Amit Barave is the VP of Product Management for Webex Applications and a Communications and Collaboration industry veteran. Prior to Webex, he was instrumental in launching industry-first products in TelePresence and IP-Radio communications space and scaling them to market leadership. Amit holds an MBA from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and 13 US patents in the field of radio and video communications.

Carolina is the President and Principal Analyst at Creative Strategies, where she focuses on a broad range of consumer technologies and services, including those that profoundly impact user behavior in an enterprise context. Her passion for user engagement and user experience drove her to increasingly spend time analyzing the future of work and employee engagement, especially as it relates to collaboration and workflows. She also founded The Heart of Tech which aims to help technology providers with their corporate social responsibility efforts and their impact on society. Previously, she was Chief of Research at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, where she drove thought leadership research and delivered strategic insights to C-level executives in the areas of product planning, product marketing, go to market and customer retention and acquisition. Prior to this, she spent 14 years at Gartner. She is a regular contributor to Forbes, Fast Company and Italian daily La Stampa. She is often quoted in the press and also appears on various news outlets.

Colin McGuire is the VP, Corporate Systems for Chipotle Mexican Grill. He joined Chipotle in June 2014, focused on building and maturing the teams responsible for corporate and restaurant technology. Mr. McGuire has driven the implementation of scalable and reliable technology platforms that support both customer and employee experience.

Prior to Chipotle, Mr. McGuire was responsible for global IT infrastructure, data center, and engineering functions at companies across financial services, energy and engineering, and entertainment industries. Most recently, he led the teams responsible for building the streaming and broadcast infrastructure at Starz Entertainment.

Mr. McGuire has a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from the University of Phoenix.

Lorrissa est vice-présidente et directrice générale des activités d’appels et en ligne pour Webex. Elle dirige une équipe mondiale responsable de la stratégie et de la croissance du portefeuille d’appels. Face à l’accélération récente du travail hybride, Lorrissa se concentre sur l’innovation des solutions Webex Calling pour répondre à la demande croissante des clients de Cisco.

Avant d’occuper ce poste, elle pilotait l’évolution des produits de Webex Teams, transformant l’expérience de travail moderne avec une seule application qui permet de faire avancer le travail indépendamment du lieu, et permettant aux utilisateurs de travailler n’importe quand, depuis n’importe où, grâce à des fonctionnalités d’appel, de messagerie, de réunion et de collaboration dans le cloud de premier plan. Il s’agit d’un domaine qu’elle connaît très bien compte tenu de son expérience directe en tant que mère au travail à la tête d’équipes internationales et tirant parti des fonctionnalités à distance pour réussir. La technologie et l’innovation Webex sont au cœur de ce qu’elle est en tant que personne et leader du secteur.

Lorrissa apporte ses 16 ans d’expérience dans la gestion de produits, les logiciels de productivité Microsoft Office, le traitement du langage naturel, l’apprentissage automatique soutenu par la recherche et des expériences NUI (interfaces utilisateur naturelles), le développement de matériel audio et vidéo, l’analyse avec Microsoft PowerBI et les applications d’entreprise pour la gestion du capital humain. Elle a une passion pour l’innovation et a montré son aptitude à penser autrement avec le développement de 10 brevets au cours de sa carrière.

Rich is responsible for all Business Voice, Collaboration and Unified Communications products that are offered in AT&T’s Business Market segments. He supports solutions in all major industries, including financial services, manufacturing, education, healthcare, retail, hospitality and government. He is responsible for creating a consistent strategy and a long-term investment plan to grow and transform the $10 Billion, voice and collaboration portfolio to support strategic and new services. Rich earned a BSBA and an MBA from Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri and attended the Executive Development Program at Kellogg School of Business – Northwestern University.

