Prashant Pathak is CEO of Ekagrata Inc., a Canadian principal investment and diversified industrial holding company. As part of his role, he sits on the boards of several private and public businesses. Prashant is also the Chairman of the Kingbridge Centre and Institute and led the strategic focus to establish the Kingbridge Innovation Hub. In addition to his oversight roles at public and private companies, he serves on the boards of several public and community institutions, including MaRS Discovery District - North America’s largest urban innovation campus, University of Guelph, The Fields Institute for Mathematical Sciences and as the Chair of the Innovation Economy Council. Previously he has served on the Board of the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC, a $30Bn financial institution) during his tenure he was the Chairman of the Venture Capital and Investment Committee for the BDC.

Prior to founding Ekagrata, Mr. Pathak was a Partner of McKinsey & Company and previously also worked in the industry with Schlumberger.

With more than 20 years of industry experience, Christian is spearheading fast-paced digital innovation and sustainable value creation as the Managing Director of Tietoevry Create. Christian has held various management positions during his career, including roles in Teradata, Oracle and Sterling Commerce. He has been with Tietoevry since 2014 in a variety of leadership roles including Senior VP of Sales, Industries and Outsourcing, Head of Consulting in the Nordics region and Managing Partner for Norway. He has a Master of Science degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

David is a resourceful and solution-oriented IT leader who leverages project management skills, business acumen and strategic “big picture” view to envision a company’s optimized future position. He is an influential communicator who builds trusted relationships with the CEO, Executive Team, Board, and cross-functional business units to maximize the impact of IT, with a focus on return on investment. A passionate catalyst in encouraging teams to think outside the box to create innovative solutions based on ever-changing technology.

In his current role at Gainwell, David is responsible for all IT application development and maintenance for all Coordination of Benefit and Payment Integrity lines of business, representing over $600M in revenue annually for the company. He strategically aligns with numerous departments across the enterprise to focus on driving application stability, simplifying the development technology stack, and enhancing development delivery to improve operational efficiency, optimize application yield, and lower operational costs.

David has spent over 28 years in various information technology roles. Prior to Gainwell, he served as Vice President of IT for Health Management Systems for six years before being acquired by Gainwell. He also previously served as Vice President of IT and Facilities for Susan G. Komen for the Cure for seven years, as well as Director of eBusiness for Wellpoint’s Pharmacy Benefits Management for six years. He holds a B.S. Degree in Computer Science from the University of Kansas.

About Gainwell:

Gainwell is the leading provider of technology, services and solutions that are vital to the administration and operations of health and human services programs. Gainwell is a new company with over 50 years of proven experience, a reputation for service excellence and unparalleled industry expertise. We offer clients scalable and flexible solutions for their most complex challenges. These capabilities make us a trusted partner for organizations seeking reliability, innovation, and transformational outcomes.

Marne Martin is President and Chief Strategy Officer at IFS. In her role, Marne’s focus is to continue elevate the importance of service management and EAM as part of the overall IFS success story and create greater value for the IFS business and our customers.

Marne works to empower and enable IFS’ customers to transform and grow their businesses through digitalization and optimization and by delivering the best solutions in the industry. The marriage of Service Management and EAM enables companies to perform at the highest level to deliver when it matters most, at the Moment of Service.

Previous to this position, Marne held the role of President for the IFS Service Management Business Unit, EAM & Global Industries.  Well-respected in the field as a strategic businesswoman unafraid of embracing a challenge, she served as CEO at ServicePower Plc and WorkWave LLC both in the FSM software space and has driven previous IFS acquisitions including WorkWave, Clevest, Astea and more recently Ultimo.

Marne has won a number of awards including 2016 CEO Gamechanger of the Year (FSM) from ACQ 5 Global Awards and 2015 Field Service CEO of the Year from Executive Awards. She also features in the Software Report's 2019 list of Top 50 SaaS CEOs.

When not at work, Marne enjoys competing in dressage and is working to support girls and women pursuing STEM careers.

David Ittner is the Chief Technology Officer for WorkWave, responsible for the overall technical strategy of the company. Dave is passionate about building great products by applying leading edge technology to solve business problems.  

Prior to joining WorkWave, Dave was the Chief Architect and R&D Leader for the Cloud initiatives of Ribbon Communications. Dave also served as the co-founder and CTO of uReach Technologies, a cloud-first company whose innovative platform and applications were utilized by consumers and small businesses through channels including the largest telecom operators in the world.  

Dave started his career at Bell Laboratories working in applied research and development areas covering data communications, image analysis, text categorization, and unified messaging.

Prakash Grama is the CEO of EVRY USA Corporation and based in Orange County, CA. Prakash co-founded SPAN in the U.S. and India in 1994 before selling it to EVRY in 2012. Prior to EVRY USA, Prakash worked at Harris Bank, Chicago, owned by Bank of Montreal. Before that, Prakash worked at Tata Burroughs and BHEL in India. He has been profiled on CNBC, the Washington Post and Zee Business and Radio City in India and interviewed in Wall Street Journal and other media. Prakash has over 35 years of IT industry in the US market and an expert in outsourcing. Prakash has also mentored and angel invested in a couple of startups in the US and India that have subsequently received VC funding. He has an MBA from IIM Calcutta, a top 3 business school in India and a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore, India.

