 and has held numerous development and support roles in her career. Ritika holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and an Executive Masters in Business from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently resides in New York.

Kristen Bennie

A creative leader, innovator, producer and connector of people, ideas and strategies. Kristen brings the future into focus at NatWest through customer led design, purposeful collaboration, insight and ideation, emerging technology and strategic partnering. She cares passionately about the future of design, technology, people and education.  Her career has involved the development and delivery of new brands, products, services and software always working at the intersection of strategy, design and technology. In her role today as Head of Open Experience for NatWest Group, she shapes and drives the innovation strategy across the Bank, creating and leading globally recognized state of the art innovation centres in London and Edinburgh responsible for defining, designing and delivering new to market customer focused propositions for growth.  Board membership includes: RBS Scotland Board, Fintech Scotland, CodeClan and the Board of Governors at The Glasgow School of Art.

John Teltsch

John is the general manager of IBM Systems Sales. He leads worldwide sales for the IBM Storage, IBM Cognitive Systems, IBM Z, Lab Services and Technical Sales teams. In collaboration with his peers in Systems’ product development and offering management, John owns and executes IBM’s go-to-market strategy for hardware products and related software offerings in IBM Systems.

Sebastian Krause

GM, IBM Cloud & Cognitive Solutions, IBM Europe

David La Rose

David leads the organization's worldwide channel business. He engages with more than 160,000 Ecosystem Partners around emerging opportunities in the channel through cloud, analytics, mobile, security, AI and modern infrastructure. 

Paul Roma

Paul Roma is the global General Manager for IBM Watson Health, an organization helping to lead the transformation of health around the world by applying next-generation technologies, such as data, analytics, AI and hybrid cloud, to address the most pressing health challenges globally. Watson Health partners with the greatest minds in the healthcare world – including Memorial Sloan Kettering, Mayo Clinic, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard among others in life sciences, health plans and tech – to research, develop, train and test our technologies.

Paul has more than 20 years of executive management and expertise in healthcare IT and operations serving healthcare providers, life sciences companies, government agencies and health plans. Most recently, Paul served as the CEO and Chairman of Ciox Health, a company focused on making health information interoperability easy for patients, doctors and enterprises.

Prior to Ciox, Paul spent 12 years at Deloitte Consulting where he served as Global Chief Analytics Officer. In this role, he established the firm’s Global Analytics Market Offering, which featured a single platform for analytics and machine learning that spanned across all of Deloitte’s businesses. He also founded Deloitte Products and Innovation Labs and spent 10 years as Deloitte’s National Technology Lead in HealthCare and Life Sciences.

Paul is an adjunct lecturer of Computer Science at Northwestern University and Singularity University and a contributor to Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) Center for Information Systems Research and MIT Media Lab. He graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Jarrod McNaughton, MBA, FACHE

Jarrod B. McNaughton is the Chief Executive Officer of Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP). In this role, he works collaboratively with the IEHP Governing Board to set the strategic vision and provide executive leadership for one of the 10 largest Medicaid health plans and the largest not-for-profit Medicare-Medicaid Plan in the U.S. He cultivates IEHP’s strong partnership with Providers, hospitals and hundreds of community partners to deliver quality whole-person care to more than 1.2 million Members. He ensures financial stewardship and stability for IEHP’s more than $5.4billionoperational budget. A visionary health care leader, Mr. McNaughton joined IEHP in 2018 as Chief Operating Officer(COO). In this role, he was responsible for the operations, claims, provider contracts, enrollment and eligibility, performance improvement and Member services departments, supporting IEHP’s organizational directives, advancing IEHP’s LEAN transformation, and ensuring IEHP’s mission to deliver quality service to our Members and Providers effectively and efficiently. Prior to IEHP, Mr. McNaughton served in several roles of increasing responsibility in mostly hospitals and large hospital systems. For nearly 20 years, he has led multi-tiered operational strategies and innovation that consistently generated superior results. He has a well-established reputation for building dynamic teams, developing leaders and fostering key relationships in the community. His ability to remove obstacles and empower everyone, from front line Team Members to Physicians, will help support IEHP’s position of strength in the ever-changing healthcare environment. Mr. McNaughton’s roles as President of Kettering Medical Center and Executive Vice President of Kettering Health Network demonstrated his strategic business acumen, empathy and visionary leadership. He developed a coordinated and detailed strategy for the entire network and spearheaded many forward-looking changes in services and delivery of care to patients at those facilities. The Kettering Health Network in Southwest Ohio includes eight hospitals, nine emergency departments, many outpatient clinics and over 11,000 employees. Prior to his role at Kettering Medical Center, Mr. McNaughton was Vice President at San Joaquin Community Hospital. Among his many achievements there, he developed and implemented a new mission and service department that helped increase patient satisfaction scores from the 40th percentile to the 85th percentile in less than a year. Mr. McNaughton’s strong commitment to the community fits well with IEHP’s mission and company culture. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Loma Linda University and a board member for several educational and non-profit agencies. A volunteer with Global Medical Missions, an international aid organization, he has led short-term mission teams to Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, India, Nepal, Honduras and Mexico. Away from work, he enjoys singing, musical theater and flying single-engine planes. Mr. McNaughton pursued an undergraduate degree from Pacific Union College where he earned a bachelor’s degree. He earned his master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of La Verne, Graduate School of Business. In addition, he is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Lisa A. Bartlett

