Ariana Tiwari is the Director of IT and HR Service Product Marketing at Salesforce, where she defines the future of agentic AI and automation for the modern enterprise. She previously served as the Head of Product Marketing at PandaDoc, a Series C unicorn, and led Product Marketing teams at Dropbox. Ariana holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University.

Betsy Morse Rohtbart is Vice President of Digital Experience at IBM, leading IBM’s primary digital revenue engine and the strategy, technology, design, and operations behind IBM.com. As one of the largest B2B digital platforms in the world, IBM.com connects millions of business leaders, technology decision-makers, and developers with IBM’s products and expertise. Betsy’s organization drives the end-to-end system from signal to revenue, delivering the marketing technology, demand architecture, campaign orchestration, and user experiences required to transform market signals into personalized journeys, qualified leads, accelerated pipeline, and measurable business outcomes.
Prior to IBM, she held leadership roles at SAP, Pitney Bowes, and Vonage (an Ericsson company), leading large-scale digital transformation initiatives that modernized global web platforms, implemented enterprise marketing technology ecosystems, and scaled digital demand generation and ecommerce. She is known for building high-performing teams that harness data, technology, and AI to improve customer engagement and accelerate business growth.

Selected by Forbes as a Top 50 Entrepreneurial CMO and TIME’s 100 most influential companies, DanSlagen is currently SVP at Zapier where he leads marketing for the world’s most connected AI Orchestration Platform. Dan has experience scaling disruptive marketing functions and has been featured in The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, NPR, CNBC, BBC, WSJ, Bloomberg, TEDx, and more. Dan is a frequent speaker, advisor, author of the “best selling” book Understanding Start-Up CEOs, and an instructor on AI transformation at Scott Galloway’s Section School. Dan’s passion comes from leading with creativity, drive, and innovation.

Kristy Smith is a seasoned financial services leader with nearly 20 years of experience helping advisors and firms optimize their businesses and enhance client engagement. Before joining Broadridge, she spent 12 years as a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, leading teams in Operations and Securities to drive efficiency and innovation.

As the General Manager of Advisor Solutions at Broadridge, Kristy oversees a suite of fintech solutions designed to empower financial advisors, including digital marketing, advisor websites, onboarding, and compensation platforms. She is dedicated to helping advisors strengthen client relationships, streamline operations, and deliver impactful financial education. With a focus on innovation and client-driven strategies, Kristy ensures that Broadridge remains at the forefront of supporting advisors in an evolving wealth management landscape.

Vinod Shenoy is a senior AI executive with 20+ years driving enterprise transformation across financial services and insurance. As Head of WM Virtual Assistants at Morgan Stanley, he leads a cross-functional organization delivering award winning LLM-powered products (AI@MS Assistant) and agentic solutions to Financial Advisors and Clients across Wealth Management’s internal advisory and retail platforms.

Vinod has been instrumental in shifting Morgan Stanley from traditional rule-based systems to production-grade generative AI architectures improving digital engagement and reducing cost-to-serve while operating within rigorous regulatory constraints. His work spans the full AI lifecycle: retrieval-augmented systems, metadata-aware pipelines, model evaluation, and responsible AI governance.

Known for building and developing high-performing teams, Vinod creates cultures of accountability, experimentation, and continuous improvement – bringing together product, engineering, data science, and operations disciplines into cohesive organizations that deliver at scale.

Prior to his current role, he built and managed ontology-based personalization infrastructure at Morgan Stanley and Prudential Global Investment Management, and enterprise Knowledge Management platforms at Guardian Life Insurance and Deloitte.

Diana Keary is a marketing, distribution, and product strategy leader with deep cross-sector experience in asset management and financial services. Most recently, she served as Managing Director and Global Wealth Head of Marketing at Apollo Global Management, leading integrated marketing across private markets and key distribution channels.

Previously, she held senior roles at Griffin Capital, Jackson National, AXA Equitable, and MetLife, driving growth through strategic marketing and product positioning. She is known for building high-performing teams and delivering impactful go-to-market strategies.

She is FINRA-licensed (Series 24, 7, 6, and 63).

