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Bret Arsenault

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.

Will Grannis

Founder and Leader of the CTO Office, Google

Will Grannis is the founder and leader of Google’s CTO Office, a team of senior engineers whose mission is to foster collaborative innovation between Google and its largest customers.

Prior to joining Google five years ago, Will spent the last two decades as an entrepreneur, enterprise technology executive, and investor, building and scaling technical platforms that today power commerce, transportation, and the public sector. He’s been a developer, product manager, CTO, SVP of Engineering and CEO, building a wide variety of platforms and teams along the way.

Catherine P. Bessant

Chief Operations and Technology Officer, Bank of America

Catherine P. Bessant is chief operations and technology officer at Bank of America, and is a member of the company’s executive management team. Since 2010, Bessant has led Global Technology and Operations (GT&O), delivering end-to-end technology and operating services across the company while also overseeing the company’s business continuity and information security through nearly 910,000 employees and contractors in more than 35 countries.

Since joining the bank in 1982, Bessant has held a number of senior leadership roles for the company. She was president, Global Corporate Banking; president, Global Product Solutions and Global Treasury Services; chief marketing officer; president, Consumer Real Estate and Community Development Banking; national Small Business Segment executive; and president of the Florida market.

Bessant serves as executive sponsor for the company’s Disability Advisory Council. She was formerly the executive sponsor for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride executive board and led the creation of the LGBT Ally program. She was previously named No. 1 among OUTstanding LGBT+ Ally Executives, presented by the Financial Times.

For the third consecutive year, she ranked No. 1 among the “25 Most Powerful Women in Banking” by American Banker. Bessant was named to Barron’s “100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance” and she received WaterTechnology’s 2019 Women in Technology and Data Trailblazer Award. She has also appeared on Working Mother magazine’s “50 Most Powerful Working Moms” list.

Active in the community and region, Bessant received the Distinguished Service Award from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In addition, she was awarded the North Carolina Order of the Long Leaf Pine, was recognized by the Charlotte Business Journal with the Women in Business Lifetime Achievement Award, and was named to Business NC’s Power 100. She chairs the North Tryon Vision Plan Advisory Committee.

Bessant led the formation of the Council on the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address ethical and policy issues related to this rapidly evolving technology. In addition, she is a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

Bessant serves on the board of directors of Zurich Insurance Group, is an independent member of the USA Field Hockey board of directors, and is on the advisory board for the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. As part of a leadership course at Ross, she summited Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro, the world’s tallest freestanding mountain, in August 2018.

Atish Banerjea

Chief Information Officer, Facebook

Atish Banerjea holds the position of Chief Information Officer for Facebook, Inc.

He is also on the board of 5 other companies.

In his past career he held the position of Executive Vice President for Pearson Plc, Chief Information Officer & Executive VP at NBCUniversal Media LLC and Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President for Dex One Corp.

He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Delhi and a graduate degree from Temple University (Pennsylvania).

Dr. Athina Kanioura

Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, PepsiCo

Athina Kanioura is Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at PepsiCo. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $67 billion in net revenue in 2019, driven by a complementary food and beverage portfolio that includes Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker and Tropicana. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including 23 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

An accomplished innovator and transformation leader, Kanioura oversees PepsiCo’s end-to-end strategy to win both as a total company and in key markets, including our digitalization strategy. She also leads company-wide transformation—ensuring that our scale is leveraged as we focus on accelerating profitable growth and identifying areas of cost efficiency and optimization—in addition to overseeing Data Products, Platforms, and Talent.

Prior to joining PepsiCo, Kanioura was the Chief Analytics Officer and Global Head of Applied Intelligence at Accenture, where she specialized in applying AI and analytics to drive business value. During her 15 years at Accenture, Kanioura grew the Applied Intelligence function from a subspecialty to a global group at the forefront of scale business transformation. She also ran Sales and Customer Analytics globally and drove the company's offerings in customer relationship management and personalization. Kanioura specializes in transforming businesses with emphasis on data and technology, and brings many years of practical experience globally in industries such as telecomms, oil and gas, financial services, and consumer packaged goods, having worked with companies such as Mondelez, Unilever, P&G, Reckitt Benkiser, Phillip Morris, and Adidas.

Kanioura is a member of the Royal Statistical and Economics Society, where she contributes to shaping government policy around how data is used by bodies like the IMF. She also sits on the board of the Institute of Marketing Sciences and is a keen educator who has held lectureships at UMIST (UK), Imperial College London (UK), and the University of Sheffield (UK), where she also earned her PhD in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics.

Kanioura is based in Purchase, N.Y.

Ken Washington

Chief Technology Officer, Ford

Dr. Ken Washington is chief technology officer, Ford Motor Company, and part of the enterprise leadership team reporting to Hau Thai-Tang, Ford’s chief product platform and operations officer. In this role, Washington leads Ford’s global research organization, overseeing the development and implementation of the company’s technology strategy. His responsibilities include Ford’s next generation vehicle electrical architectures; sensing and computing stacks; energy, propulsion, and sustainability; advanced materials and manufacturing; and controls and automated systems. He also leads Ford’s STEM and University research programs.

Prior to joining Ford, he was vice president of the Advanced Technology Center at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, and was responsible for leading a team of scientists and engineers in performing research and development in space science and related R&D.

