Shankar Achanta serves as Vice of Products at Sunnova where he is responsible for leading and managing portfolio of products and solutions for powering homes and businesses with new electrification technologies. Mr. Achanta brings over 20 years of experience in developing and managing technology product portfolios for power utilities and industrial customers. He received his M.S. in electrical engineering from Arizona State University in 2002. Prior to joining Sunnova, Mr. Achanta held several leadership roles at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) since 2002 in research and development division and is named on 25+ awarded patents in the field of power systems, communications, and sensor technologies and has also authored several technical papers. As an R&D and product leader throughout his career, Mr. Achanta started several new product lines and grew them into successful business units. He developed multiple successful partnerships with large organizations, to build joint solutions and go-to-market strategies.

Dr. Waqaas Al-Siddiq, CEO and founder of Biotricity, is a serial entrepreneur, a former investment advisor, an expert in corporate strategy, and an innovative technologist. Academically, he has been distinguished for his various innovative designs in digital, analog, embedded, and micro-electro-mechanical products. Waqaas has held several high-level design positions at IBM, AMD, and Intel. He has vast experience leading various groups through his board experience and executive roles within start-ups, mid-sized companies, and non-profits. Waqaas sits on the Boards of several innovative start-ups and late-stage companies in the medical device, healthcare technology, and AI industries. He is a thought leader in healthcare and innovation, recognized nationally and internationally. He regularly speaks and publishes on the future of healthcare and entrepreneurship and is often a guest or keynote at major conferences, podcasts, and media outlets including Fox News, Bloomberg, and others. Waqaas has raised over a $150M as an entrepreneur and built companies that have been recognized as leaders in their space. In his off time, Waqaas is and avid polo player, playing and competing professionally. The team he plays with has won some of the most important tournaments in the USA. In his current role as CEO of Biotricity, a medical diagnostic and consumer healthcare technology company, Waqaas guides and continues to lead the company through every stage of bringing its biometric remote monitoring solutions to market. The company is considered one of the leading digital health companies and has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company and the most Innovative Medical Device Company. As an industry enthusiast, Waqaas has published extensively on the future of healthcare. Waqaas’ publication experience spans back to his academic work, which is published in textbooks and recognized at various conferences such as IEEE and the National Communication Council. Since founding Biotricity Waqaas has become deeply vested in the potential that IoT connected technology, enhanced with artificial intelligence, could bring to healthcare. He frequently publishes on thought-provoking topics such as artificial intelligence, implementation of new technologies into the healthcare sphere, and the development of medical devices for underserved and remote communities.1 Waqaas is a recognized contributor for MedCity, Beckers, Forbes and other industry publications that are sources for research and insights on emerging technology. Waqaas has a dual bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and Economics, a Master’s in Computer Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a Master’s in Business Administration and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Henley Business School, specialized in Transformative Innovations and Billion Dollar Markets.

A serial entrepreneur, Jean Anne started UnaliWear after selling previous startups to Texas Instruments and Apple. Jean Anne was the founder of Luminary Micro, the creators of the Stellaris microcontroller platform and the first to market with ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller solutions, purchased by Texas Instruments in May 2009 Jean Anne retired from TI in 2012 after serving as the general manager for TI's Stellaris family of products. Jean Anne was also a founder at Intrinsity, the creators of the graphics chip in Apple iPad products. Intrinsity sold to Apple in 2010. Jean Anne holds a BSEE from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MSCE from National Technical University.

Dean Avgiris, Executive Director - Xfinity Home, Comcast

Vidya Ayyr, Director of Community Social Impact, Parkland Health

Christopher Berke is a seasoned executive with a passion for digital healthcare. He joined Eaton in 2021 to lead the company's Digital Healthcare organization. In this role, Christopher has been instrumental in developing Eaton's energy-based Activities of Daily Living insights offering, which leverages inferential sensing capabilities to provide valuable insights into households' behaviors such as movement, nourishment, and hygiene, based on energy and water data. Christopher is excited for the upcoming launch of Eaton's first Insights-as-a-Service offering for remote ‘home’ behavior monitoring.

