SPEAKERS

2019 KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Todd Hewlin
Co-Founder
TCG Advisors

Co-Author of Goliath’s Revenge

Todd is co-founder of TCG Advisors and a leading expert on digitization and business model innovation. He is co-author of Goliath’s Revenge, Consumption Economics and B4B, as well as articles in Harvard Business Review, Wired, McKinsey Quarterly, and [email protected] Todd is regularly found in the boardroom of market leaders advising them on how to grow in a digital world. His clients include Microsoft, Salesforce, Cisco, Hitachi, GE Digital, Veritas, Brambles, Telstra, and Macquarie Capital.

2019 SPEAKERS & MODERATORS

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Clemens Aichholzer
Sr. VP of Game-based Assessments
HireVue

Clemens Aichholzer is the Sr. VP of Game-based Assessments at HireVue. Clemens is responsible for expanding HireVue’s assessment capabilities by combining game technology with AI and cognitive neuroscience. His vision is to create next generation hiring tools that are highly engaging and candidate-centric as well as data-driven and scientifically valid.

Clemens was previously the founder and CEO of London-based startup MindX, which was acquired by HireVue in May, 2018. MindX was a predictive hiring and talent analytics platform integrating gamification, machine learning, and psychometrics with the objective to improve talent identification and selection whilst reducing bias. Prior to founding MindX, Clemens was an investor and financial advisor with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lombard Odier in London and Geneva. Clemens has earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MA in Commerce from Vienna University of Economics.

Stephen Bailey
CEO and Founder
ExecOnline

Stephen brings a passion for helping executives and their companies solve their most pressing strategic challenges through innovative technology solutions. Before ExecOnline, he served as the CEO of Frontier Strategy Group (FSG), a venture-backed software and information services business serving Fortune 500 executives who have responsibility for emerging economies. Stephen grew the business from an early-stage start-up to a company that serves nearly half the Fortune 500 across a range of international markets and business functions. Stephen is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Truman National Security Project and the Glenn Pelham Foundation. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Emory University and holds a JD from the Yale Law School.

Tim Coates
US Head of Blockchain
Synechron

Tim Coates is the US Head of Blockchain at Synechron based in New York, leading solution design and strategy, and application development for 40+ blockchain projects at over 20 financial institutions across 4 platforms – Quorum, Corda, Fabric and Ethereum. He works day-to-day with Synechron’s clients and combines analytical, visualization and technology insights to develop highly-tailored solutions that resolve complex client business challenges.

Coates has helped Synechron’s clients to understand how new regulations and digital technologies will impact their business operations and was instrumental in developing Synechcron’s KYC utility and insurance blockchain accelerators. Prior to Synechron, Coates was a Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young, and he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Sydney.

Peter Coffee
VP for Strategic Research
Salesforce

Coffee has been with the company for ten years. His global work supports Salesforce efforts in CIO strategies, security practices, and delivery of connected product and “big data” solutions through collaboration with account teams in many industries.

Prior to joining Salesforce, Peter spent eighteen years as a technology analyst, columnist, and editor for IT publications including eWEEK and PC Week, while also contributing to other journals including Computer Language and AI Expert. He has written widely on cloud security and privacy, and was a chapter contributor to Prentice Hall’s Nanotechnology: Science, Innovation, and Opportunity. He previously served as the first Manager for Desktop Computing Planning at The Aerospace Corporation, where he also worked in space-asset applications of AI techniques. Before that, he held project management roles at Exxon Corporation including arctic resource development.

Peter received his engineering degree from MIT in 1978 and an MBA from Pepperdine University in 1985; he has held college faculty appointments in expert-systems programming, IT management, and business analytics, while also lecturing at Stanford, CalTech, Harvard Business School, and the Sloan School of Management at MIT as well as other institutions in Europe, Asia and South America. He advises on curriculum and degree program planning in analytics and “big data” initiatives for three U.S. universities.

Abhi Ingle
Senior Vice President – Digital, Distribution & Channel Marketing
AT&T Business

Abhi Ingle currently serves as Senior Vice President – Digital, Distribution & Channel Marketing for AT&T Business. He is responsible in developing and managing all go-to-market strategies and industry programs to drive networking services, mobility, cloud and cybersecurity solutions for business and government customers. He also leads distribution and digital strategy for AT&T Business, operating all of AT&T’s business digital platforms and properties. Mr. Ingle has more than 20 years of experience in marketing, consulting, and technology solutions. Before joining AT&T, he held the CMO role at technology startups, and spent several years at McKinsey and Company advising clients on strategy, marketing and sales.

Mr. Ingle holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from Oberlin College.

Kevin Jestice
Principal, Head of Enterprise Advice
The Vanguard Group

Kevin Jestice, CFA, CIPM, is a Vanguard principal and head of Enterprise Advice. He leads a cross-functional department responsible for developing and maintaining the investment methodology and technology required to deliver advice to our investors globally.

Previously, Mr. Jestice led Vanguard Institutional Investor Services where he was responsible for a team of investment and client service professionals who served defined contribution, defined benefit, corporate asset, endowment, and foundation clients. Before joining Vanguard in 2007, Mr. Jestice was an investment consultant with Ennis Knupp & Associates, where he managed consulting assignments for a select number of retainer and project clients, contributed to the firm’s investment manager research efforts, and authored topical research papers.

Mr. Jestice earned bachelor’s degrees in finance and management with honors from Loras College and an M.B.A. with honors at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Debajani Mohanty

Debajani Mohanty is a Blockchain evangelist, practitioner, author and keynote speaker. She has written many Blockchain bestsellers as “BlockChain from Concept to Execution”, “Ethereum for Architects and Developers”, “R3 Corda for Architects and Developers” (upcoming) published by leading publishing houses as Springer Nature and BPB publications. Her books are also translated to other international languages as German and Chinese to reach out to the masses.

Debajani is an independent consultant who is currently working as advisor to many Banking and Fintech clients in Asia and Europe helping them to build innovative solutions using emerging technologies as Blockchain. Throughout the past 18 years in the industry, Debajani has held several roles including Senior Architect with NIIT Technologies Ltd at their Centre of Excellence. She also works as a mentor at Amity International University, Delhi/NCR educating seasoned experienced professionals in the development and practical application of emerging technologies.

Scott Snyder, PHD
Partner, Digital and Innovation
Heidrick Consulting

Senior Fellow, The Wharton School
Adjunct Professor, Penn Engineering

Scott Snyder is a recognized thought leader in digital transformation and innovation, having held leadership roles at GE and Lockheed Martin, launched three new technology ventures including Mobiquity, led technology and innovation for venture capital firm, Safeguard, and now leads Digital and Innovation at Heidrick & Struggles. He is the author of two books, Goliath’s Revenge: How Established Companies Turn the Tables on Digital Disruptors and The New World of Wireless: How to Compete in the 4G Revolution and has lectured at top universities on emerging technologies, digital strategy, and innovation including Wharton, MIT, Babson, Duke, and INSEAD.

Samuel Stern
Principal Analyst Serving Customer Experience Professionals
Forrester

Sam is a principal analyst in Forrester’s customer experience research practice. His research topics include customer-centric culture, employee engagement in delivering better customer experiences, and how to deploy different research techniques to create better experiences. Sam is also the host of CX Cast, Forrester’s weekly customer experience podcast.

Prior to joining the research team, Sam launched and managed Forrester’s Customer Experience Council and Customer Experience Executive Program, which are peer networks for customer experience executives. In his role, Sam and his team supported more than 170 chief customer officers and other customer experience executives at large companies in North America and Europe, partnering with them to help them drive customer experience transformations at their respective companies.

Previously, Sam managed Forrester’s customer experience consulting practice.

Michael Tirozzi
CIO
iRobot

Michael Tirozzi is a forward-thinking, technology executive with experience ranging from rapid-paced start-up companies, a mid-cap global IT services company, and a high-growth technology company. Tirozzi serves as CIO of iRobot which designs, builds, and markets robots for the consumer market and the smart home. In his current role he is focused on driving digital and data transformation, enabling an IoT strategy as well as driving the globalization and modernization of Enterprise IT. Prior to iRobot, Tirozzi was the Vice President of IT for Keane/NTT Data leading a diverse IT team with a focus on the efficiencies of IT globalization and value creation. He also has been part of several start-ups, is an author, believes in the power of teams and has a passion for big ideas that can become reality.

