Innovate. Automate. Celebrate. Repeat.

Having begun his career at 16 as a computer specialist with the FBI, Bobby Patrick is now Chief Marketing Officer of UiPath, the fastest growing enterprise software company in history and leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI. For over two decades Bobby has driven significant growth in technology businesses, ranging from Fortune 50 to start-ups.

Before joining UiPath, Bobby served as CMO for Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $4 Billion-dollar Cloud business. He served previously as CMO for Basho (acquired by Bet365), GXS (acquired by OpenText), and Digex (acquired by Verizon). He strongly believes that digital workforces will reshape businesses in their journey to become digital enterprises, complementing and empowering the human workforce to better business outcomes, job satisfaction, and workplace experiences.

Ted is EVP of Products & Engineering at UiPath where he leads UiPath’s global product development organization. P&E develops and delivers UiPath’s market leading RPA products both on-premises and in the cloud. Ted has a long history leading product teams. Most recently he led Products & Engineering at Apptio where he spent four years.

Prior to Apptio, Ted spent over two decades at Microsoft in various leadership roles in their server and cloud business including marquee products such as SQL Server, Azure Data Platform products, Microsoft’s business intelligence and big data offerings. He also led teams across a broad set of technologies, including operating systems, consumer online services, enterprise security and enterprise application platform.

An avid runner and soccer fan, Ted has an engineering degree and worked at both HP and Apple early in his career. He has three sons and lives with his wife in the Seattle area.

I have always been an entrepreneur. I started my career managing a small windsurfing company in Denmark, a role that taught me (quite literally) how important composure, adaptability, focus, balance, decisiveness and the constant pursuit of “going big” are to success. These were foundational lessons that have served me throughout my career long after I traded in sails for sales.

Currently I am the Chief Revenue Officer at UiPath. The company’s hyperautomation platform combines the #1 Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution with a full suite of capabilities that enable every organization to scale digital business operations at unprecedented speed.

Until April 2020 I was the SVP of Customer Operations at VMware Carbon Black, VMware’s security division (created in October 2019, when VMware acquired Carbon Black). Joining Carbon Black in 2017 as CRO & EVP and shortly after becoming COO, I helped the company grow into a leader in the security space. In 2018, we had a successful IPO on NASDAQ (CBLK).

Prior to Carbon Black, I served as Global Vice President Revenue at Dropbox (DBX) where I enabled teams to drive hyper-growth through a multi-channel GTM strategy scaling to more than $1B in annualized revenue, the fastest SaaS company of all time to reach that mark.

As the Worldwide Vice President of the SMB organization at Microsoft from 2001 to 2015, I led a multi-billion dollar growth business with a global team of sales, marketing and partner management professionals, recruiting and building the world’s largest cloud ecosystem of partners.

With my mission to lead people and organizations to go further than they otherwise would, my entrepreneurial spirit extends beyond my day job. One of the more rewarding times in my career was serving on the global board of Enablis, a non-profit organization that empowers entrepreneurs in developing countries by providing networking, coaching, mentoring & financing. I currently serve as an adviser for Outreach and a Board Member for Forter.

Born, raised and educated in Denmark, I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to live and work on five different continents and earn both a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics & Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School.

I currently live in Seattle with my wife & three children and continue to passionately enjoy windsurfing, adding stickers to my passports, and providing entrepreneurial mentorship. My focus, both personally and professionally, continues to be rooted in the concept of “going big” and helping others do the same!

Daniel Dines is the founder and CEO of UiPath. Dines started UiPath in 2005 with the goal of building a technology that could help humans reduce the time and stress that come from menial, administrative business tasks. Today, UiPath is the most highly-valued AI enterprise software company.

With a vision to deliver A Robot for Every Person, Dines is committed to ushering in the “automation first” era; an era delivering both substantial productivity gains and also higher employee satisfaction and engagement to businesses of all sizes. Dines is focused on helping the workforce adapt to this change through a global commitment to democratize RPA, offering free training, software and programs to help skill, reskill, and upskill the workforce of the future.

