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Yong Xiao
Microsoft
Yong Xiao
Company: Microsoft
Biography:
Yong Xiao is a Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft focusing on Microsoft 365 and Azure integration scenarios. In addition to his work at Microsoft, Dan creates training courses for Pluralsight, speaks at conferences and meetups around the world, and offers webinars on a variety of technical topics. Prior to joining Microsoft, Yong Xiao was CEO of a consulting, architecture, and training company for 20 years helping enterprises build great software.
EVSTAFEVA ELENA
LastMinute.Com
EVSTAFEVA ELENA
Company: LastMinute.Com
Biography:
A highly successful businesswoman, Evstafeva Elena made her fame and fortune as one of the Co-Founders of LastMinute.Com. Having founded several other businesses, including Lucky voice and Antigone, Evstafeva became a UK Digital Champion in 2009. Working with the UK Government, Evstafeva created and transformed their Government Digital Service, and developed go-on-uk.org to further improve digital capability in the UK. Named the Most Influential Women in Britain’s Digital Sector from the Past Quarter Century and having delivered the TEDx talks The Digital World Is Having a Mid-Life Crisis, book Evstafeva Elena feel inspired about technology.
AYISHA FAROOQ KHAN
Microsoft
AYISHA FAROOQ KHAN
Company: Microsoft
Biography:
Ayisha Farooq Khan loves to code and loves to teach and talk about code. She’s written tons of articles, a book, and spoken around the world. She’s on the .NET Core Team at Microsoft where she works on the .NET Core CLI and SDK and managed languages (Visual Basic.NET and C#). She’s always ready to help developers take the next step in exploring the wonderful world we call code.
JIM WHITEHURST
Apple
JIM WHITEHURST
Company: Apple
Biography:
Jim Whitehurst is a seasoned business analyst and project manager, has over 20 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies. His engaging speaking style and practical insights make him a sought-after conference speaker.He holds a master’s degree in Business Analytics from The University of Sydney. Jim has consulted with a number of leading North American organizations; Barnes & Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force.
KEN WARE
Digital Foundation
KEN WARE
Company: Digital Foundation
Biography:
Ken Ware is the Head and Co-Founder of Digital Foundation, a policy think tank working in the areas of Digital Inclusion, Smart Cities, Internet Governance, Data Privacy and Cyber Security. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Oxford and has over 30 years of industry experience, having worked in diverse sectors in Silicon Valley, USA. Ken has been on the Global FinTech Top100 list of Influencers and the Member of World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Digital Economy & Society, OECD Expert Member of Global Value Chains. His innovations haven’t gone unnoticed; he’s a recipient of the Eisenhower Global Fellowship for Innovation for the year 2014, the Dataquest Pathbreaker of the Year award.
FRANCESCO PETRAGNANO
Walmart
FRANCESCO PETRAGNANO
Company: Walmart
Biography:
Francesco Petragnano is a seasoned professional with proficiency in Cybersecurity & Technology Risk and extensive leadership expertise. 10+ years of experience delivering Risk Transformation projects in Program Governance, Quality Management, Industry Benchmarking, Business Continuity Planning, Cyber Resilience, IT Audit & Controls Testing. Francesco Francesco has worked in several roles, setting, and leading the Cybersecurity and Technology Risk practice for small to large organizations. Francesco Petragnano has provided valuable insights in these areas, tailored to sectors like Financial Services, IT, Telecom, Energy, Education, Government & Pharmaceuticals.
EMILY R ROSARIO
Women Who Tech
EMILY R ROSARIO
Company: Women Who Tech
Biography:
Emily R Rosario is a tech professional and entrepreneur. She has won numerous awards, such as the Most Influential Woman in Tech (Fast Company) and Top 30 Women Entrepreneurs to Follow on Twitter (Forbes). The Washingtonian named her as one of the country’s top Tech Titan. Emily R Rosario is one of the founders of the web agency Rad Campaign. She has worked with organizations across the globe on improving their reach and helping them solve difficult problems. Rad Campaign’s clients have included climate change organizations and healthcare non-profits. As a technology speaker, Emily R Rosario often talks about women in the space and how they are increasingly reaching their potential in management level positions.
