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2022 Speakers

Kate Prouty

SVP and Chief Information Officer @ Akamai

Jean Olive

Chief Technology Officer @ Best Buy Health

Carolyn Duby

Field Chief Technology Officer and Cyber Security Lead @ Cloudera

Catherine Kniker

Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer @ PTC

Sheryl Shinn

Chief Information Officer @ North Shore Bank

Kerry Munz

Chief Technology Officer @ Vendr

Abha Dogra

Chief Digital and Technology Officer @ CAE

Alyssa Robinson

Deputy CISO @ Hubspot

Bela Labovitch

VP of Engineering @ athenaHealth

Erin Molgaard

VP - Mainstreet Technology, Card Tech @ Capital One

Kate Prouty

SVP and Chief Information Officer @ Akamai

Kate Prouty is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Akamai. As CIO, she oversees Akamai’s Information Technology organization, responsible for business transformation including global strategy, development, and operation of the applications and IT infrastructure that enable agile and efficient user experiences for Akamai's customers, employees, and partners. She is based at the company's global headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Prouty joined Akamai in 1999 and has led a long and distinguished career at the company, leading the transformation of Akamai's business processes with an emphasis on flexibility, agility, and user experience. She has been instrumental in developing systems that have been foundational to the company's growth and scale, including the implementation of Akamai's enterprise resource planning systems, the network statistics system that is used across the company to better understand how our customers are using our deployed network, and our network supply chain to ensure the smooth operation of the business and best serve Akamai's customers.

Prior to becoming CIO, she collaborated closely with leaders across the company in HR, Finance, Platform Engineering, Product Development, Services, and Sales. She brings to the role an adept understanding of the criticality of security, risk, and compliance across the industry and Akamai's business.

Prior to joining Akamai, she held a variety of technology positions including in network administration, system administration, database administration, and software implementation at Fleet Financial and Digitas.

Prouty holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Keene State College and is a graduate of the Greater Boston Executive Program at MIT's Sloan School of Management. She co-chairs the Executive Women's Network at Akamai and is a member of the board of directors of the nonprofit organization Delta Projects, which supports and empowers people with intellectual challenges.

Join Kate's session 'Avoiding Cybersecurity Scares in an Evolving Threat Landscape' on October 20th.

Jean Olive

Chief Technology Officer @ Best Buy Health

Jean Olive is the Chief Technology Officer for Best Buy Health responsible for technology strategy and architecture, product design and delivery, digital transformations, and operational excellence. Jean's career has been centered on global companies with a mission to improve and save lives where she progressed through a variety of engineering, supply chain and leadership positions at Raytheon Technologies, Royal Philips, and Schneider Electric.

Jean is a champion for advancing women in technology and leadership, and inclusion and diversity as a competitive advantage. She advocates for women to help other women through coaching, mentoring, career opportunities and taking the path with a heart – love what you do. Jean and her husband Stephen have five grown children, enjoy lake life and traveling.

Jean received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, is a member of the UConn Academy of Distinguished Engineers and serves on the School of Engineering advisory committee.

Join Jean's session 'The Tipping Point of Career Satisfaction in the Face of the Great Resignation' on October 21st.

Carolyn Duby

Field Chief Technology Officer and Cyber Security Lead @ Cloudera

Carolyn Duby is a cybersecurity and data expert who drives some of today’s most important tech topics, including hybrid data cloud, big data, privacy, becoming a data-driven organization, and careers in tech. With more than 30 years of experience in the industry, she currently serves as Field CTO and Cyber Security Lead at Cloudera. A trusted advisor to dozens of customers, from SMBs to the Fortune 100, she guides companies in banking, insurance, healthcare and more through complex transformations that help them use data as a strategic asset to impact their bottom line.

She regularly contributes blog posts, articles and commentary, including to VentureBeat, eWEEK, and Bank Info Security.

Fun Fact: I love cats so much I have four of them! I love to cook, bake and work out.

Join Carolyn's session 'Embedding Security by Design Principals' on October 20th.

Catherine Kniker

Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer @ PTC

Catherine is EVP and Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer at PTC, responsible for over seeing key strategic functions—including Corporate Strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions, Sustainability, and Corporate Marketing.