Dines began his engineering career at Microsoft where he designed and developed the SQL Server Agent. Still a hacker at heart, he is active in driving the company’s RPA platform and supporting over 500,000 developers who are building automations on the UiPath platform.

Emilie leads the Business Process Management and Robotics Process Automation CoE at VMware.  The team’s focus is to deliver process optimization and automation reducing manual tasks/process; thereby, improving operation efficiencies. 

Neeraj leads the Intelligent Automation program at VMware working with business, technology, and operations partners to implement and manage the intelligent automation solutions combining RPA, AI/ML, and other technologies to automate business processes.

Emmanuel Galan joined UiPath in November 2017 as an Account Executive focused on organizations in the Bay Area. He works closely with highly strategic customers to drive value and transformation through UiPath’s Enterprise RPA Platform. 

Sidney Madison Prescott is the Global Head of Intelligent Automation (Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) atSpotify. In her role, Sidney partners with internal business units to strategize ways to transform business processes via automation. Immediately prior, she also led intelligent process automationfor a leading global investment firm.Early in her career, Sidney held the position of Vice President of Intelligent Process Automation at BNY Mellon. After spending the past few years of her career in the cognitive automation space, Sidney knows what drives successful global robotics implementations and has excelled at delivering projects resulting in a seven-figure return on investment stats for Fortune 250 companies across the globe.

In addition to her enterprise technology expertise, Sidney is an Executive Board Member for three globalnon-profit organizations where she contributes automation insights to enhance overall program objectives. Recently Sidney was elected to join the board of the Habitat for Humanity, New York CityYoung Professionals organization. In addition to her passion for philanthropy, Sidney is an active champion of women in technology, and participated in heading up the East Coast chapter of the global non-profit organization Women inTech. Sidney is currently working to co-authora technical book on robotic process automation and citizen development.

In January 2020, Sidney was awarded the prestigious 2020 Top 50 Tech Visionaries Award. In 2019, Sidney was nominated by the USA Women in Payments awards committee and a group of her peers, as a coveted “Rising Star in Payments” 2019 award recipient. In addition, the Women in IT global organization nominated Sidney for the 2019 Silicon Valley “Rising Star in IT” award.

In addition to her extensive work in the technology sector, Sidney is also a published author with both an Honors Thesis and an award-winning philosophical essay to her credit published by ScholarWorks & Misericordia University’s Journal of Living Philosophy. Sidney is currently co-authoring a book on Robotic Process Automation & Citizen Development which will be released through a global publishing house in 2021.

Sidney holds a BA in Philosophy with a double minor in Political Science & Ethics (Pre-Law) along with Honors, Advanced Honors & Research Honors from Georgia State University, and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA as a part of Brenau University’s inaugural Executive Women’s MBA program. Sidney was the proud recipient of a 2019 Women in Technology $10,000 scholarship based on both peer recommendations and industry accolades. In addition, Sidney is a 2020 MBAChic Fellow, after accepting another $10,000 scholarship to attend Brenau University in January 2020 in pursuit of her MBA.

Sidney currently resides in Manhattan’s Upper East Side with her two small dogs, Addison, and Grey-Sloan. Sidney is an avid snowboarder and frequent spin class attendee.

Kevin is a partner in PwC’s US Advisory practice, specializing in intelligent automation.  He is currently driving go to market efforts on PwC’s next generation digital upskilling and automation management platform, ProEdge. In addition, he provides leadership over PwC’s overall go to market strategy on intelligent automation. As part of this role, he manages PWC’s strategic alliances with leading automation software vendor platforms, such as UiPath.   Prior to this role, Kevin led PWC’s Financial Services Advisory intelligent automation practice and has over 20 years of experience in the Financial Services industry on large operations and technology transformation initiatives.​

Kevin has a BS degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Information and Decision Systems.  Prior to joining PwC, Kevin worked as a Financial Services consultant for Diamond Management and Technology Consultants and Accenture.

Krishnan Iyer is the Global Delivery Head for Digital Operations at Cognizant. 