Steve Chazin has nearly three decades experience designing, building, and selling innovative enterprise and consumer technology that changed the world. Steve reimagined collaboration in the cloud at Cisco, Salesforce, and Symantec, launched four successful startups, and created new solutions for video editing, file sharing, and web services long before each became commonplace. As Vice President of Products for Alarm.com, Steve defines next-generation offerings for protecting people at home, at work and beyond. Combining his extensive tech experience with keen insights of emerging consumer trends, Steve has a history of predicting the future, and is currently developing health and wellness solutions for a post Covid-19 world. Steve has been a recurring guest on major network news programs, appeared in the BBC television series “Business Nightmares” and took part in the CNBC documentary “Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippie”. Steve has written and published three books, is quoted by numerous online and printed publications, and is a highly sought-after speaker on topics like connected health and fitness, consumer technology and augmented reality. Steve was rehired by Steve Jobs to help reboot Apple in the late 1990s and was part of the team that returned Apple to profitability.

Rey Colon, Chief Executive Officer, Lyric Health

Jim is seasoned sales, marketing and business development professional, with over 25 years of specializing in bringing new, innovative or disruptive products and technologies to all channels of distribution, including Wireless, Direct, B2B, Multi Family, Retail, E-Tail, Enterprise, and Distribution worldwide. Jim has extensive start up experience, having been involved in 9 startups to date, as well as Corporate and Enterprise experience. Jim has been both a quota bearing C Level or VP of Sales and Marketing professional and has also managed sales and operations teams. Jim has inherited sales and marketing professionals, as well as built teams from the ground up, implementing all sales tools, quotas, activity, GTM plans, compensation and tracking tools, like CRM, and achieving over a 90% participation rate, with minimal turn over. Most recently, Jim has joined Nimbio, a startup in the MFU and Enterprise access control space as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

Gregory Couvreur, Founder and Managing Principal, Mighty Acorns Capital

Michael Crane, Vice President Global Business Development, Imprint Energy

Colin Cureton is the senior director of ecosystems and marketing for the Home & Life Business at Silicon Labs. He is responsible for driving Silicon Labs engagement with large technology innovators and ensuring that Silicon Labs solutions can help scale the number of devices and solutions across those innovators’ ecosystems. Previously, Colin has held engineering, marketing and product management roles with Motorola, Freescale, AMD and NXP, and has worked across the networking and communications, consumer, embedded and IoT markets.

Kent Dicks is an award-winning serial entrepreneur and recognized as a thought leader in the Mobile and Digital Health space. Dicks was a leading pioneer in the evolving mHealth field with his previous company, MedApps, which helped drive development of lower cost cloud connected health solutions and provided the industry with much-needed alternatives to enable a proactive healthcare model. His desire to broaden accessibility to transformative remote healthcare solutions led to the creation of Life365, Inc., of which he is the CEO & Founder. Life365 has developed a highly scalable, Digital Health Platform. The platform integrates and aligns the right combination of devices, software systems, apps, and services with the right patient populations to drive the best user engagement. This alignment promotes greater adoption and adherence, which results in better patient outcomes while reducing healthcare costs. Dicks’ leadership and determination to make Life365 a leading healthcare innovator has not gone unnoticed. The three-time recipient of Arizona Business Magazine’s annual AZ Business Leaders, Dicks has been recognized for his role and contribution to innovation in telehealth and expanding access to healthcare for individuals.

Michael Don Ham is the Co-Founder and President of RePure, a leading supplier of best-in-class wellness technology solutions for residential applications available through professional installers. Ham has a degree majoring in Kinesiology with a minor in Nutrition and has spent the past two decades in the field of health and wellness, serving in leadership roles within the non-profit, organic farming, custom integration and consumer packaged goods sectors. Michael is part of the International WELL Building Institute as an Accredited Professional and Faculty member as well as with Fitwel as an Ambassador to increase awareness of how the spaces where we live, work, study and play can impact our health and to share his passion for continuous improvement through people and planet-centric design and technology. He has a deep background in regenerative organic agriculture, indoor air quality, water quality and other important aspects of wellness technology for the home. Michael has been invited to speak about wellness and technology at IAQA, TecHome Builder Summits, Housing Innovation Alliance, GreenHome Institute, LivABLE Design Summit, CES 2021, CES 2022, CEDIA, Science in Design Summit and the World Tea Expo.

Brooke Ellison, VP of Technology and Innovation, United Spinal Association

Nathanial Findlay, CEO, Lifeguard Health

Mark Francis is Chief Digital Health Integration Officer for Electronic Caregiver, an innovative digital health company. Mark has 20+ years of experience as a product innovator for companies such as Amazon, Intel, Age Wave, and Health Hero Network. Mark is a graduate of Harvard and the University of Pittsburgh. He has been awarded 17 patents.

