Engage and Elevate the Secure, Multi-Cloud Connected World!
When & Where
The Future of Cloud and SaaS
Track Agenda
- 05/05/2022 | 9:00 am – 9:20 am PDT
- 20 mins Hall BSpeakersGeorge KurianCEO
NetAppGeorge Kurian is an Indian-American business executive. He is the current Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of NetApp Inc. Prior to this, he was the Executive Vice President of Product Operations at NetApp.
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- 05/05/2022 | 9:20 am – 9:55 am PDT
- 35 mins Hall BSpeakersMeerah RajavelCIO
Palo Alto NetworksAs CIO of Palo Alto Networks, Meerah Rajavel leads the global IT team that drives industry transformation for Cybersecurity, and delivers solutions that empower the company's mission of making a world where each day is more safe and secure than the last.Meerah excel at promoting transformation, innovation, profitability and agility through the creative use of technologies at large corporations such as Citrix, McAfee, and Cisco Systems, as well as rapid growth startups. She is a passionate leader who inspires and motivates teams to achieve extraordinary business outcomes through entrepreneurial thinking and collaborative cross-functional partnerships. She is a change agent, thought leader and a frequent speaker with a reputation for supporting women in technology, and promoting diversity and sustainability at the workplace.Wendy M. PfeifferCIO
NutanixWendy is the CIO of Nutanix, where she leads the global Information Technology team and functions that support the company’s business operations and employees. Prior to Nutanix, Wendy led technology teams for industry-makers like GoPro, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Exodus Communications and Robert Half. Dedicated to excellence in operations and delivery while maintaining a focus on innovation, Wendy has played a key role in envisioning and delivering business technologies for the past two decades.Praniti LakhwaraCIO
ZscalerAs Chief Information Officer, Praniti is responsible for leading Zscaler’s Information technology solutions and enabling a seamless experience for customers and employees. She is focused on driving a comprehensive strategy that will help scale the company rapidly, build a world class IT organization, deliver innovative solutions globally, and create a secure robust infrastructure.Jigna ShahVP, Management and Finance
CiscoJigna Shah is VP, Management & Finance, a member of Jacqui Guichelaar’s Digital Enterprise Solutions Senior Leadership Team. In leading the Management and Finance team, Jigna is responsible for the strategy, transformation, delivery and operations of Cisco’s core ERP and non-ERP platforms and services. Her team drives the effective and efficient operation of Order to Cash, Accounting and Close, Financial Planning and Performance Management, Treasury, Legal, Procurement and Cisco’s Leasing and Financing business. Jigna started at Cisco as an IT Engineer where she designed and developed various Channels business systems. She has played several leadership roles in Cisco IT in Sales Finance/Sales as well as in the Enterprise Data space. She led the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) transformation program on the Teradata platform and the IT effort for establishing the EDW platform within the enterprise data model for Financial Measures.  In her most recent role, she led the Incubation and Scaling as well as SaaS Operations services and was instrumental in commercializing ~200 new business model offers across the Commerce Lifecycle. Jigna is passionate about accelerating transformation, innovation and process simplification, experience led design, solving business problems with use of technology, and using the power of data and insights to influence key business decisions.  Jigna has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and MBA in Finance. In her personal time, she enjoys traveling, hiking and practicing yoga.Lori Harmon is a strategic leader who helps customers maximize their return, drives sales innovation and empowers teams in a digital era. She is also the author of the book 42 Rules for Building a High Velocity Inside Sales Team and a frequent speaker on topics related to sales, sales enablement, inside sales and AI in sales. Currently, Lori is the Vice President of Global Renewals & Customer Success at NetApp. Prior to NetApp, Lori was Vice President of Sales at BlackBerry, Ltd. Prior to BlackBerry Lori held a number of executive sales leadership positions at high tech companies such as Contrast Security, VeriSign, Melbourne IT, Interwoven, Brio Software and Network General. Ms. Harmon holds a BS degree in Information Systems from Appalachian State University.