He leads the delivery for all service lines  across Digital operations, which include BFS, Insurance, CMT, Healthcare, Life Sciences, MLEU, RCGH, F&A and IPA. 

With over 30 global delivery centers spread across US, Europe and APAC as well as servicing more than 390 clients, Krishnan is focused toward driving the best in class global operations by offering innovative business process solutions, through digital transformation and automation.  

Investing in talent is a key differentiator at Cognizant. Krishnan is extremely passionate about skill development for his people and leverages the training programes offered by the CFA Institute, Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI), Centre for Advanced Management Studies (CAMS) and others. 

In his illustrious career, Krishnan has held the following positions: 

• Managing Director at UBS’ Investment Banking and Wealth Management businesses in Hyderabad, leading Operations, Research, Risk and Finance Operations across UBS’  
• Partner in Accenture Financial Services  
• Global Finance Controller for GE Capital International Services and instrumental in driving transformation for GE Capital in Europe.  
• Lead the Asset Finance business and Finance & Treasury functions for Tata Group 

Besides an exemplary carreer, to his credit Krishnan has had a remarkable academic record. He has been a rank holder in the All India Merit List in the Indian Chartered Accountancy Examination and secured first class from the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. 

Carmel leads strategy and sales for UiPath’s top accounts who specialize across multiple verticals supporting Fortune 100 Enterprise and Global customers. Carmel and team deliver empowerment to her customers by sharing the vision and journey for Robotic Process Automation including Artificial Intelligence with a digital workforce to help organizations reach their short and long-range business goals. ​

Prior to UiPath, Carmel led multiple businesses for more than 20 years with Dell Technologies including multiple sales organizations specializing in Dell Software Solutions including, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Software Defined Data Center, Server, Storage and Networking Infrastructure sales.  Carmel is an Austinite and throughout her early career, operated front and back office for a restaurant chain that was founded by her family in 1953. 

Param Kahlon is the Chief Product Officer at UiPath. In his role at UiPath, he is responsible for product strategy and roadmap.

Prior to UiPath, Param was a General Manager at Microsoft responsible for Dynamics 365 customer engagement apps (sales, customer service, and field service) and, prior to Microsoft, managed customer service and order management products for SAP and Siebel/Oracle. Param has been in the enterprise software space for over two decades leading strategic planning, CRM product management, and new product introduction.

Param holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Punjabi University, India.

Shankar Vedantam is the host and creator of Hidden Brain. The Hidden Brain podcast receives more than three million downloads per week, and the Hidden Brain radio show is featured on more than 350 public radio stations around the United States. 

Vedantam was NPR’s social science correspondent between 2011 and 2020, and he spent 10 years as a reporter at The Washington Post. From 2007 to 2009, he was also a columnist, and wrote the Department of Human Behavior column for the Post.  

Vedantam and Hidden Brain have been recognized with the Edward R Murrow Award, and honors from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the International Society of Political Psychology, the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Austen Riggs Center, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Webby Awards, the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors, the South Asian Journalists Association, the Asian American Journalists Association, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, the American Public Health Association, the Templeton-Cambridge Fellowship on Science and Religion, and the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship.  

In 2009-2010, Vedantam served as a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. 

Vedantam is the author of the non-fiction book, The Hidden Brain: How our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars and Save Our Lives. The book, published in 2010, described how unconscious biases influence people. 

Brandon Nott leads Attended Automation at UiPath. As a former customer and implementer, he brings firsthand knowledge of the RPA life cycle to the product team.  From automating mortgage operations to testing wireless technologies, Brandon takes a holistic approach to digital transformation that brings humans and technology together, seamlessly. Not only does he build attended automations in his spare time, he is also avid race car driver and proud father of 3! 

Pascal Bornet is a recognized global expert and pioneer in the field of intelligent automation. He is passionate about the capacity of artificial intelligence and automation to make our society more human. 

Bornet is a senior executive with 20+ years of experience leading digital business transformations and creations. Over the last ten years, he has founded and led the Intelligent Automation practices, first for EY (Ernst & Young) and then for McKinsey & Company. These lines of business delivered high-impact results to corporate clients across industries through innovation, research, strategic investments, and cutting-edge technology developments. In these contexts, he successfully led hundreds of intelligent automation transformations at scale across industries and functions.