Born and raised in Southern California, Supervisor Lisa Bartlett has been a resident of South Orange County for more than 20 years.
Lisa began her career in public service when she was first elected to Dana Point City Council in 2006. This opportunity led to her serving as both Mayor and Mayor Pro-Tem for the city. She was elected to the Orange County Board of Supervisors in 2014 and was re-elected in 2018, to represent the Fabulous Fifth District. 
In both her public and private life, Supervisor Bartlett has always supported projects she believed to improve economic development, transparency, efficiency, and overall quality of life. Supervisor Bartlett brings that prolific vision to the Fifth District and the County at large. 
In addition to her role on the Orange County Board of Supervisors, Lisa represents her constituents on 14 regional and state boards and commissions. She is currently President of the California State Association of Counties.

Youssef Largou

As executive director, my focus is on delivering essential technology stack and frameworks to help organizations reinvent themselves and realize their digital transformation, modernize their infrastructure and move mission critical workloads across clouds. I focus my time with our customers and teams, and enjoy meeting and connecting with peers, partners and competitors so I can adjust the company strategy and initiatives. I have over 18 years of experience in systems, middleware and hybrid cloud and I have been working within numerous industries with a wide range of technologies. Also, I lead the end-to-end business including the engineering and delivery of the technology, the professional services and the global ecosystem of partners. I’m adept of “do more with less “and “think outside the box” paradigms with a focus on customers satisfaction and sustainable partnership.I m also an IBM Champion 2020, Think2019 and Think2020 speaker.

Gary Storr

Currently Gary is General Manager of Trust Your Supplier, a revolutionary new supplier information management marketplace that connects business partners through a trusted, validated, blockchain-based network. In his role Gary is responsible for all business operations, overseeing commercial solutions, product vision and direction, roadmap execution, and portfolio strategy.

Gary has nearly 30 years of corporate experience at all levels of Information Technology. He’s held senior executive IT roles with responsibilities that include enterprise solution delivery, corporate infrastructure operations, global application development, professional services integration, and global business strategy.

Prior to joining Chainyard, Gary had a 26 year career at Nortel Networks, most recently serving as Chief Information Officer.

Brian Farkas

Robin Lougee

Ritika Gunnar

Ritika Gunnar is the Vice President of Data and AI Expert Labs. In this role, she and her team work with clients on their transformation journey through a data & AI first methodology and help implement Data & AI solutions using deep knowledge-based skills to accelerate the adoption of data & AI enterprise capabilities. Prior to this role, Ritika was the Vice President of Offerings for IBM Watson. In this role, she has responsibility for all of Watson’s Data and AI portfolio where she is responsible for defining the portfolio strategy, execution of product offerings, and driving business results. Previous to this, as Vice President of IBM’s World-Wide Cloud and Cognitive GTM organization she drove IBM’s mission to apply deep cloud, data and AI expertise to our clients most pressing needs Ritika has also been the Vice President of IBM’s Data and Analytics Business where she was responsible for the setting the strategy and execution of IBM’s data platform, data science, and analytics practices. Prior to this, she led and managed IBM’s Master Data Management & Information Integration and Governance business and IBM’s Data Warehousing & Analytics business. Ritika joined IBM as a software engineer in 1999 and has held numerous development and support roles in her career. Ritika holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and an Executive Masters in Business from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently resides in New York.

Tom Rosamilia

Tom has global responsibility for IBM server and storage systems and software as well as the company's global Partner Ecosystem organization.  In April 2018, he completed a year-long assignment in Beijing, China, where he led the global IBM Systems business and acted as a local representative of IBM Corporate Headquarters. Tom sits on the Board of Directors of Rockwell Automation. 

Ashley Pettit

Committed to continuous innovation and adaptation, Ashley Pettit’s future focused approach merges business with technology to enhance State Farm technical platforms and personalize customer experiences. Her work driving one of the largest digital transformations in company history has garnered the attention of the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and CIO magazine. A devoted advocate for women in STEM, Pettit is a State Farm Women & Technology Employee Resource Group sponsor and an active supporter for diverse youth STEM activities across the country. “We recognize today’s students are tomorrow’s workforce,” said Pettit. “It’s my privilege to be an advocate for these bright minds.” Pettit is a Top 100 Corporate Women Leaders in STEM (STEMconnector), Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech (National Diversity Council), a Women in Insurance Leadership Award Recipient (Digital Insurance) and a Technology Business Management Council board member.

Catherine Solazzo

Catherine Solazzo is currently the VP of Ecosystem Performance Marketing supporting Business Partners with Sales Enablement, Marketing Programs & Platforms.

Edward Choi

Nick Otto

IBM Executive with over 15 years of cross industry experience helping clients transform. His current role in IBM Strategic Partnerships is focused on working with IBM’s most strategic partners to identify synergies to create new markets for joint customers.

Nick’s passion is grounded in partnering with clients to understand and align corporate strategy imperatives to AI, Cloud, Mobile and other transformative technologies. His experience with external GBS consulting as well as internal IBM corporate strategy spans multiple functional areas including finance, sales, workforce, and operations as well as numerous industries including Electronics, Aerospace & Defense, Finance and Healthcare.

