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. 

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 a community of developers who are building automations on the UiPath platform.

Luca Proietto has been Head of RPA Platforms since July 2018. ​

Mr Proietto joined the Enel Group in 2007, holding several strategic positions for ICT – Demand & Delivery Infrastructures and Networks (from Oct 2007 to Dec 2012), Global ICT – ADM Infrastructures and Networks – Wholesale System (from Jan 2013 to Sept 2015) and ICT Solution Center Infrastructure & Networks Commercial Solutions (from Oct 2015 to Jun 2018). ​

In July 2018, Mr Proietto started to lead RPA streams for the global function Administration, Finance and Control (AFC) that has been entitled “Master Chapter” of Enel Group in February 2020. Since then, Mr Proietto has been overseeing the Global RPA journey of the entire Group under the perspective of a global convergence of all business units into a Centralized RPA Platform.

Aldo Caiani is a 30 years experienced manager in different kind of markets verticals. Experiences across the world and performed jobs in different countries embracing different cultures and business approach. Used to engage colleagues in a “Team Mindset” and perform defining strategy, execution elements and priorities. From the words shared by past and current colleagues: “a great leader to work with, always supportive, driving and open minded”. 

Xavier de Bloteau is the Havas Media Group CIO since 2015. Havas Media is the Media Division of Havas Group, one of the world’s largest global communications groups. Havas Group, part of Vivendi, employs today 20,000 people in over 100 countries.  

Xavier brings extensive knowledge of the Media and Data Technology landscape together with a deep experience in global ERP implementation. Prior joining Havas, Xavier worked in Accenture for 10 years. 

Caroline Franceschetti Sales Director at UiPath since 2019. Caroline has 20 years of experience in selling digital technology to large and complex organizations. 

Bård Strøm, 43 years old - CDO at Cutters. Married, three boys aged 4, 6 and 9. 

- Holds a Master of Science in Computer Science degree from Cal Poly - USA, Master of Technology Management degree from NTNU and NHH in Norway, and Innovation & Global Leadership program from MIT Sloan School of Management. 

Career: Director at PwC, Head of Development at Keyteq AS, Strategic IT advisor with PA Consulting, and senior consultant & architect with Reaktor AS. 

Started out as a software developer with interest in agile methodologies. Transition to management consulting and Strategic IT advisory, before taking on management positions with tech. Building the tech capacity in Cutters, one of Norway's fastest growing companies, that heavily relies on technology for running and scaling the company. 

Kim has close to 25 years of experience working for US based Tech companies such as HP, Veritas Software, Symantec, CA Technologies and currently UiPath. During his career Kim has had numerous different roles within sales and marketing.   

He has also been used frequently as a speaker and host for different seminars and has also published several articles covering everything from purely technical focused articles to articles about the implication of the EU GDPR in the technology landscape.   

Kim is now focused on how RPA can help drive business outcome and create competitive advantage for customers in the Norwegian market. 

Laurent Poyrault is working for Electricité de France (French multinational electric utility company). He started in 1991, always in the business organization, beginning with operational unit, then moving to IT in 2001 where he has held various jobs. In January 2019, he took the responsibility of the RPA project. 

Laurent Decour, Sales executive, 
20+ years of experience in selling disruptive software solutions to large European customer. In charge of EDF for UiPath since January 2019. 

Sezgin Lüle received his bachelor degree in Industrial Enginneering at Boğaziçi  University then started his career as Organization and Method Assistant Specialist at Isbank’s Organizations Department in 1998. He was appointed as Assistant Inspector at the Board of Inspection in 1999. He completed a post-graduate program in International Banking and Finance at the University of  Birmingham in 2004. Lüle worked at the Project and Change Management as Deputy Manager and Unit Manager between 2008 and 2011. Lüle was appointed as Head of Enterprise Architecture Department in 2017. He is mainly responsible for Organisational Design, Process Digitalisation and Automation and Project Portfolio Management. He also serves as board member at Softtech, JSC Isbank Russia and Georgia. 

Tuğrul Cora graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1991 and from Virginia Tech with an MBA degree in 1993. In 2009, he completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard Business School. Tuğrul Cora started his career at Aselsan in 1991. Between 1995 and 2004, he worked at Digital Equipment, Compaq Computer and Hewlett-Packard as Enterprise Account Manager, Sales Manager and Sales Director. Tuğrul Cora served as the Founding General Manager of Millenicom Telecom between 2004 and 2010 and took Millenicom to the second place in Deloitte's Europe's Fastest Growing Technology Companies in 2009. Between 2010 and 2017, Tuğrul Cora served as Corporate Sales Director and later as the SVP for Corporate Business Unit at Turkcell and led Turkcell’s transformation to be a Total Telecommunications, Cloud and System Integration Service Provider. Tugrul Cora joined UiPath, World’s leading Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence company, as Director of Partnerships for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, and has been serving as General Manager for Turkey since July 2019. 