Mr. Tirozzi holds a BA degree from Northeastern University.

Jessica Turner
Executive Vice President
North American Digital Payments and Labs and Global Issuer Engagement
Mastercard

Jessica Turner is Executive Vice President, Digital Payments and Labs for North America and Global Customer Engagement for Mastercard. In North America, Mrs. Turner leads the strategy, commercialization and product management of digital payments products, which includes; Masterpass, Mastercard Digital Enablement Service (MDES), Personal Payments and Labs. Additionally, she is responsible for Customer Digital Engagement with key issuers globally, leading a product team to collaborate with the largest global issuers worldwide to advance digital solutions and payments.

Brock Weatherup
Chieft Strategic Innovation & Digital Experience Officer
Petco

As Chief Strategic Innovation & Digital Experience Officer, Brock is responsible for fostering and accelerating innovation across Petco’s business, incubating new ideas and ensuring the company’s long-term relevance. Additionally, Brock leads Petco’s eCommerce and digital strategy. Brock joined Petco in 2017 when the company acquired PetCoach, of which he was CEO and co-founder. Previously, Brock was a Venture Partner of tech accelerator ICONYC Labs and Managing Director of his angel investment fund, Atai Ventures. Brock also served as Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at PetSmart after selling Pet360, a venture-backed leading consumer engagement, digital media and subscription ecommerce company, where he was CEO for five years. Brock was also co-founder and CEO of startup, Fathead and a senior leader at InterActiveCorp, a media entertainment company.

AGENDA

Here’s a closer look at our three key themes for 2019:

Emerging Technologies: Digital has exploded to include a constellation of new emerging technologies fueling the next wave of disruptive offerings including AI, Blockchain, Mixed Reality, Robotics, 3D Printing, and IoT. We will explore how both start-ups and enterprises are tapping into these technologies to drive real commercial impact.
Hyper-personalized Experiences: Customers are raising the bar on digital experiences that companies must deliver to win their business. This cuts across B2C, B2B, and B2B2C businesses. Hear how digital leaders are leveraging Data and AI coupled with immersive technologies beyond smartphones (voice, gestures, AR/AR) to deliver engaging, hyper-personalized experiences
Digital and AI Talent: Some estimates put the relevant talent pool at around 2% of what will be needed for future digital organizations. This includes the 3D’s – Design, Development, and Data Sciences as well as new skills that will emerge such as AI designers and product incubation managers. Attracting and Developing these new skills and executing on new digital initiatives will require companies to rethink their talent models and organization structures.

DETAILED SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Thursday, April 04, 2019
7:30 AM – 4:30 PM
SugarHouse Event Center  1001 North Delaware Avenue, Philadelphia

7:30AM

Registration

8:30AM

Conference Kick-off
Scott Snyder and Dean Miller

8:45AM

Emerging Technology Trends

Re-imaging the Future of Work: How to Help Humans Thrive When They Work Alongside AI

Companies must intentionally design their future employee experiences to harness the advances of artificial intelligence (AI) and robots, while still ensuring a starring role for the humanity of their “flesh and blood” employees.

How to do this? Forrester Research Principal Analyst Sam Stern will lay out the promise and the peril of integrating AI alongside humans, and describe three principles for designing future employees experiences that ensure firms can attract and retain great human talent.

Featuring Forrester Analyst, Sam Stern

9:15AM

Emerging Technology Panel I

AI Breakthroughs (Cognitive)

Enterprises:

Kevin Jestice, Vanguard
Mike Tirozzi, iRobot

New Entrants:

To Be Confirmed

Moderator – Scott Snyder, Heidrick Consulting

10:15AM

Networking Break / Demo Pit

10:30AM

Emerging Technology Panel II

Blockchain/Security Breakthroughs (Trusted)

Enterprises:

Ken Nessel, Pfizer
Jess Turner, Mastercard

New Entrants:

Debjani Mohanty, NIIT Technologies
Oleksander Rivkind, SigmaLedger

Moderator – Tim Coates, Synechron

11:30 AM

Keynote Address – Todd Hewlin, Co-Author, Goliath’s Revenge

Digital disruption is driving every segment of the global economy toward winner-takes-most outcomes. It is draining the competitive moats that have protected companies for decades and blurring the lines between entire industries. Established companies and startups alike are in a footrace to accumulate data at an unprecedented scale, build lasting algorithmic advantage, and develop entirely new skills and capabilities. However, the traditional narrative that established companies are “sitting ducks” for startups to take advantage of is simply wrong. In fact, many established companies are treating Amazon’s dominance of online retail as a cautionary tale and taking the proactive steps needed to run the Silicon Valley playbook for themselves. During the Goliath’s Revenge keynote, Todd Hewlin will provoke you to think differently about both your career and your company as you prepare for a digital future.

12:30PM

Networking Lunch / Demo Pit

1:30PM

Hyper-Personalized Experiences Panel (Immersive)

Enterprises:

Abhi Ingle, AT&T Business
Brock Weatherup, Petco

New Entrants:

Clemens Aichholzer, HireVue

Moderator – Sam Stern, Forrester

2:30PM

Closing Session – Rethinking Organizations and Talent

Enterprises: To Be Confirmed

New Entrants:

Stephen Bailey, ExecOnline

Moderator:

Claudia Crummenerl, Capgemini Invent

3:30PM

Networking Reception

PHORUM SHOWCASE

The Phorum Showcase provides a space for cutting-edge technology companies to meet and demo their product with key enterprise decision makers. If you’re interested in this unique opportunity to showcase your company, products, and services at one of the hottest gatherings of enterprise decision makers on the East Coast, please contact [email protected]

Come join the Phorum Showcase to meet and demo your products and services with key enterprise decision makers.

2019 Phorum Showcase Companies include:

Phorum Demo Pit

We are currently recruiting companies for the 2019 Phorum Demo Pit. Early stage companies, with a product in early commercialization, are encouraged to learn more and apply.

The 2019 Phorum Demo Pit will be announced in the coming months. Check back for updates.

Check out the 2018 Demo Pit Companies.

Aerial Applications is a web application designed for infrastructure companies that makes storing, viewing, and sharing drone-based data easy and intuitive. It functions as a system of record for inspections and physical asset information, and empowers users to interact with their assets in an annotatable, accurately measurable 3D environment. It supports a wide range of file inputs and outputs, and can securely store critical operational information for entire asset portfolios – from full networks of energy/communications transmission lines, to tens of thousands of cell towers. Aerial’s interactive mapping environment makes finding information about your assets faster and easier than ever before.

aerialapplications.com

Apprentice.io provides industrial augmented reality solutions designed for operation in complex lab and manufacturing environments that deliver a positive ROI and satisfies industry demand while meeting regulatory compliance standards. The GMP/GLP compliant platform utilizes the latest in augmented reality and artificial intelligence to enhance human ability and create a synergistic relationship between humans and technology that empower engineers and scientists. Users gain with hands-free access to remote troubleshooting tools, process and workflow aids and intelligent data capture through smart glasses, ushering in usher in a new age of industry efficiency, safety, audit readiness and mobility that allows organizations to better connect and compete globally. Apprentice.io has global product deployments in pharma, biotech, cosmetic, consumer goods and chemical facilities across the U.S., Asia, Europe and South America.

apprentice.io/

Buildings have become increasingly intelligent, yet the fastest growing source of energy usage —devices distributed throughout buildings — remain disconnected from any centralized point of control. Energy solutions companies lack the tools to provide their customers a way to manage, or even understand this massive energy expenditure.
Bert® provides the end-to-end solution: innovative technology that empowers organizations to have seamless control over the ‘everything else’ in buildings. Using patented technologies and a facility’s existing Wi-Fi network, Bert® remotely measures, controls and schedules plug load energy use at both the device and circuit level.
A trusted service partner, Bert® takes complete responsibility for each aspect of energy management, from survey to completion. Energy solution companies can be confident their guarantees of efficiency and building intelligence will be realized, and their customers will experience the full potential of Bert’s technology, every single time.

