Allison Romano is Vice President of Xbox Digital Marketing and Media at Microsoft, based in New York. With over 15 years leading high-impact marketing and product teams across Microsoft, Google, American Express, and CLEAR, she has shaped how some of the world's biggest brands reach digital audiences. At Xbox, she oversees digital marketing and media strategy for one of the most recognized gaming brands on the planet, blending B2B and B2C expertise to drive growth at scale.
Danit Moni is Vice President of Marketing at Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the world's largest and most influential cloud computing platforms. Based in Seattle, Washington, she leads marketing efforts for a platform that powers a significant portion of the internet's infrastructure - from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Operating at the intersection of enterprise technology and brand storytelling, Moni oversees marketing for a cloud portfolio that spans compute, storage, AI/ML, security, and developer tools used by millions worldwide.
Disha Rustogi is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Twilio, where she leads global Product Marketing and Go-To-Market Enablement teams. With 15+ years of marketing leadership at household-name tech companies — Microsoft, Adobe, Atlassian — she has shaped how enterprise software gets positioned, launched, and sold to the world. Now at Twilio, she is at the forefront of the agentic AI communications era, helping define how companies build intelligent customer experiences using Twilio's platform.
Jennifer Hartford is a senior marketing executive at Amazon Web Services, currently serving as VP of Events, Advertising, and Strategic Partnerships. With over a decade at AWS, she has led some of the biggest moments in enterprise tech — including serving as Event Lead for AWS re:Invent 2014 and 2015, and overseeing marquee partnerships such as the AWS-Formula 1 collaboration. Based in Bend, Oregon, she has grown from event marketing manager to one of AWS's top integrated marketing leaders, shaping how the world's largest cloud platform shows up at scale.
Jesse Dougherty is Vice President of Global Networking and Network Edge Services at Amazon Web Services (AWS), based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He leads AWS's global network backbone including CloudFront, Elemental, and Perimeter Protection services, while also serving as the Vancouver site lead overseeing an office of 1,000+ software engineers. With 20+ years in software engineering and leadership, he previously spent nine years at Microsoft as a Group Program Manager for Exchange Server and Office 365, and held technical leadership roles at Sophos, ActiveState Software, and Mindquake Software. A champion of the Vancouver tech ecosystem, he has been instrumental in Amazon's expansion in Western Canada and serves as a mentor in the BC Tech Association's Dragons 1-on-1 Mentorship program.
Leah Bibbo is a seasoned technology marketing executive with 20+ years of experience in strategic communications. She spent eight years at Amazon Web Services (AWS), rising to Vice President of Product Marketing and Strategic Communications, where she was instrumental in landmark initiatives like the AWS DeepRacer autonomous racing league. Known for her philosophy of embracing uncomfortable opportunities, she has since moved to OpenAI as Vice President of Strategic Pursuits, helping drive enterprise scale and global expansion at one of the world's most consequential AI companies.
Selin Song is the President of Google Customer Solutions, leading the global organization that helps millions of small and medium-sized businesses grow using Google's AI-first advertising products. A 20-year Google veteran who started as a temp approving ads, she has lived and worked across four countries - the US, India, Singapore, and Ireland - building a career that spans revenue strategy, operations, and regional leadership across APAC and EMEA before taking the top seat at GCS.
Dara Khosrowshahi is the CEO of Uber, the global ride-hailing and delivery platform he has led since September 2017. An Iranian-American who fled Tehran as a child during the Revolution, he spent 12 years building Expedia into a travel giant before inheriting Uber at its most turbulent moment. Under his leadership, Uber went public in 2019, achieved sustained profitability, and expanded into a multi-service platform operating across 70+ countries with $193+ billion in annual gross bookings. A self-described gamer, sci-fi geek, and cycling enthusiast who once wore a Slayer T-shirt to his wedding, Khosrowshahi has rebuilt Uber's culture around a simple principle: 'We do the right thing. Period.'
Bradford Oberwager is the Executive Chairman of Linden Lab and CEO of Tilia, the fintech arm powering Second Life's virtual economy. A serial entrepreneur who built and sold companies in personalized vitamins, healthy snacks (Bare Snacks, acquired by PepsiCo), and labor technology (Jyve, acquired by Advantage Solutions), Oberwager led the 2020 acquisition of Linden Lab alongside investor Randy Waterfield. Since then he has staked $35 million on securing money transmitter licenses in all U.S. states to enable real-money payouts from Second Life's Linden dollar economy, grown monthly active users to 600,000, and championed a mobile-forward future for the world's original metaverse.
Don Johnson is the CEO of Docker, Inc., the company behind the world's most widely used container platform. Appointed in February 2025, he brings decades of hyperscale cloud infrastructure experience from founding Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and serving as a founding technical leader at Amazon Web Services. A builder at heart who spent years constructing the plumbing of the modern cloud, Johnson now leads Docker's mission to make software development frictionless, secure, and AI-ready for the world's 20 million developers.
