Marc Benioff is Chair, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Salesforce and a pioneer of cloud computing. Under Benioff's leadership, Salesforce has become the third-largest enterprise software company and the largest enterprise applications company in the world.

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Benioff was named “Innovator of the Decade” by Forbes and is recognized as one of the World’s 25 Greatest Leaders by Fortune, one of the 10 Best-Performing CEOs by Harvard Business Review, as the CNN Business CEO of 2020 and Chief Executive Magazine's 2022 CEO of the Year. He was named a “Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur,” one of France's most prestigious awards for an individual, in recognition of Salesforce’s longstanding relationship with France and support to French Polynesia during the pandemic. Benioff received both the Yale Legend in Leadership Award and the Colin Powell Distinguished Leadership Award in 2024. He has been awarded a Society for Progress Medal for courageous leadership in integrating business performance and societal progress. In 2019, Benioff was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. For his leadership on equality, Benioff has been honored by GLAAD, the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative and Variety Magazine with its EmPOWerment Award. In 2020, he and his wife, Lynne, received a George H.W. Bush Points of Light Award for their civic engagement.

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Benioff founded Salesforce in 1999, and it is now a Fortune 150 company with 70,000+ employees, guided by five core values — trust, customer success, innovation, equality and sustainability. The company has been recognized as the Most Innovative Company by Forbes, a Best Place to Work by Fortune, and the 10th Most Admired Company in the World by Fortune.

Sridhar Ramaswamy was Co-Founder of Neeva, acquired in 2023 by Snowflake, where he is now CEO. He spent more than 15 years at Google, where he started as a software engineer and rose to SVP of Ads & Commerce. Sridhar earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Brown University.

John Roese is Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Officer at
Dell Technologies. He is responsible for establishing the company’s future-looking technology strategy, accelerating AI adoption for Dell and its customers, and establishing Dell as the undisputed thought leader in the area of Enterprise AI.

He fosters a culture of innovation, keeping Dell at the forefront of the industry while anticipating customers’ technology needs before they arise. From quantum to AI, 5G, edge, hybrid cloud, data management and security, John and his team are responsible for navigating the latest technology inflection points, accelerating AI-driven outcomes, and scaling generative and agentic AI initiatives that lead to human progress.

John has a passion for going places nobody else has been and his career has mirrored this passion with moves across almost every technological domain, from enterprise to telecom to semiconductors to security. Prior to joining Dell in 2012, John was the CTO, CIO, CMO, GM, and leader of several technology companies, including Nortel, Broadcom, Futurewei, Enterasys, and Cabletron Systems.

John is an established public speaker, published author, and holds more than 20 pending and granted patents in areas such as policy-based networking, location-based services, and security. He was recently named #1 on AI Magazine’s list of Top 10 Chief AI Officers, 20th on AI Magazine’s Top 100 Leaders, and to the H2O AI 100 list. His “AI Insights with John Roese” YouTube series was awarded Distinguished Recognition by ISSIP for driving informed, long-horizon AI adoption decisions for customers.

In addition to his leadership at Dell, John plays a significant role in the broader ecosystem, including company, industry, government, and academic boards. He currently serves on the board of directors for Xerox, Open Source Security Foundation, and Purdue Research Foundation. In the past, he has served as a board member for ATIS, OLPC, Blade Networks, Pingtel, Bering Media, Nexoya, Cloud Foundry, Federal Communications Commission CSRIC 8, and the NYU Wireless Industry Advisory Board.

Jim Anderson was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Coherent Corp. and a member of the Board of Directors on June 3, 2024. He previously served as a director and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation since September 2018.

Prior to joining Lattice, Mr. Anderson served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Computing and Graphics Business Group at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD). Prior to AMD, Mr. Anderson held a broad range of leadership positions spanning general management, engineering, sales, marketing, and corporate strategy at companies including Intel, Broadcom (formerly Avago Technologies), and LSI Corporation. Mr. Anderson has served on the board of directors of Entegris, Inc., since March 2023, and he currently serves on the board of directors of the Semiconductor Industry Association. He previously served on the board of directors of Sierra Wireless from April 2020 to January 2023.

Mr. Anderson earned an MBA and Master of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Anil Nanduri is Vice President, AI Products and GTM for Intel’s AI Data Center business, where he leads product strategy, roadmap and business expansion for GPUs and AI accelerators across enterprise and cloud AI compute. He partners across engineering, sales, and ecosystem teams to scale adoption, grow the pipeline, and translate platform roadmaps into customer wins. Over more than 25 years at Intel, Nanduri, Anil has held leadership roles spanning silicon design, product development, product management, and market strategy, with a track record of building and scaling new technology categories. He has helped drive initiatives including Intel Centrino, Intel’s drone business, Intel RealSense and the netbook category.

