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.
Gilad Shainer is Senior Vice President of Networking at NVIDIA, where he leads the strategy, marketing, and ecosystem development for the company's networking portfolio — including InfiniBand, Ethernet, DPUs, and interconnect technologies that power more than half the world's top 500 supercomputers. A Technion-trained electrical engineer who graduated Cum Laude at both B.Sc. and M.Sc. levels, Shainer spent nearly two decades at Mellanox Technologies before joining NVIDIA via the $6.9 billion acquisition in 2020. He founded the HPC-AI Advisory Council in 2008, which now spans 400+ organizations globally, co-founded the ISC Student Cluster Competition, holds two R&D 100 Awards (2015 and 2019), and has authored or co-authored dozens of papers across IEEE, ACM, and Springer venues. At a moment when AI factories are rewriting the rules of data center design, Shainer is the person making sure the wires — and the protocols running through them — are ready.
Orisa Cherenfant is SVP of Industry Relations & Strategic Growth at Twilio, the cloud communications platform powering billions of messages, calls, and interactions globally. A first-generation college graduate from Cape Verde who earned dual degrees in Finance and Marketing from Boston College, she built her career through GE's leadership development programs before moving into tech. At Twilio, she leads industry partnerships and growth strategy, speaks at major conferences like MWC Barcelona and Twilio Signal, and was named a 2025 Entreprenista 100 Award winner. She is based in Los Angeles with her partner Eli and their twins, Margaux and Maverick.
Kim Parikh is Co-Founder and SVP of Data and Content at Hippocratic AI, a Palo Alto-based company building the first safety-focused large language model for healthcare. With a background spanning leveraged finance at PIMCO and Western Asset Management and strategy operations at Health IQ, Parikh brings a cross-disciplinary lens to one of AI's most consequential bets: putting voice-enabled AI agents into direct, empathetic contact with patients. Hippocratic AI has raised over $438M, most recently a $126M Series C in November 2025, and has completed over 1.8 million patient calls at a 8.95/10 satisfaction rating.
Armita Peymandoust is Senior Vice President of Engineering, AI Cloud at Salesforce, where she leads development of Einstein AI and Agentforce - Salesforce's next-generation autonomous AI agent platform. A Stanford-trained electrical engineer with a PhD, she built her career from Intel chip design through Yahoo's ad algorithms to becoming one of the most influential voices in enterprise AI. A self-described mom, optimist, and immigrant, she champions the idea that AI should be accessible to everyone - not just engineers.
Chris Wheeler is Senior Vice President of Global Ethics & Integrity at Salesforce, where he oversees the company's ethics and compliance programs at a global scale. A trained attorney with roots in the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and private practice at Bingham McCutchen LLP, Wheeler brings a prosecutorial sharpness to corporate ethics work. At Salesforce, he leads third-party anti-corruption programs, partners ethics compliance, and sustainability reporting mandates - helping keep one of the world's most-recognized 'ethical companies' actually earning that title.
Amy Hurlbut is Executive Vice President of Software Engineering at Salesforce, where she leads the Hyperforce initiative - the company's next-generation public cloud infrastructure platform handling tens of billions of transactions daily. A Harvard and Stanford-trained engineer with over 35 years in tech, she spent 23 years at Echelon Corporation before joining Salesforce in 2013, rising steadily from Senior Director to EVP. Recognized by Girl Geek X as one of '60 Engineering Leaders to Watch in 2020,' she is a quiet force behind some of the most consequential infrastructure work in enterprise software.
Kimen Warner is SVP of Product Management for Personalization and Marketing Intelligence at Salesforce, where she leads the AI-powered unification of Marketing Cloud's fragmented ecosystem into a coherent platform. A veteran of nearly two decades in personalization and optimization technology, she rode one product from Offermatica through Omniture to Adobe — spending over a decade building Adobe Target into a leading A/B testing and personalization platform — before joining Drift as VP of Product and then Salesforce. A Stanford-educated product designer and former varsity fencer, she is now one of the most prominent voices shaping how enterprise marketers adopt AI agents and autonomous campaign optimization.
Jason Ding is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce, leading the engineering teams behind Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Revenue Cloud — the backbone of the world's largest CRM platform. A PhD computer scientist turned performance engineering pioneer, he set nine SPEC benchmark world records at Cisco, helped drive UCS to $1 billion in revenue in under three years, and is now steering Salesforce's engineering toward a future of AI agents and billion-transaction-per-day scale. With 14+ years at Salesforce and deep roots in academia and chip-level performance work at Intel, Ding brings a rare combination of theoretical rigor and enterprise execution.
Prasad Raje is a serial founder turned enterprise product executive who built and sold two SaaS startups before rising to C-suite roles at RingCentral, Outreach, and Udemy - and is now SVP Product Management at Salesforce, where he works at the center of the GenAI/Agentforce revolution. With a Ph.D. from Stanford, 9 patents, and a career arc spanning three decades of cloud software, he is one of the rare operators who has been a founder, a CEO, and a CPO before landing at the world's leading CRM company.