Finance & Banking

Experienced individuals involved in financial services, including banking, investment, insurance, and real estate

Mauro Parra

Mauro Parra

Mauro holds a multidisciplinary academic background, having pursued studies in both Computer Sciences and Law. With a profound expertise in encryption and cybersecurity, Mauro has applied this technical knowledge to the legaltech field, obtaining a Master's degree in Law with a focus on fiscal optimizations. Leveraging this unique blend of skills, Mauro has amassed extensive experience in compliance work, particularly within the health and fintech sectors. This diverse expertise allows Mauro to navigate complex regulatory environments and develop robust compliance strategies that align with industry standards and legal requirements.

Mauro holds a multidisciplinary academic background, having pursued studies in both Computer Sciences and Law. With a profound expertise in encryption and cybersecurity, Mauro has applied this technical knowledge to the legaltech field, obtaining a M... Show more

Oupa Laka

Oupa Laka

Most organizations don't have a people problem. They have a clarity problem.

Oupa Laka helps leaders and teams cut through complexity, align around what matters, and make confident decisions.

An international speaker and Business Analysis Consultant, Oupa is the creator of the AKILI Clarity Method and Story Weaver Model – frameworks that help leaders and teams uncover hidden problems, align stakeholders, and make confident decisions. Drawing on more than 15 years of experience in banking, insurance and digital transformation, his sessions are known for blending sharp strategic insight, authentic storytelling, and just the right amount of humour.

Oupa delivers high-energy sessions that challenge assumptions, spark meaningful conversations, and equip audiences with tools they can apply immediately. Having spoken at global conferences across Africa and Europe, he is known for challenging assumptions and shifting perspectives.

If audiences leave with new knowledge, the session was useful.
If they leave seeing problems differently, the session was transformational.

Clarity changes everything.

Most organizations don't have a people problem. They have a clarity problem. Oupa Laka helps leaders and teams cut through complexity, align around what matters, and make confident decisions. An international speaker and Business Analysis Consu... Show more

Koen van Gilst

Koen van Gilst

I work as a Principal Engineer at Rabobank, where I build AI solutions and help teams take them from early prototype to working software inside a large, regulated bank. My focus is the practical side of AI: what it actually takes to make things work, not just the promise.

My talks are technical but accessible, grounded in real examples rather than hype. I avoid standard slide decks where possible, using live prototypes, interactive demos, and audience participation to make the subject concrete and invite honest discussion.

I speak about how AI is changing engineering, what agentic AI looks like in practice, and how to assess whether a language model is actually good enough for your use case.

I work as a Principal Engineer at Rabobank, where I build AI solutions and help teams take them from early prototype to working software inside a large, regulated bank. My focus is the practical side of AI: what it actually takes to make things work,... Show more

Jason Paolasini

Jason Paolasini

Jason Paolasini drives RBC’s hybrid cloud strategy, integrating on-prem and public cloud infrastructures using CNCF projects and Kubernetes. As a Kubernetes-first organization and CNCF Silver sponsor, RBC leverages open source frameworks to streamline security and operational efficiency. Jason fosters open source contributions while scaling multi-cluster environments to hundreds of thousands of cores, positioning RBC as a leader in financial cloud infrastructure.

Jason Paolasini drives RBC’s hybrid cloud strategy, integrating on-prem and public cloud infrastructures using CNCF projects and Kubernetes. As a Kubernetes-first organization and CNCF Silver sponsor, RBC leverages open source frameworks to streamlin... Show more

Mia Soarez

Mia Soarez

Mia Soarez is a media host and interviewer covering founders, venture capital, startups, AI, crypto, and emerging technology. She has interviewed 300+ founders and investors across 25+ conferences and cities, and has hosted and moderated conversations at TOKEN2049, Consensus, Proof of Talk, and other global technology events. Her work reaches 149K+ people across social platforms and a community of 40K+ email subscribers.

