Jennifer Manry is the Vice President of the Global Financial Services Industries Group at VMware and responsible for VMware’s financial services strategy, market development and financial services solutions.

Prior to VMware, Jennifer was the CIO and Managing Director of Employee Technology & Employee Experience at Bank of America where she was responsible for the technology strategy, architecture, engineering, operations, and support services for over 200K+ employees, globally. In addition to those responsibilities, Jennifer lead both the Global Human Resources and Chief Administrative Office technology teams.

Before Bank of America, Jennifer served as Managing Vice President - End User Computing, Digital Workplace, and Identity & Access Management at Capital One. Jennifer drove the transformation of the employee experience, creating a contemporary, digital workplace based on consumer-grade technology at enterprise scale.

Jennifer has also held technology leadership positions at GE and Genworth Financial. She earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and serves on the advisory board for Women Who Code.

Shankar Iyer is the SVP and GM of End User Computing at VMware Inc. This responsibility includes overall business strategy and performance, product management and marketing, R&D, market positioning, and customer success. Previously, Shankar ran the Desktop business as part of EUC and as the SVP and GM of Desktop products.

Prior to VMware, Shankar was the VP of Products and Engineering for Enterprise Mobility at Citrix Systems, where he was instrumental in building the XenMobile business and products from the ground up. Before Citrix, Shankar was at WebEx as VP of Products and Engineering. He was responsible for WebEx’s next generation platform and ecosystem and continued that role as part of the Cloud Application Services group at Cisco Systems.

Shankar has also held executive management roles at Tibco Software as VP of Products and at GemStone Systems as EVP of Products before its acquisition by VMware. He has an MBA from Santa Clara University, an MS from the Ohio State University, and a B.Tech. from IIT Bombay.

Becky O’Grady serves as a director on several corporate boards, including public, private equity and venture capital backed companies. She serves as a director and the Compensation Committee Chair for La-Z-Boy, one of the world’s leading furniture producers. She serves as a director for HALO, the industry leading promotional products provider, and as a director for Ripple Foods, a provider of plant based milks and foods. She also serves as a director and the Audit Committee Chair for Tropicale, a provider of premium ice cream products. She is an active advisor to women-led growth companies.

Becky previously served as a senior executive with General Mills leading large global brands including Haagen-Dazs, Yoplait and Cheerios. She also led the marketing and consumer insights functions globally, as well as the company’s e-commerce strategy. O’Grady joined General Mills in Marketing in 1990. With over 25 years of experience leading global brands and teams, large P&L’s across emerging and developed markets, retail channels and joint venture partnerships, she brings significant operational and executive leadership experience in the consumer packaged goods industry. She has a strong track record of driving growth through innovation, brand communication and operational excellence.

Becky lives in Minneapolis with her husband, Shawn, and has two children. She serves on the board of trustees for the Minneapolis Foundation and as a Regent for Northwestern University. She previously served as President of the Board of Trustees for Breck School, and as a founding member and senior advisor to the General Mills Women’s Network and Hispanic Employee Network. She also previously served on the board of Working Opportunities for Women.

Karen M. Walker is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Intel Corporation. She is responsible for building and strengthening Intel’s brand, supporting growth strategies, cultivating opportunities in new and existing markets, and increasing demand for Intel's products and solutions globally. Walker has over 20 years of experience scaling for growth and global expansion. Prior to joining Intel in 2019, she served as chief marketing officer (CMO) of Cisco where she led a complete transformation of the marketing function to become a leader in real-time marketing and communications. She also served as a key leader in Cisco’s transformation to a hybrid business model selling hardware, services, SaaS, and software.

As CMO, she invested in the newest marketing technologies to build a multi-award-winning tech stack, creating a world-class digital marketing infrastructure. Through her leadership she transformed the marketing function from a cost-center to a revenue generating engine. Walker also led as Cisco’s brand value increased 16% in just three years to $34.6B dollars, ranking #15 on Interbrand’s Best Global Brands list.

Walker's 20-plus years in the IT industry have included senior field and marketing leadership roles in Europe, North America, and the Asia Pacific region. Walker excelled in her various roles at Cisco prior to CMO, starting as global vice president of Services Marketing, growing to take on Segments and Partners, and then finally becoming senior vice president of Go-to-Market. She joined Cisco from Hewlett-Packard, where she held both business and consumer leadership positions.

She is widely recognized as an industry authority on both technology and marketing topics. In 2017 and 2019, she was named one of the Top 10 Most Influential CMOs in the World by Forbes. She also serves as a board member of Eli Lilly, Sprout Social, and the Association of National Advertisers (ANA). Walker holds a bachelor’s degree with joint honors in chemistry and business studies from Loughborough University in England and was awarded an honorary doctorate of business administration from the University of Sunderland in 2018.

