All Eyes on Automation USA 2024

Brian Klochkoff is UiPath’s VP, Customer Engagement. In that role, he is accountable for elevating the voice of UiPath’s customers as the foundation and connective tissue for UiPath’s evolution and growth strategy. Brian is uniquely positioned in this role as he joined UiPath from one of the largest advertising and media companies in the world (dentsu) where he was a UiPath customer for 7 years and led dentsu’s Innovation & Emerging Technologies group for all 72k employees across regions. Prior to joining dentsu for 11 years, Brian worked at Aon where he managed large on-premises to cloud migration projects for large cap financial services customers.

Jesper Blomster is a highly experienced professional in automation and digitalization, with over 15 years in the Finance Domain. He excels in driving change and delivering scalable solutions through agile methodologies and continuous learning. With a strategic mindset, Jesper leads teams in prioritizing robust technical designs for seamless and scalable outcomes. He embraces digitalization to solve challenges and has successfully implemented upscaling initiatives in the finance community. Jesper’s extensive experience and commitment to continuous learning make him a leader in automation, delivering exceptional results.

Shail is the Founder and CEO of Plutoshift AI with a mission to drive AI powered Industrial Excellence. As visionary leader in Intelligent Automation and AI, his tenure spans North America, Europe, and Asia, where he has been instrumental in leading public and venture-backed technology firms driving growth, executing turnarounds, and leading acquisitions while building world class teams.

He has served as the Chief Customer Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism and UiPath. His book, “Intelligent Automation – Bridging the Gap between Business & Academia,” offers a unique blend of strategic insights and practical execution that has become indispensable in the field.

To give back to the community Shail founded VOCAL (Voice of Customer in the AI/Automation Landscape), a global initiative uniting over 90 worldwide leading brands to foster collaboration among automation and AI leaders, demonstrating his commitment to driving innovation and thought leadership in the industry. Shail holds and MBA from Yale University and an MS in Structural Engineering.

Amol is an experienced IT professional an experience of over 25 years. Always curious about new technological developments, he harnesses this knowledge to enhance his work. Amol’s areas of expertise encompass several other cutting-edge concepts like Robotics Process Automation, Process Mining, Generative AI, and Low Code Application Platforms in the digital transformation realm.

Emily leads Process Optimization, Automation, and Analytics at AmerCare Royal. Throughout her career, she has utilized process mining and automation to reach strategic goals and maximize efficiency. She focuses on delivering solutions that creates measurable business value and aligns to her organization’s top-down strategy.

Kenn is a seasoned digital executive with a track record of innovation and efficiency in the toxicology laboratory, manufacturing, and distribution fields. Over the last 20 years, Kenn has stablished himself as transformational leader whose team at Amercareroyal won the Game Changer Award for innovation at Celosphere, the global process mining conference in Munich.

Kenn earned a master’s degree in computer information science at LaSalle University. His combination of hands-on experience and academic pursuit helps him drive transformative change in the digital world.

Ryan is a seasoned digital transformation leader with over a decade of experience driving organizational change and innovation. As a passionate advocate for leveraging technology to achieve strategic objectives, Ryan has successfully led numerous transformation initiatives.
With a background in program management and a deep understanding of emerging technologies, Ryan possesses a unique ability to align business goals with technological solutions, resulting in tangible improvements in efficiency, productivity, and customer experience.
Passionate about driving positive change in the digital age, Ryan is committed to harnessing the full potential of technology to thrive in an ever-evolving landscape.
His collaborative leadership style fosters a culture of continuous learning and adaptation, empowering teams to embrace change and drive sustainable growth.

Kirk Hunter is the Process Lead for the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Team at Southern Company. A futurist and graduate of the University of Miami with certifications in Agile, Lean Six Sigma, SCRUM & Blue Prism with a proprietary blend of creativity, intelligence and decisiveness. Award winning public speaker (Toastmaster DTM), author and thought leader with extensive experience in Sales, Logistics, Supply Chain, eCommerce, Robotic Process Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Media. Kirk has a passion for providing financial education and empowerment to underserved communities, receiving the 2022 Distinguished Educator of Personal Finance Award.

Maxim Ioffe started WESCO Intelligent Automation program in early 2019 and has been driving it ever since. Max leads Global Intelligent Automation COE that is responsible for the vision, strategy, governance, and execution of the program and takes pragmatic value driven approach to opportunity identification, solution design and implementation, production support, employee education, and citizen developers.

Linda Grubb is the Supervisor of Application Development and plays a pivotal role as Citizen Development Center of Enablement Lead at ConocoPhillips. Throughout her 25-year career at ConocoPhillips, she has gained valuable insights and expertise working with different business units and Information Technology functions. Linda is passionate about empowering her team members and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. She believes that low-code development can enable faster delivery of business value and enhance customer satisfaction.

Bruce is a passionate marketing and leadership executive focused on driving market growth and awareness in digital transformation and intelligent automation. As Chief Marketing Officer at ABBYY, Orcutt leads the global product strategy, go to market, launch, pricing, competitive analysis, analyst relations, communications and thought leadership, win/loss analysis, and sales enablement for the entire ABBYY intelligent automation portfolio. His goal is to help global enterprises understand the hype from reality of the latest artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and ensure they leverage purpose-built AI to achieve their transformation goals.

Raj has a proven track record of managing change, while building and inspiring high-performance teams. His experiences are across all stages of the business lifecycles, from startup to wind-down. He is a true generalist with functional expertise across most disciplines, and the ability to balance these often conflicting positions with delivering what the customer wants. His strengths include automation and data analytics.

Steve Delaney began serving as Chief Executive Officer for the Orange County Employees Retirement System, a nearly $23 billion fund, on January 2, 2008. As CEO, Mr. Delaney oversees a full-time staff of 120 employees in all areas of OCERS operations, including investments, legal, financial, administrative services, communications, information technology and member services. Before coming to OCERS, Mr. Delaney served for 15 years with the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System, with the dual role of Deputy Director, as well as the system’s Legislative Lobbyist. Mr. Delaney holds both a Bachelor of Science degree in Management and Business Information Systems as well as a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from George Fox University.

Derk, CEO of Roboyo, has an extensive experience in professional services and technology businesses and is here to take Roboyo to the next level of growth and success, and most importantly accelerate digital transformation initiatives for its customers globally.

With deep experience delivering digitally enabled process transformation for multinational organizations, Derk is adept at leading organizational change and leveraging Roboyo’s emerging technologies. Delivering more effective ways of working, unlocking investment capacity, and driving Next Level continuous improvement across front, middle, and back-office operations.