The Cloud Continuum: Creating the AI future on Cloud & Edge

Janaki Kowtha is a Technology Sales Leader at IBM. Prior to that she was a Global Account Leader at NetApp. She is a versatile global sales executive with proven experience managing multimillion-dollar global accounts in the technology sector. She has spent 20 years in the large enterprise space with more than a dozen in cloud computing, business velocity, promoting software adoption, most recently Digital, and Cloud Transformation. Her passion for technology and a hands-on approach has helped multiple companies successfully achieve a closer connection with their customers.

Janaki enjoys coaching high school/ college students, and ambitious business young professionals to define the vision for their future, tap into their unique strengths, and help them create personal branding through social media like LinkedIn.

She is also a former International Soccer player who represented Indian Women's Soccer team at various international tournaments.

A seasoned executive with 17+ years of experience in building and leading complex, large-scale enterprise programs and teams. Pradeep excels at building high-performance and diverse teams, by managing change effectively, influencing CEO/Board level buy-ins, and aligning technology initiatives with business objectives. He has a strong track record of turning around teams, bringing in senior diverse leaders, and orchestrating large-scale programs.

During his remarkable tenure at Microsoft Azure, he drove $10+B in revenue, across Fortune 500 companies. He steered 500+ team members across 12 countries, to deliver 3.8k+ services with 100+ certifications. Pradeep was instrumental in launching the multi-year, multi-billion-dollar Azure Government Cloud program, while growing and capturing new cloud markets for Azure IaaS and PaaS services. He led Azure to market leadership in global regional coverage with 64+ regions worldwide available in 140 countries. He engineered the strategy and program that is taking Availability Zones to every country Azure operates in; ensuring resiliency and high availability to cloud customers. Pradeep's immaculate thought leadership was instrumental in budling the Privacy Program and Incident Response from ground zero to a hyperscale team that manages over 500+ Customer facing IAAS, PAAS and SAAS services. He spearheaded Azure's commitment to GDPR, privacy and putting customers in control of their own data, thereby securing Azure's leadership in Security, Compliance and Privacy.

In his current role as the Vice President of Engineering, Cross Cloud SaaS Platform at VMware, he is an influential leader to a 700+ people global organization. He is steering the cloud management experience portal and identity, which is used by all VMware customers and partners to provision and manage VMware cloud services, while also augmenting the developer experience by building the common company-wide SaaS platform to deploy and operate services at scale, security & resiliency.