Isaac Sacolick is a successful CIO who has led digital transformation, product development, innovation, agile management, and data science programs in multiple organizations. He has transformed underperforming businesses by delivering new digital products, investing in strategic technologies, enabling agile practices, outsourcing commodity services and establishing performance metrics. He is the author of the book Driving Digital: The Leader’s Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology published by Amacom.

Isaac is currently President and CIO of StarCIO , a consulting services business that helps businesses execute their digital transformation programs. Previously, he held transformational CIO roles at media, financial services, and construction industry businesses and was a founding CTO at media and social networking startups.

Isaac has been recognized as an industry leading, agile, innovative CIO. He has been listed by The Huffington Post, Forbes, and HP Enterprise as a top social CIO and was recognized as a Top 100 CIO in STEM . Isaac has been writing a blog, Social Agile and Transformation for over ten years with 300+ posts covering topics on CIO leadership, digital transformation, agile execution, big data, innovation, and digital marketing. He is also a regular contributor to CIO.com and writes the Driving Digital Transformation blog. He speaks on a variety of transformation topics including the digital enterprise, agile transformation,digital product development, citizen development programs, the future of IT, and on becoming a data driven organization.

Isaac’s book, Driving Digital: The Leader’s Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology has received significant praise. Forbes.com called it a “…timely, engaging, and practical roadmap to developing and implementing digital strategies.” The Heller Search Associate remarked, “Sacolick is an experienced CIO with multiple transformation efforts under his belt. His new book is packed with insights, guidelines and stories from the front lines of transformation.” Distinguished technology executives commented, “Excellent…the best book I’ve read on the subject” and that “Isaac’s approach is practical and tactical with real-life lessons that can supplement any executive’s playbook.”

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Dr. Justin Goldston is a Professor of Project and Supply Chain Management at Penn State University where his research is focused on blending the practices of supply chain management, emerging technologies, and sustainability to create positive global change. Dr. Goldston is a research facility affiliate for the Center for the Business of Sustainability at the Smeal College of Business at Penn State, as well as an active contributing faculty member to The Sustainability Institute at Penn State. Outside of the institution, Goldston is an Executive on the International Supply Chain Education Alliance's (ISCEA’s) International Standards Board (IISB), and works with The Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII), a National Institute sponsored by The United States Department of Energy (DOE).

Dr. Goldston has over 20 years of experience working with organizations around the world such as Intel, Siemens, and Blue Buffalo on business performance improvement, organizational change, and enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives. Goldston has also led and assisted in the development of Supply Chain Management, Sustainability, and Business Analytics programs and courses at Georgetown University, Texas A&M University, Rasmussen University, Davenport University, and North Carolina Wesleyan College, and has evaluated doctoral programs for the Department of Higher Education. Goldston serves on the Management Advisory Board at various higher education institutions, is the author of multiple peer-reviewed journal articles on supply chain management, sustainability, and innovative technologies, of Critical Success Factors in ERP Implementations, and is a five-time TEDx speaker where he discussed emerging technologies such as blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.

Terry Earthwind Nichols is the author of “PROFILING FOR PROFIT What crossed arms don’t tell you…Mastering the Art of Observation.” Terry is the Chairman of Evolutionary Healer, a global transformational performance improvement company. When he’s not training sales teams on the ‘art’ of
observation, Terry can be found doing intriguing interviews, planning his next vacation, or having dinner at his favorite restaurant in a suit he designed himself.

Alyssa Miller is a hacker/researcher, security advocate, and security leader. With over two decades of experience in IT, first as a programmer and then as a penetration tester and security consultant, Alyssa has earned a reputation for being able to credibly operate on both sides of the fence between technical experts and high-level business executives.

A naturally curious lover of technology, Alyssa has always had a passion for deconstructing technology to learn how it functions and improve upon it. Computers, in particular, have fascinated her since she was in pre-school when her father would bring home a computer from work. At the age of 12 she saved up enough money to buy her first computer on which she taught herself BASIC programming, operating systems and even asynchronous communications protocols. Still it wasn’t until after three semesters of pre-med studies at Marquette University that Alyssa finally found her career calling and switched to the Computer Science program.

Alyssa’s professional track record includes heading the enterprise security testing and vulnerability management program for a Fortune 500 Financial Technologies firm, leading the application security program practice for highly respected boutique consulting firm, and her current role as BISO (Business Information Security Officer) for S&P Global Ratings.

