The Next Decade in Cloud and Security
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About This Track
Track Agenda
- 05/07/2021 | 9:00 am – 9:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall BSpeakers
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 mins Hall BSpeakers 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.
Adrian Ludwig is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Atlassian. Adrian joined the company in May 2018 and is responsible for Atlassian's security team and practices. Prior to joining the company, Adrian held a number of leadership positions, including building out the security capabilities at Nest, Macromedia, Adobe, and Android (Google). As a self-described hacker in his early years, Adrian was recruited by the Department of Defense when he was 16. They put him through college and, after graduation, put him to work for several years finding security flaws in cryptographic and computer network systems. He holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Mathematics from Williams College.
Diana Kelley’s security career spans over 30 years. She is Co-Founder and CTO of SecurityCurve and donates much of her time to volunteer work in the cybersecurity community, including serving on the ACM Ethics & Plagiarism Committee, as CTO and Board member at Sightline Security, Board member and Inclusion Working Group champion at WiCyS, Cybersecurity Committee Advisor at CompTIA, Advisory Council, Bartlett College of Science and Mathematics, Bridgewater State University, and RSAC US Program Committee. Diana produces the #MyCyberWhy series and is the host of BrightTALK’s The (Security) Balancing Act and co-host of the Your Everyday Cyber podcast. Diana is also a Principal Consulting Analyst at TechVision Research and a member of The Analyst Syndicate. She was the Cybersecurity Field CTO for Microsoft, Global Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security, GM at Symantec, VP at Burton Group (now Gartner), and a Manager at KPMG. She is a sought after keynote speaker, the co-author of the books Practical Cybersecurity Architecture and Cryptographic Libraries for Developers, has been a lecturer at Boston College's Masters program in cybersecurity, the EWF 2020 Executive of the Year, and one of Cybersecurity Ventures 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime. Kirsten works closely with Red Hat’s many security professionals across the Red Hat portfolio of enterprise-ready open source offerings. Kirsten is a diversified software management professional with 20+ years of experience in security, application development and infrastructure solutions. Prior to joining Red Hat, Kirsten provided strategic direction for Black Duck’s open source security and governance solutions. Kirsten also participates in the Kubernetes Policy work group and Security SIG, and has a personal interest in dancing, reading & hiking.
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:00 am – 10:15 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall BSpeakers 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. R “Ray” Wang is the CEO of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc,, He co-hosts DisrupTV, a weekly enterprise tech and leadership webcast that averages 50,000 views per episode and blogs at www.raywang.org. His ground-breaking best selling book on digital transformation, Disrupting Digital Business, was published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2015. Ray's new book about Digital Giants and the future of business titled, Everybody Wants to Rule The World will be released July 2021. Wang is well quoted and frequently interviewed in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Fox Business, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Cheddar, and Bloomberg.
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:15 am – 10:30 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall BSpeakers
Matt Carter is the Chief Executive Officer of Aryaka, headquartered in San Mateo, CA. He is leading the long-term market strategy and day-to-day operations, while guiding the company's vision for an increasingly connected world.
Prior to Aryaka, Matt served as President and CEO of Inteliquent Inc, a publicly traded provider of cloud-based networking services for global enterprises, which was successfully acquired by GCTR, a Chicago based PE firm. Matt previously held a series of executive positions with Sprint Corporation including serving as President of the Sprint Enterprise Solutions. He also served as President of Boost Mobile, a leading provider of no contract wireless services.
He serves on the board of directors of JLL and NRG Energy.
Matt earned his master’s degree in general management from the Harvard Business School and his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.
As the new head of editorial at Google Cloud, Quentin Hardy writes about the technology and impact of cloud computing, both inside Google and for other publications. Starting his career as an international publisher, he had previously worked as Deputy Technology Editor at The New York Times, National Editor at Forbes, and a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, having written about many diverse topics. One of his articles, titled “Hope and Profit in Africa”, received an Overseas Press Club award.
He frequently appears on television and moderates panels at The World Affairs Council and The Computer History Museum. One of his more well-known panels is called “Programming the System of the World: The Industrial Internet of Things”, where they discussed the advances in new technologies and how they will change the world. Not only that, but he also has degrees from Kenyon College, The School of Oriental and African Studies, and Columbia University, where he was awarded a Knight-Begahot Fellowship in 1955.
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:30 am – 11:00 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall BSpeakers 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.