Ken Denman is a General Partner at Sway Ventures and a voting member of the Investment Committee. Ken brings nearly two decades of CEO experience to Sway Ventures' consumer and enterprise investments, garnered through successful transformations at several companies.

Ken is a former Silicon Valley technology CEO and now stays equally busy as a public and private board member and venture capitalist. Previously he was co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Emotient, Inc., a developer of software technology to analyze facial expressions, until the company was acquired by Apple in January 2016. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Openwave Systems, Inc., subsequent to his role as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of iPass, Inc., for which he led a successful IPO. Ken was also a Senior Vice President for MediaOne. As an expat, he was Chief Operating Officer of MediaOne International based in London.

He is a member of the boards of directors of Costco Wholesale, Inc., VMware, Inc., and Motorola Solutions, Inc., where he is the lead independent director and chair of the nominating and governance committee. He was appointed to the Edward V. Fritzky chair as visiting professor at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business in 2012. Ken sits on the boards of the Foster School and the University of Washington Foundation. He and his wife Mary, reside in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado.

Meenu Agarwal is the Senior Vice President of Customer Success at VMware. She leads the worldwide customer success organization focused on delivery of exceptional value-driven experiences to VMware customers across all product and solution areas. Meenu is a seasoned executive in the software industry with extensive experience in sales, operations, customer success, and services. She has a proven track record of building high performing teams and scaling multi-billion dollar businesses. Meenu has spent her career at leading companies including IBM, HubSpot, Open Text, Vignette, and Oracle in various Executive and Strategic management roles. Prior to VMware, she served at HubSpot, a CRM software company, leading the worldwide Services business.

Before HubSpot, Meenu spent 11 years with IBM in sales, success and strategic global leadership roles within Analytics, Security, and Cloud software business units. Meenu attended the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), BHU in Varanasi, India, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering.

Rekha Krishna is a Senior Manager, Product Management in SD-WAN (VeloCloud) Business Unit. She has over 18 years of industry experience in Networking and Security working in Cisco, Palo Alto Networks and now VMware. In VMware, She owns and defines Pricing and Packaging strategy for SD-WAN (VeloCloud) Business Unit - developing pricing strategy for SaaS products which includes SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) - SD-WAN, Cloud Web Security, Secure Access and Cloud Firewall. She has expertise building financial models to come up with new pricing proposals across multiple products. In Palo Alto Networks she led the Enterprise Agreements for the company and was instrumental in launching a flexible licensing model which resulted in 150% increase in Y-o-Y bookings.

Prior to PANW, Rekha spent 12yrs at Cisco in various technical marketing and product management roles (routing, IoT, data center). Her most recent role at Cisco was in the Offer Monetization Office responsible for suiting/bundling traditional routing with SD-WAN features. Rekha is very passionate about pricing & packaging and learning new technologies. She is a strong supporter of women in tech and loves mentoring women who are transitioning to product management.

Rick McElroy, Principal Cybersecurity Strategist for VMware Carbon Black, has 20 years of information security experience educating and advising organizations on reducing their risk posture and tackling tough security challenges. He has held security positions with the U.S. Department of Defense, and in several industries including retail, insurance, entertainment, cloud computing, and higher education.

McElroy’s experience ranges from performing penetration testing to building and leading security programs. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Information Security Manager (CSIM), and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC). As a United States Marine, McElroy’s work included physical security and counterterrorism services. His current role takes him all over the world working organizations to improve their security strategies and speaking on security and privacy.

Renu Upadhyay is Vice President of Product and Technical Marketing, End User Computing Business Unit at VMware. She leads the team responsible for customer messaging, content, sales and technical enablement, product pricing strategy along with marketing programs and campaigns for the Workspace ONE digital workspace solution that enables employees across all businesses do their best work. Prior to VMware, Renu was in senior product marketing roles at Good Technology, Cisco Systems and AT&T Wireless. Renu has an engineering degree from the University of Mumbai followed by an MBA from the University of San Francisco.

Chandana joined VMware in 2017 and as part of the End User Computing division, leads a team of talented engineers who are building one of the best digital workspace platforms in the world: Workspace ONE. Prior to VMware, Chandana had over 17 years working for different companies in the Endpoint management and Security space.