Jed Ayres is the CEO of ControlUp, the $1B+ autonomous IT platform that executes over 14 million automated remediations per week across 6 million enterprise endpoints. A 20-year veteran of the end-user computing industry, Ayres has an unusual track record: he's joined companies in transformation, then handed them to acquirers. He turned IGEL from a hardware vendor into a software-first powerhouse that sold to TA Associates, scaled AppSense to an Thoma Bravo acquisition, and helped MCPc grow to $300M+ before it was acquired by Logicalis. At ControlUp since August 2023, he's steering the company's evolution from Digital Employee Experience (DEX) to what he calls a generational shift in IT - self-healing, AI-driven autonomous endpoint management. Off the clock, he completes Ironman triathlons and ultramarathons, which explains a lot about his leadership style.
Mwalimu Karisa is an executive at Kong Inc., the San Francisco-based API connectivity company behind the Kong Gateway and Konnect platform. Originally from Kilifi County on Kenya's coast, Karisa's path ran through an exchange program in Iowa and onto the front lines of global API and AI infrastructure. Kong serves enterprises managing critical API traffic across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments, with over $424 million raised and a $2 billion valuation. Before entering the technology sector, Karisa was publicly recognized for community development work in his home village, raising funds for clean water access and healthcare infrastructure in coastal Kenya.
Sean Moriarty is the CEO of Primer.ai, a San Francisco-based AI company delivering trusted, mission-critical artificial intelligence to defense agencies, intelligence communities, and enterprise clients. A veteran technology executive who began as a QA engineer at Citysearch in 1997 alongside future founders of OpenTable and Peloton, Moriarty went on to run Ticketmaster as its President and CEO, transforming it into a top-5 global internet commerce company with $1.5 billion in annual revenue across 22 countries. After stints as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Mayfield Fund and CEO of Saatchi Art and Leaf Group, he joined Primer in April 2023 to lead its mission of providing AI-enabled information advantage to those who support and defend democracy. The son of a Vietnam veteran and grandson of a WWII veteran, Moriarty brings both personal conviction and hard-won operational expertise to one of the most consequential AI deployments in the world.
Sean D. Murray is the CEO of Productiv, the AI Portfolio Governance platform that gives enterprise IT teams real-time visibility over every SaaS and AI application running in their organization - including the ones nobody approved. A 20-year revenue and sales leadership veteran, Murray spent years building go-to-market engines at CEB (now Gartner), Xactly Corp, SalesLoft, and Greenhouse Software before stepping into the CEO seat at Productiv in April 2024. He now leads a 160-person company backed by IVP, Accel, and Norwest - on a mission to turn shadow AI from an enterprise liability into a managed capability.
Brian Sharp is the CEO of Time Doctor, a workforce analytics platform trusted by over 10,000 organizations globally. A 27-year veteran of building and rebuilding companies, Sharp started his first business at 22 after spinning records as a DJ at 14, and has since navigated every stage of company-building - from bootstrapped startups to $100M+ enterprises. Appointed CEO in February 2026, he champions a philosophy he calls 'Help & Hustle': the belief that high performance and personal happiness are not a tradeoff. He hosts the podcast 'High Performance Happiness' and runs a course called 'Burnout to Balance' for remote leaders.
Bridget Williams is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Squint, a San Francisco-based AI and augmented reality platform transforming how manufacturers digitize operational knowledge. Before joining Squint, she served in the Biden White House as Deputy Director of Presidential Scheduling, and held roles in political organizing and government scheduling. A University of Delaware graduate, she bridges the worlds of government operations and tech startups, bringing the precision of presidential logistics to one of industrial AI's fastest-growing companies.
Hydra Mendoza is the VP and Chief of Strategic Relationships in the Office of the Chair and CEO at Salesforce, where she builds and stewards key stakeholder relationships across government, community, and corporate sectors. A native San Franciscan born to a Filipino military family, she made history as the first and only Filipina ever elected to office in San Francisco - serving three terms on the SF Unified School District Board. Her career spans community organizing, mayoral advising, school board leadership, and overseeing communications for the nation's largest public school system before joining Salesforce, where she co-architected the company's original educational investments alongside Marc Benioff.
Janet Dryer is a seasoned software industry executive with over 30 years of experience building and scaling technology companies. She served as CEO of Perforce Software from January 2016 through mid-2018, relocating headquarters from San Francisco to Minneapolis and growing the company from roughly 220 to 450 employees while doubling revenue to $150M. Previously, as CEO of HelpSystems for 16 years, she grew it from $20M to $110M in annual revenue. She now serves as Chair of the Board at Perforce, which provides version control, DevOps, and software development lifecycle tools to over half of the Fortune 500.