He has also created and managed a proven track record of distinctive, innovative solutions, technologies, and IP portfolios. 

  Bornet is a recognized author, thought leader, lecturer, and speaker on artificial intelligence, automation, and the future of work. He is also an influencer on the same topics, elected Top Voice in Technology 2019; he has more than 300,000 followers on LinkedIn and Twitter. 

Bornet holds an MBA from the University of California Los Angeles, an MBA from the National University of Singapore, a Master of Science in Management from EM-Lyon/Saint-Etienne, as well as several certifications in Data Science and Finance (US CPA). 

Guy Kirkwood, as chief evangelist of UiPath, is using RPA to reshape how people work. Guy was its first non Romanian employee and was previously part of the team which was the #1 customer of what became UiPath technology. He’s helped UiPath to become a Forbes AI 50; a CNBC Disruptor 50; #3 on the Forbes Cloud 100; #2 in the FT rankings; and #1 in the Deloitte Fast 500.

Bernhard’s research supports CIOs and technology leaders with their broader transformation challenges. His thought leadership provides guidance on how to manage technology-driven business models and how to drive sustainable technology innovation. Bernhard is a hands-on expert in emerging technologies such as robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT), and cloud computing. Leveraging his business process and enterprise architecture expertise, Bernhard’s research takes a holistic look at business and operations automation and serves clients in these areas of responsibility. 

Previous Work Experience 

Bernhard has over 20 years of experience in technology management as an advisor, strategist, architect, and manager. Before joining Forrester, Bernhard held various tech management positions at Merck in Darmstadt, Germany. He built and ran the enterprise architecture management discipline, acted as chief architect to the CIO, and drove the transformation of the IT organization to a customer-obsessed, business-performance-enabling organization. Bernhard also led the digital transformation of Merck’s Performance Materials business sector and managed the Technology Innovation Group of Merck’s shared services function. Prior to joining Merck, Bernhard worked in the consulting industry with a strong focus on business process management, enterprise architecture management, organizational transformation, and change management. 

Education 

Bernhard holds a PhD in economics and social sciences from the Helmut-Schmidt University in Hamburg and a diploma in business administration from the Passau University. 

Neil Ward-Dutton is Vice President of IDC’s European AI and Intelligent Process Automation European Practices. Neil is recognized as one of Europe’s most experienced and high-profile technology industry analysts, and has regularly appeared on TV and in print media over his 20-year industry analyst career as well as authoring over 10 books on IT and business strategy. Prior to joining IDC Neil was Founder and Research Director of MWD Advisors, a technology advisory firm focusing on digital technologies and their impacts on business. 

Emilie leads the Business Process Management and Robotics Process Automation CoE at VMware.  The team’s focus is to deliver process optimization and automation reducing manual tasks/process; thereby, improving operation efficiencies. 

Neeraj leads the Intelligent Automation program at VMware working with business, technology, and operations partners to implement and manage the intelligent automation solutions combining RPA, AI/ML, and other technologies to automate business processes.

Emmanuel Galan joined UiPath in November 2017 as an Account Executive focused on organizations in the Bay Area. He works closely with highly strategic customers to drive value and transformation through UiPath’s Enterprise RPA Platform. 

Sidney Madison Prescott is the Global Head of Intelligent Automation (Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) atSpotify. In her role, Sidney partners with internal business units to strategize ways to transform business processes via automation. Immediately prior, she also led intelligent process automationfor a leading global investment firm.Early in her career, Sidney held the position of Vice President of Intelligent Process Automation at BNY Mellon. After spending the past few years of her career in the cognitive automation space, Sidney knows what drives successful global robotics implementations and has excelled at delivering projects resulting in a seven-figure return on investment stats for Fortune 250 companies across the globe.

