Ed McLaughlin is the president and chief technology officer of Mastercard and a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team and Management Committee. He oversees the company’s technology functions, including the payments network, enterprise platforms, technology infrastructure and operations, information security and global technology hubs.

Prior to his appointment in 2016, he served as chief information officer, directing the development of Mastercard products and services. In 2010, Ed was named chief emerging payments officer, leading the development and launch of the company’s digital strategy, partnerships and platforms, and served as chief franchise officer between 2008 and 2010, where he was responsible for the Mastercard global rules, licensing, brand standards and compliance programs. Ed joined Mastercard in 2005.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Ed was group vice president, products and strategy at Metavante (now FIS) which he joined in 2002 through acquisition of Paytrust, an online payments company of which he was co-founder and CEO. Prior to co-founding Paytrust, Ed was the executive vice president of product and marketing at LogicWorks, Inc., a start-up data modeling software company that had its IPO on the NASDAQ in 1996.

Ed is on the board of directors for both Xerox and Vocalink Ltd, UK, and a member of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Council on the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence. He was inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame in 2024 and awarded Forbes CIO Next Award in 2023. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business.

Fidelma Russo is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Hybrid Cloud business unit and the company's Chief Technology Officer. Her team is tasked with solving some of IT's biggest challenges, including transforming business through the power of data, modernizing AI infrastructure with a true cloud experience, and dramatically simplifying operations across hybrid cloud estates.

Fidelma's organization is responsible for the strategic direction, development, and execution of HPE Hybrid Cloud products and services, including HPE GreenLake cloud and HPE GreenLake Flex Solutions, HPE Storage, private cloud, and SaaS solutions. As CTO, Fidelma accelerates the creation of HPE's innovation pipeline through the capabilities and services of the Office of the CTO, including Hewlett Packard Labs.

In 2021, Fidelma joined Hewlett Packard Enterprise as CTO, where she led the creation, development, and delivery of HPE GreenLake cloud, a central offering for all HPE's edge-to-cloud solutions and cloud services.

Fidelma is based at HPE headquarters in Houston and has more than 30 years of technology leadership spanning machine learning and analytics, global IT business services, cloud services, servers, storage, networking, backup, and infrastructure.

Prior to joining Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Fidelma was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud Services business unit at VMware. She has held notable senior leadership positions including Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at Iron Mountain, Senior Vice President and General Manager at EMC, Vice President of Adaptive Infrastructure at Hewlett-Packard, and Senior Vice President of Network, Storage, and Software at Sun Microsystems.

Fidelma serves on the Board of Directors for Equinix and HP International Bank. She was recognized in CRN's Top 100 Executive awards and Top 25 IT Innovators in 2023 and 2024.

Fidelma has a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from University College Cork, a Master of Science in Computer Science from Boston University, and completed the Internet of Things Executive Education program at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Pablo Calamera is a technology leader with more than 35 years of experience building innovative products and leading global organizations across the media, entertainment, and communications industries. He has held senior roles at some of the world’s most influential technology companies, from Apple to startups later acquired by Microsoft and Clear Channel.

He currently serves as EVP & CTO of IMAX, where he oversees global technology strategy and drives initiatives in cloud, AI, mobile, and consumer electronics while strengthening the company’s core theatrical technologies. His leadership has helped IMAX expand into new markets and deliver groundbreaking solutions for audiences worldwide.

Previously, Pablo was CTO of JW Player, Vonage, Clear Channel/iHeartRadio, and Thumbplay. At Vonage, he helped transform the company into one of the top UCaaS providers in the U.S., recognized as a “Visionary” in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. At Clear Channel, he launched iHeartRadio, now one of the most popular music streaming apps. Earlier, at Apple, he helped build MobileMe, a foundation for what became iCloud.

Pablo has also contributed to pioneering consumer technologies at Danger (creators of the Sidekick), WebTV, and NotifyMe Networks, where he was co-founder and CTO. His career is marked by a consistent record of innovation, from early internet and mobile services to large-scale streaming platforms.

He holds more than a dozen patents in communications, media, and security, and has served on boards and advisory councils including the Stevenson School and Brown University’s Executive Master in Science and Technology Leadership program.

Andrew serves as Chief Technology Officer of FanDuel Group, responsible for the oversight of all FanDuel’s technology and engineering functions. This includes leadership of all the global teams across software development, IT, security, data, and platform teams.

Prior to joining FanDuel, Andrew was SVP of Engineering at Compass where he led several large engineering teams across Data, Payments, Marketing Tech, Video, Digital Ads, and AI globally. Before Compass, Sheh was a CTO at Remine, Technical Lead at Palantir Technologies, and Director of Innovation at CEB Global.

Andrew earned his Bachelors and Masters Degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in NY.

