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Dr Paula Franklin

Chief Medical Officer, Bupa

Paula was appointed as Chief Medical Officer in August 2019, having held a number of senior medical roles in both funding and provision businesses since joining Bupa in 1996.

Paula first studied medicine and worked as a GP in the UK, before going on to study public health in the US. She holds an MBA from London Business School, a MA in Bioethics and Medical Law and a diploma in counselling.

Monique Morrow

President and Cofounder, Humanized Internet

With over 25 years’ experience as a global technology leader, Monique Morrow is Senior Distinguished Architect for Emerging Technologies at Syniverse Technologies where her main role and responsibilities is to provide thought leadership and to help the strategic direction and vision for Syniverse's identified emerging technologies across the company, partners and industry forum. Specific focus areas include extensions of Distributed Ledger Technology [DLT] and other emerging components of Blockchain technologies to Syniverse’s Lines of Business and our Enterprise. Emerging technology areas include DLT interoperability; Zero Knowledge Proofs/Data Anonymization, Trust and Identity and Mobile Payments. She has worked across the industry including AMD, Ascom Hasler, Swisscom, Cisco and has been active in the start-up community. Additionally, Monique is President and Co-Founder of the Humanized Internet a Swiss based non-profit with a focus on digital identity and ethics in technology. Monique is former President of the VETRI Foundation based in Zürich, Switzerland. The main purpose of the Foundation is to represent a platform now known as VETRI, and to finance, establish and implement initiatives focused on data management and control and data protection. The foundation adheres to the principles of "trust and transparency". The vision is to empower individuals to have control over their own data. She is also an active member of the IEEE Ethics in Action Executive Committee as well as Co-Chair of the IEEE Ethics in Action Extended Reality Committee. Monique has been recognized in the industry for her tireless focus on social good. Monique holds over 15 patents and has co-authored several books. Monique was selected as one of the top Digital Shapers 2018 in Switzerland. Forbes Magazine listed Monique Morrow as one of the top 50 women globally in technology. OneWorldIdentity recognized Monique as of the top 100 influencers in identity for 2019. In May 2019, Monique was recognized by Cybersecurity Ventures as one of the top 100 women in Cybersecurity In March 2020, Monique was one several innovators featured in Red Bull Innovator Magazine In April 2020, Monique was selected as one of the 5 leading figures in Business by the Europa Forum Lucerne [Switzerland] specific to its theme, “Safety and Security in Times of Uncertainty.” Monique is also 2020 winner WomenTech Network Global Technology Leadership award. Monique will be one of the Top 100 Women featured in a EU sponsored book to be published in May 2021: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/100-women-cybersecurity-europe Monique has an MSc in Digital Currency and Blockchain; and M.S. in Telecommunications and MBA. See also: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moniquejeannemorrow/

Vish Sankaran

Global Chief Innovation Officer, Walgreens Boots Alliance

Vish Sankaran leads, coordinates and advances WBA’s innovation strategies across its business operations, digital transformation and enterprise, and enhances the Company’s long-term vision, growth and value to its many stakeholders and stockholders.

A long-time practitioner in using business operations, talent and technology to build shareholder and public value, Sankaran is a veteran healthcare business and technology executive. His comprehensive experience includes 24 years in the private sector and the U.S. federal government working to transform healthcare by making consumer and clinical outcomes central to patient care-related conversations. He came to WBA from Ayus Health Inc., a health strategy and product development firm, which he founded and for which he last served as Managing Director. Prior to Ayus Health, he was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer for CareMore, an Anthem company.

Karen Dolva

Cofounder, No Isolation

Karen Dolva is CEO and co-founder of No Isolation, a company that develops technology solutions for groups living in loneliness or social isolation. In 2018 she was awarded the European Commission’s Women Innovators: Rising Innovators prize. She’s an avid supporter of female entrepreneurship, and strongly encourages girls to pursue careers in tech.

Mark Gainey

Co-founder and Chairman, Strava

Bio coming soon.

Diahann Billings-Burford

CEO, RISE

Diahann Billings-Burford, who has spent her career working in and lifting up diverse communities, is CEO of RISE. During the past decade, Billings-Burford has held senior positions in New York City government and subsequently at Time Warner, serving some five years in each post and handling a challenging mix of responsibilities.

At Time Warner, she served as executive director, cultural investments and vice president of the Time Warner Foundation. She led the company-wide college internship, employee community engagement and community investments programs in New York City. She also managed the grant making and operations of the foundation.

As the city's chief service officer, she headed NYC Service, a division of the mayor's office, engaging more than 1.3 million New Yorkers in a range of volunteer activities. NYC Service worked to help New Yorkers connect to service opportunities more easily, target volunteers to address the city's greatest needs and promote service as a core part of being a New Yorker.

At various stages of her career, Billings-Burford's experiences have been in deeply diverse communities and in executive offices; with government agencies and education initiatives; with youth, elderly and the disadvantaged; in innovative startups; and in both publicly funded nonprofits and privately sponsored for-profits.

Billings-Burford's experience also includes serving as deputy executive director of external affairs for City Year New York, a nonprofit service organization; director of external relations for Achievement First, a charter school management organization; director of leadership development for Prep for Prep, a leadership development organization; and an associate with the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

She serves on the National Board of Directors for buildOn, an international organization working to break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy and low expectations through service learning programs in America's under-served high schools and by building classrooms in some of the world's economically poorest countries. She also serves on the boards of Philanthropy New York, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and Success Academy. In 2021, she was recognized on Crain's Notable Nonprofits and Philanthropy list and in 2019 was named one of Crain's Notable Women in Sports.

Billings-Burford earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Yale University and a law degree from Columbia University School of Law and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Carissa Rollins

Chief Information Officer, United Health Group

Carissa Rollins is the chief information officer (CIO) for UnitedHealthcare Technology. She is responsible for the technology strategy, roadmap, and investments in support of all business portfolios and constituents across UnitedHealthcare. Prior to joining UnitedHealth Group, Carissa held the positions of CIO and chief human resources officer at Gander Mountain where she oversaw all aspects of the company’s technology and information systems, omni-channel initiatives, cyber-security, and enterprise data and business analytics in addition to all aspects of human resource management. Carissa has also held leadership positions at Kohl’s Corporation, Manpower Global and Miller-Coors. Carissa earned an MBA and a Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems degree from Marquette University. Carissa serves on the board of directors for the YWCA, Minneapolis.

Thomas Kiessling

CTO, Siemens Smart Infrastructure

Thomas Kiessling, 55, is the Chief Technology Officer at Siemens Smart Infrastructure (SI), driving the organization’s software and digital business. Kiessling, who joined the company in 2021, brings with him three decades of international experience in building and scaling technology and IoT businesses, from Silicon Valley to Europe. In his current role, he’s tasked with advancing the development of SI’s IoT, automation and software platform offerings.

His profound knowledge of what it takes to start and scale innovative software and platform businesses across a variety of industries and markets is instrumental to achieving the ambitious targets the company has set for its digital business. SI has committed to doubling revenue from its digital portfolio from EUR700 million in fiscal 2021 to EUR1.5 billion by 2025.