bertbrain.com

Boost Linguistics offers an editing tool designed to help writers create marketing content (articles, blogs, social media posts, etc.) that inspires audience engagement every time. Our text editor does this by using natural language processing to analyze your text for the five basic emotions. Once the analysis is complete the writer selects a target emotion for their content (joy, sadness, etc.). With the target emotion selected, the editor will recommend changes to your wording to help elicit the target emotion in your audience. Understanding and eliciting the correct emotion in your audience has improved conversion/engagement rates across several industries.

boost-ling.com

Dash has drastically lowered the compliance burden in healthcare. Dash Compliance Automation Suite transforms the manual and time intensive HIPAA compliance process. As the industry’s first solution to connect administrative controls to technical safeguards in the AWS cloud, Dash empowers healthcare vendors to commercialize faster and market their solutions to health systems. In turn, those very health systems leverage dash to ensure data security and minimize 3rd party risk. A recurring software revenue model ensures high margins, and our leadership team has the hands on expertise to solve the problems in compliance at both the engineering and business levels.

Dashsdk.com

HeavyWater built a transactional AI platform (AIVA), to automate manual processes in the financial industry. AIVA’s first application is in the mortgage industry: automating loan production from mortgage intake to processing to servicing. Compared to competitive robotic process automation (RPA) tools, AIVA is 2x+ more accurate and an investment in a platform for automating future, higher value job functions (i.e., beyond repetitive and redundant tasks). Today, AIVA is in production, automating processes for 1M+ loans across: (a) mortgage intake (top 3 credit bureau), (b) mortgage processing (several leading originators) and (c) mortgage servicing ($20B insurance broker/advisor). In the future, HeavyWater aims to leverage the data we are processing to train AIVA to automate across the mortgage production value chain, including high-level cognitive functions that today ‘require’ human judgment – ultimately creating a “black box” that can run an entire back-end mortgage process with little-to-no manual intervention.

Heavywater.com

HiveIO’s Software Defined Data Center solution provides the value and simplicity of the Public Cloud to private data center clients and MSPs at half the cost and twice the performance. HiveIO’s unique zero-layer architecture natively includes built-in security and eliminates the need for proprietary hardware, which allows customers the ability to leverage commodity computing. Our unique Message Bus Architecture is Artificial Intelligence ready. Hive Fabric™ architecture is used by customers across multiple verticals with diverse workload types including VDI, VSI, Grid compute and Hadoop environments. Hive Fabric™ replaces expensive hardware, complex licensing and vendor bloat with streamlined and disruptive Swarm-based nodes that predictively scale and auto heal. The value of Hive Fabric™ is that organizations of all sizes can implement a holistic, easy to use an end-to-end stack that provides computing at a significantly reduced cost.

Hiveio.com

indico is an enterprise AI solution for unstructured content. Our focus is on helping to automate tedious back-office tasks, improving the efficiency of labor-intensive document-based workflows, and extracting valuable insights from unstructured content, including text and images. Our breakthrough in solving these challenges is an approach known as transfer learning, which allows us to train machine learning models with orders of magnitude less data than required by traditional content analysis techniques. With indico, enterprises are now able to benefit from the dramatic advantages of machine learning at a fraction of the time.

indico.io

Slyce is the market-leader in image recognition for retail, powering visual product search for retailers such as Macy’s, Home Depot, Best Buy, JCPenney, Neiman Marcus, and Tommy Hilfiger. Slyce’s service can identify virtually any product from an image, and enable customers to snap a photo to buy something, add it to a wish list, find it in store, or create another retail moment.

Slyce.it

At Translator, we believe that getting Diversity & Inclusion right can enable a better workplace and prevent potential damage. We created the first and only 360 platform for enterprise Diversity & Inclusion, providing companies and their employees with the best technology right at their fingertips. Through chat support, interactive learning tools, and virtual reality, employees can more easily navigate challenges at work and embrace differences. By offering a unique combination of the best technology and the right people, Translator lets companies build a better culture, and ultimately, improve their bottom line. Founded in 2016, Translator is on a mission to spread empathy and equality through #EqualityTech.

translator.company

Vognition provides patented technology and software tools delivered through a SaaS operating environment with voice user interface middleware to manufacturers seeking to capitalize on the exploding voice driven IOT market (home and industrial).

Vognition.com

ABOUT PHORUM DEMO PIT

Win in the Pit

Past Phorum Phoward Winner – RedOwl

PHORUM DEMO PIT – APPLICATIONS OPEN

The 2019 Phorum Demo Pit features the region’s hottest early-stage companies that are providing cutting-edge innovation that enables Digital Disruption. The Demo Pit was created to allow startups to connect with C-level enterprise decision makers attending the Phorum conference. In addition to showcasing their technology in the Demo Pit, each Demo Pit participant will present their company on the Demo Pit stage to a panel of judges and the Phorum audience. One will be named “Best in Show” and will receive the 8th annual Phorum Phorward Award. Since our inaugural event, past Phorum Phorward Award winners have gone on to raise more than $50M in capital, with three of the seven successfully completing exits to strategic acquirers.

2018 Participants

Aerial Applications is a web application designed for infrastructure companies that makes storing, viewing, and sharing drone-based data easy and intuitive. It functions as a system of record for inspections and physical asset information, and empowers users to interact with their assets in an annotatable, accurately measurable 3D environment. It supports a wide range of file inputs and outputs, and can securely store critical operational information for entire asset portfolios – from full networks of energy/communications transmission lines, to tens of thousands of cell towers. Aerial’s interactive mapping environment makes finding information about your assets faster and easier than ever before.

aerialapplications.com

Apprentice.io provides industrial augmented reality solutions designed for operation in complex lab and manufacturing environments that deliver a positive ROI and satisfies industry demand while meeting regulatory compliance standards. The GMP/GLP compliant platform utilizes the latest in augmented reality and artificial intelligence to enhance human ability and create a synergistic relationship between humans and technology that empower engineers and scientists. Users gain with hands-free access to remote troubleshooting tools, process and workflow aids and intelligent data capture through smart glasses, ushering in usher in a new age of industry efficiency, safety, audit readiness and mobility that allows organizations to better connect and compete globally. Apprentice.io has global product deployments in pharma, biotech, cosmetic, consumer goods and chemical facilities across the U.S., Asia, Europe and South America.

apprentice.io/

Buildings have become increasingly intelligent, yet the fastest growing source of energy usage —devices distributed throughout buildings — remain disconnected from any centralized point of control. Energy solutions companies lack the tools to provide their customers a way to manage, or even understand this massive energy expenditure.
Bert® provides the end-to-end solution: innovative technology that empowers organizations to have seamless control over the ‘everything else’ in buildings. Using patented technologies and a facility’s existing Wi-Fi network, Bert® remotely measures, controls and schedules plug load energy use at both the device and circuit level.
A trusted service partner, Bert® takes complete responsibility for each aspect of energy management, from survey to completion. Energy solution companies can be confident their guarantees of efficiency and building intelligence will be realized, and their customers will experience the full potential of Bert’s technology, every single time.

bertbrain.com

Boost Linguistics offers an editing tool designed to help writers create marketing content (articles, blogs, social media posts, etc.) that inspires audience engagement every time. Our text editor does this by using natural language processing to analyze your text for the five basic emotions. Once the analysis is complete the writer selects a target emotion for their content (joy, sadness, etc.). With the target emotion selected, the editor will recommend changes to your wording to help elicit the target emotion in your audience. Understanding and eliciting the correct emotion in your audience has improved conversion/engagement rates across several industries.

boost-ling.com

Dash has drastically lowered the compliance burden in healthcare. Dash Compliance Automation Suite transforms the manual and time intensive HIPAA compliance process. As the industry’s first solution to connect administrative controls to technical safeguards in the AWS cloud, Dash empowers healthcare vendors to commercialize faster and market their solutions to health systems. In turn, those very health systems leverage dash to ensure data security and minimize 3rd party risk. A recurring software revenue model ensures high margins, and our leadership team has the hands on expertise to solve the problems in compliance at both the engineering and business levels.