After his studies in business informatics, Benjamin worked for more than 5 years as a management consultant at KPMG, primarily in the area of IT and process optimisation in finance. Benjamin then moved to Siemens AG in the strategic area of Global Share Programs, where he led several teams. Since the end of 2017, Benjamin has been responsible for Robotic Process Automation within Siemens Mobility GmbH and supports the 38,000 employees worldwide with over 300 locally and virtually robotized processes. 

Sabine Obermayr is Marketing Director for Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) at UiPath, the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company. In this role, she oversees the company’s marketing strategy in the region in close collaboration with the other go-to-market teams to ensure customer and partner success.  

With a career spanning over two decades, which saw her hold several top marketing roles for tech companies, Sabine is passionate about supporting people and enterprises across all sectors reach their potential with the help of technology. In keeping with her customer-focused vision, at UiPath, she is also responsible for the EMEA Customer Advisory Board and the host of the UiPath Coffee Chats, a customer-oriented webinar series which has been born in her team as well.  

Franziska has a strong financial background, combined with operational experience and therefore good knowledge in process management and process optimization. After more than 20 years in the insurance industry she moved into health care sector last autumn by joining Hirslanden Group as Head of Corporate Productivity Management. Her main job is the roll-out of RPA within Hirslanden Group Head Quarter. 

Sabine Obermayr is Marketing Director for Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) at UiPath, the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company. In this role, she oversees the company’s marketing strategy in the region in close collaboration with the other go-to-market teams to ensure customer and partner success.  

With a career spanning over two decades, which saw her hold several top marketing roles for tech companies, Sabine is passionate about supporting people and enterprises across all sectors reach their potential with the help of technology. In keeping with her customer-focused vision, at UiPath, she is also responsible for the EMEA Customer Advisory Board and the host of the UiPath Coffee Chats, a customer-oriented webinar series which has been born in her team as well.  

2016, Carsten Langhammer got into the subject of RPA at a large international insurer by chance at first, and over the years became one of Germany's leading experts in this field. Already during his studies of business informatics, he took over the position of Head Of Competence Center RPA at Gothaer Versicherung, where he is responsible for the coordination and scaling of all RPA activities in the Gothaer Group.  

Sabine Obermayr is Marketing Director for Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) at UiPath, the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company. In this role, she oversees the company’s marketing strategy in the region in close collaboration with the other go-to-market teams to ensure customer and partner success.  

With a career spanning over two decades, which saw her hold several top marketing roles for tech companies, Sabine is passionate about supporting people and enterprises across all sectors reach their potential with the help of technology. In keeping with her customer-focused vision, at UiPath, she is also responsible for the EMEA Customer Advisory Board and the host of the UiPath Coffee Chats, a customer-oriented webinar series which has been born in her team as well.  

Javier Castellanos has worked for Orange Spain for the last 20 years in its digital teams. In 2017 he was tasked by the CEO – an advocate of AI and software robots – to oversee automation activity across the business. He hand-picked a dedicated team of 12 people to drive the implementation of RPA. This has grown to 100. 

Steven Still leads Costain’s Automation Centre of Excellence. In doing so, he’s responsible for digitising and automating processes across the business and is a huge advocate of RPA and the benefits is can bring. He’s also a chartered accountant with over 20 years’ experience. 

In addition to her role as president of techUK, Jacqueline is president of digileaders and co-chair for the Institute of Coding. She also holds a number of non-executive positions including Rightmove plc, Costain Group plc and FDM Group plc. She’s a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in all its forms. In 2016 she entered the Computer Weekly Hall of Fame after being voted Computer Weekly's Most Influential Woman in IT 2015. 

Daniel has worked for Allianz Suisse since 2015. The firm began adopting automation in 2017 when his CFO asked the question, “How can we use robots in finance?” Since then he’s implemented as many as 50 robots in the business and was responsible for the RPA integration and RPA education programme in Allianz Suisse. He is a RPA keynote speaker and author of an RPA book which was published by Springer in 2020. 

Christophe has started his career in 1992 at Hewlett Packard in the PC division. He has worked in Research & Development as Design Engineer, then Project Manager. and moved towards procurement functions, managing the transition to outsourcing. He held different leadership position in Sourcing, Supply Chain and in Commodity Management in both France and California, USA, and spend a big amount of his time in Asia Pacific at suppliers’ sites.  

