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Author:

David Glick

Senior Vice President, Enterprise Business Services
Walmart

David Glick serves as the senior vice president of Walmart’s Enterprise Business Services. He leads enterprise systems, including People Technology Modernization, Finance Tech, Associate Digital Experience (ADE) and Shared Services, that enable Walmart to spend smartly, act digitally and build trust with associates and shareholders. 

Before joining Walmart, David served as the chief technology officer for Flexe, a logistics and supply chain technology provider. There, he was responsible for building the foundational technology that allows for an open logistics network to optimize the delivery of goods. Prior to that, he was vice president of fulfillment and logistics tech for Amazon, where he was responsible for all the technology inside the walls of Amazon’s fulfillment centers, as well as the founding tech vice president of Amazon Logistics. 

David has over 20 years of experience in enterprise tech, product development, system architecture and logistics and fulfillment tech. 

 

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of South Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

David Glick

Senior Vice President, Enterprise Business Services
Walmart

David Glick serves as the senior vice president of Walmart’s Enterprise Business Services. He leads enterprise systems, including People Technology Modernization, Finance Tech, Associate Digital Experience (ADE) and Shared Services, that enable Walmart to spend smartly, act digitally and build trust with associates and shareholders. 

Before joining Walmart, David served as the chief technology officer for Flexe, a logistics and supply chain technology provider. There, he was responsible for building the foundational technology that allows for an open logistics network to optimize the delivery of goods. Prior to that, he was vice president of fulfillment and logistics tech for Amazon, where he was responsible for all the technology inside the walls of Amazon’s fulfillment centers, as well as the founding tech vice president of Amazon Logistics. 

David has over 20 years of experience in enterprise tech, product development, system architecture and logistics and fulfillment tech. 

 

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of South Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

Author:

Atif Rafiq

Founder
Ritual

Atif is the former Chief Digital Officer at McDonald’s and past President at Volvo and MGM Resorts. He’s now the founder of Ritual, an AI-powered platform helping organizations scale structured, intelligent decision-making. 

With a track record of leading digital transformation at the highest level, Atif brings valuable insight into how large enterprises adopt and scale AI effectively.

Atif has created over 500 billion dollars in enterprise value and advises cutting-edge companies like SpaceX and Anthropic. 

Atif Rafiq

Founder
Ritual

Atif is the former Chief Digital Officer at McDonald’s and past President at Volvo and MGM Resorts. He’s now the founder of Ritual, an AI-powered platform helping organizations scale structured, intelligent decision-making. 

With a track record of leading digital transformation at the highest level, Atif brings valuable insight into how large enterprises adopt and scale AI effectively.

Atif has created over 500 billion dollars in enterprise value and advises cutting-edge companies like SpaceX and Anthropic. 

Author:

Anirudh Devgan

President & CEO
Cadence

Dr. Anirudh Devgan is President and CEO of Cadence and is a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to becoming CEO in 2021, he was President of Cadence, before which he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Digital & Signoff and System Verification groups. Under his leadership, Cadence has significantly grown its computational software and hardware portfolio, expanded into adjacent and new markets, and achieved several years of record revenue growth. Prior to joining Cadence in 2012, Dr. Devgan was Corporate VP and member of the executive staff at Magma Design Automation and earlier held management and technical roles at IBM.

Dr. Devgan is widely recognized as one of the leading authorities in electronic design automation (EDA) and successfully pioneered the application of massively parallel and distributed architectures to create several industry firsts and most impactful products in the areas of SPICE simulation, library characterization, place and route, static timing, power, and electromagnetics, among several others. He also drove the first common compiler architecture for emulation and prototyping platforms.

Dr. Devgan is an IEEE Fellow, member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), has written numerous research papers, and holds 27 US patents. He has won several awards, including the prestigious Phil Kaufman Award for his extensive contributions to EDA as well as the IBM Corporate Award and IEEE McCalla Award. Dr. Devgan serves on the boards of the Global Semiconductor Alliance and the Electronic System Design Alliance.

Dr. Devgan received a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and MS and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Anirudh Devgan

President & CEO
Cadence

Dr. Anirudh Devgan is President and CEO of Cadence and is a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to becoming CEO in 2021, he was President of Cadence, before which he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Digital & Signoff and System Verification groups. Under his leadership, Cadence has significantly grown its computational software and hardware portfolio, expanded into adjacent and new markets, and achieved several years of record revenue growth. Prior to joining Cadence in 2012, Dr. Devgan was Corporate VP and member of the executive staff at Magma Design Automation and earlier held management and technical roles at IBM.

Dr. Devgan is widely recognized as one of the leading authorities in electronic design automation (EDA) and successfully pioneered the application of massively parallel and distributed architectures to create several industry firsts and most impactful products in the areas of SPICE simulation, library characterization, place and route, static timing, power, and electromagnetics, among several others. He also drove the first common compiler architecture for emulation and prototyping platforms.

Dr. Devgan is an IEEE Fellow, member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), has written numerous research papers, and holds 27 US patents. He has won several awards, including the prestigious Phil Kaufman Award for his extensive contributions to EDA as well as the IBM Corporate Award and IEEE McCalla Award. Dr. Devgan serves on the boards of the Global Semiconductor Alliance and the Electronic System Design Alliance.

