As founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, Alan manages a broad array of businesses and brands including Techstrong Media, Techstrong Live, Techstrong Research, Devops.com, Security Boulevard, Techstrong TV, and Techstrong Learning. To do so and succeed, Alan has to be attuned to the world of technology, particularly DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud-native and digital transformation.

With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations.

Shimel is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chat podcast, TechStrong TV and Digital Anarchist audio and video appearances are widely followed.

Alan attributes his success to the combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality.

Mr. Shimel is a graduate of St. John's University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.

Daniel is the CEO of The Futurum Group. Living his life at the intersection of people and technology, Daniel works with the world’s largest technology brands exploring Digital Transformation and how it is influencing the enterprise. From the leading edge of AI to global technology policy, Daniel makes the connections between business, people and tech that are required for companies to benefit most from their technology investments. Daniel is a top 5 globally ranked industry analyst and his ideas are regularly cited or shared in television appearances by CNBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and hundreds of other sites around the world.

A 7x Best-Selling Author including his most recent book “Human/Machine.” Daniel is also a Forbes and MarketWatch (Dow Jones) contributor.

An MBA and Former Graduate Adjunct Faculty, Daniel is an Austin Texas transplant after 40 years in Chicago. His speaking takes him around the world each year as he shares his vision of the role technology will play in our future.

Mitch Ashley is VP and Practice Lead of DevOps and Application Development for The Futurum Group. Mitch has over 30+ years of experience as an entrepreneur, industry analyst, product development and IT leader, with expertise in software engineering, cybersecurity, DevOps, DevSecOps, cloud, and AI. Mitch comes to The Futurum Group through the acquisition of Techstrong Group (devops.com, securityboulevard.com, and techstrong.tv), where he serves as CTO and founder of Techstrong Research.

As a Chief Technology Advisor, CTO, CIO, and head of engineering, Mitch led the creation of award-winning cybersecurity products utilized in the private and public sectors, including the U.S. Department of Defense and all military branches. Mitch also led managed PKI services for broadband, Wi-Fi, IoT, energy management and 5G industries, product certification test labs, an online SaaS (93m transactions annually), the development of video-on-demand and Internet cable services, and a national broadband network. He began his career creating large banking and telecom applications and building AI expert systems.

Having led his first of three introductions of DevOps in 2014 and the modernization of three IT organizations, Mitch shares his experiences as an analyst, keynote and conference speaker, panelist, host, moderator, and expert interviewer. His talks cover some of the most in-demand topics, including CIO/CTO leadership, product and software development, DevOps, DevSecOps, containerization, container orchestration, AI/ML/GenAI, platform engineering, SRE, and cybersecurity. He publishes his research on FuturumGroup.com/ and TechstrongResearch.com/resources. He hosts multiple award-winning video and podcast series, including DevOps Unbound, CISO Talk, and Techstrong Gang.

Caroline Wong is a renowned cybersecurity strategist and author with nearly two decades of experience in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), product innovation, and team leadership. Her book, Security Metrics: A Beginner’s Guide, was inducted into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame in 2022. Caroline is also a sought-after speaker, podcast host, and LinkedIn Learning instructor, known for empowering professionals with actionable insights.

Guy is the CTO at Visible Impact, responsible for positioning, GTM, and sales guidance across technologies and markets. He has decades of field experience describing technologies, their business and community value, and how they are evaluated and acquired. Guy’s specialty areas include AI, DevOps/cloud-native/12-factor, enterprise applications, application integration, Big Data, governance-risk-compliance, containerization, virtualization, HPC, CPUs-GPUs, xPUs, and systems lifecycle management.

Guy started his technology career as a research director for technology media company Ziff Davis, with stints at PC Magazine, eWeek, and CIO Insight. Prior to joining Visible Impact, he worked at Dell, including postings in marketing, product, and technical marketing groups for a wide range of products, including engineered systems, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and mission-critical cloud services. He lives and works in Austin, TX.