Mark Lohmeyer leads the Compute and AI Infrastructure business for Google Cloud. In this role, he is responsible for the Google Cloud Compute Engine, AI/ML infrastructure (Cloud TPU and GPU), Core ML services, block storage (Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk), and enterprise solutions (SAP on GCP, Google Cloud VMware Engine, etc.)
Mark’s background includes leadership roles in general management, product management, marketing, business development, and engineering management, across a wide range of core infrastructure technologies, including compute, storage, and networking.

Prior to joining Google, Mark was the SVP/GM of VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure Business Group. In this role, he led a large-scale, global organization, spanning engineering, operations, product management, and product marketing for the VMware infrastructure portfolio across Private Clouds, Public Clouds, and Cloud Provider Partners / Sovereign Clouds.

Prior to VMware, Mark led the product team for Enterprise WAN and Routing at Cisco and was the GM for HA/DR and Storage solutions at Veritas Software. Earlier in his career, he worked on storage I/O hardware at Adaptec, and digital imaging research and hardware design at the Sarnoff Research Labs, and holds a patent based on this work.

Mark holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also served as the head teaching assistant for Computational Structures.

Karan Batta is Senior Vice President of Product at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). He is responsible for strategic product initiatives, including GPU, AI, and Multi-cloud. Karan’s organization also supports OCI’s largest and most strategic customers, ensuring that OCI is delivering the right services and features to those customers as well as implementing the operational workflows necessary to make Oracle’s customers successful.

Karan joined Oracle in 2017 as one of the first members of OCI working to define the core product portfolio, including compute, storage, and networking. He has held many roles within OCI that expanded OCI’s product portfolio, including leading roles running compute, GPU, platform features, multi-cloud products, and OCI’s GTM strategy.

Prior to joining Oracle, Karan worked in the core engineering team at Microsoft as part of Microsoft Azure Compute, where he worked on AI infrastructure such as GPUs and FPGAs, along with managing batch services. Before Microsoft, he was an early part of a startup called GreenButton in New Zealand that provided visual effects services on multiple cloud providers. GreenButton was acquired by Microsoft. Karan is based in Seattle, WA.

Dr. Dave Mosley is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Seagate, a global leader in mass-capacity data storage with more than 30,000 employees and a smart manufacturing footprint spanning three continents.

As CEO since 2017, Dave has led Seagate through a period of strategic transformation, doubling the company’s shipped storage capacity and driving innovation across the company — including the launch of the world’s first hard drives using heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) to support the massive need for AI data storage.

Dave joined Seagate in 1996 with a doctorate in solid-state physics from the University of California, Davis. Over his decades-long career, he has held senior leadership roles across multiple company disciplines and functions, including research and development, sales and marketing, and operations.

Elected to the Seagate board in 2017 and named Chairman of the Board in 2025, Dave is guided by the principle that data is much more than the technology and innovation that underpin it. It's the foundation of human connection, creativity, and progress. Every photo, scientific breakthrough, cinematic masterpiece, and story begins with data — and that data has long-term value that can only be captured when it’s stored, trusted, and accessible. Dave has also served on the Board of Directors of Cirrus Logic, Inc. since 2024.

With over 20 years of executive expertise, Wil is driving the global expansion of top-tier HPC and AI ecosystems, redefining how world-class infrastructure supports the next generation of intelligence. As a strategist at the forefront of the Agentic AI transition, he empowers his international teams to bridge the gap between AI requirements and the rigorous power and cooling demands of high-density compute. By orchestrating the deployment of AI Gigafactories, he ensures that hyperscale infrastructures are meticulously engineered to sustain the complex, continuous reasoning of agentic frameworks across every continent. Wil turns raw technical capacity into a future-proof, energy-optimized asset that sets the standard for performance and reliability in the AI era.

Binoy Unnikrishnan is a strategic global sales executive with more than two decades of experience driving growth across semiconductors, cloud, and client market segments. He joins Lenovo as the Vice President of Worldwide Cloud Sales at Lenovo, responsible for leading the company’s global cloud sales, go-to-market strategy, customer engagement with our key hyperscaler and next-wave cloud customers. 

He joins Lenovo from Samsung where he was Vice President of Sales, leading multi-billion-dollar memory sales to hyperscaler and data center customers, managing DRAM and NAND, and establishing the HBM portfolio.

