Jennifer Sacks is a digital strategy executive and customer experience leader with a passion for transforming how organizations connect with their audiences. As Vice President of Digital Experience at Salesforce, she leads the vision and execution behind the company’s global engagement platforms, delivering personalized, scalable experiences that drive measurable business impact. Her work spans content strategy, AI-driven personalization, and real-time customer intelligence—helping fuel billions in marketing pipeline.

Jennifer has been featured at events like SXSW and Dreamforce. She brings a practical, data-informed approach to digital transformation, always grounded in empathy for the customer. Outside of her role, Jennifer mentors emerging leaders and contributes to industry dialogue through podcasts, panels, and thought leadership. She holds a BA in Business Administration from Saint Mary’s College of California.

Viral Sanghvi is the Global Head of Sales and Communication Platforms, bringing over 20 years of extensive experience in the industry, primarily at Vanguard. Throughout his career, Viral has spearheaded numerous large-scale initiatives, managing multi-million-dollar programs that span from Equity Trading Applications to the development and management of the Enterprise B2B sales platform. His leadership and strategic vision have been instrumental in driving innovation and growth within the organization.

Viral holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Stevens Institute of Technology, where he honed his technical and managerial skills. His educational background, combined with his hands-on experience, has equipped him with a unique perspective on leveraging technology to enhance business operations and customer engagement.

Outside of his professional life, Viral is an avid enthusiast of home improvement projects and enjoys spending quality time outdoors. He particularly loves going on bike rides with his daughter, finding joy and relaxation in these shared moments.

Bill Macaitis is an advisor and board member guiding aspiring unicorns/decacorns. Bill works with companies to build out capital efficient go-to-market strategies and world class teams. Over his 30 year career Bill has achieved five successful exits and powered growth at three of the fastest-ever growing companies: Slack (CRO/CMO), Zendesk (CMO), and Salesforce (SVP of Marketing).

As Vice President of the Digital Employee Experience team at Adobe, Toni is a seasoned digital transformation leader with extensive strategy development, program execution, and organizational change management experience. In 2023, Toni was recognized as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders of San Francisco by Women We Admire. Toni is often a featured speaker at professional conferences and podcasts where she shares her insights on the human factor of success in business and positive outcomes through empowering employees to be productive from anywhere. In addition to her functional role, Toni always makes time for mentoring and community service. She founded Adobe’s Black Employee Network and served as the San Jose Council Leader, connecting Adobe employees to each other and our local community. Toni is currently on the non-profit boards of the American Leadership Forum, SV Creates, and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. Toni is a lifelong learner. She holds a BSBA, is an American Leadership Forum Senior Fellow, and literally fought to earn her Black Belt in Tai Kwon Do.

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Chris Hamilton is a digital communications and innovation consultant helping large and small corporate affairs teams thrive in the age of AI. He’s been a senior communicator at AstraZeneca and bp, led digital communications at the UK Prime Minister’s office 10 Downing Street, and was the first Editorial Director at leading creative agency McCann London. Chris started out in journalism as part of the team that built and grew the BBC News offer on its website and across social media. He has experience across strategy, campaigns, digital and content, innovation and tech including AI, crisis management, internal communications and executive communications.

Rodrigo has been a product management leader for the past decade, most recently focused on applying AI to complex workflows. He is currently an AI product manager at Figma, where he is working on making design accessible to all. Previously he was Director of Product at Asana, where he co-led the AI practice and launched the company’s AI suite of features from 0-1.

Santiago has 24 years of experience in overseeing transformational change in both, private and public sectors, providing leadership, digitizing & modernizing organizations, managing data & recently implementing AI, to embed evidence-based decision-making culture, process improvements, automation, cost reduction and data monetisation. Currently he is responsible for defining and delivering an ambitious modernisation and transformation journey at MUFG Pensions and Market Services. His focus is to improve how Data & AI is used across the business as well as how it is delivered globally to help promote automation, innovation and development.