Aung Thi Ha

David La Rose

David leads the organization's worldwide channel business. He engages with more than 160,000 Ecosystem Partners around emerging opportunities in the channel through cloud, analytics, mobile, security, AI and modern infrastructure. 

Shinoj Zacharias

Amit Saxena

Rajnish Kumar

Mark Foster

Mark Foster is Senior Vice President, IBM Services. Mark leads IBM’s professional services business, which spans Global Business Services and Global Technology Services – a combined $48 billion business and nearly 240,000 person workforce.

For GBS, Mark leads strategy, client value and business performance for IBM’s consulting, systems integration, digital agency, business process outsourcing and application management services businesses across all industries. Mark also leads GTS, IBM’s infrastructure services business, which includes mobility, resiliency, systems and networking and technology support services. Together, IBM Services professionals partner with leading clients around the world to set enterprise strategy, reinvent business processes with AI, modernize core applications and systems on the cloud and build, run and maintain IT environments.

Carol Chen

As VP of Global Marketing in the Global Commercial business at Shell, I manage a diverse team exceeding 120 people operating in more than 80 countries delivering circa. $25B in revenue. With a passion for keeping ahead of the ever accelerating digital transition, I champion teams to review smart data systems and strategies, personalized targeted marketing and customer-centricity to continue to change the way our business communicates and maintain growth across all lines of business as we lead the path through the energy transition. 
 With 20+ years experience in P&L, brand building, business strategy, full commercial acumen and multi- cultural team leadership, I have built high performance teams in 4 different regions: Greater China (based in China), North American (based in Canada & US HQ), Asia Pacific (based in Singapore) and Global (now based in London HQ). 
 I joined Shell in 2014 and have since focused on 3 key pillars that contribute to our ever growing success, firstly the critical role that global lubricants play in keeping the world moving while ensuring this is achieved through more and cleaner energy solutions and by continuously reducing our carbon impact, secondly I have an unwavering view on the importance of digital transformation and the role of smart data, and third I am an ambassador for gender equality, striving for a more balanced future where women have the same opportunities and influence as their male colleagues. 
 To achieve these goals I am continuously looking to professionalize our marketing capabilities and upgrade our team capability through building, developing and empowering people to reach their full potential - together, Let's Make The Future. 

Michael Lindsey

Michael Lindsey is currently the Chief Transformation & Strategy Officer for PepsiCo Foods North America, comprising of Frito-Lay North America and Quaker North America. In his role, Michael leads a cross-functional organization tasked with developing the ‘next generation’ of PepsiCo’s Foods operations in NA. He is also responsible for strategic plans and M&A for Frito-Lay. Michael began his career with PepsiCo in 2009, holding a series of leadership roles in corporate strategy and as vice president (VP) of Strategy for the AMEA sector. In 2014, he moved to the Greater China Region as the SVP and GM of Nutrition Category and Commercialization, where he led the nutrition category, including profit and loss (P&L) ownership, brand communication, innovation and importantly, building a strong nutrition team. He was also responsible for cross-category commercialization.Prior to joining PepsiCo in 2009, Michael was an associate principal at McKinsey & Co. He holds a BA in Computer Science and Economics from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Michael enjoys traveling and spending time with his family. He resides in the Dallas area with his wife Christine and three children Vivian, Charlotte and John.

Svein Tore Holsether

Svein Tore Holsether (born 1972) is President and Chief Executive Officer of Yara, a global crop nutrition leader with about 17,000 employees worldwide.

Mr. Holsether is passionate about promoting the Sustainable Development Goals in the global business arena. To contribute to a thriving future and drive inclusive growth, he is a member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Food & Nature program for the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). He was a Commissioner of the Business and Sustainable Development Commission (BSDC), and also serves on the Executive Committee and Board of the International Fertilizer Association (IFA). Previously, Mr. Holsether has held a range of executive and senior position in large industrial companies.

Mr. Holsether has a BSc degree, specializing in Finance & Management, from the University of Utah, USA.

Cameron O'Connor

As a marketing executive at IBM, Cameron is dedicated to designing and developing unforgettable experiences for clients around the world. Currently, Cameron is leading all worldwide marketing activities related to IBM's acquisition of Red Hat. At $34 Billion this is the largest software acquisition ever and has completely redrawn the enterprise cloud landscape.
Previously as Executive Producer, Worldwide Events, Cameron focused on strategy and content development at IBM’s largest conferences and other IBM investments at 3rd party events.
Cameron has also served as Director of Marketing for the Watson Talent business unit while his first few years at IBM were spent in corporate communications and focused on application development, data center operations and IT infrastructure. Prior to joining IBM, Cameron worked at Forrester Research where he held positions in research and consulting. Cameron is a graduate of St. Lawrence University.

Aithan Shapira

Aithan Shapira (MFA PhD), internationally acclaimed artist and lecturer at MIT Sloan, draws on 20+ years of experience helping individuals and organizations innovate at the speed of change. He is the founder of Tilt, a culture design and transformation firm enabling global entities and Fortune 100 leaders to create conditions for enduring cultures of innovation. 
Aithan serves McKinsey's think tank on Advancing Adult Learning and Development and has pioneered progressive curricula for the future of work at MIT Sloan, Harvard iLab, Stanford d.school, and Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship. 
Aithan developed his research on the creative process at the Royal College of Art & Design, lived in an Australian Aboriginal community for three years to study art’s impact on cultures of survival, and continues to be a visiting critic at international art institutions. He exhibits his artwork in global museums and galleries.