As a Boston native, is a passionate and devoted fan to the Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots and is ok being surrounded by the rival team fans in the executive team.

Zane Lackey is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he invests in platform engineering and cybersecurity companies. Previously he co-founded Signal Sciences (acquired for $825M in 2020) and authored Building a Modern Security Program (O’Reilly Media). Prior to co-founding Signal Sciences, Zane led a security team at the forefront of the DevOps/Cloud shift as CISO of Etsy.

He has been featured in notable media outlets such as the BBC, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Forbes, Wired, and CNET. A frequent speaker at top industry conferences such as BlackHat, RSA, Velocity, DevOps Enterprise Summit, and has also given invited lectures at Facebook, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Federal Trade Commission.

Danny Brickman, CEO of Oasis, is a visionary entrepreneur who co-founded the company in 2022. Danny had first served in Talpiot, an exclusive IDF leadership program in which a small number of cadets train across every area of Israel’s military and attend university while living in an on-campus barracks. With a background that includes leadership roles in the Israel Defense Forces and expertise in product strategy, leadership roles in the Israel Defense Forces and expertise in product strategy, Danny has been instrumental in shaping Oasis' growth and strategic direction. He holds a Master's degree in Engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and a B.Sc in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Danny Brickman is the CEO and co-founder of Oasis Security, the company which he launched in 2022 with Amit Zimmerman to revolutionize identity security. A graduate of the elite Talpiot program in the Israel Defense Forces, he led diverse initiatives across cybersecurity domains. Danny holds a Master’s in Engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Lane Bess is CEO of Deep Instinct and Principal/Founder of Bess Ventures and Advisory – his family office. Prior to joining Deep Instinct, Lane was the Chief Operating Officer of Zscaler Inc., an innovator and leader in Cloud based Internet security services. He has spent over 30 years as an operational executive and has successfully launched start-ups and grown medium sized businesses to large scale. Between 2008 and 2011, Lane was CEO of Palo Alto Networks where he led the late fundraising and scaled the company from its early go-to-market to a revenue run rate exceeding $200 million on the path to its IPO. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he served as the EVP of Worldwide Sales and General Manager of publicly traded Trend Micro Inc. He has extensive experience in building global technology businesses across the US, Europe and Asia. His extensive contributions to the security technology sector have established him as a reliable advisor for numerous Enterprise CIOs and CISOs.

With core strengths in Sales, Marketing and Product Management, Mr. Bess has deep expertise in driving high growth for network/cloud security, computing, and software companies. His business experience includes providing critical technology solutions to Fortune 2000 companies, large enterprises, mid-size businesses, as well as consumer markets. Through the continuous leverage of distribution channels, Lane has been consistently recognized as a leading "channel friendly" executive.

During Lane's career he has also held senior Sales and Marketing roles at NCR Corporation and AT&T. During his time at NCR, he oversaw multinational global sales. At AT&T, Lane was responsible for the product launches of AT&T's Business and Consumer Internet services in the mid-90s.

Mr. Bess holds a B.S. Degree in Managerial Economics from Carnegie Mellon University and a master’s degree from the University of Dayton. Lane serves on the Board of Trustees for Carnegie Mellon University. He also serves as Board Chairman for Blaize Holdings Inc. Lane is also an Astronaut having flown two missions to space on Blue Origin rockets.

With over 20 years of energy industry leadership, Dr. Ryan Ezell brings extensive international experience, having managed operations generating $2.8 billion in revenue and led teams of over 5,500 employees, driving profit and growth in diverse markets.

Since becoming CEO of Flotek Industries in June 2023, Dr. Ezell has led a $47 million EBITDA turnaround, achieving 11 consecutive quarters of EBITDA improvement and a stock price increase of over 200%, despite challenging market dynamics. He secured a $2.1 billion revenue backlog and pivoted Flotek’s Data Analytics laser technology into industrial and power generation markets. Notably, Dr. Ezell championed PWRtek™, a groundbreaking technology utilizing laser-based sensors and proprietary software for real-time flare gas filtration, delivering scalable, sustainable energy solutions for data centers, AI, and remote operations. By leveraging AI-driven chemometric analytics, Flotek has become a market leader in Chemistry and Data Analytics Technology, enhancing customer automation and advancing the energy industry technologies.

Previously, Dr. Ezell served as Flotek’s President of Chemistry Technologies, driving 10X market share growth in a year, and as Senior Vice President of Operations, reducing costs by over 60%. At Halliburton, he held leadership roles for a decade, shaping strategy and serving on the Technology Review Board.

Dr. Ezell holds a Ph.D. in Polymer Science from the University of Southern Mississippi, a B.S. in Chemistry from Millsaps College, and over 26 patents, underscoring his commitment to energy innovation.