In addition to her enterprise technology expertise, Sidney is an Executive Board Member for three global non-profit organizations where she contributes automation insights to enhance overall program objectives. Recently Sidney was elected to join the board of the Habitat for Humanity, New York CityYoung Professionals organization. In addition to her passion for philanthropy, Sidney is an activec hampion of women in technology, and participated in heading up the East Coast chapter of the global non-profit organization Women inTech. Sidney is currently working to co-author a technical book on robotic process automation and citizen development.

In January 2020, Sidney was awarded the prestigious 2020 Top 50 Tech Visionaries Award. In 2019, Sidney was nominated by the USA Women in Payments awards committee and a group of her peers, as a coveted “Rising Star in Payments” 2019 award recipient. In addition, the Women in IT global organization nominated Sidney for the 2019 Silicon Valley “Rising Star in IT” award.

In addition to her extensive work in the technology sector, Sidney is also a published author with both an Honors Thesis and an award-winning philosophical essay to her credit published by ScholarWorks & Misericordia University’s Journal of Living Philosophy. Sidney is currently co-authoring a book on Robotic Process Automation & Citizen Development which will be released through a global publishing house in 2021.

Sidney holds a BA in Philosophy with a double minor in Political Science & Ethics (Pre-Law) along with Honors, Advanced Honors & Research Honors from Georgia State University, and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA as a part of Brenau University’s inaugural Executive Women’s MBA program. Sidney was the proud recipient of a 2019 Women in Technology $10,000 scholarship based on both peer recommendations and industry accolades. In addition, Sidney is a 2020 MBAChic Fellow, after accepting another $10,000 scholarship to attend Brenau University in January 2020 in pursuit of her MBA.

Sidney currently resides in Manhattan’s Upper East Side with her two small dogs, Addison,and Grey-Sloan. Sidney is an avid snowboarder and frequent spin class attendee.

Kevin is a partner in PwC’s US Advisory practice, specializing in intelligent automation.  He is currently driving go to market efforts on PwC’s next generation digital upskilling and automation management platform, ProEdge. In addition, he provides leadership over PwC’s overall go to market strategy on intelligent automation. As part of this role, he manages PWC’s strategic alliances with leading automation software vendor platforms, such as UiPath.   Prior to this role, Kevin led PWC’s Financial Services Advisory intelligent automation practice and has over 20 years of experience in the Financial Services industry on large operations and technology transformation initiatives.​

​Kevin has a BS degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Information and Decision Systems.  Prior to joining PwC, Kevin worked as a Financial Services consultant for Diamond Management and Technology Consultants and Accenture.

Krishnan Iyer is the Global Delivery Head for Digital Operations at Cognizant. 

He leads the delivery for all service lines  across Digital operations, which include BFS, Insurance, CMT, Healthcare, Life Sciences, MLEU, RCGH, F&A and IPA. 

With over 30 global delivery centers spread across US, Europe and APAC as well as servicing more than 390 clients, Krishnan is focused toward driving the best in class global operations by offering innovative business process solutions, through digital transformation and automation.  
 

Investing in talent is a key differentiator at Cognizant. Krishnan is extremely passionate about skill development for his people and leverages the training programes offered by the CFA Institute, Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI), Centre for Advanced Management Studies (CAMS) and others. 
 

In his illustrious career, Krishnan has held the following positions: 

• Managing Director at UBS’ Investment Banking and Wealth Management businesses in Hyderabad, leading Operations, Research, Risk and Finance Operations across UBS’  
• Partner in Accenture Financial Services  
• Global Finance Controller for GE Capital International Services and instrumental in driving transformation for GE Capital in Europe.  
• Lead the Asset Finance business and Finance & Treasury functions for Tata Group 

Besides an exemplary career, to his credit Krishnan has had a remarkable academic record. He has been a rank holder in the All India Merit List in the Indian Chartered Accountancy Examination and secured first class from the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. 

