The Next Decade in Cloud and Security
When & Where
May 7, 2021
9:00 AM To 11:30 AM
Virtual
About This Track
With 2020 behind us, cloud computing and cybersecurity have been elevated as top priorities. According to Gartner, cloud spend will reach $300B and security budgets will increase by 36% in 2021. Emerging technologies such as quantum computing, microservices, 5G mobility and AI/ML are driving innovation in the cloud. Additionally, organizations are aware that they must engage stakeholders at all levels, from C-Suite to engineering to achieve a security first, zero trust position. Speakers in this track will engage the audience with their insights on the innovations borne by the exciting new paradigms in cloud computing and security.
Track Agenda
- 05/07/2021 | 9:00 am - 9:30 am PDT
- 30 minsSpeakers
As executive vice president of Microsoft Azure, Jason Zander leads the core teams building Microsoft's intelligent cloud and intelligent edge - from silicon to cloud to the edge. This purview includes Azure strategy, product management, engineering and operations of cloud product lines including IaaS, PaaS, microservices, networking, storage, IoT, SQL Server, big data and analytics stacks, quantum computing, global expansion and more.
Zander is passionate about empowering customers and delivering end-to-end solutions that address their unique needs. Microsoft Azure has grown under his tenure to become a global leader in enterprise cloud computing, serving more than 95% of the Fortune 500. Zander grew revenue 5x from 2016 to 2018, and grew systems to handle millions of compute cores and exabytes of storage with a global fiber and data center footprint representing billions of dollars of annual capital expenditure.
Since joining Microsoft in 1992 Zander has worked on numerous products, most recently as corporate vice president of engineering for the Visual Studio team where he led the product to over a billion dollars in revenue. He holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Minnesota State University, and resides in the Seattle area with his family.
As part of Zander's commitment to growing and empowering the next generation of technical leadership, he enjoys sponsoring Microsoft's Early-in-Career and Manager Excellence programming. He also serves as the chief technical advisor of Titletown Tech in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a partnership between the Green Bay Packers and Microsoft to build and fund early-stage high-growth business in the region.
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- 05/07/2021 | 9:30 am - 10:00 am PDT
- 30 minsSpeakers Dan Gordon leads Technical Evangelism at Traceable AI. Dan is passionate about advancing the adoption of modern software development and delivery practices. A previous dev, ops, and then secops, he's experienced the human toll of doing software the wrong way. Dan has been a product manager and marketer at multiple award winning DevOps tool vendors, including GitLab and Electric Cloud. As a technical evangelist, he's excited to continue teaching organizations about adopting new DevSecOps software practices and tools so they can rapidly and securely develop, deliver, and operate in the ever-evolving IT landscape. Prakash has been with Cisco for 3 years. In his current role he leads network cross technology team that develops Platform Independent network protocol and control plane software, workflow/development tools and programmability solutions for all EN/DC/SP infrastructure BUs. Prakash brings a diverse set of experiences, including the development of multiple generations of switches and routers for DC and Enterprise Networks, Converged Infrastructure platforms, and a large-scale Cloud platform and DevOps framework. Prior to joining Cisco, Prakash was an Executive Director at Verizon where he was responsible for developing and deploying Verizon's Cloud platform hosting various Verizon's applications including Personal Cloud Storage, and ThingSpace IOT platform. Before that he was the VP of Engineering in Force10 Networks, where he worked from its inception on building and leading the protocol and platform software engineering teams. He joined Dell as part of its acquisition of Force10 and continued to lead the software team in realizing Dell's converged infrastructure(network/storage/servers) solutions. Prakash lives in Cupertino with his wife and two sons. In his free time, he enjoys doing yoga, reading business/spiritual books, home improvement projects and hiking. Prakash is a big enabler of leaders and teams to chase big dreams. He is passionate about building great teams and products.
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:00 am - 10:15 am PDT
- 15 minsSpeakers Amit Zavery is a result-oriented transformational leader with deep technical knowledge and proven business acumen. He is a Vice President and Head of Platform for Google Cloud. At Google he is responsible for defining product strategy, running engineering and building the business application platform business. Previously he was an Executive Vice President and General Manager of Oracle Cloud Platform and Middleware products generating more than $6 billion of Oracle's revenue annually. He led Oracle's product vision, design, development, and go-to-market strategy for cloud platform, middleware, and analytics portfolio and oversaw a global team of more than 4,500 engineers. Amit has a proven track record of designing and delivering market leading products and building organizations by recruiting and retaining world-class talent. He was instrumental in building Oracle's Fusion Middleware product portfolio that scaled from zero to $5B in annual revenue in less than 10 years. He led Oracle's transformation into a cloud platform provider by starting and building Oracle Public Cloud and operating multiple cloud native services that were adopted by thousands of customers. Amit is a regular keynote speaker at industry events and considered a thought leader in enterprise software by customers, press, and analysts. He also has extensive experience in identifying, acquiring and integrating numerous private and public companies. He has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and MS in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University.
