Enterprisetalk Conversation: Recent Episodes
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Podcast interview with Andrew Young, Global Technology Lead Analyst, EY
Why are companies choosing to invest in platform models? What is their ROI – is it more profitable to have a platform model? If yes, which subsectors are leading the way, and why are some adopting the new paradigm faster than others? Andrew shares his insights in this lively discussion – Platform Economy, past, present, and Future.
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Podcast interview with Deepak Visweswaraiah, Vice President, Platform Engineering and Site Managing Director, Pegasystems, India
Low code platforms enable cost-optimized, efficient, and agile enterprise development, and how AI has a huge role to play in this. In this discussion, Deepak shares his opinion on the criticality of AI for innovations in enterprise platforms, how legacy ones can be brought up to speed, and how regulation or ban of AI usage will only stifle development of enterprise technology and the freedom to innovate.
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The Podcast provides an insightful discussion between Kanika Goswami, Managing Editor at OnDot Media, and Maxime Vermeir, Senior Director of AI Strategy at ABBYY, on the growth of Artificial Intelligence in 2024 and beyond.
During the interaction, Maxime provides an overview of ABBYY’s focus on purpose-built AI, specifically in intelligent document processing (IDP) and process intelligence. ABBYY aims to make unstructured information actionable and help organizations optimize their processes using AI.
Maxime emphasized that few automation projects fail to deliver the expected results if they are not implemented efficiently. He also highlights the importance of choosing capabilities from trusted vendors and avoiding hype around AI features to ensure success.
Maxime discusses the evolving perception of AI in the market, moving beyond inflated expectations to a more realistic understanding of its capabilities.
He suggests the following factors to ensure Intelligent Automation Success:
- Look for capabilities built with a purpose by trusted vendors.
- Focus on solutions that address real-world problems and avoid getting lost in AI technology hype.
The podcast also has some use cases of ABBYY’s AI deployments:
The use cases demonstrate how AI-powered intelligent document processing can have a significant impact on internal processes, leading to operational efficiency and real-life customer benefits.
- Use case from JLL: Optimizing invoicing and payment processes using AI.
- Use case from Carlsberg: Automating the ordering process for increased efficiency and accuracy in logistics.
Here is some advice from Maxime for AI adoption in enterprises:
- Organizations should look for value and outcomes when considering AI technology.
- He advises companies to cut through the noise and focus on solutions that address real-world problems. Trusted advisors are crucial to turning technology and research into solutions that solve specific business cases.
Overall, the discussion provides valuable insights into the current state and future trends of AI, touching on technology, ethics, regulations, and the role of AI in different industries.
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Technology entrepreneur and co founder of CI&T, Cesar Gon discusses with ET the various aspects of AI adoption, and how businesses can make it work to their benefit. He speaks on the ways enterpises can reduce the risks and still adopt generative AI in their business processes, among other ethical and technology led dilemas that AI adopters face today. He also explains how CI&T helps organizations effectively implement AI into their operations and leverage all the benefits it has to offer.
Cloud-native platforms are designed to unleash real-time data. It acts as a central nervous system in companies, letting them connect all their applications around real-time streams and react and respond intelligently to everything that happens in their business. how do customers meet the security and efficiency challenge and how can MSPs help to resolve them.
Cloud-native platforms are designed to unleash real-time data. It acts as a central nervous system in companies, letting them connect all their applications around real-time streams and react and respond intelligently to everything that happens in their business. how do customers meet the security and efficiency challenge and how can MSPs help to resolve them.
The interaction with Nabil spoke of the importance of developing a resilient business network to ensure top-notch connectivity, and the best ways to make sure users in remote locations have a good experience and can be productive without compromising on security. Setting strategies that businesses can embrace in the era of the infinite enterprise and improve customer experiences, will help them achieve success in terms of network and management strategies.
Businesses rely heavily on third-party applications to streamline their work processes, trusting their BPM partners to keep their data secure. SRudhar discusses how Zoho ensures complete privacy and trust and also shares a few ideas on how companies can identify trustworthy solutions providers. he also talks about the rapid evolution of enterprise tech tools, and how some, like AI, will impact the business process industry hugely. the future of business is trust, security and new ways to connect with the customer, that ensure an omnichannel experience that is secure, agile, and robust.
The discussion with PMI centers around how leaders create and cultivate a culture of innovation through customer-centricity, technology, mentorship, agility, and curiosity. Fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce leads to improved workforce efficiency, and more so when Employee led changes in the organizations encourage strategic changes. Stephan shared his insights on what technologies can be adopted to ensure that the business operations are customer-centric, and the tools and technologies will help businesses to ensure sustainability in their operations.
