Business & Management

Professionals who specialize in the organization and oversight of business activities, as well as focus on planning, directing, and controlling company operations

Alexon Oliveira

Alexon Oliveira

Alexon works as a Senior Principal Technical Account Manager at Red Hat focusing on Infrastructure and Management, Integration and Automation, Cloud Computing, Storage, and AI Solutions. He also contributes to produce and enhance documentation, knowledge-base articles, blog posts, presentations, webinars, and workshops. When he is not at work, he enjoys spending quality time with his family (wife, two children, and cat) and participating in several volunteer jobs.

Alexon works as a Senior Principal Technical Account Manager at Red Hat focusing on Infrastructure and Management, Integration and Automation, Cloud Computing, Storage, and AI Solutions. He also contributes to produce and enhance documentation, knowl... Show more

Aashish Manchanda

Aashish Manchanda

I am a UX design leader and product strategist with a decade of experience in creating user-centric digital solutions. Currently, I work as a product design leader focusing on enterprise design for Cisco. My expertise lies in scaling design systems, leading cross-functional teams, and driving business impact through innovative UX strategies.

I’ve had the privilege of speaking at global conferences like UXDX and NFT.London, where I share insights on blending creativity, research, and technology to deliver impactful results. My experience also includes leveraging design and AI to drive sustainable practices through in-depth research, usability testing, and exploring how design influences user decisions toward eco-friendly outcomes. Additionally, I’m passionate about mentoring emerging designers at premier institutions, helping them shape the future of user-centered design.

I am a UX design leader and product strategist with a decade of experience in creating user-centric digital solutions. Currently, I work as a product design leader focusing on enterprise design for Cisco. My expertise lies in scaling design systems, ... Show more

Riz Vazir

Riz Vazir

Riz Vazir wants you to never lose focus, time, or health to doomscrolling and digital distractions. With over 20 years in organizational change and transformation including leadership roles at Microsoft and Aon he founded Scroll By Choice to address the health and productivity crisis created by attention-hijacking technologies. A Prosci-certified Change Management Practitioner and MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Riz helps organizations and families build digital wellness that strengthens focus, performance, and connection in an AI-driven world. He lives in the Seattle area with his wife and son, who inspires his work.

Riz Vazir wants you to never lose focus, time, or health to doomscrolling and digital distractions. With over 20 years in organizational change and transformation including leadership roles at Microsoft and Aon he founded Scroll By Choice to address ... Show more

Prof. Dr. Karen Eilers

Prof. Dr. Karen Eilers

Karen Eilers ist Wirtschaftspsychologin und beschäftigt sich mit Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätzen für Führungskräfte, Teams und Unternehmen in agilen und digitalen Transformationen. Begonnen in ihrer Promotionszeit im Fachbereich Wirtschaftsinformatik der Universität Kassel sowie der Universität St.Gallen, vertieft sie heute die Forschung rund um Menschen in Veränderungsprozessen und transferiert die Erkenntnisse aus der Wissenschaft in die Praxis. Sie leitet das Institut für Transformation in Hamburg und ist Professorin an der BSP Business and Law School.

Karen Eilers ist Wirtschaftspsychologin und beschäftigt sich mit Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätzen für Führungskräfte, Teams und Unternehmen in agilen und digitalen Transformationen. Begonnen in ihrer Promotionszeit im Fachbereich Wirtschaftsinfo... Show more

Andrew Hess

Andrew Hess

Andrew Hess is a Senior Solution Architect on Microsoft's Copilot Acceleration Team (CAT) although speaking events are normally under his own person brand and company Hess IT Solutions. Andrew helps organizations get real results from the Power Platform, Copilot, and Microsoft AI. A national award winner in Power Apps and an accomplished application developer, Andrew also shares his expertise as a YouTuber, helping the community grow through practical guidance and real-world innovation.

Andrew Hess is a Senior Solution Architect on Microsoft's Copilot Acceleration Team (CAT) although speaking events are normally under his own person brand and company Hess IT Solutions. Andrew helps organizations get real results from the Power Platf... Show more

Chad Hester

Chad Hester

Chad Hester has more than 20 years of development experience and 10 years focused primarily on accessibility. He combines his experience with leadership of people, processes and projects together to provide you with expertise in implementing strategies to be a better developer for your company.

Chad Hester has more than 20 years of development experience and 10 years focused primarily on accessibility. He combines his experience with leadership of people, processes and projects together to provide you with expertise in implementing strategi... Show more

Alberto Carrazco

Alberto Carrazco

Alberto Carrazco is a first-generation college graduate and immigrant, who has overcome many obstacles, including learning how to code outside a traditional learning environment. He's leveraged his skills and passion for innovation to build platforms that empower nonprofits, driving positive change in the world.

