Andi Mann is Global CTO & Founder at Sageable, delivering strategic research, consulting, and advisory services to help visionary leaders achieve success in technology innovation and digital transformation.
With decades of achievement with enterprises, vendors, startups, governments, cloud providers, and consulting, Andi is an accomplished digital executive, winning strategist, and trusted advisor. Mann is also an award-winning multimedia influencer, public speaker, and content creator for countless conferences, seminars, webcasts, podcasts, journals, and broadcast media.
Prior roles include Global CTO at SaaS video provider, Qumu; ‘DevOps CTO’ and Chief Evangelist at cloud analytics provider, Splunk; VP Product and Strategy, Office of the CTO, at enterprise software vendor, CA Technologies (Broadcom); Managing Research VP at industry analyst, Enterprise Management Associates; and Product Owner at content management vendor, Mobius Management Systems (Rocket Software); after over a decade in Enterprise IT roles in banking, insurance, manufacturing, government, and oil & gas.
Mann has presented worldwide including at Web Summit, Collision, Mobile World Congress, Gartner Symposium, IDC Directions, AWS Re:invent, Google Cloud Next, SAP Sapphire, IBM Think, InterOp; created and delivered mainstage keynotes (up to 12,000 attendees) at Splunk.conf, VMworld, CA World, CloudExpo, CIO 100, CIO Summit, Innotech, and DevOps Days; appeared live on CNBC, Sky News, DMRadio, TWiT, and The Cube; featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, eWeek, Information Week, ZDNet, CIO Magazine, TechTarget, ComputerWorld; and many more.
Author of two books – 'Visible Ops – Private Cloud'; and 'The Innovative CIO – find Andi on Twitter @AndiMann and Mastodon @AndiMann@masto.ai.
He believes, “Any software company’s success relies on the customer to adopt and quickly find value in their product. By focusing on our user friction points, we keep them at the center of innovating within our organization, platform and enablement strategy—making it easier for engineers to overcome their most significant issues."
Outside of work, Jemiah is a girl dad and a giant nerd about all things tech, art and sneakers. With Jemiah’s seat on Smile Trust’s managing board, he has helped the nonprofit organization provide healthy meals, clothing and resources to over 350,000 people over the last eight years.
Before founding Rose CISO Group, Olivia was a 21-year security industry veteran, including CISO roles with Mailchimp and Amplitude and 17 years as a virtual CISO and strategic advisor for Fortune 1000 companies.
Olivia sits on the board of directors for Cyversity, an organization dedicated to the consistent representation of women and underrepresented minorities in the cybersecurity industry through programs designed to diversify, educate and empower. At Cyversity, Olivia launched and now leads the mentorship program with over 500 participants.
Olivia holds numerous IT, privacy and security certifications and is an active participating member of several industry groups. Olivia is frequently requested as a speaker and guest on podcasts and is regarded as a thought leader in the industry.
I've contributed to the SRE Book, SRE Workbook, Implementing SLOs, and 97 Things Every SRE Should Know, all published by O'Reilly Media. I like talking about what I do, at a conference or one-on-one.
He is passionate about start-ups, tech entrepreneurship and tech mentorship. He is currently building his first startup - Jobjo.
I motivate and align leadership on security strategy and build support in designing effective behavior-oriented information security programs that balance technical security risk with business objectives.
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With business needs at the forefront, as they should be, most organizations struggle with building security best practices into daily habits. It’s challenging because change is hard. Culture shift is hard. My approach focuses on communicating the importance of security, instilling a sense of urgency, and motivating the organization to shift their mindset toward “Security by Design” best practices, quality focus, and technical responsibility.
Skillset:
Team Building | Leadership | Entrepreneurship | Business | Partnership | Thought Leader
Application Security / Software Security | SAST | DAST | IAST | SCA | OWASP | Security By Design | Shift Left
Security Champions | Human Motivation | Motivational Design | Gamification | Octalysis | Culture Change | Culture Shift
DevOps | DevSecOps | Continuous Integration | Continuous Delivery | CI/CD | Automation | Architecture Design | Developer Productivity | Quality | Agile | Scrum
Advisor | Coaching | Mentoring | Tutoring | Training
John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 35 years. Previously he was an evangelist at Docker Inc., VP of solutions for Socketplane (sold to Docker) and Enstratius (sold to Dell), and VP of training & services at Opscode where he formalized the training, evangelism and professional services functions at the firm. Willis also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award-winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems.
https://itrevolution.com/author/john-willis/
With over 15 years of experience as a professional writer, editor and project coordinator, Amanda’s work can be found in magazines, newspapers, books, blogs and podcasts around the world. She has been recognized as a Top 20 Under 40 Professional and is regularly invited to tech conferences to report on the latest tech announcements. Amanda draws her inspiration from constant learning, reading, volunteering and networking. She is a proud wife and momma, and Angelo State University graduate who currently resides in Texas.
Mitch serves as principal at Techstrong Research where he is part of a team of preeminent experts in digital transformation, DevOps, cloud-native, cybersecurity, data and AI/ML. In this role, he works with companies to align digital transformation and technology strategies to achieve disruptive goals and high-impact outcomes.
Mitch also serves as Techstrong Group CTO, is in demand as a speaker and is widely followed online on his podcasts, Analyst Corner commentary and interviews on the highly popular Techstrong TV streaming video program where he engages with top digital and tech leaders from across the industry.
Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director at Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as editor-in-chief at CRN and InfoWorld.