ET speaks with Chander Damodaran, MD & CTO – Cloud Engineering at Brillio. The discussion centers around how the Metaverse drives value for customer experience journeys and hyper-personalization, its role in physical banks, and digital banking and the security risks faced. The new technology requires policy and regulations, and this discussion was about understanding if the metaverse-focused privacy regulations being passed by countries and their governments address interactions and transactions happening in the metaverse
Modern organizations need a well-connected business network irrespective of their globally dispersed workforce. Business leaders need to have effective tools, technologies, and applications integrated to enable access to the entire business network without compromising on security. It is crucial for businesses to have zero latency while connecting the entire business network to improve efficiency. Industry veterans are exploring opportunities to leverage edge network solutions to transform business continuity. Enterprise talk has an insightful conversation with Andrés Irlando, president of the Zayo group to understand the current state of business networks around the globe and what strategies can be implemented to improve connectivity resiliency.
Modern enterprises have their data dispersed across numerous cloud environments. Companies need specific tools and stringent policies to ensure stability and security. Sensitive data and applications deployed across multi-cloud environments be secured using AI and ML-based capabilities. Companies need to ensure they take the minimum steps necessary to satisfy a compliance audit, there is no compromising on that. As the current threat scenario becomes even more dangerous, and ransomware attack techniques are evolving more quickly than security safeguards, businesses face a severe problem. One of the most critical areas that need to be protected is the supply chain because it is essential for the health of every organization, as we have witnessed in the past two years. This is an initiative that all brands need to take seriously and use newer tools to put in place, even leveraging strengths like the Industrial Edge. Zero trust has taken acceptance during the last few years and can be leveraged for a better security stance.
Digital-age networking, communications, and cloud solutions need built-in security features and also have to ensure limited environmental impact. There is also a need for modern enterprises to have real-time connectivity to deliver the real meaning of digitization. This makes the playing field for threats even more prominent and more vulnerable. How do organizations protect themselves from sophisticated threats in this growth phase? There have to be highly robust strategies that enterprises should implement to ensure airtight security to their Cloud, Communication & Collaboration, and IP telephony solutions, especially with VOIP telephony frauds on the rise. Under these circumstances, enterprises must be very creative and disciplined to ensure they can create better alignment between their business goals, processes, and security requirements. It will need future-ready strategies and innovations, to say the least. As the cybercrime-as-a-service industry becomes more sophisticated, businesses need to, more than anything, ingrain resilience in their business operations and embed smart tools and strategies in their security policies to fight fraud and threats.
Digital-age networking, communications, and cloud solutions need built-in security features and also have to ensure limited environmental impact. There is also a need for modern enterprises to have real-time connectivity to deliver the real meaning of digitization. This makes the playing field for threats even more prominent and more vulnerable. How do organizations protect themselves from sophisticated threats in this growth phase? There have to be highly robust strategies that enterprises should implement to ensure airtight security to their Cloud, Communication & Collaboration, and IP telephony solutions, especially with VOIP telephony frauds on the rise. Under these circumstances, enterprises must be very creative and disciplined to ensure they can create better alignment between their business goals, processes, and security requirements. It will need future-ready strategies and innovations, to say the least. As the cybercrime-as-a-service industry becomes more sophisticated, businesses need to, more than anything, ingrain resilience in their business operations and embed smart tools and strategies in their security policies to fight fraud and threats.
Infrastructure has been comparatively slower than other sectors to adopt digital transformation. But over the next two years, the adoption of digital twins is likely to become widespread and drive the industry forward; as a result, industry leaders should pay close attention to these developments and design their own digital twin strategies to maximise their potential. What role according to you does digital twin play in modeling and simulation for larger infrastructure operations? Enterprise Talk chats with Kaushik Chakraborty, Vice President, Asia Pacific, Bentley Systems to understand how open digital twin platforms can help to overcome the gaps in large infrastructure projects and they will shape the future of the infrastructure industry.
Open source plays a vital role in world where software is everywhere. Enterprises aiming to achieve successful digital transformation must adopt and leverage open source software and also contribute to it. So, how intertwined is edge computing with open source and how can companies use open source technologies for their hybrid cloud plans and digital transformation initiatives? Enterprise Talk chats with Joanna Hodgson, UK Country Manager, Red Hat, to learn more about the advantages of switching to open source software and also how OpenShift API Management can benefit enterprises by modernizing legacy systems, accelerating the release of new apps, and boosting developer productivity.
It's easier than ever to leverage real-time data, which can have a transformative impact on organizations. But why do so few businesses actually get off to a good start? Enterprise Talk speaks to Bryan Kirschner is Vice President, Strategy at DataStax to know how businesses can begin using real-time data to produce greater revenue and value and what the major obstacles are that businesses experience when deploying real-time data analytics, and how they can overcome them.