Landon Garner currently serves as Chief Marketing Officer for Kajeet, a leading managed IoT connectivity services provider. He oversees the company's go-to-market strategy and overall positioning. Additionally, Landon serves as an advisory council member to Graham Partners, a US-based private equity firm with $3.7B in assets under management. Previously, Landon held the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for KORE (NYSE:KORE), a leading global provider of IoT enablement services. Landon was responsible for all global marketing efforts for the company, along with key strategic initiatives. He was instrumental in the company’s recent success in taking the company public at a billion-dollar valuation. Prior to joining KORE, Landon served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at Integron and led the company to record growth resulting in a successful exit, via acquisition. His experience and skillset allowed the company to identify and address the Connected Health and Life Sciences industries with integrated IoT solutions. Earlier in his career, Landon was the CMO at IoT antenna manufacturer Taoglas and the CMO at Ingenu, an innovative LPWA technology provider, where he served as a key strategic figure that guided the organization to record levels of lead generation and expanded the company’s brand and reputation to compete with large global mobile network operators. Lastly, Landon was part of the executive team at RacoWireless, and guided the company to record growth, resulting in a successful exit via acquisition. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Brigham Young University - Idaho and an MBA from the University of Hawaii’s Shidler College of Business.

Chief Product Officer

Giacalone Associates, LLC is a well-respected consulting and advisory practice that serves the electronic and physical security and life safety industry. Mr. Giacalone has enjoyed and earned a successful forty-year career in the electronic security industry. A highlight of his career includes a ten-year period of building and leading as Chief Operating Officer the largest third-party central station monitoring company in the United States. Mr. Giacalone brings a proven executive track record of increasing, revenue and leveraging technology to open new market verticals. While serving as Chief Operating Officer of the largest third-party central station monitoring company in the United States his focus and effort resulted in growing the company from a regional forty-five thousand account monitoring center to the largest third-party monitoring center in the United States with a monitoring base in excess of five hundred thousand security, life safety, environmental and video monitored subscriber accounts throughout North America. Under his leadership this company earned its place as the largest and most technologically advance monitoring center in the United States. Mr. Giacalone Created the business plan, solicited the financing and secured a one hundred million dollar credit facility to fund the startup of King Capital Financial Services, which grew to become one of the longest running Dealer Financial & Acquisition Programs in the security industry. Throughout his operational career Mr. Giacalone also provided advisory services and Subject Matter Expert advice to organizations both domestically and internationally. Since the inception of his full-time advisory services practice in 2006, Mr. Giacalone has served some of the largest security organizations in North America, the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Mr. Giacalone is well known for his operational expertise and frequently collaborates with lenders, private equity and the investment community as a Subject Matter Expert lead during operational due diligence. Although Mr. Giacalone is a well-known and regarded advisor within the security industry, a majority of his career was spent as a hands-on, dedicated operations executive that built and led some of the most respected full-service security, life safety, environmental service and monitoring companies in the United States. Mr. Giacalone has served as Chairman as well as a voting member of many standards committees within the security industry. He is often called on and published by major security publications for his expert opinions on a variety of subject matters related to the proper design, installation, monitoring and maintenance of security, safety and environmental systems.

Wade Gibson joined Brinks Home in May 2020, bringing with him over a decade of high-level leadership experience in the private sector, U.S. military, and state and local government. In his role, Wade is responsible for company-wide lead customer acquisition efforts through direct and indirect sales, M&A and bulk buy transactions, lead-sharing, and cross-selling partnerships. He also spearheads business development efforts to attract potential new acquisitions, selling partners, and corporate partnerships. Before starting with Brinks Home, Wade most recently practiced law at Locke Lord LLP, where he advised large and small businesses, private equity funds, banks, and governments on over 75 mergers, acquisitions, and debt finance transactions ranging from $2 million to $2 billion. Outside the office, Wade and his wife Juliet spend their time chasing around their two sons and two dogs trying to prevent emergency room visits.

