Speakers spotlight
Lisa Martin
Host and Event MC
Lisa Martin is a Silicon Valley-based technology correspondent that has been covering technologies like enterprise iPaaS, integration, automation, infrastructure, cloud, storage, and more for nearly 20 years. She has interviewed nearly 1,000 tech executives, like Michael Dell, on camera over many years as a correspondent.
Pro Football Hall of Famer
Deion Sanders
Collegiate Head Football Coach
Pro Football Hall of Famer
From 2020-2022, as head coach, Sanders led Jackson State University to back-to-back SWAC Championships and won back-to-back SWAC Coach of the Year honors. During his time at JSU, the Tigers had a 27-6 record, including a perfect regular season in 2022. In 2021, he was named the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year.
Sanders is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, a two-time Super Bowl champion and eight-time Pro Bowler . He played 14 years in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Washington Commanders and Baltimore Ravens. He is the only person in professional sports history to play in the World Series and the Super Bowl.
Since retiring from professional sports, Sanders became an analyst for CBS SPORTS, and NFL NETWORK, and now offers his insights and opinions on the Pro Football Football Show on BARSTOOL SPORTS. He has produced and/or appeared in a variety of television shows, including TINY HOUSE NATION, GRANDFATHERED, MOESHA, RUNNING WILD WITH BEAR GRYLLS, LIP SYNC BATTLE, THE LEAGUE, 30 FOR 30: DEION’S DOUBLE PLAY, DEION’S FAMILY PLAYBOOK, and, most recently, COACH PRIME, a docuseries on Prime Video which follows Sanders and his college football journey.
John Santoro
Senior Director Analyst, Gartner
John Santoro is a Senior Director Analyst in Gartner’s Product Management research practice. He advises technology buyers on transitioning to SaaS solutions and the implementation and management of APIs. Prior to joining Gartner, Santoro worked as a competitive solutions architect at IBM. Prior to IBM, he served as the Product Manager, Chief Architect, and developer of a small startup that was acquired by IBM and as an IT consultant focused on transaction processing for financial services clients.
Shawn Rogers
CEO, BARC US
Shawn Rogers is CEO of BARC US and brings over 28 years of industry experience to the role. He is an internationally respected industry analyst, speaker, author, and instructor on data, business intelligence, analytics, AI/ML, and cloud technologies. His former executive strategy roles with Dell, Statistica, Quest Software, and TIBCO give him a unique perspective on the software industry.
Boomi experts
Steve Lucas
Boomi Chief Executive Officer
Steve Lucas is a multi-time CEO with 27 years of leadership experience in enterprise software. He has held CEO and senior executive roles at some of the world’s leading cloud organizations, including Marketo, iCIMS, Adobe, SAP, Salesforce and BusinessObjects. Lucas led both Marketo and iCIMS’ growth and transformation as CEO, driving successful multi-billion-dollar acquisitions and billion-dollar strategic investments for both organizations.
As the CEO of iCIMS, Lucas drove growth and profitability through product innovation and five strategic acquisitions over a three-year period. He established iCIMS’ position as the world’s leading talent acquisition cloud platform, as well as launched an entirely new product line, the Talent Cloud for recruiting that enables 40% of the Fortune 100 to hire millions of people every year. In 2022, Lucas led a billion-dollar investment round in iCIMS from TA Associates, along with Vista Equity partners, nearly tripling the valuation of the business.
At Marketo, Lucas accelerated double-digit growth and profitability, leading the take-private turnaround of the company, which resulted in a $4.75B acquisition by Adobe in 2018, the largest acquisition at the time in Adobe’s history. Lucas drove a complete transformation of the sales, marketing and product portfolio for the business, more than tripling the value of the business and doubling recurring revenue in a 24-month period.
Prior to joining Marketo in 2016, Lucas was President of SAP’s Platform & Analytics Products globally, including SAP’s HANA, PaaS, Database, Analytics, Data Integration and IoT businesses.
As a type 1 diabetic, he dedicates time to raising awareness, education and funds to find a cure. He has served on the boards of the American Diabetes Association and Children’s Diabetes Foundation, where he speaks to youth about managing their diabetes and overcoming obstacles.
Lucas holds a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Colorado, is a published author of several books, and serves on multiple philanthropic and education boards.
Ed Macosky
Chief Product and Technology Officer
Ed Macosky is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Boomi (CPTO). He has more than 20 years of experience building high performing agile teams, designing and launching new software and service products, solution delivery and customer retention. Ed works to establish and execute Boomi’s product vision and roadmap – delivering an intelligent, flexible and scalable integration platform that accelerates business outcomes by making information, interactions and innovations flow faster.