Previously, he served as Lockheed Martin Corporation’s first chief privacy officer, a role in which he built the company’s privacy program, set the privacy strategy direction and established a team of privacy professionals to execute the strategy.

Washington also previously served as the vice president and chief technology officer for the Lockheed Martin IT organization, where he was responsible for shaping the future of the corporation’s information technology enterprise.

Prior to joining Lockheed Martin in February 2007, Washington served as chief information officer for Sandia National Laboratories, where he previously held various other technical leadership and engineering positions.

He has a bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degree in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University, serves on the board of directors for McKesson Corporation, and is a fellow of the MIT Seminar XXI program on International Relations. Washington was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Jonathan Weber

Global Industry Editor, Technology, Reuters News Agency

Jonathan is now running the Reuters global tech file from Singapore. Past endeavors include founder of New West, editor in chief of the Industry Standard, reporter at the LA Times. Philosophy degree from Wesleyan University.

Harry Moseley

Global Chief Information Officer, Zoom

Harry D. Moseley brings to Zoom a blend of transformational leadership, disruptive innovation, and corporate growth strategies. As the former CIO & Managing Director for KPMG, Harry was responsible for technology and innovation to support the firm's competitive growth. Over five years he identified and replaced legacy technology to dramatically improve productivity, security, and reliability. Before joining KPMG, Harry served as CIO & Senior Managing Director - Partner for Blackstone, where he led the company's transformation to the world's best digital alternative asset manager. Prior to Blackstone, Harry was a Managing Director for Credit Suisse, where he served as the CIO of Global Investment Banking, and Global Co-Head of Application Development / Co-CIO of the firm. Before Credit Suisse, Harry served as CTO & Managing Director for UBS Americas.

Harry has been inducted into CIO Magazine's Hall of Fame, recognized as one of the world's top 100 CIOs by Computerworld, and honored by Irish Magazine as one of its Annual Wall Street 50. Harry is an Advisory Board Member of the New York Center for Dental Restorative Services, a Board Member of Rewards Network, a member of the Advisory Board of the New York City Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and a sponsor of nPower. He is a former Board Member of Bi-Sam (since acquired by Factset), a former Advisor to Aquiline Capital Partners, and a former Board Member of iLevel Solutions (since acquired by Ipreo). He also led Blackstone's investment in Watchdox (since acquired by Blackberry).

Matt Swann

Chief Technology Officer, Booking.com

Matt leads Booking.com’s full stack technology strategy to support the company’s continued growth as a global technology leader in travel and experiences, working to create an even more seamless end-to-end technology experience for travelers.

Matt joins Booking.com from leading Silicon Valley-based event and ticketing marketplace StubHub, where he also served as CTO, leading the company’s technology strategy to drive growth and innovation for the business.

Matt previously served as Chief Information Officer at Citibank, where he set the technical vision and strategy for one of the world’s largest and most scalable financial platforms, as well as Vice President and Global Payments Chief at Amazon, where he and his teams delivered a revolutionary mobile commerce system that enabled hundreds of millions of customers to buy and sell on the platform.

Matt holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Arizona State University and will be relocating from San Francisco to Amsterdam, where Booking.com’s HQ and primary technology center are located.

Stewart Butterfield

CEO, Slack

Stewart Butterfield is the CEO and co-founder of Slack. For more than 20 years, he has been an entrepreneur, designer and technology leader, usually all at once.

In 2013, Stewart and his team launched Slack, which has transformed business communication. Today, Slack is the leading channel-based messaging platform, used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems and drive their businesses forward.

In 2003, Stewart co-founded Flickr, one of the pioneers of image sharing and the social web. As CEO, he built Flickr into one of the largest web services in the world.

Stewart has been regularly recognised for the foresight and innovation that has helped him build two companies that have reimagined the way we use technology to communicate, collaborate, share and store information. He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time Magazine, and one of the Top 50 Leaders by BusinessWeek; he has been included on Vanity Fair’s New Establishment List, the Recode 100, Advertising Age’s Creativity 50, and the Technology Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street Journal.

Stewart has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Victoria and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.

Nigel Duffy

Global Artificial Intelligence Leader, EY

Nigel Duffy is a deep technologist and serial entrepreneur who has been at the forefront of AI for more than 20 years. Serving as EY’s Global Artificial Intelligence Leader he is responsible for identifying, designing, implementing and industrializing AI technologies to transform the way the organization does business.

Nigel leads a global network of AI@EY Labs building products and infusing AI into how EY operates, competes and provides services. As a part of EY Global Innovation he leads the global cross service line strategy, governance, and ecosystem relationships for AI.

Before joining EY, he was a founder and executive at technology startups that use AI to run hedge funds, design pharmaceuticals, control computer games and improve online retail.

Nigel is an inventor on multiple patents including diverse applications of AI and author of highly cited papers in machine learning, chemistry, biology, linguistics, and economics. He is a board member for the Systems that Learn Initiative at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Nigel holds a master’s degree in Mathematics from University College Dublin and a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His original research includes the first theoretical papers on gradient boosting.