Alyssa speaks internationally at industry, vendor, and leadership conferences on topics ranging from technical security vulnerabilities, to high-level security program strategies, to issues within the security community itself. She is a member of the Board of Directors for Women of Security (WoSEC) and engages with the community through her blogs, video content, podcast appearances, and social media presence.

JC Gaillard is the Founder and Managing Director of Corix Partners, a London-based Boutique Management Consultancy Firm focused on assisting CIOs and other C-level executives in resolving Cyber Security Strategy, Organisation and Governance challenges.

He is a leading consultant, a senior executive and a global cyber security influencer with over 25 years of experience developed in several financial institutions in the UK and continental Europe, and a track-record at driving fundamental change in the Security field across global organisations, looking beyond the technical horizon into strategy, governance, culture, and the real dynamics of transformation.

Permanently established in the UK since 1993, he holds an Engineering Degree from Telecom Paris and has been co-president of the Cyber Security group of the Telecom Paris alumni association since May 2016.

He runs the Corix Partners blog and the “Security Transformation Leadership” publication on Medium. He contributes regularly to The Digital Transformation People, Business 2 Community and IoTforAll platforms, as well as the Business Transformation Network and the Experfy blog.

He is an expert contributor on the CIO Water Cooler, and has previously published articles on InfoSecurity Magazine, Computing, the C-Suite.co.uk, Info Sec Buzz, Disruption Hub, and the IoD Director websites.

He is involved with techUK as part of their Cyber People Series, which explores how CISOs should engage at C-Suite and Board level, with a first report released in December 2020.

He also collaborates with leading analysts firm Kuppinger Cole in Germany and with CyberTalks in London, a unique platform producing cyber content direct from leading cyber industry figures.

He was listed in the top 10 of UK 30 most influential thought leaders on Risk, RegTech and Compliance by Thomson Reuters in April 2017, and in the top 100 global social media influencers for financial services by Refinitiv in July 2019. As per January 2021, he ranks in the top 10 of global influencers with Thinkers360 on cybersecurity, leadership and management.

He is the author of “Cyber Security: The Lost Decade – A Security Governance Handbook for the CISO and the CIO”, first published in September 2017 with annual editions released in November 2018, October 2019 and September 2020.

He animates the Security Transformation Research Foundation, a dedicated think-tank and research body affiliated to Corix Partners, aimed at approaching Security problems differently and producing innovative and challenging research ideas in the Security, Business Protection, Risk and Controls space, and co-produces the weekly Cyber Security Transformation podcast on Anchor.

He is also a Non-Executive Director with Strata Security Solutions and has been a member of the NextWorld Capital European Advisors Network since 2014.

CEO, Co-Founder and Chief Innovator / Disruptor @ Greenbird - a VC backed B2B SaaS - providing Utilihive, the Operating System for the Platformed Digital Utility and the Energy Cloud.

Utilihive is the Domain specific iPaaS purpose-built for Utilities driving the Digital Transformation and empowering the Smart Grid, Smart City and Industrial IoT.

Senior IT Executive. Long-term international work experience as Integration Developer, Product Manager, Principal Enterprise Architect, Strategy Advisor or Technology Evangelist.

Thought Leader in enterprise architecture, digital transformation, integration, containers, devops, cloud, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, realtime analytics and energy innovation.

Advisor and Mentor to Tech Startups and Startup Founders.

Disrupt! Or be disrupted!

Co-founder, CEO & CTO of ELSE Corp, a Virtual Retail and 3D Commerce company.

I am a Business Transformation and Technology Innovation professional, in the past a R&D manager, contract professor, and a strategy consultant, specialized in the development and launch of innovative DeepTech products and services, mainly Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence.
As of technology entrepreneur since 2010, my best expertise lays in the field of Fashion/Luxury Retail and Manufacturing.

