Astronomer is a New York-based data infrastructure company and the commercial force behind Apache Airflow, the open-source standard for data orchestration. Its flagship product, Astro, is a fully managed, cloud-native platform that lets data teams build, run, and observe data pipelines at scale, and its Astro Observe layer extends that into data operations and observability. Astronomer employs a large share of Airflow's core committers, serves 700+ enterprise customers, and raised a $93M Series D in May 2025 to power orchestration for enterprise AI workloads.
CoverGo is a global enterprise insurtech that gives insurers, MGAs, and brokers a no-code, API-first platform to build, distribute, administer, and process insurance products across life, health, and P&C lines. Founded in Hong Kong in 2017 by Tomas Holub, it runs on 500+ open insurance APIs and a patented drag-and-drop product builder, letting carriers launch new products in hours rather than months and modernize legacy core systems without ripping them out. Customers include AXA, Bupa, MSIG, Dai-ichi Life, and Bank of China Group Insurance, served from offices across Silicon Valley, New York, Dubai, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
NICE Actimize is the financial-crime, risk and compliance division of NICE Ltd. and one of the largest providers of anti-money laundering, fraud prevention and trading-surveillance software to banks, regulators and financial institutions worldwide. Its AI-driven X-Sight platform, ActOne case management and SURVEIL-X surveillance suite help more than a thousand institutions detect suspicious activity, screen against sanctions lists, manage regulatory reporting and investigate financial crime - increasingly using agentic AI to cut investigation time.
Quantiphi is an AI-first digital engineering company founded in 2013 that helps enterprises turn data and machine learning into business outcomes. Working across cloud, data engineering and applied AI, it partners closely with Google Cloud, AWS, NVIDIA and others to build solutions for financial services, healthcare, insurance, retail and the public sector. The firm has grown to roughly 3,500+ employees across six continents and is known for its research-driven approach and its own products - Baioniq, Dociphi and Codeaira.

Megan Mackh is Vice President of Commercial Sales at Salesforce, where she leads teams driving customer success across cloud solutions. A Stanford and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business alumna, she spent nearly 15 years at Google - rising through AdWords, inside sales, and ultimately heading Global Telecommunications Partnerships for Google Cloud across 60+ telco partners worldwide. Named to CRN's Women of the Channel in 2020 and 2021, she is known for building high-performing teams and taking bold leaps into leadership from an unusually early age - she managed 18 people at AT&T at 22. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Verato is a healthcare-focused identity data company that helps organizations answer a deceptively hard question: who is who? Founded in 2012 and based in McLean, Virginia, Verato pioneered Referential Matching - a technique that compares fragmented records against a proprietary reference database spanning the U.S. population with up to 30 years of historical demographic data. Its cloud platform, now sold as Verato MDM Cloud, links and cleans patient and member records across hospitals, health systems, payers, life sciences firms, and government agencies, reducing duplicate records, claims denials, and safety risks while enabling a single 360-degree view of each person.