Mia Soarez is a media host and interviewer covering founders, venture capital, startups, AI, crypto, and emerging technology. She has interviewed 300+ founders and investors across 25+ conferences and cities, and has hosted and moderated conversation... Show more

Khang Toh

Khang Toh

Khang Toh is Head of Engineering, Digital Operations, SRE and Cloud Infrastructure at Bank Jago / DKatalis, where he leads cloud, reliability, developer experience, and AI-enabled digital operations for a digital bank serving more than 16 million customers. He has over 20 years of experience across software engineering, architecture, mobile, cloud infrastructure, startup leadership, and digital banking, with more than 15 years leading technical teams in the US and Singapore. Khang started developing for mobile in 2009, founded the Singapore Android Developers Meetup in 2013, serves as Conference Chair for droidcon Singapore, and is the Developers Circle Lead for Facebook in Singapore. His current work focuses on how AI can transform enterprise engineering, SRE, cloud operations, and developer productivity.

Khang Toh is Head of Engineering, Digital Operations, SRE and Cloud Infrastructure at Bank Jago / DKatalis, where he leads cloud, reliability, developer experience, and AI-enabled digital operations for a digital bank serving more than 16 million cus... Show more

Ignacio Lopez

Ignacio Lopez

Ignacio Lopez is a fractional Head of AI based in Miami. He works with family
offices, wealth firms and family-owned businesses across the United States and
Latin America.

He came to AI from the controls side rather than the product side. At KPMG he
audited SOX controls and did data privacy work for public companies. At JP
Morgan he was an information risk manager, including work against Banco Central
de la República Argentina regulation. He then spent three years at Kaseya, in
the MSP and IT channel.

His rule is that anything which has to be numerically correct is written as
deterministic code and never handed to a model. The model reads, flags, and
routes to a named person. It does not calculate. He built a quarterly reporting
engine on that principle for a family-owned real estate portfolio: every figure
is produced twice, once by code and once by a model, and the system refuses to
publish when the two paths disagree. Backtested against eight quarters that had
already been closed and signed off, seven reconciled and one did not. The engine
held it.

He also runs a live poll of family offices across eight countries. Roughly four
in five are already using AI. More than eighty percent have nothing written down
about it.

He presents in English and neutral Latin American Spanish.

Ignacio Lopez is a fractional Head of AI based in Miami. He works with family offices, wealth firms and family-owned businesses across the United States and Latin America. He came to AI from the controls side rather than the product side. At KPM... Show more

Matt Fenner

Matt Fenner

Matt Fenner is a finance and operations executive with more than 30 years of experience helping entrepreneurs and investors build scalable, high-value businesses. He currently serves as COO of Caplin Ventures, a Jacksonville, Florida investment firm managing 10 operating companies and 20+ passive investments across healthcare staffing, technology, engineering, and professional sports.

Matt is available to speak on topics including: M&A strategy and execution, financial management for growth-stage companies, building and exiting micro-cap businesses, private investment strategy, and operational leadership in diversified portfolios. He holds an MBA in Finance and a BBA in Accounting from the University of North Florida.

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Saurabh Yergattikar

Saurabh Yergattikar

Saurabh Yergattikar is a software architect and engineering leader with 15 years building mission-critical systems at global scale, working at the intersection of financial services, platform engineering, and agentic AI infrastructure.
He currently leads seller financing platform engineering at eBay across the US, UK, and Germany, and previously served as technical owner of core billing and real-time fee-netting systems, building distributed financial infrastructure that handles money movement at marketplace scale.
Much of his work also centers on making AI agents safe, reliable, and production-ready.
He contributed to SAFE-MCP, a Linux Foundation and OpenSSF security project cataloguing 80+ attack vectors against the Model Context Protocol, and architects ShieldMCP, an open source runtime defense proxy for agent stacks.
He also builds GyroCompass-io, an architecture governance framework that keeps AI coding agents aligned with a system's intended design.
His research on AI agent security and infrastructure has been accepted at the ACL 2026 Industry Track and IEEE conferences.
Saurabh is a Senior Member of the IEEE and serves as a program committee member, reviewer, and judge across IEEE, ACM, and ICML venues.
He has spoken at SXSW, the MCP Conference, NEARCON, the Linux Foundation Member Summit, and Workato Summit,
with work featured in Inverse and The San Francisco Standard.
He speaks on agentic infrastructure, secure AI systems, distributed systems and platform engineering at scale, developer productivity, and the realities of running autonomous agents in regulated, high-stakes environments.