Jaime Punishill is Chief Product Officer at Lytho and a seasoned marketing, product, and digital transformation executive. He previously served as VP of Enterprise Marketing at MetLife, Chief Market Officer at nCino, and CMO at Lionbridge. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles at TIAA, Thomson Reuters, and Citibank, where he pioneered digital innovation in financial services, and spent nearly six years as a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research covering technology’s impact on financial services. He is a frequent industry speaker and has been published in and quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, CNN, and CNBC.

Pete Safran is the VP of Creative for Lincoln Financial leading a talented team of multimedia producers, designers and content storytellers. He is also the President of CMMA the Association for Media Professionals. CMMA.org
Prior to Lincoln he delivered award winning, creative solutions for some of the largest companies in the US. From writing, producing, and directing programming for Johnson and Johnson’s sales force to producing e-learning/multimedia at SAI Global, for elite companies such as Goldman Sachs, the NFL, Unilever, CBS, Ford, and Citibank.

Udi Ledergor is the bestselling author of Courageous Marketing who served as CMO during Gong’s rise to industry dominance. Building a human-centric brand, he turned buyers into raving fans, while achieving a multi-billion-dollar valuation. Udi has advised startups, served on boards, and mentored hundreds of marketers. His work reveals how courage and creativity can build iconic brands.

Ingrid Shults is an Associate Director on the Future Skills and Growth team, where she leads Disruptive Technology Programs, AI learning, and AI go-to-market initiatives—helping organizations not just understand AI, but actually use it to transform how they work.
With a foundation in art, design, and education, Ingrid has built and led executive programs in Silicon Valley with Singularity University and Stanford University, translating complex emerging technologies into experiences that drive real behavior change.
Earlier in her career, she designed high-impact recruiting and MBA programming for global organizations including Google, JPMorgan Chase, Amazon, EY, McKinsey & Company, and L’Oréal—bringing together talent, storytelling, and strategy at scale.
She has also served as faculty at Purdue University, Northern Arizona University, and The Art Institutes, teaching everything from studio art to design thinking and innovation for business leaders.
Holding an MFA from Purdue, Ingrid operates at the intersection of art, academia, and industry—known for creating environments that push people out of their comfort zones and into new ways of thinking, learning, and building.

Christina Mitine is a Senior Go-To-Market Leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS), driving customer growth and digital transformation. She partners with customers and partners to modernize engagement strategies and accelerate cloud adoption, including the application of AI-driven solutions to deliver measurable business outcomes. With a career spanning sales, customer success, analytics, and executive communications, Christina brings a strategic cross-functional perspective. A strong advocate for leadership development in tech, Christina is the Head of GTM at Women in AI. Christina served as the Co-President of Women at AWS, a global employee-led group driving diversity and equity in the industry.

Millie has built her career on making brands feel alive through storytelling. As Head of Brand Narrative at Databricks, she brings technology into everyday moments across film, OOH, audio and digital. She shapes creative strategy and originates bold ideas, developing global campaigns from concept to launch. Her background spans journalism, startups, and enterprise tech, grounding her perspective in curiosity and craft.

Venkata Krishnamurthy is the Chief Marketing Technologist at Cisco, where he has spent over 25 years across IT, sales operations, and digital marketing leadership. He owns Cisco’s marketing technology strategy, data strategy, and business architecture, having designed the company’s martech stack blueprint, and his amazing work has been recognized with two Stackie Awards. Prior to his marketing technology focus, he began his career in software engineering and IT solutions at Tata Consultancy Services and Unisys.

Unnikrishnan KP (Unni) is Senior Vice President of Marketing for the Americas at Palo Alto Networks, where he has spent over 12 years in progressively senior leadership roles. Most recently, he served as the company’s global Chief Marketing Officer from 2023 to 2025, leading brand transformation and demand generation during Palo Alto Networks’ expansion into AI-powered cybersecurity. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Unni held marketing leadership positions at Brocade Communications and spent a decade at Sun Microsystems overseeing marketing across 140+ countries in emerging markets. He holds an engineering degree and an MBA, with advanced leadership training from Kellogg, Stanford, and Singapore Management University, and has been recognized on the Wall Street Journal CMO 50 and B2B CMO 100 lists.