Dashsdk.com

HeavyWater built a transactional AI platform (AIVA), to automate manual processes in the financial industry. AIVA’s first application is in the mortgage industry: automating loan production from mortgage intake to processing to servicing. Compared to competitive robotic process automation (RPA) tools, AIVA is 2x+ more accurate and an investment in a platform for automating future, higher value job functions (i.e., beyond repetitive and redundant tasks). Today, AIVA is in production, automating processes for 1M+ loans across: (a) mortgage intake (top 3 credit bureau), (b) mortgage processing (several leading originators) and (c) mortgage servicing ($20B insurance broker/advisor). In the future, HeavyWater aims to leverage the data we are processing to train AIVA to automate across the mortgage production value chain, including high-level cognitive functions that today ‘require’ human judgment – ultimately creating a “black box” that can run an entire back-end mortgage process with little-to-no manual intervention.

Heavywater.com

HiveIO’s Software Defined Data Center solution provides the value and simplicity of the Public Cloud to private data center clients and MSPs at half the cost and twice the performance. HiveIO’s unique zero-layer architecture natively includes built-in security and eliminates the need for proprietary hardware, which allows customers the ability to leverage commodity computing. Our unique Message Bus Architecture is Artificial Intelligence ready. Hive Fabric™ architecture is used by customers across multiple verticals with diverse workload types including VDI, VSI, Grid compute and Hadoop environments. Hive Fabric™ replaces expensive hardware, complex licensing and vendor bloat with streamlined and disruptive Swarm-based nodes that predictively scale and auto heal. The value of Hive FabricΓäó is that organizations of all sizes can implement a holistic, easy to use an end-to-end stack that provides computing at a significantly reduced cost.

Hiveio.com

indico is an enterprise AI solution for unstructured content. Our focus is on helping to automate tedious back-office tasks, improving the efficiency of labor-intensive document-based workflows, and extracting valuable insights from unstructured content, including text and images. Our breakthrough in solving these challenges is an approach known as transfer learning, which allows us to train machine learning models with orders of magnitude less data than required by traditional content analysis techniques. With indico, enterprises are now able to benefit from the dramatic advantages of machine learning at a fraction of the time.

indico.io

Slyce is the market-leader in image recognition for retail, powering visual product search for retailers such as Macy’s, Home Depot, Best Buy, JCPenney, Neiman Marcus, and Tommy Hilfiger. SlyceΓÇÖs service can identify virtually any product from an image, and enable customers to snap a photo to buy something, add it to a wish list, find it in store, or create another retail moment.

Slyce.it

At Translator, we believe that getting Diversity & Inclusion right can enable a better workplace and prevent potential damage. We created the first and only 360 platform for enterprise Diversity & Inclusion, providing companies and their employees with the best technology right at their fingertips. Through chat support, interactive learning tools, and virtual reality, employees can more easily navigate challenges at work and embrace differences. By offering a unique combination of the best technology and the right people, Translator lets companies build a better culture, and ultimately, improve their bottom line. Founded in 2016, Translator is on a mission to spread empathy and equality through #EqualityTech.

translator.company

Vognition provides patented technology and software tools delivered through a SaaS operating environment with voice user interface middleware to manufacturers seeking to capitalize on the exploding voice driven IOT market (home and industrial).

Vognition.com

2017 Participants

51maps allows organizations to easily enable their entire application portfolio to run on consumer devices. Our architecture provides access in a manner that is more secure than locked down PC’s behind the firewall. This delivers a seamless, native feeling, role based experiences on any device.

Our application bus technology securely integrates any application (legacy, custom, cloud, or native) without changing source code. This allows employees to pass information between disparate applications.

Our audit capability allows organizations to gain visibility, down to individual key strokes, around all user activity. This can be used for fraud investigation, productivity improvement, training, time & motion studies, and much more. This functionality makes 51maps the first source of organizational Big Data on processes, activities, and outcomes across the enterprise.

51maps.com

DivvyCloud software enables organizations to achieve their cloud computing goals by simplifying and automating security, compliance and cost optimization of public and private cloud infrastructure. Using DivvyCloud, customers can leverage programmatic Bots to identify and remediate common cloud problems in real time. DivvyCloud was founded by seasoned technologists who understand first hand what is necessary to succeed in today’s fast-changing, multi-cloud world.

divvycloud.com/

Fishtown Analytics is building a modern workflow for data analysts. Its product, dbt (data build tool), helps analysts write modular, high-quality analytic code by borrowing elements of the software development workflow. dbt is open-source, and used in production today by analytics teams at Casper, Seatgeek, Credible, and dozens of other companies.

Fishtownanalytics.com

Journey Sales makes it easier for your customers to buy with Smart Rooms, an Account-Based Selling solution built on Salesforce®. Smart Rooms are private customer experiences built for each account and opportunity, where buying and selling teams can engage, collaborate, and build consensus. With Smart Rooms, enterprises create personalized buying experiences for their strategic accounts at scale and build deeper relationships for improved cross-sell and upsell opportunities. In addition, track the digital body language of your customers to understand who is most engaged and what they are engaging with. Executives receive deep insight into accounts to predictably close more valuable deals.

journeysales.com/

Focusing on rare disease, cancer and patient reported outcomes, Pulse Infoframe, a data insights and precision knowledge company, delivers real-time analytics and visualization to advance knowledge, improve outcomes, generate real-world evidence and accelerate time-to-value. Pulse Infoframe uses their software to capture and aggregate data from multiple sources, making it available to relevant stakeholders and offering numerous benefits including dramatically improved efficiency, productivity and collaboration, which are required for value-based care. Pulse is a 21st Century asset for healthcare.

pulseinfoframe.com

RiskLens is the leading provider of cyber risk quantification software. RiskLens empowers large enterprises and government organizations to manage cyber risk from the business perspective by quantifying it in dollars and cents. Our customers leverage RiskLens to understand their cyber risk exposure in financial terms, prioritize their risk mitigations, measure the ROI of their security investments, and optimize their cyber insurance coverage. RiskLens is the only cyber risk quantification software purpose-built on FAIR, the only standard quantitative model for cyber security and operational risk.

risklens.com

TimelinePI is a SAAS-based analytics and visualization platform that provides a new approach to understanding operational data in the context of its related business processes. Using its patent-pending Timeline Analysis approach to analyzing event data, TimelinePI accepts event data from any number of systems and automatically reconstructs the underlying business process logic behind the data. A variety of pre-built analyses to quantify process performance, identify process execution issues and perform root cause analysis are available to users. The TimelinePI platform also supports operational monitoring through its continuous assessment of new event data to determine if any adverse conditions occur and can immediately notify business operations personnel so they can take action.

timelinepi.com

Your organization will only ‘touch’ your customers in three or four situations – retail, website, service delivery and your contact center. And when your customers call, send emails or start chat sessions, they are usually telling you what’s wrong with your products, policies, pricing and competitors. Are you listening?

TopBox’s cloud-based application analyzes your customer interactions by automatically transcribing, interrogating and categorizing them to reveal the root cause of customer experience, product, sales, marketing and operational problems.

With a subscription pricing model, easy installation, unlimited user licenses, and an intuitive user interface, TopBox is unlike anything on the market. Founded by customer experience industry veterans, TopBox was created to fill the void of customer contact analytic solutions that yield truly actionable insights and a clear ROI.

topbox.io

VitalTrax is transforming how clinical trials are run by putting patients and investigators at the center. VitalTrax delivers a complete patient engagement and data collection solution for clinical trials comprising of a cloud based enterprise platform and a mobile application for patients. For clinical study teams, VitalTrax delivers an enterprise platform to design and run trials efficiently. For sites, VitalTrax makes it easier to recruit and communicate with patients during the trial. VitalTrax mobile app solution, Wing, is a world-class patient engagement tool that provides a way for patients to search for trials, apply to become a volunteer and participate in the trial.

vitaltrax.net

Widget Brain is passionate about creating smart solutions that have a real impact on daily life: algorithms that lower CO2, improve recycling rates, deliver faster, prevent critical failures and decide autonomously.