After almost 20 years at Hewlett Packard, he joined Schneider Electric in 2011 as Business Unit Procurement VP based in Grenoble. Leading all Procurement activities for the New Product Introduction and focus on developing innovation with suppliers.  

In Jan 2017, he took the lead of GSC Europe Procurement, responsible for defining and deploying the Europe Procurement strategy focuss on: ensuring supply & services level to the 60+ plants, driving quality improvements, delivering productivity and reducing cash.  

Since Nov 2019, Christophe took the lead of the Procurement Digital Strategy. The objective is to build a digitalization framework for Schneider Electric Procurement that enables drastic efficiency gains, that equip the procurement teams with augmented capabilities & that accelerates innovation to drive a direct impact on customers and financials. 

Christophe Quiquempoix studied electronics at Ecole Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium) and graduated as Electrical Engineer, Telecommunication Master.  

He is passionate about Procurement, Transformation, Team work, and Digital. Christophe strives to optimize everything he touches, and what he cares most is contributing in making our world a better place to live.  His motto is: never give up! 

Florence Vallot is Marketing Director France and Southern Europe for UiPath. In this role, she develops the regional marketing strategy and go-to-market delivery.

Drawn into new technologies and digital transformation after obtaining a master degree in Management and Economic Sciences (with majors in Marketing, Information System and Digital technology) from French leading business University Paris Dauphine, Florence spent over 20 years in the IT industry working in multinationals and startups , initially as a senior consultant covering strategic organizational and change management projects then as senior manager leading marketing teams.

Florence is also found of History of Arts that she learnt attending classes at l’Ecole du Louvre and Ateliers Beaux Arts in Paris.

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.

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.  

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. 

Luca Proietto has been Head of RPA Platforms since July 2018. ​

Mr Proietto joined the Enel Group in 2007, holding several strategic positions for ICT – Demand & Delivery Infrastructures and Networks (from Oct 2007 to Dec 2012), Global ICT – ADM Infrastructures and Networks – Wholesale System (from Jan 2013 to Sept 2015) and ICT Solution Center Infrastructure & Networks Commercial Solutions (from Oct 2015 to Jun 2018). ​

In July 2018, Mr Proietto started to lead RPA streams for the global function Administration, Finance and Control (AFC) that has been entitled “Master Chapter” of Enel Group in February 2020. Since then, Mr Proietto has been overseeing the Global RPA journey of the entire Group under the perspective of a global convergence of all business units into a Centralized RPA Platform.

Aldo Caiani is a 30 years experienced manager in different kind of markets verticals. Experiences across the world and performed jobs in different countries embracing different cultures and business approach. Used to engage colleagues in a “Team Mindset” and perform defining strategy, execution elements and priorities. From the words shared by past and current colleagues: “a great leader to work with, always supportive, driving and open minded”. 

Xavier de Bloteau is the Havas Media Group CIO since 2015. Havas Media is the Media Division of Havas Group, one of the world’s largest global communications groups. Havas Group, part of Vivendi, employs today 20,000 people in over 100 countries.  

Xavier brings extensive knowledge of the Media and Data Technology landscape together with a deep experience in global ERP implementation. Prior joining Havas, Xavier worked in Accenture for 10 years. 

Caroline Franceschetti Sales Director at UiPath since 2019. Caroline has 20 years of experience in selling digital technology to large and complex organizations. 

Bård Strøm, 43 years old - CDO at Cutters. Married, three boys aged 4, 6 and 9. 

Holds a Master of Science in Computer Science degree from Cal Poly - USA, Master of Technology Management degree from NTNU and NHH in Norway, and Innovation & Global Leadership program from MIT Sloan School of Management. 

Career: Director at PwC, Head of Development at Keyteq AS, Strategic IT advisor with PA Consulting, and senior consultant & architect with Reaktor AS. 

Started out as a software developer with interest in agile methodologies. Transition to management consulting and Strategic IT advisory, before taking on management positions with tech. Building the tech capacity in Cutters, one of Norway's fastest growing companies, that heavily relies on technology for running and scaling the company. 

Kim has close to 25 years of experience working for US based Tech companies such as HP, Veritas Software, Symantec, CA Technologies and currently UiPath. During his career Kim has had numerous different roles within sales and marketing.   

He has also been used frequently as a speaker and host for different seminars and has also published several articles covering everything from purely technical focused articles to articles about the implication of the EU GDPR in the technology landscape.   