Alberto is Co-Founder and COO of NonprofitsHQ a nonprofit management platform that aims to amplify impact.

Alberto Carrazco is a first-generation college graduate and immigrant, who has overcome many obstacles, including learning how to code outside a traditional learning environment. He's leveraged his skills and passion for innovation to build platforms... Show more

Thomas Heinrichs

Thomas Heinrichs

Thomas is Smart Automation Lead at Miragon. For over six years he has been helping organizations digitize their processes in a structured way, automate them with purpose, and transform them sustainably.
His experience spans classical process management, methodical training in BPM, and the architecture of complex automation solutions in large organizations. As a Solution Architect he designs scalable process architectures, integrates heterogeneous system landscapes, and ensures that functional and non-functional requirements receive the same attention as governance, compliance, and operations. He regularly shares his practical insights at conferences and industry events.

Thomas is Smart Automation Lead at Miragon. For over six years he has been helping organizations digitize their processes in a structured way, automate them with purpose, and transform them sustainably. His experience spans classical process managem... Show more

Dr. Aday Adetosoye

Dr. Aday Adetosoye

Dr. Aday E. Adetosoye is an international speaker and leadership strategist specializing in human-centered AI adoption and women's leadership in tech. With 25 years as a U.S. diplomat (USAID, CDC, HRSA) and former Vice President overseeing global health programs in 37 countries, she brings high-stakes communication expertise to the digital landscape.

Recent speaking engagements include moderating at the International AIDS Conference 2024 (25,000+ attendees), featured panelist at the Weitzman Institute Virtual Symposium, presenter at the Women in Government Relations 50th Conference, and featured guest on "Lunch with Leaders" LinkedIn Live discussing women in STEM leadership.

As CEO of 1099 Impact Street and Maxwell Leadership Certified Speaker, Dr. Adetosoye helps leaders navigate technological transformation without sacrificing creativity, wellbeing, or authentic connection. She also provides training on public speaking. Her signature topic: "The Human Algorithm" for ethical AI leadership is a favorite.

Dr. Aday E. Adetosoye is an international speaker and leadership strategist specializing in human-centered AI adoption and women's leadership in tech. With 25 years as a U.S. diplomat (USAID, CDC, HRSA) and former Vice President overseeing global hea... Show more

Mike Loumeau

Mike Loumeau

So Cal native, now live in Phoenix, 17th year in channel; focus on Microsoft ERP, CRM, Azure, Power Platform, and love ISVs!

So Cal native, now live in Phoenix, 17th year in channel; focus on Microsoft ERP, CRM, Azure, Power Platform, and love ISVs! Show more

David Elgueta

David Elgueta

With over 25 years of experience architecting high-performance applications, I thrive at the intersection of technical depth and product discovery. My career is defined by a unique duality: I am a technical builder who has developed AI-powered workflows and an elite educator who has trained 500+ professionals, achieving a 90% average learner satisfaction rate.

I hold the AWS Authorized Instructor (AAI) Champion status, the highest tier recognized by AWS for exceptional teaching quality and technical expertise. My deep platform fluency led to my selection as an AWS Subject Matter Expert (SME) to develop official certification exams, where I helped write and evaluate the standards for global AWS certification programs.

Today, as a Senior Technical Communicator and AI Product Contributor, I lead the discovery and design of AI Assistants and autonomous workflows. I don't just talk about AI; I build it:
- Agentic Workflows: I design and prioritize feature backlogs for integrated AI Assistants across DCM, BI, and Knowledge-Base products.
- Prompt Engineering: I developed a prompt-engineered RFP response toolkit that enabled a 50% shortlist rate.
- Community Leadership: I am an active speaker at Google Developer Groups, sharing hands-on lessons on building AI agents and demystifying prompt engineering for developer audiences.

My expertise is backed by a robust certification portfolio, including AWS Machine Learning – Specialty and AWS Certified AI Practitioner. As I expand my fluency into Azure AI, I bring a multi-cloud perspective to the challenge of leveraging company knowledge to build intelligent assistants that boost productivity and streamline enterprise workflows.

With over 25 years of experience architecting high-performance applications, I thrive at the intersection of technical depth and product discovery. My career is defined by a unique duality: I am a technical builder who has developed AI-powered workfl... Show more

Flavio Meneses

Flavio Meneses

I build Business Intelligence (BI) systems that help companies make smart decisions based on facts instead of gut feeling. I specialise in Power BI to do this.