CEO & Founder, Recuro Health

Geordie Hagerman is a seasoned executive with over 14 years of experience in wireless and high-tech industries. His expertise spans marketing, sales, product management, operations, and corporate development, particularly in the telecommunications sector. Notably, Geordie served as VP of Business Development at Pravala Networks, where he led highly successful marketing, fundraising, and sales initiatives. These efforts were pivotal in the company's eventual acquisition by Carnegie Technologies. Currently leading commercialization and marketing efforts at Cognitive Systems Corp., Geordie is focused on forging partnerships and shaping product roadmap strategies. Renowned for his strategic team management, Geordie prioritizes customer success and shareholder value in all endeavors. His vision encompasses unlocking new Wi-Fi services through innovative solutions, steering the organization towards sustained growth and financial success.

Mason Hall is head of connected products for Fortune Brands Innovations. He joined Fortune Brands and Moen in 2020 and is responsible for leading and growing the development of smart home technology across the Moen brand and rest of Fortune brands. Prior to joining Fortune Brands Innovations, Mason was at GE Lighting - where he spent more than a decade across various GE business units in roles supporting GE's consumer and commercial digital transformation and strategic business development. Mason also holds Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Master of Business Administration degrees from John Carroll University.

Sweta heads the Product Management team for Controls and Indoor Air Quality at Lennox International for the Residential segment. In her current role she is responsible for ideating, developing and commercialization of new products and managing the multi-year product and technology roadmaps. Her team develops both hardware and software solutions for the Lennox iComfort thermostats and Healthy Climate Indoor Air Quality products and is intensely focused on driving dealer and consumer engagement in the fastest growing categories in Lennox. Prior to this, Sweta was the Director of Product Management for the Heating Category and managed a portfolio of mechanical products that was over $500M in revenue for the company. Sweta and her team are recipients of the Outstanding Corporate Innovator’s award from the PDMA organization and recipients of 4 AHRI’s Dealer Design Awards. She is passionate about driving cross-functional teams solve customer problems and to help create new products that address home comfort, efficiency and healthy air. She also has a keen understanding of the HVAC dealer network and drives the teams to integrate the Lennox brand promise of innovation and quality and to be trusted partners that drive their success. Sweta brings 15+ years of experience in both engineering and business management roles at both Texas Instruments and Lennox International. Sweta holds a BE from the University of Madras, an ME from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the University of Texas, Austin.

Logan Harper, Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator, Boston Children's Hospital

Ryan Herd, CEO and Founder, Caregiver Smart Solutions

Dan's two-decade journey through Fortune 50 giants reflects his passion for founding, building, and growing innovative businesses within larger ecosystems. As an investor and Partner at Edison since 2018, Dan brings his expertise to growth-stage tech companies. He sources deals and leads investments with companies like Anonos, MacroFab, Recycle Track Systems, and RapidDeploy. Dan prioritizes building teams with grit, adept at fostering collaboration and consumer listening that achieves breakthrough results. An entrepreneur at heart, he's led internal ventures in consumer technology and services. Dan holds four patents, and was the CEO and co-founder of Xfinity Home. Notably at Comcast, he launched Xfinity WiFi, recognized for fundamentally transforming and democratizing consumer connectivity. Dan is a proud child of Romanian immigrants whose sacrifices provided the foundation for his success. He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University, an MS from Drexel University, and an MBA from Wharton.

Kevin Jameson, Volunteer President | Founder, Dementia Society of America

Abe is responsible for the management and development of several Alarm.com solutions, including security hardware integrations, energy management and home automation. Since joining the company in 2012, he has worked across both service provider and customer experiences to deliver dependable technology that connects people with the things they care about most.

Nick Knowlton is the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for ResMed, where he leads initiatives and strategy for healthcare interoperability and partnerships for ResMed companies Brightree and MatrixCare, which together cover the entire post-acute care continuum. Nick is also Chair of the board of directors for CommonWell Health Alliance and has been involved since helping form the Alliance in 2013. Nick is on the advisory board for the Home Care Technology Association of America and several other post-acute and interoperability advisory groups. He has championed dozens of health information exchange projects across acute, ambulatory and post-acute settings, has helped encourage an industry culture that emphasizes patient-centric interoperability and regularly provides feedback to the relevant federal agencies on policy issues that affect providers and patients across the care continuum. Nick has a Bachelor of Science with a Biochemistry major from the University of Notre Dame, and lives in Denver, CO with his wife and three children.

