The Cloud Continuum: Creating the AI future on Cloud & Edge
When & Where
Cloud to Edge: Redefining Connectivity for Emerging Trends
In this cloud track, we will hear from cloud leaders, CIOs, and CTOs to explore:
- How they build and operate their systems across Cloud and Edge
- How they're reimagining the role of data, compute and storage
- What are the best practices to optimize cloud and edge spend
- How they provide value to customers, partners and inspire employees
- You will not want to miss this track!
Track Agenda
- 05/04/2023 | 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A3Speakers
Senior Vice President, General Manager Service Provider and Edge Business Unit (SEBU)VMWare Sanjay UppalSenior Vice President, General Manager Service Provider and Edge Business Unit (SEBU)
VMWareSanjay is the SVP and General Manager of the Service Provider & Edge Business Unit (SEBU) at VMware. SEBU is focused on modernizing the network and accelerating the monetization of services for service providers, while driving value for both service providers and enterprise customers through networking, security and compute services at the edge. Sanjay came to VMware following the acquisition of VeloCloud by VMware in December 2017. Prior to VMware, Sanjay was the CEO and co-founder of VeloCloud Networks and grew VeloCloud to be the leader in the fast-growing Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) space. Earlier, Sanjay ran publicly traded OnMobile Global, serving as its president and COO. Sanjay was at Citrix as vice president of the Application Networking business through the acquisition of Caymas Systems where he was president and CEO. In the past, Sanjay has served in executive roles at Webvan (VP of Engineering and Business Development) and at Hewlett-Packard where he ran the Internet Infrastructure Division as vice president and general manager prior to his departure in 1999. Sanjay holds an MS in the Management of Technology from Stanford University, an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Sanjay enjoys trail running, cycling, making gadgets, watching popular shows and movies (Game of Thrones, The Big Lebowski), and gardening with his family. Although he considers himself to be culinarily challenged, he is frequently seen snacking on dark chocolate and crisp croissants.
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- 05/04/2023 | 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A3Speakers Anoop is an early stage investor and founder coach. He specializes in Generative AI, Enterprise SaaS, DevOps and Infrastructure. Anoop led the Product Management team at GitLab, one of the fastest growing software companies through COVID and IPO to build a revolutionary DevSecOps platform for everyone. Prior to GitLab, Anoop led product management and marketing at MapR, a data platform for AI and Analytics, where the team grew customer base by over 300 percent, revenues by over 300 percent, and data under management on MapR platform across all companies to nearly an exabyte. Anoop values transparency, trusted partnership, and combining data with product sense to discover, validate and deliver customer-value. Areas of interest span Developer tools, Cloud, Infrastructure, Security, ML/AI (including generative AI), Enterprise B2B, and SaaS. Sumit Gupta leads product strategy and product management for all Google systems and middleware infrastructure that is used across Search, Cloud, YouTube, Ads, Maps, etc. He started at Google in Jan 2021, by first leading ML Infrastructure / TPUs. Previously at IBM, Sumit built deep learning based software products and led the overall AI Strategy in his roles as Chief AI Strategy officer and CTO, prior to that as VP of Products for AI, ML, and HPC. Before that, he was the General Manager of the AI & GPU accelerated data center unit at NVIDIA and was central in building that business from the ground-up to what is now a multi-billion dollar business for NVIDIA. Sumit advises several startups, and is an advisor to Canadas Next AI accelerator. Sumit has a Ph.D. in CS from UC, Irvine, and a Bachelors degree in EE from IIT Delhi. Akankshu is a Director of Product Management at Uber responsible for Earner Access, and Ubers AI and Data platforms. Prior to this, Akankshu held various product and engineering leadership roles at AppDynamics and Microsoft. Sabeer BhatiaCEO & Co founder
Hotmail, ShowReelhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sabeer-bhatia-silicon-valley/ Asif QamarCEO & CTO
SupportVectorshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/asifqamar/
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- 05/04/2023 | 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A3Speakers Vice President, Chief Security Officer, Head of Software Engineering and OperationsBroadcom Andy NallappanVice President, Chief Security Officer, Head of Software Engineering and Operations