As it’s often said, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it!”. In the real world, data is messy so I'm all about setting up robust systems to structure it right and eliminate mind-numbing manual tasks through automation.

The end result are highly captivating dashboards that leverage cutting edge BI tech and have an actual impact in day-to-day operations.

I build Business Intelligence (BI) systems that help companies make smart decisions based on facts instead of gut feeling. I specialise in Power BI to do this. As it’s often said, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it!”. In the real world,... Show more

Denise Bronner

Denise Bronner

Denise N Bronner, Ph.D. has roughly 15 years of organizational thought leadership experience within the global healthcare space and has held various roles in academia, consulting, pharma, and venture capital. During her career, she has specialized in health equity, data-driven global therapy program strategy development, pitch and storytelling refinement, and identifying business opportunities within pharma. Beyond her professional endeavors, she's passionate about enhancing diversity in STEM fields, serving on advisory boards, participating as a judge in pitch/business competitions, and mentoring young professionals. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences from Wayne State University, a Ph.D. in Microbiology & Immunology from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, and certification from the Venture Capital Executive Program from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. She is the founder of Empactful Ventures which currently consults healthcare-focused startups and venture funds, she is a member of the Clinical Leader editorial board, a Board Director for healthtech startup Naviday Health, and a Board Director for the patient advocacy group We Are ILL.

Denise N Bronner, Ph.D. has roughly 15 years of organizational thought leadership experience within the global healthcare space and has held various roles in academia, consulting, pharma, and venture capital. During her career, she has specialized in... Show more

Sarah Kundla

Sarah Kundla

Sarah Kundla is a facilitator, speaker, and Gallup Certified Coach focused on leadership development, emotional intelligence, and helping teams work better together.

Her approach is shaped by research, experience, and a genuine curiosity about how communication styles, cultural norms, and human dynamics influence the way people lead, relate, and grow in today’s modern landscape. Having lived and worked across different cultures around the world, Sarah brings a global perspective to every room she walks into.

Sarah has delivered training for 1,800+ professionals across the U.S. and internationally, and spoken at conferences including Worthington Steel's LEARN & LEAD Conferences (2020, 2023, 2025), WitCon (2025), and CodeMash (2026). Her sessions blend research-backed frameworks with real-world scenarios, so participants leave with tools and skills they can apply right away.

To view her recent speaking activity, visit Sarah’s LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-kundla/.
Learn more about what Sarah offers through her company at www.questinginsight.com.

Sarah Kundla is a facilitator, speaker, and Gallup Certified Coach focused on leadership development, emotional intelligence, and helping teams work better together. Her approach is shaped by research, experience, and a genuine curiosity about how... Show more

Nicole Derr

Nicole Derr

Nicole Derr is an agile coach turned community changemaker. She partners with leaders to build resilient, long-lasting organizations that contribute positively to their communities. Together they grow companies through innovative products and scalable, cooperative, people-first business practices. Improved business outcomes are the natural result.

Nicole has extensive experience with organizations of all sizes, from 1 to 20,000 employees, and in a broad range of industries, from tech, manufacturing, and finance, to non-profit, public service, and academia. She has worked throughout the midwest, the United States and beyond, but her favorite engagements are with small organizations making an impact in their local community. While Nicole’s focus is executives and leaders, she has worked with team members at all levels and across the entire organization.

Nicole Derr is an agile coach turned community changemaker. She partners with leaders to build resilient, long-lasting organizations that contribute positively to their communities. Together they grow companies through innovative products and scalabl... Show more

Elliott Mattice

Elliott Mattice

Elliott Mattice is the founder of Exprima Digital Consulting, where he advises organizations on scalable cybersecurity, GRC strategies, and geopolitical threat integration. With over 20 years of cross-sector experience in IT operations and cybersecurity, he has led enterprise programs across both civilian and defense contracting environments. Elliott brings a strategic, systems-level approach to helping organizations anticipate risk, align with regulatory expectations, and build resilient, threat-informed security practices.

Elliott Mattice is the founder of Exprima Digital Consulting, where he advises organizations on scalable cybersecurity, GRC strategies, and geopolitical threat integration. With over 20 years of cross-sector experience in IT operations and cybersecur... Show more

Balazs Horvath

Balazs Horvath

Balazs Horvath has spent thirteen years on both sides of software projects, first implementing Microsoft transformations at KPMG and HCL, now running a Microsoft Partner Company he built. As Founder of VisualLabs, serving clients across the UK, US and Europe, he works with CFOs and COOs on the decisions that make technology investments actually change how a business performs, increasingly on where AI hype turns into AI value.

