Michael Pompey is an AI evangelist and transformation leader with over two decades of experience driving technology change in mission-driven and public sector organizations — including serving as Chief Information and Transformation Officer at Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania and CIO at Philadelphia Youth Network for 16 years. He now helps companies move from AI hesitation to action through keynotes and executive advisory, with recent engagements at IBM Think, IBM TechXchange, Villanova University, and industry forums nationwide, grounded in the belief that quality AI starts not with perfect data but with the courage to begin.
Ashley Cooper is the COO at CyberDrain and VP of Community at Rewst, with over 15 years in the IT channel turning operational chaos into meaningful outcomes for MSPs, SaaS vendors, and the communities that connect them — having held roles across Gradient, Auvik, and on the service desk floor where it all started. He is a long-time advocate and moderator in major MSP communities including MSPGeek and r/MSP, specializing in blending product-led growth, low-code automation, and customer-centric operations into scalable systems that support people and platforms alike.
David Tan is the co-founder and CTO of CrushBank, an award-winning AI-powered information retrieval system that helps managed service providers and corporate service desks dramatically reduce the time spent searching for answers — one of the first in the industry to apply AI and unstructured search to MSP data sets. He previously co-founded a New York-based managed service provider and served as its CTO for 30 years, with technology disciplines spanning application development, cognitive computing, machine learning, and AI.
Jon Rolls is the CEO and founder of Tassient, building a revolutionary AI-powered platform for IT teams supporting local and remote endpoints — drawing on 25 years of experience leading product management, R&D, and business development across enterprise software, including co-founding Avacee and scaling its Edge DX product line through acquisition by ControlUp. He holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Warwick and specializes in cross-platform device security and management, with deep expertise in the software development lifecycle, M&A, and AI-driven IT automation.
Martin Taylor is the co-founder and Deputy CEO of Redwood Technologies Group, the parent of Content Guru — a global provider of cloud communications and AI-powered customer experience technology whose award-winning "storm" platform serves large enterprise and public sector clients across more than 50 countries, including 999/112/911 emergency services. He has led innovation in cloud contact center, intelligent automation, and AI services for over 30 years, and is a member of the CBI Technology and Innovation Council.
David Casem is the co-founder and CEO of Telnyx, the communications platform that unifies global carrier-grade infrastructure with AI capabilities to enable businesses to build scalable, conversational AI experiences with ultra-low-latency real-time interactions. He has led Telnyx for over 17 years since its founding in 2009, holding a BA in Economics from Swarthmore College and bringing deep expertise in full-stack telecommunications, developer tools, and the convergence of communications and AI.
Dr. Nomi is a researcher specializing in child-centered AI design and policy, advising the UK Government, the NSPCC, Internet Matters, and other organizations on child-safe AI, with work cited by UN Human Rights, UNICEF, UNESCO, and the UN Global Refugee Forum. She holds a PhD in Education from the University of Cambridge — where she received both the Applied Research Award for outstanding real-world impact and the Vice-Chancellor's Social Impact Award — and her research on child-safe large language models has been featured by the BBC, CNN, Sky News, ABC News, and The Guardian.
Jake is a data scientist, adjunct professor at Villanova, and co-founder of MyDD.ai — a COPPA-compliant AI chatbot designed for kids with real-time parental oversight, built after he couldn't find a safe AI alternative for his own children. He spent years at Comcast building fraud prevention systems, runs RLE Analytics, and writes about AI safety for kids, parenting in the age of generative AI, and the realities of building a startup while teaching and raising a family.
Milton Pedraza is the founder and CEO of the Luxury Institute, globally recognized as one of the world's leading luxury industry experts and a private investor and entrepreneur in a category he coined as Creator Empowerment Technology — with shareholdings in DataLucent, Cryptid Technologies, Diamond Standard, Replika Software, Firework, and others. Over 22 years, Luxury Institute has served 1,100+ luxury and premium brands with research, consulting, and training, and Milton is the co-author of "High Trust Worth: The New Currency of Business is not Money, it's Trust," a frequent guest speaker at Columbia, Duke, and Harvard, and a former executive at PepsiCo, Colgate, Citibank, and Cendant.
Christie Mealo is the SVP of AI Products at 90NORTH, IPG Health, where she leads cross-functional teams building AI-first software solutions for healthcare — backed by nearly six years leading AI/ML engineering and clinical product development at CVS Health and senior analytics roles at McKinsey & Company. She holds an Executive Master's in Technology Leadership from Brown University and is a serial founder and community builder across AI, data, and local tech ecosystems.
Brian M. Green is an AI governance strategist who helps organizations navigate AI risk, compliance, and responsible adoption — with a career bridging community health, health tech, pharma marketing, and digital analytics, including deep subject matter expertise in oncology, immunology, cardiovascular, and rare diseases. He specializes in AI ethics and policy development, LLM evaluation frameworks, and agentic AI integration, and is active as a speaker, workshop facilitator, and fractional Chief AI Officer across corporate and community settings.
