Astute Business Solutions has built a business around an unfashionable but valuable idea: the old ERP may not need replacing. Its next act is to make those deeply embedded systems useful in the AI era.
Infovity is a San Mateo, California consulting firm that is 100% focused on Oracle Cloud applications. Founded in 2008 by former Oracle product leaders, the firm designs, implements, integrates, and manages Oracle ERP, HCM, SCM, EPM, and CX cloud systems for companies in high tech, life sciences, energy, banking, and manufacturing. It has completed 500+ implementations and reports that roughly 90% of its business comes from referrals and repeat clients.
Megaport is an Australian network-as-a-service company that lets enterprises spin up private, high-speed connections between data centers and the major public clouds in minutes rather than months. Through a software-defined network spanning more than 1,100 enabled data centers across some 30 countries, Megaport replaces the fixed contracts and manual provisioning of traditional telecom with on-demand, elastic bandwidth billed by the hour. Its platform - centered on Virtual Cross Connects, the Megaport Cloud Router and Megaport Virtual Edge - connects over 4,000 customers to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle and hundreds of other providers. Listed on the ASX as MP1, the company is now extending from connectivity into compute as it builds toward a globally distributed AI inference cloud.
RackWare builds enterprise-grade software that moves and protects workloads across any cloud, virtual, or physical environment. Its flagship RackWare Management Module (RMM) automates migration, disaster recovery, and backup so organizations can shift to the cloud, recover from outages, and avoid vendor lock-in - all from one policy-driven, agentless platform. Founded in 2009 and based in San Jose, California, RackWare has migrated over a million workloads and protects hundreds of thousands more for customers ranging from Fortune 50 enterprises to SMBs across 60+ countries.
Smart ERP Solutions is a Pleasanton, California enterprise-software and consulting firm founded in 2005 by Oracle and PeopleSoft veterans. It builds configurable add-on solutions and delivers implementation, upgrade, managed-services, and cloud-migration work across Oracle Cloud, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and E-Business Suite. Its flagship product, Smart Onboarding, automates pre-boarding, onboarding, and off-boarding with integrated Form I-9 and E-Verify. Serving 300+ clients across higher education, healthcare, finance, government, and manufacturing, the company was acquired by Mythics, LLC in April 2025 to expand global Oracle Cloud capability.
Bryan Gobbett is the Chief Executive Officer of RackWare, a San Jose-based multi-cloud mobility and resiliency platform that has migrated over one million workloads across 60+ countries. With nearly two decades of engineering leadership at companies including Cisco, Ericsson, Dell, and Gigamon, Gobbett brings deep technical credibility to a company quietly becoming essential infrastructure for enterprises navigating hybrid and multi-cloud complexity. Under his leadership, RackWare grew revenue 74.5% to $10.5M ARR in 2024 and secured preferred license partnerships with Oracle, IBM, and Google Cloud.
Vikash Kothari is the Founder and CEO of Infovity, Inc., a San Mateo-based Oracle Cloud consulting firm he built from scratch in 2008 into a 380-person, $85M-revenue enterprise serving clients across manufacturing, pharma, financial services, and more. A former Oracle engineer turned entrepreneur, he leads one of the most Oracle-obsessed consulting shops in North America - a company where nearly 70% of employees are former Oracle insiders, and where roughly 90% of new business comes from referrals. He is also a General Partner at BAT VC, a venture fund focused on fintech, healthtech, and web3 with a dual US-India investment thesis.

Vina D'Souza is the Chief Executive Officer and President of WalkWater Technologies, a San Jose-based IT services and cloud solutions firm she leads with over two decades of experience in technology recruiting and enterprise services. Under her leadership, WalkWater has grown into an Oracle Gold Partner with 58 employees, specializing in Oracle Fusion Cloud, ServiceNow, ERP systems, cloud migration, and IT staff augmentation for clients across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and the non-profit sector.