Amit Zavery is responsible for vision, strategy and delivering Google Cloud's Business Application Platform to help businesses with their digital transformation journey. Previously he was an Executive Vice President and General Manager of Oracle Cloud Platform and Middleware products. Amit is a regular keynote speaker at industry events and considered a thought leader in enterprise software by customers, press, and analysts. He also has an extensive experience in identifying, acquiring and integrating numerous private and public companies. He holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and MS in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/googlecloud/people/amitzavery/">
Heather is a 17-year Google veteran and founding member of Google Security Team. She has built a global team responsible for maintaining the safety and security of Google’s networks, systems and applications. With an extensive background in systems and network administration with an emphasis on practical security, she has worked to build and secure
some of the world’s largest infrastructure. Now her focus is the defense of Google’s computing infrastructure and working with industry to tackle some of the greatest security challenges with the Defending Digital Democracy project at Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/googlecloud/people/heatheradkins/">
Jennifer leads Product Management for Anthos, Google’s cloud-native platform for Application Modernization. Prior to joining Google, Jennifer was on the founding team and VP, Product at Contrail, a software startup acquired by Juniper in 2012.
Previously, Jennifer managed various product teams at Cisco focused on IoT, Wireless and Mobility Services, in addition to Enterprise Networking and Security. Jennifer has led teams in technical, operational and product roles at Intel and various web startups in Silicon Valley. Jennifer earned a BSE from Princeton University and an MSE from Stanford University." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/googlecloud/people/jenniferklin/">
Prior to Google, Jesse was Vice President of Research at NCC Group after it acquired iSEC Partners, which he co-founded in 2004. Jesse has helped some of the biggest technology firms in the world handle their security risks through his work at iSEC and NCC. Jesse has a deep technical background that includes years of software development and hands-on testing. He has spoken internationally at conferences on a wide variety of security topics." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/googlecloud/people/jesseburns1/">
John has occupied a number of roles at Google, including working closely with Magalu from 2014 to 2019 as Head of Digital Transformation Strategy for Google Cloud’s Apigee team. Prior to joining Google, John worked on green energy technologies and in education. He holds a BA from UCLA and an MBA from Santa Clara University." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/googlecloud/people/johnrethans1/">
At the forefront of Google’s cloud and machine learning capabilities, Ulku enables the financial services industry to take advantage of Google’s technology to fuel their digital transformation. Before joining Google, Ulku was a Managing Director of Technology at J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank of America. Ulku holds an MS degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BS degree in Computer Engineering. She also serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Fintech Advisory Group." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/googlecloud/people/ulkurowe/">
Will is the founder and leader of Google’s CTO Office, a global team of CTOs whose mission is to foster collaborative innovation with Google’s largest customers. Will has spent over 20 years building and deploying global information systems and platforms. He holds a BS in operations research from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and an MBA from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. He serves on the boards of several companies using the power of data to increase global security and is an active cybersecurity investor." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/googlecloud/people/willgrannis/">
Dr. Ashwin Ram focuses on bringing Google AI to the world through deep personalized engagement with the leadership of top companies to reimagine their businesses by leveraging the power of AI. He also works with Google’s AI teams to drive new technologies and capabilities that address customer needs. Prior to Google, he was Senior Manager of AI Science for Amazon Alexa. He led cross-functional R&D initiatives to create advanced Conversational AI technologies for intelligent agents, including the university-facing Alexa Prize competition. Ashwin is a distinguished AI researcher, technologist, entrepreneur, public speaker, and adjunct professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. In addition to co-founding multiple startups, he has published two books and over 100 scientific articles in international forums. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1989, his MS from University of Illinois in 1984, and his BTech from IIT Delhi in 1982. Follow him on Twitter via @ashwinram." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/googlecloud/people/ashwinram1/">
General Manager & VP, G Suite" data-homepage-link="http://www.forbes.com/sites/javier-soltero/">
Jeff focuses on Applied AI, data science, data engineering, and analytics in Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO. Previously, Jeff was a Senior Vice President, Data Science Engineering at Blackstone, an alternate asset manager. In this role, he focused on data science, data engineering, and data visualization within the firm’s technology leadership. Before Blackstone, Jeff was Director of Data Engineering at Ipreo, a financial technology company, VP Technology at Observer Media, a publisher, and CTO of an early-stage retail data analytics startup. Before these roles, Jeff was Chief Data Scientist at S&P Capital IQ, where he founded the company's first data science team, and was a core member of the technology leadership team focused on content and data management. Throughout his career, Jeff has believed in the power of data to empower individuals and organizations in delivering value. It’s all about the data — and AI! Jeff received a bachelor degree in Biology at the University of Virginia." data-homepage-link="https://www.forbes.com/sites/googlecloud/people/jeffsternberg/">
Executive Productivity Advisor, Google
Laura Mae Martin started at Google almost 10 years ago in the Ann Arbor office. Shortly after joining, she started a 20% project and developed an internal training on how to manage your inbox effectively. Her continued passion for productivity has developed into a full time role working 1:1 with executives at Google and running the Productivity@Google program for all employees.
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Smita is currently Director of Product Management at Google Cloud where she leads product development and go-to-market strategy for meeting solutions and time management. This includes Google Meet and Meet hardware for video conferencing, Jamboard digital whiteboarding solutions, Google Voice for cloud telephony, and Google Calendar and Tasks. Prior to her current role, she led the expansion of Google’s Chrome OS device and Android apps portfolio and market growth. Before Chrome OS, Smita led AdWords expansion into location based advertising solutions and managed monetization strategies for Google Finance, Blogger, and Google News.
Prior to Google, Smita led the product management team for delivery of television over IP networks at Microsoft. Smita received her bachelor's degree in engineering from IIT Kanpur, masters from Princeton and has a PhD in information science with focus on video and image compression from the University of California.
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Hamidou Dia is Vice President, Solutions Engineering at Google Cloud where he is responsible for driving the definition of Google Cloud solutions, building a solution engineering and business value methodology and creating an enterprise architecture and value advisory function.
Prior to Google, Hamidou worked at Oracle as Senior Vice President; Chief Architect of the North America Technology Division responsible for the Oracle Cloud Platform Solution Engineering and Cloud Customer Success organization. He pioneered the Enterprise Architecture discipline and practice at Oracle and brings strategic leadership and technical expertise to enable customers to transform their IT environments leveraging Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, Social, Mobile and the Internet of Things. Prior to founding the Enterprise Architecture discipline and practice, Hamidou held a number of other leadership positions at Oracle, focused primarily on leading large, complex, global technology project implementations. He is a globally recognized Cloud Architecture and Technology leader who speaks in a range of conferences including: Gartner and Forrester Conferences.
Hamidou is originally from Senegal in West Africa and attended college in Paris, France, where he met his wife. They immigrated to the United States in 2000 with their five children. Hamidou is based out of Boulder, Colorado.
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Debanjan Saha is GM of Data Analytics at Google Cloud, where he leads the strategy and execution of analytics services in GCP. Prior to joining Google, Debanjan was VP of Amazon Aurora and RDS at Amazon Web Services. Earlier in his career Debanjan held multiple executive and technical leadership positions at IBM and Tellium, an optical networking pioneer that he helped grow from an early stage start-up to a public company.
Debanjan is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM. He has co-authored a book, 50 patent applications, and numerous technical articles including award winning papers and Internet standards. He received MS and PhD degrees from the University of Maryland, and a B.Tech from IIT, all in Computer Science. In 2019, Business Insider named him as one of the top 10 technology executives transforming business.
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