Focusing on digitalization, Kiessling is working with SI’s business units to create value for customers across core business areas of electrification, buildings and electrical products. By combining the real and digital worlds, SI is reshaping infrastructure systems to make them smarter, more efficient and more sustainable.

Previously, Kiessling worked at Envision Digital, an energy and industrial internet of things (IIoT) company, where he was Chief Product Officer. An expert in the IIoT edge and cloud, he has created successful startups in the energy, mobility and enterprise software space. He also held a number of product and technology leadership roles for private equity-owned growth companies such as Symphony.com, Securitas Direct and Amadeus eTravel, as well as for Deutsche Telekom, where he was Chief Product and Innovation Officer.

Kiessling holds a PhD in economics and higher education degrees in mathematics and computer engineering. He speaks five languages, enjoys traveling with his wife and 3 kids, as well as swimming, hiking and running.

Darshak Sanghavi

Global Chief Medical Officer, Babylon Health

Darshak joins Babylon from UnitedHealthcare (Medicare & Retirement), where he successfully executed dozens of programs aimed at improving cost and quality of care, and supervised national clinical and strategy teams. Darshak's distinguished career also includes serving in the Obama Administration, where he held the role of Director of Preventive and Population Health at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. In this role, Darshak was the architect of numerous initiatives including the $157m Accountable Health Communities model, Million Hearts Cardiovascular Risk Reduction model, and the $1bn Medicare Diabetes Prevention program. In addition, as CMO at OptumLabs, Darshak addressed health priorities including the opioid crisis, health care affordability, artificial intelligence and big data, maternal mortality, dementia, diabetes, and numerous other collaborative clinical programs. Darshak also worked for several years as a US Indian Health Service Pediatrician on a Navajo reservation.

Educated at Harvard College and Johns Hopkins Medical School, Darshak completed his pediatrics residency and cardiology fellowship at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston. A fellow and managing director of the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, Darshak directed efforts to better engage clinicians in health care payment and delivery reform. He is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and was Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Darshak has published dozens of scientific papers on topics ranging from the molecular biology of cell death to tuberculosis transmission patterns in Peruvian slums. A frequent guest on NBC's Today as a commentator and healthcare columnist, Darshak has regularly written about healthcare for the New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe, and Washington Post. His best–seller, "A Map of the Child: A Pediatrician's Tour of the Body,' was named best health book of the year by the Wall Street Journal.

Roshan Navagamuwa

Chief Information Officer, CVS Health

Roshan provides the vision and leadership for the overall technology organization, to enable business strategies and pursue our company's vision to transform health care, by putting the consumer at the center.

Richard Stern

CEO, TuneIn

Bio coming soon.

Jose Luis Nuno

CEO, Unima

Bio coming soon.

Michael Moreland

CEO & Co-founder, Field Intelligence

Bio coming soon.

Emilian Popa

Founder and CEO, ILARA Health

Emilian Popa is an investor and entrepreneur with 10+ years of successful launching, growing, and exiting more than 20 technology ventures in Africa, Asia, Middle East. Present focus on Africa, passionate by improving access to healthcare, education, and energy across the continent.

Blake Dodge

Senior Healthcare Reporter, Business Insider

Blake Dodge is a senior healthcare reporter at Business Insider, taking readers inside the secretive health ventures of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

She previously wrote about healthcare and politics at Newsweek, Bloomberg News, and the Center for Public Integrity.

Blake graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead-Cain scholar, where she competed in the 800-meter and mile on the varsity track team, winning All-ACC honors.

Dan Sutch

Director, CAST Centre for the Acceleration of Social Technology

Bio coming soon.

Jason Roos

Chief Information Officer, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Jason Roos has more than 25 years of experience leading and managing information systems and technology organizations across the defense, healthcare, higher education, and high tech industries, including international experience in Europe and the Middle East. He is currently the Chief Information Officer for King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) located just north of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Prior to joining KAUST, Jason worked in Silicon Valley as the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Stanford Health Care at the Stanford University Medical Center and as an executive for the leading cyber security firm Symantec. His other international engagements included leading the technology design for the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Hospital located in the United Arab Emirates. Jason began his career in the U.S. Army as an expert in Electronic Warfare and Signals Intelligence. His formal education includes completing a healthcare administration postgraduate fellowship at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, a MBA from Texas A&M University, a BA from the University of Houston, and a diploma from the Defense Language Institute’s school of Arabic in Monterey, California. In addition, he has served on Symantec’s Technical Advisory Board, SAP’s Research and Higher Education Advisory Council, and IDC’s Middle East CIO Advisory Board. In 2021, Jason was named in the top 10 CIO Middle East awardees by CIO Magazine.

Leah Belsky

Chief Enterprise Officer, Coursera

Leah is Chief Enterprise Officer at Coursera, one of the largest online learning platforms in the world serving 87 million learners. Under Leah’s leadership, Coursera is helping thousands of businesses, governments, and universities reskill their workforce and access a world class education. Prior to Coursera, Leah was SVP at Kaltura, an Intel Capital funded video technology company, where she oversaw enterprise growth, operations, services, and international expansion. Leah began her career at the World Bank and National Institutes of Health, served on President Obama's Technology Policy Committee, and was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She also sits on the Board of Engine Advocacy, a leading technology and startup policy organization that promotes freedom of expression, innovation, and access to knowledge. Leah is a graduate of Yale Law School and received her undergraduate degree from Brown University. In 2020, she was listed in Fortune Magazine’s 40 under 40.

Nigel Duffy

Global AI Leader, EY

Dr. Nigel Duffy is a technologist and entrepreneur serving as EY Global AI Leader. He is responsible for projects driving strategic transformation of how EY operates, competes, and provides services. Previously, he was a founder and executive in deep technology startups that use AI to run hedge funds, design pharmaceuticals, control computer games, and improve online retail.

Nigel has built AI businesses, organizations, and revolutionary products in multiple fields and is a highly cited author with papers in machine learning, computer science, linguistics, and other areas.

He received a master’s degree in mathematics from University College Dublin and a Ph.D. in machine learning from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Lynne Oldham

Chief People Officer, Zoom

Lynne brings to Zoom extensive experience driving transformational human resources strategies while overseeing a full scope of local and global initiatives. She is an inspirational and successful developer of talent with a passion for instilling leadership that improves organizational culture, company bench strength, business operations, employee morale, internal communication, recruitment strategy, and diversity and inclusion initiatives.

While serving as chief people officer for Televerde, Lynne led ongoing organizational reinvigoration efforts through strategic management of people and leadership development, compensation and benefits, talent acquisition, employee relations/communication, and HR systems. Lynne is credited with influencing an all-around operational and culture shift in a stalled organization, leading to a 30% increase in revenue in under two years. Previously, Lynne ran her own business as founder and chief consultant of Human Capital Dynamics LLC—a consulting firm assisting companies with achieving better business results through effective leadership and alignment of culture, talent, and strategy. Prior, Lynne was senior vice president and global chief human resources officer for Driscoll’s where she was called in to establish HR strategy, processes, and operations to support sustainable growth. Earlier in her career, Lynne held roles as SVP of organizational effectiveness & transformation for Suntrust; CHRO, Americas for BNP Paribas; and director of HR & shared services for Castrol.

