Faez is a senior education services leader with over 20 years experience in education management. Faez is currently VP of Training & Enablement at Kinaxis. Kinaxis® believes human-centered AI, expertly combined with the power of concurrency  , can drive the most intelligent supply chains on the planet. Our approach is to embed AI across the end-to-end supply chain, expertly fusing the best techniques to reimagine what is possible in supply chains.   Advanced supply chain software companies, like Kinaxis, have introduced techniques, including AI, on several fronts, including both demand and supply, to take the guess work out of forecasting and drive out costs. It doesn’t take long to realize real tangible benefits. 

Ronen Avidor has extensive work experience in various roles within the technology industry. From 2018 onwards, they worked at Sisense, starting as a Senior Sales Engineer and progressing to Director Sales Engineer, Director Sales Engineering, VP of Sales Engineer for the US, and ultimately VP of Sales Engineer for the US West & APAC region. In their most recent role as Global VP of Customer Support, Ronen's focus is on streamlining the process of accessing insights and empowering business leaders to make critical decisions quickly.

Dirk has 20+ years of experience in the higher education industry. He worked for one of the most progressive, global top-tier higher education institutions, IE Business School, and the largest online education provider in the Spanish-speaking world, Proeduca Group. Dirk acquired his wealth of knowledge in Admissions by innovating and leading the Admissions Department. He developed and executed the market development strategy for Asia for a European institution. During his 15 years living and working in Asia, he localized student recruitment strategies and build both academic and non-academic partnerships across the region. Understanding educational institutions as community builders, he developed a regional ecosystem with alumni, universities, and institutions to foster sustainable growth. He has been a regular panelist in education conferences, most recently participating in the QS HigherEd  Summit for China and Asia in 2022. Dirk empowered and coached team members and peers on Student Recruitment Strategies, Analytics, and Admissions. Dirk holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration with a double major in Finance and HR from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He pursued an MBA and an Advanced Management Program at IE Business School, Spain. Most recently, Dirk completed a micro-MBA in EdTech and Higher Education Leadership from ConnectED, Australia.Dirk is passionate about the education industry and considers himself a life-long learner. He continuously explores how to improve technology-supported processes and investigates how learning agility can impact student recruitment processes. Dirk is the strategic advisor for the EdTech start-up speechsquare.

Chakri is Solution Oriented Executive Leader experienced in managing large Quality Engineering Organizations to support global IT projects within Budget, Time & Quality Standards. He has directly managed globally disbursed teams from 150 - 750 and IT Budgets ranging $20 Million - $50 Million USD. He is a Certified SAFe DevOps Practitioner and Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager He has built QE CoE's ground up at multiple locations. He has been instrumental in defining overall Test strategies, Capacity/Resource planning, Test coverage approaches resulting in highest level of Customer Satisfaction.Chakri is an industry recognized Security Testing Expert. With more than 16 years of experience, his expertise across tools, technologies, stacks and domains, standards is the key enabler to Cigniti’s Security Test offerings. He has worked on Security Testing assignments ranging from Desktop, Client-Server, and Critical Enterprise class n-tier web based applications. His Security Test thought leadership is reflected in his white papers titled “Uncovering Security Issues in Application during Functional Testing”, “PCI DSS Compliance” and “10 ways to avoid network security problems”. He worked on the development of control maps for risk mitigation. He has contributed to Networkworld.com and worked closely with Leading Analysts from Forrester in producing compelling Industry reports on Security testing.Chakri is a highly accomplished & motivated leader focused on Testing with a passion for Innovation, Thought leadership, Quality, On-time Delivery, Reduced Cost, Business development, People Management and building Best-in-Class Testing services that delight customers.Chakri holds a Masters in Telecommunications from the Pace University in New York and completed his graduation in Electronics and Communication Engineering from India.