Dr. Devgan received a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and MS and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Author:

Mark Lohmeyer

VP & GM, Compute and AI Infrastructure
Google

Mark Lohmeyer leads the Compute and AI Infrastructure business for Google Cloud. In this role, he is responsible for the Google Cloud Compute Engine, AI/ML infrastructure (Cloud TPU and GPU), Core ML services, block storage (Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk), and enterprise solutions (SAP on GCP, Google Cloud VMware Engine, etc.)
Mark’s background includes leadership roles in general management, product management, marketing, business development, and engineering management, across a wide range of core infrastructure technologies, including compute, storage, and networking.


Prior to joining Google, Mark was the SVP/GM of VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure Business Group. In this role, he led a large-scale, global organization, spanning engineering, operations,
product management, and product marketing for the VMware infrastructure portfolio across Private Clouds, Public Clouds, and Cloud Provider Partners / Sovereign Clouds.


Prior to VMware, Mark led the product team for Enterprise WAN and Routing at Cisco and was the GM for HA/DR and Storage solutions at Veritas Software. Earlier in his career, he worked on storage I/O hardware at Adaptec, and digital imaging research and hardware design at the Sarnoff Research Labs, and holds a patent based on this work.
Mark holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also served as the head teaching assistant for Computational Structures.

Mark Lohmeyer

VP & GM, Compute and AI Infrastructure
Google

Mark Lohmeyer leads the Compute and AI Infrastructure business for Google Cloud. In this role, he is responsible for the Google Cloud Compute Engine, AI/ML infrastructure (Cloud TPU and GPU), Core ML services, block storage (Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk), and enterprise solutions (SAP on GCP, Google Cloud VMware Engine, etc.)
Mark’s background includes leadership roles in general management, product management, marketing, business development, and engineering management, across a wide range of core infrastructure technologies, including compute, storage, and networking.


Prior to joining Google, Mark was the SVP/GM of VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure Business Group. In this role, he led a large-scale, global organization, spanning engineering, operations,
product management, and product marketing for the VMware infrastructure portfolio across Private Clouds, Public Clouds, and Cloud Provider Partners / Sovereign Clouds.


Prior to VMware, Mark led the product team for Enterprise WAN and Routing at Cisco and was the GM for HA/DR and Storage solutions at Veritas Software. Earlier in his career, he worked on storage I/O hardware at Adaptec, and digital imaging research and hardware design at the Sarnoff Research Labs, and holds a patent based on this work.
Mark holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also served as the head teaching assistant for Computational Structures.

Author:

Barry Cooks

VP of SageMaker AI
AWS

 

Barry Cooks is a global enterprise technology veteran with 25 years of experience leading teams in cloud computing, hardware design, application microservices, artificial intelligence, and more. As Vice President of Technology at Amazon, he is responsible for compute abstractions (containers, serverless, VMware, micro-VMs), quantum experimentation, high performance computing, and AI training. He oversees key AWS services including AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and Amazon SageMaker. Barry also leads responsible AI initiatives across AWS, promoting the safe and ethical development of AI as a force for good. Prior to joining Amazon in 2022, Barry served as CTO at DigitalOcean, where he guided the organization through its successful IPO. His career also includes leadership roles at VMware and Sun Microsystems. Barry holds a BS in Computer Science from Purdue University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.

Barry Cooks

VP of SageMaker AI
AWS

 

Barry Cooks is a global enterprise technology veteran with 25 years of experience leading teams in cloud computing, hardware design, application microservices, artificial intelligence, and more. As Vice President of Technology at Amazon, he is responsible for compute abstractions (containers, serverless, VMware, micro-VMs), quantum experimentation, high performance computing, and AI training. He oversees key AWS services including AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and Amazon SageMaker. Barry also leads responsible AI initiatives across AWS, promoting the safe and ethical development of AI as a force for good. Prior to joining Amazon in 2022, Barry served as CTO at DigitalOcean, where he guided the organization through its successful IPO. His career also includes leadership roles at VMware and Sun Microsystems. Barry holds a BS in Computer Science from Purdue University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.

Author:

Cynthia Stoddard

CIO
Adobe

As Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Adobe, Cynthia Stoddard oversees Adobe’s global Information Technology and Cloud Operations teams. In her leadership role, Cynthia spearheads a global strategy for delivering services and operations that form the mission-critical backbone for the company. She has 25-plus years of business experience and IT expertise leading large global organizations including Adobe, Netapp, Safeway, and APL Limited in supply chain, retail, and technology development. 

Cynthia Stoddard

CIO
Adobe

As Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Adobe, Cynthia Stoddard oversees Adobe’s global Information Technology and Cloud Operations teams. In her leadership role, Cynthia spearheads a global strategy for delivering services and operations that form the mission-critical backbone for the company. She has 25-plus years of business experience and IT expertise leading large global organizations including Adobe, Netapp, Safeway, and APL Limited in supply chain, retail, and technology development.