Anuj Bhalla is the founder and CEO of serviceMob, an Irvine, California enterprise software company that brings order to the chaos of customer service data. A UC Berkeley applied mathematician and MIT Sloan Fellow, he spent over a decade leading Accenture's Service Analytics Strategy practice and filing three patents before building serviceMob around a concept he calls 'Ontolytics' - analytics layered on top of a unifying data ontology to illuminate the 'dark, unexplored data' that hides inside support operations. He was named a 2024 CEO Visionary by the Los Angeles Times and his company earned a spot on MIT's STEX25 startup roster.
Nikhil Sethi is the co-founder and CEO of Workgrounds, a New York startup using AI to automate the slow, phone-and-email world of corporate hotel room block booking. He is a repeat founder: alongside Garrett Ullom he built the adtech company Adaptly from a Northwestern dorm room into a 200-person business serving brands like PepsiCo, Fox, and Domino's before Accenture acquired it in 2018. After running global programmatic services at Accenture, he reunited with Ullom in 2022 to attack a problem they had both lived through - the painful logistics of booking group travel - raising $2.6M to launch Workgrounds.
David DeRemer is the founder and CEO of Very Good Ventures (VGV), the product and venture studio that built the Hamilton app - the first large-scale commercial Flutter app shipped outside of Google. With nearly two decades spanning Accenture, frog design, Chobani, and his mobile agency Posse, DeRemer bet the company on Google's then-pre-alpha Flutter framework and turned VGV into one of the most influential consultancies in the Flutter ecosystem, helping enterprises ship high-quality apps from a single codebase.
Jeff Elton, Ph.D., is the founding CEO and now Vice Chairman of ConcertAI, a Cambridge-based company building generative and predictive AI on the world's largest multi-modal oncology dataset. He grew the company from a 2017 startup into a roughly $1.9 billion business with about 1,300 employees, acquiring TeraRecon's imaging technology and ASCO's CancerLinQ network along the way. A former Accenture managing director, Novartis research COO, and McKinsey partner, he co-authored the widely cited book Healthcare Disrupted and chairs the MassBio board.
Mike Stapleton is the Chief Business Officer of QbDVision, the Austin-based software company building a Digital CMC platform for pharma and biotech. He spent three decades moving between the lab bench, the boardroom, and the consulting deck - senior scientist at BP, COO at Accelrys, leader at Life Technologies, PerkinElmer, Merck, Microsoft, and Accenture - before joining QbDVision's board and then stepping in to run its commercial strategy. His argument is contrarian for a software executive: the bottleneck in drug development is not the platform, it is the people willing to standardize how an industry handles its data.
Sonia G. is the VP of Marketing at Amazon Web Services (AWS), based in Dubai, UAE, where she leads marketing strategy for one of the world's most dominant cloud platforms across the MENA region. With an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and prior experience at Accenture, she operates at the intersection of enterprise cloud solutions, demand generation, and go-to-market strategy for a company that serves millions of customers globally.
Dirk Morbitzer is a senior executive and consultant with 25+ years of experience in renewable energy, solar, and cleantech. He is CEO of DIMOCO Inc., a boutique consulting firm specializing in solar and energy storage, and is a top 1% expert in the Energy Group at GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group). Previously CEO North America and Group CEO of AEROCOMPACT Group Holding AG, and before that Director of Strategic Sourcing at Sunrun for eight years, Morbitzer brings deep expertise in strategic sourcing, international supply chain management, M&A, and PE investment navigation across Europe, Asia, and North America.