Evelyn de Souza
Evelyn de Souza leads privacy operations for the Oracle Cloud Applications LOB. She is focused on building in privacy versus bolting on privacy after the fact and harmonizing regulations to alleviate audit fatigue. She has previously served as the Co-Chair of the Cloud Security Alliance Cloud Controls Matrix and the chair of the Data Governance Group. Evelyn was named to CloudNOW's Top 10 Women in Cloud Computing for 2014 and is the co-creator of Cloud Data Protection Cert, the industry's first blueprint for making data protection "business-consumable".
Andrei Lapets
Dr. Andrei Lapets, currently Chief Science Officer and a co-founder at Nth Party, Ltd., was formerly Associate Professor of the Practice in Computer Science at Boston University, where he also served as Director of Research Development at the Hariri Institute for Computing and Director of the Software and Application Innovation Lab. In these capacities, he supported a broad community of researchers and external organizations as they envisioned and executed interdisciplinary computational and data-driven research efforts in areas such as digital health and bioinformatics, and was a collaborator in joint university-government initiatives. Dr. Lapets also served as PI and co-PI on multiple research efforts that were supported by sponsors such as NSF and IARPA and which involved the development, production deployment, and evaluation of secure multi-party computation solutions, with a particular focus on the usability and lightweight delivery of privacy-enhancing software applications. He has over a decade of industry experience consulting both large organizations engaged in federally sponsored research programs and small start-ups focused on bringing new technologies to market.
Azin Tehran-Kafai
Julian Chu
Vanessa Kuykendall
In her 25+ year history in beauty retail, Vanessa Kuykendall has led teams and driven revenue in brick & mortar, E-Commerce, and now Amazon. A founding partner at Market Defense, Vanessa leads Client Delivery where her team protects brand equity and drives profitable growth in the Amazon Marketplace. They provide a full suite of services including Account Management, Brand Protection, Logistics & Operations, Advertising, and Creative for beauty brands like Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare, this Works and Beauty Bakerie; the average YoY increase in their portfolio was 75% over 2021. Her past roles include Sales, Merchandising and Marketing at MAC Cosmetics, Tiffany & Co., The Body Shop, Estee Lauder, Walgreens and Beauty.com, the first prestige beauty retailer to sponsor NY Fashion week shows.
Denae Rocha
Rebecca Hobbs
At Stylus, the expert source of trends and insights, Rebecca tracks disruptive shifts within the retail and brand comms landscape in order to define the future direction of store concepts, online engagement and technology. Particularly fascinated by the attitudinal shifts underpinning changes in brand culture, she previously spent three years as senior fashion reporter at industry title Retail Week, where she gained extensive experience of the retail sector, providing thought-leadership on topical issues and appearing on national news programmes as an industry expert.
Philip Siveter
Philip Siveter is the CEO for Nokia UK&I. He joined Nokia in 2017 bringing 20 years of leadership experience in telecoms and ICT to the role. Philip is executing a strategy to drive Nokia’s world class portfolio forward and is also responsible for Nokia’s partners and alliances in the UK&I.
Previously Philip has worked for Ciena, where he set up a Public Sector business, and before that BT where he held numerous leadership roles. Philip has strong experience of Public Sector & Enterprise markets, working with customers and partners in delivering critical services. He has also held sales and operation positions at Sirocom, Nortel & Energis.
Philip has been an advisor for the Beyond Boyle foundation and Social Enterprise for Berkshire and is a keen advocate of the social enterprise model.