Sriram Raghavan

Sriram Raghavan is Vice President for IBM Research AI. In this role, he has overall responsibility for establishing IBM’s research portfolio in artificial intelligence (AI) and overseeing the execution of this agenda across IBM’s research labs across the globe. Sriram also works closely with all of the commercial divisions in IBM to drive research advancements in AI into IBM’s software and services offerings. Prior to his current role, Sriram was the Director of the IBM Research Lab in India and the CTO for IBM in India/South Asia. Sriram began his career in IBM at the Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California, USA where he led a variety of research efforts at the intersection of artificial intelligence (specifically natural language processing), large scale data management, business analytics, and distributed systems. Sriram is an alumnus of Stanford University, USA and the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.

Rosalva Nunez

Christopher Oliver

He is tasked with developing and executing strategies to accelerate the revenue and value created through our ecosystem.

Meredith Whalen

Mani Dasgupta

Mani Dasgupta is Vice President Global Brand, Product & Content Marketing, IBM Services. She oversees all product marketing, content and brand strategy, and in-market execution for IBM Services which is the largest professional services business in the world. In addition to bringing Global Business Services and Global Technology Services positioning together Mani also leads IBM's Smarter Business initiative globally.

Dario Gil

Dr. Dario Gil is the Director of IBM Research, one of the world’s largest and most influential global corporate research labs - with over 3,000 researchers at 12 laboratories on six continents - advancing the future of computing. Dr. Gil leads innovation efforts at IBM, directing research strategies in Quantum, AI, Hybrid Cloud, Security, Industry Solutions, and Semiconductors and Systems. Dr. Gil co-chairs the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, a pioneering industrial-academic laboratory with a portfolio of more than 50 projects focused on advancing fundamental AI research. He has also served as COO of IBM Research and the VP of AI and Quantum Computing, leading IBM to be the first company in the world to build programmable quantum computers and make them universally available through the cloud. Dr. Gil received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and is a Trustee of the New York Hall of Science.

Amit Modi

Kelly Hartman

Kelly leads the ISV Ecosystem for the Red Hat Marketplace.  Talk to partners about opportunities to list on the marketplace as a new route to market.

Ryan King

Frans Klaassen

Rob Thomas

Robert D. Thomas is Senior Vice President of IBM Cloud and Data Platform. He directs IBM’s product design and investment strategy, expert labs, global software product development, marketing and field operations across the company’s vast software portfolio.

Rob was previously the General Manager of IBM Data and Watson AI. Under his leadership, IBM has emerged as a leader in data and AI, spanning databases, data integration and governance, business intelligence, financial planning, data science and AI tools, and AI applications. Since joining IBM’s software unit, Rob has held roles of increasing responsibility and overseen 4 acquisitions by the firm, representing over $2.5 billion in transaction value.

Born in Florida, Rob earned his BA in Economics at Vanderbilt University and earned his MBA at the University of Florida, Rob serves on the board of Domus (Stamford, CT), which assists underprivileged children in Fairfield county.

Mirco Bharpalania

Mirco Bharpalania is responsible for Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Management, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, API Management and Middleware for the core business of Lufthansa – Lufthansa Airlines, Swiss and Austrian and additionally has the role of Lufthansa Group Process Owner for Data & Analytics.
 
In this role he is responsible for the management of all relevant data (customer, sales, operations) up to generating insights out of this data through advanced analytics, BI or AI with teams in Frankfurt, Vienna and Zurich. 
 
During his 16 years at Lufthansa Group he has been in charge of several management positions including IT Governance and Strategy of Lufthansa Airlines. In his last role he was responsible for the IT applications for the worldwide ground operations processes of Lufthansa.
 
Mirco Bharpalania holds a German University Degree in Business Computer Science from Technical University Darmstadt.

Jessica Rockwood

Jessica is Vice President of Development, Hybrid Multicloud Management. She is responsible for building operational tool chains and packaged AI applications that infuse AI into enterprise IT workflows to drive business value. Prior to this role, she was director of IBM Db2, an AI database, leveraging AI to optimize development processes, enabling clients to bring AI applications closer to the data that matters most. Her passion for IBM is infectious, which is exactly why she has been an active part of the IBM Employee Experience Program - a series of activities that helps to educate, enhance and provide a positive on-boarding experience to new hires.

Melissa Molstad

Melissa is an experienced people and vendor manager with a demonstrated history of working in the internet and financial services industry. Skilled in risk management, user experience, business process improvement, and cross-functional team leadership, she is a strong program and project management professional. Melissa also serves on the PayPal Omaha Leadership Development Committee, PayPal Unity (Women in Technology), PayPal Aliados (Hispanic community) and PayPal Pride (ally for LGBTQ+) committees. In addition, she has been a sponsor for Unity Shadow which provides the opportunity for women to be mentored by women leaders in technology.