Kim is now focused on how RPA can help drive business outcome and create competitive advantage for customers in the Norwegian market. 

Laurent Poyrault is working for Electricité de France (French multinational electric utility company). He started in 1991, always in the business organization, beginning with operational unit, then moving to IT in 2001 where he has held various jobs. In January 2019, he took the responsibility of the RPA project. 

Laurent Decour, Sales executive, 
20+ years of experience in selling disruptive software solutions to large European customer. In charge of EDF for UiPath since January 2019. 

Sezgin Lüle received his bachelor degree in Industrial Enginneering at Boğaziçi  University then started his career as Organization and Method Assistant Specialist  at Isbank’s Organizations Department in 1998. He was appointed as Assistant Inspector at the Board of Inspection in 1999. He completed a post-graduate  program in International Banking and Finance at the University of Birmingham in 2004. Lüle worked at the Project and Change Management as Deputy Manager and Unit Manager between 2008 and 2011. Lüle was appointed as Head of Enterprise Architecture Department in 2017. He is mainly responsible for Organisational Design, Process Digitalisation and Automation and Project Portfolio Management. He also serves as board member at Softtech, JSC Isbank Russia and Georgia. 

Tuğrul Cora graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1991 and from Virginia Tech with an MBA degree in 1993. In 2009, he completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard Business School. Tuğrul Cora started his career at Aselsan in 1991. Between 1995 and 2004, he worked at Digital Equipment, Compaq Computer and Hewlett-Packard as Enterprise Account Manager, Sales Manager and Sales Director. Tuğrul Cora served as the Founding General Manager of Millenicom Telecom between 2004 and 2010 and took Millenicom to the second place in Deloitte's Europe's Fastest Growing Technology Companies in 2009. Between 2010 and 2017, Tuğrul Cora served as Corporate Sales Director and later as the SVP for Corporate Business Unit at Turkcell and led Turkcell’s transformation to be a Total Telecommunications, Cloud and System Integration Service Provider. Tugrul Cora joined UiPath, World’s leading Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence company, as Director of Partnerships for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, and has been serving as General Manager for Turkey since July 2019.

After his studies in business informatics, Benjamin worked for more than 5 years as a management consultant at KPMG, primarily in the area of IT and process optimisation in finance. Benjamin then moved to Siemens AG in the strategic area of Global Share Programs, where he led several teams. Since the end of 2017, Benjamin has been responsible for Robotic Process Automation within Siemens Mobility GmbH and supports the 38,000 employees worldwide with over 300 locally and virtually robotized processes. 

Sabine Obermayr is Marketing Director for Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) at UiPath, the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company. In this role, she oversees the company’s marketing strategy in the region in close collaboration with the other go-to-market teams to ensure customer and partner success.  

With a career spanning over two decades, which saw her hold several top marketing roles for tech companies, Sabine is passionate about supporting people and enterprises across all sectors reach their potential with the help of technology. In keeping with her customer-focused vision, at UiPath, she is also responsible for the EMEA Customer Advisory Board and the host of the UiPath Coffee Chats, a customer-oriented webinar series which has been born in her team as well.  

Franziska has a strong financial background, combined with operational experience and therefore good knowledge in process management and process optimization. After more than 20 years in the insurance industry she moved into health care sector last autumn by joining Hirslanden Group as Head of Corporate Productivity Management. Her main job is the roll-out of RPA within Hirslanden Group Head Quarter. 

Sabine Obermayr is Marketing Director for Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) at UiPath, the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company. In this role, she oversees the company’s marketing strategy in the region in close collaboration with the other go-to-market teams to ensure customer and partner success.  

With a career spanning over two decades, which saw her hold several top marketing roles for tech companies, Sabine is passionate about supporting people and enterprises across all sectors reach their potential with the help of technology. In keeping with her customer-focused vision, at UiPath, she is also responsible for the EMEA Customer Advisory Board and the host of the UiPath Coffee Chats, a customer-oriented webinar series which has been born in her team as well.  

2016, Carsten Langhammer got into the subject of RPA at a large international insurer by chance at first, and over the years became one of Germany's leading experts in this field. Already during his studies of business informatics, he took over the position of Head Of Competence Center RPA at Gothaer Versicherung, where he is responsible for the coordination and scaling of all RPA activities in the Gothaer Group.  

Sabine Obermayr is Marketing Director for Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) at UiPath, the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company. In this role, she oversees the company’s marketing strategy in the region in close collaboration with the other go-to-market teams to ensure customer and partner success.  