We are ambitious in achieving our vision of the future. In that future, we see a connected universe of things, capable of outperforming everything else in the analogue world in terms of superior service, lowest costs, and compatibility with other smart devices. We cover the full digital ecosystem, including smarter cities, smarter factories, and smarter supply chains.

Our customers use Widget Brain software to monitor their water pumps to detect leaks, forecast fill rates in waste containers to optimize service routes, and collect usage data to monitor equipment and predict maintenance moments.

widgetbrain.com

Wylei is a next generation AI Machine Learning company and is the pioneer of Predictive Content, which is digital content that automatically assembles itself in real-time for each impression with deep and precise predictive intelligence. Wylei leverages its AI engine by ingesting 1st, 3rd, and real time contextual data to determine the best combination of content to serve to a consumer. Wylei can optimize content in real-time for any channel, enabling 1:1 personalization at scale across any channel including email, web, mobile and video. Our predictive cloud does the heavy lifting and automatically defines dynamic micro segments, testing and predicting to achieve the highest ROI.

wylei.com

2016 Participants

AlphaPoint

AlphaPoint is a financial technology company that powers digital asset exchanges and provides institutions blockchain-enabled solutions to store, track, and trade digital assets. Its secure, scalable, and customizable platform enables customers to deploy blockchain technology to innovate, differentiate, and transform their businesses. AlphaPoint powers over 20 digital asset exchanges on 5 continents, and is led by a seasoned team with 50+ years in financial technology. AlphaPoint has offices in New York City, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

www.alphapoint.com

Boxter

Funnl, a SaaS product created by Boxter, answers questions about the top of your sales funnel. It’s an intelligent analytics solution for online businesses. Funnl enables fast ROI measurement and optimization for growth channels like Facebook ads or content marketing. The innovative semantic user interface allows you to quickly get detailed answers from websites and online marketing efforts without needing any technical training. The software brings powerful enterprise grade functionality to small and medium-sized businesses. Requiring less than an hour in training and setup time to get started.

www.boxter.co

Cloudamize

Cloudamize is an analytics software company that helps companies get the most out of their investments in cloud computing. Our SaaS-based analytics platform helps our customers and partners make confident, data-driven decisions at each stage of the cloud journey – from assessing options, to planning migrations, to managing cloud deployments for maximum value. With Cloudamize, companies have experienced significant monthly savings on their cloud deployments, while simultaneously increasing performance.

www.cloudamize.com

DryDock

Mobilizing digital content is the easy part but getting your sales teams to adopt mobile in their sales process is challenging. The DryDock mobile platform helps engage field sales, making their sales process more productive and efficient.

DryDock is a mobile app and content management system rolled into a single product. Instead of forcing reps to search for content in online repositories or web portals, sales teams quickly access your curated content in a secure mobile app. Plus, DryDock does not charge by seat license because everyone who can increase revenue should benefit from high impact sales information.

www.drydockinc.com

MLeads

MLeads is a comprehensive SaaS mobile platform for leads and event management process automation. MLeads allows event organizers, exhibitors, business owners, and sales and marketing professionals to manage leads and organize events from any devices anywhere, increasing productivity, efficiency and opportunities. The platform allows users to capture and collect leads, research leads, perform follow-up, and measure and manage ROI across sales and marketing teams. The platform is feature-rich, affordable, and easy to use compared to other solutions.

www.myleadssite.com

OpsDataStore

OpsDataStore is the Real-Time Data Fabric for IT Operations. We collect data from your strategic platforms (VMware) and tools (AppDynamics, Dynatrace, ExtraHop) and combine these disparate streams of data into real-time topologies. You can prevent problems that affect online service quality, solve the remaining problems more quickly, and achieve dramatic increases in capacity utilization.

We also make the combined data available to any BI or query tool, which turns the analysis and consumption of IT data into a self-service problem through tools like Tableau and Qlik. Gartner recently recommended the IT Operations become “data driven” and we are the only open and real-time platform that allows modern enterprises to achieve this. In summary we protect your online revenue and save you time and money in the operation of your environment.

www.Opsdatastore.com

PeopleLinx

PeopleLinx drives results throughout your sales funnel to create, nurture, and win deals. Founded by early LinkedIn employees, we activate social selling for B2B sales teams through individualized guidance. Reps are guided to create presence, networks and engagement with buyers. The result? Quality leads, faster sales cycles, and a higher close rate, all measureable through your CRM. Customers include Fortune 500 leaders in high-tech, finance, manufacturing and professional services.

www.Peoplelinx.com

Pneuron

Pneuron enables organizations to rapidly solve business problems challenged by highly disparate and distributed sources of value. By deploying a non-invasive “fabric” to build, deploy, and execute intelligent workflows, Pneuron’s platform sidesteps traditional and costly prerequisites and delivers solutions in less than half the time and cost of multi-product approaches.

www.pneuron.com

RedOwl

RedOwl provides information security teams a single platform to proactively monitor insider risk across the enterprise. The RedOwl platform analyzes all observable interactions between employees, contractors, devices, and applications within your organization. Only RedOwl analyzes structured and unstructured data to provide immediate and unparalleled visibility into human risk to combat intellectual property loss, detect compromised accounts, monitor privileged users and enhance forensics.

www. Redowl.com

2015 Participants

Boxly

Boxly is a touch-based dynamic document platform which allows business users to visually relate and interpret information. The dynamic document creates an app-like experience where one can share information using mobile devices without the need to write code. Boxly transforms disparate, static data into a meaningful, interactive experience.

www.boxly.com

Collected

Collected instantly finds related content from your business’ documents and presentations as you work in apps like Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, helping you and your team rediscover and get more value from your content than ever before.

www.collected.io

Livegenic

Livegenic helps organizations enhance customer service support capabilities by reducing costs, improving customer satisfaction, and mitigating business related risks. They achieve this by enabling businesses to see what the customer sees during the very first customer contact over the phone. Using real-time video streaming, they provide an ability to triage incoming issues during the first customer contact, capturing remote information, resolving user issues, and improving customer experience.

www.livegenic.com

MongoSluice

MongoSluice takes the time-consuming and expensive slog out of working with big data. It figures out what an unstructured or NoSQL database would look like if it were SQL – and then actually turns it into (and streams it to) SQL or any other RDBMs datastore. This new patent-pending technology exponentially expedites the time it takes to bring big data into business intelligence systems, providing clients with near real-time insight.

www.mongosluice.com

Nfoshare

Nfoshare is the easiest way to increase employee engagement. Each week, the tool checks in with employees using 10 second anonymous email surveys to gauge real-time employee morale & collect feedback. At the end of the month/quarter, simple, personalized research-based suggestions are sent to managers/HR to hit their goals & increase company morale.

www.nfoshare.com

SETVI

The SETVI™ Platform is a SaaS sales enablement solution for field sales forces. Our mission is to create a more efficient sales process, which enables organizations to close more deals and increase sales revenue. Version 1.0 of the product contains an intuitive content management system; a robust, but user-friendly presentation tool; and a powerful tracking system that delivers insightful analytics.

www.setvi.com

Shibumi

Shibumi is a cloud-based application that provides a secure, central location to manage initiatives and deliver better results. Whether driving new sales opportunities, executing cost optimization or managing a change portfolio, Shibumi helps teams collaborate, communicate goals and develop actionable plans so they can spend less time reporting and more time focusing on execution.

www.shibumi.com

Tesorio

Tesorio enables companies to self-finance their daily operations, streamlining early payments on invoices so suppliers get paid early and buyers optimize returns on cash. By forgoing a small percentage on their invoice, a supplier can get paid weeks earlier than typical 30 – 90 day terms. Tesorio’s algorithm calculates this percentage to be win-win: fair for the supplier to forgo and valuable for the buyer to earn given their respective costs of capital.

www.tesorio.com

2014 Participants

Rescufy (AppItUP Winner)

Rescufy was created by David and Rachel Edwards who were inspired by their son, Sammy, to simplify the standard anaphylaxis action plan. Sammy has a life threatening tree nut allergy, and they developed Rescufy so they would have a simple, fast, and reliable tool to streamline getting help in the event of anaphylaxis.