Aaron Levie

Aaron Levie is Chief Executive Officer, Cofounder and Chairman at Box, which he launched in 2005 with CFO and cofounder Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind the Box product and platform strategy, incorporating the best of secure content collaboration with an intuitive user experience suited to the way people work today. Aaron leads the company in its mission to transform the way people and businesses work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. He has served on the Board of Directors since April 2005. Aaron attended the University of Southern California from 2003 to 2005 before leaving to found Box.

Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield is the CEO and co-founder of Slack. Over the past 20 years, he has had a distinguished career as an entrepreneur, designer, and technologist. In 2014, Stewart helped found Slack, a new category of software that changed the way we work by bringing together people, applications, and data to help teams do their best work. Since then, over 600,000 organizations in over 150 countries have turned to Slack to increase their organizational agility--making it the place to communicate, collaborate, and get work done.
 In 2003, he pioneered a new way of sharing information on the Internet when he co-founded Flickr and built the company as CEO into one of the largest web services in the world.
 He was named as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time Magazine, and one of the Top 50 Leaders by BusinessWeek among many similar honors, such as Vanity Fair’s New Establishment List, the Recode 100, Advertising Age’s Creativity 50, and the Technology Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street Journal.
 Stewart has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Victoria and an MPhil in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. He retains academic interests in cognitive science, economics, organizational psychology, and the history and philosophy of science.

Dr. Mallory Freeman

Mallory Freeman leads the Advanced Analytics Group, the Enterprise Business Intelligence group, and the Data Strategy & Analysis group, all driving the development and implementation of the enterprise data strategy at UPS to manage data as a corporate asset. Previously, Mallory was instrumental in establishing data science practice within the Advanced Technology Group and in designing and launching sponsored research projects with major universities and research firms.  Mallory holds a bachelor’s in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, a master’s in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Mallory is active in her community having numerous accomplishments including a 2016 TED Talk. In 2019, she received the Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni Award from Georgia Tech.

Aleksandra Mojsilovic

Aleksandra (Saška) Mojsilović is an IBM Fellow, the Head of Trustworthy AI and Co-Director of Science for Social Good for IBM Research. She is a Fellow of IEEE and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. Previously she was at Bell Laboratories. Saška received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Her main research interests include multidimensional signal processing, data science, machine learning and AI and she has applied her skills to problems in computer vision, healthcare, multimedia, finance, HR, economics, social good, and AI ethics. Saška has authored over 100 publications, holds 16 patents, and has received numerous awards, including the IEEE Young Author Best Paper Award, European Conference on Computer Vision Best Paper Award, INFORMS Wagner Prize, IEEE SOLI Best Paper Award, IBM Gerstner Award, IBM Market Intelligence Award and several IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards.

Michael Fino

Vice President & COO, Global Business Partners.  Operations executive with experience leading all key functional areas of integrated operations and has overall responsibility for transformation and operations supporting IBM’s 15,000 business partners. 

John Sieb

Rhett Wieland

Rob Thomas

Robert D. Thomas is Senior Vice President of IBM Cloud and Data Platform. He directs IBM’s product design and investment strategy, expert labs, global software product development, marketing and field operations across the company’s vast software portfolio.

Rob was previously the General Manager of IBM Data and Watson AI. Under his leadership, IBM has emerged as a leader in data and AI, spanning databases, data integration and governance, business intelligence, financial planning, data science and AI tools, and AI applications. Since joining IBM’s software unit, Rob has held roles of increasing responsibility and overseen 4 acquisitions by the firm, representing over $2.5 billion in transaction value.

Born in Florida, Rob earned his BA in Economics at Vanderbilt University and earned his MBA at the University of Florida, Rob serves on the board of Domus (Stamford, CT), which assists underprivileged children in Fairfield county.

Diane Gherson

Diane was named an officer of IBM and CHRO in 2013. Diane is responsible for the people strategy, leadership, skills, careers, engagement, employee services, labor cost, diversity and inclusion of the more than 350,000 person workforce covering 170 countries.

During her tenure as CHRO, as IBM has dramatically shifted its business portfolio, Diane has redesigned all aspects of the company’s people agenda and management systems to shape a culture of continuous learning, innovation and agility. At the same time, she has digitally transformed the HR function, incorporating AI and automation across all offerings, resulting in more than $100 million in net benefits in 2017. Diane has championed the company’s global adoption of design thinking and agile methods at scale, as an example, driving a company-wide, co-created overhaul of performance management.

Diane has been an external advocate for social issues affecting employees, such as DACA, transgender inclusion, and addressing bias in AI. Under Diane’s leadership in stewarding diversity and inclusion, IBM received the prestigious 2018 Catalyst Award for advancing women in business. The company was also named a Forbes’ Top 10 World’s Best Employer in 2017.

With a U.S. patent in the field of predictive analytics, Diane is a leading voice on the topic of reinventing the profession of HR to create consumer-grade experiences for employees, predictive advice for business leaders, and improved productivity for the business. Diane was recently interviewed on Fox Business News and CNN on automation and future of work and her leadership to transform IBM and HR has been profiled in Forbes, Fortune and Harvard Business Review.

In 2018, Diane was named HR Executive of the Year by HR Executive, and was elected as Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources (NAHR), the highest honor granted in the human resource profession. She serves on the board of directors of the HR Policy Association and the American Health Policy Institute.

