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Dr. Gordon Barfield

Senior Clinical Manager
Overjet AI

Dr. Gordon Barfield

Senior Clinical Manager
Overjet AI

Dr. Gordon Barfield

Senior Clinical Manager
Overjet AI

From designing a clear “hero” offer and pricing architecture to staffing and scheduling that protects chair time, aesthetic dentistry can become a predictable revenue stream rather than a distraction. This session shares a practical playbook for owners and practice leaders looking to launch or grow aesthetics with operational discipline and a measurable patient acquisition system. 

  • Defining a hero aesthetic offer that patients instantly understand, want, and are willing to pay for, then packaging it into clear tiers 

  • Building a staffing and scheduling model that safeguards core dentistry productivity while creating consistent capacity for aesthetics 

  • Implementing a 30-day patient acquisition funnel (existing patients + digital) with KPIs to track leads, consults, conversions, and retention 

 

 

Justin Carroll

Chief Financial Officer
MB2 Dental

Justin Carroll

Chief Financial Officer
MB2 Dental

Justin Carroll

Chief Financial Officer
MB2 Dental
 

Mike Huffaker

Chief Revenue Officer
Planet DDS

Mike Huffaker

Chief Revenue Officer
Planet DDS

Mike Huffaker

Chief Revenue Officer
Planet DDS

Author:

Tamar Yehoshua

Chief Product & AI Officer
Atlassian
Tamar Yehoshua is Atlassian’s Chief Product and AI Officer, driving the company’s vision for the future of teamwork in the age of AI. She leads Atlassian’s Teamwork Collection and AI strategy, uniting product, design, and intelligent experiences to help teams work smarter, faster, and more creatively. Her goal: build AI‑native, world‑class products that set the standard for how millions of knowledge workers get things done.
Previously, she was President of Product and Technology at Glean, and Chief Product Officer at Slack, where she guided the company through rapid growth, a public listing, and acquisition by Salesforce.
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Tamar Yehoshua

Chief Product & AI Officer
Atlassian
Tamar Yehoshua is Atlassian’s Chief Product and AI Officer, driving the company’s vision for the future of teamwork in the age of AI. She leads Atlassian’s Teamwork Collection and AI strategy, uniting product, design, and intelligent experiences to help teams work smarter, faster, and more creatively. Her goal: build AI‑native, world‑class products that set the standard for how millions of knowledge workers get things done.
Previously, she was President of Product and Technology at Glean, and Chief Product Officer at Slack, where she guided the company through rapid growth, a public listing, and acquisition by Salesforce.

Author:

Bala Vaidyanathan

VP, Head of Data & AI
FedEx

Bala Vaidyanathan is vice president and lead for Data & AI at FedEx. Under his leadership, FedEx has leveraged their extensive data ecosystem to enhance shipping efficiency and improve logistics and supply chain operations. Their data-driven solutions deliver value for both internal teams and external customers. 


As a recipient of the FedEx Five Star Award, and with almost 20 years of industry experience, Bala brings deep expertise, curiosity, and a first-principles mindset to every challenge. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in operations research from the University of Florida. His technical research contributions have been published in multiple journals, and he served for several years as an associate editor for the international publication Networks.

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Bala Vaidyanathan

VP, Head of Data & AI
FedEx

Bala Vaidyanathan is vice president and lead for Data & AI at FedEx. Under his leadership, FedEx has leveraged their extensive data ecosystem to enhance shipping efficiency and improve logistics and supply chain operations. Their data-driven solutions deliver value for both internal teams and external customers. 


As a recipient of the FedEx Five Star Award, and with almost 20 years of industry experience, Bala brings deep expertise, curiosity, and a first-principles mindset to every challenge. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in operations research from the University of Florida. His technical research contributions have been published in multiple journals, and he served for several years as an associate editor for the international publication Networks.

Author:

Yao Morin

Chief Technology Officer
JLL

Yao Morin leads global data strategy and end-to-end management of data product roadmap for JLL Technologies, a division of JLL unifying the company’s technology, businesses, services and applications.

Based in San Francisco, her expertise offers vital guidance and insights to drive JLL’s technology roadmap while delivering further value for stakeholders. By helping to refine and accelerate JLL Technologies’ approach to gathering, extracting, storing and leveraging data assets across all JLL businesses, Yao is creating new value for investors, occupiers and the broader JLL organization.