Jeffrey Lewis, Population Health Strategist, NextGen Executive Consultants LLC

Technical Sales Manager

Senior Director of Clinical Strategy

James Mault, MD, FACS, is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BioIntelliSense, a Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform company, delivering breakthrough medical-grade biosensor technology with unique clinical intelligence for scalable remote patient monitoring. Prior to BioIntelliSense, Dr. Mault served as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Qualcomm Life for over five years, where his leadership responsibilities included Strategic Planning and Business Development, Mergers and Acquisitions, New Product Innovation, Clinical Program and Regulatory Oversight, Health Policy and Government Affairs, Global Spokesperson and Public Relations. Dr. Mault came to Qualcomm Life through its 2013 acquisition of HealthyCircles, a Care Coordination and Remote Patient Monitoring Platform Company founded and led by Dr. Mault in 2009. Prior to starting HealthyCircles, he was the Medical Director of the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft as well as the CEO of Microlife. Dr. Mault has more than 35 years of experience in senior executive positions in the Health IT and Medical Device industry as well as clinical medicine. He has founded five Health IT and medical device companies, raising over $150 million in working capital and leading these companies to develop novel devices and software technologies, FDA approvals, strategic partnerships with Fortune 500 companies, culminating in M&A or IPO exit transactions. He is the named inventor of over 80 issued and pending patents for a variety of novel health IT and medical device innovations. He has been board-certified in both General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery, having specialized in heart and lung transplantation, thoracic oncology and critical care. He has conducted academic medical research under grant awards from the NIH, American Cancer Society, and others. He is the author of more than 60 scientific articles, chapters and books in the published medical literature. Dr. Mault received his B.S. in Biology and Medical Degree from the University of Michigan and conducted his General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery residency training at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Mault provides global thought-leadership on the future of technology and healthcare delivery, serving on numerous Boards and leadership positions including the Board of Directors of Bose Corporation, member of the Board of Industry Leaders for the Consumer Technology Association’s (CTA) and Chairman Emeritus of the CTA Health & Fitness Technology Board.

Dan McCaffrey is the Vice President of Digital Health and Software at OMRON Healthcare, Inc., where he leads the digital health organization for the world’s number one blood pressure monitor brand. At OMRON, McCaffrey focuses on growing the business; innovation of the company’s digital health products and services such as the OMRON Connect app; adoption of VitalSight, OMRON’s first remote patient monitoring service. McCaffrey is a recognized digital health pioneer who was instrumental in helping fortune 500 companies build IoT technology infrastructure and in helping the FDA modernize its regulatory approach to digital health and medical devices. He has dedicated his academic and professional careers to the study of behavioral neuroscience, analyzing how technology and personalized data can empower people to make better health related decisions as Dan now focuses on discovering new ways to engage and motivate OMRON consumers to monitor their blood pressure regularly and manage their hypertension.

Justin McKinney is an experienced business leader, entrepreneur, and innovator. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Ivani, the technology company leading the Sensing as a Service model in IoT. As co-inventor of dozens of patents, Justin has successfully driven the innovation process at multiple companies through a focus on end-user wants and needs while balancing the trade-offs inherent to business operations. Justin holds a BA from Principia College and Executive MBA from Washington University in St Louis.

Michael Meyers, Executive Partner, Ethos Capital

Ed Miller, Chief Technology Officer, Center for Medical Interoperability

As a leader at Connectivity Standards Alliance, Michelle works to promote the Alliance, its mission, standards, and solutions, and drive the growth and success of IoT for the benefit of our members, consumers, and the marketplace at large. As a former executive in the telecom, energy & professional services industries, she has built and led teams across marketing, strategy, brand, customer experience, and go-to-market. With 25+ years of industry and consulting experience, she brings a wealth of experience, perspectives, and a passion for the Alliance’s mission to build the foundation and the future of IoT.

Bruce Mungiguerra, CEO, Riverbend Sandler Pools

Sumit Kumar Nagpal is a serial entrepreneur with a focus on disruptive digital health innovation. He has co-founded and grown five companies over the past two and a half decades that have tackled progressively bolder challenges facing our healthcare economies, ranging from integrating longitudinal data and workflows across care settings, to bringing hospital-level care to the home.

