Rhino.ai is a Washington, D.C.-based enterprise AI platform that reconstructs the hidden business logic buried inside legacy code, ERP systems, SaaS tools, workflows, and integrations. Using agentic AI paired with human expertise, it discovers and maps business rules, organizes them into a governed, version-controlled logic graph built on its proprietary Universal Application Notation (UAN), and uses that single source of truth to accelerate modernization and application development. Founded in 2023 by Adam Branch, the company raised a $50M Series A in January 2025 led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with KPMG as a strategic minority investor.
Ashraf Karim is Senior Vice President of Connected Customer Experiences & Technology at ServiceNow, where he leads the charge on transforming how enterprises engage customers through AI-powered digital workflows. With over two decades spanning engineering, product management, and executive leadership at Google, PayPal, Affirm, and Cisco, Karim bridges the gap between deep technical fluency and strategic business thinking. He is known for championing simplicity-first design, advocating that reducing cognitive load at every customer touchpoint is the defining discipline of great product leadership.
Creatio is a Boston-based enterprise software company that builds an AI-native, no-code CRM and workflow automation platform. Founded in 2002 (originally as bpm'online) and rebranded in 2019, Creatio achieved unicorn status in 2024 with a $1.2 billion valuation after raising $200 million in Series B funding. The platform serves 7,000+ customers across 100 countries in 23 languages, enabling organizations to automate business workflows and manage customer relationships without writing code. With 45% year-over-year growth in 2024, Creatio competes against Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics by offering faster implementation, composable pricing, and deeply integrated agentic AI capabilities across its Sales, Marketing, and Service modules.
Diya Mathew is a Senior Manager for Customer Engagement Strategy in the Office of the President & COO at ServiceNow, the enterprise cloud platform company valued at over $100 billion. A graduate of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and NIT Tiruchirappalli, she brings a rare blend of technical depth and strategic acumen forged across Cisco, Deloitte Consulting, Meta, and now ServiceNow. Based in San Francisco, she works at the intersection of executive strategy, customer engagement, and enterprise operations.
Douglas Pearce is Corporate Vice President of Product Management for M365 Copilot Growth at Microsoft, where he leads the strategy to bring AI-powered productivity tools to hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Based in the Seattle area, he has spent over two decades at Microsoft, previously heading product management for Office Growth and Fundamentals before pivoting to spearhead the company's flagship AI copilot initiative across Microsoft 365.
Erin Russell Wieland is a Program & Communications Lead at Microsoft, serving in the Office of the EVP & CRO for Global Enterprise Sales in Seattle. With over a decade at the intersection of consulting and technology, she built her career from Bridge Partners Consulting - where she rose from Consultant to Manager over seven years - to Microsoft, where she has led readiness, communications, and social strategy for some of the company's largest commercial partner and sales organizations. Her work on the first-ever digital Microsoft Inspire conference earned her a Delivering Success Award, and she has also received the Microsoft Gold Club Award for extraordinary individual performance. She operates at the nerve center of Microsoft's enterprise revenue engine, translating complex organizational priorities into programs and communications that land across thousands of field sellers and partners worldwide.
Jonathan Manalo is VP of Growth at Microsoft, operating from Central Luzon, Philippines. In this role he drives commercial expansion across one of the world's most influential technology companies - a company whose annual revenue exceeds $281 billion and whose technologies power enterprises from startups to sovereign governments. Based in the Philippines, Manalo sits at the intersection of Microsoft's deep enterprise portfolio - Azure, Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Dynamics 365 - and the rapidly digitizing Southeast Asian market.
Kees Hertogh is Vice President of Public Sector & Healthcare Marketing at Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington. A Netherlands-born executive who joined Microsoft via the 2002 Navision acquisition, he has spent over two decades at the company rising from product management on Microsoft Dynamics AX through to VP-level leadership over the global marketing strategy for Microsoft's healthcare, life sciences, education, and government verticals. He is the primary public face of Microsoft Dragon Copilot - the AI clinical workflow assistant reaching 100,000+ clinicians - and a prolific industry blogger and conference speaker on responsible AI in healthcare.
Keigo Okumura is Vice President of Marketing at ServiceNow Japan, bringing over two decades of marketing leadership across enterprise technology giants including Oracle, Adobe, Dell Technologies, and Citrix. Based in Japan, he oversees marketing strategy for ServiceNow's Japan region, helping drive the AI-powered workflow platform's expansion in one of the world's most demanding enterprise markets. His career arc - from systems engineer at Hitachi Solutions to VP at a $13B+ cloud company - reflects a rare blend of technical grounding and strategic marketing acumen.