Databricks partnered with Mediafly to launch a business value assessment using the company's Value360 solution. Within the first year of launch, the company has seen a 587% increase in win rates when the tool is leveraged. What business challenges was Databricks facing, that needed a tech intervention? How did the implementation work? When there were challenges, what kind of support did Mediafly provide to Databricks? Enterprise Talk speaks to Doug May, VP - Value Acceleration at Databricks and Dan Sixsmith, SVP - Value Enablement, Mediafly to know more about how the partnership happened, what did it bring to both the brands, and how has it added innovation to sales strategies.
The past few years, there has been a clear increase in threat volume and sophistication as many threat actors shift to strategies that can easily and effectively evade detection and go after high-value targets. What strategies are threat actors using to circumvent security measures, and how should organizations adapt to stay safe? Enterprise Talk speaks to Dave Gerry, Chief Operating Officer, Bugcrowd to know how organizations can achieve real-time vulnerability insights across their expanding attack surface and eliminate critical blind-spots and how next generation of pen testing can help strengthen security posture.
Industrial AI and digitalization is creating a massive opportunity – and challenge – around data. How is executive leadership evolving to meet these emerging needs? What new roles, skills, and knowledge are needed for today's data executives? Enterprise Talk speaks to Heiko Claussen, SVP for Artificial Intelligence at Aspen Technology to know how tech leaders in industrial sectors can accelerate their digital transformation and also how IT and OT leaders at industrial organizations can identify digitalization opportunities to make their operations more sustainable and reduce their carbon footprint.
CEOs worldwide are resetting their risk radar and rethinking their investment strategy amidst the current environment of supply chain challenges and escalating geopolitical crises, with transforming increasingly dominating the business agenda. What are some suggested actions that businesses and their leaders can adopt to support market-leading growth in the upcoming year? Enterprise Talk speaks to Ranjit Tinaikar, Global CEO, Ness Digital Engineering to know how businesses can effectively foster an innovative culture in order to gain new competitive advantages and what are some of the most crucial trends emerging worldwide.
One thing has become obvious amid the uncertainty and global volatility in the past two years - cloud is essential to business success in the digital age. The vast majority of businesses today are aware of how crucial the cloud is to the development and future strategy of their business. What are some potential obstacles that businesses can face, and how can they overcome these barriers to entry that exist in the cloud computing space? How can the resource- and time-intensive process of cloud migration be made more efficient? Enterprise Talk speaks to Dave Cutler, General Manager of Slalom’s Global Cloud business to understand more about the challenges enterprises face with modernizing data protection today and how they can ensure their current cloud consumption is managed against their company standards and compliance policies.
Description: Digital transformation has long been at the top of the boardroom agendas, but now the pandemic has tremendously accelerated its pace. Digital adoption is essential now as businesses deploy more software than ever before. Achieving effective digital adoption is more than just the use of technology, so how can businesses ensure digital adoption outcomes are achieved? Enterprise Talk speaks to Michael Graham, CEO of Epilogue Systems to know how businesses can achieve the desired impact with their digital adoption efforts and how security ties into this. SM Description: Enterprise Talk speaks to Michael Graham, CEO of Epilogue Systems to know how businesses can achieve the desired impact with their digital adoption efforts and how security ties into this.
Security teams have never been under more pressure to stay ahead of the curve in the midst of the accelerating digital transformation that has reconfigured IT infrastructure over the past two years with cloud-first initiatives, remote work, and rising strain on resources and budget. How has COVID-19 affected how companies approach cybersecurity? Are we more secure now than we were before the pandemic? Enterprise Talk speaks to Aparna Rayasam, Chief Product Officer, Trellix to know more about the current state of cybersecurity the increasing importance of XDR in the overall cybersecurity paradigm.
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the evolving business landscape and with it responsibilities and functions of CIOs, CTOs and CEOs. With technology playing a central role in the majority of business operations, most fundamental aspects of the economy will no longer remain the same as before. What is the purpose of fostering partnerships, especially powerful collaboration between the CEO and CIO, and employee buy-in? What priorities or concerns have changed significantly between last year and this year? Enterprise Talk chats with Chaitanya (Chai) Rajebahadur, Executive Vice President and Head of Europe for Zensar Technologies, to learn more about the advantages and difficulties of implementing SAP and how companies can eliminate friction by optimizing user experiences.
The COVID pandemic, in particular, has caused significant adjustments in priorities for CIOs of enterprises of all kinds over the past two years. How can Chief Information Officers ensure that investments in Information Technology support core organizational business goals? In 2022, organizations expect more than ever from CIO strategy. Enterprise Talk speaks with Chetna Mahajan, CIO of Zoominfo to know more about what the new CIO playbook looks like in today’s security landscape.