Stephen is the President of the Tech Field Day business unit for The Futurum Group. An active participant in the world of enterprise information technology, Stephen currently focuses on AI, edge, and cloud, and is a long-time voice in enterprise storage. Stephen oversees the popular Tech Field Day event series, bringing panels of independent technical content creators together with leading companies in the industry. He also hosts the weekly Utilizing Tech podcast, and contributes to numerous podcasts, webcasts, and industry news reports.

A graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Stephen studied the impact of technology and society. He frequently travels to Silicon Valley for Field Day events and appears on-stage, in analyst and press panels, and behind the scenes at events around the world.

DevOps Lead
Chaos Engineer Practitioner
AW & K8s specialist.
Writer and International Speaker.

Arpit is a senior partner solution architect working with Global System Integrators to help with Enterprise Transformations and Migrate workloads from on-premise to cloud. Arpit helps large organizations accelerate cloud adoption and build secure, resilient, scalable and high-performance cloud applications. Arpit enjoys cycling, following cricket and spending time with his family.

Jen is a no-nonsense business leader with nearly 25 years experience in shaking up the security world. As Chief Strategy Officer at W2 Communications, she’s a pro at helping clients turn bold ideas into big wins, breaking barriers, growing revenue, all while championing ethics and diversity in tech. Jen’s seen it all—build-to-exit successes, stealth-emergence for disruption, category creation and overhauls, and storytelling that actually sells both companies and individuals. Her resume boasts heavy hitting marketing and operations leadership roles for companies like Fortinet, Sourcefire (Cisco), Flashpoint, Claroty, and Tidal Cyber, plus some killer speaking appearances at DEF CON, RSA, Gartner Security and Risk, and CyberMarketingCon.

Named a Top 50 Woman in B2B Marketing and one of the Most Influential People in Security, as well as winning an SC Media award for ethics in security marketing, Jen’s not just making waves; she’s redefining the game. She’s busy rewriting the rulebook on how personal growth and energy alignment can reshape the future of cybersecurity careers. She also writes a column for SecurityWeek, highlighting individuals who use their voices and platforms to strengthen the industry for everyone.
 

Marc Hornbeek, a.k.a., DevOps-the-Gray is CEO and Principal Consultant at Engineering DevOps Consulting, Author of books Engineering DevOps, and Continuous Testing, and Quality, Security, and Feedback, Ambassador, Author and instructor for The DevOps Institute, Blogger on DevOps, CloudNativeNow, and SecurityBoulevard websites. Marc is a globally recognized strategic transformation consultant who applies engineering practices, holistically, for Continuous Testing, DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE digital transformations. Marc has led more than 90 transformations for enterprises, manufacturers, service providers and government institutions. He is an IEEE Outstanding Engineer. His education includes engineering and executive business degrees and nine certifications from the DevOps Institute.

CEO & PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT at www.EngineeringDevOps.com

Business Profile:https://ciolook.com/marc-hornbeek-unveiling-the-blueprint-to-success-in-the-era-of-digital-transformation/

DevOps Institute Ambassador and Author:https://www.devopsinstitute.com/ambassador_bio/marc-hornbeek/

IEEE Outstanding Engineer: https://ieee-region6.org/2016/2016-region-6-awards-winners/BLOGS: https://devops.com/author/marc-hornbeek/

https://containerjournal.com/author/marc-hornbeek/

https://securityboulevard.com/author/marc-hornbeek/

SLIDESHARE:https://www.slideshare.net/MarcHornbeek

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN_VIqQKDhZZW5xkaRwS-nB48Ijpfksif 

Book: Engineering DevOps: mybook.to/engineeringdevops

Book: Continuous Testing, Quality, Security, and Feedback: https://mybook.to/HtAAS8

With 20+ years of experience in Tech, Zehra has managed multibillion-dollar business portfolios, built $100M+ revenue-generating new businesses/products, and led global teams at Microsoft, AWS, IBM, and Fujitsu. A trusted C-Suite advisor across Fortune 500, Zehra is an expert in unlocking innovation, building new product ideas from the ground up, leading digital transformation enabled by cloud, data, and AI, and seamlessly linking technology and business to ignite value realization across all layers of the organization.

