Kris Singh is the Programs Director for IBM Services Research at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. Kris has over 25 years of experience in the high technology industry as well as in academia. Before IBM Research, he has worked with Intel, AMD and National Semiconductor in various technology development roles such as Director of Server Architecture & Planning and Data Center Technology at Intel, Director in the CTO Office at AMD and senior technical management roles at National Semiconductor.

Kris is an Industry Fellow in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley, CA and has also been an adjunct professor in the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science department at Santa Clara University, CA. He is a member of the Advisory Board at major universities globally. Kris has been an invited speaker at various technology conferences around the world.

Rich Friedrich is the Director of the Strategy and Innovation Office in HP Labs and reports directly to the Senior Vice President of Research. Leading a global team, he is responsible for the strategy and portfolio management of HP’s central research organization, applying Open Innovation to amplify and accelerate research results, and technology transfer to effectively monetize these technologies. Rich is an active participant in government-industry-university partnerships through such groups as the US National Academies Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable. He his on the board of advisors for four major universities including the University of Illinois and the University of California, San Diego, and is a co- inventor on fifteen patents. He is a graduate of Northwestern University

Ana Pinczuk is Vice President, Global Technical Center within the Cisco Services organization. She is responsible for a global team of 2000 professionals that deliver global technical support, define the global service experience, and partner with engineering to drive product excellence.

Ana has a diverse background, having been in Services, Marketing, Sales, Business Development, and Engineering roles throughout her professional career. Within Cisco, Ana has led diverse teams including Software Development, Test, Release Engineering, Product Management, Solution Development, Engineering IT and Technical Services.

Prior to Cisco, Ana spent 15 years at AT&T and Lucent where she held key roles such as VP of Internet Technologies responsible for development and deployment of AT&T’s Internet backbone and Sales Client Director for the JP Morgan account.

Sanjay J. Poonen is President of Global Solutions and Go-to-Market for SAP AG, Poonen holds full solution management and go-to-market responsibility for the entire portfolio of business analytic solutions (EIM, BI, GRC, EPM), line-of-business solutions (CRM, HCM, SCM, SRM, sustainability, finance), and industry solutions (all 25 industries). .

Previously, Poonen was executive vice president and general manager of Performance Optimization Applications for SAP, responsible for the product development of the GRC and EPM product lines. He led this business from its inception, helping drive these solutions to the market-leading position that SAP has today.

Poonen holds a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School, in Massachusetts, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar; a master's degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University, in California; and a bachelor's degree in computer science and math and engineering from Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Alexander is Group Executive Information, Communication Sciences & Technologies and Director, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Centre. Dr. Zelinsky is an internationally recognised scientist in the ICT field who has made substantive technical contributions in addition to providing leadership to the high technology community. As a Professor at the Australian National University, Dr Zelinsky is recognized for his pioneering work in developing novel technologies for computer vision based human-machine interaction. This work has been recognized as a key breakthrough technology by academia, industry and the wider community. He has maximized the potential benefits of his work to Australia by founding a company to commercialize the new technology. The company - Seeing Machines is publicly listed on London Stock Exchange and is recognized as the world leader in its field. Since joining CSIRO in July 2004, Dr Zelinsky has focused on building the research capabilities of the ICT Centre to address Australian national challenges - particularly in energy, health, agriculture, mining and environment applications. Dr Zelinsky is well connected with the scientific and business communities both nationally and internationally across a wide variety of industries. A visionary leader with a demonstrated record of translating complex concepts into real world products and services with long-term value.