Stanley Toh is the Head of Enterprise End-user Services and Experience tower of Broadcom’s Global Technology Organization. Stanley has excellent leadership track records managing diverse global teams in successfully executing multiple M&As transformation; global IT operations & digital transformations programs; implementing leading edge & cloud technologies; and enhancing end-users experience with AI, ML & automations workflows. Stanley has strong technical, support and business processes qualifications with over 20 years hands on experience in end-user service delivery; strategic & financial planning; project management; contract negotiations; implementing Cloud First strategy and new technologies that changes the end-users experience landscape. Stanley has a proven record of successfully analyzing an organization's requirements or identify deficiencies and proposing potential opportunities for enhancing efficiencies and improving customer service offerings.

Amey leads Product Management for Webex Calling, an enterprise grade, globally available and innovative calling, and phone system. He is passionate about innovation and evolving the calling experience from hearing, to seeing, to doing. Empowering people to have a richer calling experience with Webex and leveraging cloud capabilities for the new era of hybrid work.

Prior to this role, Amey led Product and Program management for Microsoft's Azure cloud IaaS/PaaS services across different verticals segments including sovereign clouds and government verticals. He built Skype consumer and Skype for Business infrastructure, services and built Microsoft Teams calling and meetings from ground up and grew Teams adoption to hundreds of millions of users. He has extensive experience working at large companies as well as startups, building innovative products and bringing them to market.

Amey brings more than 20 years of experience in areas such as product management, design, cloud engineering in productivity software at Microsoft Office, natural language processing, machine learning with search and NUI experiences, hardware integration for audio and video and analytics. He has developed 20 patents over his career.

Amey has a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and a Masters from North Carolina State University.

Gautam Gupta is Director of Product Management at Cisco and is heading the product experiences and strategy for Webex meetings and webinars. He is passionate about making this world a truly inclusive place where people can collaborate freely, without any barriers of geographical locations, language, physical abilities, or personality traits. Previously, Gautam was product leader for Cloud Connected architecture and worked closely with global Service providers to deliver the best meeting experiences. Prior to joining Cisco, Gautam was busy building products that enabled SMB companies to easily communicate over IP telephony at Covad Communications. Gautam has done his bachelors from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.

Bryan Morris is a product manager at Cisco working in the Webex app product team. Prior to working on Webex he worked in product management and technical marketing on Cisco Jabber. Bryan is also a regular speaker at Cisco events including Cisco Live in the US, Europe and Australia.

Mags Moran is a Product Lead for Webex. In this role she is responsible for building and bringing to market Webex messaging and asynchronous experiences for desktop and mobile applications. Mags has worked in the collaboration space for many years and previous product responsibilities include Cisco Jabber.

Manali Dongre dirige l’équipe App Experiences and App Fundamentals pour l’application Webex dans le groupe Collaboration de Cisco. Elle a rejoint Cisco il y a un an et demi, car elle souhaitait par-dessus tout travailler sur les expériences des utilisateurs finaux. Son objectif est de créer une expérience attractive et inclusive qui améliorera la collaboration et la productivité des utilisateurs de l’application Webex.

Sebastian Leuser is a Solution Architect. In this role he is responsible for designing Webex and videoconferencing solutions for enterprise customers. Sebastian has worked in the collaboration space for many years with international projects.

Juraj Holub is the Chief Meeting Designer at Slido which has made over 2 million meetings more interactive. He’s worked with conferences like Web Summit or SXSW and Fortune 500 companies to transform their meetings and events. He also crossed Iceland by bicycle.

Nadia Vratna is in charge of customer education at Slido. She has worked with Fortune 500 clients and helped them pivot their meetings to virtual. She has unique insights into how some of the most inspiring companies and conferences run their meetings and build their internal cultures.

Director of Product Management with 20 years experience in software, hardware, cloud and AI technologies. Currently leading a team responsible for Strategic Growth and Adoption of Collaboration Endpoints in Cisco’s Collaboration Technology Group. Joined Cisco in 2004 through the acquisition of Parc Technologies - a start-up co-founded with a research team from Imperial College, London. Parc Technologies was built on technology developed during the completion of his PhD at Imperial College in Artificial Intelligence.

