Keynote Schedule

Mark Hurd is chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation and a member of the company's board of directors. He joined Oracle in 2010, bringing more than 30 years of technology industry leadership, computer hardware expertise, and executive management experience to his role with the company. Hurd is also a member of the Baylor University Board of Regents.

Bill Briggs' more than 19 years with Deloitte have been spent delivering complex transformation programs for clients in a variety of industries including financial services, healthcare, consumer products, telecommunications, energy, and the public sector. Briggs is a strategist with deep implementation experience in helping clients anticipate the impact that new and emerging technologies may have on their business in the future, and getting there from the realities of today. In his role as CTO, Briggs is responsible for research, eminence, and innovation, helping define and execute the vision for Deloitte Consulting LLP's technology practice, identifying and communicating those technology trends affecting clients' businesses, and driving the strategy for Deloitte Consulting LLP's evolving technology services and offerings. As the founding global leader of Deloitte Digital, Briggs was responsible for the launch and growth of a new global practice redefining the vision of a digital consulting agency. Deloitte Digital offers a mix of creative, strategy, user experience, engineering talent, and technology services to help clients harness disruptive digital technologies to imagine, deliver, and run the future—to engage differently with customers, reshape how work gets done, and rethink the very core of their markets. Briggs earned his undergraduate degree in computer engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Steve Miranda is executive vice president of Oracle Applications product development. He is responsible for leading all aspects of product strategy, product development, and product delivery for the entire portfolio of Oracle Applications and related services. Miranda’s primary focus is on delivering the industry’s most complete, proven, and innovative set of cloud solutions encompassing enterprise resource planning; supply chain, human capital, and enterprise performance management; customer experience; and Oracle Data Cloud applications. Miranda joined Oracle in 1992 and has held a variety of leadership positions within the development organization. In 2007 he was asked to lead the engineering of Oracle’s next-generation suite of software applications, Oracle Fusion Applications. Under his leadership, Oracle has delivered on its promise to help applications customers innovate and remain competitive while leveraging their existing IT investments and increasing the value of those investments with new Oracle products and services. Prior to Oracle, Miranda worked at GE Aerospace. He holds degrees in mathematics and computational sciences from Stanford University.

Author, Keynote Speaker and former Merrill Lynch stockbroker, Mark Jeffries, has become a trusted adviser and communications consultant to some of the world's largest and most successful corporations, agencies and partnerships. Dividing his time mostly between The United States, Canada and Europe, Mark is invited to deliver his highly effective keynotes on ‘Business Communication, Influence & Presentation’ to audiences across many industries. His speeches are relevant, entertaining, and filled with instantly useable takeaway ideas. Mark has also mastered a fascinating niche – moderating major corporate events. Clients refer to Mark as the “Scott Pelley” of the conference world - he has rapidly become the go-to person for facilitating, moderating and ‘MC-ing’ multinational events for large and small organizations around the world. As well as running countless industry panels and chatting with more than 500 C-Suite execs, on stage, Mark has also interviewed many celebrities including Richard Branson, Will Smith, Serena Williams and Michael J. Fox Mark has published two books: What’s up with your Handshake? and The Art of Business Seduction and has just launched 2 highly innovative and very engaging e-learning courses dedicated to elevating users into Trusted Advisors, Persuasive Communicators and Key Influencers. Discussing the power of ‘Business Influence’ and ‘Networking 2.0’, Mark regularly appears as an expert guest on NBC’s Today Show, Fox Business, and BBC News and writes for The Huffington Post.

Born in South Africa to a black South African mother and a white European father, Trevor Noah is the most successful comedian in Africa and is the host of the Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central. This year “The Daily Show” was nominated for a Writers Guild Award (Comedy/Variety Series), as well as two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Talk Series and Outstanding Hose in Talk or News/Information Show. Noah also recently won Best Host at the 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards, as well as a Creative Arts Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series for his hosting role on “The Daily Show – Between The Scenes.” He joined “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” in 2014 as a contributor.