With a career spanning over two decades, which saw her hold several top marketing roles for tech companies, Sabine is passionate about supporting people and enterprises across all sectors reach their potential with the help of technology. In keeping with her customer-focused vision, at UiPath, she is also responsible for the EMEA Customer Advisory Board and the host of the UiPath Coffee Chats, a customer-oriented webinar series which has been born in her team as well.  

Javier Castellanos has worked for Orange Spain for the last 20 years in its digital teams. In 2017 he was tasked by the CEO – an advocate of AI and software robots – to oversee automation activity across the business. He hand-picked a dedicated team of 12 people to drive the implementation of RPA. This has grown to 100. 

Steven Still leads Costain’s Automation Centre of Excellence. In doing so, he’s responsible for digitising and automating processes across the business and is a huge advocate of RPA and the benefits is can bring. He’s also a chartered accountant with over 20 years’ experience. 

In addition to her role as president of techUK, Jacqueline is president of digileaders and co-chair for the Institute of Coding. She also holds a number of non-executive positions including Rightmove plc, Costain Group plc and FDM Group plc. She’s a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in all its forms. In 2016 she entered the Computer Weekly Hall of Fame after being voted Computer Weekly's Most Influential Woman in IT 2015. 

Daniel has worked for Allianz Suisse since 2015. The firm began adopting automation in 2017 when his CFO asked the question, “How can we use robots in finance?” Since then he’s implemented as many as 50 robots in the business and was responsible for the RPA integration and RPA education programme in Allianz Suisse. He is a RPA keynote speaker and author of an RPA book which was published by Springer in 2020. 

Christophe has started his career in 1992 at Hewlett Packard in the PC division. He has worked in Research & Development as Design Engineer, then Project Manager. and moved towards procurement functions, managing the transition to outsourcing. He held different leadership position in Sourcing, Supply Chain and in Commodity Management in both France and California, USA, and spend a big amount of his time in Asia Pacific at suppliers’ sites.  

After almost 20 years at Hewlett Packard, he joined Schneider Electric in 2011 as Business Unit Procurement VP based in Grenoble. Leading all Procurement activities for the New Product Introduction and focus on developing innovation with suppliers.  

In Jan 2017, he took the lead of GSC Europe Procurement, responsible for defining and deploying the Europe Procurement strategy focuss on: ensuring supply & services level to the 60+ plants, driving quality improvements, delivering productivity and reducing cash.  

Since Nov 2019, Christophe took the lead of the Procurement Digital Strategy. The objective is to build a digitalization framework for Schneider Electric Procurement that enables drastic efficiency gains, that equip the procurement teams with augmented capabilities & that accelerates innovation to drive a direct impact on customers and financials. 

Christophe Quiquempoix studied electronics at Ecole Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium) and graduated as Electrical Engineer, Telecommunication Master.  

He is passionate about Procurement, Transformation, Team work, and Digital. Christophe strives to optimize everything he touches, and what he cares most is contributing in making our world a better place to live.  His motto is: never give up! 

Florence Vallot is Marketing Director France and Southern Europe for UiPath. In this role, she develops the regional marketing strategy and go-to-market delivery.

Drawn into new technologies and digital transformation after obtaining a master degree in Management and Economic Sciences (with majors in Marketing, Information System and Digital technology) from French leading business University Paris Dauphine, Florence spent over 20 years in the IT industry working in multinationals and startups , initially as a senior consultant covering strategic organizational and change management projects then as senior manager leading marketing teams.

Florence is also found of History of Arts that she learnt attending classes at l’Ecole du Louvre and Ateliers Beaux Arts in Paris.

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.

Stephen Sutcliffe  has over 25 years’ experience working in NHS finance and is currently Director of Finance & Accounting at NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), where he leads the largest finance department in the NHS. In his current role he is helping to shape a new era of shared NHS finance services that are underpinned by innovative digital technologies. He was previously Director of Finance at both Oldham Primary Care Trust and Warrington Clinical Commissioning Group before joining NHS SBS in 2015. In 2020, he was named Finance Leader of the Year by the Shared Services and Outsourcing Network (SSON), an international organisation that promotes global excellence in shared services 

Odile Schmutz joined the Randstad group in 2015 as Administrative and Financial Director.
A graduate of a DUT from GEA and ESC Compiègne in Finances, Odile started at Oakley Europe in 1989 as a European Controller. She evolves internally in different professions and becomes CFO Europe at the age of 29, then General Manager Europe. In 2007, she was entrusted with the Administrative and Financial Department of Manutan (BtoB distribution) for Southern Europe. She then created and animated the European University of the Manutan group, through which she deployed Lean Management and collective intelligence within the Group.

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.