Jerry M. Kennelly co-founded Riverbed Technology in 2002 and spent 16 years building it from a two-person startup into a billion-dollar enterprise serving 30,000 customers across every Forbes Global 100 company. A finance executive turned visionary operator, Kennelly combined rigorous business discipline with Silicon Valley boldness - taking Riverbed public on NASDAQ in 2006, engineering nine acquisitions, and watching its market cap peak near $6 billion in 2011. After retiring from Riverbed in April 2018, he became Chairman and CEO of Scandic Capital LLC and joined the board of cybersecurity firm Tenable.
João Diogo 'JD' Falcão is the CEO and co-founder of AiFi Inc., the San Francisco-based company building the world's largest autonomous retail network. A PhD from Carnegie Mellon and Master's from Cornell in Robotics, JD spent years shaping AiFi's core technology as CTO before stepping up as Chief Executive in September 2025. Under his and the team's leadership, AiFi has deployed 300+ camera-only autonomous stores globally, processes over 90 petabytes of spatial data annually, and counts Microsoft, ALDI, and 7-Eleven among its partners. His central thesis: the physical world deserves to be as queryable as the internet.
Keith Zubchevich is the President and CEO of Conviva, the streaming intelligence and digital experience platform that monitors over 5 billion sensors and processes 3 trillion real-time events daily. A serial entrepreneur who has founded six companies and raised over $500 million across his career, Zubchevich joined Conviva in 2008, served as Chief Strategy Officer, and stepped into the CEO role in 2021. Under his leadership, Conviva has evolved from streaming quality-of-experience monitoring into a full agentic AI analytics platform. He is widely recognized as a clear-eyed voice on the limits and measurement requirements of AI agents in consumer-facing applications.
Kevin Gounden is the Chief Executive Officer of Buildkite, the CI/CD platform trusted by Airbnb, Uber, Shopify, Slack, and Canva to ship software at scale. Appointed in August 2025, he brings over two decades of experience founding and scaling SaaS ventures, most recently as Chief Product Officer at Lightcast and Randstad where he drove product strategy across 70+ countries. His mandate at Buildkite: lead the platform's next chapter at the intersection of AI and software delivery.
Linda Tong is the Chief Executive Officer of Webflow, the visual web development platform powering over 300,000 businesses. Promoted from COO to CEO in June 2024, she brings a rare cross-industry pedigree - from helping launch Google Chrome and Android, to co-founding Tapjoy, to driving product innovation at the NFL, to running Cisco's AppDynamics division. A Yale-educated economist who discovered she 'never felt empowered to build' herself, she now leads the platform designed to fix exactly that problem.
Tomer Cohen spent 14 years reshaping LinkedIn from a dusty resume repository into a platform used by a billion professionals daily. As Chief Product Officer, he oversaw the transformation of the feed, led the charge into AI-first product development, and coined the 'Full Stack Builder' model that is rewriting how product teams work. Born in Beer Sheba to Tunisian immigrant parents who lived in transit camps, he coded BASIC at age 10, served in IDF intelligence, backpacked through Latin America and Southeast Asia, earned an MBA from Stanford, and arrived at LinkedIn in 2012 - leaving more than a decade later as one of the most influential product minds in Silicon Valley.
Jeremy Stoppelman is the co-founder and CEO of Yelp, the local reviews platform he built after getting the flu in 2004 and being unable to find a doctor online. A PayPal Mafia veteran who rose to VP of Engineering before dropping out of Harvard Business School, Stoppelman turned a $1M seed check from Max Levchin into a public company with 308 million reviews and $1.4 billion in annual revenue. He has spent two decades fighting Google's search monopoly, championing remote work and YIMBY housing policy, and writing Yelp reviews under the username 'Big Papa.'
Daniela Amodei is the President and Co-Founder of Anthropic, one of the world's most influential AI safety companies. A UC Santa Cruz English Literature graduate and former classical flute scholarship recipient, she pivoted from Capitol Hill communications to Stripe to OpenAI before co-founding Anthropic in 2021 alongside her brother Dario Amodei and six other OpenAI colleagues. At Anthropic, she runs all commercial, operational, and cultural operations while Dario leads research and technical strategy — a division of labor that has scaled the company to a $380 billion valuation, over 300,000 enterprise customers, and projected $10 billion in 2025 revenue. Named #1 on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list for 2025 and to TIME's 100 Most Influential People of 2026, Daniela champions a vision of AI safety as competitive advantage, humanities education as future-proof, and 'low politics, high integrity' as the only culture worth building.
Dario Amodei is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude. A former VP of Research at OpenAI and co-inventor of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), he holds a PhD in biophysics from Princeton and has co-authored some of the most cited papers in AI safety and scaling laws. He leads Anthropic — valued at $380 billion as of early 2026 — with the conviction that building safe, interpretable AI is not only compatible with building powerful AI, but inseparable from it. His landmark essay 'Machines of Loving Grace' envisions AI compressing decades of scientific progress into years, potentially eliminating most disease and radically expanding human prosperity.