After his studies of engineering and business administration, Florian started his career in the IT industry as IT Consultant at Digital Equipment in 1988. After 4 years, he moved to DeTeCon to join the project to build and develop digital mobile communications for German Telekom. Since then, at T-Mobile and after their merger with T-Home within the Deutsche Telekom Group, he held various managerial positions in IT as well as in the area of Technology & Innovation. The scope of his activities spanned from planning and managing infrastructure consolidation projects in Telekom's European subsidiaries, through the harmonization of the office communication platforms of the national subsidiaries, to the overall responsibility of T-Mobile International's enterprise architecture.

For the last two years, he has been managing the program for agile productization of Deutsche Telekom’s workplace Portfolio "Digital Workplace Services”.

Mr. Bong Paloma is currently the Executive Vice President for Technology, Sales and Marketing of AMTI, one of the leading technology solutions and systems provider in the Philippines. He is also the Digital Transformation Executive Sponsor of the company which aims to help businesses in their workforce transformation journey. He has 30 years of experience in the IT industry and has been with AMTI for 10 years now.

With more than 20 years of IT experience, Paul Green’s technology-infused leadership adds an exciting dimension to his role as Chief Development Officer at Angel MedFlight Worldwide Air Ambulance. His creativity and boundary-pushing initiatives drive patient-centered solutions that result in greater care and service. Paul started his career in the hospitality field where he focused on streamlining technology to meet and exceed business objectives. His marketing acumen and original campaigns led to national prominence within the hotel chain, allowing him to expand his role, ultimately rising to Chief Information Officer.

Seeking a new challenge, Paul joined Angel MedFlight as CIO in 2014 to strengthen the company's IT capability in support of its continued growth. With a focus on the patient experience, Paul's innovative influence is evident in everything from the company's workflow to its online presence. In 2018, Paul was named the Chief Development Officer to lead the company's technology and business development initiatives. In 2019, Paul was named the Arizona Technology Council’s Transformational Leader of the Year at the 2019 Governor’s Celebration of Innovation (GCOI) Awards. Six months later, the global COVID-19 pandemic forced Angel MedFlight to make an unprecedented pivot. Paul’s bold, proactive response and creative problem-solving drove Angel MedFlight’s successful transition of its entire workforce from the office to home. In June of 2020, Constellation Research recognized Paul on its 2021 Business Transformation 150, an elite list of executives leading business transformation efforts around the globe.

Pat is a 20+ year IT veteran – a geek who thrives on change – passionate about creating a dynamic and collaborative workplace where team members can work seamlessly from anywhere, anytime, on any device. He is currently responsible for the 900+ person Dell Digital Team Member Experience (TMX) organization that is driving workforce transformation across Dell Technologies. He’s also a recreational cyclist and avid oarsman who thrives on the work-life balance made possible by these modern solutions. Before joining Dell, Pat accumulated more than a dozen years of IT software and services experience spanning manufacturing, distribution, telecom and retail.

Enterprise Architect primarily focusing on EUC and Collaboration Technologies with over 10 years of experience in the UEM industry. Regular speaker at AirWatch Connect, VMWorld, and Dell Tech World that holds AirWatch EMP, EMA, and Double VCP in Digital Workspace and Desktop Mobility along with hosting one of the top mobility/UEM-focused blogs on the internet.

Yury Magalif is a Chief Service Architect at CDI, LLC, specializing in End-User Computing, Hybrid Cloud, Desktop-as-a-Service, storage and data center technologies. He is a VMware VMworld and a Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Discover conference speaker with sessions on performance analysis and vSphere optimization. In addition, Yury is a VMware vExpert EUC and holds various other industry certifications from VMware, Microsoft, Dell EMC, Cisco, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Dane Young (@youngtech) is currently recognized as a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), VMware vExpert and End User Computing Champion, and NVIDIA Virtual GPU Community Advisor (NGCA). Dane is a self-employed virtualization and cloud architect, specializing in the design and deployment of application, desktop, server virtualization, end user computing and cloud technologies from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. Launching independent as an entrepreneur, Dane inspired and created YOUNG TECHNOLOGIES, LLC (“YOUNGTECH”) to empower clients to convert their technology roadblocks into a roadmap to success.

With over 20 years of Information Technology experience, Ivan held various leadership positions in the areas of business development, management and engineering with most of them focusing on the end user experience and security. In the current role, Ivan is leading the End User Computing practice at World Wide Technology focusing on transformational solutions dealing with modern device, application, and identity management. Ivan holds three degrees in Computer Science, Business Management, and Mathematics.

Andrew Sopko is the Head of IT at Twitter where he leads a global organization responsible for Enterprise Applications, End User Services, and Corporate Infrastructure. Andrew joined Twitter in 2013 with a focus on building business systems during a high-growth period for the company. Twitter's IT organization is driven by the value they provide to the company, based on the principles of innovation, business enablement, governance, and security.