With the widespread impact of the pandemic on sales, growth, and outcomes, marketers now have a new mandate to take center stage in their companies, connecting the dots between business priorities, customer data, needs, and the digital agenda to create value and aggressively drive growth. What initiatives can CMOs take to shorten their sales lifecycle without disrupting the customer experience? How can businesses extract insights to improve revenue intelligence while data complexity increases? Enterprise Talk speaks to Mariana Cogan, CMO at People.ai, to learn more about how organizations can drive their Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy while aligning sales and marketing outcomes and how People.ai's revenue operation solution can help them achieve that.
As organizations accelerate their digital transformation and embrace the remote and hybrid environment, they are facing increasingly new challenges when scaling their business operations. Cyber-attacks have also been keeping pace with the growth of organizations in terms of tech tools. How does modern network technology innovation help them to meet these challenges? What does Mavenir offer as support for this transformation and what role does 5G play in it? Enterprise Talk speaks to Aniruddho Basu, the EVP of Emerging Business, at Mavenir, to know more about Mavenir’s existing and newly created solutions for 5G, IoT, and digital transformation to support CIOs in their journey of secured, seamless growth.
About Clare Dorrian
As SugarCRM’s chief marketing officer, Clare Dorrian is responsible for overseeing the company’s overall integrated marketing strategy. She leads the customer marketing, revenue generation, product marketing and marketing operations teams. @ClareDorrian, @SugarCRM
Bharat is Technical Director at Trend Micro where he manages technical and customer-supporting teams. He has 20 years of experience as an information security professional and has worked for Alcatel Lucent/Nokia, KCOM and Siemens.
Before joining Trend Micro Bharat held the position of Security Technologist in the CTO Office for HP Enterprise Security Services. Bharat provides strategic counsel to clients to drive secure transformation and help CISOs meet critical business objectives. He focuses on major global customers in the Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Financial Services, Telecommunications, and Retail markets. Bharat is also one of Trend Micro’s main media spokespeople and regularly appears at major industry events.
Mike is responsible for the company’s overall SD-WAN strategy, as well as the network and security service portfolios. Since joining the organization in 2008, he’s overseen the launch and lifecycle of services including LTE wireless, Ethernet and MPLS IPsec access elements, Secure WiFi & Analytics, Application Performance Optimization, IPsec VPN, and Unified Communications.
Bernd Groß, CTO of Software AG, has been working internationally in the IT industry for over 25 years. He is one of the world's pioneers and thought leaders in the areas of digitization, cloud computing, the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0. Bernd has working experiences in senior management positions from Germany, Great Britain and the USA (Silicon Valley).
In 2012, Bernd founded Cumulocity and, in his role as CEO, successfully established it as a leading IoT cloud platform player globally. In 2017, the start-up's growth strategy accelerated through the successful sale to Software AG. Bernd is a qualified software engineer and completed a Master of Business Administration at the London Business School.
Nikhil leads strategy, business growth, operations and customer care for GoDaddy in India as its Vice President & Managing Director. In his role at the world’s leading platform dedicated to small businesses, Nikhil is passionate about helping small businesses and entrepreneurs establish and grow their ventures.
Nikhil has over two decades of international and India experience in corporate strategy, marketing, business development, and finance. He brings extensive experience operating in emerging markets, along with deep insights on challenges confronting small and micro businesses as they look for growth and to build compelling businesses.
Kyle McNabb is the VP of Solution Marketing at Rocket Software. He has over 25 years of experience in customer-focused products and service innovation lifecycles, developing compelling content, and implementing growth strategies. At Rocket, he drives efforts to scale solution and partner marketing to power profitable growth.
Stephan Robineau is a seasoned international business executive and board member with global leadership experience in driving strategic growth and business transformation. His Digital Age Networking vision aims at helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation and bring superior connectivity to people, things and processes. He is passionate about enabling customer success through portfolio innovation and is a fervent believer in the innovation IoT can bring to the human experience. Stephan thrives in diverse and multi-cultural environments. A “servant leader”, he always puts customers, employees and his team experience first, leading the ALE Network business division. Throughout his 20+ years in executive positions in networking, Stephan has delivered growth and innovation to transform organisations and processes for business-driven automation, simplification and quality.
His combination of pragmatic technology skills and knowledge, and strong business acumen, enabled Stephan to create and promote the business engine team concept, closing the gap to success between portfolio readiness, sales and channel enablement, and market adoption. During his time at ALE, Stephan has also innovated organisational processes with fully automated system quality assurance and agile R&D cycles to ensure repeatable quality and content adherence for hardware and software releases.
Stephan is a distinguished member of the Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Technical Academy, as well as a graduate of Polytech Nantes, France, where he achieved a Master's degree in Electronics, Engineering and Computer Science. Stephan also holds a Management certificate from ESSEC business school.