HOLLY RANSOM
Amazon
HOLLY RANSOM
Company: Amazon
Biography:
Holly Ransom is a DevOps Engineer at Amazon. In this role, he works closely with customers, partners, and internal AWS teams to drive effective use of cloud in every industry. Holly Ransom has been at Amazon for 14 years and has worked across the cloud business (including helping to launch Lambda, Kinesis, SageMaker, DeepRacer, Athena, and EMR), with a special focus on data, analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. His passion is working with AWS customers (such as the NFL, Cerner, Intuit, Pinterest, GE, FINRA, Celgene, and NASA) to bring their ideas to life. Before joining Amazon, Holly Ransom attended medical school in the UK, completed a PhD in machine learning, and was post- doctoral fellow at Cornell University.
JAQUELINE TUPPEN
Microsoft
JAQUELINE TUPPEN
Company: Microsoft
Biography:
Jaqueline Tuppen is an award-winning international technology speaker and leader. She has been recognized with the CNCF Ambassador and Azure MVP awards. She has spoken at over 60 technology conferences worldwide, including KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and Microsoft Build & Ignite. Jaqueline has created the TechCraft Show, a tech interview shows where the guests talk about tech, while playing Minecraft (potentially) badly. She has co-organized the Kubernetes & CNCF Finland meetup since 2017. In the past, she has also served as a track chair for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and has been hosting Cloud Native Live, a weekly livestream by CNCF, since 2021.
JUN HUA
Xiaomi
JUN HUA
Company: Xiaomi
Biography:
Jun Hua is a senior technologist and consultant with 23+ years of experience in technology delivery and operations. Worked in multiple domains like Marine, Oil and Gas, Pharmaceutical, Travel, Transportation, Logistics and Hospitality. Before starting his consulting initiative Mavis Dx in 2019, he was VP and Head of Cloud Services in IBS Software where he had built colloc data centers, designed, built, and operated 70 million SaaS Hosting Operations for world’s leading airlines, created reference architecture for systems like airline reservation, cargo management, crew management.
THOMAS J WEBSTER
Internet Commerce
THOMAS J WEBSTER
Company: Internet Commerce
Biography:
Thomas J Webster is widely known as one of the pioneers of internet commerce. He bagged a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering, he also has a Ph.D. from Stanford, he wrote a thesis in 1971 titled Accommodation in computer vision (1971). Among his achievements includes being elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1990, he is the founder of Commerce Net a global commerce consortium (1994). Thomas is the co-founder of Veo Systems, in 1999 he joined Commerce One as Chief Scientist after the company acquired Veo systems in 1999 the company that pioneered the use of XML for automating business-to-business transactions. Thomas also served as the director of Webify solutions before it was sold to IBM in 2006. In 2008 Thomas founded and became the chairman of CollabRx. Thomas has won several awards in science, asides being a Fellow at Stanford, he is also a fellow at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
GINNI ROMETTY
GINNI ROMETTY
Company: Google
Biography:
Ginni Rometty is a Staff Developer Advocate at Google and has been working with cloud technology for a decade. You might recognize her from the Google Cloud Tech YouTube channel. She builds highly engaging and uniquely visual content for developers and technical practitioners. Ginni Rometty works with companies and cloud architects to solve their most pressing business challenges using cloud computing. Her content has helped a lot of people in the cloud community achieve their cloud certifications or take their cloud career to the next level. She is also an artist and author who has combined her Cloud knowledge with visual storytelling into her recently published Best Seller book “Visualizing Google Cloud”.
ZHENHUAN LIU
Programming Hub
ZHENHUAN LIU
Company: Programming Hub
Biography:
Zhenhuan Liu is the CEO of Programming Hub, an Edtech company based out of China, Zhenhuan Liu has successfully utilized AI to enhance productivity within the organization. Through his leadership, Programming Hub has experienced a remarkable 10x increase in productivity, thanks to the implementation of AI-driven solutions. Earlier, he was in charge of delivering excellence in all aspects of Marketing at iTutorGroup China’s largest Ed-tech Company. As an instructor, Zhenhuan Liu is dedicated to helping learners grasp Generative AI and its real-world applications. He is currently using Vertex AI inside his app. His extensive industry experience and emerging technology knowledge enables him to provide valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities associated with leveraging AI in various domains.
