Lori Castillo Martinez is Executive Vice President, Talent Growth and Development at Salesforce where she leads the company’s talent life cycle strategy from onboarding to alumni. In her role, Lori helps Salesforce’s global workforce shape their careers, with a focus on succession planning, learning and development, skill building, and internal careers for Salesforce’s global employees. She is passionate about helping individuals with diverse perspectives and backgrounds take on new challenges and chart new career paths. Previously, Lori served as Salesforce's Chief Equality Officer, where she helped increase global representation and create a more inclusive culture through equity-focused processes and approaches. Prior to her time as Chief Equality Officer, she served as the head of Global Employee Relations and Equality — a role uniquely designed as a way to accelerate and integrate people and equality initiatives at Salesforce, guided by employees. Before joining Salesforce, Lori spent nearly a decade at McKesson where she created the first enterprise-wide strategy, processes and systems for key legal, ethics, and regulatory risk areas. Lori serves on the boards of How Women Lead, a community of women executives working to redefine female leadership, and LifeMoves, a nonprofit focused on ending homelessness in the Bay Area.

Alexandra (Ally) Legend Siegel is Senior Vice President and Chief Equality Officer at Salesforce where she leads the company’s global equality strategy. Ally is a seasoned equality leader with nearly a decade of experience leading diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. She is a founding member of Salesforce’s Office of Equality, where she established the company’s first equality trainings, reimagined inclusive hiring and promotion processes, launched career programs, instituted industry inclusive marketing principles, and helped create a framework to drive racial equality and justice. She also led the company’s Equality Group strategy, drawing from her previous experience as a global president of BOLDforce, Salesforce’s Black employee resource group. Previously, Ally served as Vice President and Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) - Talent, at Expedia Group. In this role, she drove D&I transformation within the company and travel industry by designing inclusive talent processes, enablement, and content. In 2018, she was named among Business Insider’s 30 and Under Rising Stars in Tech for her impact and nominated for AdColor's Change Agent Award for her work defining industry-wide inclusive marketing principles. Ally currently serves as a board member for Big Brother Big Sister Bay Area, helping youth achieve their full potential through mentorship, and as the Executive in Residence for Mills College at Northeastern, providing coaching for students and university leaders on technology careers and fostering inclusion on campus.

Bill Patterson is executive vice president and general manager of CRM Applications at Salesforce, where he leads product innovation, growth and customer success for Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Revenue Cloud. Most recently, Bill led development of Salesforce Work.com, a set of new technology solutions to help business and community leaders around the world reopen safely, re-skill employees and respond efficiently on the heels of COVID-19. A former software engineer and enterprise solutions architect, Bill joined Salesforce in 2017 after a 14-year career at Microsoft, where he held various leadership roles across product strategy, product management, product marketing and software engineering. Throughout his career, Bill has helped Fortune 1000 companies design and deploy strategic customer engagement, contact center and field service solutions. His passion is in helping companies connect with their customers and elevating the strategic importance of customer engagement tools to drive their businesses forward.

Sunya Norman is the SVP of ESG Strategy and Engagement at Salesforce where she leads ESG strategy and reporting, corporate impact communications and stakeholder engagement initiatives. She is passionate about using business to create happy, healthy communities. Sunya has an MBA from Presidio Graduate School, BA from Brown University and over 15 years of experience building ESG programs at diverse organizations, from nonprofits to Fortune 500 companies. Her best days involve bringing people together, problem solving and crafting stories to inspire change.

Dr. Paruk has recently joined Salesforce as Chief Health Officer & SVP Industry Advisory for HLS. She brings her experience as a practicing physician, chief medical officer, and clinical technology strategy consultant to Salesforce’s HLS. Prior to her joining Salesforce, Fatima came from McKinsey Co, where she led McKinsey’s Clinical Center of Excellence. She has also served as Chief Medical Information Officer for Microsoft US Health & Life Sciences, and Chief Medical Officer of Analytics and Consumer Wellness at Allscripts, where she provided medical leadership to a world-class team of data scientists. Dr. Paruk successfully demonstrated the power of big data in improving health outcomes. Her team facilitated early identification of chronic diseases, successfully quantified impacts of social determinants of health, and worked to deliver such insights to the point of care to clinicians within their workflows, and to consumers.