Diane joined IBM in 2002 from consulting firm Willis Towers Watson where she led the global pay and performance management practice. Diane earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Trinity College, University of Toronto, and a master’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. She is all but dissertated in the PhD program at the Sloan School of Management.

Amy Wright

As the Managing Partner for IBM’s Talent & Transformation business, Amy is responsible for bringing innovative services and software to IBM clients to help with the transformation of talent across the business enterprise and the reinvention of the Human Resources (HR) function. IBM is in a unique position to work with clients at this game changing moment-in-time, serving as a real-life example of accelerating enterprise transformation through its own HR journey, which incorporates Augmented Intelligence (AI) technology advancements, skills shifts and new ways of working.

Prior to providing talent solutions for clients, Amy served as the HR VP for the Global Business Services unit, an organization of >125k employees worldwide. During her tenure in this role Amy was responsible for leadership development, recruitment and integration, building a culture of engagement, talent development, retention, and skills transformation. Amy led the workforce strategy of creating a global delivery network of centers, the shift to a learning-based culture, growing early professionals into leaders and levers of change, and introduction of cognitive into talent programs. In 2015, Amy was awarded a U.S. patent in the field of predictive analytics in resource management in one of many initiatives integral to a shifting ways of working in a services business.

Amy is the co-author of IBM’s Institute of Business Value’s “The enterprise guide to closing the skills gap - Strategies for building and maintaining a skilled workforce” report that was released in September 2019. She regularly speaks on IBM’s research on HR in the age of AI, closing the skills gap, employee engagement, and culture change.

Roberto Di Bernardini

Roberto di Bernardini is the Chief HR Officer at Banco Santander and the primary architect of the company’s human capital plan and related strategies that focus on making Banco Santander one of the most undisputed leaders in attracting, developing and engaging top talent. Roberto has been a leader in Human Resources for more than 30 years, and his expertise lies in the fields of cultural transformation, talent development, and focusing the organization on a socially responsible purpose.
Roberto’s role is to foster a Cultural transformation that puts People at the center and position Santander as a Company with a purpose that has a huge impact for the People, Customers, Shareholders and Communities. In his role he is helping translating the Company strategy into Global HR strategy aiming to make Banco Santander a Talent Magnet and a Company leader to attract, develop and engage talent.

Hermann Ballé

Craig Aston

Craig is a Chartered Accountant, with a over 20 years experience in various roles in the IT Industry. These roles include sales and sales leadership roles in IBM Global Financing and IBM Systems Group over a 14 year tenure with IBM, after which Craig has worked in business leadership roles for a Cloud Software Startup, a Global Channel Financing Business and since 2017 has been Chief Operating Officer of Celerity. Celerity are a Managed Service Provider and Reseller with significant experience in the IBM Ecosystem, where they have been a Platinum partner for a number of years. Craig's role with Celerity encompasses all aspects of the business, with particular focus on Finance, Operations and Sales.

David Brockschmidt

Mark Balding

Monique Ouellette

Monique is currently responsible for the Global Digital Workplace Solutions Offering and Center of Competency teams team of over 50 people working around the globe. In her role, Monique is responsible for developing offerings which leverage IBM’s Cognitive, Analytics and Automation solutions to assist our enterprise clients with their workplace transformation initiatives and building the standard solutions for our clients to leverage in their digital transformation. Monique has 25+ years of experience in IBM working with some of our largest global clients helping them leverage IBM's capabilities in the Digital Workplace, Networking, Data Center, Cloud and Security towers. Monique is, also, a certified Yoga instructor and active in a number of non profit organizations bringing yoga benefits to teens.

Donovan Roos

Paul Papas

Paul is a Global Managing Partner in IBM Services responsible for IBM's Strategy, Consulting, and Business Process Outsourcing businesses. His team helps CEOs and other C-suite executives leverage exponential technologies like AI, blockchain, and Cloud to reinvent their businesses, by design. His team seamlessly provides next generation strategy, consulting, experience design, analytics, and process outsourcing services to help clients reinvent traditional processes into modern Intelligent Workflows.

Ritika Gunnar

Ritika Gunnar is the Vice President of Data and AI Expert Labs. In this role, she and her team work with clients on their transformation journey through a data & AI first methodology and help implement Data & AI solutions using deep knowledge-based skills to accelerate the adoption of data & AI enterprise capabilities. Prior to this role, Ritika was the Vice President of Offerings for IBM Watson. In this role, she has responsibility for all of Watson’s Data and AI portfolio where she is responsible for defining the portfolio strategy, execution of product offerings, and driving business results. Previous to this, as Vice President of IBM’s World-Wide Cloud and Cognitive GTM organization she drove IBM’s mission to apply deep cloud, data and AI expertise to our clients most pressing needs Ritika has also been the Vice President of IBM’s Data and Analytics Business where she was responsible for the setting the strategy and execution of IBM’s data platform, data science, and analytics practices. Prior to this, she led and managed IBM’s Master Data Management & Information Integration and Governance business and IBM’s Data Warehousing & Analytics business. Ritika joined IBM as a software engineer in 1999 and has held numerous development and support roles in her career. Ritika holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and an Executive Masters in Business from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently resides in New York.