Brian Allen, Esq. is a governance architect and board-ready executive who helps directors navigate the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and fiduciary duty — drawing on experience as Chief Security Officer of a $25B public company (Time Warner Cable) and as a regulatory advocate for the nation's largest financial institutions before Congress. He currently serves as Executive Director of the AI RegRisk Think Tank and is a member of the U.S. NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium, where he defines safety standards and governance frameworks for AI deployment in regulated industries.
Wissam Kahi is a senior enterprise transformation leader focused on turning AI and data into capabilities adopted at scale, most recently at United Rentals where he designed and deployed decision systems embedded in core workflows across a highly distributed, asset-intensive organization. He is also co-founder of Eat Offbeat — a mission-driven food business creating economic opportunity for refugee chefs — and serves as a board member of Conscious Capitalism New York, advising on responsible AI adoption and ethics grounded in real operational experience.
David Borish is an Enterprise AI Strategist at Trace3 with 25 years of experience at the edge of emerging technology — from co-creating the first VR headset sold on television to developing 360-degree camera tech adopted by the NFL, holding two patents and two successful exits along the way. He is the architect of the "Open-Prem Inflection Point" framework for enterprise AI deployment, founder of The AI Spectator, and a recognized voice featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, and The Canadian Press, known for calling technology shifts — like China's AI surge — before they become obvious.
Tony Pietrocola is a seasoned technology executive and repeat SaaS entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience building, scaling, and exiting companies across cybersecurity and cloud technologies — including co-founding and exiting Tenth Floor and vLoan.com before his current role as President of AgileBlue. AgileBlue is a global, AI-native SecOps platform that autonomously detects, investigates, and responds to cyber threats, and Tony also serves on the boards of the Greater Cleveland Partnership and Northern Ohio InfraGard Members Alliance, supporting public-private collaboration around security and resilience.
Joe Dean is a user-centric product management leader at ServiceNow with a career spanning multiple industries, focused on solving real-world problems with solutions that work for both users and businesses. His expertise spans SaaS, machine learning, data analytics, and contact center technology — bringing deep knowledge of agentic systems, human-in-the-loop design, and the real challenges of AI-driven customer experiences in production.
Alex Hurtado is the Director of Detection Engineering Research at Anvilogic, specializing in detection content development, SIEM optimization, and threat modeling — building on nearly four years at IBM where she served as Worldwide Technical Lead for QRadar and consulted Fortune 500 organizations and law enforcement on cybersecurity strategy. Her hands-on experience spans the full security operations stack from detection engineering to incident response, with additional background at Disney ABC Television Group and Lean Six Sigma process optimization, giving her a uniquely practical lens on where AI actually belongs in security workflows.
Dr. Amy Osmond Cook is a seasoned marketing executive and co-founder/CMO of Fullcast, the Go-to-Market Cloud, with a proven track record helping multiple high-growth companies move from Series A through acquisition — including CMO roles at Simplus, PathologyWatch, and Onboard. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Utah, has taught business and communication courses at ASU, BYU, and the U of U for over 25 years, and previously founded and led Stage Marketing as CEO for 15 years.
David Petersen is the Technical Program Manager for the AI Innovation portfolio at WGU Labs, leading five transformative AI-driven educational technology initiatives — including an AI student support chatbot, an AI course design platform, and AI-powered skills assessment — blending an MBA with an MSc in Education (Learning & Technology) from Oxford. He is a champion of equity and accessibility in AI-powered education, contributing to industry-wide initiatives like the Open Skills Network's Rich Skill Descriptors and co-authoring a book on AI in education.
Lance Eaton is an educator, writer, and consultant with over six years specializing in helping higher education institutions navigate generative AI, innovative pedagogies, and thoughtful use of educational technology — backed by 16+ years of course and program design and 120+ college courses taught. He is co-founder and Principal Consultant at Anchor Insights Consultants, with deep expertise in accessibility, universal design for learning, and critical pedagogy, and has authored 20+ academic publications alongside writing for Library Journal, Publishers' Weekly, and other major outlets.
Aditya Gautam is a Tech Lead for Machine Learning at Meta, where he applies LLMs to ranking, recommendations, and integrity — building foundational multi-modal models, multi-agentic frameworks, and evaluation systems, with prior experience as a founding ML engineer at a Google incubator startup and roles at Zillow and Qualcomm. He is a published researcher, peer reviewer for NeurIPS, ICML, and AAAI, and a featured speaker at the Databricks Data + AI Summit and conferences worldwide on topics including agentic AI evaluation, enterprise adoption, and AI self-regulation.