Lawrence Huang is the Vice President of Product Management for Cisco Meraki, Cisco’s cloud-managed networking and enterprise IoT solutions focused on the digital workplace. Lawrence joined Meraki in 2012 as the first product manager for the Meraki Switch (MS) portfolio, and now leads a team of product management professionals responsible for the entire Meraki portfolio. Meraki’s solutions help optimize everything for people, places, and things, including wireless, switching, secure SD-WAN, smart cameras, environmental sensors, and endpoint management; all centrally managed in Meraki’s cloud-based dashboard.
Anthony Cusimano is a cloud expert at Veritas Technologies. He has spent his entire professional life performing a plethora of roles at Verita
TELUS International is a *leading digital customer experience provider that designs, builds and delivers next-gen digital solutions for global and disruptive brands.*
Splunk Inc. develops web based application software. The Company provides software that collects and analyzes machine data generated by websites, applications, servers, networks, and mobile devices. Splunk serves customers worldwide.
Alexey Posternak is the Chief Investment Officer at MTS AI, where he oversees the creation of the AI accelerator and the MTS AI Venture Capital
Claus Jepsen is a technology expert who has been fascinated by the micro-computer revolution ever since he received a Tandy TRS model 1 at the age of 14
Phil Ahad is the Chief Digital Officer for Toluna, the leader in market research technology and insights. Phil is responsible for leading the vision, development and strategy for Toluna’s suite of digital market research solutions. He is passionate about identifying first look technology and trends that innovate companies, industries and business concepts. Phil has a broad range of experience in digital product leadership, marketing and strategy focusing on automation and disruption across all industry types.
Ryan, EMEA CTO at Lacework, has been working within IT infrastructure for over 20 years and is a prominent DevSecOps thought leader and multi-cloud advocate.
Timothy J. Klein is President, CEO and co-founder at ATTO. An experienced entrepreneur, Klein has led ATTO since its inception in 1988 and is a key member on a number of Western New York leadership boards and industry associations. Prior to founding ATTO, he was employed as a systems engineer with Barrister Information Systems, a developer of mini computers and software. Prior to that Klein worked as a design engineer with Motorola. He received his B.S.in Electrical Engineering from the University at Buffalo.
Gaurav Kapoor serves as the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of MetricStream. Gaurav has been involved with the company since its inception and as the COO
Aviad Hasnis joined Cynet after 9 years of service in the IDF at the Central Intelligence Unit. He has worked on numerous cutting edge technologies that have had a major impact on the security of the State of Israel. As part of Aviad’s duties as CTO of Cynet, he continues to lead extensive cyber security research projects and move cyber innovation forward.
Rajesh Dhuddu leads the Blockchain & Cybersecurity practice for USD 5.2 billion IT giant, Tech Mahindra. He guides a team of 500+ highly accomplished Cybersecurity professionals empowering Global customers in EMEA, APJ & India to strengthen their enterprise wide Cybersecurity posture and build a highly resilient security organization.
As Executive Vice President of the Communications Business Division, Nicolas Brunel leads the strategy and development of digital age communications that enable enterprises to collaborate effectively. On taking his current position in September 2016, he began the transformation of ALE communications solutions to connect people, machines and processes and deliver efficiency and business results. Nicolas believes that by keeping the user experience at the center, business technology must become intuitive, remain secure and reach a wide internal and external ecosystem, increasingly with the support from AI-based automation.
Nicolas is also the President of ALE International, the group’s headquarters in France. Since his appointment to this role in March 2019, he serves as company representative aligning employees with ALE’s vision and priorities.
As Senior Vice President, International Steven Rees-Pullman is responsible for revenue and organisational growth in EMEA and APAC at Auth0. He is the first to formally oversee the company’s international business, which accounts for nearly half of Auth0’s global revenue, and has been instrumental in adoption of Auth0 outside of North America. Rees-Pullman is an internationally-proven professional with over 20 years of experience in full P&L, business sector and corporate planning and execution in the software industry.
Prior to joining Auth0, Rees-Pullman held leadership positions at global organisations including K2, SumTotal, Cogniti, Torex Retail, and Infor. He is experienced at defining and executing strategy for new markets, fostering long-term growth, engaging with key stakeholders, and motivating a multicultural team.
Ed Williams is a seasoned cyber security specialist with 10+ years directly focused on penetration testing and consultancy for Government and private sector organisations. He heads up penetration testing within Trustwave’s elite team of forensic investigators, researchers and ethical hackers, SpiderLabs, as Director for EMEA.
