Presenters

former Gartner analyst, presented on Blockchain and advising a few startups in Blockchain, one going through an ICO, one as a platform provider, one in the medical IoT space with Blockchain for medica...

Alan is the founders of DevOps.com where he serves as editor-in-chief. DevOps.com is where the world meets DevOps. It is the largest collection of original content relating to DevOps on the webs toda...

Albert Santalo is a computer scientist, Internet entrepreneur and angel investor with experience in high growth, venture-backed technology companies. His passion lies in designing products and buildin...

Alex is the CEO of SherlockTalent, connecting top tech talent with quality companies. We help companies that are frustrated by the difficulty in hiring top tech, marketing, and creative professiona...

Amjad is the CEO and Managing Partner of AAJ Technologies. In this role, he sets the vision and strategy for the organization, drives growth and expansion, and fosters its customer-focused culture. Pr...

Anand has over 20 years of experience leading digital transformations, developing technology teams, and building customer experiences. Prior to joining AutoNation as SVP of Digital, Anand was an Assoc...

Angela has over 16 years of experience in business and technology consulting. Angela started her career at Andersen followed by Deloitte working in the IT consulting and auditing practices. Today An...

Anjali is the owner and principal coach at Pragmatic Project Leadership LLC, a South Florida based boutique Agile Coaching, Training, and Consulting Practice, where she and her collaborators help orga...

Professional in Enterprise Optimization, Strategy and Information Technology Management with extensive experience....

Barkha is an experienced technology professional with a history of success in small startup environments and in large global organizations...

Rebecca Danta is the Managing Director of Miami Angels, an angel network that funds Seed and Series A technology companies with early traction across various sectors. Prior to joining Miami Angels...

Becky McNeeley has been working in the IT industry for over 25 years and has spent the last ten years leading software development teams at Ultimate Software. She currently works on the Lean-Agile Pr...

Director at Salesforce...

Bill has 15+ years of business/market development and product management experience in a broad cross-section of technology categories. My career experience with RFID, Big Data analytics, Pervasive Com...

Bob Fitts is the Founder + Producer of SUP-X®: The StartUp Expo, the largest early-stage conference in the state of Florida, and SUP-X® Radio, a series of podcasts devoted to startup and early-stage...

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Backup and Replication Software capabilities, functionalities and integration....

Cecil Phillip is a software developer with almost a decade of experience with creating enterprise software solutions. Today, he works for Microsoft as a Cloud Developer Advocate where he helps develop...

Chris is Citrix Vice President and Technical Fellow. A self-professed tech instigator, he’s a devotee of Mobility, IoT, VDI, Clouds, & Innovation....

Christine Speedy, PCI QIR certified, CenPOS Sales, uncovers potential credit card data breach threats daily, primarily due to misinformation and outdated or poorly implemented systems. Christine’s s...

"Colleen Esposito believes that agile is changing the world for good and proud to be in the community making it happen. During the day she helps companies, and the people in them, realize their full p...

Connie is an agent of change motivated by delivering on strategy by aligning IT programs to business priorities. She is a pragmatic thinker that has played instrumental roles in three enterprise-w...

Digital transformation is about meeting the needs of today’s modern business. The new workforce is increasingly mobile, global and distributed and is putting requirements on companies to support the...

I've been thrilled to be at the cutting edge of this exciting industry for the last 20 years. My beard isn't great just from age but also from experience. My team building skills are exceptional and y...

Dan is Director of Communication at SFISSA.ORG...

Software developer in South Florida focused on Microsoft technologies including c#, SQL Server and Azure....

Dave Shanker is the Director of Platform Engineering at Kinect Consulting, a consulting firm dedicated to helping enterprise teams reduce time-to-market, overall cost, & learning curve around deve...

As Vice President of Business Development for the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, David heads up the Business development group at the Alliance. The Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance is the designate...

David Koppe is the Director of Information Strategy at MongoDB for the Eastern region. The Information Strategy group is a specialized team within MongoDB, focused on helping companies derive busines...

Doug Cohen is President of Summit Performance Training, an authorized Sandler Training center serving the South Florida area. Doug combines real-life problem-solving experience, with coaching and co...

Drew Indelicato is Manager of the CyberSecurity Operations team at Citrix. Drew has more than 15 years of experience in IT Security. Drew’s primary focus is currently on Insider Threat and CyberThre...

Dwight Goins is the Chief Algorithms Officer (CAO) and Lead Emerging Experiences Consultant at THOTH Speed Engineers located in Coral Springs, Florida. Dwight spends most of his time leading his team ...

Elizabeth Decker is the Director, IT Enables Services at Cross Country Healthcare Inc., the SIM Women Champion and the Partnership Chair of the SIM South Florida Chapter. Ms. Decker has 20+ years of ...