A recognized thought leader, Zehra is a notable speaker across industry events, a published writer, startup advisor/investor, Founder of Women@AWS, and an active advocate for Gender Equity in Tech. Along with numerous certifications, Zehra has an MBA from NYU and is pursuing a Doctor of Engineering degree from George Washington University.

Yuri Demchenko is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. He graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine, "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute". His main research areas include data science, data management, Big Data Infrastructure and Technologies. He currently coordinates the GreenDIGIT project, which focuses on developing technical, operational and policy recommendations for greening future research infrastructures. He actively researches the architectural and design aspects of experimental research automation and reproducibility and automation.

Nabil Bukhari firmly believes technology and business have a responsibility to improve the human condition. As a futurist, business leader and humanist, he has a passion for the democratization of technology and is determined to contribute to a world where tech has a positive social impact. As Chief Technology & Product Officer and General Manager of Subscriptions at Extreme Networks, the world’s fastest growing cloud management company, Nabil’s vision is to make tech work for people in the age of the Infinite Enterprise. He believes in a future built on the art of possibility, centered around the brilliance of his teams and the promise of tech innovation.

Nabil’s career has taken him around the world, including entrepreneurial growth opportunities and leadership roles at some of the most recognized names in tech, including Cisco and Dell, among others. He holds a degree in Engineering, studied extensively in the arts, and earned an Executive MBA from London School of Economics, NYU Stern, and HEC Paris.
 

IT infrastructure subject matter expert (Cloud, Virtualization, Network & Storage) praised for transforming IT operations in verticals that include Pharma, Software, Manufacturing, Government and Financial Services. I've lead projects that include consolidation of multiple data centers and combining disparate global IT operations. "Three letter" Federal agencies have called upon me to lead the modernization of critical IT communication platforms.

Find my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/thectoadvisor
My Blog: https://thectoadvisor.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ctoadvisor

As a recognized technology thought leader, I've had articles published in online publications that include TechRepublic and TechTarget. I've been quoted by leading online publications such as ZDNet, GigaOM and TechCrunch. Silicon valley start-ups have sought my input on critical technology decisions. As an engineer, my experience includes building a Cloud infrastructure for consumption by large government organizations such as the FTC.

Plainly put, I'm a technology executive with the chops to talk in the boardroom as well as the data center. I can be reached via keith@virtualizedgeek.com

Jonathan Singer is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Checkmarx, covering the Checkmarx One platform, as well as new business GTM strategy. Prior to his time at Checkmarx Jonathan spent 19 years in both Information Security and Telecommunications with roles at Akamai, the WiMAX Forum, and Yankee Group Research. He’s a father of one child and two chihuahuas, and that keeps him plenty-busy thank you very much.

Kobi Tzruya is the Chief Research and Development Officer at Checkmarx. In this role, he is responsible for setting and executing the company's strategy and direction. With more than 24 years of technical experience, Kobi specializes in executive management, solution deployment and adoption, and project management, as well as overseeing customer success and support, sales engineering, and quality assurance. Prior to joining Checkmarx, Kobi served as Chief Operating Officer at Wise for nearly nine years, where he led sales and business development. Kobi earned his master's in information technology and marketing as well as his bachelor of science in industrial engineering from Tel Aviv University.

Nick Durkin is a Field CTO at Harness. Nick has his finger on the pulse of all-things software, AI, and cybersecurity from his daily conversations with customers, and 14+ years spent in ML and AI as an architect for companies like Zelle, Trace3, DataTorrent, and OverOps.

As a product management leader with over 20 years of experience, I help companies develop highly effective product teams that deliver successful products to market. I do this by managing the product lifecycle, evaluating, and prioritizing the product strategy to drive product growth and achieve customer acquisition, expansion and retention goals. Going forward, my goal is to continue helping companies and product teams grow and succeed.