Dev Nag is the founder and CEO of QueryPal, a San Francisco AI company rebuilding the economics of customer support with agentic automation. A serial founder with deep machine-learning roots, he earlier created Wavefront, the real-time cloud monitoring platform acquired by VMware in 2017, where he went on to launch VMware's flagship AIOps product. He also founded the observability startup CtrlStack, backed by Sequoia Capital and Engineering Capital. Before founding companies he was an engineer at Google, PayPal, and eBay and the founding engineer at securities-trading platform GLMX. Stanford-trained in both mathematics and psychology, he holds more than a dozen AI and security patents and authored one of the most widely read beginner tutorials in deep learning, 'GANs in 50 lines of code.'
Netenrich is a San Jose-based security and digital operations company that helps enterprises run modern security operations on Google SecOps. Its Resolution Intelligence Cloud platform combines agentic AI, big-data analytics, and human expertise to power Adaptive MDR, Cyber Risk Operations, and threat detection - shifting security teams from chasing alerts toward what the company calls autonomic security operations.
Riverbed Technology is a San Francisco-based IT software company that helps large enterprises see, optimize, and troubleshoot the digital experiences their people and customers depend on. Originally famous for the SteelHead WAN-optimization appliance, Riverbed has reinvented itself around AI-powered unified observability - stitching together network, application, and end-user telemetry, then layering predictive, generative, and agentic AI on top to spot problems and increasingly fix them automatically. Founded in 2002, taken private by Thoma Bravo in 2015 and again by Vector Capital in 2023, it serves thousands of global organizations across finance, government, healthcare, retail, and beyond.
ATAD Corp. is a Seoul-based technology company building an AI-driven multi-cloud operating platform that helps teams run AWS, Azure, and GCP environments from one place. Its flagship product, ODiiN, uses AI to forecast and self-heal infrastructure problems, claiming up to 80% cost savings and large productivity gains. Founded in 2023 by cloud and cybersecurity specialists, ATAD pairs cloud automation with a security stack built on AI, multi-factor authentication, and zero-knowledge proofs, and also runs Heiimdahl (a multi-LLM monitoring gateway) and Kraton (a blockchain-based decentralized VPN). The company has raised about $3.36M and holds a growing portfolio of patents in multi-cloud integration and secure data distribution.
Zelar (ZelarSoft) is a cloud-native engineering and consulting firm that helps banks, telcos, oil & gas, and government teams adopt Kubernetes, DevOps, and AI without the usual pain. Founded in 2018 and led by CEO Vasu Maganti, the company pairs hands-on services - cloud migration, SRE, security, and data engineering - with its own platforms: Klusternetes for self-service Kubernetes multi-tenancy, OpenOps for production-ready GKE stacks, and Cokpit for agentic AI DevOps. A Google Cloud Premier Partner with offices across the US, Canada, India, and the UAE, Zelar bets that most teams want cloud-native outcomes, not cloud-native homework.
MegazoneCloud is South Korea's largest managed cloud service provider (MSP) and the country's first cloud MSP unicorn. Spun out of Megazone in 2018, it became AWS's first official partner in Korea back in 2012 and is now the No.1 AWS premier consulting partner across Asia Pacific. With roughly 2,800 cloud specialists, it helps more than 5,000 customers - from large enterprises and game studios to startups and public institutions - migrate to, build on, and operate AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. The company is pivoting hard toward AI, packaging its work into the proprietary AIR platform (AIR Studio, AIR AIOps, AIR Build) to help organizations become 'AI-native.'
Striveworks is an Austin-based AI operations company whose Chariot platform helps organizations build, deploy, monitor, and retrain machine learning models in hours rather than months. Built for highly regulated and contested environments - especially U.S. national security and allied defense - Chariot pairs a fast MLOps workflow with end-to-end data and model lineage, giving customers governance and provenance over models that must keep working when conditions change.
BMC Software is a Houston-founded enterprise software company that builds the IT operations, service management, and mainframe automation tools that keep large organizations running. Founded in 1980 by three former Shell engineers, BMC has spent four decades turning the unglamorous work of keeping systems alive - monitoring, scheduling, patching, recovering - into automated, increasingly AI-driven products. Its flagship lines include Control-M (workload automation), the BMC AMI mainframe suite, and BMC Helix (service and operations management). Owned by KKR since 2018, BMC split into two focused companies, BMC and BMC Helix, in early 2025.
New Relic is a San Francisco-based, AI-powered observability platform that gives engineering teams a single place to see everything running in their software - from application code and infrastructure to logs, user experience, and AI models. Founded in 2008 by Lew Cirne, it helped popularize application performance monitoring (APM) and later coined much of the modern 'observability' category. After going public in 2014 and being taken private in a $6.5 billion deal in 2023, New Relic now serves thousands of companies with usage-based, consumption pricing and a strong bet on AI and agentic observability.