Etienne Gillard is a multicultural serial entrepreneur with 30 years experience. He has a natural talent for business development, team building, and sales and a passion for bringing different languag...

Francisco Arias, trained as a physicist, while researching neural networks, chaos theory, and complex systems. Francisco was an early adopter of Machine Learning. He dropped out of his Ph.D. program t...

Gabriel E. Montoya is currently CEO of Dvdendo, automated savings and investment platform that provides access to well-diversified portfolios at low cost and no minimums, focusing on the underserved U...

Gary is the CEO of Cyberman Security and refers to himself as, “the most reluctant cybersecurity person in the world” given that his 25-year career has been as a thought leader in marketing commun...

Gary is Chairman of South Florida Business & Wealth, reaching over 30,000 top decision-makers and influencers in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties, SFBW delivers in-depth business repor...

Business Development within the ITC industry in LATAM and USA with focus on M&A and Regionalization Have been involved and led growth in terms of revenue, regionalization and M&A initiative...

Widely considered one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Latin America, German Pugliese Bassi has played a significant role as co-founder of Technisys, nowadays with a focus in marketing and alli...

Greg Taffet was recently recognized by South Florida Business journal as CIO of the Year finalist. He received the 2012 Universal Access Award in the individual category from the South Florida Digital...

Jan founded ShipMonk in 2014 to change the way e-commerce companies manage their supply chain and ship orders to their customers through game-changing software, automation, and exceptional service. ...

Jason White currently serves as a Chief Technologist of the Hybrid I.T. Division at HPE. Jason is responsible for field execution of the technical and business aspects of HPE Hybrid IT Sales strategie...

Jeff is not your typical process, business, and tech person. His career journey started with a focus in the fine arts. He brings creativity to the table in all aspects of his career, from the way he...

Jennifer Torlone is the Vice President of Information Technology at Willis Lease Finance Corporation, joining the company in January of 2018. Jennifer’s Global IT initiatives include an integrated ...

Jayne Groll is a co-founder and Board Member of the DevOps Institute (DOI). DOI’s goal is help codify DevOps emerging practices and to set the standard in enterprise DevOps training and certificat...

Jim McKelvey might be best known for co-founding Square, the mobile payment system, but his entrepreneurial spirit goes beyond inventing new technology. A 1987 graduate of Washington University in St....

Jody Paterson is a trusted advisor and security thought leader who is a Certified Information Security Specialist (CISSP), a Certified Information Security Auditor (CISA), a former director at KPMG an...

Joe Russo is the founding Executive Director of the Palm Beach Tech Association, a nonprofit committed to Building the Palm Beaches into a Tech Hub. Since July 2015, Joe led the organization to att...

Joe Homnick is a Microsoft Regional Director since the start of the program over 20 years ago and is a principal owner of Homnick Systems (HSI), a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner located in Boca Rato...

John Riley is the CEO and Co-Founder of C-N-C Blockchain Advisory company. He has over 17 years’ experience in the software applications space working for companies like Oracle and SAP. He has pr...

Mr. Sastre has two decades of experience in the Information Technology Industry. He has provided skills from management, training, technical and entrepreneurial. Mr. Sastre has extensive teaching and ...

Jon Antevy is a recognized leader in the field of construction program management software. Using his Bachelor of Design and Master of Science in Building Construction as a foundation, he converted hi...

Joseph is a 25-year veteran within the traditional and digital advertising and media landscape. He is considered to be a digital visionary, assisting global corporations such as Adobe, Bacardi Brands ...

Julie is IoT Education Business Development Manager at SYNNEX Corporation....

Kathy Chiu is a managing partner of the FAN Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in Florida-based technology and life science “lite” early stage companies. The group launched their first fu...

Ken Comée is CEO of CareCloud, the cloud-based software, and services platform focusing exclusively on supporting high-growth medical groups. Ken joined CareCloud as CEO in 2015 after serving on the ...

Results driven executive with global, multi-industry experience in B2B and B2C startup, fast growth, and large public companies. Extensive international experience. Enjoy fast-paced, service-oriented,...

Kim Scribner is the Founder and Principal Consultant with Empirical Agile. She has been working as an agile coach in technology for the past 10 years building and executing on the shift to an agile mi...

Krista Wade is GM of New Horizons Learning Centers of South Florida, the top training and certifications provider for individuals, veterans, government agencies, and corporations across South Florida ...

Laz Corrales is an accomplished and results-driven leader with over 15-years in the management of complex Information Security Programs and direction of major Information Technology (IT) architectures...

Lonni’s background includes over 20 years in finance, insurance, banking, and automotive industries. As a business development specialist, Lonni is currently assisting a start-up tech firm, Verifin...