Noopur Davis

EVP, Chief Product and Information Security Officer, Comcast

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Lauren Gardner

Co-director, Center for Systems Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

• Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Systems Engineering
• Co-director, Center for Systems Science and Engineering
• Affiliated Faculty, Infectious Disease Dynamics Group – Bloomberg School of Public Health
• CSIRO Visiting Scientist

Bernardo Mariano

Chief Information Officer and Director of Department of Digital health and Innovation, World Health Organization

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Florian Schattenmann

Chief Technology Officer and VP, Innovation and R&D, Cargill

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Brad Garlinghouse

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO, Ripple

Brad is the CEO of Ripple and a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to Ripple, Brad served as the CEO of file collaboration service Hightail. From 2009 to 2012 he was President of Consumer Applications at AOL and prior to that he held various executive positions at Yahoo! from 2003 to 2009, including Senior Vice President. Earlier in his career, Brad helped to pioneer the VoIP industry as CEO of Dialpad Communications. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of OutMatch and has held board positions at Ancestry.com and Tonic Health.

Jeff Wong

Global Chief Innovation Officer, EY

Jeff Wong is the Global Chief Innovation Officer of EY, one of the largest professional services organizations in the world, which has almost 300,000 people serving clients in more than 150 countries. Jeff works across the entire organization to help identify, share and scale leading ideas. He leads the Global Innovation team, challenging everything from the way EY operates internally to how it provides services to its clients. Part of the Global Innovation team’s remit is to research and explore new technologies to transform the EY business.

In this role, Jeff brings deep experience working in technology in Silicon Valley and across strategy, investing and building new ventures globally. Throughout his career, he has built new businesses across various concepts, including local commerce, B2B exchanges, services, mobile and big data at Boston Consulting Group, JAFCO America Ventures, J.P. Morgan Partners and eBay.

Jeff sits on the Oxford University’s Oxford Foundry Board and is a member on the Business Council of the Asia Society, helping drive the innovation and transformation agenda. He is also a fellow of the 2019 class of the Aspen Finance Leaders Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Jeff has an AB in Economics, master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management and an MBA from Stanford University.

John Riccitiello

CEO, Unity Technologies

John Riccitiello stepped into the role of CEO of Unity Technologies having served on the Board of Directors from November 2013. Previous to his work with Unity, Riccitiello served as the CEO of Electronic Arts and co-founded investment firm Elevation Partners. He has also served as advisor to, and invested in, several startups including Oculus VR and Synertainment.

Juan Perez

Chief Information and Engineering Officer, UPS

Juan Perez is the Chief Information and Engineering Officer for UPS and a member of the UPS Executive Leadership Team, responsible for all technology and engineering functions. He was appointed to his current role in 2017 after having served as Chief Information Officer since 2016.

Previously, Juan was Vice President of Technology. Through different rotations in that role, he was responsible for technology systems supporting the company’s billing, financial, accounting, human resources, package operations, driver dispatch and operational planning, scanning, logistics, customer service and sales.

Juan’s leadership has generated greater operational efficiencies, customer service enhancements and environmental impact reductions. His career has included assignments in Operations, Industrial Engineering, Process Management and Technology in Corporate, U.S., and International business units. He currently manages a budget of $6 billion between Engineering and IT. His Engineering responsibilities include Industrial (planning, measurement, and quality), Plant (building construction, maintenance, and corporate sustainability), and Automotive (fleet management and support) Engineering including the Advanced Technology Group charged with defining the future operational technology strategy of UPS including robotics, autonomous transportation, and network optimization. 

His work in technology and engineering helped develop ORION, the On-road Integrated Optimization and Navigation system that optimizes delivery routes to improve service and efficiencies. The efforts of the IT and business teams in developing this technology have yielded significant savings and service improvements to the company. His groups are currently building a new generation of driver routing and optimization technology that will dynamically optimize delivery and pickup routes to gain additional efficiencies.

Juan has been a driving force behind UPS’s adoption of advanced analytics, moving the company from descriptive analytics and a reliance on historical data to predictive analytics with customer and operational data as the foundation. UPS’s Package Flow Technologies, developed under Juan’s leadership, is a demonstration of the many benefits that the linkage between data, analytics, technology and operational know-how bring to UPS’s customers and operations. Juan has also supported the development and deployment of several customer facing solutions like the UPS Access Point™ Network technology, the application of artificial intelligence in customer service, and mobility. Through efforts like these, Juan has secured several patents that protect UPS’s intellectual property.

Juan also continues to lead the implementation of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, virtual assistants and virtual reality solutions for driver training in UPS. 

In 2013, Juan was recognized by Computerworld as a Premier 100 IT Leader. In 2015 and 2017, he was recognized as one of the top 100 Hispanic IT leaders by the Hispanic IT Executive Council (HITEC). The Atlanta Telecom Professionals (ATP) awarded him with the 2015 Leadership Award recognizing UPS’s leadership in technology. He was recognized in 2016 as a Top Latino Leader by the Council for Latino Workplace Equity. He was named CIO of the Year in 2017 by CIO Dive. In 2018, Juan was honored with the “Distinguished Mexican” Award from the Mexican Government for his personal and career achievements in the US. And he was named 2018 CIO of the Year by the Georgia CIO Leadership Association in the Super Global category at its annual CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Awards.

Juan holds a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering and an MS in Computer and Manufacturing Engineering, from the University of Southern California. He is a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and the American Society for Quality and holds several professional certificates in project management, business administration and IT management. He also serves as a program evaluator for the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET) and was a lecturer at USC for seven years where he taught courses in engineering economy, quality control, industrial engineering, and operations management. 