Previously, Binoy served as Co-Chief Revenue Officer and Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Ampere Computing, where he built a global team, drove double-digit growth, and secured marquee wins with several cloud service providers worldwide. During his 20+ year career at Intel, Binoy was instrumental in scaling strategic accounts including Amazon and Dell, where he grew Intel’s AWS revenues fivefold, established and expanded Intel’s co-sell pipeline to over $1B annually. 

His leadership combines deep technical expertise with proven go-to-market strategies, resulting in sustained competitive advantage and building long-term customer partnerships.

Binoy holds an MBA and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Washington, and a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bombay.

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Adaire Fox-Martin is CEO and President of Equinix, the world’s largest data center company.  In this role, she is responsible for all facets of strategy, operations, and execution in the organization, including the construction of data-center capacity, the development of solutions and services to simplify infrastructure provisioning, and the continual improvement in the value and experience customers and partners realize when engaging with Equinix. 

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Appointed in 2024, Adaire leads the company’s 13,700 employees in the innovation, sale, operation, and administration of the industry’s most expansive data-center footprint: 280 data centers in 77 markets serving more than 10,500 customers. Together with the Equinix Executive Leadership Team, she has defined and executed a strategy reinforcing Equinix’s core retail colocation leadership, while also making the most of the multi-year infrastructure investment cycle supporting the advancement of artificial intelligence.  Adaire has also been a member of the Equinix Board of Directors since 2020, a role she continues as CEO and President.

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Adaire has established a distinguished 25-year track record in the technology sector. She was previously President of Go-to-Market for Google Cloud and Head of Google Ireland. In this role, she led Google Cloud's go-to-market teams globally, encompassing sales, professional services, partner ecosystem, and customer success. Prior to Google, she had board and executive-level positions at SAP, as well as executive leadership roles at Oracle. 

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Adaire is a passionate advocate of social entrepreneurship and social impact. She was Global Executive Sponsor for Social Enterprise at Google and currently serves on the Board of the Equinix Foundation, whose purpose is to enable an accessible, sustainable, and interconnected digital future for more people.

Adaire is a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

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Anand Eswaran is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Veeam. Anand’s strategic vision, inclusive leadership, and execution focus have created a track record of building and leading high-growth, successful global businesses.

Prior to joining Veeam, Anand led RingCentral to accelerating growth and innovation as its President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Prior to RingCentral, Anand was responsible for Microsoft’s Enterprise Commercial and Public Sector business globally. Earlier in his tenure at Microsoft, he led Microsoft Services, Industry & Digital, Customer Care, and Customer Success — a global team of 24,000 professionals.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Anand was the Executive Vice President of the $5.4B Global Services business at SAP, leading 17,000 business process and technology professionals to accelerate customer and partner value creation through SAP’s enterprise applications. He has held multiple other leadership roles, including Vice President of Global Software Services at HP, Vice President of Global Professional Services at Vignette (now OpenText), and Senior Manager at Braun Consulting (now Fair Isaac).

Anand is a founding member of the Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA) and served on the executive advisory board for 12 years. He holds a master’s degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Mumbai, India. He is married and has two children.

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Ashish Kumar is Senior Vice President and Technical Fellow at MongoDB, where he focuses on architectural improvements across the product stack. He joined MongoDB through the acquisition of Grainite, a database startup he co-founded, following a career at Google where he led work across Bigtable, Spanner, Datastore, and Firestore. His expertise is in large-scale distributed systems and enterprise AI infrastructure.

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Drew Bradstock leads  the Google Kubernetes Engine business and product management with global teams across Sunnyvale, Seattle, Toronto, Boston and Warsaw. He is always looking at hearing from customers, the open source community, and users of Kubernetes on how to make it simpler and achieve world-leading scale.

Bradstock was previously the Senior VP of Product at Index Exchange. As SVP of Product, he spearheaded Index Exchange's continuous drive to advance existing products, create new ones, improve experiences for clients and partners, and make data sharing as efficient and frictionless as possible. He believed that increased transparency benefits everyone, and he advanced that cause through his work at Index.

Bradstock joined Index in 2016 from Google, where he served as group project manager. At Google, he was responsible for the company's publisher business and Real Time Bidding on the Google Click Ad Exchange, where he worked to increase publisher revenue and safely achieve the highest yields. Before joining Google, he ran product management for one of IBM's largest software products.

Bradstock holds an MBA from Western University and a BSc in Software Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Daniel is a visionary leader setting out to shift the high tech research and analysis business by delivering next generation insights, speed, and intelligence to the marketplace. He is the Founder of BroadSuite Consulting and The Futurum Group. An experienced C-Level Executive who is passionate about strategy and is frequently featured on Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, and other broadcast programming. He previously served as the co-founder and CEO of EC3, and CEO of United Visual, parent company to United Visual Systems, United Visual Productions, and United GlobalComm; a family of companies focused on Visual Communications and Audio Visual Technologies.