Tarika Barrett

CEO, Girls Who Code

Dr. Tarika Barrett is the CEO of Girls Who Code, an international non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology that has served over 450,000 students to date. Tarika started her career as an educator and has spent two decades building educational pathways for young people at organizations like iMentor, the New York City Department of Education, New Visions for Public Schools, and New York University’s Center for Research on Teaching and Learning. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Tarika has an M.A. in Deaf Education from Columbia Teachers College and a Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning from New York University. Tarika serves on the board of McGraw Hill and is the recipient of the New York University’s Steinhardt School Dorothy Height Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award

Jane Sun

CEO, Trip.com Group

Jane Sun is the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Trip.com Group Ltd. She first joined the company as the Chief Financial Officer in 2005, later serving as the Chief Operating Officer and the Co-President, before moving into the CEO role in 2016. Founded in 1999 with the mission of bringing the best travel experience to travelers, the company effectively adapted to the rise of mobile Internet, growing from a small tech company into a one-stop-shop for travel services for 400 million users worldwide. As the only female CEO in China’s high-tech industry, Ms. Sun proactively advocates gender equality, and has made it her mission to empower women to achieve balance and success in both their career and family lives. For example, Trip.com Group is the first company in China to offer egg-freezing as an employee benefit. Other female friendly policies include birth gifts and commuter benefits for pregnant workers. At Trip.com Group, female employees represent over half of the total workforce and a third of senior management.

Ms. Sun is well respected for her extensive experience in operating and managing online travel businesses, mergers and acquisitions, and financial reporting and operations, having received numerous accolades for her work in the industry. In 2019, she was awarded an Asia Society Asia Game Changer Award and joined as a member of the Asia Society Board of Trustee. Forbes named her one of the Emergent 25 Asia’s Latest Star Businesswomen in 2018, and one of the Most Influential and Outstanding Businesswomen in China in 2017. She was also one of 2020 Fortune’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business.

Lori Beer

Global Chief Information Officer, JP Morgan Chase

Lori Beer is the Global Chief Information Officer (CIO) of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and a member of the company's Operating Committee, responsible for the firm's technology systems and infrastructure worldwide. Beer manages a budget of more than $11 billion and over 50,000 technologists supporting JPMorgan Chase's retail, wholesale and asset and wealth management businesses. She also serves as the co-sponsor of the firm's Access Ability Business Resource Group.

Beer joined the firm in 2014, and was most recently the Chief Information Officer for the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB). Prior to joining the firm she was Executive Vice President of Specialty Businesses and Information Technology for WellPoint, Inc., responsible for a $10 billion business unit which included WellPoint's Specialty Products.

Beer has been named a Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader and National Association for Female Executives Women of Excellence Health Care Champion. She has been featured in many publications including Fortune, Computerworld, eFinancialCareers and MIT Sloan Management Review. She also serves as a member of the University of Cincinnati's Lindner College of Business Advisory Council and has endowed a scholarship at the University to support the growing number of women in STEM careers.

Beer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Dayton.

Glenn Fogel

CEO, Booking Holdings and Booking.com

Glenn Fogel is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Booking Holdings, a position he has held since January 2017, and Chief Executive Officer of Booking.com, a position he has held since June 2019. He previously served as Head of Worldwide Strategy and Planning, an office he held from November 2010 to December 2016. He was also Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, a position he held from March 2009 to December 2016, and was responsible for worldwide mergers, acquisitions and strategic alliances. Glenn joined Booking Holdings in February 2000. Prior to that, he was a trader at a global asset management firm and prior to that was an investment banker specializing in the air transportation industry. He is a member of the New York State Bar (retired). Glenn is a graduate of Harvard Law School and earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Susan Doniz

Chief Information Officer, Boeing

Susan Doniz is the chief information officer (CIO) and senior vice president of Information Technology & Data Analytics at The Boeing Company. She leads all aspects of information technology, information security, data and analytics for the world’s largest aerospace company. She also supports the growth of Boeing's business through IT- and analytics-related revenue-generating programs.

Prior to joining Boeing in May 2020, Doniz was the Group CIO of Qantas Airways, where she focused on expanding the airline’s digital ecosystem and adopted new technology to support the needs of the business and its customers.

Previously, during a 17-year career at Procter & Gamble, she led IT programs in support of the supply chain, research-and-development and sales, as well as a cross-functional program to digitize the company. She’s also worked at SAP and Aimia. At SAP, she was a strategic advisor to the Global CEO on transformation and technology issues in support of customers.

Doniz has been a champion and self-starter of a variety of diversity networks for women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, as well as for Hispanics in business leadership. In 2012, she was named as a national diversity champion in Canada.

She has been a board member of multiple non-profit organizations including The Women’s College Hospital Foundation, Salvation Army, and Engineers without Borders. She serves as an advisor to the Center for Digital Transformation at the University of California, Irvine and vice chair of the Digital Transformation Advisory Council of the International Air Transport Association. In 2011, she was named one of Canada’s most powerful women by WXN.

An honors graduate of the University of Toronto with a degree in Engineering, she has lived and worked in Australia, Canada, Spain, most of the countries in Latin America and the United States. Her first language is Spanish, which she speaks at home with her family. She also is fluent in French and English.

David Almeida

Chief Strategy and Technology Officer, Ab InBev

Long-Term partner with AB-InBev. Part of the team that transformed a collection of regional breweries into one of the top CPG companies in the world. Had the opportunity to live in multiple countries and had many different experiences as I have grown personally In my 22 year career with the Company.

As Chief Strategy & Technology Officer am currently focused on transforming our company for an exciting future by leveraging technology and AI to enhance our business.

Aaron Levie

CEO, Box

Aaron Levie is Chief Executive Officer, Cofounder 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.

John Mangelaars

CEO, Skyscanner

Bio coming soon.

Mor Assia

Founding Partner, Co-CEO, iAngels

An Israeli high-tech insider, a graduate of the IDF’s elite intelligence unit 8200, Mor leads iAngels’ investment committee, deal screening, due diligence and portfolio management activities.

Mor’s tech background with SAP, IBM and Amdocs has proven invaluable in assessing new technologies and her ability to deep dive with entrepreneurs into their business strategy and solution has created a strong foundation for relationship building. Mor has been instrumental in structuring and pricing investment rounds and consistently brings value add partnerships to help portfolio companies.

Mor is a recognized investment expert in the areas of Fintech, AI and Automotive. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology, and an MBA from Columbia University in NY. Mor mentors on several accelerator programs and serves as a board member for iAngels portfolio companies.

Yung Wu

CEO, MaRS Discovery District

Yung Wu is CEO of MaRS Discovery District, one of the world's largest innovation hubs. Since 2008, MaRS-supported companies have raised over $8.2B in capital, generated over $5.6B in revenue and currently employ over 20,400 people in health, cleantech, fintech and other sectors.