Since 2014 I am the co-founder and CEO of ELSE Corp, a startup that is developing a "Real-Time Fashion" approach called "Virtual Couture Fashion", which is a new business model and a set of technologies, including those for AI-Assisted Design and AI Driven Customer Experience, for an end-to-end Digital Transformation of the supply chains in the fashion sector. ELSE's mission is to enable MASS CUSTOMIZED design and retailing for fashion brands, process which then leads to the HYBRID (ON DEMAND) manufacturing model, at the end driving the industry towards a true SUSTAINABLE fashion model, which is REAL-TIME and DIGITAL.
http://www.else-corp.com
http://www.virtual-couture.org

- Member of the European AI Alliance @ European Commission
- 3D Footwear expert @ 3D Body Processing Working Group (3DBP), IEEE-SA
- Expert @ Fashion Tech cluster, The Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC)
- Advisor @ Fashion Technology Accelerator (FTA Milan)
- Chairman @inTAIL 2018, AI Driven & Intelligent Retail
- IEEE Member since 2004

Jude Jennison is Founder of Leaders by Nature, a company developing leaders and teams through disruptive change with less stress. Jude is author of the book Leading through uncertainty, based on interviews with CEOs as well as her findings from working with over 3000 leaders.

Jude specialises in non-verbal communication and works with a herd of horses to transform leadership and team behaviour. Results include an SME who grew from 25 to 38 employees in 9 months, a large recruitment company who turned a loss-making division into a profit in 3 months and an entrepreneur who made a breakthrough with sales, doubling her business in 6 months.

Previously in IBM, Jude led a European budget of $1billion, reducing it by 25%.

Jude hosts 3 podcast – Leading through uncertainty, Rethinking Leadership and Innovating Humanity, the latter is the official podcast of Birmingham Tech

Services include: Executive coaching, ‘Leadership with Horses’ programmes, executive team alignment, team development, keynote and conference speaker.

Ricardo Saltz Gulko is the Eglobalis - Information - Inisghts - Innovation experience agency managing director, a global strategist, thought leader, experiences creative practitioner, and keynote speaker in the areas of simplification, change, human adaptability, customer experience, experience design, real innovation and professional services. Ricardo has worked at numerous global technology companies, such as Oracle, Ericsson, Amdocs, Redknee, Inttra, Samsung among others as a global executive, focusing on enterprise technologies and served several of top fortune 500 list. He currently works with tech global companies aiming to transform themselves around simplification models, culture and digital transformation, customer and employee experience as services. He holds an MBA at J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, IL USA, and undergraduate studies in Information Systems and Industrial Engineering. Ricardo is also a global citizen fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, and German. He is the co-founder of the European Customer Experience Organization and currently resides in Munich, Germany with his family.

A diabetic who wants to wipe diabetes from the Earth for all of us, the proceeds from his forthcoming book will be going to the Faustman Lab. The Lab is working to eradicate it, based out of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. You can also support and donate to The Lab. It would mean a lot to me, and millions of others struggling with diabetes.

For more than 16 years, Lisa continues to be digital innovator and disruptor for marketing communications. As CEO and founder of EyeMail Inc. she has developed multiple, patent-pending technologies within the digital video-in-email marketing space. Since 2004, EyeMail has achieved global recognition with Stevie Award for ‘Innovator of Year’ and Delta’s ‘Catalyst of the Year Award’ for impact to digital email strategy.
She is a board member of the Technology Association of Georgia Diversity and Inclusion and volunteers at the local chapter of the Women in Technology Association for the ‘Girls Initiative’ program.
Lisa has an MBA from Alabama A&M, an executive degree from the Tuck Business School at Dartmouth and is currently enrolled at Harvard Business School. She is a considered a trailblazer for women in technology, frequently speaks at national and international conferences, and is recognized as an industry thought leader. To date, Lisa has been honored with 20 awards and counting.

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Roger Smith is funny, scary, on point and is focused on one thing - increasing everyone's awareness and understanding of the problems and issues associated with the digital or cyber world.
Roger is a veteran and an expert at creating and managing personal, digital and business security solutions for home users, SME's and not-for-profit organisations. He is focused on building them into more secure and resilient businesses.
Roger knows that the only way to defeat the cybercriminal, using the teachings of Sun Tzu, is to understand our enemy and how they target us. To ensure that we, our organisations and / or our clients are not the low hanging fruit of the cyber world.
As well as his normal CEO activities for R & I ICT Consulting Services, Roger teaches at the Australian Defence Force Academy where he delivers the compulsory undergraduate course in cybersecurity. This course is where the students learn, using hands on experience, how the cybercriminals work and how dangerous they can be.

Morag Barrett is a highly accomplished keynote speaker, leadership development expert, and bestselling author of "Cultivate. The Power of Winning Relationships" and "The Future-Proof Workplace." Morag is the founder and CEO of SkyeTeam, a boutique leadership development firm, and has supported more than 15,000 leaders from 20 countries and on 4 continents achieve outstanding results by improving the effectiveness of their leadership and teams.