Carmel leads strategy and sales for UiPath’s top accounts who specialize across multiple verticals supporting Fortune 100 Enterprise and Global customers. Carmel and team deliver empowerment to her customers by sharing the vision and journey for Robotic Process Automation including Artificial Intelligence with a digital workforce to help organizations reach their short and long-range business goals. ​

​Prior to UiPath, Carmel led multiple businesses for more than 20 years with Dell Technologies including multiple sales organizations specializing in Dell Software Solutions including, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Software Defined Data Center, Server, Storage and Networking Infrastructure sales.  Carmel is an Austinite and throughout her early career, operated front and back office for a restaurant chain that was founded by her family in 1953. 

Pamela Wolfe is the Chief of the Enterprise Services Division of NASA’s Shared Services Center (NSSC) located in Bay St Louis, MS.  Pam is responsible for managing the Agency IT help desk, the customer contact center, and establishment of the agency robotics process automation program.  Pamela also services as the Innovation Champion for the NSSC. 

During her tenure at the NSSC, Pam established the Agency Information Technology Business Office to manage $500M in Agency IT contracts.  As a charter member of NASA’s Shared Services Center, Pam established processes and procedures for monitoring performance and reporting of metrics associated with service level agreements for the 60+ services provided across Financial Management, Human Resources, Procurement, and IT.  Prior to joining NASA in 2006, Pamela held various Business and Financial management positions with Lockheed Martin and Sverdrup Technologies. 

Pam has been honored as the recipient of the NASA Superior Accomplishment Award, and the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for her analytical support to the NSSC. 

Aneesh Chopra is the President of Care Journey, an open data membership service building a trusted, transparent rating system for physicians, networks, facilities and markets on the move to value. He served as the first U.S. Chief Technology Officer under President Obama (’09-’12) and in 2014, authored, "Innovative State: How New Technologies can Transform Government.” He serves on the Boards of the Health Care Cost Institute, International Digital Accountability Council, and the New Jersey Innovation Institute, earned his MPP from Harvard Kennedy School and BA from The Johns Hopkins University. 

"Aneesh serves as an advisor to UiPath" 

Steve Gordon was appointed Director of the California Department of Motor Vehicles by California Governor Gavin Newsom in July 2019. Steve Gordon is a versatile leader with more than 30 years of experience building, integrating, debugging and operating high-profile businesses for market leaders in high-tech and life sciences using vision, strategy and execution with passion for Fortune 500 clients. Steve has spent most of the last three decades leading various global services businesses at Cisco Systems and, most recently, global business services at Becton, Dickinson and Company. The California DMV was recently awarded a Government Experience Award for their COVID-19 response which was assisted by UiPath automations.

Charlie Sweeney is the Assistant Director of Automation Solutions with over 10 years of experience at The Cleveland Clinic. He began his career overhauling the reporting and monthly leadership meetings within the Neurological Institute through automation and visual analytics capabilities. Charlie was also part of establishing a formal data governance program at The Cleveland Clinic with a focus on master data management. Currently he is leading the team of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) developers as they establish a RPA Competency Center. This initiative and technology is new to The Cleveland Clinic as they look to be leaders in the healthcare market.

Charlie is always looking to mitigate wasteful, inefficient processes and policies. He thrives on identifying and leveraging new technologies in order to accomplish these goals. Charlie has experience in accounting, budgeting, database development and administration, data governance, master data management, information management, as well as business planning and new technology initiatives. He graduated with a bachelor’s in accounting, management, and flight technology from Kent State University and earned his MBA with a healthcare focus from Cleveland State University. 

Bob Gross is the Senior Director of Revenue Cycle Transformation at Cleveland Clinic, with over 12 years of experience in the hospital & health care industry. He is skilled in leading teams focused on analytical capabilities including enterprise data warehousing, data visualization, machine learning, and predictive analytics. Bob is also leading a new team focused on transformational technologies, including robotic process automation (RPA), block chain, electronic data interchange (EDIs), and application programming interfaces (APIs). Bob is currently serving as the chairman of the Healthcare Intelligent Automation Alliance (HIAA), an organization of healthcare providers focused on transforming the delivery and administration of healthcare through the use of Intelligent Automation. 

