Tom Molden is CIO of Global Executive Engagement at NinjaOne, a role that puts a 30-year IT practitioner in the room with the buyers he used to be. He learned automation in the car rental business, spent 14 years moving through the semiconductor industry across the US and Europe, then ran planning for a multi-billion-dollar IT transformation at General Motors before becoming Chief of Staff to GM's global CISO. Fluent in English and German, he trades in the language of boards: revenue, margin, and risk.

Gregor Hohpe is a transformation architect, prolific author, and sought-after speaker who has spent decades helping organizations bridge the gap between boardroom strategy and engine-room engineering. Co-author of the canonical 'Enterprise Integration Patterns' (2003), he coined the concept of the 'Architect Elevator' - the idea that great architects must fluently move between executive suites and server racks. A former Google Cloud Technical Director, Singapore Smart Nation Fellow, and Chief Architect at Allianz SE, Hohpe now runs the Architect Elevator platform, writing, teaching, and consulting on IT strategy, cloud, and the art of making everyone else in the room smarter.