BroadcomAndy Nallappan is the Chief Security Officer and Head of Software Business Operations at Broadcom Software, responsible for Cloud Platform Engineering, Cloud Operations and Services, DevOps (CI/CD/CT), DevSecOps, Cyber Security, and Software Engineering Operations. Throughout his long career with Broadcom (via HP, Agilent, and Avago), Andy has held a variety of key leadership positions overseeing Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure, Data Center management, Customer Support Platforms, and Fab applications.   Andy was the Global Chief Information Officer of Broadcom until November 2020, where he ledseveral successful M&A integrations and delivered significant performance improvements of Broadcoms SaaS offerings. Through empowerment and simplification, he seamlessly deployed and scaled intelligent automation solutions while enhancing the customer, supplier, and workforce experience.   Andy continues to disrupt the tech landscape, driving cost down and value up. He is a pioneer that evolved Broadcom’s IT function into the industry leader it is today. Sri Narasimhan has skills of strategic thinking, senior global sales and marketing executive with a proven track record of success across both public and private technology companies. A metric driven, customer facing leader with a hands-on approach—placing heavy emphasis on rigor and process to drive market share, gross revenue and EBITDA. He is a strong proponent of corporate governance, business fundamentals and mentorship as cornerstones of building successful enterprises and developing successful leaders. Sri has held key leadership roles at Accenture, Hewlett Packard, Symantec, Adobe and privately held organizations. Monty Bhatia is the Vice President of Global System Integrators within VMware’s Strategic Ecosystem and Industry Solutions organization. He joined VMware in early 2022 and is an accomplished IT executive with 25 plus years of experience in managing and delivering multimillion dollar technology solutions across many vertical and horizontal markets. Monty brings deep expertise in the areas of Cloud Computing (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS), software development, enterprise architecture (EA), product management, web applications, and organizations approach to sustainability. Monty brings a wide array of professional capabilities to VMware such as building strong client and business relationships. Prior to joining VMware, Monty was the Americas Sales Leader for GSIs and Global SAP partner leader at AWS. Monty is a life-long dedicated Dallas Cowboys fan. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife, daughter, and 3-year-old Cavalier Poodle named Tara. He and his daughter enjoy golfing together at the beautiful, yet challenging, courses in the area. Ronen Schwartz is a business executive with deep experience in business, strategy, and technology innovation. He is senior vice president and general manager responsible for accelerating NetApp’s Cloud Storage business across hybrid and multicloud and expanding NetApp’s Cloud Data Management Services. Before joining NetApp, Schwartz was executive vice president, Technology and Eco-System, Operations and Strategy at Informatica and senior vice president and general manager of Informatica Cloud, leading Informatica Cloud product strategy, product management and go-to market. During his 14 years at Informatica, he helped lead the company through its own transformation from on-premises to the public cloud, from license revenue to recurring revenue. Schwartz joined Informatica from the acquisition of Itemfield, where he managed sales operations, services and support. Prior to Itemfield, Schwartz managed international, large-scale EDI implementations, SWIFT gateways and payments hubs. Schwartz holds a Bachelor of Science cum laude, in Information Technology from Technion -Technological Institute of Israel and a Master's cum laude in Business Administration from Tel Aviv University - Recanati Graduate School of Business. Ronen was born in Haifa, Israel and lives in Palo Alto, CA. He and his wife Sigal have a full house with their three kids: Carmel, Daniel and Liam. In his spare time, Ronen likes to run, travel the world and read. Ronen is also a fanatic soccer fan and a whiskey enthusiast. Ajay Dawar is a Product Executive and an Angel investor, investing in areas that are at the intersection of Business and Social impact, such as reducing single use plastic, addressing fake news, and protecting consumer privacy. Ajay has an extensive background in AI/ML, SaaS, CRM, Data and Analytics.
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- 05/04/2023 | 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm PDT
- 15 mins Hall A1Speakers Velchamy Sankarlingam is President of Product and Engineering for Zoom. Prior to joining Zoom, Velchamy was Senior Vice President of Cloud Services Development and Operations at VMware and had roles across both R&D and IT. He managed a business unit in R&D and was also responsible for all infrastructure in the company, including building and operating one of the largest private clouds. Velchamy was also responsible for helping VMware transform to SaaS and the development of all business applications at VMware. Before joining VMware, Velchamy was Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Cisco where he was responsible for engineering and operations of Webex. Prior to that, Velchamy held Vice President positions at Webex (acquired by Cisco) and Presenter.com (acquired by Webex). He also worked at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), IBM, Network Computing Devices, and Standard Microsystems.
Nidhi is a seasoned product leader with extensive experience in consumer products. Currently on the Yahoo Finance team, she leads a team of product managers with a focus on revenue diversification and growth. With 11 years of experience in product management, she has a proven track record of building successful consumer products that solve real-world problems and create a positive impact on users' lives while driving business growth. With extensive knowledge of fintech (wealth management), media, and real estate domains, she brings a deep understanding of industry trends and user needs. A natural relationship builder, Nidhi excels at rallying teams around a shared vision, and has a strong passion for building, growing and nurturing high- performing and empowered teams.