A skilled Sales, Go-To-Market, Strategic Alliances, and Business Development leader, Brad is focused on helping CHROs drive better business outcomes by connecting their talent strategy to the CEO's business strategy, and helping them achieve optimal results from their investments in data-driven solutions using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Sallustio about how credentials and AI is going to impact the higher education landscape. Dr. Joe Sallustio has brought his leadership to a broad range of educational institutions including a regionally accredited non-profit university, a regionally accredited for-profit university, & a nationally accredited for-profit college, giving him a unique & effective breadth of knowledge in online & on-ground higher education administration. In today's ever-evolving & competitive higher education enrollment & marketing consulting landscape, this diversity of experience is necessary to successfully lead a university into the future. With nearly two decades of experience in higher education operations, Joe has led teams in marketing, enrollment, finance, financial aid, student services, student affairs, human resources, accreditation/Title IV compliance, business-to-businesses relationships, & product strategy for on-ground & online universities. Specifically, his extensive experience in scaling online marketing & enrollment activities have driven the success of many of the institutions he has served. Joe received his Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership from Northcentral University. He also holds an M.S. in Organizational Leadership (Strategic Human Resources Management) from Regis University & a B.S. in Speech Communications from the State University of New York College at Oneonta

In this episode, we speak with Biju about how Ai is going to reshape business and the role of science and data. Biju is the Chief Evangelist of Fractal and Chairman of FinalMile Consulting. At Fractal, he is playing the new game that is emerging at the intersection of human and machine intelligence. He is driven by the belief that the more we understand the inscrutable algorithm in our brains, the better will be the technology we develop for our machines. In the first 18 years of his career, while working with various advertising agencies, he had a traditional approach to dealing with human behavior. His dissatisfaction with this traditional paradigm led him to co-found FinalMile Consulting in 2007. Combining learning from Neuroscience, Behavioral Economics, and Design pioneered the practice of Behavior Architecture. He is a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum, and an MBA in Marketing and Human Resources Development from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

In this episode we speak with Dr. Ira Klein of Tempus Labs about the emergence of AI in the healthcare industry. Tempus Labs is bringing the power of data and artificial intelligence to healthcare with AI-enabled precision medicine. Dr. Ira Klein is the Vice President of Medical Affairs for Payor Relations for Tempus Labs. Previously, he was the Chief Medical Officer of Health New England, and before that, led Healthcare Quality Strategy for J&J Health Care Services for 5 years. Prior to that, in his 10 years at Aetna, he was the National Medical Director for Clinical Thought Leadership, Chief of Staff to the CMO, and founded the Oncology Solutions team. His early career included Assistant CMO of Bayshore Community Health System, CMO of Elderplan, and Asst. Prof. Medicine at RWJMS.

In this episode, we speak with Paul about how AI is going to change human behavior and transform the workplace. As Vice President of Expansion & Distribution at Opera Software, Paul Andrews led significant growth initiatives, including the development of a Fintech business unit and the establishment of strategic AI partnerships. With a career spanning two decades in tech leadership, Paul has a passion for leveraging emerging technologies like Web3 and AI to drive business transformation. He's an avid speaker within the industry and a firm believer in the potential of entrepreneurship. In his free time, Paul enjoys leading an active lifestyle and is enthusiastic about fostering the next generation of digital leaders.

Mohan is the CTO of SkyHive and oversees all aspects of developing and delivering SkyHive’s technology capabilities and innovation. Mohan is a hands-on technologist in Machine Learning / Deep Learning systems, specialized in building scalable systems, robotics, and computational neuroscience. Previously Mohan was the CTO of The Hive in Palo Alto, where he co-founded many startups. In his 25 years of career Mohan has worked at multiple companies including Zynga, IBM, Schlumberger, Expedia/Travelocity/Sabre, etc., where he architected and built platforms to scale to hundreds of millions of users. Mohan currently also serves as Associate Director at Stanford Human Perception Lab. Mohan has a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering, a master’s in Electrical Engineering, and an MBA with specialization in computational finance