She brings her strong business acumen, excellent systems thinking, and technology savviness to this role. Joining PTC in 2016, Catherine began as Chief Revenue Officer for the company's fast growing IoT and AR business units and then managed PTC strategic global alliances including those with Microsoft, Rockwell Automation, Ansys, Global Systems Integrators, and software and hardware technology companies.

In 2019 she also began leading our Mergers & Acquisition team, spearheading the acquisi tion of Arena Solutions—the largest acquisition in PTC history. Prior to PTC, Catherine suc cessfully held numerous strategy, corporate development, and go-to-market leadership roles. She was Chief Channel Officer & VP at Constant Contact, Owner and President at CHB Group, SVP of Corporate Development & Marketing at Candela Corporation, and SVP Marketing, Enterprise Services at Level 3 Communications.

Catherine earned a M.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a B.S. in Computer Systems from the University of Limerick in Ireland.

Join Catherine's session 'Driving Sustainable Innovation' on October 20th.

Sheryl Shinn

Chief Information Officer @ North Shore Bank

Sheryl Shinn is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at North Shore Bank. As CIO Sheryl serves as a strategic partner who understands how technology supports the business's service delivery and operational efficiency objectives. Sheryl is responsible for developing and implementing practical, customer focused solutions that streamline processes through the use of technology, combined with continual process improvement to enhance both the customer (internal & external) experience and financial results, while keeping ahead of the Company's growth.

Before joining North Shore Bank, Shinn held the position of Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Officer for Farm Credit Financial Partners, Inc., a provider of technology products and services to the Farm Credit System. Prior to that, she held executive positions in the banking industry. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Statistics from Mount Holyoke College and is a graduate of the Stonier National School of Banking and the Springfield Leadership Institute. She also received a Leadership Certificate from The Wharton School and holds an ITIL 4 Foundation Certification. Sheryl volunteers as a board member for the Central CT chapter of SIM (Society for Information Management).

Fun Fact: Sheryl has a passion for cooking and regularly hosts Sunday Family dinner with her best friend using a theme of "Around the World". Her love of food leads to her other hobby which is physical fitness. Sheryl makes sure to incorporate cardio (great stress reliever too) every day into her schedule and family vacations are often spent hiking, walking, or any other physical activity.

Join Sheryl's session 'Deepening Customer Engagement through New Technologies' on October 21st.

Kerry Munz

Chief Technology Officer @ Vendr

Kerry Munz is Chief Technology Officer at Vendr, a startup on a mission to help the worlds fastest growing companies revolutionize the way they find, buy, and manage SaaS. As CTO, Kerry is responsible for technical strategy, product delivery, and operational excellence across Engineering, Security, and IT to support Vendrs fast growth.

Prior to Vendr, Kerry was VP of Engineering at HubSpot, a marketing, sales, & services SaaS automation platform. Kerry led hundreds of engineers across multiple groups including Platform Infrastructure, Growth, Fintech, Business Intelligence, and the Revenue Product organizations. Kerry was responsible for HubSpot's cloud infrastructure of thousands of servers and services running in both AWS and Google Cloud and helped scale the company to hundreds of thousands of customers and $1B in sales.

With over 30 years of industry experience, Kerry also led teams and architecture at Cisco Systems, and was a key engineer for multiple security and networking startups. Kerry holds 5 patents related to communication software and security.

As a champion and mentor for women in technology and women in leadership, Kerry has spoken at Grace Hopper, Google NEXT, and multiple women leadership panels. She loves to teach about Infrastructure as Code, leadership development, and the art of negotiation.

Join Kerry's session 'Thrive Instead of Survive: The Anti-Fragile Way' on October 21st.

Abha Dogra

Chief Digital and Technology Officer @ CAE

Abha Dogra is currently Chief Digital and Technology Officer (CDTO) and is a member of CAE's Executive Management Committee (EMC). As CDTO, Abha leads CAE's global technology teams by helping shape the company's broader strategic direction to maximize business growth, while overseeing the development of CAE's digital and technology roadmap. She is responsible for driving the strategic development of the technology function and fostering synergies between the digital and engineering teams to innovate intelligent products, operations, and services at scale.

Abha supports all global business operations, strategies, and optimization of investments to ensure the company's continued market leadership role. She is responsible for the growth of IT, engineering, and digital talent to accelerate the development and safe adoption of world-changing innovations. She will champion innovative thinking across CAE and within our customer and supplier ecosystem. She will also incorporate green IT and engineering in alignment with our ESG goals.