Prior to joining Twitter, Andrew worked in a customer-facing role at Appirio and was previously in strategic leadership positions in IT at Salesforce. He holds multiple patents in information systems and is ITIL certified with training in organizational development. Andrew received his bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.

Kristine Dahl Steidel is VMware’s head of End User Computing in EMEA, helping organisations gain a competitive advantage and drive employee empowerment by embracing mobility and the digital workspace. Kristine helps some of VMware’s most strategic clients accomplish their digital transformation goals through an intelligence driven digital workspace, designed to securely deliver and manage any application on any device with a great employee experience. Kristine has a wealth of experience over her 20-year career in the technology industry. She joined VMware in 2006 running Enterprise Sales in Norway, moving on to become the Country Manager. She held this position for 6 years, then transitioned to leading the Nordics & Baltics Partner and Alliances organisation.

Over the last 3 years she has held the position of Regional Director, Nordics & Baltics. In this role, she was responsible for the strategic development and management of VMware’s operations throughout the region and helped customers transform their operations through VMware’s software-defined datacenter, cloud and digital workspace solutions. She holds both a bachelor and master’s degree in management from BI Norwegian Business School and a bachelor’s degree in social psychology from the University of Oslo.

Hilding Arrehed is the Vice President of Cloud Services and Product Management, where he is responsible for the HID Origo cloud platform and the broader physical access control solutions portfolio at HID Global. Prior to this role, Hilding was Senior Director of Professional Services with HID Global and ActivIdentity, during which time he led the global identity and access management professional services operation. Hilding is CISSP certified with a background in science and information technology and has over twenty years of experience in the identity security industry.

Stephen Lee is Vice President, Technical Strategy & Partnerships at Okta. His charter includes technology partnerships, product strategy, and Okta Ventures. Stephen has also been a board member of the Identity Defined Security Alliance since 2018 - an organization consisting of many industry leaders to promote identity-centric security.

Sarah is an experienced pre-sales leader with over 22 years’ experience in the world of IT. She has qualified in multiple disciplines over the years including CISSP, ITIL and General Management from Cranfield University. She studied Mathematics at university and developed a love of programming. After graduation, she started her career in IT as a programmer before moving into the world of pre-sales nearly twenty years ago.

She has worked in many different software spheres in that time, from database modelling and application development tools, to focusing on cybersecurity and computer forensics for twelve years before joining VMware. She has worked in and led both pre-sales and professional services teams in her career. She now has responsibility for the Digital Workspace systems engineering team across EMEA. Outside of work, Sarah has two daughters and a naughty cockapoo puppy which together, take up most of her time.

Scott brings the same curiosity and exploration to solving our client’s security challenges as he does to finding new trails to unleash his mountain bike on.
Working alongside some of New Zealand's most influential businesses to enhance their overall organisational security posture, Scott has 15 years under his belt.

Since returning home to New Zealand 6 years ago, Scott has held senior roles with CCL and Inde. Scott’s constant focus is on having security-minded conversations with clients across all regions and within all verticals present in the NZ market. The outcome? Practical advice to organisations looking for security expertise and guidance.

During his time in the security space; Scott has had the privilege of working with NZ organisations in the following verticals: government, health, education, finance, retail, industrial and corporate to deliver outstanding service and advice to produce viable business outcomes on time and to budget.

Scott says, “My passion is talking to people and businesses about practical security initiatives and technology, helping them remove any industry ambiguity and focus on what’s important in their business.” Outside of work, Scott is a keen mountain biker and is always looking to explore new trails!

Sven Kniest has been Regional Vice President Central & Eastern Europe at Okta since 2019 and is responsible for business development and expansion in the DACH region and Eastern Europe. Previously, he worked at Micro Focus, where he held various sales management positions. He began his career at Compaq and worked for various companies in the enterprise technology sector, including NetIQ and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Sven Kniest holds a degree in business administration with a specialization in business information systems.

Steve Mackay is Infrastructure Delivery Manager at Baillie Gifford; managing the Platforms team, the Workspace Technologies team, and the Sites & Communications team.

With over 15 years’ in the IT sector, Steve also has architecture experience on the customer-side. As well as 6 years’ experience in Technical Presales for both EMC and Dell Technologies, where he recently served as a Field CTO (UK North) for Dell.

Steve has a strong VMware & infrastructure background, which is complemented by expertise and keen interest in both multi-cloud discussion and next-generation applications.

He lives near Edinburgh in Scotland with his wife and two children.