Prior to JLL Technologies, Yao served as chief data officer and head of U.S. engineering at StubHub, where she defined and championed StubHub’s company-wide data strategy and oversaw the execution of a complete data transformation.

She also drove the development and modernization of Intuit’s data infrastructure as head of data science and machine learning engineering, principal data scientist.

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Yao Morin

Chief Technology Officer
JLL

Yao Morin leads global data strategy and end-to-end management of data product roadmap for JLL Technologies, a division of JLL unifying the company’s technology, businesses, services and applications.

Based in San Francisco, her expertise offers vital guidance and insights to drive JLL’s technology roadmap while delivering further value for stakeholders. By helping to refine and accelerate JLL Technologies’ approach to gathering, extracting, storing and leveraging data assets across all JLL businesses, Yao is creating new value for investors, occupiers and the broader JLL organization.

Prior to JLL Technologies, Yao served as chief data officer and head of U.S. engineering at StubHub, where she defined and championed StubHub’s company-wide data strategy and oversaw the execution of a complete data transformation.

She also drove the development and modernization of Intuit’s data infrastructure as head of data science and machine learning engineering, principal data scientist.

Author:

Prith Banerjee

SVP, Innovation
Synopsys

Prith Banerjee is Senior Vice President of Innovation at Synopsys.  Prith leads the Synopsys Innovation Group (SIG) which fosters advancements in EDA, Simulation & Analysis, and IP. Working closely with Fellows, Chief Technologists, Architects, and the Technical Leadership team, SIG shapes the company’s technology strategy and fosters cross-functional collaboration. The group engages with customers, partners, startups, and academia to refine and share Synopsys’ technology vision.

Prior to joining Synopsys, Prith served as Chief Technology Officer at Ansys, where he was responsible for guiding the company’s long-term technology vision. He has held multiple senior leadership roles across technology and industrial organizations, including Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Schneider Electric, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at ABB in Zurich,and Managing Director of Global Technology R&D at Accenture. He also served as Senior Vice President of Research and Director of HP Labs at Hewlett-Packard, where he oversaw global innovation efforts.

Earlier in his career, Prith was a leader in academia, serving as Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago and as Chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northwestern University. He began his academic career as a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A serial entrepreneur, Prith founded AccelChip, an EDA software company acquired by Xilinx, and BINACHIP, where he served as Founder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist. His research interests span electronic design automation and parallel computing, and he is the author of over 350 technical papers and has supervised 37 Ph.D. students.

Prith has been widely recognized for his contributions to technology and innovation. He was named one of Fast Company’s Top 100 Business Leaders in 2009 and is a Fellow of AAAS, ACM, IEEE and National Academy of Inventors. He is also a recipient of the ASEE Terman Award and the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award.

He earned his B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where he was awarded the President’s Gold Medal. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Prith Banerjee

SVP, Innovation
Synopsys

Prith Banerjee is Senior Vice President of Innovation at Synopsys.  Prith leads the Synopsys Innovation Group (SIG) which fosters advancements in EDA, Simulation & Analysis, and IP. Working closely with Fellows, Chief Technologists, Architects, and the Technical Leadership team, SIG shapes the company’s technology strategy and fosters cross-functional collaboration. The group engages with customers, partners, startups, and academia to refine and share Synopsys’ technology vision.

Prior to joining Synopsys, Prith served as Chief Technology Officer at Ansys, where he was responsible for guiding the company’s long-term technology vision. He has held multiple senior leadership roles across technology and industrial organizations, including Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Schneider Electric, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at ABB in Zurich,and Managing Director of Global Technology R&D at Accenture. He also served as Senior Vice President of Research and Director of HP Labs at Hewlett-Packard, where he oversaw global innovation efforts.

Earlier in his career, Prith was a leader in academia, serving as Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago and as Chairman of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northwestern University. He began his academic career as a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A serial entrepreneur, Prith founded AccelChip, an EDA software company acquired by Xilinx, and BINACHIP, where he served as Founder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist. His research interests span electronic design automation and parallel computing, and he is the author of over 350 technical papers and has supervised 37 Ph.D. students.