With the touch of a button, Rescufy will send critical information including geo-location, medical condition, medical history, medications, and contact information to first responders and emergency contacts. It will also auto dial 911 with a voice recording of the same information should the user be impaired by his/her condition. Rescufy simplifies the process of notifying first responders and emergency contacts, compresses time, creates redundancy, offers peace of mind, and simplifies the action plan which in turn will saves lives!

www.rescufy.com

AppItUP is a new mobile application idea challenge designed to gather the best app ideas from the Penn community and connect them with the funding and technical expertise necessary to make them a reality. AppItUP is a brain child of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Technology Transfer and UPstart program.

www.appitupchallenge.com

BuyerMLS

BuyerMLS™ is the real estate industry’s first and only real-time buyer marketplace. As an enterprise platform, we help brokerages and their agents increase productivity by transforming their anonymous buyer data into an asset, leading to more transactions and new listing opportunities.

www.BuyerMLS.com

Canvas

Canvas is a cloud-based software service that allows businesses to replace expensive and inefficient paper forms with powerful apps on their smartphones and tablets. Canvas enables users to collect information using mobile devices, share that information and easily integrate with existing backend systems. Canvas also offers the first business-only application store of its kind, with 13,000+ pre-built, fully customizable apps that work on all mobile platforms and serve 30+ vertical markets.

www.gocanvas.com

CLUTCH

As the premier platform for, “Consumer Lifecycle Success” (CLS), Clutch is the first and only system that helps Brands create, unify, manage, and measure success across increasingly complex marketing efforts and technology ecosystems. The goal of every retailer is optimizing the lifetime value of consumers at each stage of the lifecycle. We provide a comprehensive set of modular solutions to drive loyalty, increase consumer spend and reward brand advocacy by unifying the currently fragmented consumer experiences, wherever your customers are – in-store, online, and through mobile and social channels. We feed the customer experience, the experience feeds the brand loyalty, and the loyalty feeds the revenue.

www.clutch.com

Grassroots Unwired

The Grassroots Unwired platform is a mobile sales enablement platform for anyone conducting customer acquisition and engagement in the field and used in conjunction with their existing CRM.

The integrated SaaS platform combines a mapping system, mobile application and web portal that run in conjunction with a GPS-enabled mobile device for tracking, reporting and analytics – all in real-time.

www.grassrootsunwired.com

RJMetrics

RJMetrics helps online businesses make smarter decisions with their data. We provide the kinds of deep insights that were formerly only accessible by large companies willing to invest in full-time data scientists. With RJMetrics, any company can become truly data-driven.

www.rjmetrics.com

SocialLadder

Brands recognize traditional marketing tactics are becoming less and less effective with the Millennial consumer. SocialLadder is mobile technology, white-labeled for brands, giving them the ability to speak the language Millennials respond to – true Product Discovery rather than marketing hype.
SocialLadder is deployed by brands as either a new mobile app or embedded into their existing mobile platform. Consumers discover the brand in a gamified environment. Rewards and experiences are unlocked through a score composed of two primary components:

Influence – calculated from the size of a user’s social voice/reach
Engagement – calculated via content creating challenges
Brands build a community of influencers virally, while driving valuable word of mouth impressions and retaining ownership of the media, data and conversations generated.

www.SocialLadderApp.com

tapCLIQ

tapCLIQ offers the industry’s first responsive marketing solution that meaningfully engages mobile users at moments when they are most receptive.
Our holistic approach harnesses the value lost in disparate marketing tactics. The platform offers products for Advertising, Communication, Support, Feedback, and Research. tapCLIQ’s opinion based engagement products, generates the most authentic user data. This includes preference & intent data of highest relevance, which is not being captured today.
tapCLIQ’s mission is to enhance user experience by improving the relevance, context, and timeliness of engagement. We are reinventing how customer engagement can be and should be on mobile devices.

www.tapcliq.com

Yorn

YornÂ® – (Your Opinion. Right NowÂ®) is a real-time feedback platform for healthcare settings with early traction and compelling evidence that it helps organizations understand and improve the customer/patient experience. Optimized for mobile, patent pending and HIPAA compliant, Yorn enables providers and payers to identify root causes of potential problems and make appropriate operational changes that improve experience, satisfaction, and compliance with care plans. Yorn delivers clinical and economic benefit that can correlate to higher quality ratings on performance.

www.yorn.com

About PHORUM

Phorum will take place at SugarHouse Event Center – North Entrance

Address:
SugarHouse Event Center | North Entrance | 1001 N Delaware Avenue | Philadelphia, PA 19125

FREE ON-SITE PARKING. SugarHouse provides free, on-site parking. Park in front of the North Entrance or use the garage with direct access to the Event Center from Level 2.

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About Phorum

Phorum is an enterprise technology conference for business and technology executives. It focuses on how enterprises can maximize the business value of specific technologies and innovation.

Industry thought leaders as well as hands-on practitioners will provide engaging content through keynotes, panels, and interactive discussions to help executives understand not just the technology but how the technology can be pragmatically applied to transform the enterprise and achieve strategic business goals.

In addition to keynote speakers and panels, the conference will also feature the Phorum Showcase exhibition area, and the always popular “Phorum Demo Pit” where conference attendees can experience, first-hand, some of the most innovative technologies being developed in the Greater Philadelphia area.

Each year top executives from around the country gather at Phorum in a highly entertaining and collegial atmosphere.

About PACT

Driving Innovation and Growth for Businesses and Entrepreneurs in the Philadelphia Region

Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT)’s vision is to be the go-to resource for fast growing companies and a driver of entrepreneurship and innovation in the Philadelphia region.

At PACT, we provide our members with valuable content and connections to capital, coaching, and customers that will accelerate their growth and success, and to collaborate with other organizations to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in the region.

Learn more about PACT

Advisory Board

Scott Snyder, PHD – Chairman
Partner, Digital Transformation and Innovation, Heidrick Consulting
Senior Fellow, The Wharton School

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottsnyder5g

Scott Snyder is a recognized thought leader in technology and innovation.He has more than 25 years of experience in business leadership, strategic planning and technology management for Fortune 500 companies and startup ventures.Scott is currently a Partner at Heidrick Consulting, leading the Digital Transformation and Innovation Offerings for global companies.Prior to Heidrick, Scott was the Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Safeguard Scientifics (NYSE:SFE), which provides capital and relevant expertise to fuel the growth of technology-driven businesses in healthcare, financial services and digital media. Prior to Safeguard, Scott was President and Chief Strategy Officer at Mobiquity Inc., a leader in delivering innovative mobile and digital solutions for enterprises, where he continues to be Chairman of Mobiquity’s Advisory Board.Scott has held executive positions with several Fortune 500 companies including GE, Martin Marietta, and Lockheed Martin, has been the CEO of a leading strategic planning firm, Decision Strategies International, and has also started business ventures in software including OmniChoice, a CRM/Analytics applications provider.He also serves on the Board of Directors for Fulton Financial Corporation (FFC).Scott has authored a book entitled, “The New World of Wireless: How to Compete in the 4G Revolution”, and has been a long-time thought leader in the mobile and digital space.In addition, he is a chapter author in the books “The Network Challenge: Strategy, Profit, and Risk in the Interlinked World” and “Inside the Minds: Small Business Growth Strategies: Goals for Successful CEOs.” Scott is a Senior Fellow in the Management Department at the Wharton School, an Adjunct Faculty Member in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and has lectured at MIT, Babson, Duke, Georgia Tech and INSEAD on Digital Innovation, Decision-making, Business and IT Strategy, Next Generation Wireless, Product Design and Development, and Business Intelligence.Scott founded and directs the Game Changer Collaborative, which is made up of leading companies focused on cross-sector digital innovation opportunities.He also holds two patents for on-line decision aids and has been quoted as a thought leader in numerous publications including the CIO Magazine, WIRED, Forbes, [email protected], Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Business Journal.Scott earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.in Systems Engineering from University of Pennsylvania.