Craig Durr is a Senior Analyst at Wainhouse Research and focuses on room-based video conferencing technologies and solutions. He provides research and analysis related to market sizing and forecasts, product and service evaluations, market trends, and end-user and buyer expectations. In addition to following the technology, Craig also studies the human elements of work - organizing his findings into the workforce, the workplace, and the workflows - and charting how these variables influence technologies and business strategies. Craig brings twenty years of experience in leadership roles related to P&L management, product development, strategic planning, and business development of security, SaaS, and unified communication offerings. Craig's experience includes positions at Poly, Dell, Microsoft, and IBM. You can contact him at cdurr@wainhouse.com, on Twitter @craigdurr, or LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigdurr/

Christian leads the Real Estate and Facilities organization, known as Workplace Resources, at Cisco.

Prior to Cisco, Christian spent 25 years in Pharma, running a Worldwide Real Estate and Facilities organization from 2011 through 2017. In his three decades in the real estate industry, Christian has worked as an interior designer, a facility manager, and a real estate director. Over the past 15 years, he has helped transform the way people interact within the work environment and how they think of “the office” and “the lab.”

Christian holds a Bachelor of Science in Design from Cornell University.

As Strategy Execution Manager for the entire Webex Devices group, Prema uses her experience as Software Engineering Manager to keep the Webex Devices team an efficient, informed, focused, and well-oiled machine. She mostly works from her home, outside of Oslo, Norway, but looks forward to her in-office days and is often seen together with her bolonka dog.

Rich is the Product Management Lead for Software on Webex Room & Desk Devices, he has a wealth of expertise across spanning over a decade in this industry, his team is responsible for all experiences the Room and Desks devices expose and how they can further complement the physical workplace and user journeys. His passion is helping people connect & collaborate to achieve their greatest potential and using technology as a vehicle to progress that aim.

Peter Jetzel is Chief Rebel (aka CEO) with the primary focus on facilitating and orchestrating maximum collaboration between all the members, partners and employees at Rebel. An ex-Googler gone Webex ambassador with a passion to leave no one behind in terms of education and technology. Has an ambition to working close with partners like Cisco to create virtual and hybrid meetings and conferences that give equally great or better experiences than a traditional f2f event.

Bjorn Tumyr is a founding partner, and currently heading the communication and community development at Rebel Oslo. He has during Covid19, worked on the utilisation of combining new tech to create high quality streaming productions, using Cisco hardware together with broadcast quality production equipment at Macsimum Live and Rebel Studios.

Ashley Prettyman is a Product Engineering Manager in the Collaboration Technology Group working on next generation devices and wearables. She is passionate about the end-to-end lifecycle of taking innovative products from ideation to prototype to launch in market. Over the last 3 years, she has held various roles within the collaboration team focusing on new product development, product launch, product marketing and customer engagements.

Prior to Cisco, Ashley worked at a multinational oil and gas company in portfolio management, new product introduction, and supply chain operations. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Distribution from Texas A&M University. In her free time, she enjoys exploring new places, cultures and cuisines with her family.

Malene is one of Cisco's Webex Desk portfolio product manager, responsible for Desk Pro and Desk Mini. She is passionate about bringing innovative video collaboration devices to every desk and huddle room to make sure that you can work from wherever you want, whenever you want. Giving you access to those technological advancements needed in order to make collaboration intuitive and seamless.

Morten is the Product Manager for Webex Desk. Although being quite new to Cisco he is an experienced product manager with a background from the space industry, working with NASA on the Artemis program. He´s passionate about creating products that make a difference, with a persistent focus on creating value for end users, and for their organizations. He believes that Webex Desk products are one of the key enablers for businesses to succeed with a hybrid work model.

