ALT Ivan Santa Maria Filho has a BSc and MSc in computer science and a wide variety of experiences as individual contributor and manager, having owned a small software company and worked on multiple billion dollar products and services at Microsoft, Meta and Google. His main areas of expertise include vertical integration of stateful, large scale services with ephemeral VM infrastructure, and the infrastructure itself. Ivan Santa Maria Filho has a BSc and MSc in computer science and a wide variety of experiences as individual contributor and manager, having owned a small software company and worked on multiple billion dollar products and services at Microsoft, Meta and Google. His main areas of expertise include vertical integration of stateful, large scale services with ephemeral VM infrastructure, and the infrastructure itself.

ALT Andrea Kates is one of this year’s Impact Award judges. She is Entrepreneur in Residence at the MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship, focused on moving businesses from early stage to scale, with an emphasis on growth markets and technology. She was the CEO of the Silicon Valley-based software platform co-founded by the pioneer of Lean Startup, which commercialized innovation for more than 13,000 teams in agtech, healthcare, fintech, manufacturing, and advanced technologies. Andrea has led initiatives for Cisco, Ford, Fujitsu, Intel, Mayo Clinic, RUFORUM Africa, and Tata, and advised technology and innovation startups across five continents. Her book From Stuck to Scale diagnoses the commercialization challenge and provides an end-to-end toolset for businesses transitioning from early stage to durable scale. Andrea advises companies worldwide and serves as technical advisor to RUFORUM, the Conference Board, and the CORC Novo Nordisk Foundation CO₂ Research Center.

ALT Biplab Banerjee, Real Time Data Architect, Volt Active Data. With over 10 years of experience working with high scale System specially in the telecom industry, Biplab is a PreSales & Customer Success Consultant at Volt Active Data, a company that helps customers design and implement scalable and low-latency distributed data systems.

ALT Paul Speciale CMO Scality

ALT Julie Belião holds a PhD in Computer Science with a background in NLP and linguistics, and has spent 15 years spanning AI strategy, product, go-to-market, and organizational transformation across global technology companies, including Google, Unbabel, Defined.ai, and Mozilla.ai.

ALT Lambert Hogenhout is Chief Data and AI at the United Nations Secretariat. He is also an author, keynote speaker and advisor on AI and responsible use of technology.

ALT Reva Schwartz, Co-Founder, Civitaas | Research Scientis Washington, District of Columbia, United States

ALT Umesh Shastry is the recipient of the MySQL Rockstar 2025 award and a Senior MySQL Database Engineer

ALT Paul Speciale, CMO Scality

ALT Imran Chaudhri, Chief Architect genAI, AI, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Progress

ALT Roland Edel has been Chief Technology Officer and Head of Technology & Innovation at Siemens AG’s Mobility & Logistics Division in Munich since 2011. Since October 2014 the Division is conducted under the name Mobility.