Aaron represents the Intelligent Workplace Practice in NTT Limited across Asia Pacific. He has been in NTT Limited (previously Dimension Data) for over 7 years and is responsible for driving solutions and services that center around the themes of Employee Experience (EX) & Customer Experience (CX). In the last 18 months, he has been working closely with cloud & ecosystem partners as well as clients to develop & rollout solutions from NTT Limited that transform the way we look at the workplace as organizations around Asia Pacific navigate he continuously evolving landscape of remote and hybrid working.

Michael Schöberl is an experienced IT executive with a focus on the opportunities arising from mergers and acquisitions, especially those associated with operational efficiency and exploitation of the very latest technology solutions. Before moving into the OSRAM Continental joint venture in 2018, he worked in the Automotive division of Continental AG as the central contact coordinator for all M&A activities in the group. In this role, he was instrumental in setting up the IT infrastructure for the joint venture with OSRAM. Herr Schöberl began his professional career in the development of vehicle access control systems before moving to the IT department, where he held various positions in all IT areas, from first level support and upwards. As CIO and Vice President of IT at OSRAM Continental GmbH, Michael Schöberl is responsible for the company's entire IT architecture, which is completely cloud-based.

Paul Saltmarsh is a Senior IT Officer for Brisbane Catholic Education, overseeing client endpoint computing for 70,000+ devices and 74,000+ users over 147 sites. He was initially a baker by trade and began reskilling himself in his 30s. Paul joined Education Queensland as a Cluster Technician in 2005 while continuing studies at University. From there, he moved into the private sector as Network Manager at a 1400-student secondary college. He has completed his studies for now with a Bach. IT (Network Security) and Graduate Diploma in IT Management. Paul describes himself as a learner for life, a keen and competent guitarist, and a responsible digital citizen who enjoys empowering others with technology.

Brian Madden is the lead technologist in VMware’s EUC Office of the CTO. Prior to joining VMware, he was known world-wide as an independent EUC expert and founder of BrianMadden.com, the BriForum conference series, and author of six books and over 2000 technical articles.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bmadden/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianmadden

Nick Cross is the Vice President for VMware’s Networking and Security Sales business in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He is responsible for driving the sales and adoption of VMware’s Networking and Security solution portfolio that connects and protects applications across the Data Centre, Multi Cloud, bare metal and container infrastructure, as well as out to the Edge. Nick joined VMware in 2015 to build and lead the hyperconverged infrastructure business from incubation through to the mainstream, before taking over the software-defined datacenter sales organisation in EMEA from February 2020.

He has more than twenty years of experience in the IT sales arena and has a diverse sales and sales leadership background: from industry-leading vendors such as EMC and Oracle, through to several start-up businesses throughout EMEA. Nick is married to Rebecca, has three young children, two dogs, and currently resides in Bath in the UK. When time allows, he loves to ski, play golf, and participate in most competitive sports.

Craig is a Security Solutions Strategist and is responsible for helping VMware and its customers in their Security transformation journey. Prior to his current position, he served tenure as an Enterprise Architect, Security Architect and Governance, Risk and Compliance consultants with VMware in EMEA, and companies such as Capgemini Consulting and Accenture. He has a background in psychology and human performance, and holds many qualifications and certifications including CISSP-ISSMP and VCP-DV 6.7. 

Jai Sahney is the Director of VMware’s end-user computing (EUC)/ Digital Workspace business for South East Asia and Korea region, and is based in Singapore. He is responsible for building and executing a successful strategy to grow VMware’s EUC business in the region. Jai is passionate about helping organizations realize the full potential of the workforce by making use of VMware’s Digital Workplace solutions. He spends a fair amount of time in building and sustaining key relationships with customers in the region. During a career spanning 24 years, Jai has worked in various roles in System Engineering, Marketing, Business Development and Sales.

He has successfully led business from nascent stage and grown them to multi-million dollar businesses in the region in industries like Unified Communication and Collaboration, Virtualization, SaaS and Business Mobility. Before joining VMware, Jai was the General Manager of Dell EMC’s South Asia and ANZ region, and prior to that, he was the General Manager for Cisco’s Collaboration business in ASEAN and Korea region. Jai is trained in Electronics engineering from Bangalore University in India, and he did his Masters in Business Administration from State University of Buffalo in New York. Jai has been living in Singapore for 22 years and is a Singapore citizen.

Spencer Pitts is the VMware Digital Workspace Chief Technologist for EMEA joining 2007 and brings 25+ years IT experience into the role. He is responsible for developing and communicating to customers, partners also industry Analysts, the VMware Digital Workspace (Workspace One) strategy and vision. Spencer works predominantly in the area of End User Computing but also works with Peers in VMware on surrounding and complementary solutions (IOT, SDDC).