Bob has held prior roles in budgeting, financial modeling, accounting, enterprise information systems, and healthcare information technology (HIT). He is a Certified Professional in Health Information & Management Systems (CPHIMS) certification holder, as well as a finance professional with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) focused in Corporate Finance from Cleveland State University. Technologies he and his teams leverage include UiPath, Teradata, Informatica, Tableau, SAS, Hadoop, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. 

Born and raised in Atlanta, Ga and started @ The Home Depot in ’09 as an intern in Marketing on Consumer Insights.  I then took an analyst role within IDM which is our item data / PIM solution team where I spent 4 years working on a little bit of everything the team had to offer from enterprise-wide matrix projects, data quality, governance and support.  In 2016 I took a manager role on a content focused front-end hd.com team in 2016 and over time molded the group into our Interconnected Merchandising Solutions team, focusing on operational excellence and merchandising decision support at scale. 

Jim Maholic is an Amazon #1 bestselling author. His writing draws on his over 25 years as an IT strategist. Both of his books having been in Amazon’s top ten in various categories.   

More than just a bestselling author, Maholic is also a practitioner. He has consulted with many of the largest and most prestigious companies in North and South America across numerous industries. Maholic's career has included two stints as a CIO, executive positions with Big Four and regional consulting firms, and leadership roles with enterprise software companies. His professional focus has been developing IT strategies that align with clients' core strategic business objectives.  

Junaid is Corporate Vice President, Finance at Applied Materials. He serves as Chief of Staff to the CFO in which capacity he leads Finance Strategy and Communications in addition to the Agile Finance Transformation.  He also has Finance executive ownership for Applied’s Inspection and Process Control business. 

Ted is Appointed Vice President, Finance at Applied Materials. He is responsible for Applied’s global SAP platform and business analytics/big data tools portfolio, and IT portfolio and project execution partnership with the  corporate support organizations. He also has executive ownership for IT M&A due diligence and integration. 

Seth is Area Vice President, Strategic Engagements at UiPath. He works with UiPath’s top customers in the Americas to scale RPA as an enterprise wide capability. Seth has an extensive background in business software with senior roles at SAP, Oracle, and Workday prior to joining UiPath. 

Guy Kirkwood, as chief evangelist of UiPath, is using RPA to reshape how people work. Guy was its first non Romanian employee and was previously part of the team which was the #1 customer of what became UiPath technology. He’s helped UiPath to become a Forbes AI 50; a CNBC Disruptor 50; #3 on the Forbes Cloud 100; #2 in the FT rankings; and #1 in the Deloitte Fast 500.

Emilie leads the Business Process Management and Robotics Process Automation CoE at VMware.  The team’s focus is to deliver process optimization and automation reducing manual tasks/process; thereby, improving operation efficiencies. 

Neeraj leads the Intelligent Automation program at VMware working with business, technology, and operations partners to implement and manage the intelligent automation solutions combining RPA, AI/ML, and other technologies to automate business processes.

Emmanuel Galan joined UiPath in November 2017 as an Account Executive focused on organizations in the Bay Area. He works closely with highly strategic customers to drive value and transformation through UiPath’s Enterprise RPA Platform. 

Sidney Madison Prescott is the Global Head of Intelligent Automation (Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence) atSpotify. In her role, Sidney partners with internal business units to strategize ways to transform business processes via automation. Immediately prior, she also led intelligent process automation for a leading global investment firm.Early in her career, Sidney held the position of Vice President of Intelligent Process Automation at BNY Mellon. After spending the past few years of her career in the cognitive automation space, Sidney knows what drives successful global robotics implementations and has excelled at delivering projects resulting in a seven-figure return on investment stats for Fortune 250 companies across the globe.

In addition to her enterprise technology expertise, Sidney is an Executive Board Member for three global non-profit organizations where she contributes automation insights to enhance overall program objectives. Recently Sidney was elected to join the board of the Habitat for Humanity, New York CityYoung Professionals organization. In addition to her passion for philanthropy, Sidney is an active champion of women in technology, and participated in heading up the East Coast chapter of the global non-profit organization Women inTech. Sidney is currently working to co-authora technical book on robotic process automation and citizen development.