Jamie Hutton is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Quantexa. Jamie is responsible for the R&D teams that build Quantexa's Decision Intelligence platform. For the last 20 years, Jamie has created products and solutions which unify and connect data at scale and brought the market-first innovation of dynamic Entity Resolution to market. This technology has enabled customers to find complex webs of criminal activity, from fraud, to money laundering and even human trafficking. Before co-founding Quantexa, he has held roles at SAS and Detica.

Jonathan Levin is Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer of Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, where he is responsible for leading all facets of the business and its work to help government agencies, cryptocurrency businesses, and financial institutions leverage blockchain data to solve their most important problems. Over the course of his 10 years at Chainalysis, Jonathan has led numerous functions and business units as the company has grown to have a presence in over 50 countries globally. He is regularly called upon to testify to the U.S. Congress and other government hearings on the emerging risks and opportunities in cryptocurrencies. Prior to Chainalysis, he was the CEO of Coinometrics, which provided the first dashboard of blockchain intelligence. He was also a postgraduate economist at the University of Oxford, where he researched cryptocurrencies. Jonathan also holds a BSC in Economics from Bristol University. He lives in New York.

As Chief Information Officer of Citi, Jonathan Lofthouse is responsible for all business technology and ensuring that the organization delivers safe, secure and optimized solutions to serve Citi’s clients. In this role, Jon focuses on accelerating the modernization and simplification of technology and building platforms that enable a One Citi approach.

Most recently, Jon was the Co-Chief Information Officer of Citi, responsible for overseeing Citi’s business-facing technology, technology for Citi’s Global Functions and the company’s technology infrastructure.

Prior to this, Jon led the Markets Technology group, which supports Equities and Prime, Global Spread Products, G10 Rates, LM Rates, FX and Commodities Sales and Trading. He was also responsible for Markets Risk Technology (Xing Platform), Margin Technology and Fixed Income Trade Processing Services (TPS).

Jon joined Citigroup in 1997 as part of the technology graduate program in the UK and relocated to New York in 2013. During his tenure at Citi, he has held a variety of roles in Fixed Income, Trade Processing, Electronic Trading and Core Software Components. Prior to becoming the Head of Markets Technology, he led Macro Technology, and before that, Rates Technology, where he was responsible for the build out of automated trading for the US Rates business.

Beyond his immediate job responsibilities, Jon serves as the lead sponsor of Engineering Excellence 2.0, Citi’s internal training program aimed to develop both technical and behavioral capabilities of current engineering talent. Jon is married and has two children.

Zach has led investments in over 35 companies and served on over 25 board seats for early-stage startups. He invests in AI / ML and data science, vertical software, B2B marketplaces, fintech, and more.

Prior to Gradient, Zach led acquisitions and strategic investments for Google Cloud. Before Google, he advised leading software companies as an investment banker after starting his career as a quant and data engineer at a hedge fund. Zach received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Virginia. He also holds a JD from the UCLA School of Law, as well as an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Zach lives in San Francisco with his wife and two kids. When possible, you will find him on a mountain riding a snowboard or mountain bike.

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Timothy Young is the CEO of Jasper, the leading agentic marketing platform, which elevates all marketing and all marketers with the power of AI. Prior to joining Jasper, he served as the president of Dropbox and VP of product & engineering for VMware and has decades of experience scaling companies in rapidly evolving industries.

Timothy has start-up roots, having founded Socialcast in 2005 and co-founded about.me in 2009, both of which he led through successful acquisitions. Timothy is also the founder of Hidden Hand Capital where he helps founders build and scale amazing companies with early-stage capital, COO, and product leadership and strategy support.

Mike Palmer is the CEO of Sigma, a position he assumed in 2022 to spearhead the company's growth in the cloud-native and data intelligence sectors. With over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Palmer has a proven track record of developing and delivering innovative solutions for both startups and Fortune 500 companies.

Before joining Sigma, Palmer was the Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Druva, a prominent cloud-based data backup company. There, he played a crucial role in redefining the company's revenue acquisition strategy and enhancing enterprise efficiency by integrating various on-premises solutions with emerging cloud technologies.

Palmer's career spans various leadership roles, including Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Chief Product Officer (CPO), and General Manager (GM) at notable firms like Druva, Veritas, Totality, XUMA, Verizon, and Seagate. His expertise lies in guiding companies through transformation, scaling innovation, and achieving broad market success. He holds a degree from the University of Rochester.

Jan Gilg is a member of the SAP Extended Board and co-leads the global Customer Success Board area, which is responsible for the totality of SAP cloud revenue and customer growth. He also leads the SAP Americas region and has oversight of the global SAP Business Suite organization, which provides an end-to-end operating model from customer advisory for customers deciding on SAP technology, to sales of SAP cloud solutions, to customer success management and engagement.