Spencer works hand in hand with the End user Computing Office of the CTO as well as the Global VMware office of the CTO helping to bring insight into R&D and organization around real customers’ needs and thinking. Previously to VMware worked at customers such as GMAC, BNoY Financial Services, in the area of End User Services implementing many projects around Desktop and Application Lifecycle management. Spencer has also worked for other Software companies such as Symantec both in a consultant capacity and Pre-Sales.

Scott has worked with network security for over 20 years covering numerous technology areas; secure access, AAA, public key infrastructure, network and application-level encryption, security policy enforcement and formal product certification. He has held roles in post-sales, pre-sales, consulting and product management for networking and security vendors, working with customers to resolve product implementation issues, define architectures and create solutions. Scott has contributed to security architectures and worked with industry participants, the IEFT and national assurance schemes on standards as well as driving security features into network products.

Scott has an BEng in Engineering and an MBA in Technology Management and has worked in France, the US as well as his native UK. He joined VMware in 2015 to work with Public Sector Accounts in the defence, intelligence and central government arena before joining the EMEA architecture team to focus on security, compliance and regulations.

Simon Perry is an internationally recognised expert in securing datacentre and end user compute workloads from modern attack techniques. Simon has over three decades of experience in enterprise IT, with over two decades of experience specifically in the field of cyber security. He has provided training to international law enforcement regarding cyber crime and security defensive technologies, served as an advisor to the European Union’s cyber agency (ENISA), and is now part of the VMware Carbon Black Product Management and Marketing team.

Peter specializes in Identity and Access Management. He's widely appreciated as a speaker at industry events such as VMworld, VMUG and vFORUM and is a published author with two books under his wing, as well as numerous white papers and blog posts. In his spare time, Peter volunteers as a rescuer for the Swedish Sea Rescue Society and as a Scout leader for his local Sea Scout troop outside Stockholm in Sweden.

Alister Dias is the Vice President for Networking and Security in Asia Pacific and Japan for VMware. Alister leads the business for VMware’s extensive Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) portfolio, which brings together NSX, Avi Networks, VeloCloud, and Security. The solutions touch every aspect of the customer’s environment across multi cloud, applications and workplace. Alister is an industry veteran with over 30 years’ experience in leadership, technical, sales and channel management roles. He joined VMware in 2016 as Vice President and Managing Director of Australia and New Zealand, driving significant growth through customer transformation across large enterprises and the commercial business. Previously, he has held leadership positions at EMC, CA Technologies and Soft Centre.

Alister is also an organization wide change-maker who is passionate about diversity and inclusion. He is the winner of VMware’s global EPIC2 award for FY19 that recognizes and individual’s commitment to the values of Execution, Passion, Integrity, Customer Centricity and Community. He is also the leader for VMware’s Disability POD driving change across the organization and in the industry. Alister is based in Sydney, Australia. He holds a Diploma in Computer Programming from Control Data Institute.

Chris Dewhirst has spent the last twenty years working in the End-User Computing space, helping both customers and partners navigate the path to digital. In eight years at VMware, he has always had a focus on ensuring that our most valuable resources - people - are fully integrated, considered and empowered to be successful in the ongoing evolution to digital. Chris currently works as part of the End-User Computing Customer Experience and Success team for VMware in Europe, Middle-East and Africa, which means he and his team are often at the forefront when it comes to delivering the outcomes expected by his customers, from the solutions VMware designs.

Felix Block joined VMware 2015 and work as a Digital Workspace Domain Strategist and is responsible for Central Europe. Due to his strategic role supporting customers on their Digital Transformation Journey over the past years, he has a wide range of experience in the End User Computing and Mobility world. In the Domain Strategist Team, he is help customers to simplify the transition needed in achieving a Digital Workspace. Felix does this by positioning, solutioning and defining value for you as a customer based upon a long history within the EUC marketplace. Discovery Workshops, User Journeys, Value Realizer Workshops, and Roadmap Sessions are just some examples of the work from the Digital Workplace Team, Felix is working for.

Before Felix Block joined VMware, he was working 6 years at Computacenter as an End User Computing Consultant and as a Presales Consultant for DCI (Dynamic Client Infrastructure). He worked also in the Strategic Enterprise Endpoint Team at T-Systems International (Deutsche Telekom AG).

Peter Bocquet’s career spans 25 years in the Telecommunications industry, and as the Director of VMware SD-WAN by Velocloud sales team, he is responsible for growing the SD-WAN business following the acquisition of Velocloud by VMware in 2017. Before joining VMware in 2019, Peter held senior roles at Citrix Systems and Vodafone, and prior to that, was the Head of Products and Technologies for Cisco System’s Collaboration Architecture group in the Asia-Pacific / Japan region. Since 1995, he has held leadership roles in Cisco, TANDBERG and Lucent Technologies across APAC with responsibility for Sales, Business Development, Product Development and Strategic Alliances.

