Automatic for the Data: Augmentation Everywhere

Eric Kavanagh
CEO at The Bloor Group

Eric has nearly 30 years of experience as a career journalist with a keen focus on enterprise technologies. He designs and moderates a variety of New Media programs, including The Briefing Room, DM Radio and Espresso Series, as well as GARP’s Leadership and Research Webcasts. His mission is to help people leverage the power of software, methodologies and politics in order to get things done.

Sean Chou 
CEO at Catalytic

As the co-founder and CEO of Catalytic, Sean leads the charge on product design and company strategy, and builds relationships with customers, channels and investors. As a lifelong technologist and true SaaS pioneer, Sean loves turning complex business problems into simple solutions. Previously, as the CTO of Fieldglass, Sean helped shape the company from inception in 1999 to a successful sale to SAP in 2014.

Haldo Sponton, Globant
VP of Technology | Head of AI Development

Divanny Lamas
CEO at Transposit

Divanny Lamas is the CEO of Transposit, the DevOps process automation company that provides human-centric automation for managing today’s complex IT environments. Transposit is led by an all-women C-suite and has a nearly 50% female engineering team. Divanny is also a managing director at leading venture capital firm Sutter Hill Ventures. She is passionate about working with entrepreneurs to tackle ambitious technical challenges. Prior to Transposit, she began her career at Google and spent seven years at Splunk, where she witnessed first-hand the rise of big data. Divanny has a bachelor of arts degree in government and computer science from Harvard.

Joanne Friedman
CEO/ Principal, Digital Business at Connektedminds

Visionary IT Industry Analyst and entrepreneurial senior IT executive, I’m a futurist with a passion for strategy, a knack for picking emerging technologies and a track record of delivering value to Global 2000 electronics, high-tech and pharmaceutical manufacturers.