An entrepreneurial leader with a proven track record of driving innovation, growth, and opportunity. A strategic thinker with a unique combination of creative skills for breakthrough innovation, and e...

An enthusiastic results-oriented leader with experience in visual design, user experience, health information, software development, mobile and web technologies. Mallesh is passionate about user exper...

Maria Hernandez is  Head of Innovation and Digital Business at DHL Express incubating ideas and driving innovative solutions within the logistics industry. Prior to this role, Maria was Chief Innovat...

Marilyn is a seasoned IT professional with strong leadership experience in team development, performance management, and database systems support. Specialties: SQL Server production support includi...

MARK KILBY has cultivated more distributed, dispersed, and virtual teams than colocated teams for more than two decades. Currently, Mark serves as an agile coach with Sonatype, a “remote first” so...

Mark Vollaro is the current CEO/President of LifeMD, an end to end Telemedicine/Telehealth solution. He attended Florida Atlantic University majoring in Business Administration. Soon after college, he...

Manage the teams responsible for Citrix's strategic relationships with partners in cloud infrastructure and desktop virtualization. With over 200,000 customers and 100,000,000 users, Citrix is one ...

Matthew Kohen is an attorney, entrepreneur, and technology enthusiast with experience in advising technology companies in a variety of industries. Matthew is General Counsel and Blockchain Evangelist ...

Sr. Information Security professional with over 25 years of experience in the Information Technology field with focus in Information Assurance (IA) and compliance. Extensive experience in planning, de...

Michael Affronti is the VP of product at Fuze in New York City, a tech company that builds unified collaboration apps and services for large enterprises. Affronti joined Fuze in January 2015 via the a...

Michael specializes in Content Writing, Social Media Marketing, Email Marketing, SEO, Graphic Design and Consulting....

Michael is a nationally recognized Cybersecurity and privacy expert, and active community leader. He holds presentations and workshops at local Information Security groups to train and mentor the next...

Mike has played a pivotal role in shaping technology, in the cities or companies he has served for over three decades. Mike has undertaken bold initiatives in bringing technology to the citizenry thro...

My role is to understand my clients' businesses and then determine the best strategies to drive their businesses using all of the real world, digital, marketing, and commerce tools available. I take a...

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VC with Las Olas Venture Capital. Interested in meeting smart founders working on building the future....

Page Wiggins now resides in Delray Beach FL. He studied chemistry and pre-med studies at Wabash College. He joined IBM out of college in 1984 and has remained there throughout his career. He has ...

Pete is the former CISO of Hertz global, Virtustream (a Dell company) and VP of Security engineering at Terremark/Verizon. Pete has been a local S. Florida trailblazer with a wireless ISP, a network ...

Ray Ruga is an innovative media and marketing entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of Fintech Americas Latin America and the Caribbean’s premier Banking Transformation and Innovation Conference for C-Sui...

Darktrace is the world’s leading machine learning company for cybersecurity. Created by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge, the Enterprise Immune System uses AI algorithms to automatica...

Robert is the co-founder and President of Trapezoid Inc. a company that develops visibility and management tools around the security and operations of firmware. He has deep experience in security arch...

Roberto Valdez, CPA, CISA, is a Manager with Kaufman Rossin’s Cybersecurity Services. He performs advisory and assurance engagements that include SOC 1, 2, and 3; IT risk assessments; phishing simu...

Mr. Barranco has extensive experience running multiple technical and operational departments globally servicing tier-one customers in mission-critical environments and currently holds the role of Seni...

Sanjay Deo combines over 20 years of Cybersecurity and compliance experience. At 24By7Security, the corporate mission is to assist clients with building a “defensible platform” in the face of r...

Sean Barkman is a Principal at Ballast Point Ventures. Prior to joining Ballast Point Ventures in 2011, Sean spent three years in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Raymond James where he was...

Stephanie Lone is the Vice President of Engineering for CBS Sports Digital. In this role, she leads the technology teams for CBS Interactive's sports properties, which include CBS Sports HQ, CBSSports...

Tangy Frederick, is the Co-Founder & a Software Engineer at Cre8tive Devs Software. Tangy started a career a successful Lead Generation Marketer. While living in California she worked for “ Envi...

Timothy J. Cartwright is a partner at Fifth Avenue Advisors specializing in venture capital, private equity, and mergers & acquisitions. Mr. Cartwright is Chairman of Tamiami Angel Funds, the larg...

Information Security by way of System Administration, IT Generalist, Breaker of things, & IT Firefighter....

Todd is the Director of Business Development for the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance (Alliance), Broward County’s official public/private partnership for economic development. In this position, ...