Peter’s focus area in these roles has always been to align evolving technologies with customer needs and business issues, and to that end he has extensive experience across both geography and industry verticals throughout APAC. Outside of the office, Peter enjoys spending time with his wife and three sons along Singapore’s East Coast Park. He holds a Bachelor of Economics from ANU and an MBA from INSEAD. He has undertaken some interesting expeditions, including trekking to the North Pole in 2012, and in 2015, running 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days.

Elton leads the Solutions Engineering team of Networking and Security practice across Asia Pacific and Japan. His team owns the charter of helping VMware customers gain accelerated business advantages with the data Networking and Security solution and partner alongside their cloud networking adoption journey.

Based in Singapore, Elton has more than 22 years of experience in the region primarily in Consulting and Professional Services roles. He held leadership roles at SevOne, Riverbed and Citrix prior to joining VMware.

Elton holds a degree from University of Glasgow, graduating with Honours of 1st Class in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He is an avid reader.

As Senior Director of Sales, Matt Bennett leads VMware Carbon Black’s Security business unit across Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) and is based in Hong Kong. Over the past 20 years, Matt has held numerous roles in the IT industry, working closely with customers around the globe to overcome their security challenges. During that time,he has been based in the UK, Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong.Prior to joining VMware Carbon Black, Matt has moved through the security stack, serving as Vice President of APJ for companies such as Zscaler, MobileIron and BlueCoat systems.

Prashant Pandey, known as Aki-san in Japan, is Lead Architect - EUC for Asia Pacific and Japan & CTO Ambassador at VMware. Prashant help clients adopt the digital workspace to help increase employee productivity, security and experience. Researching and applying emerging technologies to solve client’s business problem is his top priority. He has filed three patents based on understanding customer use cases and his organic growth from Developer to Systems Engineer to Lead Architect.

B S Nagarajan is the Chief Technologist @ VMware India. He has been with the company for more than 14 years and has forged strong customer and partner relationships and is one of the most respected technology evangelists in the industry today. His primary responsibility is positioning VMware as an industry thought leader. While he is one of the few leaders who can articulate the value proposition of the entire VMware portfolio, all the way from Virtualization, Cloud, Networking & Security to Blockchain, he has the ability to have non VMware-centric discussions with customers about general architecture, strategy, maturity of new technologies and other vendor-neutral technologies.

He has a particular focus on evangelizing and developing the market for emerging technologies & growth areas like Multi-Cloud services, 5G and Zero-trust Security, XDR and developer-focused application modernization solutions. He will be covering the CTO function for India by providing leadership to the technical community and building a strong feedback mechanism with the research teams and the Office of the CTO.

Bisham Kishnani is Director of Technology for Virtual Cloud Networking & Security, at VMware for the Asia Pacific & Japan region. In this role, Bisham is responsible for driving the company’s VCN & Security strategy in the region. He also plays an important role in driving innovation & thought leadership around new solutions creation & next gen technologies.

Bisham joined VMware from Palo Alto Networks where he held multiple positions during his 6.5 years tenure. His last position held was the Field CTO for Public Cloud (APAC), he also headed the consulting engineering & specialist engineering teams for the Asia Pacific region to help industry partners, academia, and government organisations improve their security posture as well as develop cyber resilient infrastructure. Having worked in the technology sector for close to +21 years, Bisham brings a wealth of experience in Data Centres, Private & Public Cloud, Data Networking, DevSecOps and Next Gen Compute such as Containers and Serverless functions. His experience advising large enterprises in Cloud Networking and Security space is invaluable to his & our obligation in helping customers accelerate their digital transformation journey. Before joining Palo Alto Networks, Bisham worked with Juniper Networks for close to 10 years as Senior Consulting Engineer, India & SAARC. He was responsible for designing solutions for large enterprises and telecom customers in the Data Centre, SDN, Virtualisation & Security spaces. Bisham holds a Diploma in Digital Electronics & Bachelor of Engineering degree from Mumbai (India) University. Outside of work, Bisham is a technology enthusiast.

Guru Venkatachalam is the Chief Technology Officer for VMware’s Asia Pacific and Japan business. Guru leads VMware’s efforts in Asia Pacific and Japan to build trusted partnerships with customers and partners and deliver solutions aligned to their strategic priorities. He also playsan integral role in further developing the company’s cloud, app modernization, networking, security, and digital workspace platforms.With over 28 years of experience in IT, Guru has deep expertise in the financial services sector, where he led several large enterprise transformations, as well as global engineering teams supporting the transformation of end-user computing.