Balazs Horvath has spent thirteen years on both sides of software projects, first implementing Microsoft transformations at KPMG and HCL, now running a Microsoft Partner Company he built. As Founder of VisualLabs, serving clients across the UK, US an... Show more

Ido Ziv

Ido Ziv

DevOps Team Leader at Kaltura with over 6 years of experience, living the conflict of Best Practices and Fast Delivery. Currently leading the Infrastructure and DevEx field. Ido has a lot of passion and experience in Platform engineering, Infrastructure as code, GitOps and agile methodologies. He believes that the secret ingredient for creating a robust scalable systems is good design practices, effective communication between teams, and lots of automations. On his days off he likes sailing, reading, and did we say Kubernetes already?

DevOps Team Leader at Kaltura with over 6 years of experience, living the conflict of Best Practices and Fast Delivery. Currently leading the Infrastructure and DevEx field. Ido has a lot of passion and experience in Platform engineering, Infrastruct... Show more

Rajaganesh Vijayaraj

Rajaganesh Vijayaraj

Rajaganesh Vijayaraj is an Associate Partner at IBM Consulting focused on agentic AI on Azure AI, helping enterprises move from pilots to production with secure, governable AI agents. He brings two decades of experience in cloud, architecture, and large-scale delivery across IBM, CGI and TCS. LinkedIn Profile
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raj-vijayaraj/

Rajaganesh Vijayaraj is an Associate Partner at IBM Consulting focused on agentic AI on Azure AI, helping enterprises move from pilots to production with secure, governable AI agents. He brings two decades of experience in cloud, architecture, and la... Show more

Ryan Roemer

Ryan Roemer

Ryan Roemer is the SVP, Technology & Open Source at Nearform. Previously, he was a co-founder and the CEO of Formidable (acquired by Nearform).

Technically, Ryan architects full-stack web applications, data / AI plaforms, backend services and APIs, and highly available cloud infrastructures. Ryan leads development groups from small startups all the way up to Fortune 500 engineering teams. He advises clients on issues ranging from technology evaluation and engineering organizational structures to successfully leveraging open source software.

Long, long ago, Ryan was a registered patent attorney, and although he keeps a close eye on open source legal issues, it has been a long time since he has put on his lawyer hat.

Ryan Roemer is the SVP, Technology & Open Source at Nearform. Previously, he was a co-founder and the CEO of Formidable (acquired by Nearform). Technically, Ryan architects full-stack web applications, data / AI plaforms, backend services and APIs... Show more

Artur Wojnar

Artur Wojnar

A software engineer with 15 years of experience, currently working as a hands-on Solutions Architect and consultant, helping development teams deliver better products. He focuses on collaboratively designing solutions with clients—evaluating ideas, assessing risks, and translating them into technical requirements aligned with business goals.

A software engineer with 15 years of experience, currently working as a hands-on Solutions Architect and consultant, helping development teams deliver better products. He focuses on collaboratively designing solutions with clients—evaluating ideas, a... Show more

Vlad Leonov

Vlad Leonov

For the last 20 years, doing my best to learn the most emerging and ridiculous practices, then translate it to a customer value. Got lucky to put my hand to NAV base app and localisatios, nM$ projects in Europe, the most incredible apps in AppSource, and build innovative product company in New Zealand.

For the last 20 years, doing my best to learn the most emerging and ridiculous practices, then translate it to a customer value. Got lucky to put my hand to NAV base app and localisatios, nM$ projects in Europe, the most incredible apps in AppSource,... Show more

Jimmy Nilsson

Jimmy Nilsson

Jimmy has been a DDD-practitioner for quite some time. 2006 his second book called “Applying Domain Driven Design and Patterns” was published. He has been in the industry for 35+ years, is co-founder and a consultant of factor10 and spend most of his time helping their clients with their value creation.

Jimmy has been a DDD-practitioner for quite some time. 2006 his second book called “Applying Domain Driven Design and Patterns” was published. He has been in the industry for 35+ years, is co-founder and a consultant of factor10 and spend most of his... Show more

Ines Pascual Iglesias

Ines Pascual Iglesias

Computer Engineer. Independent professional. I have more than 20 years dedicated to the world of data as a BI Trainer and Consultant. Currently immersed in the world of Power Platform - Power BI.