Laxmi Akkaraju is Chief Delivery Officer for Cognite. Cognite enables heavy asset industries in their digitization journey to become more efficient, safe and sustainable through their flagship product, Cognite Data Fusion (CDF). Ms. Akkaraju has 25+ years of experience in technology, strategy and business transformation including earlier positions such as Chief Strategy Officer for GSMA (London), SVP Global Delivery for Tietoevry (Norway/India) and Director of Operations in Mu Dynamics (USA).  She also serves on multiple boards (Møller Mobility Group, Aksio, Digital Norway Advisory Board and BI International Advisory Board) and is a public speaker on topics such as globalization and digitization and a wide range of topics related to emerging technologies such as DataOps, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, 5G and Blockchain.

Ashok Vantipalli assumed his role as Chief Information Officer at TireHub in 2018. Shortly after Vantipalli joined TireHub, he helped scale the new company for growth – building a technology vision and strategy, a team, key partnerships and digital products ground up. In his current role, he oversees product development and deployment of customer facing SaaS capabilities and internal IT capabilities for 70 distribution centers and employees.

Prior to joining Tirehub, Vantipalli served as the Global Vice President of Application Delivery at Sage Software where he was accountable for the Digital Transformation of the business from an on-prem to a SaaS company. He was also responsible for transforming 10 regional technology teams into one global function with shared services.

Previously, Vantipalli spent more than 15 years in technology and management consulting, serving financial services, media and healthcare clients while at Mckinsey and Alvarez and Marsal (A&M). During his tenure at A&M, he served as interim CIO/CTO and was responsible for technology transformation initiatives for his clients. He also served as the Head of Technology Operations (U.S., Europe and Asia) for the largest bankruptcy & turnaround in U.S. history – Lehman Brothers.

Vantipalli received a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and statistics, with a concentration in computer science, from State University of New York at Stony Brook. He later earned a master’s degree in computer science from New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Nidhi is a social development sector professional with over two decades of experience. An alumnus of the prestigious Delhi School of Social Work (Delhi University), Nidhi wears many hats and has proven skills in program and team management, regulatory understanding of CSR law, finance and compliance, among others.

Nidhi is extremely passionate about providing equal opportunities to all, technology for social good, and women and youth development.

At NASSCOM Foundation, she is working towards pivoting the organization into focussed strategic growth by providing employability driven skills to the underserved youth, encouraging and incubating tech for social good and fostering women entrepreneurship. She has been working towards NASSCOM Foundation’s vision to build a truly inclusive India through technology and partnerships with the industry, NGOs, emerging social enterprises and the Government.

Before joining NASSCOM Foundation, Nidhi was working with Concern India Foundation as Deputy Chief Executive Officer.   Nidhi loves to read and travel and in her spare time, often takes off to the mountains with her books.

Rajnish Mohan (Raj) is the Country Manager and Head of Tietoevry Create, India. Raj has been the driving force behind Corporate Strategy, Business Development and Client Engagements for multiple domains and geographies. With over 28 years of experience in IT Delivery, Operations & Sales and Client Relationship Management, he is well versed with the technical as well as the business sides of the industry. Previously, Raj has had a long stint with TCS in roles including Sales, Large Account Management and Strategy & Planning. He brings in over a decade of working experience in the US, UK, Nordics and European markets. Raj has a Bachelor’s degree in Technology from IIT Kanpur, India.

Raj lives in Chandigarh with his wife and two sons. Among his wide interests are following global markets, trekking and cricket.

Ramamohan P R (Ram) is the Head of Strategy and Business Development of EVRY India. Prior to working with EVRY India, Ram worked with technology giants such as Motorola, Tech Mahindra and the Tata Group for over two decades. He has worked in all major markets such as the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, and has a track record of building businesses in both software products and services areas.

Brett Lansing's nearly two decades of experience in IT strategy and execution include leadership roles at global manufacturing, telecom software and healthcare companies. Before joining AccentCare as CIO, I served as CIO for an integrated health software as a service company providing a suite of applications for engagement and workflow for more than 85 of the leading health plans and systems in the US.

My aspirations are to leverage technology as an enabler to advance home health and to ensure that AccentCare has defined processes for engineering, support and operations that can scale.

I’m a believer of celebrating the small wins along the way and driving a “Thank you culture” across my organization. Our IT employees work tirelessly in support of our clinicians, therapists and physicians and take great pride in what they do.

I also desire to emphasize innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit in the minds of our youth. I have watched my young son emerge as the youngest person in the world to convert a gasoline car to 100% electric car, appear on the Jay Leno Garage TV show and create a business for himself that specializes in converting cars to electric.

Stephen “Steve” Ciambrone joined AgFirst in June 2019 as Vice President of Application Development and was named the Bank’s Chief Information Officer in October. He previously served as a Managing Director in Citigroup’s Global Consumer Banking Technology organization.  During his tenure with Citi, Mr. Ciambrone led the development of next-generation payment solutions, including the Digital Wallet, the Global Payment Hub, and the Money2 for Health product, which was named the 2015 “Innovation of the Year” by the American Banker.  Mr. Ciambrone is currently leading a complete digital transformation of the technology at AgFirst Farm Credit Bank.

Hailed as “the most famous astronaut since Neil Armstrong”, Colonel Chris Hadfield is the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station, former Director of Operations for NASA, a test pilot, engineer, author, musician and TV host.

Zabeen Hirji is a corporate director, not-for-profit chair, strategic advisor to business, government and universities, focused on the Future of Work, leadership and talent, workforce and culture transformation, equity, diversity and inclusion.

Before joining Medavie in 2016, Bernard Lord was CEO of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunication Association of Canada and Mobile Giving Foundation Canada chair. The former New Brunswick premier continues to chair the Ontario Power Generation board.