Steve Corfield leads the growth and business strategy for Salesforce’s Global Alliances, Channels & Emerging Products organizations. He also drives customer success and sales through Salesforce’s world-class partner ecosystem. Steve has been with Salesforce for eight years working at the intersection of technology innovation and global impact in various roles. He also held senior leadership positions as the General Manager of Salesforce UK/Ireland and the CRO of Commerce Cloud. Steve has 20+ years of experience in high tech, cloud computing, software, and services. Prior to Salesforce, Steve held senior leadership positions at Microsoft and Oracle. Steve holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Science from Brunel University in London. He serves as a Board Member and Trustee of Corvus Learning Trust, advising on the future of education for children. He lives outside of London with his wife and children.

Marie is Senior Vice President of Industries GTM, where she runs professional services, support, sales enablement and program management. Before joining Salesforce in 2008, Marie held support, professional service, product marketing, and program management positions at Oracle, Peoplesoft, Evolve, and Primavera. She has a B.S. in Political Science from Santa Clara University. Known as the "team mom," Marie’s responsible for making sure our customers and internal teams have all of the tools and resources they need to succeed — even orange slices and gatorades to keep them energized. She has two children of her own and in her free time she’s an active volunteer for the San Carlos Educational Foundation and competes in obstacle course races like Tough Mudder.

Ed is a privacy, policy, and technology industry veteran, having served in various leadership roles throughout his career. Ed recently joined Salesforce to lead its Global Privacy Team. Ed’s team spans the globe, working on cutting-edge privacy and data protection regulatory and legislative matters on behalf of Salesforce and its customers. Previously, Ed served in leadership roles at Microsoft, on both the privacy and government affairs teams, providing extensive advice and counsel on GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, the recently-passed CDPA (in Virginia) and comprehensive data protection laws and data sovereignty measures that have been proposed and/or implemented around the world, including in China, India, Brazil, Russia, Canada, Australia, Kenya, and many other jurisdictions. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2014, Ed worked as an attorney in the Washington D.C. office of Alston & Bird, on a team that included former Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and Tom Daschle, where he covered privacy and a range of other legislative and public policy issues.

Kathy Baxter is Principal Architect of Salesforce's Ethical AI Practice. With 20 years of experience in the tech industry, Kathy develops research-informed best practices to educate Salesforce employees, customers, and the industry on the development of ethical AI. She collaborates and partners with external AI and ethics experts to continuously evolve Salesforce's policies, practices, and products and is passionate about creating a more fair, just, and equitable society. You can read about her research on the Salesforce UX Medium channel (https://medium.com/@kathykbaxter). Kathy received her MS in Engineering Psychology and a BS degree in Applied Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology. The second edition of her book, "Understanding your users," was published in May 2015. She has presented papers and taught tutorials to the Human Factors and Usability community in the US and Europe since 1997. She also actively volunteers for events to increase the number of girls and women entering the engineering and science fields.