Morag draws from a deep and unique operational skill set. Morag's corporate career started in retail banking with Royal Bank of Scotland Group in the UK. With 15 years experience in the finance industry, Morag understands the challenges of running a business as well as the complexities of leading and managing the people that are part of that business.

Prior to launching SkyeTeam in 2007, Morag was responsible for global leadership and executive development in a US Telecoms company. Since launching SkyeTeam Morag has had the opportunity to work with clients in a range of industries including: Healthcare, Telecoms, Mining, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Technology.

Morag earned a Master of Human Resource Management and received the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) designation. She is also a recognized business coach for the Corporate Coach University and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the UK. Morag was recently selected from more than 16,000 candidates as a “Top 100 Coach” by
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, recognized as the world’s most influential leadership thinker and executive coach.

Morag’s contributed to Entrepreneur.com, CIO.com and the American Management Association. She’s also been featured in inc.com, business insider, TheStreet.com, Association for Training and Development, Society for Human Resources and HR.com among others.

For fun, in addition to time with her 3 sons, you’ll find Morag playing the bassoon or ballroom dancing. (It’s also possible she may simply be relaxing in front of an episode of Law & Order). As a footnote, her name is Scottish and means “great”.

I help organisations connect with their audiences through membership programmes and influencer marketing strategy. I am an international speaker on influencer marketing and membership strategy. As a previous director general of a trade association, I have developed my career to now thought leadership in around the subjects of membership and influencer marketing. I run two podcasts on the subject. I have also written Influencer Marketing Strategy, published by Kogan Page. I am the CEO of MembershipWorld, the place for membership professionals. I am the co-founder of BCMA Influence and the top 100 most influential people index. I am a keen badminton player and Board member of the Arcola Theatre in London

Ruth is the founder of ALLE LLC and the co-founder of the IN IT TOGETHER group coaching programs.
She is a top 10 thought leader on the Future of Work and Mental Health
A coach, a trainer, a lawyer, a project manager, a mediator - Ruth is passionate about people and their potential!

*** VISION ***
A world shaped by strength of character where together we attain our full potential.

*** MISSION ***
To empower a community through connection, honoring individual character strengths.

*** VALUES ***
Safety, professionalism, community, strengths, bravery, authenticity, inclusivity, candor, openness, perspectives, mindful attention, continuous learning, & deep listening, fairness, fun/humor, empathy, honesty.

*** Our Commitments to you ***
Our co-founders work together as a community and a team and we each chose a commitment that the entire group shares as a commitment to you.

We commit to creating safe spaces for personal growth and exploration. (Safety)
We commit to focusing on community & mutual understanding (Partnership)
We commit to being openly curious & always learning. (Inquisitiveness)
We commit to modeling & encouraging brave conversations. (Courage)
We commit to adhere to the ICF Code of Ethics at all times. (Morality)
We commit to modeling & encouraging authenticity (Truthfulness)
We commit to strengths-focused development (Asset Centered)
We commit to being impeccable with our word & deed. (Exact)
We commit to challenging assumptions. (Differentiation)
We commit to inviting all perspectives. (Welcoming)
We commit to inclusion, equity & diversity. (Fairness)
We commit to always do & be our best. (Focusing)
We commit to seeing & hearing you.

(We are all about you!)

Marketing Leader with exceptional ability to work across teams to develop strategic visions that optimize branding and marketing online. An innovator who obsesses over customers utilizing skills in digital marketing, social media, community, content across the funnel, messaging, SEO and analytics in creative ways. Digital Marketing Strategist known for building brands and growing customer loyalty through targeted, well-executed digital marketing campaigns for Fortune 500 companies.

Award winning author. Loves collaborating with brilliant leaders on a mission. Former Cisco strategy and innovation exec.

Fawad Khan has 15+ years of experience in enterprise Digital Transformation and Cloud Computing. He has spent last 14 years at Microsoft working with various Cloud services and technologies including Office 365, Azure and Dynamics 365. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington where he teaches advanced graduate courses in Digital Transformation, Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IoT and other emerging technologies.

He is ranked as one of the top Cloud Computing influencers and thought leaders by Onalytica, Thinkers360 and TheAwardsMagazine.com. He is a frequent speaker at many industry conferences, an author of a book and many articles and a thought leader on social media. His recent book 'Enterprise Digital Transformation' is available on Amazon.