Mala Anand is Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer at Microsoft, leading the Customer Experience & Success division. A 25-year technology veteran who immigrated from Mumbai at 17 on a Rotary Youth Exchange Scholarship, she has shaped enterprise software at Cisco, SAP, and Microsoft, driving AI-powered transformations that measurably improve how customers get support. She is also executive sponsor of Women at Microsoft and an independent board director at Agilent Technologies.
Matt Lombardi is the Global Vice President of Customer Experience at ServiceNow, where he leads the company's CX strategy for one of enterprise software's fastest-growing platforms. With over 17 years in business management and 9+ years specializing in customer experience, he has built and scaled CX programs across Fortune 500 companies including ADP and SAP Concur. In 2025, he was named to the Forbes World's Most Influential CMOs list, recognized for his work connecting customer satisfaction metrics directly to retention and revenue growth.
Nicholas Kontopoulos is the Vice President of Marketing for Asia Pacific & Japan at Twilio, the cloud communications platform. Based in Singapore, he brings over 30 years of marketing and business leadership experience across APAC, with prior senior roles at Adobe (DX), SAP, Magento, and Capita. A recognized thought leader in customer experience and AI-driven marketing, he is a frequent speaker, published author, and LinkedIn Power Profile holder known for challenging marketing orthodoxy across the region.
Peter Russo is VP of Core Business Workflows, Product & Solution Marketing at ServiceNow, where he leads go-to-market strategy for the platform's finance, supply chain, and creator workflow product lines. A seasoned technology marketing executive with roots in SAP and Oracle, he has spent his career helping enterprise software companies articulate the value of complex platforms to buyers who care about outcomes, not features. Based in Austin, TX, he is known in the industry for championing the 'beyond ERP' narrative and for helping ServiceNow stake its claim in the mid-market with the 2025 Core Business Suite launch.
Rahul Sharma is Vice President of Marketing at Microsoft, based in New Delhi, India. He leads marketing strategy and execution for one of the world's most valuable technology companies in one of its fastest-growing markets. Operating at the intersection of enterprise software, AI, and cloud computing, Sharma drives Microsoft's brand and commercial marketing efforts across India - a country Microsoft has identified as central to its global AI and cloud expansion strategy.
Ranga Mohan is a technology executive with roughly two decades of experience building digital platforms at the intersection of engineering and go-to-market strategy. Currently VP of Digital Technology (GTM-Marketing) at ServiceNow, he joined the Santa Clara-based enterprise cloud leader in 2025 after five years as VP of Digital Technology & International at 7-Eleven, where he led the construction of a global convenience tech platform. Earlier stints at Capital One - where he helped create the industry's first online-only mortgage pre-approval experience - and Bank of America shaped his deep fluency in scaling digital customer experiences inside large, complex organizations.
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.
Samantha Mah is VP of Strategic Partnerships and Growth at ServiceNow, the $13B+ enterprise cloud platform company headquartered in Santa Clara. Based in Toronto, she leads the charge on unlocking organizational potential by eliminating manual, repetitive work through intelligent digital workflows. With a Six Sigma Master Black Belt background and a career that spans Xerox and ServiceNow, she brings process-excellence discipline to the art of enterprise partnerships. She also serves in the Office of the CDIO as Senior Director, Customer Advocate - bridging the gap between technology capability and human impact.
Stacy Martinet is Adobe's Chief Communications Officer and VP of Marketing Strategy & Communications, overseeing a 200+ person team that handles all stakeholder communications, marketing strategy, events, social media, and corporate social responsibility. A former CMO of Mashable and decade-long veteran of The New York Times digital transition, she bridges the worlds of journalism, media strategy, and enterprise technology with a distinctive voice on AI fluency, creative leadership, and modern brand building.
Alain Samaha is President & CEO of Teletrac Navman and President of Alternative Energy & Sustainable Fleets at Vontier, bringing over 20 years of technology leadership to the intersection of IoT, AI, and fleet management. A Stanford-trained aeronautical engineer turned enterprise software executive, he previously held senior roles at Trimble including President of the Utilities and Public Administration group. At Teletrac Navman - a global telematics SaaS leader with ~850 employees and $245M in annual revenue - Samaha is steering the company's push into AI-powered fleet safety, multi-energy transition, and a 'single pane of glass' platform vision for fleet operators worldwide.
Alec Miloslavsky is the Founder and CEO of EIS Ltd (EIS Group), a San Francisco-based cloud-native digital insurance platform serving major insurers including Aflac, Allstate, Liberty Mutual, and Nationwide. Born in Ukraine and relocating to the US at age 17, he co-founded Genesys Telecommunications in 1990 - a contact center technology company he helped grow to a $1.9 billion acquisition by Alcatel-Lucent. He then co-founded Exigen Services, growing it past $70M in revenue, before pivoting to insurance tech by founding EIS Group in 2008. Under his leadership, EIS has raised over $224M in funding and built a modular, API-first core platform used across five insurance segments globally.