John Somorjai is the Chief Corporate Development and Investments Officer at Salesforce. Since 2005, he has been leading the evaluation, deal execution and integration of Salesforce’s corporate strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, as well as investments. Mr. Somorjai’s team has helped bring the company into significant new growth areas and onboarded a number of key leaders through more than 60 acquisitions including Datorama, Demandware, ExactTarget, Heroku, InStranet, Krux, MetaMind, MuleSoft, Radian6, RelateIQ, Quip, SteelBrick and Tableau. Salesforce Ventures is the second most active corporate venture program in the world and its portfolio includes innovative cloud companies such as Anaplan, Classy, DocuSign, Dropbox, FinancialForce, GainSight, Lyft, nCino, Stripe, SurveyMonkey, Twilio, Zoom and Vlocity. Mr. Somorjai’s team has made more than 300 investments in companies located in 20 different countries. Prior to Salesforce, Mr. Somorjai was Vice President of Business Development for Ingenio, which was acquired by AT&T. Prior to Ingenio, John worked for Oracle Corporation in Corporate Development. Mr. Somorjai is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association. Mr. Somorjai holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Christina Janzer is the Senior Vice President of Research & Analytics at Slack, and is responsible for leading global research and product analytics efforts that provide insights about how to make working lives better and more productive. Christina and her team work to better understand the people using Slack, the challenges they face, and the broader world of work in order to help inform overall product and marketing efforts. Christina co-founded Future Forum, a future of work research consortium backed by Slack, that produced data and insights on changing work preferences and practices in the wake of the pandemic. She continues to lead Slack’s future of work research initiatives in order to understand how work is evolving over time. Christina is passionate about designing a better future of work, and uses her research to educate people and companies around the world. Prior to Slack, Christina founded the user research team at Facebook after helping to grow the customer support team. Christina studied Product Design at Stanford. 50-WORD VERSION: Christina leads global research and product analytics at Slack, providing insights about people and work in order to inform overall product, marketing and sales efforts. Before that,Christina founded the user research team at Facebook and helped grow the customer support team.

Rob Seaman joined Slack in 2022 to spearhead the company’s enterprise product vision and strategy. In his previous role, he was Salesforce’s SVP of Product Management for Slack to lead the platform integration efforts prior to the acquisition. Rob has led Product at three early stage startups in the Machine Learning Ops and personalization spaces and started his career at Siebel and SAP.

Ann leads the product, engineering, and operations teams that power Trailhead, the fun and free way to learn Salesforce. She has been at the company for eight years, working at the intersection of technology innovation and global impact in various roles. She is passionate about workforce development, nontraditional education, and helping underrepresented groups break into tech. Outside of work, Ann is also the current Board Chair for Technovation, a global nonprofit that inspires girls and families to be leaders and problem-solvers in their lives and communities. She also serves on the Marines' Memorial Association Board and is a 2023 Presidential Leadership Scholar. Ann lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys exploring the East Bay by bicycle or trail with her two young kids.

Hugh Gamble serves as Vice President of Federal Government Affairs for Salesforce where he manages the company's Federal Government Affairs for the United States and Canada. Since joining the company in January of 2015, he has helped lead Salesforce's government relations and public policy for the company through a period of substantial growth and increased engagement with government. Prior to joining Salesforce, Hugh worked in several positions on Capitol Hill, including as Legislative Director & Chief Counsel for U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, as Counsel for U.S. Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, and as General Counsel for U.S. Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi. Hugh holds both a B.S. in Computer Science from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, and a J.D. from the University of Mississippi School of Law in Oxford, Mississippi. He now lives with his wife and son in Alexandria, Virginia.

Paul Drews serves as Managing Partner at Salesforce Ventures, the company’s global investment arm which helps enterprising founders build companies that reinvent the way the world works. Drews joined Salesforce Ventures in 2020 with a focus on application and infrastructure software investments across all stages. He has backed companies across the US and EMEA, and his investments span from seed to IPO-rounds — including Astronomer, Databricks, Lyra, Monte Carlo, Starburst, Vercel, Vivun and VNDLY (acquired by Workday). Currently, he is a board observer at Airbyte, Astronomer, and Vivun. Prior to Salesforce Ventures, Drews was a partner at Tenaya Capital, where he led investments in companies including Concord and Streamsets (acquired by Software AG). He formerly served as vice president at Battery Ventures, where he was actively involved with or on the board of the firm's investments in Collibra, Jfrog (NASDAQ: FROG), Opsgenie (acquired by Atlassian), Streamsets and others. Drews holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in economics from Duke University.