Tony Nicolaidis: Chief Commercial Officer at Origin AI Tony Nicolaidis is the Chief Commercial Officer at Origin AI, a role he assumed in January 2023 after serving as the Chief Revenue Officer since August 2022. Known for his dynamic approach in the B2B sector, Tony excels in strategic planning, scaling sales and customer success teams, and aligning marketing strategies with revenue goals. His expertise in establishing data-driven SaaS revenue metrics has been pivotal in communicating progress to key stakeholders. Before joining Origin AI, Tony was the Chief Revenue Officer at Successware from June 2020 to August 2022, where he spearheaded sales and customer success strategies to drive company growth. He also contributed his expertise as a Startup Advisor to various construction startups, advising on value proposition and commercialization from January 2020 to June 2020. Tony's earlier career includes over two decades at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., where he held several key positions, including General Manager - Construction Technology Group and Vice President of Marketing and Product. His journey there showcased his versatility and leadership across various domains. Tony holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland and an MBA from Loyola University, Maryland. His educational background, combined with his extensive professional experience, makes him a knowledgeable and inspiring speaker, particularly in the fields of sales, business development, and customer success.

CEO and Co-Founder of Xailient -22 years in Enterprise Software. -Serial entrepreneur. -Experienced CEO with 100+ employees at exit. -Alipay, Symantec, Oracle. -MIT electrical engineering.

Laurie Orlov, Industry Analyst, Aging and Health Technology Watch

Caleb Parker, Chief Commercial Officer, Angle Health

Keith Puckett, a former M&A investment banker, has transformed into a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record of creating disruptive start-ups. He is the Founder and CEO of Ubiety Technologies, which offers an AI engine and RF detection platform aimed at enhancing situational awareness across residential, commercial, and government security sectors. Ubiety can detect, categorize, and recognize individuals based on the devices they carry. Its AI engine, Eckleburg, processes high-speed radio frequency data to make real-time identity inferences using only passive RF signals, including WiFi, Bluetooth, and cellular data. Keith is passionate about contributing to safety and security of families throughout America!

Dr. Meera Ravindranathan, Medical Director, OncoHealth

Jeff has been involved and influential in the development and design on 100's of products over more than 25 years that use speech and computer vision technologies. Jeff's focus on how to implement Sensory technologies into real world products has played an important role in Sensory's success in the market. Jeff has licensed speech and computer vision tech to companies such as Amazon, Google, Honda, Lenovo, Microsoft, Samsung, Zoom and many more.

Mr. Rose began his career in medical equipment manufacturing and has held senior leadership positions with multiple major electronics companies. Bob holds Business and Electrical Engineering degrees, is a Six Sigma Black Belt and also a Commercial Pilot. He has served as Hospital and Outreach Coordinator as well as a Command Pilot for Angel Flight West.

Andreas is a serial entrepreneur. He founded his first company, the online gaming enabler lionix, at the age of fifteen. He then founded IM Trading, a stock market newsletter publishing business, later acquired by a Swiss private equity firm. Subsequently, Andreas bootstrapped and co-founded ewido networks, a consumer cyber security company. With over 7 million users worldwide, the business scaled rapidly to a category leader and was awarded, "Best newcomer of the year" by Digital River's ICE. In 2006, ewido merged with AVG Technologies, a leading antivirus and cybersecurity provider where Andreas led business development and later corporate development of the group worldwide. Andreas helped to grow AVG from 40 to over 110 million customers, scaling the team from 100 to 800 employees (including 450 software engineers) and taking the company public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2012. Andreas co-founded Smartfrog as a consumer IoT SaaS pioneer in 2014. The company's mission is making modern technologies useful, easy, affordable and safe providing IoT for everyone. In 2018, the company acquired the US-based Canary Connect Inc. The two businesses were later merged into Smartfrog & Canary, headquartered in NYC. Andreas leads the group as Co-CEO. To date, the business has raised over $150M in funding and is one of the category leaders.

Adam Russek-Sobol is driven by making people's lives easier, healthier, and more sustainable through emerging technologies and machine learning. He is currently the Founder and CEO of CareBand, location-based health and safety wearable solution for people living with dementia. Trained in informatics and cybersecurity, Adam has a background in consulting, leadership, and project management. Before CareBand, he had founded three SaaS startups focused in education, sports, and healthcare. Adam is an award-winning entrepreneur and speaker. In 2018, Adam was asked to speak at the Bluetooth World Seminar in San Jose, California. He also spoke at TEDxDayton on using technology to empower people living with dementia. Adam has been recognized numerous times for his innovation in healthcare. In 2017, he was named to AARP's 50+ Innovation Leaders for healthcare. Adam also serves on various boards and committees, including the LoRa Alliance Smart Home/Neighborhood Committee, American Medical Directors Association's Innovation Advisory Council, and the Dementia Action Alliance's Corporate Leadership Board. Adam continues to be excited by the potential of new technologies and the opportunities they have to improve the lives of people.