In 2019, Juan was named a member of the Hershey Company’s Board of Directors. He is the executive advisor for the UPS Latino Business Resource Group, which supports diversity across the enterprise, and he is a trustee of the Southeast Region’s Boys and Girls Club. Juan is an active member of his church and community.

Vish Sankaran

Vish Sankaran, Senior Vice President & 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.

Jeroen Tas

Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer, Philips

Jeroen Tas is Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer of Royal Philips, a position he has held since February 2017.

Jeroen is an experienced global executive and entrepreneur with a track record of leading innovation in the healthcare, information technology and financial services industries. He clearly sees the tremendous value that information technology and data can add to managing health.

Leading the company’s global Innovation & Strategy organization, he is responsible for M&A strategy planning, R&D, solutions design, medical affairs, sustainability, technology platforms, ventures and emerging businesses. Creating a pipeline of innovative business propositions Jeroen will leverage emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, sensing technologies and the Internet of Things to reinforce the company’s health propositions aimed at supporting consumers, care professionals and health systems with personalized connected health solutions. Solutions that can deliver on the "quadruple aim": improving health outcomes, improving patient experience, improving staff satisfaction and lowering the cost of care.

A respected thought leader, Jeroen was responsible for turning around Philips’ healthcare IT business and has been instrumental in establishing HealthSuite as the new open industry standard for the ‘Healthcare Internet of Things’ Cloud platform.

Jeroen joined Philips in 2011, leading IT worldwide as Group Chief Information Officer (CIO). In 2014 he became CEO of Philips Healthcare, Informatics Solutions & Services, overseeing digital health and clinical informatics. From 2016, Jeroen led the company’s Connected Care and Informatics businesses, demonstrating a passion to create new models of people-centric healthcare, based on the power of information technology.

Before joining Philips, Jeroen co-founded and served as President, COO and Vice-Chairman of the board for MphasiS, an IT and Business Process Outsourcing company, which was acquired by HP in 2006. Prior to MphasiS, he was the head of Transaction Technology, Inc., Citigroup's tech lab, responsible for the innovation and development of the bank’s customer-facing systems, including Internet banking and self-service devices. From 2007-8, he was Vice President and General Manager at EDS, responsible for the company’s global competency centers.

Jeroen is the 2004 winner of the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Information Technology category for the New York region. He also won the Dutch CIO of the year 2013 Award, NASSCOM Global CIO Award 2014, the World Innovation Congress 2014 CIO Leadership Award, CIO Net European CIO of 2014 Award, the IT Executive 2014 Award and the Accenture 2015 Innovator of the Year award. He holds a Master’s Degree in computer science and business administration from VU University, Amsterdam.

Bonnie Titone

Bonnie Titone, Chief Information Officer, Duke Energy

Bonnie Titone is Duke Energy’s senior vice president and chief information officer. She oversees the company’s information technology operations and infrastructure, project delivery, digital transformation, data & analytics and support for various business areas. Additionally, she provides support for Duke Energy’s ongoing digital transformation efforts.

Titone joined Duke Energy in June 2019 from Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) in San Francisco, Calif., where she served as vice president of information business technology. In this role, she supported all core business functions, including natural gas, electric, nuclear, energy supply, human resources, finance, supply chain, safety and environmental, security, risk management, legal and fleet operations. Titone was responsible for digital transformation, application and software delivery and operations.

Titone has more than 22 years of experience in information technology with positions ranging from project management, operations and application delivery to portfolio management across the hospitality, financial services and automotive industries.

Prior to her work at PG&E, Titone served in leadership roles at Volkswagen and Toyota, where she focused on software and project delivery, as well as strategic direction and alignment across multiple brands and countries.

Titone holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Pennsylvania State University. In her spare time, Titone enjoys watching and playing sports and traveling with friends.

Charles Eaton

Executive Vice President, Social Innovation, CompTIA

While filling two charitable executive roles as Executive Vice President, Social Innovation, CompTIA and as CEO, Creating IT Futures, Charles Eaton helps populations that are under-represented in IT and individuals who are lacking in opportunity to prepare for, secure and be successful in information technology careers. Under Eaton’s direction, Creating IT Futures has expanded its scope to cultivate best practices in American workforce development and tech-related STEM education.

Eaton is often invited to participate in White House Administration workforce development campaigns and is quoted frequently in the media as an authority on tech workforce development and STEM education. In the past few years, he’s been a speaker at the US News STEM Solutions National Leadership Conference, the League for Innovation STEMtech Conference, the California Workforce Association Spring Conference, the Philly Emerging Tech Conference, the National Career Pathways Network’s Annual Conference, the National Association of Veterans Upward Bound Conference and the Consortium for School Networking Conference. In 2016, he was named to the Corporate Advisory Board for Innovate+Educate.

Eaton joined CompTIA and Creating IT Futures in June 2010 and has more than two decades of non-profit management experience. Previously he was responsible for fundraising, business development and marketing for the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), a healthcare association focused on improving healthcare quality and patient safety. Before joining APIC, Eaton was vice president of member relations for the Consumer Electronics Association, which organizes the largest tradeshow in North America, the International CES in Las Vegas.

Eaton graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Duke University and has four kids, ranging from elementary school-age to young adult.