Sanjay joined Takeda in 2019 as Senior Vice President & Head of Takeda Business Solutions (TBS). In his current role Sanjay provides strategic leadership to reimagine, rethink and recreate an enhanced and simplified end user experience for everyday processes in Finance, HR & Procurement.   

A global leader, Sanjay has worked in various countries in Asia-Pacific, US and Europe for global multi-national companies such as Pricewaterhouse Coppers, Merck, Rio Tinto and prior to joining Takeda, was Group Head of Global Business Services for British American Tobacco.  

Sanjay holds a Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting & Finance degree from James Cook University of North Queensland, Australia and is a Fellow of the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants and the Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand. 

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.

Patrick von Hardenberg is an expert in Robotic Process Automation. For 8 years he has been supporting the Otto Group's digitization process as project and product manager. With RPA he is trying to establish automation as a cornerstone of digitization as broadly as possible in the Otto Group. In this way he helps to relieve employees of monotonous activities and to create more time for value-added activities

 Paula McKillen is Head of Automation for Electrocomponents, a global omni-channel solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers involved in designing, building or maintaining industrial equipment and facilities 

She has held leadership roles in several industries over the years, gaining a credible reputation for implementing transformational change at pace and empowering people to bring their true selves to work.  

Her passion for people development, use of creative thinking and technologies to drive business improvement, results in high performing teams achieving outstanding results.  

Berke Menekli is the VP of Information Technology, Emerging Markets at BSH Group – Bosch/Siemens Home Appliances, one of the world’s largest home appliances manufacturer. He has been with the company since 2015, responsible for Information Technology in BSH for several markets including Turkey, Middle East, Africa and CIS. He has been leading the RPA project across BSH Group since early 2018. Before BSH, he has worked for multinational companies such as GSK and BMS, still in their IT divisions. Berke holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering.  

In addition to her role as president of techUK, Jacqueline is president of digileaders and co-chair for the Institute of Coding. She also holds a number of non-executive positions including Rightmove plc, Costain Group plc and FDM Group plc. She’s a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in all its forms. In 2016 she entered the Computer Weekly Hall of Fame after being voted Computer Weekly's Most Influential Woman in IT 2015. 

Steven Still leads Costain’s Automation Centre of Excellence. In doing so, he’s responsible for digitising and automating processes across the business and is a huge advocate of RPA and the benefits is can bring. He’s also a chartered accountant with over 20 years’ experience. 

Saskia started her career in the IT sector more than 25 years ago. She became CEO of Bull & CSB Consulting in 2008, and was CEO of Ericsson Benelux between 2014 and 2018. She is currently Corporate Vice President Benelux for Inetum, the digital and IT services company. She’s held many leadership roles in civil society and is the Digital Champion for Belgium. Her book, Dare for Tomorrow, calls for a fundamental change in the way businesses are run so they can meet the challenges of the future. 

Luca Proietto has been Head of RPA Platforms since July 2018. ​

Mr Proietto joined the Enel Group in 2007, holding several strategic positions for ICT – Demand & Delivery Infrastructures and Networks (from Oct 2007 to Dec 2012), Global ICT – ADM Infrastructures and Networks – Wholesale System (from Jan 2013 to Sept 2015) and ICT Solution Center Infrastructure & Networks Commercial Solutions (from Oct 2015 to Jun 2018). ​

In July 2018, Mr Proietto started to lead RPA streams for the global function Administration, Finance and Control (AFC) that has been entitled “Master Chapter” of Enel Group in February 2020. Since then, Mr Proietto has been overseeing the Global RPA journey of the entire Group under the perspective of a global convergence of all business units into a Centralized RPA Platform.

Aldo Caiani is a 30 years experienced manager in different kind of markets verticals. Experiences across the world and performed jobs in different countries embracing different cultures and business approach. Used to engage colleagues in a “Team Mindset” and perform defining strategy, execution elements and priorities. From the words shared by past and current colleagues: “a great leader to work with, always supportive, driving and open minded”. 

Xavier de Bloteau is the Havas Media Group CIO since 2015. Havas Media is the Media Division of Havas Group, one of the world’s largest global communications groups. Havas Group, part of Vivendi, employs today 20,000 people in over 100 countries.  

Xavier brings extensive knowledge of the Media and Data Technology landscape together with a deep experience in global ERP implementation. Prior joining Havas, Xavier worked in Accenture for 10 years. 

Caroline Franceschetti Sales Director at UiPath since 2019. Caroline has 20 years of experience in selling digital technology to large and complex organizations. 

