As a VP of Engineering at Guidewire Software, Anoop Gopalakrishnan is responsible for building out Guidewire’s next generation insurance platform as a service in the cloud. His areas of focus include devops, digital transformations, cloud workload optimisations, secure operations, networking, container orchestration, and better cloud practices including application architectures. Anoop has more than 15 years of professional experience in enterprise integration and cloud services with a strong track record of demonstrating leadership in strategy, technology, engineering, and management. Prior to Guidewire, Anoop was with Pivotal Software, Inc. working on open source Cloudfoundry platform as a service.

Born and raised in Mexico City, Avelino Benavides is a passionate Software Engineer with 20+ years of experience across banking, consulting and telecommunications.

He specialises in: Software Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Cloud, SDN, NFV, IoT, 5G, 4G, Broadband, Networking, Project Leading and Planning and Bid Management.

Avelino currently works in the gaming industry in Stockholm, Sweden.

Awanish Verma is Director and Principal Architect, Technical Marketing in the communication business unit at Xilinx. Awanish is responsible for the architecture of Security solutions used in next generations wired, wireless and data center networks. Awanish is also responsible for architecture and development of Xilinx FPGA based network interface card used in 5G wireless and next generation wired networks. He has spent 25 years in the networking industry with 20 years in networking system design. Awanish has been in various engineering, product marketing and solution architecture roles in multiple networking organisations. He holds BSEE in Electronics and communications and MSEE in VLSI design.

Insightful Information Technology Manager with over 15 years of IT experience including oversight of infrastructure, application support and security services. Dedicated to customer satisfaction with focused delivery of technical solutions. Proven leader in directing operations, maintenance and support of complex systems. Develops creative business solutions, leveraging diverse methodologies and delivering engineering solutions for leading organizations. Highly adept in request for proposal development, technology needs assessments and staff training.

Mr. Marron joined Huawei in October 2016 to lead the Financial Industry Development in the Europe Region. As main expert for the Region he holds the responsibility for developing Digital Transformation strategies for Banks and Insurances.

Before Huawei, Mr. Marron developed most of his career in the Banking Industry, working for Santander Bank for 12 years, where assumed a number of executive positions in UK, Spain and Brazil.

Before Santander, Mr. Marron worked for HP and Telefonica.

Mr. Marron holds an Enterprise Telecommunications Master Degree by UPM University.

Jennifer S. Torlone is the CIO and Vice President of Information Technology for Willis Lease Finance Corporation, joining the Willis family of companies in January 2018. Jennifer’s goal is to position the company as a leader in technology, modernising the applications, architecture, and infrastructure. She is transforming the Information Technology organisation at Willis into a team of innovators, business strategists, and project managers while outsourcing the day-to-day activities. Her vision is to make it easy to do business. Before joining Willis Lease, Jennifer served for 7 years as the CIO and Senior Director of Technology and Information Services for Amerijet Holdings, Inc.

Jeremy Smith is a senior IT leader and architect with 20 years of experience building and leading teams across security, engineering and operations. Smith currently leads the Cybersecurity Engineering and Incident Response team at Avery Dennison headquartered in Glendale, California. Avery Dennison is a Fortune 500 manufacturer of pressure sensitive materials with 25,000 employees and operations around the globe.

Jin leads the Cognitive Computing Platform Team for Fidelity, building multi-channel Conversational AI applications to enable an amazing customer experience. As a Senior Technology Executive, he has always followed the same simple rules: Building a Great Team is as important as building great software, only design what you can build, and you never really know anything unless you can teach it to someone else. Every position Jin has held has encompassed both Leadership as well as Technical Design and Hands On Development.

Johan is the Nordic CTO for Enterprise BG at Huawei. A senior professional with +20 years of experience within the IT industry. With solid knowledge of the business and customers' needs, he works strategically to combine insights with innovative technologies such as AI, IoT & 5G, to support organizations on their digitalization journey.

