Special Thanks to our 2023 Speakers
Paul Bay
Chief Executive Officer,
Ingram Micro
A 20-plus year veteran of the information technology industry, Paul Bay serves as CEO of Ingram Micro Inc., a leader in delivering the full spectrum of global technology and supply chain solutions to businesses around the world. Prior to being named CEO in January 2022, Paul was executive vice president and president of Global Technology Solutions with responsibility for the company’s worldwide Technology Solutions business.
Sanjib Sahoo
Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Officer,
Ingram Micro
Sanjib Sahoo is an award-winning Global Technology and Business Executive and the EVP and Chief Digital Officer of Ingram Micro, a worldwide leader in technology distribution and the business behind the world’s brands. Sahoo is leading the global digitization of Ingram Micro, which includes the company’s digital twin Ingram Micro Xvantage. He is an industry thought leader, a contributor to Harvard Business Review, Wired, Forbes, and a TED speaker.
Victor Baez
Senior Vice President, Global Cloud
Sales, Ingram Micro
Victor oversees the development of Ingram Micro Cloud’s global cloud strategy, which includes leading the global sales teams and delivering on growth and revenue goals. Prior to joining Ingram Micro Cloud, he ran worldwide security channel sales at VMware, a company he joined after the Carbon Black acquisition. At Carbon Black, Victor and his team built a strong ecosystem of advisory and managed services partners that delivered triple-digit platform sales growth.
Ray Wang
CEO, Constellation Research Inc.
R “Ray” Wang is the CEO of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc. He co-hosts DisrupTV, a weekly enterprise tech and leadership webcast that averages 50,000 views per episode and blogs at www.raywang.org. He coined the term “Metaverse Economy” in 2020. His ground-breaking best-selling book on digital transformation, Disrupting Digital Business, was published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2015. Ray’s new best selling book about Digital giants, released in 2021, is titled, Everybody Wants to Rule The World. Wang is frequently quoted and interviewed in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Fox Business, CNBC, CIO, and Bloomberg.
Vala Afshar
Chief Digital Evangelist at Salesforce.com
Vala Afshar is Chief Digital Evangelist at Salesforce, author, patent holding inventor, podcaster, columnist and keynote speaker. With over one million social media followers, Afsar is recognized as a top business and innovation influencer.
Afshar is the author of The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence and has written over 500 articles and has interviewed over 1,150 guests on his weekly podcast.
Prior to Salesforce, Afshar served as Vice President of Engineering, Chief Customer Officer and Chief Marketing Officer.
Tan Le
Innovator and Entrepreneur
Tan Le is recognized as one of the most influential pioneers in the emerging field of brain-computer interface. An inventor, author, and entrepreneur, she is the founder and CEO of EMOTIV, a San Francisco-headquartered neuroinformatics company. EMOTIV’s mission is to improve understanding of the human brain and develop a platform for researchers, developers, and consumers around the world to be part of a global innovation task force. The company’s non-invasive “brainwear” reads and interprets brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects with mere thoughts.
Robert Sutton
Organizational Change Expert, Stanford Professor, and New York Times Bestselling Author
Bob Sutton is an organization psychologist, Stanford Professor, and bestselling author. His books include The No Asshole Rule, Good Boss, Bad Boss, and with Huggy Rao, Scaling Up Excellence and their forthcoming The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make The Right Things Easier and The Wrong Things Harder—Without Driving Everyone Crazy.
Nicole Dezen
Microsoft’s Chief Partner Officer and Corporate Vice President
Nicole Dezen serves as Chief Partner Officer and Corporate Vice President, Global Partner Solutions (GPS) at Microsoft. She leads the commercial partner business and is responsible for building and selling Microsoft Cloud applications, services and devices with partners. She collaborates with a broad set of commercial partners including Advisory partners, device partners, Global System Integrators (GSIs), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), and services partners to drive digital transformation, scale, business growth and profitability with partners.
Carrie Palin
SVP and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
at Cisco
Carrie Palin is the SVP and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Cisco where she is responsible for strengthening the brand and increasing demand. Her global scope includes defining the strategy of digital, industries, partner, field, brand, events, sponsorships, and campaign marketing, while overseeing the analytics that inform the approach. Prior to Cisco, Carrie has extensive experience leading enterprise marketing and brand building in the technology sector. Previously, she served as the CMO of Splunk, SendGrid and Box.
Julia Chen
VP, AWS Partner Core
Julia joined AWS in June 2022 to lead the Partner Core team for AWS Partner Organization. In this role, Julia leads defining our global partner strategy and scaling mechanisms to achieve our goal of delivering a more simple, predictable, and profitable experience for our partners. These include: partner programs; strategic partner initiatives and engagements to build GTM capabilities around AWS Services; and defining Services and Solutions Partner Go-to-Market in close collaboration with our APO, Service and Sales sister teams.
Jennifer Anaya
Chief Marketing Officer, Ingram Micro
As CMO for Ingram Micro, Jennifer Anaya leads the company’s brand strategy, as well as Experience Design and Digital Marketing, Agency Ingram Micro (AIM) and Trust X Alliance. With 20+ years in the technology industry, Jennifer is recognized as one of the IT Channel’s top 100 most powerful women and has most recently played a key role in developing the company’s digital platform, Ingram Micro Xvantage™.