Bård Strøm, 43 years old - CDO at Cutters. Married, three boys aged 4, 6 and 9. 

Holds a Master of Science in Computer Science degree from Cal Poly - USA, Master of Technology Management degree from NTNU and NHH in Norway, and Innovation & Global Leadership program from MIT Sloan School of Management. 

Career: Director at PwC, Head of Development at Keyteq AS, Strategic IT advisor with PA Consulting, and senior consultant & architect with Reaktor AS. 

Started out as a software developer with interest in agile methodologies. Transition to management consulting and Strategic IT advisory, before taking on management positions with tech. Building the tech capacity in Cutters, one of Norway's fastest growing companies, that heavily relies on technology for running and scaling the company. 

Kim has close to 25 years of experience working for US based Tech companies such as HP, Veritas Software, Symantec, CA Technologies and currently UiPath. During his career Kim has had numerous different roles within sales and marketing.   

He has also been used frequently as a speaker and host for different seminars and has also published several articles covering everything from purely technical focused articles to articles about the implication of the EU GDPR in the technology landscape.   

Kim is now focused on how RPA can help drive business outcome and create competitive advantage for customers in the Norwegian market. 

Laurent Poyrault is working for Electricité de France (French multinational electric utility company). He started in 1991, always in the business organization, beginning with operational unit, then moving to IT in 2001 where he has held various jobs. In January 2019, he took the responsibility of the RPA project. 

Laurent Decour, Sales executive, 
20+ years of experience in selling disruptive software solutions to large European customer. In charge of EDF for UiPath since January 2019. 

Sezgin Lüle received his bachelor degree in Industrial Enginneering at Boğaziçi  University then started his career as Organization and Method Assistant Specialist at Isbank’s Organizations Department in 1998. He was appointed as Assistant Inspector at the Board of Inspection in 1999. He completed a post-graduate program in International Banking and Finance at the University of Birmingham in 2004. Lüle worked at the Project and Change Management as Deputy Manager and Unit Manager between 2008 and 2011. Lüle was appointed  as Head of Enterprise Architecture Department in 2017. He is mainly responsible for Organisational Design, Process Digitalisation and Automation and Project Portfolio Management. He also serves as board member at Softtech, JSC Isbank Russia and Georgia. 

 
Tuğrul Cora graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1991 and from Virginia Tech with an MBA degree in 1993. In 2009, he completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard Business School. Tuğrul Cora started his career at Aselsan in 1991. Between 1995 and 2004, he worked at Digital Equipment, Compaq Computer and Hewlett-Packard as Enterprise Account Manager, Sales Manager and Sales Director. Tuğrul Cora served as the Founding General Manager of Millenicom Telecom between 2004 and 2010 and took Millenicom to the second place in Deloitte's Europe's Fastest Growing Technology Companies in 2009. Between 2010 and 2017, Tuğrul Cora served as Corporate Sales Director and later as the SVP for Corporate Business Unit at Turkcell and led Turkcell’s transformation to be a Total Telecommunications, Cloud and System Integration Service Provider. Tugrul Cora joined UiPath, World’s leading Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence company, as Director of Partnerships for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, and has been serving as General Manager for Turkey since July 2019. 

After his studies in business informatics, Benjamin worked for more than 5 years as a management consultant at KPMG, primarily in the area of IT and process optimisation in finance. Benjamin then moved to Siemens AG in the strategic area of Global Share Programs, where he led several teams. Since the end of 2017, Benjamin has been responsible for Robotic Process Automation within Siemens Mobility GmbH and supports the 38,000 employees worldwide with over 300 locally and virtually robotized processes. 

Sabine Obermayr is Marketing Director for Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) at UiPath, the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company. In this role, she oversees the company’s marketing strategy in the region in close collaboration with the other go-to-market teams to ensure customer and partner success.  

With a career spanning over two decades, which saw her hold several top marketing roles for tech companies, Sabine is passionate about supporting people and enterprises across all sectors reach their potential with the help of technology. In keeping with her customer-focused vision, at UiPath, she is also responsible for the EMEA Customer Advisory Board and the host of the UiPath Coffee Chats, a customer-oriented webinar series which has been born in her team as well.  

Franziska has a strong financial background, combined with operational experience and therefore good knowledge in process management and process optimization. After more than 20 years in the insurance industry she moved into health care sector last autumn by joining Hirslanden Group as Head of Corporate Productivity Management. Her main job is the roll-out of RPA within Hirslanden Group Head Quarter. 

Sabine Obermayr is Marketing Director for Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) at UiPath, the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company. In this role, she oversees the company’s marketing strategy in the region in close collaboration with the other go-to-market teams to ensure customer and partner success.  

