Emily Brittain is a Senior Communications Manager at Microsoft, working within the Office of the Americas Markets & Industries President. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, she crafts the stories that shape how Microsoft's largest regional business - spanning Canada, the United States, and Latin America - communicates its vision internally and externally. A Northwestern University-trained journalist with over 11 years at Microsoft, she brought a multimedia storyteller's instincts to one of the world's most consequential technology companies, producing town halls, executive narratives, and brand messaging at scale.
Julie Poutre is Vice President of Americas Field Marketing at Twilio, the cloud communications platform behind a significant portion of the world's digital interactions. Based in San Francisco, she leads the regional field marketing operation that drives pipeline and revenue across the Americas. Over nearly a decade at Twilio, she has risen from Senior Manager through Director and Senior Director roles to her current VP position, building one of the most sophisticated field marketing engines in enterprise SaaS. Before Twilio, she spent nearly a decade at Infoblox — moving from global events coordinator to Sr. Channel Programs Manager — where she honed the craft of building partner programs and generating qualified sales leads at scale.
Paul McCabe is the CEO of JetBrains Americas, Inc., the North American subsidiary of JetBrains - the Czech developer tools company behind IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, Kotlin, and dozens of other IDEs and tools trusted by over 11 million developers worldwide. With a career spanning Logitech, Symantec, Miro Computer Products, and WebGain, McCabe brings over three decades of enterprise software sales and operations experience to one of the most influential developer tooling companies on the planet. He also co-founded Chronon Systems, a Java time-travel debugging startup, and has been steering JetBrains' Americas business since November 2015.