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Kian Saneii is a computer scientist and serial entrepreneur, passionate about creating innovative solutions that transform lives, organizations and entire markets. Saneii founded Independa in 2009, and is CEO and Chairman of the company. Kian speaks on a wide range of topics, including the Consumerization of Healthcare and is dedicated to helping transform our sickcare system into a dramatically more beneficial healthcare system more effective, cost effective, accessible and convenient. Award-winning solutions from Independa transform the standard TV to deliver an unparalleled person-centric view of remote engagement, education and care for older adults and others who are the hardest to reach, most susceptible to COVID or chronic conditions, most isolated, and the most expensive to care for. From the Hospital to the Home, and throughout the entire care continuum in between. In close association with LG Electronics, LG TVs offer the Independa Health Hub Ecosystem, delivering a wide and growing number of offerings, including 24/7 telemedicine, teledentistry, telebehavioral health, medical grade health education, personalized exercise videos, discount pharmacy, and other benefits and offerings right on the TV. Saneii and Independa are helping transform the healthcare cost curve, along with the quality of lives and care for those most in need. Independa has received numerous awards and recognitions, including CES' Technology for a Better World, 100 Brilliant Companies by Entrepreneur, and Top 10 Patient Engagement Solutions by HealthCare Tech Outlook.

Christopher Schouten is Sr. Marketing Director for Kudelski IoT and has worked for more than 20 years for security companies whose mission is to protect devices, data and high-value business models. He joined Kudelski Group in 2013, and prior to that he held various marketing and operational management roles in pay-TV security and mobile and fixed telecommunications in the U.S. and Europe. Christopher is an honors graduate of the University of Iowa, having studied Mass Communications and Linguistics. Christopher speaks five languages and is a passionate early adopter of IoT and smart home technologies. He is currently based in Phoenix, AZ (USA).

Jason Sherwin, Senior Director, Healthcare Business Development, CLEAR

David Sym-Smith is a successful entrepreneur, proven CEO, motivational speaker, award winning executive. In his career, he has been the founder of multiple startups, he has been the CEO of both public and private companies, and he has served as a senior executive in many capacities. David has been part of a number of well-known successful startups, including APC/Sprint PCS, Areal/T-Mobile and more. David serves on the boards of companies. He supports entrepreneurs and small businesses. He is the Chief Evangelist and a board member of Multiple Incubators which work with entrepreneurs. David is a frequent speaker. He speaks on the topics of innovation, entrepreneurship, and business leadership. David was honored with the Tech Titans Technology Advocate and Innovation Awards, TIA People Choice Award, PCIA) Distinguished Citizen Award, as Compass Intelligence - Mobile & Wireless Award. Outside of the world of technology, David has served on numerous charity and non-profit boards.

Sonny Tai, Chief Executive Officer, Actuate

Tyler Tribe is a seasoned technology executive with almost three decades of experience in creating software solutions. He is passionate about helping organizations develop world-class customer and employee experiences, building strong teams, and collaborating on vision and strategy for global corporations and small and medium-sized businesses. Before joining Becklar, he spent twenty years at IBM.

Owen Troy is a Segment Marketing Manager in the Industrial & Commercial Business Unit at Silicon Labs. He is primarily focused on two segments: the Enterprise Access Point and Clinical Medical verticals. Owen has been involved in the IoT since joining Ember Corporation, a leading provider of Zigbee Technology, in 2004. Ember was acquired by Silicon Labs in 2012 as the first in a series of strategic acquisitions into the IoT space. Owen is passionate about lowering barriers to IoT ubiquity in existing Infrastructure which will provide the wireless connectivity backbone for the applications that will transform industries, grow economies, and improve lives. In his previous role, Owen led a technical team that supported the definition, development, and launch of many of the IoT platforms on the market today.