Phil is a Director of Enterprise Strategy and Evangelism at AWS since September 2019.  In this role, Phil works with enterprise executives to share experiences and strategies for how the cloud can help them increase speed and agility while devoting more of their time to their customers.
Prior to joining AWS, Phil held senior technology positions in McDonald’s Corporation including VP for Global Technology Development and International Chief Information Officer.  In these and prior roles Phil led and co-led multiple large scale initiatives to transform McDonald’s into a modern technology-enabled company. Phil’s experience spans a number of domains including architecture, development, data, supply chain, digital engagement, innovation, and organisational change management.
Phil has previously been recognised as one of the top 100 UK-based CIOs.  He also holds a BEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Masters of Business Administration, an MSc in Systems Thinking in Practice and a PGDip in Technology, Innovation and Data Science.  He is a Chartered Manager, Chartered Member of the British Computer Society, and a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and the Institute of Directors. He is currently writing a book with Harvard on organisational transformations.

Amy Tennison is Vice President of IBM TechXchange, where she leads global user advocacy across IBM’s AI and hybrid cloud technologies. She oversees programs and experiences that connect developers and technologists to the tools, learning, and community they need to succeed. With nearly 20 years of experience in marketing, community building, and event strategy, Amy has helped scale initiatives that drive product adoption, build advocacy, and deliver real-world outcomes. She is known for energizing teams, creating impactful experiences, and building lasting client relationships. Outside of work, Amy enjoys traveling with her family and cheering on her sons at their games.

Unmesh Suryawanshi is a seasoned expert in cybersecurity architecture, data privacy, AI governance, and video streaming engineering with a strong focus on advancing comprehensive risk management strategies. With extensive experience in solution design and architecture, he has successfully navigated both cloud and on-premise environments, specializing in threat modelling, security compliance, vulnerability management, and threat mitigation.

Beyond cybersecurity, Unmesh possesses deep technical expertise in video network design, streaming, media asset management, video engineering, and event technology. His work spans live and on-demand streaming solutions, encoding, webcast technology, and collaborative media platforms.

Committed to advancing security and privacy, Unmesh has conducted master’s-level research in malware analysis and reverse engineering, with a focus on ethical hacking, PDF security, and cyber threat defense. A thought leader in the intersection of cybersecurity and media technology, Unmesh brings valuable insights into protecting digital ecosystems in an evolving threat landscape.

Steve Vonder Haar is a Senior Analyst with IntelliVid Research, focusing on the markets for intelligent video and related business video technologies. Steve has covered the online video industry for more than 20 years, publishing more than 200 research reports detailing trends in business video innovation and adoption patterns. He also serves as host of the “Intelligent Video Today” interview series, which can be accessed at www.youtube.com/@IntelligentVideoToday.

Prior to IntelliVid, Steve had served as a Senior Analyst with Wainhouse Research, Research Director of Interactive Media Strategies and as Director of Media and Entertainment Strategies for the Yankee Group. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri Columbia with degrees in Journalism and Economics, and holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas-Arlington.

Davood Shamsi serves as the Executive Director of AI at JPMorgan Chase, where he applies his extensive background in artificial intelligence to real-world business applications. Before his current role, Davood honed his skills at industry giants such as Apple, Yahoo, and Verizon, leading projects that bridged the gap between vast datasets, optimization, and machine learning techniques. He earned his PhD from Stanford University, specializing in large-scale computational optimization with a strong focus on AI and ML, equipping him with a unique blend of academic and practical knowledge to navigate the intersection of AI and business strategy.

Judy Lee is the Senior Director of Global Brand Experiences at Pinterest. She leads the teams that bring the Pinterest brand to life through events, experiences and programming to audiences around the globe. As part of the House of Creative, her team is responsible for Pinterest Manifestival at Cannes Lions, Pinterest Predicts Shop (the first consumer pop up in NYC), Possibility Place in London, Pinterest Presents (our global ad summit), Pinterest Manifest Station at Coachella, and more.

Judy is a passionate advocate for inclusion and mentorship, especially for people of color in the tech, advertising and creative industries. At Pinterest, she is the co-executive sponsor of the Asian employee community. She is an Adweek Executive Mentor, served on the Adweek Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council, and was an ADCOLOR Futures Champion. She was also featured in the WSJ for her vocal advocacy for the AAPI community.