Patrick Stokes is EVP of Product & Industries Marketing at Salesforce. Patrick joined Salesforce in 2012 through the acquisition of Buddy Media where he served as CPO and quickly partnered with the Radian6 team to deliver Social Studio, the first product in what eventually became Salesforce Marketing Cloud. After numerous expanding leadership roles in Marketing Cloud, Patrick spearheaded the Customer 360 project and Salesforce’s multi-cloud integration strategy. Customer 360 is now a primary differentiator of the Salesforce platform and has transformed the way customers deploy Salesforce products and achieve a single view of their customer. Throughout his career, he has worked in product leadership roles in both start-ups and industry incumbents. Patrick studied Computer Science and Information Technology at Marist College, and is based in New York.

Clara Shih is CEO of Salesforce AI. In this role, she oversees artificial intelligence efforts across the company, including product, go-to-market, growth, adoption, and ecosystem for Einstein GPT, the world's #1 AI for CRM. Einstein GPT delivers over 1 trillion predictions and generative automations every week across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, Industry Clouds, Mulesoft, Tableau, and Slack. Previously, Clara led Salesforce Service Cloud, the world’s #1 customer service, contact center, digital service, bots, and field service solution. A digital pioneer, Clara has been named one of Fortune’s “40 under 40” and “Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs,” Fast Company’s “Most Influential People in Technology,” and a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum. Clara is a member of the Starbucks board of directors and serves as Executive Chair of Hearsay Systems, a privately held digital software firm she founded in 2009. She graduated #1 in computer science at Stanford University, where she also received an M.S. in computer science. She also holds an M.S. in internet studies from Oxford University, where she studied as a U.S. Marshall Scholar.

Ryan Aytay is Chief Executive Officer of Tableau. Previously, Ryan served as Chief Business Officer and Chief Revenue Officer.

Relina Bulchandani is Executive Vice President, Real Estate & Workplace Services at Salesforce. In her role, Relina is responsible for Salesforce’s global real estate strategy, overseeing the company’s real estate portfolio and workplace design, as well as creating one-of-a-kind experiences for Salesforce’s employees, customers, partners, and the community. Relina is focused on reimagining how Salesforce spaces are used in the future of work — leading with collaboration, connection and community. In line with Salesforce’s core value of Sustainability, Relina is passionate about sustainable buildings and cities and is focused on the role of technology in sustainable design and operations. Prior to joining Salesforce, Relina led Real Estate and Workplace Services at Stripe, managing the company’s 1.5 million square foot real estate portfolio in 19 cities across 10 countries. Previously, she was Managing Director of Real Estate and Workplace Services at Google Cloud, and worked at Cisco as part of the Consulting Services Connected Real Estate practice and as the global lead for Connected Real Estate and Workplace in the Innovation & Strategy practice. Prior to Cisco, Relina was Senior Vice President of Strategic Projects at Forest City Enterprises, a publicly traded real estate developer. Prior to Forest City, Relina managed a division within client services for Realm Business Solutions, a real estate software company, and she was a senior member of the real estate consulting practice at Ernst & Young for more than five years. Relina recently completed the advanced real estate finance, development and sustainability program from the M.I.T Center for Real Estate and holds an M.S.E. in technology management from The Wharton School and the School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. with a double major in economics and political science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Peter Schwartz is an internationally renowned futurist and business strategist, specializing in scenario planning and working with corporations, governments, and institutions to create alternative perspectives of the future and develop robust strategies for a changing and uncertain world. As Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning for Salesforce, he manages the organization’s ongoing strategic conversation. Prior to joining Salesforce, Peter was co-founder and chairman of Global Business Network. He is the author of several works. His first book, The Art of the Long View, is considered a seminal publication on scenario planning. Peter has also served as a script consultant on the films "The Minority Report," "Deep Impact," "Sneakers," and "War Games." He received a B.S. in aeronautical engineering and astronautics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.