Aaron Levie

CEO, Box

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

Aaron attended the University of Southern California from 2003 to 2005 before leaving to found Box.

Cathy Hackl

Futurist & Author of The Augmented Workforce

Futurist, speaker, and author Cathy Hackl is a globally recognized augmented reality, virtual reality and spatial computing thought leader. She’s been named one of the top 10 Tech Voices on Linkedin for two years in a row, the highest honor on the platform.

She currently works as part of the Enterprise team at one of the industry's top OEMs.

Cathy is currently working on her second book The Augmented Workforce: How AI, AR, and 5G Will Impact Every Dollar You Make. She’s co-authoring the book with John Buzzell and the book is slated to be published at the end of 2019.

Prior to that, Cathy was the lead futurist at You Are Here Labs, where she led agencies, brands and companies in applying Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for marketing and training working with brands like AT&T & Porsche.

Hackl worked as a VR Evangelist for HTC VIVE during the launch of their enterprise VR headset and during the company’s partnership with Warner Brothers’ blockbuster, Ready Player One. She's the co-author of Marketing New Realities, the first VR AR marketing book ever written. She also worked as Chief Communications Officer for cinematic VR studio Future Lighthouse, where she collaborated on projects with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Oculus, Beefeater, and William Morris Endeavor.

Hackl has been featured in media outlets like Forbes, Barron’s, Salon, VentureBeat, Digiday, Tech Target, CMO.com, and Mashable. She is a global advisor for VR AR Association and was recognized in 2016 by NBC News as one of the top Latina women working in VR.

Before working in spatial computing and technology, she worked as a communicator at media companies such as CNN, Discovery, and ABC News and was nominated in 2007 for an EMMY Award for her storytelling work. She's also the creator of the world’s first holographic press release and loves all things spatial computing, artificial intelligence and futurism.

Lucas Kello

Associate Professor of International Relations, Director of the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs, University of Oxford

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Rich Agostino

Chief Information Security Officer, Target

Rich Agostino, is senior vice president and chief information security officer at Target. In this role, he is responsible for the company’s information security organization, enabling Target’s enterprise strategy. Rich has extensive experience in IT, risk and compliance, and driving enterprise security initiatives.

Prior to Target, Agostino held various executive roles in information security, technology risk and audit at General Electric.

He is a member of the PCI Security Standards Council Board of Advisors and the Board of Directors for the Retail & Hospitality ISAC. He is also a member of Google’s CISO Advisory Board.

Agostino earned his bachelor’s degree in management information systems from the University of Connecticut.

David Pakman

Partner, Venrock

David focuses on early stage venture investing in consumer and enterprise tech companies with a recent focus on robotics, crypto, consumer products and AI. His active investments include Dstillery, Smartling, Misty Robotics, Simbe Robotics, Amino Apps and Dapper Labs. He led both the Series A and Series B rounds in Dollar Shave Club and sat on the board until that company was acquired by Unilever for $1B in July of 2016. He served on the Board of Crunchyroll (acquired by The Chernin Group) and led Venrock’s investment in Klout which was acquired by Lithium Technologies. In April 2017, he was named the 55th top venture capitalist in the world by CB Insights.

Previously, Pakman was the CEO of eMusic, the world’s leading digital retailer of independent music, second only to iTunes in number of downloads sold. Pakman transformed the business from an obscure also-ran with 50,000 subscribers to the second largest digital music retailer in the world, with more than 400,000 subscribers, $68M in revenue and more than 12% market share. Prior to joining eMusic, Pakman was Co-Founder and President of Business Development and Public Policy at Myplay, Inc., the company he co-founded in 1999 in Redwood City, CA that introduced the “digital music locker” and pioneered the locker category. In 2001, Myplay was sold to Bertelsmann’s ecommerce Group. Before Myplay, he was Vice President at N2K Entertainment, which created the first digital music download service. He also was the co-creator of Apple’s Music Group and a product manager at Apple.

Pakman is a graduate of and a former member of the Board of Overseers at University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science with a degree in Computer Science Engineering and is an avid musician and songwriter. He testified in front of Congress regarding internet music streaming in 2012, 2016 and 2017. He also served on the Board of POTS, a human services non-profit in the Bronx helping low-income families and is a Trustee of St. Luke’s School in Connecticut.

Saad Bashir

Chief Technology Officer, City of Seattle

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Andy Rhodes

Chief Information Officer, unicef USA

Andy is the Chief Information Officer and a member of the UNICEF USA executive management team. He is responsible for the organization's technology, digital and data strategy and its successful delivery. This includes creating and enforcing technology governance, security and policy to ensure effective and ethical utilization for the benefit of children around the world.

Andy has made a career of building teams and technology that engage customers, drive revenue and deliver measurable value. Digital and Data products are his specialty and his passion and are the foundations of the digital transformations that Andy has led. Prior stops include leadership roles at the USGA, Publicis and Mattel plus consulting work with global brands including Nike, Victorinox, Singapore Airlines and Estée Lauder.

Nigel Sizer

Chief Program Officer, Rainforest Alliance

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Sylvie Veilleux

Chief Information Officer, Dropbox

Sylvie Veilleux is an experienced technologist and leader with more than 20 years of experience. She joined Dropbox in 2017 from Mozilla, where she was the VP of Enterprise IT and Security.
Sylvie has held technical leadership roles at Salesforce, Apple and Oracle. Sylvie leads the Information Technology & Services organization, which includes corporate infrastructure, business applications, and HR technology.