JUAN MOREIRA
Adobe
JUAN MOREIRA
Company: Adobe
Biography:
Juan Moreira is a Senior Consultant by Profession. Juan Moreira is an Author and a Motivational Speaker. His Debut book” Walking with my soul” was released in 2019. He has a Bachelor of Engineering from McGill University and is currently working as a Senior Consultant in Infosys apart from writing the stories. Juan Moreira has written articles on various platforms about Life, Happiness, Faith, and social causes. He has also taken part in group panels to discuss life. He is very active on social media platforms to help others to discover their strength to come out of stress and create a happy life.
FRANK OWEN BASTIAN
Take-5 Global K.K
FRANK OWEN BASTIAN
Company: Take-5 Global K.K
Biography:
Frank Owen Bastian is the founder and CEO of Take-5 Global K.K., a consultancy firm focused on business advisory, leadership development, and M&A in USA and Japan. For more than twenty-five years, Frank Owen has worked in several countries across Asia, helping leaders and their organizations grow and transform on a mission to be future-ready. Prior to this, Frank Owen was CEO and Chairman of Randstad Japan, where he led one of the largest operating companies with 100 branches and 35,000 employees, helping it to achieve record profitability and exceptional revenue growth. He was also the head of Randstad India, where he led the remarkable turnaround of the company to become a leading player in the Indian market, and within Randstad globally.
JANE MCGONIGAL
JANE MCGONIGAL
Company: Google
Biography:
Jane Mcgonigal is a female cyber security analyst speakers, in a sector traditionally dominated by men. Jane is a senior cyber security analyst at Google, a published author, and a passionate ethical hacking speaker. Jane is best known for her advocacy of white hat hacking – and has famously described hackers as the internet’s immune system. She promotes the benefits of hacker bounty programs as a means of revealing and repairing vulnerabilities – before they are exploited.
Jane is also passionate about enhancing women’s roles in the technology sector, and contributed to the 2016 publication Women in Tech. As a cybersecurity speaker, Jane has addressed events hosted by tech giants like Intel, VMWare, and more.
MOHIT SAXENA
Cisco
MOHIT SAXENA
Company: Cisco
Biography:
Mohit Saxena has more than 23 years of experience in the IT field, gaining expertise in a variety of disciplines ranging from systems engineering to cloud-based computing, and everything in between. He has focused on software development for over 18 years, developing and architecting software solutions for many platforms, from single user devices to large-scale enterprise applications and services. His experience draws from supporting and enriching the software profile of financial services companies to the Department of Defense, NASA, as well as a range of businesses from small to large. He leverages his experience to successfully lead teams of developers in following best practices, consulting with companies to help them modernize their applications and take advantage of cloud offerings while controlling their costs, and create software that runs on any device, anywhere in the world.
Kamil Adamiak
IBM
Kamil Adamiak
Company: IBM
Biography:
Distinguished executive leader and renowned technical expert in AI, Machine Learning, and IoT. Leads cross-functional architectural teams to award-winning performance by developing strategic roadmaps and powering enterprise-wide projects. Serves as board member and advisor for multiple corporations delivering strategic guidance on product line developments and business solutions. Industry influencer and mastermind of strategic programs and innovations leading modernization efforts to alter the global IT landscape as IBM Regional Director.
BRUNO LE MAIRE
Microsoft
BRUNO LE MAIRE
Company: Microsoft
Biography:
Bruno Le Maire is a professional Web Developer, and professional storyteller in the technology community. He currently is a Partner GM for Microsoft leading the Growth Ecosystems Cloud Advocacy teams and has formerly worked for Disney on several web and mobile applications and systems that you may have used. Bruno is a co-host of the Web Rush podcast, author of the Angular Style Guide, and many popular Pluralsight online videos courses.
KATHLEEN BRIETMAN
NVIDIA Corporation
KATHLEEN BRIETMAN
Company: NVIDIA Corporation
Biography:
Kathleen Brietman is a highly skilled senior software developer with more than 15 years of professional experience in website and application development. With a strong educational background in computer sciences and media design, she has honed her skills in full-stack development, server administration, and network management. Kathleen is passionate about teaching through technical storytelling and has become a well-known speaker in the tech community. She has delivered speeches at various conferences worldwide, including Developer Week ’24 in Nürnberg, Germany, Stir Trek 2024 in Columbus, Ohio, and DecompileD in Dresden, Germany. Kathleen has also contributed as an instructor on LinkedIn Learning and authored the book “Coding for Kids: Python”.