Dr. Anthony J Rhem is an Information Systems professional with over thirty (30) years of experience. Since 1990 Dr. Rhem has served as President/Principal Consultant of A.J. Rhem & Associates, a knowledge management and system integration consulting, training & research firm located in Chicago, Illinois. As a consultant, strategist and advisor Dr. Rhem has worked with U.S. fortune 500 corporations in retail, communications, financial, insurance, legal, logistics, education, healthcare, US government and the military .

Dr. Rhem advises VC's and investment firms on technology innovations, best practices and trends. As a Sr. Level Knowledge Management (KM) Consultant Dr. Rhem has served as a KM Advisor, KM Strategist, Information Architect, and KM Governance Strategist. Dr. Rhem has performed an integral role in successfully implementing software solutions, system architectures, and software engineering methodologies. His experience also includes Artificial Intelligence (Expert Systems and Neural Networks), Big Data and Cognitive Computing.

As an advisor Dr Rhem’s work includes Chairman - Board of Trustees Knowledge Systems Institute; Industry Advisory Board – International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE); Technology Council of Advisors Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG); Chair - International Bar Association (IBA) Law Firm Management Working Group on KM and IT; and Member of the National Science Foundation Review Panels in the areas of AI, KM, Big Data and Education.

As a professor and corporate Instructor, Dr Rhem has trained hundreds of personnel across many organizations on the principles, practice and application of enterprise content Management, software engineering, knowledge management and information architecture. Dr. Rhem is an active presenter at KM conferences both domestic and international, and continues to write articles and books in KM.

Over the past 20 years, Alex made it his business to turn disruptive concepts into successful ecosystem-centric business models. He has an extensive track record of building and leading global cross-industry business & technology teams focused on revenue and market share growth, increasing customer acquisition and profitability through new digital products and offerings.

The co-innovation strategy and programs that Alex created continuously reinvented the capabilities of the Internet by empowering employees, building ecosystems, and creating new offerings inside and outside traditional product and partnership portfolio.

Alex is passionate about leveraging innovation purposefully and pragmatically to create opportunities for all. Today, he is serving as Innovator-in-Residence at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Tulane University. He is an active venture partner with Interlock Capital, a community-driven venture fund primarily investing in underrepresented founders and geographies. Alex is also a US delegate and Technical Advisory Group member in the International Standards Association (ISO), defining global common standards for Innovation Management.

Prior, as a Managing Director of Global Innovation Programs and Strategy at Cisco, a $50B technology powerhouse, he pioneered the concept of ecosystem co-innovation, creating and later leading global of 16 network of global co-innovation centers in North and South America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific. He held senior leadership roles in the Office of the CTO, Emerging Technology Group and Corporate Development, and led core innovation programs, unifying, and advancing strategic co-innovation partnerships and programs with internal and external customers, partners, developers, academia, and governments. He created award-winning employee innovation and development offerings, providing ~70,000 employees with meaningful opportunities to innovate, regardless of their grade or function.

In the past, Alex had extended gigs with revolutionary music services Napster and Liquid Audio, pioneering digital music distribution, and bringing it to millions around the world. He also adapted innovations to other industries, digitizing business processes at IBM and Pfizer.

Alex got transplanted to the US as a teenager. He rapidly discovered new freedoms all around him, as well as the power of the ultimate equalizer - the Internet. He immediately set out on a life course far different from his upbringing as the son of a high-ranking official in the Soviet diplomatic corps. His journey started early when he got to know the local internet community, become involved with Electronic Frontier Foundation, and taught himself as a teen-ager to master UNIX operating systems and design web pages.

Fast forward 30 years, Alex Goryachev has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for innovation and culture transformation. He is a Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author of Fearless Innovation: Going Beyond the Buzzword to Continuously Drive Growth, Improve the Bottom Line, and Enact Change. He is sought after by the press as an expert on innovation, digitization, and employee engagement, and is a contributing writer for Forbes and Chief Executive Magazine, and an Editorial Advisory Board Member for Innovation Leader Magazine.

Alex Goryachev often speaks on the topic of pragmatic innovation. His candid, thought provoking, yet entertaining speeches and workshops demystify innovation, and encourage the audience to re-think corporate norms to survive, grow and prosper. Alex masterfully combines best industry practices with his own international startup and corporate experience, equipping audience with actionable steps that can change culture and turn any organization into innovation machine.