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.
Oracle Corporation is one of the world's largest enterprise technology companies, best known for its flagship relational database and a broad portfolio of cloud applications and infrastructure. Founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates, Oracle sells database software, ERP, HCM and CX applications (Fusion Cloud, NetSuite), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In recent years it has pivoted hard toward AI-scale compute, striking large capacity deals with OpenAI and others and positioning OCI as a preferred cloud for AI training and inference.
Workday is a Pleasanton, California cloud software company that runs the core people and money systems for large organizations. Founded in 2005 by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri after Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, Workday built a single-code-base, subscription-delivered platform for human capital management, financial management, planning, and analytics. It has grown into one of the largest enterprise SaaS vendors, serving thousands of organizations - including a large share of the Fortune 500 - and is now pushing agentic AI deep into HR and finance workflows.
Atlassian is an Australian enterprise software company that builds tools helping teams plan, track, and ship work together. Founded in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, it is best known for Jira and Confluence and now serves as the collaboration backbone for software, IT, and business teams worldwide. The company grew famously without a traditional sales force, relying on a low-friction, self-serve model, and has expanded into cloud, IT service management, and AI through its Rovo agents and Teamwork Collection.
Autodesk is a design and make software company whose tools power the buildings, products, movies, and infrastructure of the physical world. Best known for AutoCAD, the company now spans architecture, engineering and construction (Revit, Civil 3D, Forma), product design and manufacturing (Fusion, Inventor), and media and entertainment (Maya, 3ds Max, Arnold). With roughly $6 billion in fiscal 2025 revenue and a near-fully subscription business, Autodesk's stated mission is to empower everyone, everywhere to design and make anything - increasingly with cloud platforms and AI woven into the workflow.
Dell Technologies is a multinational technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, that designs, sells, and supports personal computers, servers, data storage, networking, and IT services. Founded by Michael Dell in 1984, it pioneered the direct-to-customer, build-to-order sales model and grew into one of the world's largest infrastructure and PC vendors. Following its 2016 merger with EMC, Dell now spans consumer laptops, workstations, and a fast-growing AI-optimized server business serving customers in more than 180 countries.
Cisco Systems is an American multinational technology company and the world's largest maker of networking hardware. Founded in 1984 by two Stanford computer scientists, it builds the routers, switches, silicon, security, and software that route much of the world's internet traffic. Today Cisco is repositioning around AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and observability - anchored by its 2024 acquisition of Splunk - while remaining the default backbone for enterprise, service-provider, and government networks.
Marvell Technology is a Santa Clara-based fabless semiconductor company that designs the chips underpinning modern data infrastructure. Founded in 1995, it has pivoted under CEO Matt Murphy from consumer and mobile silicon into custom AI accelerators (XPUs), electro-optics, high-speed Ethernet switching, DSPs and storage controllers. Its parts move data inside and between the hyperscale data centers run by companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet, making it one of the key merchant and custom silicon suppliers powering the AI buildout.
Mirketa Inc is a California-based IT services and consulting firm founded in 2003 that helps organizations run their business on cloud platforms - primarily Salesforce, along with NetSuite, ServiceNow and Oracle. Led by founder and CEO Rajeev Kumar, Mirketa pairs a US head office in Dublin, California with a global delivery center in Noida, India, and specializes in nonprofit, healthcare, education, manufacturing and financial-services customers. Beyond implementation and support services, the company builds its own Salesforce-native products - including Elixir EHR, Finacast, Round Robin Distributor, eCourier and Duplicate Search & Merge - and has layered AI and Agentforce work on top of a Salesforce Crest (Gold) consulting and ISV partnership.
CircleCI is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that automates the build, test, and deployment of software. Founded in San Francisco in 2011, it runs tens of millions of workflows for engineering teams who want faster, more reliable pipelines without maintaining their own build infrastructure. It does not host code or track tickets - it focuses on being a fast, dependable runner of builds and, increasingly, on validating AI-generated code at scale.

Romaric Philogène is the CEO and co-founder of Qovery, a platform-engineering company that turns cloud infrastructure into a self-service experience for developers. A former site reliability engineer with a decade in ad-tech and financial systems, he started Qovery in 2019 with Pierre Mavro and Morgan Perry and, in September 2025, raised a $13M Series A led by IRIS and Crane Venture Partners, with angel checks from Datadog's Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc.
Russell Feldman is the co-founder and CEO of IMTC, a New York-based fintech building cloud-based portfolio management software for fixed income teams. He took the CEO seat in May 2022 when IMTC raised its first outside capital led by Nyca Partners, and has grown the company from serving small RIAs to top-tier asset managers. Before IMTC he worked in institutional sales and client advisory at Deutsche Asset Management, an experience he says was his real education in how broken fixed income tooling was.
Steve Corndell is the CEO of env0, a Boston-based infrastructure-as-code management platform. A career sales leader, he spent roughly a decade at Turbonomic climbing from Senior Channel Manager to Chief Revenue Officer, helping steer the company to a $2 billion acquisition by IBM in 2021. He joined env0 as COO in January 2024 and was unanimously promoted to CEO by the board in May 2025, taking the top job from co-founder Ohad Maislish and assembling a new enterprise-focused leadership team.

On May 6, 2026, at its Knowledge 2026 conference in Las Vegas, ServiceNow announced that its transactions through AWS Marketplace had surpassed $1 billion, a milestone the company framed as proof that enterprises have moved from experimenting with AI to operationalizing it at scale. Alongside the number, ServiceNow and AWS unveiled a platform expansion that pairs the ServiceNow AI Control Tower with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to give mutual customers a single governance architecture for deploying, auditing, and scaling AI agents across security, IT operations, and telecommunications workflows.