Prior to joining Boomi in early 2019, Ed spent almost five years at Oracle, where he served as Vice President of Middleware/PaaS DevOps & Release Engineering. Prior to Oracle, he spent some time at Dell. In addition, starting in 2003, Ed spent more than seven years at Boomi during the formative years of the company.
Named one of the Top 25 Software Product Executives of 2022, Ed studied Information Technology at Penn State and holds two U.S. patents for integrating software systems.
Women in Tech Panelists
Lisa Martin
Technology Correspondent, Moderator
Lisa Martin is a Silicon Valley-based technology correspondent that has been covering technologies like enterprise iPaaS, integration, automation, infrastructure, cloud, storage, and more for nearly 20 years. She has interviewed nearly 1,000 tech executives, like Michael Dell, on camera over many years as a correspondent.
Alison Biggan
Chief Marketing Officer, Boomi
Alison Biggan is Chief Marketing Officer at Boomi. As former President of Corporate Marketing at SAP, Alison has more than 20 years of experience driving real-world impact through technology and the power of marketing. Having joined SAP through its acquisition of Business Objects, she led the company’s product marketing strategy, overseeing its global field and industry marketing teams, and played an instrumental role in the introduction and growth of flagship product SAP HANA in 2010.
Alison has held multiple global leadership roles in the platform business, including sales roles with the Vancouver Canuck Foundation, PGA Tour, and BC Lions. She attended the University of British Columbia and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and a diploma in Marketing Communications from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Karen Dosanjh
Vice-President Marketing at OSI Digital
Karen Dosanjh serves as the Vice-President, Marketing at OSI Digital and leads the global marketing strategy for the leading digital transformation solutions provider. Karen is a force to be reckoned with in Canada’s technology sector and was instrumental in the launch of three successful tech start-ups throughout her career. In 2023, Karen was named a BC Business “Women of the Year” in the “Entrepreneurial Leader” category and is the first woman of South Asian heritage to be featured on the cover of the magazine. In 2024, Karen was named a finalist for the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in the Business & Professions Category. Recognized nationally, the Woman of Distinction Awards is one of the longest running recognition programs for women and honours extraordinary women who are breaking new ground as leaders in business and in the community in Canada.
Fever-Tree
Kate Stables
Technology Director,
Fever-Tree
Kate Stables serves as Technology Director at Fever-Tree. In this role she enables business transformation through strategic technology roadmap and delivery. With more than 15 years of experience in the CPG, food & beverage, retail, and hospitality industry, Kate has a keen strategic vision focused on transformation of people, process, and technology. She is passionate about building cross-functional tech and business teams to work together to drive change and deliver business value.
Nicki Brock
Senior Director, Enterprise Applications, KORE Wireless
Nicki Brock is the Senior Director of Enterprise Applications at KORE Wireless, where she has spent the last 12 years of her career. She manages all Enterprise Applications at KORE including Boomi, NetSuite, ServiceNow & Salesforce. In addition to Enterprise Applications, Nicki leads the Women of KORE monthly group. Outside of KORE, Nicki is a Mentor to a high school student & the Chair of Naples Pride.
Shari Lava
Research Director, Automation, IDC
Shari Lava is Research Director, Automation within the AI and Automation Group at IDC. Ms. Lava’s core research coverage includes the fast-changing automation and API Management software space, including an emphasis on the market understanding and adoption of these key technologies. Prior to IDC, Ms. Lava served as VP, Marketing Intelligence at Greystone Managed Investments, led the Vendor Advisory Services practice at Info- Tech Research Group, and served as a management consultant with Deloitte’s CRM and Information Management practices, specializing in implementing and connecting applications for clients of all sizes across several industries.
Diamond Partner Presenters
SP Singh
Senior Vice President & Global Head, Enterprise Application Integration and Services Infosys
SP Singh is Senior Vice President and Global Head for Enterprise Application Integration and Services at Infosys. He is a veteran in the tech industry with nearly three decades of experience across varying roles at Infosys and Wongdoody. Under his leadership – focusing on digital process automation, digital supply chain, API management and more – Infosys provides state-of-the-art digital transformation to their clients across the globe. With expertise in building a customer-centric and innovation-focused organization, SP Singh has helped build a robust partner alliance ecosystem for Infosys and consistently delivers on market-leading growth.