Angela Le Mathon is a workforce intelligence leader and fractional Chief AI Officer who partners with executive teams navigating the intersection of AI, organizational transformation, and the future of work — with experience at Walmart and through her consultancy, People Alkemie. She specializes in moving organizations beyond "pilot purgatory" to scalable AI adoption by re-aligning skills, structure, and decision rights, ensuring human judgment, trust, and purpose are protected as technology scales.
Ken Mills is the President of Intelisys with over 20 years of experience building and scaling high-growth business units within the technology sector, specializing in bridging the gap between complex technical solutions — spanning AI, cybersecurity, IoT, and unified communications — and strategic market execution. His broad technology portfolio perspective gives him a unique lens on AI's hidden potential at the intersection of sensors, security, and scale, from computer vision to surprising enterprise IoT applications.
Ankur Patel is the Founder and CEO of Multimodal, building agentic AI to automate the most complex workflows in finance and insurance — drawing on 15+ years of AI/ML experience across J.P. Morgan, Bridgewater, ThetaRay, and 7Park Data (acquired by Vista Equity), plus co-founding Glean.ai (acquired by Pipe) and R-Squared Macro. He is a Princeton graduate and author of two O'Reilly Media books — Hands-On Unsupervised Learning Using Python and Applied Natural Language Processing in the Enterprise — with a deep conviction that the future of AI is vertical, not horizontal.
David McPeak is the President of Sky Data Vault with over 30 years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining corporate and cloud networks — specializing in helping companies navigate complex IT challenges across Microsoft technologies, virtualization, managed colocation, and data center services. He brings a practitioner's perspective on enterprise infrastructure evolution, offering grounded insights on how organizations can leverage both in-house and cloud-based solutions as AI reshapes the technology landscape.
Karaline Venezia is the Chief Revenue Officer at Capacity, an AI-powered knowledge automation platform, bringing nearly two decades of experience in revenue leadership, customer experience analytics, and business development across companies including XtendOps, ForeSee, and GBI Research. Her career has focused on the intersection of AI, knowledge management, and enterprise customer experience — driving new business growth and helping organizations move beyond AI fear to practical, scalable adoption.
Trevor Burnside is a Cybersecurity Solution Architect at Telarus with over 10 years of experience in channel sales and partnerships, leveraging deep expertise across cybersecurity, cloud communications, and computer networking to deliver solutions for technology channel partners. He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Cybersecurity Management at the University of Utah, holds multiple technology certifications, and brings a practitioner's perspective on how AI is revolutionizing — and complicating — enterprise cybersecurity operations.
Jason Kaufman is a Principal Solution Architect at Telarus with deep technical proficiency spanning unified communications, contact center, cybersecurity, SD-WAN, SASE, and cloud infrastructure — backed by extensive experience building and managing sales engineering and customer success teams through measurable outcomes. He is a versatile problem solver comfortable delivering demonstrations, trainings, and keynote speeches, bringing a broad cross-domain perspective to conversations about where AI fits across the enterprise technology stack.
Brad Reynolds is the Co-Founder, CSO, and SVP of AI at Expedient, where he leads the company's artificial intelligence strategy with a deeply held vision that AI reasoning engines will evolve organically to encompass executive and sense-like functions — informed by millions of years of human experience and training. He brings a builder's perspective on real-world AI adoption, focusing on the tightly coupled relationship between data and models and how decreasing iterative processing time will drive exponential increases in enterprise AI output.
Puneet Arora is the President of Yellow.ai and an entrepreneurial management executive with 25+ years of experience building and scaling high-velocity SaaS go-to-market organizations — having driven explosive revenue growth at companies including Salesforce ($300M to $1B), Oracle ($23B to $37B), 8x8, LivePerson, and D2L across both public and VC-funded stages. Named one of the Top 25 Software Sales Executives of 2020, he brings deep expertise in agentic AI and the enterprise shift, with global experience managing 200+ person teams and over $300M in annual revenue responsibility across CRM, UCaaS, CCaaS, and learning platforms.
Chad Muckenfuss is Vice President of Cloud at Telarus and an AI and multi-cloud transformation strategist who architects enterprise-grade solutions across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, with a strong emphasis on integrating AI capabilities to drive innovation. He brings deep experience guiding organizations through complex cloud migrations while implementing AI/ML workloads, spanning cybersecurity, SASE/SD-WAN, and hybrid cloud — helping partners and clients modernize infrastructure through cloud-native solutions with robust security and compliance frameworks.
Deric Frost is Vice President of Marketing at VIIRL Marketing with over 20 years of experience improving go-to-market productivity across trades, retail, healthcare, CPG, and pharma — including co-founding eVisit® in 2015, leading pandemic-era clinical trial innovation at VirTrial, and advancing AI-powered meeting productivity with Reelay® in 2022. He has built, commercialized, and mentored B2B SaaS startups since 2010, scaling businesses from family-run ventures to VC-backed startups and Fortune 500 enterprises, and is now focused on defining Marketing-as-a-Service by blending traditional marketing services with proprietary SaaS technology.
