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Opening Keynote: Context is King

Joe DosSantos

Joe DosSantos

Vice President, Enterprise Data & Analytics

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From EMC and TD Bank to Qlik, Joe has built data foundations at scale. At Workday, he leads AI readiness — creating semantic layers that transform the world's largest and cleanest HR-and-finance dataset into precise, trustworthy, organization-specific AI insights.

Prukalpa Sankar

Prukalpa Sankar

Co-founder

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Prukalpa Sankar is co-founder of Atlan, where she leads the company's mission of helping humans and AI do their best work, together. Before founding Atlan, Prukalpa worked with the UN, World Bank, and national governments, where she first encountered the critical challenge of context — a problem that would become Atlan's founding obsession.

Sridher Arumugham

Sridher Arumugham

Chief Data & Analytics Officer

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A Global CDO 100 honoree, Sridher has built data organizations across finance, software, and consulting. Now he's pioneering AI resilience across supply chains at DigiKey, the world's largest electronic component manufacturer.

Kiran Panja

Kiran Panja

Managing Director

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Kiran architects data infrastructure for the world's largest derivatives exchange. From regulated banking at Citi to enterprise cloud at IBM, he's mastered the trade-off between agility and governance—now he's solving it at market scale at CME Group.

Mauro Flores

Mauro Flores

EVP, Data Democratisation

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Mauro leads Virgin Media O2's mission to turn one of the UK's largest connectivity providers into an AI-ready, data-driven enterprise. Previously, he led global data strategies at Salesforce and Mulesoft, helping some of the world's largest companies scale governed, self-service analytics.

Andrew Reiskind

Andrew Reiskind

Chief Data Officer

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Andrew spent 16+ years embedding privacy by design at Mastercard. Now he secures 160B+ AI-scanned transactions annually, proving governance accelerates innovation. He's building "Context by Design" for agentic commerce at Mastercard.