Avasant Empowering Beyond Summit 2025 | Avasant | 5 May 2025 | TBA, Los Angeles California

EBS25 will be an incredible platform for visionary insights from influential leaders across industries. A thrilling exploration into harnessing new age tech along with disruptive business models to help Global 2000 firms navigate an uncertain business environment.

This exclusive and immersive event will connect executive peers and incredible thought leaders on how to leverage the power of tech enabled services to drive sustained success.

2025 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Kevin S. Parikh
Chairman & CEO, Avasant

Atti Riazi
SVP and CIO, Hearst

Rodrigo Kede Lima
President of Americas Enterprise, Microsoft

Yuri Aguiar
Chief Enterprise Data Officer, The WPP Group

Yogesh Agrawal
VP, Data Center GPU Business, NVIDIA

SESSION SPEAKERS:

Sean Kenny
SVP and CIO, Carnival Cruise Line

James Whatley
Chief Information Officer, Mary Kay Inc.

Luke Rockenbach
Regional CFO North California, Providence

Jyoti Chopra
Chief People, Inclusion & Sustainability Officer, MGM Resorts International

RJ Hazra
SVP and CFO, Equifax

Gareth Gaston
Chief Digital Product Officer, Enterprise Platforms, U.S. Bank

Richie Etwaru
Chief AI Officer, Mobeus

Oliver Gall
Chief Procurement Officer, Prudential Financial

Walter Yosafat
CIO, Capri Holdings

Daphne E. Jones
Award-Winning CEO, The Board Curators

Tim Skeen
EVP and Enterprise CIO, Sentara Healthcare

Daniel Yang
Chief Customer and Innovation Officer, MGM Resorts International

Chris Donahoe
Executive Vice President and Head of AI Strategy, Edelman Smithfield

Sanjay Bhakta
Chief Product & Technology Officer, Condé Nast

Bharat Krish
Chief Product Officer, Newsweek

Anish Sethi
Chief, Digital Solutions Centre, UN ICC

Nora Osman
President/CEO, Norvana

Ganesh Kumar
SEVP, OFG Bancorp

Dan Hedstrom
VP & CIO, Cubic Corporation

David Whitaker
VP & CIO, General Atomics

Brian Kernan
Vice President, Indirect Procurement & Vendor Management, Republic National Distributing Company

Trina Ford
Chief Information Security Officer, iHeartMedia

Brian Tossan
Chief Technology Officer, Greater Toronto Airports Authority

Raj Kadam
SVP, Health Plan Operations & CIO, Liberty Dental

Tom Soderstrom
Enterprise Strategist, Amazon Web Services

Alexandra Landeggar
CISO, Collins Aerospace

Pankit Desai
Co-founder and CEO, Sequretek

Cynthia McKenzie
VP, Co-founder and Board Member, STEM Advantage

Peter Nag
Global Head Business Process Outsourcing, Shared Services & Transformation, Merck

Rick Hopfer
SVP & CIO, HMSA, Blue Cross Blue Shield Hawaii

Anand Nair
VP, Healthcare Technology, UST

Neeraj Khanna
Head of Global Services Delivery, Truist

Hiren Dave
CIO/CISO, Essen Health Care

Tembi Hommes
Global Chief Data Officer, Arup

John Fremont
VP, Business Leadership, DXC

Rusty Kennington
CIO, Oldcastle Building Envelope

Patricia Sedano
SVP Global Finance Shared Services, Sony Music

Vignesh Markandan
VP, Industrial and Retail, Hitachi Digital Services

Steven Allsop
Former Executive Director - Professional Services Category Lead, SMBC Group

Sandeep Sakharkar
CIO, GXO Logistics

Vikrant Karnik
SVP, Genpact

Tony Menezes
Global Managing Partner, Business Process Operations, IBM Consulting

Kirk Mitchell
Director, Vendor Management Organization, BCBSA

Miku Jha
Director, AI/ML and Generative AI, Google Cloud

Fred Pond
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Larry Godec
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Ruth Steinberg
Principal & ERP Practice Lead, Avasant

Anupam Govil
Managing Partner, and Summit Chair, Avasant

Frank Scavo
Sr. Partner and President, Avasant Research

Dave Wagner
Sr. Research Director, Avasant

Nishant Verma
Managing Partner, Avasant

Matthew Barlow
Managing Partner, Avasant

Mike Wheeler
Supply Chain Practice Leader, Avasant

Jo Ann Tan
Strategic BU Leader, Capital Markets, Cognizant

Joel Raper
General Manager and SVP of Digital Workplace Solutions, Unisys

Chitra Rajeshwari
Principal, Avasant and Executive Director, Avasant Foundation

Akshay Khanna
Managing Partner, Avasant

Bharat Amin
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Shael Roopchand
Director, Avasant

Swapnil Bhatnagar
Partner, Avasant

Naresh Lachmandas
Partner and Sr. Fellow, Avasant

Chandrika Dutt
Associate Research Director, Avasant

Robert Joslin
Managing Partner, Avasant

Shobhit Patnaik
Partner and Business Transformation Lead, Avasant

Carlos Hernandez
Partner, Avasant

Andre Sole
Principal, Avasant

Jim Rinaldi
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Hiten Patel
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Steven Gerst
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Jay Weinstein
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Julia Bardmesser
Distinguished Fellow, Avasant

Rakesh Patro
Partner, Avasant

Chirag Rawat
Sr. Research Director, Avasant

Sanjit Singh Dang
Chairman and Co-Founder, U First Capital

Oksana Malysheva
Managing Partner / CEO, Sputnik ATX VC

Vinay Kukarni
Vice President Clinical Technologies, Scan

Eric Dupuy
Chief Revenue Officer, Teleperformance

Amit Srivastav
Venture Partner, Fusion Fund

Richard Kabrt
SVP Head of Advisor Relations, WNS Global Services