Saurabh Yergattikar is a software architect and engineering leader with 15 years building mission-critical systems at global scale, working at the intersection of financial services, platform engineering, and agentic AI infrastructure. He currently... Show more

Milan Cheeks

Milan Cheeks

Milan Cheeks is the founder and CEO of SELF Labs Inc., a technology company developing AI-powered products and infrastructure designed to improve how people live, work, create, and interact with technology.

He is leading the development of SELF OS, an AI-native operating environment designed to bring intelligent agents, decentralized applications, digital identity, and user-controlled computing into a unified ecosystem. He is also developing ESSENCE, a blockchain-based utility and economic layer intended to reward verified participation and contributions within the SELF network.

Through SELF Labs, Milan works across artificial intelligence, decentralized infrastructure, robotics, real estate technology, digital economies, and next-generation human-computer interaction.

His broader mission is to build technology that gives individuals greater ownership of their data, intelligence, devices, and economic value—helping move society from centralized digital platforms toward more personalized and user-owned technological systems.

Milan Cheeks is the founder and CEO of SELF Labs Inc., a technology company developing AI-powered products and infrastructure designed to improve how people live, work, create, and interact with technology. He is leading the development of SELF OS... Show more

Ben Shi

Ben Shi

Ben is the Head of Product at Hello Clever, where he leads product development across AI-powered payments, loyalty and agentic commerce. He has more than 15 years of product and engineering leadership experience across JPMorgan Chase, Versent and GROW Inc, building and scaling platform infrastructure in financial services. Based in Sydney, Ben works at the intersection of software architecture, product strategy and AI, with a focus on how intelligent systems change the way products are designed, built and operated.

Ben is the Head of Product at Hello Clever, where he leads product development across AI-powered payments, loyalty and agentic commerce. He has more than 15 years of product and engineering leadership experience across JPMorgan Chase, Versent and GRO... Show more

Larry Larmeu

Larry Larmeu

Larry Larmeu is a technology and transformation executive based in London. Over twenty years he has led large-scale mergers, integrations, and organisational change programmes in financial services, holding leadership roles at major consulting firms and building delivery organisations from the ground up.

He writes and speaks about why transformation fails at the people layer rather than the technology layer, drawing on two decades of watching both go wrong. His work covers digital transformation, AI adoption, post-merger integration, and what leaders consistently misjudge about how organisations absorb change.

He is the author of subMERGED: A Business Novel on Leading Through Change, published in 2026, and has written for Digital First Magazine on organisational change in technology leadership.

Larry Larmeu is a technology and transformation executive based in London. Over twenty years he has led large-scale mergers, integrations, and organisational change programmes in financial services, holding leadership roles at major consulting firms ... Show more

Charles Mfouapon

Charles Mfouapon

Charles Mfouapon is the Founder of AfriScore, a B2B alternative-data credit scoring and decisioning infrastructure platform built to extend credit access to unbanked populations across Sub-Saharan Africa and the CEMAC region. His work sits at the intersection of law, quantitative finance, and financial infrastructure design in emerging markets.

His research focuses on regulatory and market-structure gaps in CEMAC’s financial system. He has authored four papers, including a working paper on the exclusion of mobile money operators as credit data furnishers under BEAC regulation and an analysis of the CEMAC SME financing gap currently under review at African Development Review; three of his papers are available on SSRN. He has also authored a book on African financial infrastructure.

Charles Mfouapon is the Founder of AfriScore, a B2B alternative-data credit scoring and decisioning infrastructure platform built to extend credit access to unbanked populations across Sub-Saharan Africa and the CEMAC region. His work sits at the int... Show more

Amol Agade

Amol Agade

Amol Agade is a VP-level Platform and DevOps Enablement leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling enterprise CI/CD platforms, SRE practices, and AI-driven automation in regulated environments.