Bruce Cluskey is Chief Technology Officer at AXIS Capital, where he is responsible for application maintenance and support, infrastructure operations, infrastructure architecture and end user services. Bruce began his career at AXIS in 2014 as SVP of Application Development and Maintenance. Prior to AXIS, he fulfilled numerous IT roles at CNA Insurance where he spent nearly 13 years. He has worked in IT for 34 years, with nearly 20 of those in the Insurance industry. Bruce was also an officer in the Army National Guard for 10 years where he served as a Combat Engineer. Bruce has been married for 33 years to his wife Mary and they have four children.

Jon Fanebust is the Director of Product Management for Webex new whiteboarding solution. He is an experienced leader in developing visual communication tools that are easy to use and allows people to have great experiences together across distance.

Agustin est responsable produit pour Cisco Webex Board. Basé en Norvège, il contribue à concilier les demandes du marché mondial avec le développement de produits par le biais de la conception, de l’expérience client et du marketing. Avant d’entrer chez Cisco, il a créé et géré un centre multidisciplinaire de R&D et d’innovation produit à Shanghai pour Stokke Norvège, où il s’est concentré sur la gestion du développement de projets et de produits dans des équipes transversales. Il est titulaire d’une maîtrise en développement de produits délivré par Chalmers et d’un diplôme en ingénierie mécatronique de l’ITESM.

Ethan Ashford is the Oklahoma Meeting Technologies Lead for Phillips 66's Unified Communications department. In his role, Ethan oversees conference room design, internal and external broadcasting, and user training. Ethan began his career as an audio/video integrator for Whitlock AV (now merged with AVI-SPL). After nearly 10 years in the field, Ethan made the jump to the corporate world and now trains others to use the equipment he once installed.

Espen leads Product Management for Webex Video Devices. He has been at Cisco since the acquisition of TANDBERG in 2010 and has managed Cisco´s Video Conferencing and Telepresence business through several market transitions. When Espen isn’t passionately discussing the future of work, he enjoys spending time in the outdoors with family and friends. He holds a M. Sc. from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and lives and works in Oslo.

John Reeder, Senior Director Product Management at Cisco Systems, Devices Technology Group, is responsible for driving Audio and Video Phones, Wireless and Room phones and our Headsets and peripheral portfolio. With nearly 25 year’s experience in data networking and unified communications, his knowledge extends across Calling platforms, IP endpoints and various mobility solutions, strategies, and products. Prior to his current position John was responsible for Mobile clients, partnerships and Innovation projects that currently reside in many products across Cisco. John's extensive global experience in designing, implementing, and optimizing unified communications and data networking has helped him better understand the Cloud and business transitions customers face today.

Ira M. Weinstein is the founder and managing partner at Recon Research, an independent research, advisory, and consulting firm focused on enterprise communications.

Ira is an expert on communication solutions, audio-visual systems, and unified communications (UC) products and services. During his 25+ years in the industry, Ira has authored hundreds of articles and reports on the companies, products, services, trends, and happenings in these markets. Ira is also a frequent speaker at industry events and conferences, sales kickoffs, and other forums.

In addition, Ira spends about one-third of his time supporting global enterprise clients.

Ira is based in Recon Research's South Florida, USA office and can be reached at iweinstein@reconres.com."

Leonard Chung is a Senior Director at Cisco Webex. A seasoned technology leader in Collaboration, Cloud, and Enterprise, Leonard has great passion for creating and delivering market changing products. He has a unique background in building early-stage products across both startups and within established companies. Along with founding Syncplicity (acq. by EMC), his other notable products include Windows PowerShell and SETI@home.

Arianna is an experience-obsessed event producer, passionate about building experiential gatherings onscreen and off. Currently, as a part of a small but mighty team @ Women In Product (www.womenpm.org) she has the honor of serving a community (30K+ members!) where women in product are inspired, connected, and celebrated.