As President of Eightfold AI, Kamal Ahluwalia is both a pioneer and practitioner of AI Talent Platforms -- a breakthrough technology in which any organization can hire and promote talent based on their potential, while simultaneously creating a more diverse, inclusive, and successful workforce. Co-Author of the book “What’s Next for You – The Eightfold Path To Transforming The Way We Hire And Manage Talent”
Previously, he was Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Schneider Electric. Formerly, he was Managing Director of Global Technology R&D at Accenture. Earlier, he was Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of ABB. Earlier, he was senior vice president of research at HP and director of HP Labs. Formerly, he was Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Formerly he was the Walter P. Murphy Professor and Chairman of ECE at Northwestern University. Prior to that, he was professor of ECE at the University of Illinois.
An internationally experienced strategic sales leader specialising in Intelligent Automation using the latest in innovation from Process Mining, Machine Learning, Intelligent OCR and Robotics Process Automation (RPA).
Having built a strong profile over the last 20 years focused on driving business through a hybrid of direct customer collaboration and strategic global partnerships across the automation market, I am passionate about what we stand for in ABBYY and look forward to connecting with like minded people. This market is only at the beginning of driving innovation into the workplace!
RPA, Artificial Intelligence, business process automation, enterprise software solutions, sales operations, strategic planning, entrepreneurial, leadership
How people analytics provides data-driven insight for workforce strategy and planning so that talent can be managed and developed to deliver clear business outcomes.
With hyper digitalization of business, electronic signatures have become a necessity. Ronan Copeland, Head of Sales EMEA & Ireland GM at DocuSign discusses the present and future of digital identities, and how the DocuSign Agreement Cloud helps organisations in conducting their business faster with less risk, and at lower costs
Venu Lambu brings over 25 years of insight and global experience to help clients navigate business challenges and achieve organizational goals across transformation, governance, change management, and drive return on investments. In his role, he is responsible for formulating Mindtree’s strategic direction and accelerating digital initiatives for clients, with an aim to strengthen our leadership in technology innovation. Venu acts as an executive sponsor for strategic engagements and enables end to end digital transformation for clients.
Previously, Venu has held leadership positions at Cognizant, HCL Technologies and IBM. He was member of Cognizant’s Executive Leadership team and drove synergies for better business outcomes and facilitated Fortune 500 clients transition to digital seamlessly. He led HCL Tech's continental Europe growth from early stage player to leading partner of choice.
Venu is a member of the Forbes Technology Council, and chairs customer advisory councils in North America and Europe.
Venu holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from the University of Mysore, India and General Management certification from the London Business School
Martin Sweeney, co-founder and CEO of Ravelin Martin co-founded UK based Ravelin in 2014 after working for taxi app firm Hailo (now Free Now) as a founding engineer.Now, with the pandemic driving the growth of ecommerce and therefore placing more pressure on fraud detection, Ravelin’s growth is likely to continue at pace as the company is perfectly placed to help large businesses protect themselves against fraudsters.
Experienced Regional Vice President with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Strong business development professional skilled in Sales, Professional Services, Workforce Management, Management, and Software as a Service (SaaS).
Mansour Karam is an entrepreneur and executive with a passion and successful track record for building high tech infrastructure companies from the ground up. As the VP of Products at Juniper Networks, Mansour leads out on the implementation of Juniper’s Apstra solution and the company’s data center operations.
As the Founder and President of Apstra, Mansour led the company’s culture and business, focuses on strategic business initiatives, and runs day to day operations. Prior to Apstra, Mansour was an early recruit at several startups and led critical efforts in various functions: engineering, product management, business development, and sales. In 2000, he joined Routescience as a Principal Architect, where he helped architect the company’s product and led various customer and partner engagements that ultimately resulted in the company’s acquisition by Avaya.
In 2006, Mansour joined Arista Networks as their first business leader, where he worked closely with early customers to define key product requirements and deliver the company’s first product to market. Mansour also developed vertical markets, marketing, sales and partnership strategies and as Arista grew he became head of all global business development and alliances. Arista Networks (ANET) went on to become a public company in 2014 with a $4 billion valuation.
He has an MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Computer & Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut.
Urvashi Tyagi is the Chief Technology Officer at ADP, where she is responsible for long-term technology vision and strategy, modernization and migration to the public cloud, key enterprise functions like User Experience & Design, Developer Experience, API Marketplace, Enterprise Architecture, ADP’s approach to emerging technologies such as Blockchain and Real-Time Payments and ensuring technology alignment across the enterprise.
Prior to ADP, Urvashi served as Vice President, Global Commercial Data Engineering at American Express, where she led technology transformation for global products and modernized company platforms. She also led the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Center of Excellence for commercial payments. Before Amex, Urvashi was Director of Engineering for Amazon Audiobooks and original programming at Audible, where she launched the mobile store worldwide, modernized the consumer tech stack, launched a scalable platform for international expansion, led entry into enterprise business, and established digital technology teams for CRM and search traffic. Earlier, Urvashi worked at Microsoft, IBM, and Bridgewater associates.