With a career spanning over two decades, which saw her hold several top marketing roles for tech companies, Sabine is passionate about supporting people and enterprises across all sectors reach their potential with the help of technology. In keeping with her customer-focused vision, at UiPath, she is also responsible for the EMEA Customer Advisory Board and the host of the UiPath Coffee Chats, a customer-oriented webinar series which has been born in her team as well.  

2016, Carsten Langhammer got into the subject of RPA at a large international insurer by chance at first, and over the years became one of Germany's leading experts in this field. Already during his studies of business informatics, he took over the position of Head Of Competence Center RPA at Gothaer Versicherung, where he is responsible for the coordination and scaling of all RPA activities in the Gothaer Group.  

Sabine Obermayr is Marketing Director for Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) at UiPath, the leading enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company. In this role, she oversees the company’s marketing strategy in the region in close collaboration with the other go-to-market teams to ensure customer and partner success.  

With a career spanning over two decades, which saw her hold several top marketing roles for tech companies, Sabine is passionate about supporting people and enterprises across all sectors reach their potential with the help of technology. In keeping with her customer-focused vision, at UiPath, she is also responsible for the EMEA Customer Advisory Board and the host of the UiPath Coffee Chats, a customer-oriented webinar series which has been born in her team as well.  

Javier Castellanos has worked for Orange Spain for the last 20 years in its digital teams. In 2017 he was tasked by the CEO – an advocate of AI and software robots – to oversee automation activity across the business. He hand-picked a dedicated team of 12 people to drive the implementation of RPA. This has grown to 100. 

Steven Still leads Costain’s Automation Centre of Excellence. In doing so, he’s responsible for digitising and automating processes across the business and is a huge advocate of RPA and the benefits is can bring. He’s also a chartered accountant with over 20 years’ experience. 

In addition to her role as president of techUK, Jacqueline is president of digileaders and co-chair for the Institute of Coding. She also holds a number of non-executive positions including Rightmove plc, Costain Group plc and FDM Group plc. She’s a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in all its forms. In 2016 she entered the Computer Weekly Hall of Fame after being voted Computer Weekly's Most Influential Woman in IT 2015. 

Daniel has worked for Allianz Suisse since 2015. The firm began adopting automation in 2017 when his CFO asked the question, “How can we use robots in finance?” Since then he’s implemented as many as 50 robots in the business and was responsible for the RPA integration and RPA education programme in Allianz Suisse. He is a RPA keynote speaker and author of an RPA book which was published by Springer in 2020. 

Christophe has started his career in 1992 at Hewlett Packard in the PC division. He has worked in Research & Development as Design Engineer, then Project Manager. and moved towards procurement functions, managing the transition to outsourcing. He held different leadership position in Sourcing, Supply Chain and in Commodity Management in both France and California, USA, and spend a big amount of his time in Asia Pacific at suppliers’ sites.  

After almost 20 years at Hewlett Packard, he joined Schneider Electric in 2011 as Business Unit Procurement VP based in Grenoble. Leading all Procurement activities for the New Product Introduction and focus on developing innovation with suppliers.  

In Jan 2017, he took the lead of GSC Europe Procurement, responsible for defining and deploying the Europe Procurement strategy focuss on: ensuring supply & services level to the 60+ plants, driving quality improvements, delivering productivity and reducing cash.  

Since Nov 2019, Christophe took the lead of the Procurement Digital Strategy. The objective is to build a digitalization framework for Schneider Electric Procurement that enables drastic efficiency gains, that equip the procurement teams with augmented capabilities & that accelerates innovation to drive a direct impact on customers and financials. 

Christophe Quiquempoix studied electronics at Ecole Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium) and graduated as Electrical Engineer, Telecommunication Master.  

He is passionate about Procurement, Transformation, Team work, and Digital. Christophe strives to optimize everything he touches, and what he cares most is contributing in making our world a better place to live.  His motto is: never give up! 

Florence Vallot is Marketing Director France and Southern Europe for UiPath. In this role, she develops the regional marketing strategy and go-to-market delivery.

Drawn into new technologies and digital transformation after obtaining a master degree in Management and Economic Sciences (with majors in Marketing, Information System and Digital technology) from French leading business University Paris Dauphine, Florence spent over 20 years in the IT industry working in multinationals and startups , initially as a senior consultant covering strategic organizational and change management projects then as senior manager leading marketing teams.

Florence is also found of History of Arts that she learnt attending classes at l’Ecole du Louvre and Ateliers Beaux Arts in Paris.