Gavin King is VP of Portfolio Marketing at ServiceNow, where he connects the platform's sprawling product launches, AI vision, and strategic narrative into one coherent story. After 25 years at Microsoft - including a stint as Chief of Staff to CEO Satya Nadella - he brings a rare combination of brand-scaling experience, executive proximity, and B2B marketing depth to one of enterprise tech's most ambitious growth stories.
FriendliAI is a San Francisco-based AI inference cloud built by the researchers who invented continuous batching - the technique now standard across the industry. Its platform serves open-weight and custom generative AI models in production with high throughput, lower GPU costs, and 99.99% reliability, used by customers including LG and Twelve Labs.
Gluon Solutions is a Livermore, California software company building IoT and cloud platforms that quietly run the unglamorous back office of fuel stations, convenience stores, and auto-parts sellers. Its three product lines - Petromo (c-store and fuel-station management), Gluon Auto (vehicle and fleet monitoring), and EZ Lister (auto parts catalog and marketplace listing) - stitch together pumps, tanks, point-of-sale terminals, vehicles, and e-commerce inventories into a single connected system.

Eric Bensley is VP of Product Marketing - CRM at ServiceNow, bringing over 25 years of experience in CRM solutions and enterprise software marketing. A self-described 'recovering perfectionist' and introvert who built product marketing functions at Citrix, Salesforce, and Asana before joining ServiceNow, he is known for translating complex enterprise platforms into crisp, sticky messaging - and for believing that great leaders grow people, not just products.
Neurealm is an AI-first technology services company - formerly GS Lab | GAVS - that helps 250+ global enterprises engineer, modernize, and run their technology stacks across Healthcare, BFSI, High-Tech, and Semiconductor. Backed by private equity firm Kedaara Capital and led by CEO Harmeet Chauhan, it blends human ingenuity with its NeuGAIN AI platform to deliver digital product engineering, data and AI, cybersecurity, and technology operations from delivery centers in India and the US.
Techling (Private) Limited is an AI-first software development and IT consulting firm that designs full-cycle, production-grade software for businesses across healthcare, mobility, fintech, retail and SaaS. Founded in 2020 and led by CEO Muhammad Akif Malhi, the company pairs a US footprint in Austin, Texas with engineering teams in Pakistan, shipping generative AI, agentic AI frameworks, machine learning, and custom web and mobile applications. Its stated mission is to empower 100 businesses over five years with technology that improves efficiency, innovation, and competitive edge.
Tranzeal Incorporated is a San Jose, California-based global business transformation and IT consulting firm. An SAP Certified Services Partner, it pairs domain knowledge with technical competency across enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, supply chain, CRM, cloud, data analytics, testing, and staffing - delivering full-lifecycle technology solutions to clients across high-tech, retail, banking, healthcare, logistics, energy, and aerospace.

Ross Kennedy is the Global Vice President of AI Startups & Emerging Growth at Microsoft, based in New York. With two decades of experience scaling technology organizations from startup to hyperscale, he leads Microsoft's efforts to help AI startups innovate, grow, and become market makers. Before Microsoft, he was a key force behind Google Cloud's expansion from $5.8B to over $30B in revenue, leading the global Strategic Deal Pursuit division for four years. Earlier, he scaled Liferay's international operations from 200 to 900 employees across 30+ countries. His guiding philosophy: culture beats strategy.

Naren Kini is the CEO and co-founder of Global Touchpoints Inc., a California-based IT services and consulting firm he built organically over 20+ years to 150+ employees and $15M+ in annual revenue — entirely without outside capital. Starting from a background in industrial engineering and early stints at Hinditron and Syntel, Kini built Touchpoints into a trusted partner for Fortune 500 companies like Meta, Intuit, and Fiserv, as well as California state government agencies, specializing in Salesforce, AWS, data analytics, AI consulting, and managed services.
Vadim Vladimirskiy is the co-founder and CEO of Nerdio, a Chicago software company that automates and cuts the cost of running Microsoft cloud desktops for thousands of organizations across more than 50 countries. He emigrated from Ukraine at 13, started his first IT consultancy in high school, and spent fifteen years running an MSP before turning his internal tooling into a product. In March 2025 Nerdio raised a $500 million Series C from General Atlantic at a valuation above $1 billion, and the company crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue by mid-2025.