Urvashi is the founding advisor of Her Computing, a non-profit that makes coding accessible, easy, and fun for underrepresented students in K-12 and is a co-founder of Scarlet Fresh Shoe which drives innovation in shoe repair that reduces our carbon footprint.
Urvashi is a keynote speaker on digital transformation, women in tech, and frequently speaks at internal and external conferences on various technology topics. Urvashi has a bachelor’s degree in engineering and an MBA from India; and a master’s degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, where she also serves as an advisory board member for their Arts and Sciences department.
Kirsten Allegri Williams is Chief Marketing Officer of Optimizely where she leads global marketing and communication
strategy. Optimizely empowers growing companies to compete digitally with its Customer-Centric Digital Experience Platform. Prior to Optimizely, Kirsten was Chief Marketing Officer for SAP SuccessFactors, the world’s leading provider of technology solutions for Human Resources. In her career as a corporate storyteller, she rebranded and relaunched the brand and digital presence of SAP Ariba, another of SAP’s global software businesses, and led partnerships with the United Nations to help businesses everywhere forge sustainable supply chains. She is also an advocate for women’s equality and empowerment in the workplace. Kirsten has been honored by many organizations including The Internationalist as a “Next 50” top marketer and Top Rank Marketing as Top Influential Digital
He previously served as a leader of the cyber threat intelligence subscription service at Deloitte and as an individual contributor to that of iDefense. Paul previously covered cyber issues as a contractor in the US Intelligence Community. Paul specializes in the coverage of state-sponsored cyber threats, particularly those from Iran. Paul originally served as a linguist and cultural advisor and speaks multiple languages, including Arabic. He has a Master’s degree in History from Georgetown University.
As VP Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot, Scott shapes the company's platform strategy and leads business programs for its global technology partner ecosystem. Before that, he was the co-founder and CTO of ion interactive, a SaaS company that pioneered interactive content for global enterprises. Since 2008, Scott has also run the Chief Marketing Technologist blog, chiefmartec.com, with over 50,000 readers, analyzing topics at the intersection of marketing, technology, and management. Scott wrote the best-selling book "Hacking Marketing," and is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences around the world on topics of marketing technology and agile marketing.
As CMO of Bango, Anil works closely with businesses that focus on driving user growth and maximizing monetization. His role is to champion the adoption of new technology by merchants, allowing them to achieve their goals by challenging traditional approaches to measuring marketing success. Through Bango, he’s fighting to build a strong connection between the marketing dollars invested by a business and the revenue coming in. Throughout his twenty-year career, he’s been driven by breakthrough technology that becomes adopted across the market as a whole
Susanne Gurman is the Senior Vice President of Marketing at SecurityScorecard. Gurman is a respected and results-oriented, global leader with a proven track record of building successful teams and accelerating company progress. Gurman has over 20 years of experience in developing and driving growth strategies for high-tech companies. Prior to joining SecurityScorecard, Gurman spent over 10 years at Digital Guardian, where she was the Vice President of Global Field & Channel Marketing. She also serves as a Board Member for Savvy Cyber Kids, an organization that helps parents and teachers educate children in cyber safety, cyber ethics and other aspects of their daily tech lives.
Kimberly George is the global head of product development and innovation at Sedgwick. Kimberly has been a registered nurse for more than 20 years. Although she began her career as a neuro-trauma nurse, she quickly transitioned to the insurance and benefits arena. Her experience in the cost containment field spans over 20 years.
Kimberly is also co-host of Out Front Ideas, a complimentary webinar series and interactive forum designed to explore critical workers' compensation-related issues that are not given enough attention in other industry outlets.
Cyber Security & IT business professional, having experience in P&L Management, Sales & Business Development, Network & Security solutions, Cyber-Security solutions & Consulting Services, Enterprise Data-center solutions.
Have been heading business Units & leading the strategy development, execution and expansion of the business units in various organizations & territories like Middle East, APAC and Africa.
An engineering graduate (B.E) from Anna University (India) in Electronics and Communication along with other professional specializations including CISA from ISACA (USA), PMP (Project Management Professional) from PMI (USA), PG Diploma in Management, DECE, DCA, DJP.
Vijay runs Products at AlefEdge. In this role he is responsible for Product Strategy, New Product introductions, Product Management, Pricing, APIs, Solutions, and Digital Edge showcases. He has spent most of his career quantifying, creating and extracting value out of new product cycles, innovation and technology transitions. In his former roles as a Product Manager at Digital Equipment Corp, Tech Equity Research Analyst at Cowen & Co, Venture Capitalist and Board member of various technology companies at Wasserstein Ventures, finance entrepreneur, and a senior executive in two healthcare analytics startups, Vijay has been a visionary leader in how technology products are funded, positioned, developed, launched and managed.