Alfonso Villanueva is the EVP, Chief Transformation Officer and Interim CEO of Verizon Consumer Group - the largest consumer wireless carrier in the United States. A former McKinsey Senior Partner and PayPal EVP, he joined Verizon in November 2025 at the invitation of new CEO Dan Schulman, his former PayPal colleague, to lead a sweeping $5B+ operational transformation. With roots in strategy consulting across Asia-Pacific and two decades of experience in telecom, media, and technology, Villanueva brings a rare blend of corporate venture expertise, AI-driven data strategy, and global transformation leadership to one of America's biggest companies.
Arun Kumar Ramchandran - known as 'Rak' - is the Chief Executive Officer of QBurst, a global product development and consulting firm backed by Multiples Private Equity. Appointed in April 2025 following a $200M investment, Rak brings 25 years of leadership experience spanning Infosys, Virtusa, Capgemini, and Hexaware Technologies. An IIT Bombay and IIM Calcutta alumnus based in Palo Alto, he is driving QBurst's transformation into an AI-first engineering services company with his 'High AI-Q' framework - embedding generative and agentic AI into every layer of software delivery.
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.
Atom is a San Francisco-based enterprise transformation company that helps mid-size and Fortune 500 organizations move to the cloud and modernize on platforms like Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, SAP and ServiceNow. Founded in 2020 by Zain Aziz, it pitches an asset-based 'Living Services' model with packaged accelerators (Atom CORE) that compress traditional multi-year transformations into 3-6 month rollouts.
Tania Brown is an ACCA-qualified executive and entrepreneur who serves as Area Vice President of APAC Strategic Customer Engagements (Elevate) at ServiceNow, the $13B+ enterprise cloud platform company. A digital and accounting leader with roots in venture capital, tech startups, and real estate, she has built a career spanning Brisbane, London, Melbourne, Singapore, and Sydney. Alongside her corporate career, she co-founded Jacq Leigh, a women's leather laptop bag brand launched in 2019 after noticing a gap in the market for functional, stylish bags designed for corporate women.
Toby Bowers is Vice President of Commercial Cloud & AI Marketing at Microsoft, based in the Seattle area. With over 20 years at the company, he leads market strategy across Microsoft's Cloud and AI product portfolios, including business and technical audience marketing, global events, and partner ecosystem engagement. He is the architect of Microsoft's 'Frontier Firms' initiative - a framework identifying and showcasing organizations reimagining their operations through AI - and was a driving force behind the ISV Connect program that grew to 700+ independent software vendors. A prolific blogger on the Microsoft Cloud Blog, Dynamics 365 Blog, and Power Platform Blog, Bowers is one of Microsoft's most visible voices on AI-driven enterprise transformation.
JIFFY.ai is an enterprise AI platform purpose-built for financial services — combining no-code app development, intelligent document processing, RPA, and generative AI into a unified HyperApp architecture. Founded in 2018 by Babu Sivadasan (formerly of Envestnet and Stamps.com) and a team of co-founders, the company targets wealth managers, banks, broker-dealers, and RIAs looking to automate client onboarding, account servicing, advisor workflows, and compliance operations without writing a line of code. With $105M+ in total funding and marquee customers reducing onboarding costs by 30% and advisor service time by 50%, JIFFY.ai sits at the intersection of AI hype and real financial-services plumbing.
Knowde is a B2B digital marketplace and AI-powered master data platform for the chemicals, polymers and ingredients industry. It helps chemical suppliers and distributors digitize fragmented product data, launch storefronts, and reach the researchers, formulators, and procurement buyers who need their materials.
Afshan Azhar is the Chief Executive Officer of Mural, a leading visual collaboration platform headquartered in San Francisco, California, with over 900 employees and $193 million in total funding. Based in Islamabad, Pakistan, Azhar leads a company that has become a cornerstone of enterprise collaboration - enabling remote and hybrid teams to brainstorm, map customer journeys, run design sprints, and facilitate workshops through an AI-powered digital canvas. Mural serves thousands of enterprises globally, integrating deeply with Microsoft 365, Slack, and other productivity ecosystems.
Ahmed Abdulrahin is a C-suite executive associated with Automation Anywhere, the San Jose-based agentic automation platform that has raised over $1 billion in funding. Operating within the global RPA and AI-driven automation ecosystem, he sits at the intersection of enterprise technology and African market development, with ties to Nigeria's fast-growing technology sector.