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:15 am - 10:30 am PDT
- 15 minsSpeakers
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:30 am - 11:00 am PDT
- 30 minsSpeakers Edith is CEO & Co-Founder of LaunchDarkly, the leading feature management platform. Edith Harbaugh is CEO & Co-Founder of LaunchDarkly, the leading feature management platform. LaunchDarkly serves over a thousand global customers like IBM, Atlassian, and Intuit. She has more than 15 years of experience in engineering, product, and marketing with both consumer and enterprise startups, including TripIt and Concur. She is co-host of "To Be Continuous," a podcast on software trends. She holds two patents in deployment. Edith earned a B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College. As Chief Customer Officer, Manjula Talreja leads PagerDuty's global customer success group, including customer success, professional services, support, renewals, and PagerDuty University. Her passion is in advising her customers in their digital transformation journey. Manjula brings nearly three decades of IT industry leadership, with extensive experience in general management, business strategy consulting, and operations of large-scale IT systems. Prior to PagerDuty, Manjula was the SVP of Customer Success at Salesforce, where she led teams to deliver world-class customer outcomes across large Enterprise, Commercial and SMB customers. Before Salesforce, she spent over two decades at Cisco in various senior leadership roles. She was named 2020 Top 50 Women in Technology. Manjula continues to give back via her work in the community as board member of the City Year, a non-profit focused on underserved schools and providing young people a chance at a better future. Manjula holds a B.S. in Business and Information Systems from Santa Clara University, as well as a B.S. in Economics from the University of Delhi.
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- 05/07/2021 | 11:00 am - 11:30 am PDT
- 30 minsSpeakers
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Track Chairs
Sandhya is passionate about driving revenue generating partnerships and has domain expertise in partnering with ISV, Technology, Channel and Cloud Service Providers such as AWS, GCP and Microsoft Azure. Sandhya is currently the Senior Director for Cloud Business Development at a DevSecOps startup called StackRox, which was acquired by Red Hat. In previous roles, she led successful teams and managed global alliances at AWS, Brocade and Intel across Cybersecurity, Networking, Data and Analytics and AI/ML. Her strengths include delivering results with partners via sell-with and sell-through programs; technical integration; C-level executive relationships and joint go-to-market. The "big picture" and team leadership and motivation are equally top of mind. Sandhya recently founded the Multi-Cloud Leadership Alliance, a member led industry consortium created to advance the industry. In her free time, Sandhya enjoys hiking, reading and watching British crime drama shows.
Preethy Padmanabhan is the Head of Platform Product Marketing at Freshworks. Prior to joining Freshworks, Preethy was the VP of Marketing at Panzura. She is also an angel investment partner with SV2, Portfolia, How Women Invest and a Board Member for CortexBCI. She served in various non-profit boards focused on economic empowerment, women, children, and education. She also held positions in marketing, sales, and engineering across Nutanix, Dell and Cisco. She has an MBA with Honors from UCLA Anderson School of Management and an MS Information Systems with Distinction from BITS Pilani, India.
Track Advisor
Leah McLean is Head of Business Development at Cyber Future Foundation, a global cybersecurity Think Tank organization. She is focused on developing strategy and business objectives to drive partnerships in new growth areas, including cyber peace, capacity planning, small businesses Cyber Care and working with the Department of Labor to create cybersecurity apprenticeship programs and free training. Prior to Cyber Future Foundation, she was the Senior Director of Technology Alliance and Channel Partnerships and Marketing at Armor, a cloud security company, where she evolved the partner program, created partner training, and led sales enablement and go-to-market strategies, generating pipeline and revenue.
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All eyes on the business and human impact of AI
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Exciting new paradigms in cloud and security with a zero-trust position
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Exploring the revolutionary future of entrepreneurship
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Reinventing healthcare in the age of the global pandemic
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Exploring the nature of work, workplace and workforce with the 4th industrial revolution
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Scaling global connectivity post digital transformation
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The CXO track provides an opportunity for the highest potential startups to interact with their biggest potential customers
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The Diversity & Inclusion track will focus on generating best practices for harnessing diversity and inclusion to drive innovation today and for the future.
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Dare to Change the World for Good