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- 05/05/2022 | 9:55 am – 10:30 am PDT
- 35 mins Hall BSpeakersSriram Subramanian is a Research Director within IDC AI and Automation Software Research group covering AI/ ML Lifecycle Management Software. His coverage on AI// ML Lifecycle management includes the tools, technologies, and end-user needs for building, training, tuning, running, and scaling the end-to-end life cycle for AI/ML solutions from experimentation to production. He advises vendors on product strategy, market positioning, and messaging; and buyers on implementing end to end scalable ML pipelines and AI-enabled digital transformation best practices to meet their business needs. Prior to joining IDC, Sriram was the founder and principal analyst at CloudDon, an independent market research and advisory services firm. He is a certified Yoga instructor passionate about teaching Yoga/ Healthier lifestyle to kids. He spends his free time playing cricket or outdoors with his kids.Charu is the site leader for the growing Cloud + AI organization at IDC and the VP of Engineering leader in Azure Core leading Compute and Cloud Native technologies. She has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Anna University and a master’s degree in Computer Science from University of California, Santa Barbara. Charu has been with Microsoft for 30years and has worked in multiples roles. She is known for her engineering excellence, innovation, and organizational leadership. Charu has innovated in different areas of the Microsoft Cloud and is currently focused on understanding technology to build privacy preserving computational approaches. Over the years, Charu has led multiple initiatives across IDC that focused on building innovation excellence, empowering women leaders, and mentoring senior engineering talent. She was the founding members for Microsoft WISE Mentoring Program where tech leaders at Microsoft volunteer to mentor women in computer science and software engineering. She partnered with CII’s Centre of Excellence on their vision for Digital Transformation and is the board member on the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committee on Technology.Vijoy Pandey is Vice President, Emerging Technologies and Incubation (ET&I) at Cisco. ET&I is chartered to create and drive the next Bold Bets businesses for Cisco in an agile, ambitious, and entrepreneurial manner. Vijoy runs product, engineering, research and a product-led growth team. He is also the CTO for Cloud at Cisco. Vijoy has held various strategy, product and engineering leadership roles and has over 20 years of expertise in planet-scale distributed systems, cloud, operational excellence, and application-first software infrastructures which serve to complement his role as a technical visionary for a software-focused digital future. Before joining Cisco, he served as Head of Engineering at Google for the company’s global cloud networks, where he was responsible for developing software systems for intent-driven automation, observability, AI/ML-based data analytics, and application-level awareness. Vijoy has held the CTO role at various companies including IBM, and Blade Network Technologies, and has led large geo-diverse, agile product and engineering teams at Blade Network Technologies, Nortel, Alteon, and Google. Vijoy has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis. He currently holds over 80 patents in cloud, networking, AI/ML, and distributed systems.An IIT-B Graduate and a Techie at heart, Deepak is the co-founder and CTO at Mindtickle, one of the latest Unicorns in India today. Mindtickle is the world’s leading sales enablement and training platform used by many Fortune 500 companies. An avid biker and mountain climber, Deepak loves mentoring the next generation of Indian entrepreneurs who are building from India, for the world!Shankar Venkataraman is a distinguished technology leader and a pioneer in the streaming data and analytics, big data, and machine learning / AI space. He works as SVP of Products and Engineering at Jivo Corporation, which provides a cloud-based, data-driven platform for delivering personalized digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale. It is a powerful solution for engaging consumers with the right message in real-time and across all channels. Shankar holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India.
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- 05/05/2022 | 10:30 am – 10:45 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall BSpeakersOmer is SVP & GM of the $1.4 Billion Data Storage, Data Services SaaS, and HyperConverged business at Nimble, an HPE Company. Omer is responsible for Engineering, Product Management, and Operations for all Data and SaaS services in Storage and Data Infrastructure platforms.Sandeep is a High impact marketing leader with 18 years of experience as a senior marketing and product management executive. Strong track record of shaping markets and driving growth at startups and Fortune 500 technology companies. Unique blend of driving thought leadership and global marketing strategy for a $5B portfolio at a Fortune 500 company, leading category creation and product marketing from under $50M to $1B in revenue at an enterprise technology startup, and leading product strategy and planning from pre-revenue to $1B at another enterprise technology startup. Experienced at bringing emerging products to market and accelerating growth in highly competitive markets including cloud services, enterprise storage, data management, hybrid cloud, and hyperconverged infrastructure. Successful in category creation, driving thought leadership, demand generation, go-to-market, and sales enablement. Highly regarded spokesperson. Skilled at building and leading high performance organizations.