As a serial entrepreneur and investor, Yung has built breakthrough scale-stage companies in enterprise software, mobile analytics and big data, media and entertainment, technology services and pharma drug development. He is a co-founder of two not-for-profit organizations, the Coalition of Innovation Leaders Against Racism (CILAR) and DifferentIsCool (DiSC).
Yung currently serves on the boards of OMERS, the Toronto Region Board of Trade, Antibe Therapeutics Inc. (TSE:ATE) and is a member of Green Shield Canada. He also sits on the committee overseeing Canada’s march towards net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Yung has been recognized as one of Canada’s ‘Top 40 under 40’ and for leading one of the “50 Best Managed Private Companies” in the nation. Yung has a B.Sc. Computer Science, Economics and Mathematics from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the Entrepreneurial Masters Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D).

Saul Van Beurden

Head of Technology, Wells Fargo

Saul Van Beurden is the head of Technology and a member of the Operating Committee at Wells Fargo. As the leader of Wells Fargo Technology, Saul leads a team of more than 40,000 information technology and security professionals who help keep Wells Fargo at the forefront of America’s diversified financial services companies. Under his leadership, technology team members are executing an engineering-led IT strategy to deliver stable, secure, scalable and inovative services that provide Wells Fargo global customers ‘round-the-clock’ banking access through in-store, online, ATM, and other channels. Additionally, Saul owns the Information Cyber Security function and programs for Wells Fargo. Saul plays a critical role in the execution of Wells Fargo’s strategy where technology is a key element of the company’s customer and team member experience, business and risk management transformation, and growth agenda. He is instrumental in driving the company’s transformation and efforts to become a leader in risk management and innovation. Prior to joining Wells Fargo in April 2019, Saul was chief information officer of consumer and community banking at JPMorgan Chase. He also has served in Technology & Operations leadership roles at Marsh & McLennan, ING Group and different firms in his native Netherlands. Saul is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Museum of American Finance in New York. He also sits on the Board of the Wells Fargo Foundation that harnasses the power of philantrophy. He is based in New York.

Tomer Bar Zeev

co-founder & CEO, ironSource

Tomer Bar Zeev is the co-founder and CEO of ironSource (NYSE:IS). Over the past decade, Tomer, together with ironSource’s tight knit group of co-founders, has overseen the company’s growth through a combination of organic and inorganic growth. Today ironSource has over 4,000 customers worldwide - app developers and telecom operators who use the ironSource platform to power their businesses – as well as 850 employees in offices across 4 continents.

Prior to co-founding ironSource, Tomer was VP Business Development at Payoneer and AtlasCT and a board member at Partner (NASDAQ: PTNR). Tomer is currently a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Council, sits on the board of the IATI, and is a board member of Hagal Sheli, a not-for-profit serving at-risk youth. He has been named one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs three years running. He is also an active investor in technology startups.

John Stecher

Chief Technology Officer, Blackstone

Bio coming soon.

Eugene Becker

General Manager of Global Data and Identity Products, Acxiom

Eugene Becker serves as Acxiom’s General Manager of Global Data and Identity Products. He sets the strategy for the business, spearheads innovation and leads operations. Eugene is committed to helping marketers use data and identity to have more relevant and engaging conversations with people across all channels and platforms.

Eugene’s career bridges adtech and martech, including prior leadership roles in data, analytics and product management spanning both startups and established industry leaders. Eugene’s journey mirrors the development of the big data ecosystem and spans leadership roles at Xaxis, eXelate, Nielsen and Merkle. Eugene is a growth-motivated leader with a track record of driving innovation and new product development.

This role marks Eugene’s return to IPG, where he started his agency career more than 15 years ago. An early believer in people-based marketing, Eugene is excited to be at Acxiom at a time when people-based data and identity are more critical than ever across the media landscape.

Eugene received a BA and MA in economics from Northwestern University and remains an avid fan of Wildcats football. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children.

Jeff Wecker

CTO and Head of Engineering, Two Sigma

Bio coming soon.

Faraz Khalid

CEO, Noon

Mr. Khalid is the Chief Executive Officer of noon.com, a joint venture between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Mohamed Alabbar. Noon was founded with the mission of building an ecosystem of homegrown digital companies from the region, for the region to safeguard the future of the Middle East’s digital landscape. Noon’s consumer platform first went live in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2017 and has grown to become the region’s leading online shopping destination with operations in KSA, the UAE, and Egypt.

Noon employs some of the brightest young Saudi, Emirati, Egyptian and Arab talent, fully focused on building a market-leading platform that helps local businesses compete better, as well as driving innovation and entrepreneurship. Primarily a digital e-commerce platform utilizing homegrown technology capabilities, noon has rapidly built deep native capabilities in its marketplace, fulfillment, logistics and payment platforms.

Before his appointment at noon, Mr. Khalid was the Co-Founder and Managing Director of local e-commerce startup and the Middle East’s fashion online retailer, Namshi. With experience and hands-on knowledge in building, launching and scaling successful e-commerce enterprises in the region, Faraz leads a team of dedicated professionals in driving the operations of noon.

With an MBA from The Wharton School, Faraz has accumulated experience in building e-commerce platforms and in creating distinctive and long-term value for stakeholders.

Abdulmajeed Alsukhan

Co-founder and CEO, Tamara

Bio coming soon.

Courtney McColgan

CEO, Runa

Courtney is the CEO & Founder of Runa, a software that is automating payroll for Latin America. Prior to Runa, Courtney was the CMO of Cabify, a taxi application for Latin America, where she grew the company from 3 cities and $20MM valuation to 130 cities across 12 countries and a $1.5Bn valuation. Courtney founded her first company (Wokai.org) at 22 and her second company (Yellowsmith.com) at 28. Previously, she also worked in venture capital and finance at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Morgenthaler and Morgan Stanley. Courtney holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA in Chinese and Economics from Berkeley. She is fluent in Chinese, Spanish and English and the mother of three children.

Sebastian Vidal

Chief Innovation Officer, Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust

Bio coming soon.

Sreedhar Suragouni

Chief Information Officer, Oman Insurance Company

Sreedhar has 25+ years of global experience in the BFSI domain performing key management roles across Asia, North America, UK, EU & Middle East specialising in L&P, General, Health Insurance and Investment sectors.

He has a proven track record of leading multiple Digital & Business transformations for large insurers in UK, EU & Middle East from vision through execution, resulting in winning prestigious industry awards for successful execution.

Currently as a CIO for UAE’s largest composite insurer, responsible for defining future-ready IT strategy and enhancing customer experience by implementing Digital-First mandate across all the business lines of Oman Insurance.

In his previous role as a Segment Head for BFSI vertical at TCS, he has successfully managed P&L of a large portfolio of USD 150+ Mn and 2500+ talented associates, delivering the best-in-class value to large global insurers by transforming their estates to Digital-First from multiple delivery locations across India, UK, Ireland, France, Poland & Italy.

Proven track record in winning & executing large multi million Global IT contracts and M&A’s for TCS and its subsidiary Diligenta - with complete solution & cost ownership.