Kapil Goel
Associate Vice President - BPM, Enterprise Integration, API and Cloud Apps Infosys
Kapi Goell has over 26 years of experience in Enterprise Integration and Business Process Management towards enabling high performing digital organizations. He advises clients on ecosystem simplification, enterprise core and legacy modernization, integration strategy, API & microservices adoption, digital enablement, and low code. At Infosys, Kapil heads the Digital Integration Practice and low code practice helps his clients streamline their integration app ecosystem and adopt new business models.
Rob Vatter
EVP of Enterprise Platform Services Cognizant
Rob Vatter is an accomplished technology services executive who excels in blending strategic vision with tactical execution to achieve business agendas. He has worked in depth at transitioning companies through periods of change. Rob joined Cognizant in 2019 and has 30+ years in services and
technology working with premier brands such as AT&T, Hewlett Packard, Atos and Altran. Prior to his role with Cognizant, he was CEO of Altran North America, the world’s largest engineering services company.
Prashant Gaonkar
VP, Enterprise Platform Services Cognizant
Prashant Gaonkar is an executive business leader at Cognizant with 30 years of diversified experience in incubating, scaling and managing Platforms and Services across Industries and Customers. He has been advising customer C-suites on strategic initiatives involving enterprise-wide business and digital transformation, acquisition integrations, SaaS/Cloud migrations and Organization Change Management. In his current role, he is responsible for globally managing multiple Practices and Partners including Enterprise Integration and Process Orchestration practices.
Platinum Partner Panel
Ranjan Parthasarathy
Chief Product and Technology Officer Apica
Ranjan Parthasarathy is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Apica. With more than 20 years of experience. He is a serial entrepreneur. Before Apica, he was the founder and CEO at LOGIQ.AI (acquired by Apica), founder and CTO at ClusterUP (acquired by Nutanix), and held technology and product leadership roles at Nutanix, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.
Lawrence Cone
Founder & Chief Executive Officer Kitepipe
Lawrence (Larry) Cone has more than 30 years experience in growing and managing IT technology and services organizations. He started Kitepipe ten years ago as a Boomi-only service provider to take on complex, high value integration challenges. At Kitepipe, Larry oversees 100+ projects each year, and helps customers build Boomi architectures and solutions that maximize current operations value and address new opportunities in AI and digital transformation. Larry also spearheaded Kitepipe’s Boomi Hosting business on AWS and was the product vision behind AtomWatch, the Kitepipe monitoring solution on the Datadog marketplace.
Kiran Deshpande
Global Head - Enterprise Integration Practice TCS
Kiran Deshpande heads the Enterprise Integration Practice for TCS’ Enterprise Solutions Unit (ESU). In his current role, Kiran is responsible for driving growth in the area of Integration modernization, Enterprise API-fication, Hybrid Integration, iPaaS, B2B, Microservices and Event Driven solutions.
Prior to this role, he has served in technology leadership roles including Presales Head for Cloud Applications unit and Delivery Center Head for Digital Enterprise Solutions unit. In his career, spanning more than 28 years in IT, Kiran has delivered many complex and strategic projects for Fortune 500 customers.
Ramesh Revuru
Global Head - Low-code & Integration LTIMindtree
Ramesh Revuru is an accomplished IT professional with over 30 years of experience in IT services delivery, product development, business development, and client management. With over 15 years of experience in VP or leadership roles, Ramesh has an extensive background in both product development and IT services companies. In addition, he has been awarded two patents, which is a testament to his innovative and forward-thinking approach. Ramesh is also a well-respected author, having written two trendsetting books, “That’s I.T” and “Get the software JOB.” He holds certifications in PMP, CSM, and CSP.
Arun Raghavapudi
Chief Customer Officer R Systems
Arun Raghavapudi is a seasoned industry veteran with 25 years of experience across multiple industry verticals, Arun’s career has been marked by diverse business-building roles in large and medium-sized firms and across geographies. He is passionate about leveraging technology to drive client value and the endless possibilities of technology-driven business and societal change.
Mohan Boopalan
Global Practice Head (Cloud Integration) United Techno
Mohan Boopalan is the Global Practice Head of Cloud Integration & Automation Practice at United Techno. He has more than 18+ years of IT experience covering Architecture, Development, and Implementation of multiple Integration Platforms, Solutions & Services. He holds APICS Supply Chain Professional Certification. He received a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from A.C.Tech, Anna University. He holds an M.S. in Information and Technology Management from the University of Dallas.