Archana is responsible for IBM GTS’ offering strategy, development and management. She leads a global team delivering agile and intelligent technology solutions for public and private sector clients in support of their digital and cloud transformation. She is also part of the core leadership team responsible for defining the mission and growth plan for IBM Global Technology Services and Kyndryl, a planned spin-off recently announced by IBM; which is by far the global leader and innovator in managed infrastructure services.
Previously at IBM, Archana led IBM's Networks Services and Project & Implementation Services globally, securely delivering agile, resilient and intelligent networks for public and private sector clients across the globe in support of their cognitive and cloud transformation.
Prior to joining IBM in January 2018, Archana led next-generation technology initiatives at a variety of organizations from start-ups to major consulting firms to government, including serving as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Washington, DC.
Through her career, she has championed innovation with a focus on developing flexible, scalable solutions for client and organizational problems.
Archana is the recipient of several honors, including the Washington Business Journal’s C-Suite Award, The Washingtonian Tech Titan Award, StateScoop’s Golden Executive of the Year Award & Top Women in Tech Award, as well as DC’s Top 50 Women in Tech Award.
Praveena is a Vice President of Products at NetApp. She is responsible for NetApp’s hybrid & multi cloud strategy & building products that are part of NetApp’s data fabric vision. Her deep experience in cloud transformations and building products that operate on enterprise class workloads at scale brings a unique perspective. With over 20 years of leadership at the center of innovating and creating products that operate on a global scale, she prides herself in her ability to connect the dots between technology and the customers who use them. Prior to NetApp, Praveena worked at Oracle as a VP of Cloud Applications & Platform enabling a multi-billion-dollar SaaS business in oracle cloud. Monti Becker Kelly is Senior Vice President of Customer Engagement and Strategy for [24]7.ai. She is responsible for the growth strategy of the company’s integrated cloud AI technology which combines contact center expertise and industry leading conversational AI to deliver great customer experiences.
She brings an extensive record of success and is frequently recognized for innovative go-to-market strategies and breakout growth in digital Cx transformation, cloud technology and global BPO market. Prior to joining [24]7.ai, she has led large multi-billion dollar divisions at several global BPO and digital technology organizations including Teleperformance, Sitel and Concentrix.
She is focused on bringing DE&I to the forefront of business conversations. Monti is a member of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women and has led key initiatives focused on elevating women in leadership in business and technology. She has been published in INC Magazine, Contact Center Weekly, Marketing Daily Times, Credit Union Times, and most recently in O Magazine and Oprah.com. Her story is a part of the Delilah TV series being produced by Oprah Winfrey Network, based in Charlotte NC. She serves as a Lead Mentor and on the Board of Directors for Women Executives for Community Service and on the Diversity & Inclusion Task Force for PACE, Professional Association for Customer Engagement. She is a featured speaker in the Cx industry and on many topics for DE&I.
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- 05/07/2021 | 11:00 am – 11:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall BSpeakers As the SVP & General Manager for Advisory & Professional Services, Pointnext for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Rohit is focused on helping enterprises through their journey to digital transformation. Vice President of Partner Programs at Equinix
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TiEcon 2021 Tracks
- AI & Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
All eyes on the business and human impact of AI
- Cloud & Security
Cloud & Security
Exciting new paradigms in cloud and security with a zero-trust position
- Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Exploring the revolutionary future of entrepreneurship
- TiE Youth
- Healthcare Reimagined
Healthcare Reimagined
Reinventing healthcare in the age of the global pandemic
- Future of Work
Future of Work
Exploring the nature of work, workplace and workforce with the 4th industrial revolution
- Global Connect
Global Connect
Scaling global connectivity post digital transformation
- CXO Forum
CXO Forum
The CXO track provides an opportunity for the highest potential startups to interact with their biggest potential customers
- Diversity and Inclusion
Diversity and Inclusion
The Diversity & Inclusion track will focus on generating best practices for harnessing diversity and inclusion to drive innovation today and for the future.
- Social Impact
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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
All eyes on the business and human impact of AI
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Cloud & Security
Exciting new paradigms in cloud and security with a zero-trust position
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Entrepreneurship
Exploring the revolutionary future of entrepreneurship
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TiE Youth
Fostering youth entrepreneurship
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Healthcare Reimagined
Reinventing healthcare in the age of the global pandemic
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Future of Work
Exploring the nature of work, workplace and workforce with the 4th industrial revolution
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Global Connect
Scaling global connectivity post digital transformation
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CXO Forum
The CXO track provides an opportunity for the highest potential startups to interact with their biggest potential customers
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Diversity and Inclusion
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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Social Impact
Dare to Change the World for Good