As EVP of Revenue Cloud and Solutions, Meredith Schmidt is responsible for creating products that help small businesses take advantage of the Salesforce Platform to grow their businesses. Meredith was previously the Executive Vice President in charge of global revenue operations at Salesforce, managing the sales operations, compensation, and product and enablement teams, reporting directly to the CFO. Meredith lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and enjoys cooking, travelling, and spending time with her fiance, young son, and King Charles Cavalier Spaniel.

Leah McGowen-Hare, MSEd, Trailhead Evangelist and SVP at Salesforce, is passionate about making learning accessible and empowering everyone to have a career in technology. Leah is an accomplished and dynamic Master Technical Trainer for Salesforce with over 20+ years of experience in technology; mastering a variety of roles including Consultant, Developer, Manager and Technical Trainer. Leah is one of the brains behind Be a Multiplier, a program that inspires people to be multipliers that will amplify and encourage their communities to skill up for the jobs of today and tomorrow. She uses her knowledge and experience to demystify and make technology more accessible to youth, girls, communities of color and Veterans’ through organizations such as BlackGirls Code, Technovation, Girls Who Code and Vetforce.

Brenda was born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, in a bicultural family, and later moved to the US for school pursuing a BA in Economics and MBA. She started her Marketing career within Brand and Research at BAT, crafting marketing plans to increase awareness and drive share growth. She continued her professional journey at Microsoft, where she spent the last 17 years in various businesses. Her first role was in ERP and CRM Product Marketing as that business unit was formed launching Microsoft Dynamics. Over the next few years she held various Marketing leadership roles across Commercial and Consumer groups, including SQL Server, Windows and Devices and Global Advertising and Brand. Her most recent role at Microsoft was leading the Product Marketing and GTM teams for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform with a craft for differentiated messaging, positioning and go to market strategies, partnering closely with Sales, Engineering and Customer Success. Brenda was also co-chair for Diversity and Inclusion in the Cloud Marketing organization, as this is one of her passion areas. Outside of work, Brenda loves to travel and spend time with her husband and two daughters, staying active in the beautiful Pacific Northwest year-round through water sports, hiking and skiing.

Noah Weiss is the Chief Product Officer of Slack, overseeing the product team’s strategy and development to build Slack into the essential digital HQ for millions of customers. Over his seven years at Slack, Noah has led various parts of the product organization, including the self-service SMB business and product-led growth; the Virtual HQ team that launched huddles and clips; and the search and machine learning teams. Prior to Slack, Noah served as SVP of Product and Analytics at Foursquare. He started his career at Google leading the structured data search team and working on display ads. Noah has a bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology and Society and a minor in Computer Science from Stanford University, with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction Design.

As the Senior Vice President of Employee Success, David Ard oversees the People team at Slack, where he puts his passion for culture, equality and belonging—and championing talent—into daily practice. He empowers employees across Salesforce in his role leading the Global People Practice of Salesforce’s Mergers and Acquisitions and Global People Services. David has over 20 years of experience leading the HR and People teams of global lifestyle brands at the intersection of talent, culture and performance. Previously, he was the Chief People Officer at Equinox, where he was also a founding partner of Equinox’s Equality and Belonging Leadership Council. Prior to that, David was Global Head of People for the Gap and Intermix brands, with responsibility for over 30,000 employees across North America, Europe and Asia. David holds his B.A. in Organizational Communication from the University of Central Florida.

As Executive Vice President of Global Government Affairs, Eric Loeb is responsible for leading Salesforce’s government relations, public policy, and public affairs efforts. The global team he supports is the face of Salesforce with policymakers, policy influencers, diplomats, and civil society. Salesforce is a cloud computing company covering customer relationship management and other enterprise-focused software to businesses, governments and other organizations around the world. Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies—cloud, mobile, social, blockchain, voice, and artificial intelligence—to connect in a whole new way. Joining Salesforce in 2018, Eric brings significant experience in the geopolitical arena. His roles as AT&T’s International External Affairs SVP, Global Regulatory Counsel for Concert Communications plc, and U.S. Regulatory Counsel for British Telecommunications plc have fostered extensive experience with the policies and politics of governments across the globe. Eric serves as a leader on Salesforce’s Racial Equality & Justice Task Force as the chair of the Policy Pillar, in addition to being the executive sponsor of WINDforce, an employee equality group representing a Worldwide Indigenous Network of Diversity. In the community, Eric is Chair of the Board, the United States Council of International Business, and an advisory board member of the SEED School of Maryland, and the Asia Society - Northern California Chapter. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A graduate with honors of Georgetown University Law Center and Bowdoin College, Eric is an avid cyclist and outdoors enthusiast. He and his family share their time between San Francisco, California and Baltimore, Maryland.

