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Alan Rosa

CISO & SVP Technology
CVS Health

Alan Rosa is the SVP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Infrastructure and Operations at CVS Health .  The 3,500 colleagues and contractors in his organization are responsible for delivering services and experiences related to Digital Workplace, Contact Center, Infrastructure, Cloud and Technical Operations across all CVS lines of business.  In addition, Alan is the appointed CISO for the company responsible for health and integrity of the Cybersecurity program, GRC/Risk initiatives and Privacy Engineering.

Alan Rosa

CISO & SVP Technology
CVS Health

Alan Rosa

CISO & SVP Technology
CVS Health

Alan Rosa is the SVP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Infrastructure and Operations at CVS Health .  The 3,500 colleagues and contractors in his organization are responsible for delivering services and experiences related to Digital Workplace, Contact Center, Infrastructure, Cloud and Technical Operations across all CVS lines of business.  In addition, Alan is the appointed CISO for the company responsible for health and integrity of the Cybersecurity program, GRC/Risk initiatives and Privacy Engineering.

Prior to joining CVS Health, Alan was the CISO and head of IT for Twitter where he was responsible for the Security program as well as all aspects of the Information Technology organization.  Alan has over 25 years of experience driving the development and evolution of enterprises technologies and teams for large multinational brands while building products and services that protect assets while avoiding risks.  He has held global leadership roles for companies such as Disney, MSG, General Electric and Quest Diagnostics. 

An award winning technology leader, Alan was named to the Top 100 of HITEC (Hispanic IT Executive Council), and the ComputerWorld Premier 100. Alan has served on various technical advisory boards and counsels including those for Dell, EMC, Cisco and VMware. 

Alan holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Florida, and Masters degrees from Columbia University and Seton Hall.  He also attended the Rutgers University College of Law. In addition he holds technical designations in the areas of Security, Networking, and Privacy.  He is a veteran of the US Navy having proudly served in the Submarine service. 

To learn more about Alan, follow him on LinkedIn

 

Alan Rosa

CISO & SVP Technology
CVS Health

Alan Rosa is the SVP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Infrastructure and Operations at CVS Health .  The 3,500 colleagues and contractors in his organization are responsible for delivering services and experiences related to Digital Workplace, Contact Center, Infrastructure, Cloud and Technical Operations across all CVS lines of business.  In addition, Alan is the appointed CISO for the company responsible for health and integrity of the Cybersecurity program, GRC/Risk initiatives and Privacy Engineering.

Alan Rosa

CISO & SVP Technology
CVS Health

Alan Rosa

CISO & SVP Technology
CVS Health

Alan Rosa is the SVP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Infrastructure and Operations at CVS Health .  The 3,500 colleagues and contractors in his organization are responsible for delivering services and experiences related to Digital Workplace, Contact Center, Infrastructure, Cloud and Technical Operations across all CVS lines of business.  In addition, Alan is the appointed CISO for the company responsible for health and integrity of the Cybersecurity program, GRC/Risk initiatives and Privacy Engineering.

Prior to joining CVS Health, Alan was the CISO and head of IT for Twitter where he was responsible for the Security program as well as all aspects of the Information Technology organization.  Alan has over 25 years of experience driving the development and evolution of enterprises technologies and teams for large multinational brands while building products and services that protect assets while avoiding risks.  He has held global leadership roles for companies such as Disney, MSG, General Electric and Quest Diagnostics. 

An award winning technology leader, Alan was named to the Top 100 of HITEC (Hispanic IT Executive Council), and the ComputerWorld Premier 100. Alan has served on various technical advisory boards and counsels including those for Dell, EMC, Cisco and VMware. 

Alan holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Florida, and Masters degrees from Columbia University and Seton Hall.  He also attended the Rutgers University College of Law. In addition he holds technical designations in the areas of Security, Networking, and Privacy.  He is a veteran of the US Navy having proudly served in the Submarine service. 

To learn more about Alan, follow him on LinkedIn

 

David Kincaid

Owner
Dedekind Cut Labs

David Kincaid

Owner
Dedekind Cut Labs

David Kincaid

Owner
Dedekind Cut Labs
 

Brian Earnest

Lead Protein Industry Analyst
CoBank

Brian Earnest

Lead Protein Industry Analyst
CoBank

Brian Earnest

Lead Protein Industry Analyst
CoBank
 

Chris Bedi

CCO
ServiceNow

As Chief Customer Officer and Special Advisor to the Chairman for AI Transformation, Chris Bedi is dedicated to helping customers maximize value across their entire journey with ServiceNow to harness the power of AI and accelerate business transformation. Chris brings a unique perspective and experience to the role having served as ServiceNow’s Chief Digital Information Officer from 2015 to 2024, where he led the company’s digital transformation and AI journey to drive growth and create scale.