Kristen Bennie

A creative leader, innovator, producer and connector of people, ideas and strategies. Kristen brings the future into focus at NatWest through customer led design, purposeful collaboration, insight and ideation, emerging technology and strategic partnering. She cares passionately about the future of design, technology, people and education.  Her career has involved the development and delivery of new brands, products, services and software always working at the intersection of strategy, design and technology. In her role today as Head of Open Experience for NatWest Group, she shapes and drives the innovation strategy across the Bank, creating and leading globally recognized state of the art innovation centres in London and Edinburgh responsible for defining, designing and delivering new to market customer focused propositions for growth.  Board membership includes: RBS Scotland Board, Fintech Scotland, CodeClan and the Board of Governors at The Glasgow School of Art.

John Teltsch

John is the general manager of IBM Systems Sales. He leads worldwide sales for the IBM Storage, IBM Cognitive Systems, IBM Z, Lab Services and Technical Sales teams. In collaboration with his peers in Systems’ product development and offering management, John owns and executes IBM’s go-to-market strategy for hardware products and related software offerings in IBM Systems.

Sebastian Krause

GM, IBM Cloud & Cognitive Solutions, IBM Europe

David La Rose

David leads the organization's worldwide channel business. He engages with more than 160,000 Ecosystem Partners around emerging opportunities in the channel through cloud, analytics, mobile, security, AI and modern infrastructure. 

Paul Roma

Paul Roma is the global General Manager for IBM Watson Health, an organization helping to lead the transformation of health around the world by applying next-generation technologies, such as data, analytics, AI and hybrid cloud, to address the most pressing health challenges globally. Watson Health partners with the greatest minds in the healthcare world – including Memorial Sloan Kettering, Mayo Clinic, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard among others in life sciences, health plans and tech – to research, develop, train and test our technologies.

Paul has more than 20 years of executive management and expertise in healthcare IT and operations serving healthcare providers, life sciences companies, government agencies and health plans. Most recently, Paul served as the CEO and Chairman of Ciox Health, a company focused on making health information interoperability easy for patients, doctors and enterprises.

Prior to Ciox, Paul spent 12 years at Deloitte Consulting where he served as Global Chief Analytics Officer. In this role, he established the firm’s Global Analytics Market Offering, which featured a single platform for analytics and machine learning that spanned across all of Deloitte’s businesses. He also founded Deloitte Products and Innovation Labs and spent 10 years as Deloitte’s National Technology Lead in HealthCare and Life Sciences.

Paul is an adjunct lecturer of Computer Science at Northwestern University and Singularity University and a contributor to Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) Center for Information Systems Research and MIT Media Lab. He graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Jarrod McNaughton, MBA, FACHE

Jarrod B. McNaughton is the Chief Executive Officer of Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP). In this role, he works collaboratively with the IEHP Governing Board to set the strategic vision and provide executive leadership for one of the 10 largest Medicaid health plans and the largest not-for-profit Medicare-Medicaid Plan in the U.S. He cultivates IEHP’s strong partnership with Providers, hospitals and hundreds of community partners to deliver quality whole-person care to more than 1.2 million Members. He ensures financial stewardship and stability for IEHP’s more than $5.4billionoperational budget. A visionary health care leader, Mr. McNaughton joined IEHP in 2018 as Chief Operating Officer(COO). In this role, he was responsible for the operations, claims, provider contracts, enrollment and eligibility, performance improvement and Member services departments, supporting IEHP’s organizational directives, advancing IEHP’s LEAN transformation, and ensuring IEHP’s mission to deliver quality service to our Members and Providers effectively and efficiently. Prior to IEHP, Mr. McNaughton served in several roles of increasing responsibility in mostly hospitals and large hospital systems. For nearly 20 years, he has led multi-tiered operational strategies and innovation that consistently generated superior results. He has a well-established reputation for building dynamic teams, developing leaders and fostering key relationships in the community. His ability to remove obstacles and empower everyone, from front line Team Members to Physicians, will help support IEHP’s position of strength in the ever-changing healthcare environment. Mr. McNaughton’s roles as President of Kettering Medical Center and Executive Vice President of Kettering Health Network demonstrated his strategic business acumen, empathy and visionary leadership. He developed a coordinated and detailed strategy for the entire network and spearheaded many forward-looking changes in services and delivery of care to patients at those facilities. The Kettering Health Network in Southwest Ohio includes eight hospitals, nine emergency departments, many outpatient clinics and over 11,000 employees. Prior to his role at Kettering Medical Center, Mr. McNaughton was Vice President at San Joaquin Community Hospital. Among his many achievements there, he developed and implemented a new mission and service department that helped increase patient satisfaction scores from the 40th percentile to the 85th percentile in less than a year. Mr. McNaughton’s strong commitment to the community fits well with IEHP’s mission and company culture. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Loma Linda University and a board member for several educational and non-profit agencies. A volunteer with Global Medical Missions, an international aid organization, he has led short-term mission teams to Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, India, Nepal, Honduras and Mexico. Away from work, he enjoys singing, musical theater and flying single-engine planes. Mr. McNaughton pursued an undergraduate degree from Pacific Union College where he earned a bachelor’s degree. He earned his master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of La Verne, Graduate School of Business. In addition, he is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Lisa A. Bartlett