Prith has been widely recognized for his contributions to technology and innovation. He was named one of Fast Company’s Top 100 Business Leaders in 2009 and is a Fellow of AAAS, ACM, IEEE and National Academy of Inventors. He is also a recipient of the ASEE Terman Award and the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award.

He earned his B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, where he was awarded the President’s Gold Medal. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Moderator

Author:

Gayathri Radhakrishnan

Partner
Hitachi Ventures

Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan has over two decades of multi-disciplinary experience across product management, product marketing, corporate strategy, M&A, and venture investments at both Fortune 500 companies (Corning, Dell, Micron) and early-stage startups in the technology sector. Currently, a Partner at Hitachi Ventures, she focuses on technology startups driving digital transformation. Previously, she was with Micron Ventures, actively investing in startups applying AI in the areas of Manufacturing, Healthcare, Mobility, and also data center and storage related technologies. She also worked as an earlystage investor at Earlybird Venture Capital, a premier European venture capital fund based in Germany. Gayathri holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University and an MBA from INSEAD in France. She is also a Kauffman Fellow.

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Gayathri Radhakrishnan

Partner
Hitachi Ventures

Gayathri (G) Radhakrishnan has over two decades of multi-disciplinary experience across product management, product marketing, corporate strategy, M&A, and venture investments at both Fortune 500 companies (Corning, Dell, Micron) and early-stage startups in the technology sector. Currently, a Partner at Hitachi Ventures, she focuses on technology startups driving digital transformation. Previously, she was with Micron Ventures, actively investing in startups applying AI in the areas of Manufacturing, Healthcare, Mobility, and also data center and storage related technologies. She also worked as an earlystage investor at Earlybird Venture Capital, a premier European venture capital fund based in Germany. Gayathri holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University and an MBA from INSEAD in France. She is also a Kauffman Fellow.

Connected: Health & Fitness - Post Event Report 2026
 

Bala Vaidyanathan

VP, Head of Data & AI
FedEx

Bala Vaidyanathan is vice president and lead for Data & AI at FedEx. Under his leadership, FedEx has leveraged their extensive data ecosystem to enhance shipping efficiency and improve logistics and supply chain operations. Their data-driven solutions deliver value for both internal teams and external customers. 

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Bala Vaidyanathan

VP, Head of Data & AI
FedEx

Bala Vaidyanathan

VP, Head of Data & AI
FedEx

Bala Vaidyanathan is vice president and lead for Data & AI at FedEx. Under his leadership, FedEx has leveraged their extensive data ecosystem to enhance shipping efficiency and improve logistics and supply chain operations. Their data-driven solutions deliver value for both internal teams and external customers. 


As a recipient of the FedEx Five Star Award, and with almost 20 years of industry experience, Bala brings deep expertise, curiosity, and a first-principles mindset to every challenge. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in operations research from the University of Florida. His technical research contributions have been published in multiple journals, and he served for several years as an associate editor for the international publication Networks.

 

Tamar Yehoshua

Chief Product & AI Officer
Atlassian
Tamar Yehoshua is Atlassian’s Chief Product and AI Officer, driving the company’s vision for the future of teamwork in the age of AI. She leads Atlassian’s Teamwork Collection and AI strategy, uniting product, design, and intelligent experiences to help teams work smarter, faster, and more creatively.
Read full bio

Tamar Yehoshua

Chief Product & AI Officer
Atlassian

Tamar Yehoshua

Chief Product & AI Officer
Atlassian
Tamar Yehoshua is Atlassian’s Chief Product and AI Officer, driving the company’s vision for the future of teamwork in the age of AI. She leads Atlassian’s Teamwork Collection and AI strategy, uniting product, design, and intelligent experiences to help teams work smarter, faster, and more creatively. Her goal: build AI‑native, world‑class products that set the standard for how millions of knowledge workers get things done.
Previously, she was President of Product and Technology at Glean, and Chief Product Officer at Slack, where she guided the company through rapid growth, a public listing, and acquisition by Salesforce.

Examine how modern insurance solutions are shifting from reactive payouts to proactive protection, supporting supply chain resilience and long-term business stability.

  • Discover emerging insurance solutions for geopolitical risk, trade disruptions, and supply instability.
  • Learn how insurers are rethinking risk and using data to support end-to-end supply chain resilience.
  • Understand the role of insurance in enabling long-term investment, stability, and proactive risk management.