Aaron est ingénieur en marketing technique chez Cisco Collaboration et possède plus de 15 ans d'expérience dans le portefeuille Collaboration, avec une spécialité dans ses appareils vidéo et sa suite de produits Webex. Convaincu que les attitudes positives conduisent à des résultats positifs, il se fait une fierté de fournir les meilleurs outils de collaboration virtuelle et réelle possibles. Aaron est un conférencier accompli qui a l’art de communiquer auprès de multiples groupes professionnels, notamment des dirigeants, des professionnels de la vente et des ingénieurs de développement. En plus de son rôle chez Cisco, il aime aussi se livrer l'exploration urbaine et au tourisme gastronomique, lire des romans de science-fiction, et exprimer sa créativité à travers ses réalisations culinaires. Il est titulaire d'une licence en génie informatique de l'Université de Floride avec des mineures en commerce, ingénierie des ventes et mathématiques.

Yarkin Sakucoglu, CEO of the event management leader Socio, is on a mission to help organizations power virtual, hybrid, and in-person event success. The Forbes 30 Under 30 CEO started what is now Socio in 2016. Under Yarkin’s leadership, the company has evolved into one of the most forward-thinking end-to-end event management solutions. In July 2021, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) acquired Socio to power the future of hybrid events. Cisco and Socio together will further their shared vision of transforming the event industry by creating the world’s first completely end-to-end hybrid event and meeting technology suite.

Ian McGuigan’s career started in financial technology, and he joined Socio as its first Product Manager in January of 2020. When the pandemic began soon after, he helped lead the then event mobile app company through a successful pivot to support virtual events, adding four products to Socio’s suite and launching over X features to date. When he’s not leading the Product team, he enjoys golfing and hiking, and completed the grueling 24-hour trail relay, Ragnar, in Kentucky with his wife Faith and Socio teammates in May of 2021.

Rhette Baughman is passionate about helping mission-based companies create sustainability through revenue growth and creative marketing. As Chief Marketing Officer, he currently oversees revenue growth and sustainability planning for the National Speakers Association (NSA) through his leadership in the marketing, communications and sales departments as well as his role on the leadership team. Rhette lives with his partner and rescue dogs in Los Angeles. When not working from his hip-warehouse-style co-working office, Rhette can be found volunteering with nonprofit organizations he's passionate about (animal rescues & homelessness), exploring hiking trails, paddle boarding in the marina, reading on the beach, and sipping wine with friends at California wineries.

Rai Johnson is Product Manager for Webex Meetings, focusing on driving exciting, intuitive in-meeting experiences on desktop app and web app.

Colin McGuire is the VP, Corporate Systems for Chipotle Mexican Grill. He joined Chipotle in June 2014, focused on building and maturing the teams responsible for corporate and restaurant technology. Mr. McGuire has driven the implementation of scalable and reliable technology platforms that support both customer and employee experience.

Prior to Chipotle, Mr. McGuire was responsible for global IT infrastructure, data center, and engineering functions at companies across financial services, energy and engineering, and entertainment industries. Most recently, he led the teams responsible for building the streaming and broadcast infrastructure at Starz Entertainment.

Mr. McGuire has a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from the University of Phoenix.

Depuis plus de 15 ans, Christina aide ses clients à adopter avec succès la technologie dans leur entreprise. Dans son poste actuel chez Webex, elle est responsable du marketing produit des solutions Socio et Webex pour les événements.

Kara Gladish began her career in voice of customer marketing at the interactive marketing software company ExactTarget. Later, she worked from home before it was cool, via her own digital marketing consulting and web design firm. Since joining Socio in 2019 as its first Customer Success Manager, she has worked with hundreds of customers on thousands of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events. As the Manager of Customer Experience, she gets to geek out about her passion for Socio's customers and products even more. Kara and her husband's COVID project was leveling up their ping pong game, and she loves cooking and traveling.

Andrew Pearson is a seasoned technology marketing leader, investor & entrepreneur, with 20 years experience with & passion for events! Andrew is Socio's Chief Marketing Officer, and has served as CMO or head-of-marketing for six other software companies over his career. Andrew has an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, with a focus on entrepreneurship & marketing. Andrew has been an event organizer, sponsor, host, exhibitor or speaker at over 1000 live and virtual events. Some of his favorites are SxSW (South by Southwest), Hubspot Inbound, and partner dancing events, where he practices his favorite hobby! When he's not going to events, you might find him taking care of the over 100 plants in his home.