Born and raised in Southern California, Supervisor Lisa Bartlett has been a resident of South Orange County for more than 20 years.
Lisa began her career in public service when she was first elected to Dana Point City Council in 2006. This opportunity led to her serving as both Mayor and Mayor Pro-Tem for the city. She was elected to the Orange County Board of Supervisors in 2014 and was re-elected in 2018, to represent the Fabulous Fifth District. 
In both her public and private life, Supervisor Bartlett has always supported projects she believed to improve economic development, transparency, efficiency, and overall quality of life. Supervisor Bartlett brings that prolific vision to the Fifth District and the County at large. 
In addition to her role on the Orange County Board of Supervisors, Lisa represents her constituents on 14 regional and state boards and commissions. She is currently President of the California State Association of Counties.

Youssef Largou

As executive director, my focus is on delivering essential technology stack and frameworks to help organizations reinvent themselves and realize their digital transformation, modernize their infrastructure and move mission critical workloads across clouds. I focus my time with our customers and teams, and enjoy meeting and connecting with peers, partners and competitors so I can adjust the company strategy and initiatives. I have over 18 years of experience in systems, middleware and hybrid cloud and I have been working within numerous industries with a wide range of technologies. Also, I lead the end-to-end business including the engineering and delivery of the technology, the professional services and the global ecosystem of partners. I’m adept of “do more with less “and “think outside the box” paradigms with a focus on customers satisfaction and sustainable partnership.I m also an IBM Champion 2020, Think2019 and Think2020 speaker.

Gary Storr

Currently Gary is General Manager of Trust Your Supplier, a revolutionary new supplier information management marketplace that connects business partners through a trusted, validated, blockchain-based network. In his role Gary is responsible for all business operations, overseeing commercial solutions, product vision and direction, roadmap execution, and portfolio strategy.

Gary has nearly 30 years of corporate experience at all levels of Information Technology. He’s held senior executive IT roles with responsibilities that include enterprise solution delivery, corporate infrastructure operations, global application development, professional services integration, and global business strategy.

Prior to joining Chainyard, Gary had a 26 year career at Nortel Networks, most recently serving as Chief Information Officer.

Brian Farkas

Robin Lougee

Ritika Gunnar

Ritika Gunnar is the Vice President of Data and AI Expert Labs. In this role, she and her team work with clients on their transformation journey through a data & AI first methodology and help implement Data & AI solutions using deep knowledge-based skills to accelerate the adoption of data & AI enterprise capabilities. Prior to this role, Ritika was the Vice President of Offerings for IBM Watson. In this role, she has responsibility for all of Watson’s Data and AI portfolio where she is responsible for defining the portfolio strategy, execution of product offerings, and driving business results. Previous to this, as Vice President of IBM’s World-Wide Cloud and Cognitive GTM organization she drove IBM’s mission to apply deep cloud, data and AI expertise to our clients most pressing needs Ritika has also been the Vice President of IBM’s Data and Analytics Business where she was responsible for the setting the strategy and execution of IBM’s data platform, data science, and analytics practices. Prior to this, she led and managed IBM’s Master Data Management & Information Integration and Governance business and IBM’s Data Warehousing & Analytics business. Ritika joined IBM as a software engineer in 1999 and has held numerous development and support roles in her career. Ritika holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and an Executive Masters in Business from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently resides in New York.

Tom Rosamilia

Tom has global responsibility for IBM server and storage systems and software as well as the company's global Partner Ecosystem organization.  In April 2018, he completed a year-long assignment in Beijing, China, where he led the global IBM Systems business and acted as a local representative of IBM Corporate Headquarters. Tom sits on the Board of Directors of Rockwell Automation. 

Ashley Pettit

Committed to continuous innovation and adaptation, Ashley Pettit’s future focused approach merges business with technology to enhance State Farm technical platforms and personalize customer experiences. Her work driving one of the largest digital transformations in company history has garnered the attention of the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and CIO magazine. A devoted advocate for women in STEM, Pettit is a State Farm Women & Technology Employee Resource Group sponsor and an active supporter for diverse youth STEM activities across the country. “We recognize today’s students are tomorrow’s workforce,” said Pettit. “It’s my privilege to be an advocate for these bright minds.” Pettit is a Top 100 Corporate Women Leaders in STEM (STEMconnector), Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech (National Diversity Council), a Women in Insurance Leadership Award Recipient (Digital Insurance) and a Technology Business Management Council board member.

Catherine Solazzo

Catherine Solazzo is currently the VP of Ecosystem Performance Marketing supporting Business Partners with Sales Enablement, Marketing Programs & Platforms.

Edward Choi

Nick Otto

IBM Executive with over 15 years of cross industry experience helping clients transform. His current role in IBM Strategic Partnerships is focused on working with IBM’s most strategic partners to identify synergies to create new markets for joint customers.

Nick’s passion is grounded in partnering with clients to understand and align corporate strategy imperatives to AI, Cloud, Mobile and other transformative technologies. His experience with external GBS consulting as well as internal IBM corporate strategy spans multiple functional areas including finance, sales, workforce, and operations as well as numerous industries including Electronics, Aerospace & Defense, Finance and Healthcare.

Aung Thi Ha