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- 05/04/2023 | 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A3Speakers Sudha is a highly experienced Product Executive with over 20 years of expertise in digital media, e-commerce, marketplaces, AI, and cloud technologies. She has made a direct impact on enterprises, SMBs, and consumers throughout her career. In 2019, Sudha was recognized as one of the Most Admired Businesswomen by Insights Success and was also recently featured by CXO magazine as a Global leader with exemplary vision. She has been featured as 52 Women in Product Management making an impact by Product management festival.  Currently, Sudha holds the position of General Manager and Partner leading a Product team at Microsoft, overseeing Core services with focus on Azure Networking. Prior to this, she served as the Head of Product at eBay, where she led First party advertising and the developer ecosystem. Sudha was also the Head of Product - Customer Experience at Flipkart where, as first women expat she managed Product Management, Design, and Product Operations. During her tenure as the Director of Product at Yahoo, Sudha built the largest Online Display Ads marketplace and data platforms. With a strong background in both national and international markets, Sudha holds a Masters degree in computer science and an MBA in Marketing. She is passionate about building innovative products and solving complex problems. Sudha strongly believes in delivering outstanding products for customers while fostering strong relationships. She upholds the philosophy of treating every person as a customer in some way and treating them the way she would want to be treated. Ashi Sareen is experienced in leading engineering teams to build large scale enterprise grade infrastructure software products in enterprise cloud, mobile and security markets. Ashi has led global teams of up to 100 engineers comprising of software developers, UX, quality engineers and software architects. She is currently leading the team responsible for Oracle Cloud and Dev Ops software for Fusion Apps. She holds nearly 20 years of hands on experience in full stack enterprise software delivery including defining product strategy and UX, delivering innovative ways to reduce cost, leading key customer initiative and leading 24-7 devops teams. Ashi has 15 years of experience in people management and experienced in building teams from ground up and leading global team. Ashi has led teams via agile methodologies and has been extensively involved with customer and exec interactions. Ashi has been recognized as Top Women Technologies in the Bay Area. Nidhi Wadmark is an experienced product management, strategy, and transformation leader driving results and making a lasting positive impact in the payments, healthcare, e-commerce, and financial services industries. Nidhi is skilled in developing relationships and rallying teams around a vision to build products, services, and communities that help people at scale. She continually creates and executes strategies that drive results, meet customer needs, and align with business objectives. Nidhi builds and leads high-performance teams via inclusive management, goal setting, and motivation. Beyond work, Nidhi leads and drives change in her community. She is the Global Co-chair for PayPals employee resource group for disability inclusion, the founder of a local chapter of Women in Product, a mentor to product managers, and previously, a co-producer/host of a TV show spotlighting the South Asian diaspora. Monica Bajaj is a seasoned engineering leader with decades of industry experience building and scaling global diverse teams across both the consumer and enterprise space. She is currently VP of Engineering at Auth0, a division of Okta, where she empowers a frictionless developer experience ensuring ease of mind for her customers by focusing on building scalable and secure identity solutions. Monica brings in decades of industry experience across various tech industries and has been successful in building global diverse teams and scaling technology across multiple industries in the space of Consumer/ Enterprise, Infrastructure and Security. Prior to Okta she was a Senior Director of Product and Engineering at Workday where she led the efforts of replatforming Workday Community as a secure and scalable SaaS platform. Outside of work, Monica is very active in programs around mentorship, diversity, and uplifting women and young girls. She has won several awards as a Mentor of the Year 2021 award and has been recognized as top 60 Women technical leaders by the Girl Geek X Community. She has also served on the board as Technology and Chief Compliance Officer for Women in Localization for their GDPR and Security initiatives.
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- 05/04/2023 | 4:15 pm – 4:30 pm PDT
- 15 mins Hall A3Speakers Khurram SheikhChairman and CEO
CXAppDirects CXApps positioning as The Workplace SuperApp and cements pioneering hybrid workplace solution as a category-maker CEO, Khurram Sheikh, is a global citizen having grown up and lived on three continents, an innovator who helped pioneer mobile technologies, networks, software and applications. Khurram is passionate about transformational change and is focused on realizing the vision of the Workplace Super App centered around the employee experience.  An engineer by training with 12 issued US patents, Khurram has been leading transformational projects since his days as a summer intern at Sprint from Stanford in 1996 to his current role as the CEO of KINS Technology Group- in between he has worked across the whole technology stack from Silicon to SaaS. Khurram is an avid traveler, sports enthusiast and family man…you will not be surprised to find him on the weekends at a kid’s gaming party or at an international sports stadium. Technologist, business leader, and cricket fan, Khurram is super-excited to help shape the future of work.
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Track Chairs
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.
VMware
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.
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