Julie Iskow is the President and CEO of Workiva, the cloud platform behind a lot of the world's regulatory, ESG, and financial reporting. A Bay Area engineer who spent her first decade in robotics and automation, she scaled SaaS companies through IPOs and acquisitions before taking over from Workiva's founder in April 2023.
Rowan Trollope is the CEO of Redis, the ubiquitous in-memory data platform powering real-time applications worldwide. A self-taught programmer who started coding on a Commodore 64 at age 11, he brings over 30 years of technology leadership across consumer products, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and collaboration software. Before Redis, he quadrupled revenue at Five9 and spent years at Cisco reinventing its collaboration business. At Redis, he has repositioned the company from a beloved developer caching tool into a critical AI infrastructure layer, launching semantic caching (LangCache), acquiring real-time data platform Decodable, and steering a controversial but successful licensing pivot that he says has produced record growth.