Dr. Michael Mandel is Chief Economic Strategist at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) in Washington, President of South Mountain Economics LLC and Senior Fellow at the Mack Institute for Innovation Management at the Wharton School. Key research interests include the impact of innovation and technology on job creation in developed and developing countries; new ways of tracking the data-driven economy; and the link between regulation and innovaton. In July, August and September 2017 alone, Dr. Mandel’s research was cited by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, the PBS Newshour, NPR, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Financial Times, the BBC, and Forbes. His most recent Wall Street Journal op-ed was entitled “Robots Will Save the Economy.” Dr. Mandel regularly speaks on growth and innovation in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Before joining PPI, Dr. Mandel was Chief Economist at BusinessWeek, where he was recognized as one of the top 100 business journalists of the 20th century for his writings on innovation and growth. Dr. Mandel has written four books, including Rational Exuberance: Silencing the Enemies of Growth and Why the Future Is Better Than You Think. His textbook, Economics:The Basics, is in its third edition. Dr. Mandel received a PhD in economics from Harvard University.

Douglas Kehring has served as Oracle's executive vice president, chief of staff since March 2015. As chief of staff, he is responsible for helping drive Oracle’s business transformation to the cloud, including organizations, systems, and processes. In early 2016, Oracle launched a critical component of that transformation, the Oracle Accelerated Buying Experience, that allows customers to purchase Oracle Cloud services quickly and easily. Kehring also continues to serve as the head of Oracle's corporate development group, a position he has held since 2005. The corporate development group provides planning, advisory, execution, and integration management services to Oracle on mergers and acquisitions, source-code and object-code licensing, strategic investments, joint ventures, and other related transactions. Kehring began his career at Oracle in 2000 as part of the Oracle Venture Fund. He joined the company after working for the investment banks of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Dain Bosworth. Kehring is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Business.

Rondy Ng is Senior Vice President of Oracle ERP and CX Applications Product Development. He is responsible for leading all aspects of product strategy, product development, and product delivery for Oracle's ERP and CX applications and related cloud services. Rondy joined Oracle in 1990 and has held a variety of leadership positions within the development organization. In 2007 he was asked to lead the engineering of Oracle's next-generation financial suite of software applications, Oracle Fusion Financial Applications. Under his leadership, Oracle has continually delivered on its promise to help its applications customers innovate and remain competitive while leveraging their existing IT investments and increasing the value of those investments with new Oracle products and services. Rondy holds a Master of Science degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Matt Bradley is currently the Senior Vice President, Product Development for Enterprise Performance Management at Oracle. Matt is an experienced executive with global hands on experience running large and small teams in product strategy and engineering. His current role covers Oracle's EPM footprint – Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting, Financial Consolidation and Management Reporting, delivering both SaaS-based solutions as well as for the more traditional on premise based deployments. He joined Oracle in 2007 as part of Oracle's Hyperion acquisition. As a VP, Product Development at Hyperion Matt helped led the charge in establishing Hyperion as the market leader within EPM. Prior to joining Hyperion in 2000 Matt held several development lead positions at various Medical Information companies supporting EMR, Casemix Analysis, Decision Support and related subjects. Matt and his family moved from Ireland to the Bay Area back in 1993. Matt holds a degree in Computer Science from Queens University, Belfast. After graduating in 1989 he started his career in information technology at Oracle.