Abha Dogra is a senior executive with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, driving commercial and non-commercial software products strategy and development. She is a senior product and software development advocate with extensive knowledge in diverse areas of Enterprise Solution Delivery and SaaS-based business services (XaaS), including Product Development, Enterprise Architecture, Digital Customer Experience and Operations Excellence. As a strategic thought leader, she has worked with Fortune 500 companies to develop high-density skilled teams across different geographies to benefit from diversity of thoughts in problem solving.

Prior to CAE, Abha held a dual role at Schneider Electric as their North America Chief Information Officer and the SVP of Global Digital Technology. Her focus was to drive both digitization and digital transformation. Throughout her diverse career, she has worked as a senior technologist in different industry verticals, for example Industrial vertical at PTC, Security & Content Delivery Network (CDN) at Akamai, Information Storage at Iron Mountain, and Human Capital Management Solutions at ADP. Abha holds her master's in computer science from Boston University and her master's in Business Administration with majors in Finance and International Trade from NMIMS in India.

Join Abha's session 'Sustainability in Technology and Evangelized Sustainable Tech' on October 20th.

Alyssa Robinson

Deputy CISO @ Hubspot

Alyssa Robinson is the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for HubSpot. She leads the engineering teams responsible for securing HubSpot's public cloud infrastructure and application development. Alyssa joined HubSpot in January of 2019. Prior to HubSpot, Alyssa has held positions in security and infrastructure at Cisco, Kantar Media, the Broad Institute, and Akamai.

Outside of work, Alyssa is active in the League of Women Voters and a coach for Girls on the Run. She loves hiking, climbing, running, and snowboarding with her husband, kids, and dog.

Fun Fact: In addition to degrees in Computer Science and Information Security, Alyssa graduated from the Culinary Certificate program at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts.

Join Alyssa's session 'Test-Driven Security: How Do I Know My Controls Are Working?' on October 20th.

Bela Labovitch

VP of Engineering @ athenaHealth

Bela Labovitch is a passionate technologist and engineering leader whose career in software spans many decades. She is currently a Vice President of Engineering at athenaHealth, a healthcare technology company that aspires to build an ecosystem that provides accessible, high-quality and sustainable healthcare for all. She has held a variety of positions - CTO, VP, Architect and developer at companies that range from start-ups to larger enterprises. Bela has a Masters in Computer Science from Northeastern University and a Bachelors in Computer Science from Brandeis University.

Bela is particularly interested in attracting and keeping women in the technology field and raising women leaders. She is on the steering committee of the Women's Leadership forum at athena and founded their Women in Technology initiative. She is a STEM mentor and speaks at organizations such as Girls Who Code. In 2019 and 2020, the Healthcare Technology Report named her as one of the Top 25 Women Leaders in Healthcare.

Bela serves on the Board of the non-profit Parents Helping Parents and is a long-time parental stress counselor. She is a mother, runner, yoga practitioner, reader and avid traveler.

Join Bela's session 'Lightning Talk: Becoming an Authentic and Empathic Leader' on October 21st.

Erin Molgaard

VP - Mainstreet Technology, Card Tech @ Capital One

Erin Molgaard is the Head of Mainstreet Card & New To Credit Technology, leading a team of 150+ associates across multiple locations. In this role, Erin leads the technology organization and is accountable for the overall Technology & Architecture Strategy that supports the Mainstreet & New to Credit Card Business Segments. Erin is a strong supporter of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (DIB), and is passionate about Mentorship and Women In Tech (WIT).

Erin holds leadership roles supporting Boston WIT, Allies and Coders chapters while also serving as a formal mentor as part of the Year Up Internship Program. Since joining Capital One in 2020, Erin has held several leadership positions, including as Sr. Director accountable for modernizing data and technical capabilities for Financial Analysts, Data Analysts and Line of Business CFOs supporting the Global Finance Business.

As a technology leader in Finance Tech, she was also accountable for integrating with and contributing to enterprise data and machine learning platform capabilities. Before joining Capital One, Erin was with Fidelity Investments in Boston, MA. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management Information Systems from Iowa State University and Master of Business Administration with a concentration in International Finance from Suffolk University. Erin lives in Boston, Massachusetts with her husband (Peter).

Join Erin's session 'Achieving Success Through Resiliency and Perseverance: My Career Journey' on October 20th.

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