Ian cut his teeth at UK publishing giant Haymarket and held a variety of senior roles at the likes of Informa, Reed, emap, and his consultancy IBH. In 2018, he and his good friend Dan Brain decided to shake up marketing and advertising events with a new concept - MAD//Fest. The festival uses technology, content, and a fun, pub-style experience to entertain audiences, connect buyers and suppliers, and bring the global marketing community together. Ian has led the commercial development of MAD//Fest from noisy upstart to the UK’s largest and most distinctive marketing event. When he's not selling out sponsorship inventory, you’ll probably find him strumming an electric guitar, cooking up a storm, or enjoying a pint.

Having spent most of his career working for large event organizers such as emap, dmg and Comexposium, Dan co-founded MAD//Fest (Marketing, Advertising + Disruption Festival) with Ian Houghton in 2018. Each show has been sold out since its first year, and MAD//Fest was the first industry event to take place in a hybrid format since the pandemic, with 4,000 in-person plus 4,000 virtual attendees in 2021. MAD//Fest has won multiple industry awards and has been recognized for “off-the-scale creativity and innovation”. A true all-rounder, Dan is responsible for the MAD//Fest proposition, business strategy, content, marketing, and innovation. In his spare time, he likes getting up really early and going surfing, swimming, or fishing.

Kara Gladish began her career in voice of customer marketing at the interactive marketing software company ExactTarget. Later, she worked from home before it was cool, via her own digital marketing consulting and web design firm. Since joining Socio in 2019 as its first Customer Success Manager, she has worked with hundreds of customers on thousands of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events. As the Manager of Customer Experience, she gets to geek out about her passion for Socio's customers and products even more. Kara and her husband's COVID project was leveling up their ping pong game, and she loves cooking and traveling.

Amy Freeman has represented HP for over 16 years in sales, training, and presently production. As Production Lead for the HP Consumer Market Sales program at 2020 Companies, she steers a team in the creation and delivery of training content to HP sales representatives and retail partners across the U.S. via program-wide broadcasts and partner meetings, 500+ monthly training webinars for retail sales associates, and deployment of training courses and sales tools on various learning platforms. In her free time, Amy can be found teaching her toddler son all about the wonderous world we live in and tackling DIY projects from printing crafts to refinishing furniture.

Mary is the Events Director for The American Med Spa Association. She manages multiple smaller regional meetings and the Medical Spa Show (a national tradeshow) for the medical spa market. She has previously worked as an Event Specialist for the American Osteopathic Association and a Show Manager for Allured Business Media. She earned her certified meeting professional designation from the Events Industry Council. She has volunteered on the MPI Chicago Area Chapter Holiday Party committee and TEDx Naperville program, has served on the MPI Association Planners Advisory Board and is a self-proclaimed Francophile.

Zeus Kerravala is the Founder and Principal Analyst with ZK Research. He spent 10 years at Yankee Group and prior to that held a number of corporate IT leadership positions. Kerravala is considered one of the top 10 analysts in the world by Apollo Research, which evaluated almost 4000 analysts. He is a regular contributor to ZDNet, E-week, Forbes, CIO, CSO, SiliconAngle and other publications.

Anurag Dhingra is Chief Technology Officer for Cisco Webex. In this role, he sets technology vision and strategy for Webex portfolio including Meetings, Calling, Video Devices, Team Collaboration and Contact Center products. Additionally, he is responsible for Collaboration AI, Developer Platform and App Integrations for Webex. Previously, as Vice President and Head of Engineering for Webex Meetings, Anurag was responsible for delivering applications and services to power online meetings for millions of users worldwide. During his 20+ year career in the communications industry, Anurag has held various engineering leadership positions and built market leading VoIP, video and collaboration products. Passionate about Inclusion and Diversity, Anurag is Executive Sponsor for Cisco's Responsible AI initiative and serves on Cisco's Human Rights Advisory Council. When he’s not obsessing about building great products, Anurag likes to explore the Bay Area biking & hiking trails with his family.