Allison Baird-James serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor, Corporate Financial Services, and Campus Controller at UCLA, a position which she has held since 2010. In that capacity, she is responsible for the following operating units: Business & Finance Services (Cashiering, Student Accounting, and Campus ID Card), Business Operations & Infrastructure, Financial Management & Reporting, Payroll Services, Procurement to Payables, Tax Services, Travel Accounting and UC Travel, Records Management & Information Practices, and Treasury Services. She contributes with Senior Leaders on strategic financial decisions for UCLA and the UC System as a whole. She is also an active representative for UCLA in the system-wide UCPath Initiative, which will replace a 35-year-old payroll/personnel system with PeopleSoft HCM. Prior to joining UCLA, Allison held several leadership positions at Stanford University over a 14-year period. She served as the University’s Interim Controller for a year, as an Associate Controller (Cashiering, Student Accounting, Campus ID Card, and Treasury Services) for eight years, and as the Associate Director of Internal Audit for the School of Medicine, Stanford Hospital & Clinic and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital for 5 years. While there, she participated in the successful implementation of the PeopleSoft Student Information System and led the launch of a student-service model featuring self-service functionality and a customer relationship management system. Over her career, Allison worked at several medical centers in Northern California, in addition to Madson & Isom Accountancy Corporation and Coopers & Lybrand. Allison graduated from the Executive Program in Management at UCLA Anderson School of Management and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from California State University, Chico. She is an inactive Certified Public Accountant in California.

Donald Robertson is Vice President of Accounting at Western Digital where he currently oversees global accounting, internal financial controls and key finance initiatives. Prior to joining Western Digital in May 2016, Robertson served over ten years at SanDisk including roles as Chief Accounting Officer and Vice President, Corporate Controller. He led the transformation in the accounting function where SanDisk grew from $1.0 billion in revenue to over $6.6 billion in revenue. Prior to SanDisk, Robertson was Director of Finance responsible for controllership activities at Adaptec, a publicly traded storage company. He started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers providing auditing and accounting services to technology companies. Robertson received his BA in Quantitative Economics and Decision Sciences from the University of California, San Diego and holds an MS in Accounting from San Jose State University. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

Anand Naimpally, is currently SVP Global Operations Finance for Hilton, responsible for Finance at Hilton’s 670 + Owned and Managed hotels globally (Americas, EMEA and APAC). Prior to this role, Anand was SVP Finance and Controller, Global Brands and Commercial Services and lead the finance disciplines in the Brand Management, Customer Marketing, Sales, Distribution, Reservations, E-Commerce, Revenue Management, HHonors and Information Technology groups. Anand joined Hilton in March 2009 and was previously with Northwest Airlines as Managing Director, Finance and Planning for Northwest’s $1.2 billion Technical Operation division where he led the Controller, Business Analysis, Engine and Maintenance Planning, and Aircraft Project groups. Prior to Technical Operations, Anand was Director International Finance (Pacific and Atlantic Division) in Tokyo, Japan and held numerous other positions in Financial Planning, Alliances, Joint Ventures, Revenue Management and Strategic Pricing at Northwest Airlines. Anand holds an MBA and Bachelors in Accounting and Finance from the University of Minnesota.

Mary Schapiro’s service as the 29th SEC chairman culminated decades of regulatory leadership. She was the first woman to serve as SEC chairman, and the only person to have served as chairman of both the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. During four years as SEC chairman, Schapiro presided over one of the busiest rule-making agendas in the SEC’s history, during which the agency also brought a record number of enforcement actions, and executed a comprehensive restructuring program to improve protections for investors. Upon her departure, President Obama praised her leadership, saying the SEC became stronger and the financial system “safer and better able to serve the American people—thanks in large part to Schapiro’s hard work. Before becoming SEC chairman, Schapiro served as CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the largest non-governmental regulator of securities firms. She worked for more than a decade with FINRA and its largest predecessor, the National Association of Securities Dealers. She was president of NASD regulation, vice chairman of the NASD, and was NASD’s chairman and CEO at the time of its consolidation into FINRA. Earlier, Schapiro was chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; a commissioner of the SEC; and general counsel and senior vice president of the Futures Industry Association. She began her career at the CFTC, serving first as a trial attorney and later as counsel and executive assistant to the chairman. Schapiro is currently vice chairman of Promontory Financial Group’s Advisory Board, a board member at General Electric, the London Stock Exchange Group, and The Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) and vice chair of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board.