Paul Whitelam is GM and SVP of Field Service Management at Salesforce. He joined Salesforce as part of the acquisition of ClickSoftware, where he led the global marketing team, working closely with field service management leaders across a variety of industries. Paul has more than twenty years’ experience in enterprise software, with leadership roles in several areas fundamental to field service such as mobile (Nokia), location intelligence (HERE Technologies) and data management (Endeca).

Paula Goldman is Salesforce’s first-ever Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer. In her role, she leads Salesforce in creating a framework to build and deploy ethical technology that optimizes social benefit. Prior to Salesforce, Paula served as Vice President, Global Lead, Tech and Society Solutions Lab, at Omidyar Network, a social impact investment firm established by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Paula also served as the global lead for impact investing, where she created and led Omidyar Network’s global efforts to build the impact investing movement through its investment portfolio, industry partnerships, and thought leadership. Paula has extensive entrepreneurial experience managing frontier market businesses, ranging from managing an affordable private school in rural India to a micro-enterprise syndicate in post-war Bosnia. Paula earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, She holds a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton and a B.A. with highest honors from UC Berkeley

Rob Garf is VP and General Manager of Salesforce's Retail team. With 25 years of global retail experience as a practitioner (Lids, Marshalls, Hit or Miss), an industry analyst (AMR Research), a strategy consultant (IBM), and a software leader (Demandware/Salesforce), he is no stranger to the industry and the challenges retailers face. He currently leads industry research, drives solution strategy, and advises senior executives globally on digital transformation. Rob is also a frequent industry speaker, a member of NRF’s Digital Council, and Chair of the Retail Customer Advisory Board.

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Lindsey Finch is Salesforce’s Executive Vice President and Data Protection Officer. In this role, Finch leads Salesforce’s global privacy program and product legal function. A practicing attorney and Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), Finch reports directly to Salesforce’s General Counsel. Prior to joining Salesforce in 2008, Finch was Privacy Counsel at General Electric. Before and during law school, Finch worked on privacy-related issues at the US Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Homeland Security. Finch received her juris doctor from American University, Washington College of Law and her bachelor of arts in communication and political science from the University of California, San Diego.

John Kucera is Senior Vice President of Product Management at Salesforce and leads the Automation Services product team. He is responsible for Einstein Chatbots, Flow, and Einstein Next Best Action. John also drives the Einstein Automate vision across the Salesforce Platform, Mulesoft, and Salesforce Industries, enabling end-to-end automation, integrated across any system. John earned his BS in Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University, and his MBA in Business at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Casey Coleman is senior vice president of Global Government Solutions at Salesforce, where she is responsible for enterprise positioning and solution strategies for government customers worldwide. Before joining Salesforce, Casey served as chief information officer at the U.S. General Services Administration. There she led several modernization initiatives, including the first agency-wide move to cloud-based email and collaboration platforms. Casey chaired the federal CIO Council’s Cloud First committee that developed the FedRAMP standard for cloud cybersecurity. Casey began her career as an engineer with Lockheed Martin and has held sales, consulting and management roles at several technology startups focused on the enterprise IT space. Casey holds several honors and awards from various organizations, including the Computerworld Premier 100 Award and the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Award for Leadership in Innovation. She is a three-time winner of the Federal Computer Week Federal 100 Award. Casey holds an MBA in Finance and International Business from the University of Texas at Arlington, as well as a B.S. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.