A thought leader and champion for women, Judy has won numerous awards for evolving Pinterest’s brand experiences from The Drum, Brand Innovators, BizBash, and Event Marketer and has been recognized by Adweek as one of most inspired Women Trailblazers of 2021. She shares her expertise and judges award competitions including Cannes Lions, Effies, Campaign Magazine awards. She’s also chaired the Shorty Impact awards and The Drum Experience awards.

Part creative, part marketer, and wholly human, Judy has worked at high-growth tech and media companies from CNET, AOL Media Networks, Pandora Radio, Facebook/Meta, and now Pinterest.

She currently resides in Brooklyn and is dreaming about her next big trip.

Bruce Ableson has been the Senior Director of Global Field Readiness & Enablement at Adobe for four years, leading a team responsible for all enterprise pre-sales and partner training. As a serial entrepreneur, Bruce has a talent for building successful businesses.
In his early career, Bruce worked for several years as a systems and management consultant but found what really appealed to him was writing code. As the internet started to explode in 1998, Bruce built and launched one of the first social networks, Open Diary. This was the first online community blogging site, and Bruce wrote the code for the first online comments system and the first social feed.
After founding several early websites and two companies, Bruce moved into the startup space in the 2010s with leadership positions in sales engineering, customer success, solutions consulting, and sales. As SVP of Customer Strategy, he led the customer-facing teams for Livefyre on the East Coast. Bruce joined Adobe in 2016 when Livefyre was acquired by Adobe.
At Adobe, Bruce has worked in solutions consulting, product marketing, technical enablement, and now leads all enterprise enablement for Adobe. Bruce’s home base is in New Jersey, and he works out of the Adobe Times Square office.

Katie Jenkins leads Scaled Partnerships for Southern Europe within YouTube’s Content Partnerships organisation. The team manages a portfolio of strategic, fast-growing endemic content creators and media companies across France, Italy and Spain, helping these partners to grow and monetise responsibly and evolve within the continually changing technological landscape.  During her 14-year career at Google, Katie previously managed Google’s global relationships with some of the world’s largest FMCG and Luxury advertisers, and her prior experience spans performance marketing, search engine optimisation and digital brand-building. She holds MBAs from London Business School and Columbia Business School.  Passionate about sustainability, outside of her day job Katie is an angel investor with the UK’s largest early-stage investment network specialising in the fight against climate change.  

David Burnand is the Chief Marketing Officer at Staffbase, where he drives global employee communication and engagement. With over 20 years of experience in tech marketing, David has held leadership roles at Veeva Systems, Box, Siemens, and Adobe. At Box, he led European and Global Digital Marketing, introducing a new digital strategy and rolling out the Content Cloud in Europe. Passionate about youth sports and equal opportunities, David has served as a coach and board member at Sandbach RUFC and also played a lead role in campaigns opposing extremism in local politics. He lives in the UK with his wife and two children.

Jonathan joined AWS in 2017, and is a Director of Enterprise Strategy. He works with enterprise executives around the globe to share lessons learned, experiences and strategies for how the cloud can help them increase speed and agility while devoting more of their resources to their customers.

He has worked with over a thousand customers since he joined, including working with many of the world’s leading brands. He specializes in complex cloud migrations, keynoting on this topic 7 times in as many years at the AWS annual re:Invent conference. He also goes deep helping regulated businesses operate using agile while staying secure on the AWS cloud. Jonathan is a frequent speaker, keynoting at over 350 events in his tenure at AWS. He is the co-author of the AWS book Reaching Cloud Velocity which is now in its second edition, and writes frequently on the AWS Enterprise Blog.

Prior to joining AWS, Jonathan spent 17 years working as a leader in Capital One Bank, having the privilege of working globally in multiple roles, with his final role being UK Divisional CTO. He was part of the technology leadership team that selected AWS as their predominant cloud partner in 2014, and was accountable for architecting, engineering, and an agile DevOps execution of the technical build out and migrations of the bank applications. Prior to Capital One, Jonathan was a software and systems engineer working for multiple independent systems houses.

In 2012, he was awarded IT Manager of the Year by The Chartered Institute for IT. He holds a Diploma in Computer Studies from Loughborough College, a CIO MBA from Boston University, and is a certified AWS Solutions Architect. He has previously held Cisco and Microsoft advanced accreditations and can still program in Cobol(!), although Python is his language of choice today.