Niraj is the Head of Product Management for Webex platform that powers meetings, messaging, calling, contact center and devices. He and his team are focused on creating the most secure, private and compliant collaboration solution that is easy to manage and enables IT administrators to do more with less. At Webex, Niraj envisioned and implemented the 360-degree approach to security resulting in a best of breed ranking from the National Security Agency. He has 20+ years of experience in enterprise software product management at leading technology companies, holds 7 patents. Niraj holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Santa Clara University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Punjab Engineer College, Chandigarh.

Maribel is the founder of Lopez Research, a market research and strategy consulting firm. Currently her firm researches Artificial Intelligence, mobile, IoT and enterprise digital transformation. Her clients range from start-ups to global firms, including 10 of the Fortune 30. Maribel is also the author of the John Wiley and Sons book ""Right-time Experiences"" a contributor to Forbes and host of the podcast Reimagine Hybrid Work. She's also the -founder of the Data For Betterment Foundation, a non-profit that helps individuals and businesses understand how to prepare for new roles as companies embrace new future of work technologies. Prior to founding Lopez Research, Maribel gained her expertise by working at Motorola, International Data Corp., Shiva Corporation and Forrester Research. Follow her on Twitter @MaribelLopez LinkedIn and on Forbes.

Chris is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technologist known for his work developing RISC microprocessors, domain-specific architectures and deep learning-based software. As Vice President of Engineering for Webex Collaboration AI, Chris leads an engineering and product team focused on building smarter speech, video and relationship intelligence experiences. Before joining Cisco, Chris was the cofounder and CEO of speech science company BabbleLabs acquired by Cisco in 2020. Before that, he was founder and CEO of the processor company, Tensilica, until was sold to Cadence in 2013. Chris holds more than 40 patents, an MSEE and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford and a BA in physics from Harvard. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Molita Sorisho est responsable du marketing produit chez Webex. Elle dirige la stratégie de marketing sortant (outbound) et les initiatives liées aux solutions Webex Cloud et Control Hub. Son ambition est de développer la notoriété de la marque et de stimuler la croissance grâce à un positionnement efficace des produits, des messages et des campagnes marketing.

Robb Boyd is the CEO of ExplaiNerds, a media and education company centered in the network technology space, raising the standard for multimedia-based stories that drive results. Robb spent over 13 years growing and developing Cisco's TechWiseTV, writing, hosting, and producing weekly demo-rich episodes, live events, and animation. This series expanded to over 18 countries, receiving over 26 industry awards and two Emmy nominations.

Robert Mayoh is a Unified Communications Specialist for Aon that is responsible for implementation and managing the colleague experience. During his 5 years at Aon, one of the crowning achievements was the implementation of Webex Meetings and Webex Teams at Aon. Their implementation was so successful, they won the Transformational Workplace Award from Cisco in 2020. Robert holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Network Engineering and Security from DePaul University.

Skip Burchett currently serves as the Director of Information Technology for Montgomery County Government, TN and is responsible for teams of engineers, programmers, and technicians working diligently to support the 1,200+ users throughout county government. He began his career working for a local IT consulting firm gaining experience in an array of software and technologies, while also learning to provide exceptional customer service. Skip moved to Montgomery County Government in 2013 as a Network Administrator where he further refined his knowledge in video and VOIP technologies. His passion for customer service and experience in the field allow him to serve his community by serving the great employees of county government.