His work focuses on applying artificial intelligence to the software delivery lifecycle—including intelligent pipelines, test optimization, predictive failure detection, policy-as-code, and responsible AI governance for production systems.

Amol has led organization-wide DevOps and reliability transformations, enabling teams to ship software faster, safer, and with higher confidence. He regularly shares practical insights through writing and conference talks on modern DevOps, platform engineering, and AI-enabled operations.

✍️ Writing: https://amolagade.medium.com/

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aagade/

Amol Agade is a VP-level Platform and DevOps Enablement leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling enterprise CI/CD platforms, SRE practices, and AI-driven automation in regulated environments. His work focuses on applying artifi... Show more

Swati Prasad

Swati Prasad

Swati Prasad is a Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) and Associate Director specializing in Enterprise Data Governance, Regulatory Reporting, and Risk Management. With a 20+ year track record at major global banks, she turns complex regulatory mandates like BCBS 239 into practical, scalable data governance programs. She is an active Toastmaster and member of the DAMA New York chapter. When on stage, she focuses on bridging technical architecture with executive decision-making, offering clear, actionable frameworks for data quality, compliance, and responsible AI adoption.

Swati Prasad is a Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) and Associate Director specializing in Enterprise Data Governance, Regulatory Reporting, and Risk Management. With a 20+ year track record at major global banks, she turns complex regula... Show more

Ing. Alvaro Ricardo Valdez

Ing. Alvaro Ricardo Valdez

Alvaro Ricardo Valdez es Founder & CEO de AV Finance, holding que construye la infraestructura financiera digital para Bolivia y LatAm. Opera tres entidades cross-border (Delaware, Chile, Bolivia) con plataforma sobre Stellar mainnet y arquitectura AWS activa en producción.

AV Finance está en proceso de adecuación bajo el Decreto Supremo 5384 como Empresa de Tecnología Financiera ante ASFI, primera empresa boliviana bajo el nuevo marco regulatorio de activos virtuales.

Combina su rol de founder con el de ingeniero principal del stack — construye y mantiene ~34,000 líneas de código con Claude Code como copiloto de ingeniería. Apasionado por construir infraestructura financiera seria desde Bolivia con criterio técnico de nivel internacional y compartir el cómo con la comunidad regional.
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Alvaro Ricardo Valdez is Founder & CEO of AV Finance, the holding building digital financial infrastructure for Bolivia and LatAm. Operates three cross-border entities (Delaware, Chile, Bolivia) with platform on Stellar mainnet and AWS architecture active in production.

AV Finance is in compliance process under Supreme Decree 5384 as a Financial Technology Company before ASFI, one of the first Bolivian companies under the new virtual asset regulatory framework.

Combines his founder role with that of principal engineer of the stack — builds and maintains ~34,000 lines of code with Claude Code as engineering copilot. Passionate about building serious financial infrastructure from Bolivia with international-grade technical criteria.

Alvaro Ricardo Valdez es Founder & CEO de AV Finance, holding que construye la infraestructura financiera digital para Bolivia y LatAm. Opera tres entidades cross-border (Delaware, Chile, Bolivia) con plataforma sobre Stellar mainnet y arquitectura A... Show more

Surya Rao Rayarao

Surya Rao Rayarao

Surya Rao Rayarao is a Lead Software Engineer at SS&C Technologies, where he leads engineering for the RICC/TRAC retirement-plan platform, a system managing over $1B in assets under management across 4,000+ retirement plans. He holds Senior Member grade in IEEE and has served as a judge or peer reviewer at 15+ technical venues, including an ACM SIGKDD-affiliated review and formally-refereed academic peer review (ICCASEET2025, with signed conflict-of-interest and ethics attestations). His talks draw on hands-on experience building and operating fintech infrastructure at scale, leading engineering teams, and evaluating technical work as a competition judge and peer reviewer.

Surya Rao Rayarao is a Lead Software Engineer at SS&C Technologies, where he leads engineering for the RICC/TRAC retirement-plan platform, a system managing over $1B in assets under management across 4,000+ retirement plans. He holds Senior Member gr... Show more

Joyjit Roy

Joyjit Roy

Joyjit Roy is a recognized leader in AI, Machine Learning, and Information Technology, with expertise in cloud-native platforms and large-scale digital systems. With over two decades of experience in the IT industry, he has led digital transformation initiatives across insurance, financial services, and global eCommerce sectors, including Fortune 500 companies.