Erin Oles leads Salesforce’s global events and executive marketing organization, shaping how the company’s biggest bets reach the people who decide, buy, and lead. Her work sits at the intersection of brand, enterprise strategy, and customer engagement, turning Salesforce’s technology vision into experiences that influence markets and drive measurable business outcomes.
Her portfolio spans Dreamforce — the most brand-defining event in business — alongside global World Tours, TDX, Connections, Tableau Conference, and the executive programs that keep Salesforce at the center of how the world’s most influential CIOs, CMOs, and CEOs think and act. By connecting flagship moments with year-round executive engagement, her organization translates Salesforce’s vision, including the rise of the Agentic Enterprise, into customer conviction and pipeline growth.
Her belief is straightforward: if it doesn’t make you feel something, it won’t make you believe something. She keeps her teams focused on the human on the other end — the customer, the executive, the decision-maker who needs to walk away a believer.
Before Salesforce, Erin helped scale Rodan + Fields, a consumer beauty company, from startup to multi-billion-dollar business, where she built their global events strategy from scratch, pioneered live-stream commerce, and earned a patent for innovations that blended digital and physical experiences to drive revenue and community growth.
She started her career in outbound sales, where she developed a permanent intolerance for marketing that sounds right but lands wrong.
Erin is drawn to the most audacious challenges. She believes the best work lives at the edge of what’s been done before — and builds organizations that make a habit of getting there.

Senior B2B enterprise marketing leader with 14+ years’ experience across the UK & Ireland and EMEA, shaping and scaling go‑to‑market strategies for high‑growth technology businesses. Currently Head of Marketing for UK & Ireland at NetApp, responsible for translating the Intelligent Data Infrastructure vision into compelling, market‑facing narratives that drive pipeline, executive engagement, and commercial impact.

Samara Donald is Global Head of Account Based Marketing (ABM) at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she leads worldwide ABM strategy across multiple regions for thousands of enterprise accounts. With deep expertise spanning ABM, executive audience engagement, and enterprise marketing, Samara has architected transformational marketing programs at scale for leading technology companies including AWS, Microsoft, and Expedia. Samara brings a unique perspective to B2B marketing, grounded in her academic background with a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and a Masters in Sociology. She believes that effective marketing is fundamentally about understanding decision-makers as people, not just job titles—creating genuine human connections that drive business outcomes. Her work bridges strategic vision with operational excellence, from developing global executive engagement programs to pioneering new marketing frameworks that meet audiences with relevance, authenticity, and impact. A thought leader in the marketing community, Samara has written extensively on topics including the intersection of sociology and ABM, human-centered marketing in the age of AI, and strategies for building meaningful relationships with enterprise buyers. She is data-minded, results-driven, and passionate about helping organizations navigate emerging business landscapes.

Andrew leads the global implementation of Account Based Marketing (ABM) for Kyndryl, the world’s largest provider of IT infrastructure services.  He works closely with teams around the world to drive profitable growth by helping customers in every industry ensure their essential systems will work when, where, and how they need them to.
Prior to joining Kyndryl Andrew held a variety of marketing leadership roles in IBM, culminating in Marketing Director for IBM Services EMEA, leading field marketing execution and implementing ABM initiatives.

Andrew Reed is the Director of Account Based Marketing at AVEVA, a leading industrial software company, Andrew spearheads the global ABM function, delivering commercial growth through innovative, results-driven strategies.

Chris Reynolds is VP of Digital Communications at bp, where he leads the strategy and delivery of bp’s global digital channels, tools and platforms across internal and external audiences. His work sits at the intersection of communications, technology and culture, with a particular focus on how AI and data are reshaping how organisations tell their stories, build capability, and operate at scale.

Paul is a senior technology leader at EY with over a decade of experience spanning product leadership, consultancy and B2B enterprise technologies. He has led global product strategy within enterprise SaaS solutions, delivering scalable platforms within complex organisations. Today he leads EY’s global event technology portfolio, building an architecture that supports 15,000+ events annually across 100+ countries.

Katie leads a team of product managers and designers exploring the future of learning at SAP, she’s currently focussing on how we keep humans at the centre of rapid change.