Anurag Dhingra is Chief Technology Officer for Cisco Webex. In this role, he sets technology vision and strategy for Webex portfolio including Meetings, Calling, Video Devices, Team Collaboration and Contact Center products. Additionally, he is responsible for Collaboration AI, Developer Platform and App Integrations for Webex. Previously, as Vice President and Head of Engineering for Webex Meetings, Anurag was responsible for delivering applications and services to power online meetings for millions of users worldwide. During his 20+ year career in the communications industry, Anurag has held various engineering leadership positions and built market leading VoIP, video and collaboration products. Passionate about Inclusion and Diversity, Anurag is Executive Sponsor for Cisco's Responsible AI initiative and serves on Cisco's Human Rights Advisory Council. When he’s not obsessing about building great products, Anurag likes to explore the Bay Area biking & hiking trails with his family.

John Restrick has been architecting video and collaboration technologies for over 20 years. As CTO for Webex Devices, his focus is on collaboration experiences that improve teamwork. He is responsible for the collaboration devices portfolio and their integration with cloud software such as Cisco WebEx and third-party solutions. His goal is a unified collaboration architecture inside and outside of the meeting room. Restrick joined Cisco in 2001 to lead development of video within the Unified Communications solution. He then led architecture for the Unified Communications Manager. Restrick was a director of engineering at video networking company FVC.COM prior to joining Cisco. He holds several patents in the areas of communication protocols and quality of service.

Shawn Ivester is a Unified Communications Engineer at Clayco. Largely responsible for the organization’s collaboration services, he works hand in hand with the business to ensure team members can take advantage of technology to communicate, share information, and quickly initiate virtual or in person meetings without friction. From executive boardrooms to construction jobsites, Shawn looks to drive the “One Button to Push” concept into every workflow, removing barriers between and within ourselves and our customers. Shawn began his career at Clayco in 2014 supporting the end user compute space before moving into managing the UC environment. When he’s not at work, Shawn spends time with his 5 month old daughter and lovely wife Abhilasha.

Robb Boyd is the CEO of ExplaiNerds, a media and education company centered in the network technology space, raising the standard for multimedia-based stories that drive results. Robb spent over 13 years growing and developing Cisco's TechWiseTV, writing, hosting, and producing weekly demo-rich episodes, live events, and animation. This series expanded to over 18 countries, receiving over 26 industry awards and two Emmy nominations.

Jim Lundy is the founder and CEO of Aragon Research. Jim also serves as the lead analyst for collaboration, content management, content analytics, digital workplace, learning and sales engagement. Jim has over 30 years of technology and management experience as a vendor, user, and analyst. Jim spent 12 years at Gartner, where he formed and led the collaboration and social software research team and also served as lead analyst for enterprise content management (ECM) and corporate learning. Jim has extensive experience in product strategy, development, and go-to-market plans. Prior to founding Aragon Research, Jim was the VP/general manager of the collaboration business unit at Saba Software. Jim also spent 15 years at Xerox in a variety of software and hardware sales and marketing positions. Jim has a B.S. in finance from Penn State University.

Brad Arkin leads Cisco’s Security and Trust Organization, whose core mission is to ensure Cisco meets its security and privacy obligations to our customers, regulators, employees, and stakeholders. Before joining Cisco, Arkin was Chief Security Officer at Adobe and has held management positions at @Stake and Cigital. He is a respected industry thought leader and serves on the Forbes Technology Council and RSA Executive Security Action Forum. Arkin holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from the College of William and Mary, a Master of Science in Computer Science from George Washington University, and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University and London Business School.

Nicolas Coudret is Senior Product Director, Managed Collaboration and Communications for NTT. He oversees Product Management for Cisco's full suite of Cloud Collaboration and managed services solutions, including Webex and UCM Cloud. An industry veteran, Nicolas has been in the collaboration business for the last 25 years. A pioneer in video and e-learning over IP with CU-SeeMe and ClassPoint, Nicolas joined InterCall where he held several positions in Sales Operations and Product. As a part of NTT Cloud Communications since July 2015, he came to modernize the Cisco offer. He has supervised the full release of a cloud voice and managed services offer for the Webex Suite. Based in South of France, his main hobby is sailing in the Mediterranean Sea. Nicolas holds a master's degree in Video Broadcasting and Distance Learning systems from Paris University.