Speakers 2022

Jeff has spent over 30 years focusing on all aspects of enterprise software and analytics with notable companies including Cognos, Peoplesoft, and SAP. He joined Oracle in early 2019 to lead the supply chain and manufacturing product marketing team, and he is also responsible for solution marketing focused on audiences and industries.

Percy has 15 years of consulting, sales and operations experience in the software and professional services industry. He is especially passionate about transforming enterprises utilizing state-of-the-art technology like Augmented Reality (AR) and Internet of Things.

Paul Swider is an Acceleration Economy Analyst focused on healthcare technology and the Chief Philanthropy Officer for RealActivity, a Boston-based SaaS startup, focused on streamlining healthcare operations and improving the patient-provider experience.

Vahan Tchakerian serves as Cogniac’s Chief Partnership Officer and responsible expanding Cogniac’s reach through various commercial channels.

Hans Thalbauer joined Google Cloud in August 2020 and is responsible for the vision, mission, and strategy for global supply chain and logistics business solutions across all industries.

Carrie Tharp is the VP of Retail & Consumer at Google Cloud. Carrie is responsible for creating and executing Google Cloud’s global product, partner, and go-to-market strategy in the Retail industry.

John is an international technology executive with over 35 years of experience in the fields of data, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Tim Galloway is SVP Go-To-Market for Inoapps - a leading global Oracle partner who helps companies Transform, Optimize, and Innovate their business and technology processes.

Toni (Anton) Tomic is the Global Head of SAP’s Insurance Industry vertical responsible for industry strategy, solution management, GTM, marketing, sales and partnerships.

Richard Trickey is the WW Turbonomic and Integration Practice Leader for Technology Expert Labs and joined IBM via the acquisition of Turbonomic in June 2021. He has spent the past two decades working on two continents within the most extensive and, often most advanced enterprise datacenters for some of world’s largest corporations.

Dan Turchin is the CEO and Founder of PeopleReign (www.peoplereign.io), the leading AI platform for employee service automation. He is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and has hosted over 130 episodes of the popular “AI and the Future of Work” podcast.

Tony currently serves as Senior Advisor to the CEO and executive team at Xometry, a publicly traded, on demand manufacturing marketplace. He most recently led the turn around, growth and successful sale of Thomasnet.com to Xometry in December of 2021 for $300m.

Doc Vaidhyanathan is an entrepreneur and technology leader who led the development and successful adoption of innovative solutions in security, risk assessment, compliance automation, and related technologies.

Scott Vaughan is an Acceleration Economy Analyst focusing on the Chief Marketing Officer and marketing's role and contribution to this massive business movement.

Sanket Warudkar is the Practice Director at Infosys. He is responsible for services like SAP on Cloud, Data Analytics and AI Solution on the SAP Platform, for North America region.

Eric Washer is vice president at Workday, responsible for industry product strategy and the office of CFO suite.

As senior vice president and general manager of Oracle Retail, Mike Webster is responsible for strategy, enablement, development, sales, service, and support.

19+ years of combined experience directing, managing, building, implementing, and optimizing a broad range of IT infrastructure technology systems and services (including in a global capacity) has taught me one main thing: The world is changing way too fast to hold on to yesterday's decisions when all the variables used to make those decisions have changed.

Dan Wesley is a Chief Technology Officer for North America at Workday, responsible for articulating Workday’s architecture, security, technology, and platform initiatives to prospective and existing customers.

Joe Wilson, Chief Technology Officer -- Americas, is a tireless advocate for smart applications of technology to solve the hardest problems. No stranger to the software industry, he has worked in development, product, consulting, and leadership over the better part of two decades; creating or leading innovation for several first-to-market solutions.

Toni Witt runs The Utopian, a blog/podcast about how blockchain and extended-reality are joining to form the next Internet. He's also interning at a VR startup and studying computer science with a focus on HCI, immersive tech, and blockchain. He has strong entrepreneurial aspirations.

Robert Wood is an Acceleration Economy Analyst focusing on Cyber Security. He has led the development of multiple cyber security programs from the ground up at startups across the healthcare, cyber security, and digital marketing industries.

We believe crypto will become one of the largest asset classes in the world. As the number of crypto investors grows exponentially, these investors will demand a better source of news, data, information, research, analysis, and more

I love building tribes and making life and business hum while achieve extraordinary outcomes for all.

Sabina Zafar is a technology leader at Oracle, focused on delivering business value to companies, customers and communities alike through digital transformation initiatives.