Blueprint for the Data-Driven Enterprise

Jim Lundy is the founder and CEO of Aragon Research. Jim also serves as the lead analyst for the digital workplace practice. Topics covered include: collaboration, communications, contact center, content management, content analytics, digital work hubs, corporate learning, and sales enablement. Jim has over 30 years of technology and management experience as a vendor, user, and analyst. Jim spent 12 years at Gartner, where he formed and led the collaboration and social software research team and also served as a lead analyst for enterprise content management (ECM) and corporate learning. Jim has extensive experience in product strategy, development, and go-to-market plans.

Vice President of Research and Aragon Fellow Betsy Burton joined Aragon Research in 2019. With over 30 years of experience, Betsy has worked with thousands of organizations in both the public and private sectors to help them with their technology-enabled business strategies, business architecture, digital business transformation, enterprise architecture, and business capability modeling.

Former Vice President of analytics and data science for Twitter, predictive analytics expert for ESPN, Kingpin of the famous MIT Blackjack Team, and Vice President of Microsoft for Startups - gained worldwide recognition as a member of the MIT blackjack team, which inspired the best-selling book, “Bringing Down the House” and the hit film, “21.” Since then, the in-demand business consultant and ESPN predictive analytics expert has founded four successful startups and sold them to the likes of Virgin, Yahoo! and most recently, Twitter. Jeffrey now serves as senior director of business insights and group project manager at Twitter, where he also manages the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning groups. From Sports Illustrated to Ford and McDonald's, leading global corporations seek Jeffrey’s insight on how to effectively understand and utilize technology as a competitive advantage. With an extraordinary real-life tale that illustrates the power of data, coupled with an entrepreneur’s business expertise, Jeffrey captivates audiences with fascinating insights, on topics including strategy, innovation and risk, to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and analytics—and how to understand, play and win the game.

Jamie Locks is the VP of Integration & Application Development at Schneider Electric. Jamie is part of the Schneider Digital team and is accountable for providing end to end strategy, capability, and delivery of integrations solutions across the organization. He has been leading global IT and business operations teams for over 25 years in the US, Europe, and Asia.

With over 20 experience in the Tech Industry, Maria is a metrics-driven Alliance and Business Development executive. She works with technology (ISV) partners to build, market, and sell joint product solutions. Maria is currently Director for Product (ISV) partners at Databricks, the Data & AI company.

Bruce Sandell is a Senior Solutions Engineer on the Alliances team at Looker, a part of Google Cloud, helping to ensure that Looker's Partner Ecosystem meets the demanding needs of their customers. Bruce has been working with databases and data warehouses for over 20 years and has spent the last eight years working with Big Data technologies. He's had roles in IT, Engineering, Consulting, Customer Support and Sales.

Brian Warwick is a Senior Partner Solutions Architect for Healthcare and Life Sciences at AWS. He has sixteen years of experience building enterprise solutions, and has worked alongside clinicians in both inpatient and outpatient settings to create technology solutions used in patient care. Brian works with global AWS Partners and healthcare organizations to help them achieve their business and clinical objectives on AWS. He also publishes AWS whitepapers and blogs, supports healthcare organizations with digital transformation, and is passionate about solving complex healthcare challenges by using the latest in AWS cloud computing services.

As a Solution Architect, Simona Todoroska has years of hands-on experience in strategic and operational activities revolving around technology and business integration. Now as Industry Solutions Manager and Partner at ⋮IWConnect, she’s the bridge between every key point of complex EIA/SOA and ETL solutions - all while thriving in Amsterdam.

Brian Murphy is the VP of Data at Aramark. He has 30-years of success driving accelerated change through data-driven digital transformation that lead to finding new opportunities, penetrating new markets, reducing costs, and increasing profits.

John Morton is currently the Business Intelligence Developer for the Science Museum Group, a role which is all about bringing data together and allowing the organisation to exploit the value in it. His career includes previous roles working with records and data at Lambeth Palace and the Royal Opera House. In his spare time he serves on the committee of his local rail user group.

Jonathan Howes is Head of HRES Product Management for Sony’s Global HR Operations. Owning the strategic roadmap and operational delivery for Sony’s global HR platforms, he obsesses with how to turn corporate vision into practical reality. A key focus for his organization is learning to continuously leverage innovations of cloud-based platforms to adapt and evolve new HR services. Balancing stability, usability and compliance while driving for ongoing innovation is an everyday challenge. Aligning the vision with a pragmatic strategic roadmap built on strong vendor partnerships is key.

Phil Maguire is an application manager for ITV, of which Salesforce is his primary focus as a platform. Much of his time at ITV has been leading digital transformation projects around Salesforce, where Snaplogic has a become a key platform in accelerating the delivery of these projects.

Tom Saunders is a Software Developer at the Science Museum Group. He is responsible for developing and maintaining a wide array of corporate systems, as well as system integrations for both in-house and externally hosted software applications. Much of his work is focussed on workflows and integrations of the group’s collection data.

Carmine has over 20 years working in Higher Education technology teams. He currently serves as the Assistant Director of Integration in Boston University’s Information Services and Technology, leading their Integration Services team and providing solutions for university-wide data and application integration. Over the past 5 years, the Integration Services team at BU has progressively grown their usage of the Snaplogic platform as they take on new projects and modernize legacy integrations.

Carrie Craig is currently the Director of Enterprise Business Systems at WD-40 Company where she is responsible for the Enterprise Application Portfolio and leading a digital transformation initiative there. Her background is in Enterprises Resources Planning (ERP) systems and everything needed to support the ERP ego system. Prior to WD-40 Company, Carrie was the International Applications owner and Project Portfolio Leader at NuVasive.

Drew Ray has over 25 years of experience in applications and data management and is currently the Lead Applications Architect at Wake Forest University

Gaurav Dhillon is the Chairman and CEO of SnapLogic. Dhillon is an experienced builder of technology companies that focus on ways to integrate data and applications for improved decision-making and better business outcomes. He was the co-founder and former CEO of Informatica guiding it through a successful IPO and global expansion to become a market leader.

Dayle Hall is the CMO at SnapLogic, where he is responsible for developing the go to market model, brand strategy and marketing execution of the company. He has built and grown marketing functions in large and small technology companies including People.ai, Lithium (now Khoros), Aruba Networks, Cisco and Oracle.

Craig Stewart is the CTO at SnapLogic, responsible for leading the company’s product strategy and launches, roadmap, and evangelism. Craig is an industry expert with experience guiding the evolution of data and application integration technologies. He has been a significant contributor to the technology development of major tech companies such as Oracle, Cognos, Sybase and more.

With almost 20 years of marketing experience, Michael Nixon currently leads the SnapLogic product marketing team as their VP of Product Marketing. Prior to joining Snaplogic, Nixon was the Sr. Director of Product Marketing at the cloud data platform, Snowflake, as well as other large technology companies such as Sony and NES.

Mark Gibbs is the VP of Product Management. He has over 20 years of experience in data strategy, ETL/ELT, and analytics. In his career as a product management leader, he has worked with many Enterprises enabling them to create real business value through the use of data. This value is achieved through offering compelling products that enable them to either increase revenue by selling value-added services or reduce Operational Expense through increased efficiencies.

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