Prior to VMware, Guru worked at Citibank for over 20 years. In his final position as managing director and global-engineering head for end-user computing, he led ateam of subject matter experts and architects across global locations to deliver solutions focused on enhancing the user experience. Guru holds an MBA from the University of South Australia and lives with his family in Singapore.

Will supports customers from across the Asia, Pacific & Japan region in defining and executing their digital workspace strategies by aligning the strategy to business and IT initiatives, providing best practice guidance, helping with business case development and creating technical roadmaps & solution architectures that achieve the future vision.

Will started at VMware as a Sales Engineer over 6 years ago and has extensive background in VMware End User Computing technologies, along with domain knowledge having previously worked at Citrix Systems and HP Technology Consulting in end user computing roles over the past 15 years.

Will is an evangelist for digital workplace initiatives and can be found regularly presenting at customer briefings or events and works behind the scenes to support the VMware field teams with enablement & best practice sharing.

Shefali has been in the technology industry for more than 20 years responsible for product marketing for different infrastructure components (server, networking stack, storage and Operating Systems) in the Data Center and Cloud. She has been involved in marketing, training and presenting to customers, Analysts and Sales teams about virtualization and other software-defined solutions like that of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and now Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN).

Harsha is a Product Line Marketing Manager for VMware’s End-User Computing Business Unit, working with customers and partners globally to deliver solutions that drive digital transformation. He is currently focused on the Security Portfolio and in positioning VMware as the leader in the market. He has previously held senior roles in Product Management, Strategic Alliances and Engineering and holds an MBA from University of California, Berkeley and a Masters in Computer Science from Drexel University.

Gabe is a member of the EUC Product Marketing team VMware. He has spent 22 years in EUC, including eleven years as an independent industry analyst at BrianMadden.com. Prior to joining VMware, he worked in Product Marketing at Microsoft, focusing on FSLogix and Windows Virtual Desktop.

Andreano has extensive experience across VMware EUC portfolio, having led some of VMware’s largest scale Digital Workspace deployments in the financial sector. His current focus as Staff Architect on our EUC Technical Marketing Team is on Workspace ONE Intelligence, Unified Access Gateway (UAG) and security across VMware EUC stack.

Evin is a proven information security leader with success in guiding implementation of leading-edge technology solutions while balancing security initiatives to risks, business operations and innovations. Specialties include network design, malware analysis, web application security testing, network penetration testing, red teaming, systems architecture, configuration management, and systems administration with extensive experience healthcare, financial, cloud computing, and software development industries. Evin is a volunteer and President for NY/ NJ chapter of OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project).

David has been with Carbon Black for 5.5 years, where his time in SBU Professional Services offered opportunity to become a SME in the Carbon Black Cloud platform. Providing consulting and services to many VDI implementations along the way, Hutt has been working with teams from both SBU & Horizon Engineering to create a truly unique VDI experience. Competitors step aside, this experience can only be obtained with VMware Carbon Black Cloud.

Sultan brings over 20 years of experience in high tech B2B organizations. In his current role, Sultan is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager focused on VMware’s SD-WAN portfolio. Prior to VMware, Sultan was responsible for Silver Peak’s WAN Edge portfolio marketing driving industry and market leadership. In the past, Sultan has held various senior roles in engineering, product management and product marketing at Cisco Systems, Brocade, Hammerhead Systems, Motorola and 3COM with a focus on enterprise and service provider networking, cloud and data center, and network security. Sultan holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Old Dominion University.

John is a VMware Senior EUC Solutions Architect working with the EUC Field Engineering team, to directly impact successful customer adoption of EUC Technologies. As part of the EUC business unit, John is responsible for development of the technical vision and solutions that meet the customer’s needs, advising on business transformation with the aim of aligning people, process, and technology while building a trusted advisor relationship with our customers. John provides technical thought leadership for EUC emerging products for internal teams and for VMware customers relative to their EUC strategies.

Vinod has several years of industry experience in building Networking and Security Products and Solutions. Vinod Currently works in the SD-WAN Technical Product Management at VMware, focused on building SASE. Before VMware, Vinod worked at Palo Alto Networks where he helped customers secure their Networks, applications and sensitive data. Before joining Palo Alto Networks, Vinod worked at Cisco holding various roles. Some interesting roles included ramping up business for Cisco ACI as a Product Manager and building Next Gen solutions for SP to consolidate business, mobile and consumer service offerings on to a single infrastructure (Carrier Ethernet and Mobile Backhaul).