Peter Norvig

Engineering Director, Google

Peter Norvig is a Director of Research at Google Inc; previously he directed Google's core search algorithms group. He is co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the leading textbook in the field, and co-teacher of an Artificial Intelligence class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online classes. He is a fellow of the AAAI, ACM, California Academy of Science and American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Gregor Strojin

President, CAHAI Ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Gregor is the President of the Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence at the Council of Europe (CAHAI), which is currently mandated with the preparation of a feasibility study and elements of a legal framework for the design, development and application of AI, based on Council of Europe standards on human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

Gregor is a Slovenian jurist with over 20 years of experience in the crossroads of justice, technology and information. Primarily working with the Supreme Court of Slovenia, he was engaged on a number of acclaimed transformation projects in court, case and justice management, nationally and internationally.

He also served as the State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice of Slovenia, is a member of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) and of the CEPEJ-GT-CYBERJUST working group, and is collaborating with the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO (IRCAI).

Lesly Goh

Fellow at Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF)
Former Chief Technology Officer at the World Bank Group

Lesly Goh is the Senior Advisor, former Chief Technology Officer for the World Bank Group. She is a Fellow at Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) Judge Business School and Senior Fellow at National University of Singapore (NUS) Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Lesly brings an extensive international experience, advising government policymakers and central banks on the regulatory impact from emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G, Cloud and Edge Computing. Prior to the public sector role, Lesly built a solid technology career in the private sectors such as Microsoft, Deloitte, and startup. She is a certified Data Architect and worked on many high-profile Data and AI initiatives in highly regulated industries such as Financial Services, Healthcare/Life Sciences and Digital Government, including Smart Cities designed for resilience. Lesly is on the Board of Director for Singapore GovTech and she is a member of the WEF Global Future Councils on Data Policy: the Platform for promoting innovative thinking to shape a sustainable and inclusive future for all.

Silvia Pavoni

Founding editor, Sustainable Views and economics editor, The Banker, Financial Times

Silvia Pavoni is the editor of Sustainable Views, a newsletter by FT Specialist, a division of the Financial Times; and the economics editor of The Banker, also part of the FT group, for which she created and writes the Better Banking column on sustainable finance. Silvia is also an advisory board member of the European Risk Management Council, a member of the London council of not-for-profit WILL, Women in Leadership in Latin America, and an honorary fellow at City University of London.

As part of her current role, Silvia regularly interviews government officials, policy makers and finance and business leaders. One of her highest-profile interviews was with Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, who serves as UN General-Secretary’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance.

Since joining the Financial Times in 2005, Silvia has been on assignment to over two dozen countries, reporting with both written and filmed pieces. Previously, she was in charge of Centaur Media’s specialist database on public private partnerships, which was tasked with providing data to the UK Government.

Silvia holds the equivalent of an MSc and a BSc in Economics and Finance from Ca' Foscari University of Venice and speaks Italian – her mother-tongue – and Spanish.

Jim Spanfeller

CEO, G/O Media

Jim Spanfeller is Chief Executive Officer of G/O Media, the publisher of leading digital-first brands including Gizmodo, The AV Club, Deadspin, Jalopnik, The Root, Jezebel, Kotaku, Lifehacker, The Takeout, The Onion, and The Inventory. Assuming this position in April of 2019 under the direction of private equity group, Great Hill Partners, Spanfeller has grown traffic and diversified revenue, leading the company into its first quarters of profitability under its new ownership. G/O Media currently reaches over 100 million unique visitors, a third of Americans online each month, per ComScore.

Prior to G/O Media, Spanfeller was the founder and CEO of The Spanfeller Media Group, the publisher of The Daily Meal and The Active Times. He started this company in 2011 and subsequently took The Daily Meal from start up to over 15 million monthly unique visitors as per ComScore. SMG was successfully sold to Tribune Publishing in December of 2017.

Prior to this position he served as the President and CEO of Forbes.com, home page for the world’s business leaders, growing it to the largest business site in the world. In this position, Spanfeller oversaw Forbes Digital, which included Forbes.com, ForbesTraveler.com, Investopedia.com, RealClearPolitics.com, RealClearMarkets.com, RealClearSports.com, and the Forbes.com Business and Finance Blog Network, which together boasted well over 75 million unique monthly visitors.

Spanfeller has received numerous industry accolades. He has been included in BtoB Media Business’ “Who’s Who In Business Publishing” and was named “Top Interactive Executive for General Business Publishers” as part of the “Top Innovator in Business Publishing” awards. He has also been included in BtoB magazine’s “Top 25 Newsmakers” as well as the “Media Power 50 List” at #4, and was inducted into min’s first-ever Digital Hall of Fame. Additionally, the IAB awarded Spanfeller one of its first ever Founder’s Awards for contributions to the digital advertising industry.

Spanfeller is an executive member of the board of Digital Content Next, the leading trade organization for premium digital content creators and is a Chairman Emeritus of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). He also currently holds or has held board seats at Freedom Communications, Inc., Hottopics (Chairman of The Board), MediaSmith, We Are Family Foundation and the ABM (American Business Media Association). He served on the Board of Directors of the Magazine Publishers Association, 1999-2000.