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As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Matt Murphy led the transformation of Marvell into becoming a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions. Joining the company in July 2016 as CEO, Matt is responsible for leading new technology development, directing ongoing operations and driving Marvell's growth strategy.

Prior to joining Marvell, Matt worked for Maxim Integrated, where he advanced through a series of business leadership roles over two decades. Most recently, he served as Executive Vice President of Business Units and Sales and Marketing, overseeing all product development and go-to-market activities. Prior to that, he served as the Senior Vice President of the Communications and Automotive Solutions Group and Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing.

Matt is a recipient of a Silicon Valley Business Journal 2019 C-Suite award for CEO of a Large Public Company and was a “40 Under 40” honoree in 2011. In 2018, Institutional Investor named him All-America Executive Team Best CEO in the semiconductor category. He also served as the Chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) in 2018.

Matt earned a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College and is also a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program. He served on the Board of Directors of eBay Inc. from March 2019 to June 2022 and is on the Board of Directors of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). He previously served on the Board of Directors of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), including as GSA Board Chairman. Matt also serves as a Trustee of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Foundation.

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Moe Beydoun is a career salesperson and leader who loves competing for and winning business every day.  Having worked his entire career with Sprint/T-Mobile, Moe has seen tremendous change and evolution in the telecommunications space.  In the early days of his selling career, Moe sold everything from dial tone, private lines, frame relay and MPLS services across all market segments to today’s environment where mobile devices have completely transformed Enterprise business.  Moe’s roles have varied from being an individual contributor calling on small businesses, to strategic multinational businesses with global reach, across various geographic regions.  He has supported marquee global brands and lead teams that generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. He has experienced most of what sales have to offer.

In his current role as Senior Director-Product Specialist Sales, in the T-Mobile for Business Group, Moe leads a national team of Sales Specialist who are responsible for selling all the Connectivity services in T-Mobile’s 5G portfolio including Private/Hybrid Networks, Edge Control, FWA, IOT, and Modern Comms. These Specialists, who cover all business segments across the country, are responsible for consulting as product, sales and engineering  SME’s  who work with clients to propel customer’s digital transformations by leveraging the power and capabilities of the T-Mobile 5G Stand Alone Network.

‍On a personal note, Moe is a proud father of two kids each currently attending separate BIG Ten universities (son is a recent Information Systems graduate from the University of Illinois and his daughter is a Senior at the University of Wisconsin.  However, Moe’s blood runs blue and is a proud University of Michigan alum and a 25-year football season ticket holder. While Moe has lived in Chicago for almost 30 years, he continues to be an avid fan of all his hometown Detroit professional sports teams.  Moe loves to travel with his wife and family, compete in an occasional obstacle race, scuba dive whenever he gets to a warm and sunny place, and enjoys a nice bourbon every so often!

Matthew Feider is Sr. Manager of Physical & Edge AI at T-Mobile, where he leads product, solution architecture, and business development — building T-Mobile's physical and edge AI business from the ground up.

Matthew designed T-Mobile's Physical & Edge AI initial business model — and is now responsible for scaling its products, building the platform, and forming the teams to drive its growth. His work sits at the intersection of cutting-edge infrastructure and real-world AI deployment, defining what's possible at the edge of the network.

Before this role, Matthew spent time in T-Mobile's Strategy & Corporate Development team, working on data-focused advertising products, mobile-broadband convergence, and streaming strategy. Before T-Mobile, he held commercial roles at SaaS and PE/VC-backed firms in market research and equity management.

Matthew holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth and a BA in Finance from the University of Washington. He lives in Seattle with his wife, son, and dog.

I lead the Industrial and Robotics Division at Intel Corporation.  My organization is responsible for Intel’s industrial and robotics business, focused on defining and delivering edge-based solutions that help industrial organizations apply AI and automation at scale across manufacturing, energy, and robotics.  With over 30 years in the technology industry, my work spans engineering, product management, customer and ecosystem enablement, and business strategy. I’ve spent my career helping organizations worldwide move from emerging technology to real-world deployment, particularly in complex operational environments where reliability, safety, and long-term value matter.