His research interests focus on enterprise AI systems, Agentic AI architectures, intelligent automation, and distributed cloud platforms supporting production-scale digital ecosystems. Roy contributes to the community through research, peer review, mentorship, and technical leadership.

He frequently speaks at AI, distributed systems, and enterprise technology transformation conferences and summits.

Joyjit Roy is a recognized leader in AI, Machine Learning, and Information Technology, with expertise in cloud-native platforms and large-scale digital systems. With over two decades of experience in the IT industry, he has led digital transformation... Show more

Edwige Fiaclou

Edwige Fiaclou

Edwige is an accomplished technologist deeply committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in STEM* (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). She holds a BSc in mathematics and an MSc in Computer Science from the University Lyon 1 (France), with a FinTech oriented educational background. With years of experience in various roles, including mobile development and banking applications, Edwige has navigated through many technologies and business domains. Since joining Swissquote in 2012, she has contributed to technical stacks and software delivery across multiple domains and layers, from Banking operations to Trading Systems Management. Her unwavering dedication to excellence, best practices and innovative perspective earned her a promotion to Vice Director in 2022, where she now oversees Methodologies, Program Management and Tech Talent teams within Software Engineering.
Despite her many accomplishments, Edwige remains eager to learn from others. She actively contributed to many talks, in Switzerland, or at International for Women In Tech or Lead Dev track!

Edwige is an accomplished technologist deeply committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in STEM* (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). She holds a BSc in mathematics and an MSc in Computer Science from the University Lyon 1 (France... Show more

Aivars Kalvāns

Aivars Kalvāns

Aivars Kalvāns is a FinTech developer and spent more than 18 years developing and architecting payment card software for acquiring and issuing, as well as for accounting and utility payments, through mobile phones, ATMs, and POS terminals. At the moment, he is a contractor exploring Foreign Exchange, SWIFT, SEPA, ledgers, and other areas of the FinTech landscape.
The rest of the time is spent smashing with BJJ team Jelgava and participating as a Linux team member for Latvia in Locked Shields.

Aivars Kalvāns is a FinTech developer and spent more than 18 years developing and architecting payment card software for acquiring and issuing, as well as for accounting and utility payments, through mobile phones, ATMs, and POS terminals. At the mom... Show more

Apoorva Jaiswal

Apoorva Jaiswal

Apoorva Jaiswal is an Applied AI Lead at JPMorgan Chase focused on translating research into production systems by developing graph machine learning (graph ML) and LLM-powered agentic systems that serve Global Banking. She began her career at JPMC India in 2018 as a Software Engineer, building a strong foundation in systems and software design. In 2020, she pivoted to the India-based AI team, architecting cloud infrastructure to deploy ML models at scale before moving into hands-on model development. In 2023, she relocated to the US-based AI team and advanced into her current leadership role, leading cross-functional delivery of graph ML and agentic AI capabilities. Apoorva is a strong advocate of continuous learning. She earned her MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst while working full-time. She contributes to the broader AI community through mentorship, teaching and talks: she has led workshops at the Grace Hopper Celebration on LangChain-based multimodal workflows (2024) and on LangGraph-based multi-agent workflows (2025), and has spoken at AI meetups in Silicon Valley. She organizes AI Meetups at the Silicon Valley Tech Center, JPMC and is a BobaTalks mentor. She holds patents in AI/ML and brings a global perspective from building and scaling production AI systems across India and the United States.