In addition to these full board positions he also serves on the advisory boards of several early stage web start-ups; We7, Blockthrough and Fattail are three examples.

He writes frequently in leading industry trade publications and speaks regularly throughout the world on media issues in the digital age.

Prior to joining Forbes.com, Spanfeller was President of the Consumer Magazine Group of Ziff Davis Media, Inc. Previously, he was Publisher of Inc. magazine and also held senior positions at Playboy Enterprises Publishing Group and Newsweek.

Spanfeller received a B.A. in English Literature from Union College. He lives in New York City with his wife, Peg, and their three daughters.

Mike Murphy

Transformation Editor, Protocol

Mike Murphy ( @mcwm) is the transformation editor at Protocol, focusing on the industries being rapidly upended by technology and the companies disrupting incumbents. Previously, Mike was the technology editor at Quartz, where he frequently wrote on robotics, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics.

Merci Victoria Grace

Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Merci Victoria Grace is an investor and product leader who specializes in growth, engagement, and design. She’s a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where she invests in productivity and collaboration software

Ina Fried

Chief Technology Correspondent, Axios

Ina Fried is the chief technology correspondent at Axios, and lead author of its daily tech newsletter, Login. She also covers tech issues for Axios on HBO, having interviewed Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Sundar Pichai and other leading figures. Before joining Axios, Fried was a senior editor at Recode, where she covered mobile and served as producer of the Code/Mobile series of conferences. Prior to Recode, Ina covered mobile for All Things Digital where she also co-produced the D: Dive Into Mobile conference. She spent a decade at CNET where she covered, among other things, Microsoft and Apple. Prior to joining CNET, she covered chips for Bridge News and was a writer at the Orange County Business Journal and Orange County Register. She graduated from Miami University in Ohio. Ina is a past vice president and national board member of NLGJA: The LGBT Journalists Association and in 2016 was inducted into the LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame.

Bruno Guicardi

President & Co-Founder, CI&T

Bruno Guicardi is the President of CI&T,a leader in driving digital transformation for global brands.. For over 20 years, CI&T has been a trusted partner in helping Fortune 1000 companies drive growth and continuous innovation across business, people, and technology.

An advocate of Agile and Lean methodologies, Bruno has pioneered the application of advanced technologies and methods in digital transformation initiatives. He co-founded CI&T in 1995 and has since led the company through continuous waves of innovation and growth — currently a staff of over 2,700 across strategic global operations in Latin America, North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific region. CI&T provides strategy, research, design and engineering services, digitally transforming customers' businesses by co-creating new business models, digital products and platforms, and innovative ways of working.

Bruno is a frequent speaker at technology events. He graduated from the University of Campinas in Brazil with a degree in computer engineering.

Blake Dodge

Healthcare Reporter, Business Insider

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Paul Martin

Chief Technologist Advanced Compute & Solutions, HP

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David Pierce

Editor at large, Protocol

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John Biggs

Editor-in-Chief, Gizmodo

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Adam Safir

Director, Office of Educational Technology, US Department for Education

Adam Safir is the Director of the Office of Educational Technology. Adam brings twenty-years of entrepreneurial experience founding, managing and selling companies that provide forensics, data analytics, security design and risk-mitigation services to government and private sector clients. With early career experience as an attorney and investment banker, Adam brings and cultivates diverse skills and perspectives to guide OET in achieving its mission. Adam earned a Juris Doctorate and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia.

Andy Purdy

CSO, 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).

Joy Tan

Senior Vice President, Public Affairs, Huawei Technologies USA

As the Senior VP of Public Affairs, Ms. Tan is responsible for setting and executing Public Relations and Government Relations strategies for Huawei USA.

From 2014 to January 2019, Ms. Tan served as the President of Global Media and Communications for Huawei, setting and executing media and communications strategy for the entire company. She was instrumental in promoting Huawei’s thought leadership, corporate values, key products and solutions, and making Huawei one of the top 100 brands in the world.

The scope of her work included:

• Strategic communications planning for all three Business Groups
• Managing companywide engagement with international and Chinese media
• Guiding advertising, social media, and branding campaigns aimed at building Huawei’s global profile
• Representing the company at major industry events and conferences, such as the World Economic Forum and the United Nations Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation

Prior to this role, Ms. Tan was responsible for corporate branding, where she led the initiative to transform Huawei into a global brand. She also managed Huawei’s integrated marketing communications in the United States.

Before joining Huawei, Ms. Tan worked at Verizon, where she was responsible for consumer strategy and digital marketing, and at TXU Energy, where she led customer acquisition efforts in the newly deregulated energy markets.

