Antonio Neri is the president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise responsible for the development and delivery of enterprise technology solutions and services that make hybrid IT simple and power the intelligent edge. During his nearly 23 years at HP and HPE, Neri has held numerous leadership positions most recently as executive vice president and GM of HPE’s Enterprise Group, which included the company’s server, networking, storage and technology services business units. Prior to HPE’s separation from HP, Neri ran HP’s server and networking business. Before that, Neri led HP’s Technology Services business, which provided technology support and consulting services for HP’s products and solutions. Neri spent the earlier part of his career in various engineering and leadership roles in HP’s Printing and Personal Systems business units. Neri he strategy, development and introduction of many breakthrough innovations at HP and HPE. He currently serves as a director of Anthem Inc. He graduated from Escuela Nacional de Educación Técnica in Argentina and attended the Universidad Tecnólgica Nacional. He is also a Professor of Drawing and Painting.

Daniel Newman is a founding partner and Principal Analyst of Futurum Research and the CEO of Broadsuite Media Group, one of our sister companies. Living his life at the intersection of people and technology, Newman works with the world’s largest technology brands exploring Digital Transformation and how it is influencing the enterprise. From Big Data to IoT to Cloud Computing, Newman makes the connections between business, people and tech that are required for companies to benefit most from their technology projects, which leads to his ideas regularly being cited on CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Barrons, Business Insider and hundreds of other leading business outlets around the world.

Newman is ranked in the Top 5 out of more than 8,000 technology analysts worldwide according to ARInsights, including multiple extended periods where he ranked #1. A 7x Best-Selling Author including his most recent “Human/Machine.” Newman is also a Forbes and MarketWatch (Dow Jones) contributor. MBA and Graduate Adjunct Professor, Daniel Newman is a Chicago Native and his speaking takes him around the world each year as he shares his vision of the role technology will play in our future.

Arvind Krishna is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IBM. As a business leader and technologist, he has led the building and expansion of new markets for IBM in artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing, and blockchain. He has also played a significant role in the development of innovative IBM products and solutions based on these emerging technologies.

Over his 30-year career at IBM, Krishna led a series of bold transformations and delivered proven business results. He most recently drove the successful $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat – the largest software acquisition – that has defined the hybrid cloud market. Together, IBM and Red Hat give clients the unique ability to build mission-critical applications once and run them anywhere.

Krishna previously was senior vice president of Cloud and Cognitive Software, where he pioneered the company’s hybrid cloud business, transformed IBM’s entire software and services portfolio and offerings for cloud, and grew the business. He also headed IBM Research, where he drove innovation in core and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, blockchain, cloud platform services, data-driven solutions, and nanotechnology. In 2016, Wired Magazine selected Arvind as “one of 25 geniuses who are creating the future of business” for his foundational work on blockchain.

As general manager of IBM Systems and Technology Group’s development and manufacturing organization, Krishna led the strategy for data-centric systems and the widespread industry adoption of open and collaborative technology standards. He also grew the IBM Information Management business by 50 percent.

At IBM, Krishna has been an outspoken advocate for learning at every stage of one’s career. He has made scientific contributions in a number of technical fields, including wireless networking, security, systems, and databases. In addition, he founded IBM’s security software business and helped create the world’s first commercial wireless system.

Krishna has an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the recipient of distinguished alumni awards from both institutions.

Chuck Robbins is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cisco. He assumed the role of CEO on July 26, 2015 and was elected Chairman of the Board on December 11, 2017. As Chairman and CEO, Robbins is focused on helping companies, cities and countries around the world as they look to Cisco to connect, secure and automate their organizations for a digital-first world.

Over his 20 years at Cisco, he has served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations, where he led the Worldwide Sales and Partner Organizations, and helped drive and execute many of the company’s investment areas and strategy shifts; Senior Vice President of The Americas, Cisco’s largest geographic region; Senior Vice President of U.S. Enterprise, Commercial and Canada; Senior Vice President of U.S. Commercial Sales; and Segment Vice President, U.S. and Canada channel organization, where he was instrumental in helping build the industry’s most powerful partner program.

Prior to joining Cisco, Robbins held management positions at Bay Networks and Ascend Communications.

Robbins is on the Board of Directors for BlackRock; Chairman Emeritus of the US-Japan Business Council; a Member of the International Business Council for the World Economic Forum; on the Board of Directors for the Business Roundtable; a Board of Trustees member for the Ford Foundation; a Member of the American Heart Association’s CEO Roundtable; a member of the International Council for the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University; a member of the 2019 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and a Vice Chair on the Corporate Fund Board for the Kennedy Center.

Robins holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with a computer science concentration from the University of North Carolina.