Successfully delivered a variety of complex programmes which demanded:

- Building multi culture / multi skilled global teams (0 to 2500+)

- Setting up private cloud on own custom-built Data centres

- State of the art Service Desk, Service, Change, Release and Security management frameworks, Contact centers, Business continuity and DR facilities

- Scalable HR & Payroll on SAP cloud (25000+ employees) and Integrated Oracle Financials suite for multiple GL’ s post M&A

- Implementing scalable Life & Pensions platform (TCS BaNCS) adhering to UK regulation and migrating 5+ Mn policies from 15 different L&P platforms - today it administers 25+ million policies and counting...

- Modernisation / Integration of IT estates with robust security controls (legacy n-5 versions to n) to achieve target operating model designed in M&A strategies

- Nurturing strategic partnerships, growing from $100 Mn to $1+ Bn profitable service contracts

Won multiple awards - IDC#CIO50, Digital Initiative of the year for OIC, Agile transformation of the year ($ 1 BN PA change spend from 100% waterfall to Scaled / Distributed Agile) for a Global Insurer & Service Innovation Award (implemented multiple software engineering tools for a Global Insurer, resulting in deploying CI/CD framework and Release on the Go)!

Gareth Ross

Head of Enterprise Technology & Customer Experience, MassMutual

Bio coming soon.

Felix Salmon

Chief Financial Correspondent, Axios

Bio coming soon.

Jon Korngold

Global Co-Head of Technology Investing and Head of Blackstone Growth, Blackstone

Bio coming soon.

Anis Uzzaman

Founder & CEO, Pegasus Tech Ventures
Founder & Chairman, Startup World Cup

Anis Uzzaman, Ph.D. is the Founder and CEO of Pegasus Tech Ventures. With over US$1.7 billion under Pegasus Tech Ventures’ management, Anis is responsible for overall global investments and operations of the firm. Anis also serves as the Chairman of Startup World Cup, a global platform that fosters innovation and entrepreneurship around the world.

Anis has invested in over 200 startups globally. Some of Anis’s prominent startup investments are SpaceX, Airbnb, Doordash, 23andMe, Bird, Coinbase, Robinhood, SoFi, Calm, Color, Gojek, Bukalapak, Money Forward, etc.

Anis currently serves and previously served as the board director in multiple global public and private companies including Lark, Asteria, Zuu, Tech in Asia, Affectiva, Jetlore, Blue Frog Robotics, Afero, Kii, Sano, I&C Cruise, Abivin and so on.

Anis holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan, a Master of Science in Engineering from Oklahoma State University in the USA, and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Tokyo Metropolitan University in Tokyo, Japan.

Anis is a Forbes Finance Council member and contributor at Forbes. Anis is also a contributing editor at Inc. Magazine, and an Entrepreneur Leadership Network Contributor at the Entrepreneur Magazine. Anis is an honored guest speaker in international conferences, workshops and seminars, has published more than 30 technical papers, and is the author of several books published globally.

Sean Lee

CEO, Algorand Foundation

Sean Lee is the CEO of Algorand Foundation, where he leads a team of cryptographers and economists as the custodian of the Algorand blockchain protocol, a highly scalable and decentralized digital currency and transactions platform founded by Turing Award winner Silvio Micali. The Foundation’s mandate includes broadening ecosystem participation, community building, and responsible distribution of the protocol’s digital token. He is currently based in Hong Kong.

Previously he held leadership roles within global technology companies, working primarily with financial services clients and partners across 20+ countries. A technologist at heart, he has been advising and investing in blockchain startups since 2018, as well as mentoring at FinTech accelerators. Sean holds an EMBA from CUHK and Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo. Fun fact: He is an avid Star Wars fan, an amateur photographer and a whiskey enthusiast.

Joe Geagea

Executive Vice President, Chevron

Joe Geagea, 61, is executive vice president and senior advisor to Chevron’s Chairman and CEO, a position he assumed in August 2021.

Previously, Geagea was executive vice president of Technology, Projects and Services since 2015. In this role, Geagea was responsible for energy technology; delivery of capital projects; procurement; information technology and digital; asset performance and process safety; health, safety and environment; environmental management; business and real estate services; and talent selection in support of Chevron’s upstream, downstream and midstream businesses. Prior to that, Geagea was senior vice president of Technology, Projects and Services.

Geagea served as a corporate vice president and president of Chevron Gas and Midstream from 2012 until 2014, responsible for commercializing Chevron’s natural gas resources and overseeing the company’s shipping, pipeline and power operations as well as supply and trading operations. Prior positions include: 2008, managing director, Chevron Asia South Ltd., responsible for Chevron’s upstream activities in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam; 2006, vice president, Upstream Capability, responsible for improving the delivery of support services to Chevron’s global upstream operations; 2005, vice president, Chevron International Exploration and Production Company; 2004, president, Fuel and Marine Marketing; 2002, president, downstream operations in East Africa, the Middle East and Pakistan.

Geagea serves on the board of directors of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Geagea previously served on the board of trustees of the San Francisco Ballet Association.

Geagea joined Chevron in 1982 as a design engineer. He earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois in 1981 and 1982, respectively.

David Eyton

EVP Innovation & Engineering, BP

As executive vice president of Innovation & Engineering, David is accountable for bp’s digital transformation, technology development and corporate venture capital investments, as well as leadership of the engineering discipline, and safety & operational risk assurance. In this role, David is a member of bp’s Leadership Team.

David attended Harrow School and joined bp in 1982 from Cambridge University with an Engineering degree.

David was awarded a CBE for his contributions to the UK engineering and energy. He is a fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining and Institute of Directors, and also a trustee of the John Lyons charitable foundation.

Kristy Folkwein

SVP, Chief Information Officer, ADM

Kristy Folkwein is senior vice president and chief information officer for ADM, and a member of the company’s Executive Council. In that role, she is responsible for all of ADM’s information technology strategies, including initiatives to improve the quality and integrity of the company’s data and strengthen ADM’s analytical capabilities.

Before joining ADM in 2016, Folkwein served as senior vice president and chief information officer, Global Business Services, at Dow Corning. Prior to her time at Dow Corning, Folkwein was vice president of information technology at Ashland, Inc., where she helped lead eight successful implementations of SAP within North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific.

Folkwein holds a bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and an MBA in finance from the University of Toledo.

Greg Sarafin

Principal & Global Alliance and Ecosystem Leader, EY

In Greg Sarafin’s capacity as Principal and Global Alliance and Ecosystem Leader, he oversees the continuous evolution of EY’s strategy of selecting, engaging with, and creating value from our ecosystem partners. He manages a global EY team that provides the core enablement for such relationships, including business development, relationship management, financial management and reporting. He also has direct oversight for three of our largest global alliance relationships – IBM, Microsoft and SAP. Greg joined EY in 2015 as Americas Financial Services Organization (FSO) Alliances and Systems Integration Leader where he was responsible for a large team of technology implementation professionals supporting EY's business transformation solutions in the US and multiple delivery centers globally.