Sanjai is the Chief Marketing Officer of Coherent Corp.  He joined Coherent in 2003 and has held various progressive senior leadership roles in R&D, product management, business operations, strategy, and marketing.  He was appointed the company’s first Chief Marketing Officer in 2019.  Sanjai played a pivotal role in charting the strategy and driving the execution of the company’s transformation into an industry-leading photonics powerhouse.  Over his 35+ year career, he has broad technology industry experience across many markets, including data center, telecom, industrial, instrumentation, automotive, and consumer.  Prior to Coherent, Sanjai held senior business and technical leadership positions in Oplink Communications, TeraStor, Western Digital, and Concurrent Technologies Corporation.

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Sanjai has a B.Tech from IIT-Madras, an M.S. from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. from Penn State.

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As President of HP’s Personal Systems business, Ketan Patel leads a global business of $36B, including a technology portfolio of PCs, displays, peripherals, and software solutions. He drives strategy, innovation, and execution to deliver breakthrough computing experiences that empower people to work, learn, play, and connect in a hybrid world. With over three decades in the technology industry, Ketan brings extensive experience in business transformation, operational excellence, and market expansion. He has held a range of leadership roles globally, in Asia Pacific and India, with a proven track record of driving profitable growth and increasing market share across geographies and business segments.

Most recently, Ketan served as SVP & Chief Operating Officer for Personal Systems at HP Inc., overseeing end-to-end business operations across Consumer and Commercial portfolios. He has also served as Managing Director for HP’s Greater India Market and as VP & Head of Personal Systems for Greater Asia and APJ Commercial PCs. Before joining HP, Ketan held leadership roles at Wipro Infotech, Wipro Peripherals, and TVS Electronics, where he played a key role in driving growth for their printing businesses in India. Ketan holds a degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Pune, a Special Management Program credential from the Indian Institute of Management Kolkata, and a Graduate Diploma in International Business from the Helsinki School of Economics. 

Jason Maynard is Chief Executive Officer of Qualtrics. A proven technology executive with 30 years of experience spanning enterprise software, capital markets, and startups, Maynard combines strategic insight with operational discipline to build, scale, and lead high-growth organizations.

Prior to Qualtrics, Maynard served as Executive Vice President of Revenue Operations at Oracle - joining as part of the $10 billion NetSuite acquisition - leading global sales strategy and operations across the company's enterprise portfolio. At Oracle, Maynard scaled the NetSuite business from under $1 billion in revenue and 11,000 customers to nearly fivefold growth and over 43,000 customers.

Earlier in his career, Maynard spent 15 years as a top-ranked equity research analyst at Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, and Wells Fargo, covering the software and internet sectors. He was among the first to forecast the rise of cloud computing, publishing a 2004 report on the topic and creating the Merrill Lynch On Demand Computing Index to track structural shifts in the industry.

Maynard co-founded Verix Software, which was acquired in 1999, and has served as an angel investor and advisor to startups including MuleSoft, Siperian, Desktone, and Cacheflow.

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Mr. Thakkar has served as Chief Technology Officer since July 2018 at MSCI Inc. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the company’s Technology and Data strategy. In 2021, Mr. Thakkar launched MSCI's vision of Investment Solutions as a service ( https://www.msci.com/documents/1296102/23331437/MSCI-Investor-Day.pdf ), followed by MSCI’s flagship Investments platform, MSCI One ( https://www.msci.com/insights-on-msci-one ). Mr. Thakkar led the creation of MSCI’s strategic partnerships with Microsoft for Cloud and Google on Data and AI.

Before joining MSCI, he served as Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, leading software engineering for Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business. During his 19-year tenure at Microsoft, he built large-scale products and served in various leadership positions in Microsoft Teams, Office 365, Dynamics CRM, Bing, Windows, and MSN divisions.

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He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India.

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Brian leads the design, engineering, and delivery of the NetSuite application and product portfolio. He oversees the development of the suite and platform and is responsible for ensuring the security, reliability, and performance of NetSuite’s technology infrastructure. He has more than two decades of experience in Silicon Valley software development and computer security and was among the first developers to join NetSuite in 1999. After leaving in 2003 to start his own security company, Fortify Software (acquired by HP in 2010), Brian returned to NetSuite in 2012 to lead the infrastructure and security teams. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Linda Yao is the Vice President and General Manager, Hybrid Cloud & AI Solutions at Lenovo. She leads the AI services practice, offering advisory and professional services that help businesses find and deploy the right AI strategy. A Harvard graduate and bilingual problem-solver in Mandarin and English, she brings over 15 years of experience across Fortune 500 companies, including Boeing and IBM.