Johan has a background from senior positions both at vendors e.g. Hitachi, Fujitsu, system integrators as well as at customers. Johan also holds CISSP and CISA certifications.

John is an IT, Digital and Wireless Executive with Infosys - Communications, Media and Entertainment sector for the USA region. Prior, John served as an advisor to technology executives and Boards while consulting as the Chief Product Officer.

An accomplished leader, John’s executive experience spans telecommunications, IT, digitisation, software engineering, design, delivery, wireless, networks and property infrastructure. Some key achievements include the major rollouts of Telstra’s 3G and 4G wireless networks and delivery of Telstra’s global property strategy.

At a time of disruptive technological change, John is proud to lead organisations that help people and business achieve the things they aspire to.

John is a seasoned technology leader with 20+ years of experience in the data & analytics space. He is consistently at the forefront of thought leadership around modernisation of technical capabilities (from MPP to Big Data to Cloud) and alignment with providing business value.

John earned his degree in Management Information Systems from the Carlson School of Management, U of MN. He started his career in Data Warehousing with a programmer analyst role in manufacturing, before moving into consulting with Pricewaterhouse Coopers/IBM. He joined UHG as a Data Warehousing architect and has climbed the ranks to senior leader and chief architect of UHG’s Reporting & Analytics organisation.

Passionate Technologist, Enterprise Advisor, and Leader with a solid background in Cybersecurity, data center, virtual- and cloud infrastructure with more than 30 years in IT business and global presences.

Johnny’s ambition is to help customers and partners to understand the complex environment of cybersecurity infrastructure and building strong and long-lasting relationships. Our team is very keen on supporting you in having the right level of protection for your entire organisation.

Kaveh graduated with Masters in Computer Science as well as Business Science, after which he combined the theory of IT and change management into a career. Kaveh has worked on large scale infrastructure outsourcing, SAP implementation, SoX and GDPR implementations as well as have led agile organization development. Today, Kaveh is leading the next step of cloud journey at Electrolux by establishing governance, strategy as well as the capability shift from on-prem to cloud operation. Kaveh combines technical know-how with business insight to formulate strategy and drive change. When not working, Kaveh is trying to understand his 6-year old daughter and failing miserably every day.

Responsible for the information security strategy development focusing on security program development and management for effective data protection based on a good infrastructure security and protection.

Management of Security operations team focusing on SOC management as well incident management and response. Operations strategy based on future orchestration and remediation for effective response/remediation and incident management automation process.

Mario Chiock is a Schlumberger Fellow Emeritus and former Chief Information Security Officer at Schlumberger, where he was responsible for developing Schlumberger’s worldwide cybersecurity strategy and Cybersecurity transformation program. He started a cloud security team and a next gen SOC (Security Operations Center). Mario served on the advisory boards of Palo Alto Networks, Qualys, Onapsis, Cofense and Clearedin. He was also involved on the creation of the ONG-ISAC.

Martin Mancuso brings more than 15 years of experience in Digital Technology in the Oil and Gas production and processing industries. Technologist, strategist and inventor he joined Schneider Electric in 2007, now holding the position of Global Technology Director for Oil & Gas.

He specialises in: Marketing, Project Management, 6 Sigma, Oil & Gas Up Stream Process, Well Automation, Process Control, Functional Safety, Modern and Advance Control Techniques, Technology Development (Hardware, software & interdisciplinary).

Michael Moltke is ambitious and loves challenges. He has a passion for network security and often plays with different low-level protocols.

Michaels's expertise range from systems analysis, Network programming, C#, NET, SQL, Hardware and Systems Integration. He has designed and implemented many systems and has a lot of experience working across multiple platforms (Different OS combinations, software platforms and so forth).

His objectives are to improve his skills, learn new technologies and improve his knowledge of digital security.