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- 05/05/2022 | 10:45 am – 11:15 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall BSpeakersRahul Bhuman, MS, MBA, has more than 18 years of leadership experience across corporate development, corporate strategy, business development, sales and software development. At Tech Mahindra, he is VP of Emerging Business. He is also a adjunct faculty at University of California Santa Cruz Extension campus. Bhuman has a master’s degree in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago and an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Indian School of Business where he continues to work as a startup business mentor at the school’s Atal Incubation Center. Formerly he was an advisor to the UC Berkeley Garwood Center of Innovation and Technology Pioneers selection committee at the World Economic Forum. In addition to teaching, he serves as an advisor to UCSC Silicon Valley Extension Artificial Intelligence program. Rahul was also on the Advisory Board of High Tech High Heels, a not profit organization with a mission to increase the number of girls entering into a college-level degree program in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM).Drew Lydecker is the Co-Founder and President at AVANT, a global leader in powering next generation technology decisions. Drew comes from a family of entrepreneurs who have continually pushed the envelope in disrupting the status quo by focusing on high value and high touch solutions. Drew built AVANT to fill a void in the market created by the accelerating pace of change in IT. AVANT’s market research, resources and technology helps Trusted Advisors support their customers to achieve their business transformation objectives, by navigating the ever changing IT landscape. From complex cloud design to global wide-area network deployments, AVANT empower Trusted Advisors and clients with access to the global marketplace of Cloud, Colocation and Telecom service providers that are disrupting todays IT landscape. To learn more about Drew, see this recent profile on “Let go and Lead”https://www.gagenmacdonald.com/lgl-print/drew-lydecker/Dante Orsini serves as 11:11 Systems Chief Strategy Officer. He brings more than 20 years of experience leading direct and indirect sales teams, ideally positioning him to lead customer-focused strategy across all facets, from planning to execution, business transformation, and partner growth. In his role as Senior Vice President of Business Development for iland, he oversaw the global direction and execution of iland strategic and channel partnerships. Additionally, Dante along with his team were responsible for designing iland robust global, partner ecosystem from the ground up. He sits on the VMware Service Provider Advisory Council, as well as the HPE, Veeam, and Zerto Partner Advisory Boards. Dante was instrumental in helping iland to achieve Leader status in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service from 2016 through 2019 when the report was retired. Additionally, Dante and his team led iland to win CRN Partner Program (Five-Star rating) for three consecutive years as well as the Veeam Impact Partner of the Year award for four consecutive years and the Zerto Cloud Service Partner of the Year for three consecutive years. Dante background, combined with his thought leadership in cloud computing and cloud infrastructure, have ensured that he is repeatedly tapped to present at events across the globe. Dante holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interpersonal Communications from Bowling Green State University.Sudakar Kodandaram joined Equinix in 2019 leading business development efforts with HPE. In this role, Sudakar collaborates with Equinix technology partners to ideate, co-develop, and launch joint offerings that help customers address their technology business needs. A tech veteran with over 20 years of experience, Sudakar previously spent over a decade with EDS, Hewlett Packard, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, working in different capacities across pan HP/HPE business units. He has managed business development and go-to-market strategies for application transformation, testing and validation services for retail and transportation verticals, been a solutions specialist for HP Technology Consulting Services supporting data center transformation and has been an HPE GreenLake Sales Specialist focused on accelerating digital transformation efforts. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Bangalore.Dr. Sanjit Singh DangCo-Founder and Chairman
U First CapitalDr Sanjit Singh Dang has been a successful Venture Capitalist, Corporate Executive, Board Member, Speaker, and Writer in Silicon Valley for two decades. He is currently the Co-Founder and Chairman of U First Capital. They provide Venture Capital as a Service to Corporations by bringing Startups in the Corporate's specific areas of interest (dedicated model). U First Capital's clients include Hitachi, Dupont, Booz Allen Hamilton, Ricoh, a multi-national Telecommunications Company, FedEx Institute, etc. Prior to starting U First Capital, Sanjit was at Intel Capital where he led Venture Capital investments in AI and Enterprise Software. He has been an Investor and on the Board of several companies. Sanjit has an excellent track record of driving at least 1 Exit every year: Pensando (Acquired by AMD in 2022), Nextdoor (IPO 