BeforeChristopher Wellise is the Global VP of Sustainability for Equinix. He and his team set the sustainability strategy and key targets for the company, and collaborate with the CEO, CFO, CRO, Operations and Board to interpret changes in the external sustainability environment and work out strategic consequences for Equinix. This ESG team communicates and cuts through organizational complexity to enable Equinix to deliver on ESG commitments.

Prior to Equinix, Christopher led AWS’s global sustainability effort focused on improving company performance and meeting customer needs. Prior to AWS, he was the Chief Sustainability Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), where he led the setting of the first science-based supply chain climate target and built a customer-facing sustainability team to deliver revenue. Christopher began his career as an Environmental/Physical Scientist working for the US Department of the Interior studying the impact of investment in pollution control systems on river and estuary ecosystems.

Daniel is a visionary leader setting out to shift the high tech research and analysis business by delivering next generation insights, speed, and intelligence to the marketplace. He is the Founder of BroadSuite Consulting and The Futurum Group. An experienced C-Level Executive who is passionate about strategy and is frequently featured on Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, and other broadcast programming. He previously served as the co-founder and CEO of EC3, and CEO of United Visual, parent company to United Visual Systems, United Visual Productions, and United GlobalComm; a family of companies focused on Visual Communications and Audio Visual Technologies.

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Gary Dickerson was named president of Applied Materials, Inc. in June 2012 and appointed chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors in September 2013. As the world’s #1 semiconductor and display equipment company, Applied is the leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. 

Recognized by multiple organizations as a top-performing CEO—including by Barron’s, Forbes, and the Harvard Business Review—Mr. Dickerson is a long-time industry leader with more than 35 years of semiconductor experience and a strong track record of delivering profitable growth and gaining market share while achieving recognition for outstanding customer satisfaction.

Since becoming CEO in 2013, he has grown Applied’s revenue more than 3.5 times, achieving new levels of growth and setting records for profitability, while substantially investing in talent, creating new jobs, and adding more than 8,500 new patents to the company’s portfolio of breakthrough innovations. Under his leadership, Applied is enabling a new industry  playbook to advance technology and improve the power, performance, area-cost, and time to market for customer roadmaps. The company is also leading the industry with a Net Zero 2040 playbook powered by collaboration, clean energy, and innovation. Mr. Dickerson was recognized with the SEMI Sustainability Excellence Award for driving companies to adopt leading-edge sustainability practices and motivating the entire industry supply chain to follow suit.

In 2024, he was presented with the Public Service Star (Distinguished Friends of Singapore) award by Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, President of the Republic of Singapore, for outstanding contributions to the economic growth of Singapore and his strong partnership with the region’s dynamic semiconductor industry.

Prior to Applied Materials, he was CEO of Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. for seven years, until its acquisition by Applied Materials in 2011, and spent 18 years at KLA-Tencor Corporation, where he held a variety of operations and product development roles before serving as president and chief operating officer. He began his semiconductor career in manufacturing and engineering management at General Motors’ Delco Electronics Division and AT&T Technologies. 

Mr. Dickerson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering management from the University of Missouri, Rolla, and an MBA degree from the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

As chief technology officer, Harman Kaur leads Tanium's technology strategy, product management, AI and automation roadmap, and strategic technology partnerships.

Harman brings more than a decade of combined experience across the United States Air Force and Tanium. She continues to serve as a Cyber Officer in the U.S. Air Force. At Tanium, Harman has held senior roles across the customer organization, R&D, and most recently led the company's AI and Autonomous Endpoint Management strategy as head of AI before stepping into the CTO role.

Harman received an MBA from the University of Southern California and a BS in Information Systems from Hawaii Pacific University.

Sanjay Poonen leads Cohesity as Chief Executive Officer and President, driving the company's mission to protect, secure, and provide insights into the world’s data so that the largest organizations in the world can rely on Cohesity for their resilience. A proven business executive with more than 25 years of experience scaling multi-billion-dollar enterprises, Sanjay brings a rare combination of technical depth, global sales leadership, and strategic vision to Cohesity.

Prior to Cohesity, Sanjay served as COO at VMware, where he oversaw sales, marketing, services, and alliances—helping double the company's revenue from approximately $6B to $12B. He was instrumental in architecting VMware's landmark cloud partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle, and led the End-User Computing business, including the acquisition of AirWatch. Prior to VMware, Sanjay served as President of SAP, leading Applications, Industries, and Platform teams across engineering and sales, contributing to growth from approximately $10B to $20B in revenue. He began his career as a software engineer at Microsoft and Apple. 