Vijay has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University, a Masters in Industrial Engineering and Management from Oklahoma State University, and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
Michael McDaniel is vice president and general manager of Modern Workplace at DXC Technology. He is responsible for DXC’s Modern Workplace business, leading innovation and growth, managing all activities and global staff, and achieving customers’ expectations.
Previously, Mr. McDaniel spent 15 years in several senior positions at Accenture. Most recently, he was senior managing director for Accenture’s North America sales organization, active in sales origination, customer management, technology and innovation development, and C-suite engagement plans for major transformation programs.
Sanjoe, CEO of Talview, is passionate about building technologies that help make hiring faster and easier. Talview is working on cutting-edge AI technology that accelerates the speed of hiring since 2012. Sanjoe is also a well-known speaker in HR Technology, especially in using artificial intelligence and machine learning-based tools in building world-class teams in organizations.
As a Chief Technology Officer, Thomas and his team deliver innovation with hybrid cloud and AI, leveraging all types of data and evolving the technology to enable clients to address new digital business ideas. With a strong foundation in computer/data science and extensive experience in IT infrastructure and technology, Thomas enjoys bringing different elements together to build the architecture of the future. He loves to discuss technology, trends, AI, data, blockchains and architectures for mission critical hybrid cloud solutions.
Mark Chamberlain is the Vice President Global Head of Infrastructure at ADP. With revenues of $13.3 billion in 2018 and 57,000 employees worldwide, ADP is one of the world’s largest and most experienced HR providers. ADP provides comprehensive payroll services and human resources management solutions for businesses of all sizes by providing companies recruit-to-retire services and solutions that help them build the teams necessary to succeed.
A 26-year veteran of technology that ranges from programming to infrastructure, Mark is responsible for ADP’s global infrastructure, which supports our global hosting businesses and millions of end users.
Henry (Jamie) Holcombe is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). In this role, he is the principal advisor to the agency on the design, development, and management of its information systems and technology.
Most recently, Mr. Holcombe served as the Chief Executive Officer of Visium Technologies, a cybersecurity startup, and Chief Operations Officer for TJ Westlake LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business. Prior to these executive roles, he served as the Vice President and General Manager for Harris CapRock Critical Networks segment, providing managed security services supporting air traffic management, energy and maritime communications, ground network operations and sustainment, and high-value IT and engineering cyber services.
Alex Timlin is the senior vice president of verticals at omnichannel customer engagement company Emarsys. Alex leads the company’s world-class client success organization to drive adoption and growth more than 1,500 customers around the world — empowering them to better communicate with their contacts and customers across billions or engagements.
“After studying engineering and applied mathematics at Ecole Centrale Paris, Boris Paillard worked 3 years in investment banking. Passionate about tech & education, he quit his job to work on various tech products before founding Le Wagon to teach tech skills to creative people. For the past 7 years, he has been leading the development of Le Wagon's training programmes and platforms. To date, his teams have trained 10,000+ alumni in Web Development and Data Science across 41 cities, making Le Wagon the world’s leading coding bootcamp worldwide.”
Christopher Malter is the CEO ofAvalon.ai, an AI platform dedicated to developing real-time enterprise solutions connecting customers with end-users through smart technology.
Jonathan Shulman, Vice President, Business Development at iconectiv, is responsible for identifying and developing new business opportunities and future revenue streams across iconectiv’s secure, interconnection solutions with global mobile network operators, telecom regulators, technology and industry partners. He also leads engagement with product and engineering teams to represent the voice of the customer and translate insights into test cases and proof of concept prior to market launch.
Shulman has more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience at world-class telecommunications, digital, advertising, mobile and technology companies where he has built and led high-performing global sales, marketing and channel teams. Prior to joining iconectiv, he served in high-level positions at Facebook, Lucent Technologies, Nokia and LG Electronics Mobile.
Shulman graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in psychology. He also holds a master’s degree in law and diplomacy from Tufts University, as well as an MBA from the Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth College.
Sachin Gupta is the CEO and Co-Founder of HackerEarth. Sachin is a former software developer at Google and Microsoft, and now heads sales/marketing/operations at HackerEarth. A developer by trade, he is passionate about the developer community and ensuring every developer is connected with the right opportunity. Sachin was named in 2016's Forbes 30 Under 30 List of Entrepreneurs in Asia.
Bjoern oversees Sage Artificial Intelligence Labs (SAIL). SAIL’s mission is to transform Sage into an AI-enabled technology business by embedding AI and Machine Learning (ML) across the Sage portfolio of market-leading products and services. SAIL is a cross-functional group of engineers, product managers, and data scientists that drives the development of ML services, ML infrastructure, AI/ML strategy, and upskilling.
The pioneer of Multiscreen as a Service (MaaS) –Phunware offers unique solutions that allow a complete transformation of customer experience across industries and in particular the retail sector