Experienced leader in Network Infrastructure in Financial Services for over 25 years. Highly skilled at leading and managing teams in Infrastructure through complex globally scaled projects. Using agile management methods, Michael Wynston has lead transformations of IT Infrastructure at multiple Fortune 100 Financial Services organisations. Michael currently leads Global Network Architecture and Solutions Services with his team in North America, South America, Asia Pacific, and Europe developing new infrastructure focused on leveraging leading edge technologies to provide the business with the ability to scale faster and with cost efficiencies.

Customer-focused Enterprise Solution Architect and Software Development Manager with 17 years in consulting as well as corporate. Fully aware of the fiduciary responsibility of building enterprise level solutions that customers love. Adept at providing Technical and Strategic vision and direction to Software Development & Operations of multiple work streams; lead with empathy the architecture, design and development of complex, robust, HA and scalable Enterprise applications in a timely and cost effective manner. Successfully drove strategic initiatives, built dedicated global teams and thriving relationships with multiple stakeholders. Passionate at providing technology leadership to the team, grooming new leaders and supporting organisational vision through his work.

Nasser has 20+ years as a Cybersecurity leader in financial services and insurance with a focus on customer-first, team building, and implementing programs that align and support company strategies, regulatory requirements, and growth initiatives. He drives cybersecurity as an enabler and differentiator with enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, including Cloud-First, Mobile-First, and DevSecOp. He also closely partners with executives on identifying and mitigating cybersecurity risks associated with merger and acquisition and vendor supply chain.

Nasser has a strong, consistent record working successfully with regulators, auditors, and risk partners.

Over twenty four years of experience in the IT industry. Served as Digital Transformation Leader and held various leadership roles at Toyota, CapGemini, Deloitte, etc. Responsible for leading global efforts into developing, communicating, and executing strategic initiatives in support of organisational growth using technology.

Bachelor in Electronics Engineering from India, and Masters of Business Administration from University of Massachusetts.

Successful track record of driving key business initiatives with the idea to grow and align with the business. Key in making IT as a profit center and playing a pivotal role in making key strategic decisions by giving inputs for building the short and long term Business forecast plan.

Ratnavelsamy Kalyanasundaram serves as the Vice President of YapStone. Ratnavelsamy started at YapStone in June 2017. Founded in 1999, YapStone is a global provider of web and mobile payment solutions and processing for targeted vertical markets.

Richard Howells has been working in the supply chain management and manufacturing space for over 25 years. He is responsible for driving the market direction and positioning of SAP’s Digital Supply Chain and Industry 4.0 solutions and is an active writer and thought leader on the topics of supply chain, industry 4.0, digitisation and sustainability. Prior to joining SAP in 2004, he spent 15 years with Marcam Solutions as VP of Marketing for the company’s Process ERP solutions. Richard holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Mid Glamorgan in Wales.

Rick currently leads network software engineering and operations at eBay as a director. Rick carries 20+ years of experience in architecting, engineering and operating networks for large scale Internet backbones, cloud scale data centers and edge networks.

Stacy has over 20 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry covering a vast array of positions that have fostered her knowledge base. Stacy began her career with Inteliquent, formerly ANPI, in 2006 as a Dedicated Account Manager providing service and guidance to their customer base. After furthering her role within the support organisation in a management role, Stacy focused on customer quality of service and first level repair, KPI monitoring/reporting, carrier performance and vendor advancement for optimal routing, fraud monitoring and credit risk.

Stacy is currently the President of the CFCA and also chairs their Marketing, Educational Event and Strategic Partnership programs.

Stephane's Vision is that tomorrow's data centers will self-sustain and self-heal themselves with minimal Human intervention thanks to Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Open-source technologies.

He is a Chief Cloud Architect and Cloud Practice Leader at Red Hat. With 20+ years of experience in IT, Cloud Engineering, and Operations Leadership roles, He champions cloud technologies adoption and helps his clients increase their application development velocity and reduce overall delivery costs in their digital transformation journey. His experience spans across High-Tech ISV, Healthcare, Financial Services, and Telco industries.