Chris Bedi

CCO
ServiceNow

Chris Bedi

CCO
ServiceNow

As Chief Customer Officer and Special Advisor to the Chairman for AI Transformation, Chris Bedi is dedicated to helping customers maximize value across their entire journey with ServiceNow to harness the power of AI and accelerate business transformation. Chris brings a unique perspective and experience to the role having served as ServiceNow’s Chief Digital Information Officer from 2015 to 2024, where he led the company’s digital transformation and AI journey to drive growth and create scale.

As CCO and Enterprise AI Advisor, Chris leads ServiceNow’s Chief Transformation Office and our Digital Technology and Security teams. His focus is on guiding customers through their AI and GenAI implementations and creating faster time to value on the ServiceNow Platform. In addition, Chris and the Digital Technology team are helping shape the ServiceNow Platform direction—as both a product incubator and revenue generator.

Chris is an industry thought leader on digital transformation, advanced automation, and practical AI/ML adoption in the enterprise, and works closely with many of the world’s leading CIOs to address key industry issues.

Prior to joining ServiceNow, Chris served as CIO of JDS Uniphase, where he was responsible for IT, workplace services, and indirect procurement. Before that, he held various executive positions at VeriSign from April 2002 until August 2011, including CIO. Chris began his career at KPMG Consulting where he drove global transformations across a diverse set of industries. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan.

 

 

Xuedong "X.D." Huang

CTO
Zoom

Xuedong (X.D.) Huang is the chief technology officer at Zoom, where he leads the AI strategy and services for the company. Xuedong is a renowned technology leader who has been instrumental in bringing speech recognition and AI to the mass market. He has led groundbreaking milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision.

 

Xuedong "X.D." Huang

CTO
Zoom

Xuedong "X.D." Huang

CTO
Zoom

Xuedong (X.D.) Huang is the chief technology officer at Zoom, where he leads the AI strategy and services for the company. Xuedong is a renowned technology leader who has been instrumental in bringing speech recognition and AI to the mass market. He has led groundbreaking milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision.

 

Prior to joining Zoom in 2023, he worked at Microsoft, where he served as Azure AI CTO and technical fellow. He began Microsoft’s speech technology group in 1993 and led Microsoft’s AI teams to achieve several of the industry’s first human parity milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision. He is an inventor with over 170 U.S. patents and has authored over 100 papers and two books. He is an IEEE and ACM Fellow, an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received the IEEE Bose Industrial Leader Award in 2023.

 

Xuedong received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 (sponsored by the British ORS and Edinburgh University Scholarship), his M.S. from Tsinghua University in 1984, and his B.S. from Hunan University in 1982.

 

Xuedong "X.D." Huang

CTO
Zoom

Xuedong (X.D.) Huang is the chief technology officer at Zoom, where he leads the AI strategy and services for the company. Xuedong is a renowned technology leader who has been instrumental in bringing speech recognition and AI to the mass market. He has led groundbreaking milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision.

 

Xuedong "X.D." Huang

CTO
Zoom

Xuedong "X.D." Huang

CTO
Zoom

Xuedong (X.D.) Huang is the chief technology officer at Zoom, where he leads the AI strategy and services for the company. Xuedong is a renowned technology leader who has been instrumental in bringing speech recognition and AI to the mass market. He has led groundbreaking milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision.

 

Prior to joining Zoom in 2023, he worked at Microsoft, where he served as Azure AI CTO and technical fellow. He began Microsoft’s speech technology group in 1993 and led Microsoft’s AI teams to achieve several of the industry’s first human parity milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision. He is an inventor with over 170 U.S. patents and has authored over 100 papers and two books. He is an IEEE and ACM Fellow, an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received the IEEE Bose Industrial Leader Award in 2023.

 

Xuedong received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 (sponsored by the British ORS and Edinburgh University Scholarship), his M.S. from Tsinghua University in 1984, and his B.S. from Hunan University in 1982.