Apoorva Jaiswal is an Applied AI Lead at JPMorgan Chase focused on translating research into production systems by developing graph machine learning (graph ML) and LLM-powered agentic systems that serve Global Banking. She began her career at JPMC In... Show more

Enyo Sam

Enyo Sam

Enyo Sam is the Founder and CTO of Easner, a stablecoin-powered banking and payments platform designed to expand access to global financial services, particularly across emerging and underserved markets. Since founding Easner in 2025, Enyo has led the development of its technical architecture, stablecoin payment infrastructure and partner integrations while helping validate market demand through early real-world payment flows. He currently focuses on product and technical vision, engineering leadership, security and building infrastructure capable of supporting compliant, scalable cross-border payments. His multidisciplinary background spans International Management, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. Enyo is committed to solving complex challenges in global payments and designing secure financial infrastructure that makes stablecoins practical and accessible for individuals and businesses worldwide.

Enyo Sam is the Founder and CTO of Easner, a stablecoin-powered banking and payments platform designed to expand access to global financial services, particularly across emerging and underserved markets. Since founding Easner in 2025, Enyo has led th... Show more

Barry Smart

Barry Smart

Barry has spent over 25 years in the tech industry; from developer to solution architect, business transformation manager to IT Director, and CTO of a £100m FinTech company. In 2020 Barry's passion for data and analytics led him to gain an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Applications.

He is happiest when he's at a whiteboard sketching out a process, architecture, roadmap or solving a problem. He's got a gift for taking complex ideas and presenting them in a way that technical and non-technical audiences can grok. He has a passion for simplifying the complex, and helping organisations use technology to transform and amplify their impact.

Barry has spent over 25 years in the tech industry; from developer to solution architect, business transformation manager to IT Director, and CTO of a £100m FinTech company. In 2020 Barry's passion for data and analytics led him to gain an MSc in Art... Show more

Wade Tetsuka

Wade Tetsuka

Wade is a CPA who brings 20 years of financial expertise and business management experience to U.S. Transactions Corp.
He was previously with Ernst & Young in San Francisco and later PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Stuttgart, Germany where he was senior engagement manger responsible for the assurance work for IBM, Sony, and several other multinational companies.
He also served as President/General Manager to three early-stage fast growth companies in the life sciences industry. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business with a B.S. in Economics.
U.S. Transactions Corp. was founded in 2009.
We focus on the Microsoft Dynamics space as the only integrated credit card processing solution with built-in connections to 120+ gateways and processors with access to every international currency. See USTPay on Appsource
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Wade is a CPA who brings 20 years of financial expertise and business management experience to U.S. Transactions Corp. He was previously with Ernst & Young in San Francisco and later PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Stuttgart, Germany where he was senior ... Show more

Joseph Okei

Joseph Okei

Helping product led companies drive business growth through user experience design and leadership. My philosophy as a product designer is “test and iterate”. This is the fastest way to truly build a user focused product.

Helping product led companies drive business growth through user experience design and leadership. My philosophy as a product designer is “test and iterate”. This is the fastest way to truly build a user focused product. Show more

Harsh Gupta

Harsh Gupta

Harsh Gupta is a Senior Data Scientist at PayPal with more than 10 years of experience in analytics, experimentation, causal inference, A/B testing, and growth measurement across financial services, technology, and consulting.

He is the co-author of the forthcoming Packt book The Agent-Augmented Data Scientist, which focuses on making analytical work with coding agents reliable, reproducible, and trustworthy enough to support real decisions. His work examines how teams can combine the speed of AI agents with explicit business context, verification systems, and human judgment.

Harsh has won multiple AI and data science hackathons and has judged applied AI and data science competitions at Stanford University and California State University, East Bay.

Harsh Gupta is a Senior Data Scientist at PayPal with more than 10 years of experience in analytics, experimentation, causal inference, A/B testing, and growth measurement across financial services, technology, and consulting. He is the co-author ... Show more

Robert Clawson

Robert Clawson

Robert is a talented, energetic, and insightful product-focused speaker focused on helping teams and organizations build great products and align on their best ways of working to build trust and accountability. He has spent 15 years in the IT field with a primary focus on product development, agile framework, and software quality within both startups and enterprise organizations spanning diverse industries including Automotive, Insurance, Finance, Healthcare and the Department of Defense. He currently serves as a Sr Principal Product professional at Discover + Capital One helping build and evolve innovative products to ensure a brighter financial future for their customers. He is a relentlessly optimistic, culture-first leader who unlocks elite performance by developing people, fostering trust, and placing success over ego.

