Our 2025 Speakers
Speakers
We’re excited to be joined at this year’s conference by inspirational thinkers and noteworthy thought leaders.

Jennifer Aaker
General Atlantic Professor
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Pascal Belaud
General Manager of Cloud & AI Platforms, US Financial Services
Microsoft

Cathy Bessant
CEO
Foundation For The Carolinas

Dr. Elvira Chapa
VP Executive Partner
Gartner

Clarence Clayton
Director of Global Privacy, AI Risk and Compliance
Red Hat

Candice Coletrane
Executive Director, ISG Product Release Operations
Lenovo

Henry Coutinho-Mason
Author, Speaker & "Reluctant Futurist"

Bárbara Díaz
Director, Global Technology Strategy and Operations
MetLife

Paul Erunse
Senior Vice President, Business Controls for Global Technology and Operations
MetLife

Bryan Falchuk
Author & Insurance Thought Leader

Nancy Hom
Vice President, Global Internal Audit
MetLife

Brooke Huckabee
Sr Director of Sales Enablement
SAS Institute

Zack Kass
Global AI Advisor

Kristen Koch
VP of Talent – Americas
Hitachi Energy

Nithin Kumar Raghavan
AVP of Data & Analytics
MetLife

Sheila Lirio Marcelo
Co-Founder & CEO, Ohai.ai; Founder, Care.com

Zaira Nazario
Director, Mathematics of Computation
IBM

Kerry O'Brien
Global Head, Insurance Asset Management and Liability Solutions
MetLife Investment Management

Adrienne O'Neill
Executive Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer
MetLife

Chris O'Rourke
Vice President of Wireless Engineering
Cisco

Bill Pappas
EVP, Head of Global Technology and Operations
MetLife

Penelope Prett
Global Workday Business Group Lead
Accenture

Gitanjali Rao
Inventor, Author and STEM Promoter

Sol Rashidi
Advisor, Consultant, Fractional CDO & CAIO

Shira Rubinoff
CEO
The Cybersphere Group

Tamar Shapiro
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
MetLife

Jane Slusark
Chief Communications Officer
MetLife

Brian Solis
Head of Global Innovation
ServiceNow

Governor Josh Stein
Governor of North Carolina

Jennifer Strong
Journalist & Founder, SHIFT Podcast

Robert Vaughn
Chief Innovation Officer
NPower

Jeff Wilser
Journalist & Founder, AI Curious
Additional Speakers to be announced