Computer Engineer. Independent professional. I have more than 20 years dedicated to the world of data as a BI Trainer and Consultant. Currently immersed in the world of Power Platform - Power BI. Show more

Dr. Don Barden

Dr. Don Barden

Dr. Don Barden is an internationally recognized behavioral economist, author, and corporate strategist with more than 30 years of transformative leadership experience. Named one of North America’s Top 30 Most Transformational Leaders by John Maxwell and Entrepreneur of the Year by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Dr. Barden has built billion-dollar sales teams and reshaped organizational cultures across the globe.

His Wall Street–backed research, The Perfect Plan, uncovered the behavioral patterns that drive elite leadership performance. His latest doctoral study, Here Come the Girls, reveals the next global paradigm shift in leadership—forecasting that between 2028 and 2032, women’s rise to power will redefine how organizations grow, innovate, and lead. Dr. Barden’s message equips leaders to adapt, embrace inclusive collaboration, and prepare for the future of business through measurable 3× impact in growth, profit, and retention.

Dr. Don Barden is an internationally recognized behavioral economist, author, and corporate strategist with more than 30 years of transformative leadership experience. Named one of North America’s Top 30 Most Transformational Leaders by John Maxwell ... Show more

Art Fromm

Art Fromm

Art Fromm helps B2B sales teams increase revenue, margins, win rate, and client satisfaction by aligning sales, presales, client success, and leadership.

Art delivers measurable results through keynotes, workshops, tools (including enterprise-class CRM apps), and his best-selling book, Making SEAMless Sales.

With 10 years as a B2B solution implementer and 35+ years across presales, sales, and enablement, Art brings real-world experience delivering client success, including a 16% increase in bookings and a 28% increase in win rate for a long-time client.

Art delivers key-note, sales kickoff, and conference talks for wide-ranging audiences who need to sell, persuade, and influence for mutual benefit.

Art Fromm helps B2B sales teams increase revenue, margins, win rate, and client satisfaction by aligning sales, presales, client success, and leadership. Art delivers measurable results through keynotes, workshops, tools (including enterprise-cla... Show more

Andy Spamer

Andy Spamer

Andy is an Agile Coach and Transformation Practitioner who is gambling the next decade of his career on the shift to Agentic Coding and embedded AI Agents.

Andy is an Agile Coach and Transformation Practitioner who is gambling the next decade of his career on the shift to Agentic Coding and embedded AI Agents. Show more

Fernando Santana

Fernando Santana

Agile Coach com sólida experiência, atuando no setor bancário desde 1997. Especialista em Agilidade, Kanban, Scrum, OKR, Management 3.0, Team Building, Design Thinking e Coordenação de Projetos. Profissional dedicado à Tecnologia da Informação, com Bacharelado em Ciência da Computação pela Universidade Católica de Brasília, Pós-Graduação em Design Thinking e Criatividade para Organizações e MBA em Planejamento e Estratégia Organizacional pela Universidade Cesumar do Paraná. Além disso, possui mais de 20 Certificações Profissionais em Agilidade.

Agile Coach com sólida experiência, atuando no setor bancário desde 1997. Especialista em Agilidade, Kanban, Scrum, OKR, Management 3.0, Team Building, Design Thinking e Coordenação de Projetos. Profissional dedicado à Tecnologia da Informação, com B... Show more

Ladislau André

Ladislau André

Data analyst focused on transforming processes through automation and creating reports that provide critical insights for decision making. Strong experience in ETL, KPI development, and database management using tools such as Advanced Excel, SQL, Power BI, and Python/R. Proficient in delivering results that improve operational efficiency and organizational performance. Always seeking innovation, I lead initiatives that add value and lead to the strategic success of organizations.

Data analyst focused on transforming processes through automation and creating reports that provide critical insights for decision making. Strong experience in ETL, KPI development, and database management using tools such as Advanced Excel, SQL, Pow... Show more

Yang Liu

Yang Liu

Yang has 9 years experience working with Microsoft products, focus on Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Copilot Studio. She holds 10 Microsoft certifications in the above areas.

Yang didn’t follow a traditional path into technology. She studied journalism in China and then shifted to technology when she pursued a Master’s in Digital Humanities at UCL, London. That’s where she broadened her digital skills and paved the way for her current role at EY Technology Consulting.

She established and leads “Code Club at EY”, a growing volunteering initiative where young people develop their interest in technology through learning how to code. She’s also passionate about inspiring more girls to study technology and is always willing to help girls discover their own paths.

Yang has 9 years experience working with Microsoft products, focus on Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Copilot Studio. She holds 10 Microsoft certifications in the above areas. Yang didn’t follow a traditional path into technology. She studied j... Show more

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