Allen Born
Fairmount Partners

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/allenborn

Allen Born is a Director at Fairmount Partners. Allen focuses on originating and executing middle-market investment banking transactions in the Internet and Cloud Computing sectors. He has advised on exclusive sale assignments, buy-side transactions, financings, and various other strategic advisory assignments and has completed more than 50 transactions totaling over $13 billion in consideration.

Jeff Burk
Dell Boomi

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyburk

Jeff Burk is Director of Research and Development for Dell Boomi, responsible for all product development and product strategy. Jeff has performed and managed most of the roles of a modern software product organization, including product management, software development, product marketing, user interface design, usability engineering, technical writing, software testing, and engineering management.

An Agile practitioner and leader, Jeff has written extensively about Agile product development for publications such as InformationWeek. During his career, he’s worked at Monster and other high-profile Boston start-ups and more recently, he’s helped technology product companies deliver highly scalable consumer cloud platforms and products.

Jeff earned a B.S. degree in Technology from the University of Massachusetts and is the Technology Director for Philly Startup Leaders.

Peter Coffee
Salesforce

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/petercoffee

Peter Coffee, VP for Strategic Research at Salesforce, has been with the company for ten years. His global work supports Salesforce efforts in CIO strategies, security practices, and delivery of connected product and “big data” solutions through collaboration with account teams in many industries.

Prior to joining Salesforce, Peter spent eighteen years as a technology analyst, columnist, and editor for IT publications including eWEEK and PC Week, while also contributing to other journals including Computer Language and AI Expert. He has written widely on cloud security and privacy, and was a chapter contributor to Prentice Hall’s Nanotechnology: Science, Innovation, and Opportunity. He previously served as the first Manager for Desktop Computing Planning at The Aerospace Corporation, where he also worked in space-asset applications of AI techniques. Before that, he held project management roles at Exxon Corporation including arctic resource development.

Peter received his engineering degree from MIT in 1978 and an MBA from Pepperdine University in 1985; he has held college faculty appointments in expert-systems programming, IT management, and business analytics, while also lecturing at Stanford, CalTech, Harvard Business School, and the Sloan School of Management at MIT as well as other institutions in Europe, Asia and South America. He advises on curriculum and degree program planning in analytics and “big data” initiatives for three U.S. universities.

Sean Dowling
Osage Venture Partners

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/seandowling1

Sean Dowling joined Osage full time as an Associate in 2011, after interning with Osage as a Summer Associate in 2010 while pursuing his MBA. Prior to business school, Sean spent five years at the Monitor Group in London, UK and Boston, MA where he served as a senior case team leader and member of Monitor’s marketing strategy group, m2c. At Monitor, Sean focused on integrating marketing strategy and organizational design to enable Fortune 500 multinational companies to achieve sustainable growth, primarily in the consumer packaged goods and life sciences industries.

Sean serves as a board member of Brazen, ExecOnline and redIQ. He is also an observer of Canvas, Collections Marketing Center, Pneuron, Phone2Action, RackWare, Sidecar and Wylei.

Sean completed his MBA, with honors, from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in Economics.

Sean currently serves as the Treasurer of the Board for Community Partnership School, a pre-K to fifth grade independent school in Northeast Philadelphia that serves low-wealth, low-income students from the surrounding neighborhoods. He is also a member of the investment committee for Wharton Impact Investing Partners, a student run impact investing organization at Wharton.

David Egan
Comcast Business

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidegancomcast

David Egan is the Senior Director of Enterprise Services for Comcast Business in the Freedom Region, which includes PA, NJ and DE. David is responsible for all sales and service delivery activities for both the Enterprise and Mid-Market segments for Comcast Business in the Region. Under his direction, David’s team is charged with leading one of the company’s largest growth opportunities to further differentiate Comcast from the competition in the tri-state area.

Prior to joining the Freedom Region in 2014, David spent over 10 years with Comcast Business in the Chicago Region in a variety of management and sales roles before moving to Philadelphia.

David has a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Northeastern Illinois University and a MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.

Dennis Hancock
Pfizer

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/hancockdennis/

Dennis Hancock leads the Global Commercial Solutions organization for Pfizer Business Technology and has responsibility for strategy and delivery across three centers of excellence: Mobile and Emerging Technologies, Digital Marketing, and Sales Force Enablement.

Mr. Hancock and the teams he leads have received a number of awards: including the #10 spot on InformationWeek’s Elite 100, a CIO 100 award for Innovation, and consistent accolades for execution in the areas of Digital, Mobile, and Embracing SaaS and Cloud solutions at an enterprise level resulting in repetitive annual savings to Pfizer of > $50MM.

Mr. Hancock has been with Pfizer for 20 years, and was recently elected to the Board of Directors for the Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technology.

Ryan Hicke
SEI

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-hicke-8109103

Ryan is the head of SEI’s Wealth Platform. In this role, Ryan is responsible for the technology resource and delivery teams driving the creation, deployment and continuous innovation of SEI’s global Wealth Platform solution.

Ryan began his career with SEI in 1998 at the corporate headquarters in Oaks, PA before moving to the UK in 2001. During his tenure in the UK, Ryan held many leadership roles including running the SWP UK business from 2012-2014.

In his current role, Ryan is also a member of SEI’s corporate Executive Committee.

Ryan has a Finance degree from St. Joseph’s University and lives in Bryn Mawr with his wife and five children.

Michael Janke
Pfizer

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeljanke/

Michael is a Senior Analyst in Emerging Technologies at Pfizer. He is focused on identifying the latest start-ups and new products that can be leveraged to meet business needs at Pfizer. These findings are
communicated throughout the company via a web site, newsletter, social media, and podcast, as well as on site events and global webcasts. Further work is done through research, experimentation, and hackathons that lead to full scale projects. Recent projects have focused on virtual reality, voice assistants, and chatbots.

Michael earned an MBA from Penn State and a B.S. in Computer Engineering, also from Penn State. Prior to business school, he was a software engineer at Lockheed Martin.

Nate Lentz
Osage Venture Partners

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/nvlentz

Nate joined Osage Venture Partners in 2008 and as Managing Partner oversees investment and portfolio management activities. He serves on the Board of Directors of BA-Insight, Canvas, InstaMed, FieldView, OpsDataStore, PeopleLinx, Pneuron, Phone2Action, RackWare and Sidecar. He is also a board observer of 51Maps, Brazen, ExecOnline, Identropy and ResiModel and formerly was on the board of Carnegie Speech and Medallion Analytics. He is a member of the Technology Investment Advisory Board for Ben Franklin Southeast Pennsylvania. Nate is a frequent speaker and panelist at venture events and is actively involved with numerous venture focused organizations including PACT, NJTC, MAVA, GCV, and Early Stage East.Prior to joining Osage, Nate was President and CEO of Verticalnet, Inc., a publicly traded SaaS solutions provider, which was sold in January, 2008 to Italy-based BravoSolution. He served as the Malvern, PA- based Verticalnet’s CEO for over five years and was attributed with leading the transformation of Verticalnet from an online operator of web portals to a proven software solution provider, while navigating the company through a financial turnaround. Prior to Verticalnet, Nate was a Partner at Mercer Management Consulting and led both the San Francisco and the Hong Kong offices. During his time at Mercer, he worked closely with multinational companies and high growth emerging businesses both in the U.S. and in over fifteen countries across Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Nate began his career at Chemical Bank in New York providing lending and structured finance services to mid-size companies. He is a graduate of Brown University and of the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he graduated with honors.