Prior to joining EY, Greg served as Vice President of IBM Global Business Services. From 2012 through 2014, he was IBM’s US Industry Leader and Managing Partner for Banking and Financial Markets, responsible for the go-to-market strategy, account relationships, and growth of the business. He joined IBM in 2008 as the Leader of the Application Innovation Services Banking practice, and then served as the Global Relationship Partner for Citigroup, one of the top three IBM accounts at the time. Greg came to IBM after four years leading BearingPoint's Financial Services Technology Strategy and Advisory practice and serving as a Managing Director at the eBusiness Consulting start-up, Scient (now part of the digital transformation agency, SapientRazorfish). He also spent time as the CTO and founder of a VC-funded start-up in the Healthcare Payments industry and began his career building and operating a successful boutique consultancy for thirteen years.

Greg received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Page Motes

Head of Corporate Sustainability, Dell Technologies

Page Motes leads Corporate Sustainability, overseeing Dell Technologies’ strategic vision and goals, as well as stakeholder engagement. This role, and the work of her team, includes deep collaboration with internal business groups to advance sustainability programs with long-term value. Other work includes engaging in third-party partnerships to accelerate initiatives and position the company as a thought leader, as well as foster innovation and engagement within Dell Technologies’ global enterprise. Programs span across the themes of advancing the circular economy, climate change, and deep engagement in the supply chain.

Prior to this role, Page spent 10 years as a leader in the Global Ethics & Compliance Office, overseeing and managing Dell Technologies’ ethics strategy and proactive culture of integrity initiatives, including the Code of Conduct, compliance and ethics-related awareness programs and key operational processes for Dell and its global team members. Both roles have been complimented by an additional 15 years in sales and consulting, much within the ethics, compliance, risk and governance space, and Page has lectured at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law and McCombs Business School, as well as the University of Colorado at Boulder Law School and Bentley College.

Page lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and two sons. She is a member, and former Board member, of the Young Men’s Service League (YMSL) Hill Country Chapter, which engages high school boys to develop a heart for service in their communities.

Ranjeeta Singh

Chief Product Officer, The Climate Corporation

Ranjeeta Singh is the Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Climate Corporation where she is responsible for driving the Product Strategy and Roadmap for Digital Farming. Ranjeeta brings her background in hardware, software and services space to this perfect intersection of IOT, AI and Data Science to make a difference in the lives of farmers and other players in the Agriculture value chain.

Prior to this, she was the VP and GM of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Teradata where she was focused on driving AI Capabilities in the Teradata Platform and making it a solid workbench for data scientists.

She started her career at Wipro. She spent around 18 years at Intel, where she was Senior Director of Incubation & Segment GM of Connected Worker Portfolio & Environmental Monitoring in Internet of Things (IOT) Group prior to joining Teradata. She has been a hands-on Intrapreneur & has jump-started multiple IOT businesses grounds-up at Intel. She has held multiple leadership positions spanning across strategy, business planning, product management & marketing, architecture and engineering across various platforms.

She holds a BS in Computer Science & Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, India, a MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York and an MBA from Santa Clara University. She has five patents and multiple publications. She has been active with speaking engagements. She is the recipient of "Top 50 under 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology" and "Top 100 Women in Technology" awards.

Solutions & Industries: Industrial IOT, Automotive IOT, Financial Services (IOT & AI), Digital Home IOT, Agriculture (IOT, AI), B2B Enterprise software

Skills: Building profitable businesses from scratch; Strategy & Business Planning; GTM & launch strategy; Roadmap Planning; Product Management & Marketing; Resource Planning Budget/Portfolio Management; Strategic Marketing; Partner/Vendor Management; Business Process Reengineering; Solution definition & prioritization; Contract Negotiations; Ecosystem analysis; Cross-Functional Team Leadership; New Business Development; Design-Thinking; P&L Management

What makes her unique? 1.Exceptional leader & people manager 2. High integrity 3. Passionate 4. Cross-functional experience across engineering, architecture, strategy, product management, marketing, P&L management 5. Highly results-oriented 6. Tenacity & drive to jump-start initiatives grounds-up & scale these 7. Inspirational Speaker 8. Solid customer-orientation 9. Change agent (has led multiple big transformations)

Yuri Sebregts

EVP, Chief Technology Officer, Shell

Yuri leads a global Technology organisation of more than 3,000 people, combining technical, scientific and commercial expertise. These teams are based at Shell’s major technology centres in Amsterdam, Houston and Bangalore, and at smaller technical centres located close to Shell’s customers and partners. Yuri is responsible for Shell’s technology strategy and new technology development for all segments of Shell’s businesses including digital innovation, as well as technology commercialisation activities. These activities range from research and development programmes delivered both in-house and through collaborations with partners, to deployment of technologies across Shell’s operations, as well as catalyst manufacturing and sales, and technology licensing and technical services to third parties. He is a board member of the MIT Energy Initiative, Amsterdam Economic Board, and the Dutch ECN/TNO Strategic Advisory Board.

Scott Spradley

Chief Technology Officer, Tyson Foods

Scott is Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Tyson Foods. He is responsible for establishing and driving enabling strategies across all of Tyson Foods’ technology platforms, information systems delivery, information security, data and analytics, transforming the company through technology and advancing technology strategies.

A member of Tyson Foods’ enterprise leadership team, Scott reports to President & CEO Dean Banks.

Before coming to Tyson Foods, Scott was the Chief Information Officer at Hewlett Packard and most recently Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He led the IT separation and spin-merge of the HPE Enterprise Services with Computer Sciences Corporation into a $25B publicly traded company. Scott’s reputation as a transformational CIO grew as a result of his leadership in executing the largest corporate divestiture-spin-merge in history, by taking $115B Hewlett Packard and splitting it into two separate and publicly traded companies in a period of ten months.

Prior to joining HP, Scott spent more than 15 years in a variety of leadership roles at Chevron and Intel Corporation. At Chevron, he delivered a strategic long-range plan covering 20 years designed to ensure Chevron’s global position as one of the world’s largest energy companies. During his time at Intel, Scott spent time honing his leadership skills across a wide array of roles, ranging from Information Technology to Product Development to Human Resources.

Scott has been named as one of ComputerWorld’s Top 100 Technology leaders, and in CIO Magazine’s list of the Top 100 CIOs. Scott received his Bachelor’s degree at San Diego State University. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees for National World War II Museum.

Orlan Boston

Americas ESG & Sustainability Markets leader, EY

Orlan is a senior executive and catalyst, connector and convener deeply committed to bringing people and organizations together for fundamental change and global impact. As the EY Americas ESG & Sustainability Markets Leader, he is responsible for leading an integrated set of offerings and comprehensive ESG and Sustainability go-tomarket solution and identifying emerging opportunities in this rapidly evolving market. He chairs the Americas ESG & Sustainability Steering Committee and serves on EY’s Global Sustainability Executive Committee, EY Americas Markets Leadership team, and EY’s Global Social Equity Task Force. Known for his commercial sales, business development and growth innovation acumen and dealmaker ability to architect and orchestrate innovative cross-sector partnerships, JVs, alliances, mergers and acquisitions, he has spent the past three decades serving in senior leadership and board roles in business, media, politics, public service, nonprofits, and philanthropy as a Senior Partner and Executive at EY and Deloitte, entrepreneur, venture capital investor, film producer, author, presidential appointee, philanthropist, and member of several boards. In 2014, he received a Presidential Appointment by President Barack Obama as the fourth Obama Appointee to the Global Board of Governors of the United Service Organizations, Inc. (USO) where he served as Founding Chair of the Digital Advisory Council. His consulting career spans strategy, growth, innovation, digital, technology, operations, transformation, M&A transaction, and ESG and sustainability advisory services for CEOs, C-Suite, and corporate board directors of Fortune 100 companies and private equity and venture capital firms in the healthcare, life sciences, consumer and technology sectors. Currently, he also serves as EY’s Senior Advisory Partner for Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Bristol-Myers Squibb and Senior Relationship Partner for Goldman Sachs.