Ms. Tan studied Biology at Tsinghua University in Beijing and holds a Master’s Degree in Neuroscience from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where was a PhD candidate. She holds an MBA in Marketing from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Rediet Abebe

Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

Rediet Abebe is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and an incoming Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Abebe holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University and graduate degrees in mathematics from Harvard University and the University of Cambridge. Her research is in artificial intelligence and algorithms, with a focus on equity and justice concerns. Abebe is a co-founder and co-organizer of the multi-institutional, interdisciplinary research initiative Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG). Her dissertation received the 2020 ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award and an honorable mention for the ACM SIGEcom Dissertation Award for offering the foundations of this emerging research area. Abebe's work has informed policy and practice at the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Ethiopian Ministry of Education. She has been honored in the MIT Technology Reviews' 35 Innovators Under 35 list as a pioneer and the Bloomberg 50 list as a one to watch. Her work has been featured in BBC, ELLE, Forbes, and Shondaland and presented at venues including the National Academy of Sciences, United Nations, and Museum of Modern Art. Abebe also co-founded Black in AI, a non-profit organization tackling representation and equity issues in AI. Her research is influenced by her upbringing in her hometown of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Frank Nazzaro

Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, FreddieMac

Frank Nazzaro is executive vice president and chief information officer. He leads the Information Technology (IT) division and provides corporate-wide leadership for the company’s technology strategy. He is a member of the senior operating committee and reports directly to CEO David Brickman.

Nazzaro is an accomplished senior technology executive with over 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry. With an in-depth knowledge in infrastructure and applications, he brings a wealth of experience in transformational IT activities and strong leadership capabilities essential to IT’s strategic initiatives, including Cloud migration, Modern Delivery and Employee Technology Experience.

He joined Freddie Mac in 2018 as senior vice president and chief technology officer leading Enterprise Technology Solutions. In this position, he played a pivotal role in the effort to modernize Freddie Mac’s infrastructure, manage environments and deliver competitive technology solutions to employees and customers.

Previously, Nazzaro served as Group Vice President and CTO for Travelport LLC, where he led cloud architecture, infrastructure and operations globally. Before that, he worked as CTO at CIT Group where he was responsible for Transformation, Architecture, Technology Strategy and IT Infrastructure. He has held several senior technology and management roles at RBC Capital Markets, Bridgewater and UBS.

Liam Dowd

Managing Director - Sustainable Business, Reuters Events

Liam Dowd is the managing director of Ethical Corporation. Liam joined Ethical Corporation in 2010 and has worked his way from subsciptions manager to director of marketing and strategy to his new role of managing director. Liam uses his marketing background to ensure customers are at the heart of business decisions.

Terry Slavin

Editor In Chief, Reuters Events Sustainable Business

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Aaron Katz

Supervisor, Large-Scale Analytic Systems Group, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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Amy Gershkoff Bolles, Ph.D.

Chief Data Officer & GM, BitlyIQ

Dr. Amy Gershkoff Bolles is a technology executive, advisor, author, and speaker, with deep experience leveraging data and technology to generate substantial growth. Prior to her role as GM, BitlyIQ, she served as GM of Zynga Advertising and Co-Founder & CEO of Changing Targets Media. Dr. Bolles has also served as Chief Data Officer for companies including Ancestry.com and Zynga, and has been an Advisor and consultant to numerous venture and private-equity-backed companies around the globe. Dr. Bolles previously built and led the Customer Analytics & Insights team and led the Global Data Science team at eBay. She was also the Head of Media Planning & Analytics at Obama for America 2012, where she was the architect of Obama’s advertising strategy and designed the campaign's analytics systems.

Amy has been named to the 2020 Global Top 100 Innovators list and the Top 10 Women Leaders of 2020 list. She was also named one of the Top 50 Women to Watch in Tech and one of San Francisco's Most Influential Women in Business. She was previously recognized as one of the nation’s “40 under 40” leading entrepreneurs, and was featured in the Washington Post as one of the nation’s most prominent innovators.

Her articles have appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, TechCrunch, and Business Insider, and she has been a commentator on NPR, Bloomberg News, ABC, CSPAN, and for various print media outlets including the New York Times.

She holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Lucinda Shen

Writer, Fortune Magazine

Lucinda Shen is a New York City-based writer at Fortune and editor of the publication's daily venture capital- and private equity-focused newsletter, Term Sheet. Prior to her role at Fortune, Lucinda has reported from Hong Kong. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Emma Smith

Global Cyber Security Director, Vodafone Group

Emma joined Vodafone in 2015. As Global Cyber Security Director, she is responsible for all aspects of information and cyber security. The global security teams in Vodafone are responsible for setting security policy in line with local laws and regulations, implementing security technologies and controls, securing new products and services and 24x7 cyber defence capabilities. Emma is passionate about security. Specifically, about evolving security to protect customers and society against changing threats and the opportunity to contribute to improving the safety of the communities we operate in.

Alongside her role in Cyber Security, Emma is active in her pursuit for inclusion for all. She believes people thrive when they can be themselves and feel that they belong. She has worked to develop a diverse security workforce and is LGBT+ sponsor for Technology in Vodafone.

Prior to joining Vodafone, Emma was Security Director at the Royal Bank of Scotland. In her role, she was created an integrated security function including fraud prevention, information & cyber security, intelligence, physical security, business resilience and records management. Emma spent over a decade leading internal audit teams who specialised in security, technology and risk management.

Brian Kahn

Managing Editor, Earther

Brian Kahn is the managing editor at Earther, a leading environmental site analyzing conservation, sustainability, climate change and more. Kahn is also currently a faculty member for Columbia University’s Climate and Society Masters Program. Brian Kahn has covered the climate crisis for nearly a decade, and his reporting has taken him to the front lines from the rarest forests in Florida to a British Columbia pipeline terminal. In previous lives, he was an educator at the deepest lake in the U.S., and a sleigh ride naturalist giving tours through a herd of 7,000 elk.