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.
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.
Sanjay Poonen is the CEO and President of Cohesity, the data security and management company that absorbed Veritas' enterprise backup business in late 2024 to become the largest data protection vendor in the world. A Dartmouth-Stanford-Harvard alumnus who arrived in Boston at 18 with fifty dollars, he previously helped double revenues at both SAP (from ~$10B to ~$20B) and VMware (from ~$6B to ~$12B), where as COO he architected the landmark VMware-AWS partnership and the AirWatch acquisition.
Alert Enterprise is a Fremont, California-based software company that converges cyber security, physical security and identity management on a single SaaS platform. Its Guardian suite — now extended with AI agents on ServiceNow — automates who gets through which door, server, and substation across airports, utilities, banks, hospitals and Fortune 500 workplaces.
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.
Gadi Shamia is the CEO and co-founder of Replicant, a voice AI platform that automates customer service calls at enterprise scale. A serial entrepreneur who sold his first company (TopManage) to SAP, helped EchoSign sell to Adobe for $400M, and scaled Talkdesk from seed to unicorn as COO, he brings two decades of building and scaling B2B software companies to the challenge of replacing traditional IVR systems with natural-sounding, AI-driven conversations. Under his leadership, Replicant has automated over 1 billion minutes of customer interactions and raised $113M in funding.
Jasvir Gill is the Founder and CEO of AlertEnterprise, a Fremont-based enterprise SaaS platform that converges physical security, cybersecurity, and identity governance through AI. A serial entrepreneur who immigrated from Punjab in 1985, Gill previously founded Virsa Systems — a pioneer in governance, risk, and compliance software — which was acquired by SAP in 2006. He then built the SAP GRC business unit before leaving to found AlertEnterprise in 2007. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, the company has become an industry leader in cyber-physical security convergence, deploying AI-powered access control and identity management for critical infrastructure, utilities, and enterprise clients worldwide.
Zain Aziz is the Founder and CEO of Atom, a San Francisco-based enterprise cloud and digital transformation company. A former Marine and Harvard alumnus, he built Atom in 2020 to tackle the gap between how people live and how enterprises work - delivering cloud transformations across HR, Finance, Sales, and Supply Chain in 26 weeks or less. Atom has raised $15.8M in total funding, including a $6.8M Series A in October 2022, and serves clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies across 6 continents with ~220 employees.
Bill McDermott is the Chairman and CEO of ServiceNow, the enterprise cloud platform company serving nearly 90% of the Fortune 500. After 17 years at Xerox and 17 more at SAP - where he grew market cap from $39 billion to over $156 billion as its first American-born CEO - he joined ServiceNow in 2019 and has since tripled revenues, crossing $10 billion without a single acquisition of revenue or round of layoffs. A self-made entrepreneur who bought a deli at 16, he distills his philosophy into one word: trust.
Deepak Nagpal is the CEO of Audax Labs, a Bothell, Washington-based technology innovation company he has led since 2016. With a career spanning over two decades across NTT DATA, Capital One, and Interra Information Technologies, and an MBA from Oxford's Said Business School, he has built Audax Labs into a multi-practice consultancy operating across AR/VR/MR, AI, IoT, cloud migration, and data analytics - serving industries from automotive and healthcare to BFSI and government, with partnerships spanning Microsoft, Google, Amazon AWS, Hitachi Vantara, Oracle, and Rocket Software.
Jigish Shah is the Executive Chairman of ArchLynk, a global digital supply chain consulting firm headquartered in San Jose, California. He co-founded Krypt in 2008 and built it into an eminent player in the SAP Supply Chain ecosystem over 14 years before orchestrating its 2022 merger with Novigo to create ArchLynk - backed by BV Investment Partners. Under his leadership as CEO, ArchLynk further acquired WCS Consulting in 2023 and grew to approximately 350 employees with $35M in annual revenue, establishing itself as an SAP Gold Partner serving enterprises across 4 continents with expertise in SAP Transportation Management, Integrated Business Planning, Global Trade Services, and AI/ML-driven supply chain solutions.
Adaire Fox-Martin is CEO and President of Equinix, the world's largest data-center company. A Trinity College Dublin graduate who once taught school in Ireland, she spent 18 years at Oracle, 14 at SAP, and three at Google Cloud before taking the top job at Equinix in 2024. She runs 280 data centers across 77 markets and calls the internet 'the fourth utility'.
Akhil Khera is the CEO and President of Tranzeal Incorporated, a San Jose-based global business transformation and IT services firm. He has led Tranzeal since 2011 and also serves as CEO and Chairman of Khera Ventures, Inc.
Shivkumar Thiagarajan, known as Shiv, is Co-Chief Executive Officer of DynPro Inc., a global IT consulting powerhouse he helped build over more than two decades. Based in Santa Clara, California, Shiv leads an organization of 1,600+ professionals spanning North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, delivering enterprise transformations across SAP, Salesforce, cloud, data, and AI platforms. With 30 years of institutional momentum behind DynPro and a newly minted partnership with Turgon AI that compresses year-long modernization projects into weeks, Shiv is steering one of the IT industry's most enduring firms into its AI-native chapter.
Vaughn Paladin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Arcsona, a Salesforce consulting and IT services firm headquartered in Campbell, California. He co-founded Arcsona in 2010 alongside Stephan Thomsen, drawing on 15 years of consulting experience at Ernst & Young and as CEO of FocusFrame. Under his leadership, Arcsona has grown to 83 employees across three continents, completed over 200 Salesforce implementations, and shipped Spark - a no-code tool for Salesforce Experience Cloud - on the AppExchange.
Venkat Bhat is the CEO and founder of VentureSoft Global, an $80 million IT services and consulting firm headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Founded in 1996, VentureSoft has grown to serve over 300 clients - from startups to Fortune 500 companies including Tesla, Nike, Intuit, and Citigroup - across data & AI, cybersecurity, cloud, ERP/CRM, and managed services. With offices in North America, Dubai, and Bengaluru, Bhat has built a global delivery model that blends deep technical expertise with business transformation, and is now steering the company into the era of generative AI and enterprise AI platforms.
Diane Greene co-founded VMware and built it into the company that pioneered x86 virtualization, leading it through the largest tech IPO of 2007. After being ousted from VMware in 2008, she co-founded Bebop, sold it to Google for ~$380 million, and became CEO of Google Cloud - growing it from $2.1B to $8B in annual revenue. A naval architect and competitive sailor before turning to software, she is the first woman to chair the MIT Corporation and sits on the boards of Stripe, SAP, Intuit, and Maersk.
Umair Azam is the Founder and CEO of Integration Xperts, Pakistan's leading cloud implementation and enterprise software firm with 180+ employees and offices across Pakistan, UAE, Malaysia, Australia, and the USA. As Pakistan's first Salesforce Value-Added Reseller and one of the largest Oracle and SAP Gold partners in the country, he built the company from scratch in 2016 after a career spanning Oracle, Avaya, and Inbox Business Technologies. He secured a seven-figure USD investment from the Atlas Group in 2020 and has set his sights on an IPO on the Pakistan Stock Exchange by 2027.