He served as EY’s Global Accounts Excellence & Innovation Leader where he lead EY’s global efforts on commercial and accounts excellence and innovation at EY’s G360 Accounts, the largest and most important client account portfolio representing over $13B in annual revenues. In this capacity he served as Founding Chair of the Global Accounts Innovation Advisory Board and was a member on EY’s Global Markets Leadership Team and Global Accounts Committee. He also served as Global Client Service Partner for J&J responsible for overseeing one of EY’s most significant global client account relationships from 2014-2021 and was a member of EY’s Global Health Sciences Executive Board. He previously served as East Region G360 Markets Leader representing EY’s largest accounts in the region and member of EY’s East Region Leadership Team responsible for overseeing $6B in revenues and 12,000+ employees. He also served as EY’s Americas Strategy & Transactions Life Sciences Leader and EY Global Life Sciences Value Chain Innovation Leader. Prior to joining EY in 2012, he held various Firm, management, and account leadership roles at Deloitte Consulting including as a Senior Partner and Chief Diversity Officer.

He is both an entrepreneur having started B2C technology and real estate ventures and an intrapreneur having founded a number of successful practices, alliances and service offerings with EY and previously Deloitte. He served on Big Think/’s Advisory Board and currently serves as an advisor to Max Ventures, a New York based technology and e-commerce focused VC firm. He has a long history in ESG and Sustainability efforts across the public and private sector and in public private partnerships. Partnering with J&J over the years he oversaw an EY team that supported EY’s and J&J’s participation and efforts with the Embankment Project for Inclusive Capitalism (EPIC) in 2018, served as the Executive Sponsor for EY’s multi-million dollar pro-bono program supporting the global development and distribution efforts of J&J’s COVID19 Vaccine in 2020, and has cultivated a number of creative and successful ESG and Health Equity strategic partnerships. In 2020, Goldman Sachs appointed him to the Launch With GS Advisory Board, Goldman’s $1B groundbreaking social venture capital impact fund and accelerator exclusively investing in women, black, and latinx tech founders and VC fund managers. He is a member of the Partnership for New York City, the Partnership Innovation Council and the Partnership Fund’s Healthcare Advisory Board. He is also a David Rockefeller Fellow and member of the Executive Leadership Council.

Orlan is a passionate social entrepreneur having launched various social change and impact ventures in publishing, documentary filmmaking, civil rights, and philanthropy. He serves on the Board of Directors of The Trevor Project, the nation’s leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ youth. He served as member of the NYC LGBT Center’s Board of Directors and in 2016, he was named to the OUTstanding and Financial Times list of the Top 100 LGBT Leaders. In 2013 he produced HBO’s critically acclaimed The Out List documentary film and book and was a contributing author to I Am Ecowarrior, a photojournalistic book featuring editorial portraits and interviews with global game-changers in the sustainability and climate change movement. In 2020, Orlan co-authored the feature article, The Strategic Side Gig, in Harvard Business Review Magazine and in 2021 was published in HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Career Resilience book.

He holds a B.S. in Finance and International Business from New York University’s Stern School of Business and has completed a variety of executive education programs at Harvard Business School, INSEAD, and London Business School.

Dr Arunabha Ghosh

Founder, CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water

Dr Arunabha Ghosh is a public policy professional, adviser, author, columnist, and institution builder. As the founder-CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, since 2010, he has led CEEW to the top ranks as one of Asia's leading policy research institutions (eight years in a row); and among the world’s 20 best climate think-tanks in 2013 and 2016. He was actively involved in conceptualising and designing the International Solar Alliance. He conceptualised and is a founding board member of the Clean Energy Access Network (CLEAN). Co-author/editor of four books and with experience in 45 countries, he previously worked at Princeton, Oxford, UNDP (New York), and WTO (Geneva). In 2018, the UN Secretary-General nominated him to the UN's Committee for Development Policy. In 2020, the Government of India appointed him Co-Chair of the energy, environment and climate change track for India’s Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP2020). His 2019 TED Talk on air quality (Mission 80-80-80) has crossed 240,000 views. He is co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Clean Air and is a member of the international high-level panel of the Environment of Peace initiative. He serves on the Board of Directors of ClimateWorks Foundation.

He is lead author of Jobs, Growth and Sustainability: A New Social Contract for India’s Recovery (CEEW, 2020). He is the co-author/editor of four books: The Palgrave Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy (2016); Energizing India: Towards a Resilient and Equitable Energy System (SAGE, 2016); Human Development and Global Institutions (Routledge, 2016); and Climate Change: A Risk Assessment (FCO, 2015). Arunabha’s essay “Rethink India’s energy strategy” in Nature was selected as one of 2015’s ten most influential essays.

Arunabha advises governments, industry, civil society and international organisations around the world. This has included India’s Prime Minister’s Office, several ministries and state governments. He was invited by France, as a Personnalité d’Avenir, to advise on the COP21 climate negotiations; and also advised extensively on HFC negotiations. He served on the Executive Committee of the India-U.S. PACEsetter Fund. He has been a member of Track II dialogues with ten countries/regions; and formulated the Maharashtra-Guangdong Partnership on Sustainability. He was a member of the Environment Pollution (Prevention & Control) Authority for the National Capital Region (2018-2020).

His regular columns are widely read and have been published in the Business Standard, Financial Express, Forbes, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, Nikkei Asian Review, The Hindu, The Times of India, among other platforms. He has hosted a documentary on water in Africa, featured in National Geographic and Discovery Channel documentaries on energy and climate change, and delivered a TED Talk on air quality. He has been regularly interviewed on Al Jazeera, CGTN, CNBC, CNN News 18, India Today TV, NDTV, etc. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, was member of WEF’s Global Future Council on Energy, and an Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leader. He holds a D.Phil. from Oxford and topped Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.

Joseph-Olivier Biley

CEO, Wefly Agri

Bio coming soon.

Ryan Lefers

Co-founder and CEO, Red Sea Farms

Bio coming soon.

Sky Kurtz

Co-founder and CEO, Pure Harvest Smart Farms

Mr. Sky Kurtz is a former technology private equity investor turned serial entrepreneur who is passionate about building impactful companies that tackle big problems in the world. Before founding Pure Harvest, Mr. Kurtz Co-founded Vence—reinventing livestock management through a virtual fencing & autonomous control solution. Mr. Kurtz also served as a divisional CEO within Pultron Composites, delivering novel concrete reinforcement materials that solve infrastructure corrosion challenges.