Gilg has spent more than 18 years as an enterprise software executive. Before joining the SAP Extended Board, Gilg served as President and Chief Product Officer of Cloud ERP. In that role, he was responsible for Product Management, Product Marketing, Engineering and Operations for the entire flagship of the S/4HANA product suite, Supply Chain, Finance and Industry Solutions.

Gilg has served in a variety of global and regional executive leadership roles at SAP. He previously spent nearly 10 years living in the United States, where he contributed to SAP’s cloud and portfolio strategy and helped to establish SAP’s Enterprise Architecture practice in North America. He has a deep customer-facing consulting, business development, value management, and pre-sales background having played instrumental roles in driving multi-million dollar deals for SAP in North America.

Gilg holds a master's degree in business information systems from Liechtenstein University and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Taulia, LLC

Li leads Circle’s engineering team and drives Circle’s AI innovation. She has served as CTO and interim CPO at Lime, SVP of engineering at Pinterest, Senior Director of Engineering at Google Inc., and Vice President of Engineering at Baidu, China

As Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering, Mark Simms is responsible for technical design, strategy and coordination across all of Twilio's products and infrastructure, and leads engineering for Twilio’s communications platform. These include core areas of messaging, email, cross-channels, voice, video, AI, traffic intelligence, and Flex.

After graduating from the Memorial University of Newfoundland with a degree in Computer Engineering in 2002, he co-founded a technology startup focused on automating asset management through RFID and managed services. In 2008 he joined Microsoft where he held key responsibilities in the Azure cloud division focusing on bringing the largest and most sophisticated customer workloads into the cloud. During his tenure as Director of Architecture for Azure, his contributions were instrumental in enhancing the resilience of Azure's mission critical operational systems, as well as adapting and growing key Azure systems to meet the surge of demand through the pandemic.

Following this long-standing association with Microsoft, Mark Simms transitioned to Twilio in 2022 as the Chief Technology Officer. Mark resides in Eastern Washington where he takes full advantage of the rugged landscape as an outdoor enthusiast, particularly rafting where he has been known to take a meeting or two navigating some pretty wild waters.

Michael Shaulov is the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, the leading platform for managing digital asset operations and building innovative businesses on the blockchain. A renowned cybersecurity entrepreneur with over a decade of experience, Michael previously co-founded Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point, where he led mobile and cloud security products. His expertise in safeguarding digital ecosystems and investigating high-profile cyber breaches inspired the creation of Fireblocks. A veteran of Israel's elite Unit 8200 and recipient of the Israeli Presidential Excellency Honour, Michael is a sought-after speaker at industry events like RSA Conference and BlackHat.

Emeka has been with bp for 25 years, starting his career working offshore as a production engineer. Before joining the executive office, he successfully ran our business in the North Sea as region SVP, spearheading improvements in operational safety, driving efficiencies and growing the value of the business. Prior to that, he held a range of senior technical leadership roles in the Gulf of America / Canada, North Africa and Alaska businesses and in our subsurface function. During his tenure with these businesses, he focused on value growth, people and technology.

Jason Trunk serves as Enterprise Architect at Island with over 20 years of experience with emerging technologies including server side code optimization, network decryption, and front-end browser performance. Before Island, Jason served as field CTO for AppDynamics (now Cisco), executive director at JPMorgan Chase, vice president at BigPanda, and other technical leadership roles at Mercury Interactive, Quest Software, and CA Technologies.

David Faugno is the CEO at 1Password and brings 30+ years of global financial and business operations experience. David was most recently a Venture Partner at Accel Partners. Previously, he served as Executive Vice President, both as Chief Financial Officer and in the Office of the CEO, at Qualtrics, the leader in experience management. Before joining Qualtrics, he served as the CFO of Barracuda Networks, Senior Director of Corporate Finance – M&A at Cisco Systems, and held sales and finance roles at AT&T, including CFO of AT&T EMEA. David has served on several private and public company boards and is currently the Audit Committee Chair of Eagle Eye Networks. David’s extensive experience has earned him significant recognition, including 2012 Francisco Partners Portfolio CFO of the Year and 2013 Silicon Valley Business Journal CFO of the Year. He is a graduate of Rutgers University and holds an MBA from Duke University. David and his wife have three children and love to travel and spend time outdoors.

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Murali Joshi is a Partner at ICONIQ. He joined ICONIQ in 2018. Murali has helped lead over $4.6B of investments in Datadog, Procore, Drata, 1Password, Netskope, Fivetran, Calendly, Loom and several others. He was recognized on the Forbes’s Midas Brink List in 2024 and was previously featured in Forbes’s 30 Under 30 list. Before joining ICONIQ, Murali worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs’s Technology, Media and Telecom group. He is also the founding member of an advertising analytics startup called Switchboard Media (fka AdsOnTop), which was eventually acquired, and also served as the Business Development and Product Strategy lead at Little Labs. Murali earned a B.S. in Business Administration from The Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California