In January 2020, Sidney was awarded the prestigious 2020 Top 50 Tech Visionaries Award. In 2019, Sidney was nominated by the USA Women in Payments awards committee and a group of her peers, as a coveted “Rising Star in Payments” 2019 award recipient. In addition, the Women in IT global organization nominated Sidney for the 2019 Silicon Valley “Rising Star in IT” award.

In addition to her extensive work in the technology sector, Sidney is also a published author with both an Honors Thesis and an award-winning philosophical essay to her credit published by ScholarWorks & Misericordia University’s Journal of Living Philosophy. Sidney is currently co-authoring a book on Robotic Process Automation & Citizen Development which will be released through a global publishing house in 2021.

Sidney holds a BA in Philosophy with a double minor in Political Science & Ethics (Pre-Law) along with Honors, Advanced Honors & Research Honors from Georgia State University, and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA as a part of Brenau University’s inaugural Executive Women’s MBA program. Sidney was the proud recipient of a 2019 Women in Technology $10,000 scholarship based on both peer recommendations and industry accolades. In addition, Sidney is a 2020 MBAChic Fellow, after accepting another $10,000 scholarship to attend Brenau University in January 2020 in pursuit of her MBA.

Sidney currently resides in Manhattan’s Upper East Side with her two small dogs, Addison, and Grey-Sloan. Sidney is an avid snowboarder and frequent spin class attendee.

Kevin is a partner in PwC’s US Advisory practice, specializing in intelligent automation.  He is currently driving go to market efforts on PwC’s next generation digital upskilling and automation management platform, ProEdge. In addition, he provides leadership over PwC’s overall go to market strategy on intelligent automation. As part of this role, he manages PWC’s strategic alliances with leading automation software vendor platforms, such as UiPath.   Prior to this role, Kevin led PWC’s Financial Services Advisory intelligent automation practice and has over 20 years of experience in the Financial Services industry on large operations and technology transformation initiatives.​

Kevin has a BS degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Information and Decision Systems.  Prior to joining PwC, Kevin worked as a Financial Services consultant for Diamond Management and Technology Consultants and Accenture.

Krishnan Iyer is the Global Delivery Head for Digital Operations at Cognizant. 

He leads the delivery for all service lines  across Digital operations, which include BFS, Insurance, CMT, Healthcare, Life Sciences, MLEU, RCGH, F&A and IPA.

With over 30 global delivery centers spread across US, Europe and APAC as well as servicing more than 390 clients, Krishnan is focused toward driving the best in class global operations by offering innovative business process solutions, through digital transformation and automation. 

Investing in talent is a key differentiator at Cognizant. Krishnan is extremely passionate about skill development for his people and leverages the training programes offered by the CFA Institute, Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI), Centre for Advanced Management Studies (CAMS) and others.

In his illustrious career, Krishnan has held the following positions: 

• Managing Director at UBS’ Investment Banking and Wealth Management businesses in Hyderabad, leading Operations, Research, Risk and Finance Operations across UBS’  
• Partner in Accenture Financial Services  
• Global Finance Controller for GE Capital International Services and instrumental in driving transformation for GE Capital in Europe.  
• Lead the Asset Finance business and Finance & Treasury functions for Tata Group 

Besides an exemplary career, to his credit Krishnan has had a remarkable academic record. He has been a rank holder in the All India Merit List in the Indian Chartered Accountancy Examination and secured first class from the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. 

Carmel leads strategy and sales for UiPath’s top accounts who specialize across multiple verticals supporting Fortune 100 Enterprise and Global customers. Carmel and team deliver empowerment to her customers by sharing the vision and journey for Robotic Process Automation including Artificial Intelligence with a digital workforce to help organizations reach their short and long-range business goals. ​

​Prior to UiPath, Carmel led multiple businesses for more than 20 years with Dell Technologies including multiple sales organizations specializing in Dell Software Solutions including, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Software Defined Data Center, Server, Storage and Networking Infrastructure sales.  Carmel is an Austinite and throughout her early career, operated front and back office for a restaurant chain that was founded by her family in 1953.