Suzanne Lentz
LiquidHub

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/suzannelentz

Suzanne Lentz is Partner at LiquidHub, LiquidHub is a digital integrator that partners with businesses to improve customer engagement and drive growth. With operations in North America, Asia, and Europe, LiquidHub empowers the leading global healthcare and financial services companies through technology innovation. Suzanne and her team focus on creating clear communications with LiquidHub clients and partners, optimizing business processes, and growing LiquidHub’s brand. Suzanne brings a strong combination of skills to LiquidHub having served in marketing and sales leadership roles with both technology companies and marketing consultancies. She earned a BS in Engineering from University of the Pacific.

Jason Mahoney
Pfizer

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonmahoney/

Jason is a Director of Regulated Program Delivery at Pfizer Inc. He has a passion for building operationally effective teams immersed in cutting edge technology tailored for practical business applications. Jason is a creative leader who delivers high quality cost effective processes and business systems.

Jason has been focusing on mobile application Software Medical Devices (SMD) bringing Pfizer’s first mobile SMD to market. He also established a regulated mobile delivery capability to efficiently and compliantly deliver future programs. Previously, he was a Program Manager leading Pfizer acquisition and divestiture initiatives. He started his career at Accenture in their technology consulting practice.

Chris McNabb
Dell Boomi

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-mcnabb-a555325

Chris is the Chief Executive Officer of Dell Boomi where he is responsible for all operations and strategic direction. Chris brings over 20 years of software development and line of business experience from a diverse set of prior roles that include software development, professional services, LOB leader and consulting. In his role at Dell Boomi, Chris is constantly engaged with customers and partners to ensure alignment between business needs and Dell Boomi’s strategy and operations.

Chris joined the Dell Boomi team in 2011 following a 12 year career with SunGard Higher Education. In his prior roles, Chris was SVP of worldwide software development and had responsibility for all software execution, delivery and quality to over 1600 customers. Chris spent two years as a management consultant at a subsidiary of Pennsylvania Blue Shield advising on project management and quality assurance initiatives to improve development execution. Chris started his career in software development in the financial services sector holding various engineering and management roles.

Chris attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania (MIS) and Villanova (Business).

Dean Miller
President & CEO, PACT

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/deanmiller/

Dean serves as President and CEO of PACT (Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies), the largest resource in the Philadelphia region for investors and healthcare and technology entrepreneurs.

Dean also serves as Managing Director of the PCOM Primary Care Innovation Fund, a venture capital fund focused on healthcare innovations, particularly those focused broadly in the field of primary care. Dean brings close to 20 years of investment experience to the PCOM Fund.

Dean was previously Managing Director at Novitas Capital where he focused on venture capital investments across healthcare and technology. He led investments in and served as Chairman or Director of Agile Therapeutics (NASDAQ: AGRX), Cernostics, Inc., Renal Solutions (acquired by Fresenius (NYSE: FMS)), Incurrent Solutions (acquired by Online Resources (NASDAQ: ORCC)), LearnNow, Inc. (acquired by Edison Schools), and VIPDesk (acquired by International SOS).

Previously, Dean served as the Chief Financial Officer of Adaptiv Learning Systems, a venture-backed start-up company that was spun out of the University of Pennsylvania. Dean began his career at the Chubb Group, where he held a variety of senior management positions. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration and Psychology from Franklin and Marshall College and he graduated with distinction from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School with an MBA in Private Equity.

Sanjay Sharma
SEI

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanksha/

Sanjay K. Sharma has 20+ years of Global financial solutions delivery, IT Strategy and implementation experience spanning across 11 countries with the delivery of USD 2 billion+ ITFS programs.

Sanjay is currently Chief Technology Officer of SEI Investments where he is responsible for SEI Wealth Platform (SWP) delivery to keep pace with business, operations, technology and regulatory trends and growth objectives. Sanjay is also responsible for SWP technology strategy, global workforce management, DevOps, vendor management, quality assurance and performance engineering.

Before joining SEI, Sanjay held several key global delivery positions, including Head of Delivery, Europe for a global ITFS consulting company; Head of Delivery ITFS Solutions, North America for a global top 10 IT consulting company; and Head of Implementation, ITFS Solutions for a global top 10 IT consulting company.

Currently Sanjay is also a member of ‘Client Advisory Board for Digital’ for a Global IT firm and a member of ‘SEI Advisory Board for Diversity’.

Sanjay has a master of engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, specializing in systems engineering, Business English Communication from the Cambridge University, UK, Machine Learning from the Stanford University, Business on Board leadership development program through Arts & Business Council of Philadelphia and have attended the Wharton School Fellows program.

Dave Spencer
SAP North America

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/davespencersap

Dave Spencer is the managing director for the East region of SAP North America. He is responsible for driving the go-to-market operations for all lines of business, strategic planning, field team development, customer satisfaction, and growing the region’s pipeline.

Since joining SAP in 2006, Dave has held a number of management and executive leadership sales roles. Most recently, he was chief operating officer for the East Region, and before that was global VP of sales for SAP’s cloud organization, overseeing the go-to-market activities for the Customer, Money, and SAP® Business ByDesign® field sales teams.

Previously, Dave was vice president of SAP Strategic Customer Program (formerly SAP Premier Customer Network) in the northeast, successfully managing and developing top-performing account teams responsible for some of SAP’s largest customer companies. Just prior, Dave served as a global account executive within the same organization soon after beginning his SAP career with the professional services team, generating new software sales with new and existing customers.

Before joining SAP, Dave held several senior sales leadership positions at companies such as Ruesch International (acquired by Travelex), Gelco Information Network (acquired by Concur), and Moore Business Forms & Systems.

Dave graduated from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, with a bachelor’s of science degree.

Dianne Strunk
PACT

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/diannestrunk

Dianne Strunk is the Vice President of PACT (Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies) – the go-to resource for capital and connections for fast growing companies, and a driver of entrepreneurship and innovation in the Philadelphia region. PACT is an association that provides members with connections, capital and content that will further their growth and success and to collaborate with other organizations to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in the region. Strunk also served as the CEO of Eastern Technology Council.

Previously, Strunk worked as a commercial real estate banker for Latimer & Buck in Princeton, New Jersey. Latimer & Buck represented elite insurance companies that made $5-$150 million investments in first mortgages of commercial properties. Prior, during a decade of employment in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Strunk worked in Pittsburgh’s economic development sector, specifically for the Economic Development Committee of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development.

Harry Vitelli
Bentley

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/harryvitelli/

Harry joined Bentley in 2008 and was appointed to senior vice president of project delivery in 2016. He is responsible for product strategy, product development, and pre/post-sale support of Bentley’s portfolio of ProjectWise applications. In previous roles with Bentley, Harry served as vice president of construction and vice president of platform product management. Prior to Bentley, he held several senior management positions at Adobe Systems. Harry has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Spring Garden College.

Ken Weirman
AMETEK

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenweirman

Ken Weirman is the CIO for AMETEK Inc, a $4B manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices. He is a seasoned IT executive with extensive experience within the manufacturing and distribution industries. He has held this role since 2010.

Prior to joining AMETEK, Ken spent 16 years with Keystone Foods, a $6B international food manufacturer and distributor, where he held positions as Vice President of US Distribution as well as global CIO. Mr. Weirman also has held operating and information management positions with several leading companies, including Astra Merck, ICI Americas, CDI, and Arthur Andersen and Company.

Mr. Weirman holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA with an emphasis in Information Systems. Both degrees are from Penn State University.

Chris Wilhelm
EPAM

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-wilhelm-9669001

Chris is Vice President of Business Consulting for EPAM Systems, responsible for advising clients on business solutions, as well as the benefits and cost savings that can be realized by applying leading-edge business practices, industry trends, innovation, automation, analytics, and digital solutions to create new business and operating models.

With over 20 years of experience in professional services, Chris has worked with various Philadelphia-area and other Fortune 500 clients to solve their most challenging business problems in verticals such as telecommunications, utilities, life sciences, and consumer products/ services. He is an alumni of North Highland Worldwide Consulting, Andersen, and the Hay Group, where he drove firm growth via delivery of management and technology consulting services, thought leadership, relationship management, and recruiting.

Chris has a B.A. in Economics from William & Mary, and was a Hermes Scholar at Columbia Business School, where he received an M.B.A. in Finance.