Prior to building technology companies, Mr. Kurtz invested in them as a Vice President with Francisco Partners, a $15B tech investment firm based in San Francisco, CA that is an affiliate of Sequoia Capital. Mr. Kurtz was also an investor with CCMP Capital, a $17B generalist investment firm based in New York, NY. Mr. Kurtz has served on the boards of five (5) technology companies of all scales (from $2MM to $500MM+ of sales) and considers himself a lifelong student of business.

Mr. Kurtz is an MBA graduate from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) and holds a B.S. in Finance from ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and was named the Turken Family Outstanding Graduating Senior (valedictory honor). Sky is proudly married to Kinsi Grimen-Kurtz and lives in Dubai, UAE.

Dave Chen

CEO, Equilibrium

Dave is the CEO and Chairman of Equilibrium, leading the firm’s growth, overseeing its strategy, and heading its investment product development. In addition, he serves on Equilibrium’s Board of Directors.

Dave is also the firm’s founder, a move emanating from his longstanding interest in and commitment to sustainability and capital markets. His focus on sustainability intensified while he worked in the venture capital sector, leading initiatives in regional economic development and participating in climate change policy development. In 2007, he saw the growing interest in sustainability re-shaping the basic economic sectors of the “Maslow hierarchy of needs” and creating economic advantage. Climate change was driving a rethinking of asset risk and value.

In 2008, Equilibrium was formed with the goal of being a global leader in sustainability-driven asset management for institutional investors, delivering sustainable alpha returns and creating intentional positive impact on society and the environment.

Before establishing Equilibrium, Dave was a general partner with OVP Venture Partners from 2000-2007. There, his investments included Intelligent Results (acquired by First Data), Net6 (acquired by Citrix), @mobile (acquired by Software.com), and @once (acquired by InfoUSA). Prior to joining OVP, Dave was founder and CEO of GeoTrust (acquired by VeriSign 2006); founder of The Ascent Group, a global strategy consultancy firm; Vice President Marketing at Mentor Graphics; associate at McKinsey & Company; and an early team member Solectron (1978-1985).

Damien Kieran

Chief Privacy Officer, Twitter

Bio coming soon.

Julie Brill

Chief Privacy Officer, Microsoft

Bio coming soon.

Andy Purdy

Chief Security Officer, Huawei Technologies USA

Andy is Chief Security Officer for Huawei Technologies USA overseeing Huawei USA's cyber security assurance program, and supporting Huawei’s global assurance program.

Andy is the Huawei global lead for the East-West Institute Global Cooperation in Cyberspace Initiative and serves as the Vice Chair of the Open Group Trusted Technology Forum, which developed the Open Trusted Technology Provider Standard (O-TTPS), recognized as ISO/IEC 20243.

Andy was the senior cyber security official of the U.S. Government from 2004-2006. Prior to joining the Department of Homeland Security, Andy was a member of the White House staff where he helped to draft the U.S. National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (2003), after which he went to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) where he helped to form and then led the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT).

Bret Arsenault

Chief Information Security Officer, Microsoft

Bret Arsenault is Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Microsoft, the world’s largest software company. In the CISO role since 2009, Bret is charged with keeping all Microsoft data secure from the 21st century’s ever- growing cyber-threats, while ensuring compliance with evolving regulations. With the global team of information security professionals that he leads, he successfully developed and implemented the company’s robust corporate incidence response strategy, as well as sophisticated companywide defenses that combine threat monitoring, vulnerability analysis and control tools.

In addition to his responsibilities as CISO, Bret serves as Chairman of Microsoft’s Information Risk Management Council, convening teams from across the company that focus on data protection. He frequently takes his expertise directly to enterprise customers as the host of Microsoft’s Security Council, a forum that drives product direction and operational best practices. Bret serves as an outside cyber-risk advisor to executives and boards at numerous Fortune 100 companies, and has served on the Advisory Boards of several enterprises and numerous government agencies. He is a founding member of Security 50 and the Executive Security Action Forum (ESAF), an association of senior information security and risk executives from governments and Global 1000 companies. Bret is frequently asked to speak on cyber security strategy, at events that include HP Discover, Security50, the Pacific Enterprise Risk Forum and Gartner’s Security and Risk Management Summit.

Sana Khareghani

Head of UK Government Office for AI, UK Government

Holding a BSc in Computer Science and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sana Khareghani has over 20 years’ experience in technology and business across the private and public sectors. She has worked as a software engineer in big corporates and start-ups, as a management consultant advising senior officials throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East, and in HMG, currently and over the past year as Head of the Office for AI – a joint unit between Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The Office for AI is putting in place the foundations around: Skills, Access to Data, International and Leadership by the UK AI Council, to underpin the adoption of AI & Data technologies across the economy for the betterment of society. Sana is also on the Advisory Board of Tortoise Media Global AI Index and Bristol Interactive AI Centre for Doctoral Training.

Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau

Chief Security Officer, Huawei Technologies USA

Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau is the CEO and publisher of MIT Technology Review, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s independent media company.

Since Elizabeth took the helm of MIT Technology Review in mid-2017, the business has undergone a massive transformation from its previous position as a respected but niche print magazine to a widely read, multi-platform media brand with a global audience and a sustainable business. Under her leadership, MIT Technology Review has been lauded for its editorial authority, its best-in-class events, and its novel use of independent, original research to support both advertisers and readers.

Elizabeth has a 20-year background in building and running teams at world-leading media companies. She maintains a keen focus on new ways to commercialize media content to appeal to discerning, demanding consumers as well as B2B audiences.

Prior to joining MIT Technology Review, Elizabeth held a senior executive role at The Economist Group, where her leadership stretched across business lines and included mergers and acquisitions; editorial and product creation and modernization; sales; marketing; and events. Earlier in her career, she worked as a consultant advising technology firms on market entry and international expansion.

Elizabeth holds an executive MBA from the London Business School, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College.

Gil Perry

CEO, Co-Founder, D-ID

Gil has broad experience as a manager and developer in corporate and start-up environments, and served as a commander in a Special Forces unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, where he focused on computer vision and image processing.

Nicola Morini Bianzino

Global Chief Technology Officer, EY

Nicola is EY’s Global Chief Technology Officer, focused on bringing technology products to EY clients and positioning technology at the heart of the organization. With a 20-year track record of driving technology strategy innovation, he advises global clients on technology investment and their innovation agendas, providing industrialized technology products to meet their most pressing business needs.

Prior to joining EY, Nicola led the global AI business for Accenture, developing the practice, market positioning, client offerings, thought leadership and ecosystem partnership. He also led Growth and Strategy for the Technology business at Accenture, a $30B portfolio, including developing and executing the Accenture technology strategy across the dimensions of V&A, capability and offering development investment, investor and analyst interactions, and thought leadership.

A thought leader on AI, machine learning, innovation and big data, Nicola is passionate about extracting value from technology investment. He is an early AI pioneer, writing his thesis on the application of neural networks in business in 1997. Nicola holds a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and Economics from the University of Florence.