Sanjay serves on the Supervisory Board of Philips and the Board of Snyk. He holds two patents, an MBA from Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar, top 5%), a master's degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, and Engineering from Dartmouth College, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Poojan Kumar, Commvault’s Chief Product Innovation Officer, leads the company’s innovative product development strategy for today’s cloud-first, data-driven world.

An engineering visionary, Poojan re-envisioned how data is managed, analyzed, stored, and recovered at companies including Nutanix, VMware, and Oracle. And as an entrepreneur, he built, scaled, and led the acquisition of multiple successful companies. Most recently, he co-founded and was CEO of Clumio, which Commvault acquired in 2024.

Poojan earned his bachelor’s in computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology and his master’s in computer science from Stanford University.

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Eric Herzog is the Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat, a Lenovo company. Prior to joining Infinidat, Herzog was CMO and VP of Global Storage Channels at IBM Storage Solutions. His executive leadership experience also includes: Senior Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing for EMC’s Enterprise & Mid-range Systems Division, and CMO and Senior VP of Alliances for all-flash storage provider Violin Memory.

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Michael Jordan is an IBM Distinguished Engineer for IBM Z and LinuxONE Security. He is responsible for driving the security strategy and leading innovation in the areas of system security and data security for the IBM Z and LinuxONE platforms. Mr. Jordan joined IBM in 1989 and has over 31 years of IBM Z experience, including 27 years of research and development experience and 4 years in a client-facing role leading complex and large-scale IBM Z projects.

Sangyeun “Paul” Cho serves as President of Samsung Semiconductor and Corporate EVP of Samsung Electronics, responsible for Samsung's U.S. semiconductor business, which includes Memory, Foundry, and System LSI. 

With over 18 years at Samsung, Cho has held leadership roles in Korea and the US. He founded the Memory Solutions Lab, pioneering innovations like in-storage computing and multi-streamed solid-state drives, which are now industry standards. Cho also led server-class SSD software engineering and security initiatives. Previously, he spent nearly a decade in academia as a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, focusing on computer architecture. Cho holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. from Seoul National University.

Ford Tamer is Lattice Semiconductor’s Chief Executive Officer and serves on the company’s Board of Directors. He joined Lattice in September 2024.

Ford brings to his role extensive industry experience and leadership spanning 20 years in semiconductors and 10 years in software. Before joining Lattice, in his most recent operating position, Ford served as President and CEO of Inphi for more than nine years, where he led the company to become the market leader for electro-optics solutions for cloud and telecom operators until its merger with Marvell Technologies, Inc. Prior to Inphi, he was CEO of Telegent Systems, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom’s Infrastructure Networking Group, co-founder and CEO of Agere Inc., amongst other operating roles earlier in his career. He also, most recently, held a senior operating partner role at Francisco Partners.

Ford holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering from MIT.He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) and the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), and previously served on the Board of Directors of Groq, Inc., Marvell Technologies, Inc., and Teradyne Inc.

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Sanjoy Maity leads Lattice Semiconductor’s AMI business unit. He joined Lattice following the acquisition of AMI in July 2026. Sanjoy is responsible for driving the continued success of AMI security, orchestration, and manageability products and solutions across strategy, business management, customer and partner engagement, and engineering.

Sanjoy brings more than 35 years of deep expertise in firmware, server manageability, and platform security to the role. He joined AMI in 1991 and, prior to its acquisition by Lattice, most recently served as its Chief Executive Officer, a role he assumed in 2019. Under his leadership, AMI expanded its position as the global standard-bearer for firmware, with solutions deployed in billions of devices worldwide. Prior to becoming CEO, he headed AMI’s Manageability Solutions Group, where he designed and developed the industry’s first true out-of-band manageability solution – a technology that has since become an industry standard.

Sanjoy holds more than 80 patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office spanning firmware and system management technologies. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science & Technology (IIEST).

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Sumit Sadana is Senior Advisor to the CEO at Micron Technology. Sumit is responsible for the company P&L and all the company’s business units, driving revenue and profitability and positioning the company for success through strategic partnerships with customers. The business units are also responsible for product roadmap definition and aligning company R&D initiatives with market and customer requirements. Sumit’s organization also includes the company’s strategy and corporate business development, global communications and marketing, as well as Micron Ventures (Micron’s venture capital investment arm). Sumit joined Micron in 2017 and has over 30 years of technology industry experience, in roles ranging from chip design, software development, operations management, strategy development and IP licensing, to executive roles such as CTO, CFO and GM. He also served in leadership positions at SanDisk, Freescale Semiconductor, and IBM. Sumit has completed approximately $40 billion of M&A in his career. Sumit has served on the board of directors of Silicon Labs — an industry leader in IoT — since 2015 and was appointed lead independent director in 2022. Sumit graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Will Chu is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Custom Cloud Solutions Business at Marvell. In this role, he oversees all aspects of the company’s custom silicon business for cloud and AI infrastructure.   