Robert is a talented, energetic, and insightful product-focused speaker focused on helping teams and organizations build great products and align on their best ways of working to build trust and accountability. He has spent 15 years in the IT field w... Show more

Sat Agrawal

Sat Agrawal

Sat Agrawal has an unvarnished commitment to delivering quality results. An avid learner, Sat holds a bachelor’s in computer science from Penn State and remains actively engaged in a wide range of learning resources. He is a Certified Chaos Engineering professional and practitioner, with additional certifications that include CKA, CKAD, and TOGAF. Sat's current focus in service mesh technologies exemplifies his commitment to stay at the forefront of cloud-native technologies.

At Discover Financial Services, Sat combines his diverse knowledge of concepts, practices, and processes with a strong advocacy for automation and efficiency. Tapping native strengths in analytical and communication skills, he enters mentoring and partnering relationships with business users, architects, and stakeholders across the enterprise to help product teams streamline their end-to-end product delivery cycles. A recognized top-level contributor himself, Sat influences engineers to embrace the agile practices that transform the way they work, leading ultimately to the delivery of dynamic, impactful solutions that align with organizational goals.

Sat personalizes his aptitude for leadership through his attendance and speaking at conferences and local meetups and by conducting hands-on proofs-of-concept. Participating in LinkedIn and other industry-leading blogs, he engages in a variety of topics that include DevOps, DevSecOps, and SREs.

Sat Agrawal has an unvarnished commitment to delivering quality results. An avid learner, Sat holds a bachelor’s in computer science from Penn State and remains actively engaged in a wide range of learning resources. He is a Certified Chaos Engineeri... Show more

Rashi Agrawal

Rashi Agrawal

Rashi Agrawal is the Head of Agentic AI at Hinge Health, where she leads the strategic engineering of high-stakes AI systems within complex regulatory landscapes. By expertly navigating the rigorous requirements of clinical safety, HIPAA, and global regulations, she ensures that disruptive technology remains both secure and compliant. Focused on the pioneer side of generative technology, Rashi is architecting "state-of-the-art" frameworks for Agentic AI that move beyond simple automation to solve critical member problems and drive dramatic business growth.

Formerly the Head of AI at GoodLeap, a leading FinTech in Green Energy, Rashi spearheaded enterprise-wide AI transformation initiatives that optimized everything from complex loan processing to customer engagement while managing a complex cross functional global portfolio. With a unique blend of holistic vision and deep technical expertise, she has a proven track record of developing intelligent decision-making systems and risk assessment platforms that deliver measurable business value through Generative and Agentic AI.

Earlier in her career, Rashi led engineering teams at Yahoo, where she transformed early-stage technical challenges into massive growth engines for their multi billion-dollar advertising business. Her approach is defined by a commitment to technical innovation grounded in strategic business transformation, ensuring that AI serves as a competitive moat rather than just a technical layer.

Beyond the office, Rashi is a global explorer who has traveled to over 45 countries, bringing a diverse, international perspective to her leadership. She is an active thought leader in the Engineering Leadership and AI community. An Indian immigrant with a Master’s in Computer Science from San Jose State University, an alumna of Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Education program, she is also the founder of Women In Tech AI (WIT AI), a community dedicated to empowering and elevating women leaders in the artificial intelligence space.

Rashi Agrawal is the Head of Agentic AI at Hinge Health, where she leads the strategic engineering of high-stakes AI systems within complex regulatory landscapes. By expertly navigating the rigorous requirements of clinical safety, HIPAA, and global ... Show more

Jaime Lopez Jr.

Jaime Lopez Jr.

Jaime is Principal Developer Advocate at Jack Henry where he leads the Developer Relations team working on open banking APIs. He is also a co-host of the More Than Just Code podcast. Jaime often enjoys a nice cup of coffee and conversation on various topics.

Jaime is Principal Developer Advocate at Jack Henry where he leads the Developer Relations team working on open banking APIs. He is also a co-host of the More Than Just Code podcast. Jaime often enjoys a nice cup of coffee and conversation on various... Show more

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