Ayman Sayed is President and CEO of BMC Software, the $2.3-billion enterprise software company serving 86% of the Forbes Global 50. He joined BMC in 2019 after senior roles at CA Technologies (President and Chief Product Officer) and Cisco (SVP, leading 2,500+ engineers). Under his tenure, BMC pivoted toward AI-driven IT automation under the 'Autonomous Digital Enterprise' framework, and in 2024 he announced a landmark split of BMC into two independent companies - one focused on mainframe software and one on digital services management.
BigPanda is an AIOps platform that uses machine learning to correlate noisy IT alerts from hundreds of monitoring tools into actionable incidents, helping enterprise operations teams detect, triage and resolve outages faster. Founded in 2012 and based in Mountain View / Redwood City, it serves large enterprises including Intel, PayPal, Workday and Gap.
Assaf Resnick is the co-founder and CEO of BigPanda, an AI-powered IT operations platform valued at $1.2 billion. Born in Israel and raised in Silicon Valley, he spent six years as a principal investor at Sequoia Capital Israel before leaving to build BigPanda in 2012. After pivoting from ad-tech and surviving years of near-silence in the market, BigPanda found product-market fit with large enterprises and has raised over $330 million in total funding. Today the company leads the emerging category of agentic IT operations, helping enterprise teams automate the detection, investigation, and resolution of IT incidents.
Kannan Kothandaraman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Selector AI, a Santa Clara-based AIOps and network observability platform that uses large language models, knowledge graphs, and causal reasoning to help Fortune 1000 enterprises detect, diagnose, and resolve infrastructure issues faster. Before founding Selector in 2019, Kannan spent nearly two decades at Juniper Networks - rising from senior software engineer to Vice President of Product Line Management - and before that at Cisco Systems. Selector has raised $104 million in total funding, including a $32M Series B in February 2026 at a valuation of $375 million, and counts Fortune 20 companies in manufacturing and healthcare among its customers.
Selector is an AI-powered network and infrastructure observability platform founded by ex-Juniper Networks executives. It combines a network-specific large language model, knowledge graphs, and causal reasoning to ingest telemetry from across complex hybrid environments, cut alert noise, surface root cause, and reduce mean time to resolution for telecoms, cloud providers, and global enterprises.
Jerry M. Kennelly co-founded Riverbed Technology in 2002 and spent 16 years building it from a two-person startup into a billion-dollar enterprise serving 30,000 customers across every Forbes Global 100 company. A finance executive turned visionary operator, Kennelly combined rigorous business discipline with Silicon Valley boldness - taking Riverbed public on NASDAQ in 2006, engineering nine acquisitions, and watching its market cap peak near $6 billion in 2011. After retiring from Riverbed in April 2018, he became Chairman and CEO of Scandic Capital LLC and joined the board of cybersecurity firm Tenable.
Raju Chekuri is the Chairman, President & CEO of Netenrich, a San Jose-based cybersecurity and digital operations company he co-founded. A serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur who previously founded Velio Communications (acquired by LSI Logic/Rambus) and chaired OpsRamp (acquired by HPE), Chekuri now leads Netenrich's Resolution Intelligence Cloud - an AI-powered platform transforming how enterprises manage security operations. An alumnus of Kakatiya University and St. Mary's College of California, he splits his passion between cybersecurity innovation and Indian sports, having invested in Goa Guardians, the 10th franchise of India's Prime Volleyball League.
Raju Datla is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Fabrix.ai (formerly CloudFabrix), an AI-native IT operations platform he founded in 2015. Before Fabrix.ai, he sold two companies to Cisco - Jahi Networks (~$16M, 2004) and Cloupia ($125M, 2012), the latter becoming the foundation of Cisco's UCS management suite. At Fabrix.ai, he is pioneering Agentic AI for enterprise IT operations through a Robotic Data Automation Fabric that unifies data ingestion, AI agent orchestration, and workflow automation at scale.
Vasu Maganti is the founder and CEO of Zelar (formerly Zelarsoft), a Google Cloud Premier Partner and cloud-native consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco. Since founding the company in 2018, he has built it into an ~180-person, $26.6M-revenue enterprise serving Fortune 500 companies, major banks, telcos, and federal governments across North America and APAC. Zelar was named Google Cloud Activation Partner of the Year - JAPAC 2025 and Google Cloud Partner All-Star in Artificial Intelligence 2024 under his leadership. Maganti co-organizes Silicon Valley's cloud-native meetup community and is a vocal advocate for Kubernetes multi-tenancy, GitOps, zero-trust security, and FinOps practices.