2021), Palantir (IPO 2020), Orb Intelligence (Acquired by Dun and Bradstreet in 2020), Pinterest (IPO 2019), DocuSign (IPO 2018), Body Labs (AI startup, Acquired by Amazon in 2017 within 2 years of leading Series A investment), Voke (Acquired by Intel in 2016 within 7 months of leading Series A investment), Maginatics (Acquired by EMC in 2015 within 1 year of leading investment) and Basis Science (Acquired by Intel in 2014 within 1 year of investment). Sanjit has been on US-level Tech/Innovation Policy Advisory team. He is on the Advisory Council of UN’s World Artificial Intelligence Organization. He has also been on University of California President's Innovation Council. Sanjit has the fastest Engineering PhD from University of Illinois (2yrs 9mo after undergrad), which he received in 2000 with top research awards. He also attended the VC Executive program at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. He’s an invited Speaker at several top conferences, eg SURGE/WebSummit, Venture Summit West, TiECon, Collision, ShopTalk, McKinsey Leadership Summit, Silicon Valley Open Doors, Global AI conference, etc. He’s a mentor at Stanford and Berkeley’s Entrepreneurship programs. Sanjit has over a decade of Exec leadership experience in Product Design, Business Development and Strategy across several domains: Big Data, Natural Language Processing, 3D Camera/Apps, Supply-Chain Analytics and Flash Memory. He has managed $2Bill/year accounts and executed >30 partnership deals in $100M-$2Bill range. Always striving to be ahead of the curve, Sanjit worked on Big Data Analytics before industry created the term 'Big Data'. Similarly, he launched 2 online courses during graduate school in 1999 and published iconic papers on learnings, way before the MOOC revolution started.
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- 05/05/2022 | 11:15 am – 11:30 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall BSpeakersBipul Sinha is an entrepreneur, engineer and venture capitalist with more than 20 years of experience building billion-dollar companies - including Rubrik which he co-founded and leads as the CEO. In addition, Bipul is the Board Chairman & Co-Founder of Confluera and a Venture Partner at Lightspeed. Previously, Bipul was a Partner at Lightspeed where he focused on software, mobile, and Internet sectors. His investments included Nutanix, Pulse News, Bromium, and PernixData. Before Lightspeed, Bipul worked at Blumberg Capital, where he was the founding investor/board member of Nutanix and Hootsuite. Bipul also held engineering positions at Oracle Corporation, American Megatrends and IBM. Bipul received his Bachelor in Technology in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur where he was bestowed with the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Bipul completed his MBA in Finance from The Wharton School where he was a Palmer Scholar. Bipul holds several patents in distributed computing.
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Track Chairs
TiEcon 2022 Tracks
TiEcon 2023 Tracks
- AI & Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
All eyes on the business and human impact of AI
- Capital Markets
Capital Markets
Conversations from IPO to Exits, a 360 degree view on investments
- Cloud & SaaS
Cloud & SaaS
Exciting new paradigms in cloud and security with a zero-trust position
- Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Exploring the revolutionary future of entrepreneurship
- Global Connect
Global Connect
Scaling global connectivity post digital transformation
- Healthcare
Healthcare
Reinventing healthcare in the age of the global pandemic
- Media & Entertainment
Media & Entertainment
Convergence of Art and Technology
- Security & Fraud
Security & Fraud
Responding to Identity Theft, Fraud and Cybercrime
- Social Impact
- Supply Chain
Supply Chain
Recent Supply Chain Challenges - is there a Way Out?
- Sustainability
- TiE Youth
- Web3, Crypto & NFTs
Web 3, Crypto & NFTs
Bringing together the trends and the practical applications of Web3
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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
All eyes on the business and human impact of AI
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Capital Markets
Conversations from IPO to Exits, a 360 degree view on investments
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Cloud & SaaS
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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Global Connect
Scaling global connectivity post digital transformation
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Healthcare
Reinventing healthcare in the age of the global pandemic
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Media & Entertainment
Convergence of Art and Technology
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Security & Fraud
Responding to Identity Theft, Fraud and Cybercrime
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Social Impact
Dare to Change the World for Good
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Supply Chain
Recent Supply Chain Challenges - is there a Way Out?
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Sustainability
Sustainability
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TiE Youth
Fostering youth entrepreneurs
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Web 3, Crypto & NFTs
Bringing together the trends and the practical applications of Web3