Previously, Will served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Custom, Compute and Storage Group at Marvell, where he led the Processor, ASIC, CXL, Security, and Storage businesses. Before that, he formed the company’s Automotive Business unit and served as its Senior Vice President and General Manager, driving the strategy and implementation of semiconductor solutions for the automotive market and advancing the company’s leadership in in-vehicle networks and automotive Ethernet.

Will brings more than 25 years of semiconductor industry experience. Before joining Marvell, he was Managing Director of the Automotive Business Unit at Maxim Integrated. Earlier in his career, he held leadership roles at Texas Instruments and Fidelity Investments as well as start-ups and in venture capital.

Will holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University and an MBA from MIT Sloan. He holds multiple patents and frequently represents Marvell as an industry thought leader at conferences and technical events.

Dave Lazovsky is Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Networking Business Group at Marvell. In this role, he is responsible for setting business strategy, guiding product and technology direction, and leading cross-functional execution across Marvell’s data center networking portfolio.

Dave has 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, including more than two decades building and leading high-growth technology companies. He joined Marvell through the acquisition of Celestial AI, where he served as Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer. At Celestial AI, Dave helped pioneer optical scale-up connectivity, a critical emerging technology for next-generation AI infrastructure, and led the company from early innovation through customer adoption.

Dave is widely recognized for building innovative teams, driving breakthrough technologies, and translating bold ideas into real-world customer impact. Prior to founding Celestial AI, he was a Venture Partner at Khosla Ventures. Earlier in his career, Dave founded Intermolecular, where he served as Chief Executive Officer and President, leading the company from early-stage development through commercialization and initial public offering on the NASDAQ.

Dave holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio University and has more than 80 issued and pending U.S. patents.

Christopher Auth is an American electrical engineer and semiconductor technology expert at Intel Corporation, where he serves as vice president of technology development and director of advanced transistor development, overseeing innovations in transistor architecture and chip manufacturing processes. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2015 for his pioneering contributions to strained silicon transistor technology, which has advanced the performance and efficiency of CMOS transistors in modern integrated circuits.

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Auth's career at Intel has focused on pushing the boundaries of semiconductor scaling, including key roles in developing high-k metal-gate transistors and strain-enhanced designs that enabled smaller, more powerful chips at nodes such as 45 nm. More recently, he has led the development of groundbreaking technologies originally planned for Intel's 20A process node, including RibbonFET—a nanosheet transistor architecture that replaces the FinFET design for improved gate control and up to 15% better energy efficiency—and PowerVia, a back-side power delivery system that relocates power interconnects to the wafer's underside, reducing interference and boosting performance by approximately 6%. Although 20A was deprioritized in 2024, these innovations are now being integrated into the 18A node, with manufacturing readiness targeted for the second half of 2025. They aim to position Intel ahead of competitors like TSMC and Samsung in transistor density and power management, supporting the company's transition to a foundry model while addressing historical delays in nodes such as 10 nm and 7 nm.

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His work underscores Intel's risk-tolerant approach to semiconductor evolution, balancing aggressive timelines with stepping-stone technologies to mitigate complexity in adopting multiple architectural shifts simultaneously. Auth's efforts have been instrumental in maintaining Intel's legacy of transistor leadership, from early strained-silicon advancements to next-generation solutions that enable denser, more efficient computing hardware essential to AI, data centers, and consumer electronics.

Dr. Mukund Srinivasan is the Group Vice President and General Manager for the Etch Business Unit and Integrated Module Solutions Group. Prior to joining Applied in 2013, Dr. Srinivasan spent 16 years at Lam Research in different positions, including General Manager for the Clean Product Group and leadership positions in Etch. He holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Nader Khalil is Director of Developer Tech at NVIDIA where he leads Open Source & Agent Marketing. He was the CEO & co-founder of Brev.dev, which was acquired by NVIDIA in July 2024. 

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Daniel is a visionary leader setting out to shift the high tech research and analysis business by delivering next generation insights, speed, and intelligence to the marketplace. He is the Founder of BroadSuite Consulting and The Futurum Group. An experienced C-Level Executive who is passionate about strategy and is frequently featured on Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, and other broadcast programming. He previously served as the co-founder and CEO of EC3, and CEO of United Visual, parent company to United Visual Systems, United Visual Productions, and United GlobalComm; a family of companies focused on Visual Communications and Audio Visual Technologies.

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