Gene Wang is Chairman and co-founder of Care Daily, a brandable AI+IoT Platform that provides hero solution providers with their own app store of AI Assistants to care daily for people, places, and things. Wang has led five startups in fields ranging from AI, robotics, digital imaging, mobile device management and senior care services. Gene was previously Chairman and CEO of Bitfone, the industry leader in Over-The-Air device management solutions for mobile phones, which he sold to HP in 2007. Gene was CEO and Chairman of Photo Access, where he sold its high performance PhotoChip division to Agilent Technologies in 2000. Gene was the CEO of Computer Motion, a leader in medical robotics, which he led through a successful IPO in 1997. At Symantec, Gene was Executive VP where he managed four divisions and helped triple sales. Gene was VP and general manager at Borland, where he drove sales of the C++ programming language to over one million copies. Gene earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. Gene leads the People Power Band and is happily married with three wonderful children and two bad dogs.

Paul Williams serves as the Managing Director of the Home Management Solutions Business Unit for Nice and leads the worldwide strategy and business for the connected home in this role. Paul has over 20 years of executive leadership in the connected home space and his career spans start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Paul previously served as Nice North America’s Chief Product Officer where he led the product management teams and developed the product strategy and product roadmaps of all products / solutions for Nice in North America. Prior to joining Nice, he was at GE Lighting in the role of GM of Product Management and Growth where he was charged with reimagining lighting solutions. In three years, Paul’s team created a DIY smart home ecosystem with innovative products and scaled the consumer mobile app, taking it from just 30,000 users to more than 2 million. During his 14+ years of executive leadership at Control4, a manufacturer of smart home solutions, he was instrumental in building the company from a startup to IPO with double-digit, year-over-year growth.

Brock is President of the Freeus, Becklar Workforce Safety and Becklar Connected Wellness businesses. He joined Becklar in 2015 to lead the newly acquired Freeus business. Since that time, Brock has had the privilege of assembling and leading a world class team that is responsible for the accelerated growth and award winning platform and services of his companies. Brock is known for his ability to drive accelerated growth through caring relationships with internal stakeholders and industry partners.

Jing Xue, Senior Director of Product Management, Wyze Labs

Dr. Brad Younggren is the Chief Medical Officer and President of Care Innovation at 98point6 Technologies. With more than 20 years' experience working as a physician, Dr. Younggren previously served as Chief Medical Officer at Cue Health. In addition to his role at 98point6 Technologies, Dr. Younggren is also an Emergency Medicine physician at EvergreenHealth, serving as its medical director of emergency preparedness and trauma. He received his BA from UCLA and his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He has earned both a Bronze Star and the Combat Medic Badge for his service in Iraq as a United States Army physician.

Maggie Zieba, Vice President, Safety and Security Services, Resideo

Jason Oberfest, Vice President of Healthcare, ŌURA

Brock is President of the Freeus, Becklar Workforce Safety and Becklar Connected Wellness businesses. He joined Becklar in 2015 to lead the newly acquired Freeus business. Since that time, Brock has had the privilege of assembling and leading a world class team that is responsible for the accelerated growth and award winning platform and services of his companies. Brock is known for his ability to drive accelerated growth through caring relationships with internal stakeholders and industry partners.

David E. Albert is a physician, inventor and serial entrepreneur who has developed life-saving products over the last 30 years and turned a number of those innovations into startups. Today, he is a founder and Chief Medical Officer of AliveCor. His previous startups include Data Critical (sold to GE) and Corazonix (sold to Arrhythmia Research Technology). Dr. Albert left GE in 2004 as Chief Scientist of GE Cardiology. His latest invention, the AliveCor Smartphone ECG, became a global sensation via a 4-minute YouTube Video in January, 2011 and was featured on ABC, CBS, CNN and Fox News. Dr Albert has 55 issued US patents and he has authored or co-authored over 80 scientific abstracts and publications in the Cardiology literature. He graduated with Honors from Harvard College and from Duke University Medical School. Dr. Albert lives in Oklahoma City with his wife and they have five children.

Paul is Chief Commercial Officer of Anthropos Digital Care Ltd where he has been responsible for creating and developing the brand, as well as leading their business development activities. Previously he founded a connected marketing education and advisory services company, The Connected Marketer and worked with over 175 brands, agencies, technology companies and investment companies to help them better understand how to make technology work in marketing. Paul has been a speaker at over 400 events, in 41 countries to a combined audience of over 43,000 people. In total, he has 30 years experience in a wide variety of sales, marketing, business development and commercial roles spanning several different industries and market sectors including automotive, printing, internet development and management consultancy.

Dr. Gregg is a board-certified general surgeon with additional board certification in surgical critical care. As the medical director of an American College of Surgeons-Verified Level II Trauma Center, he cares for geriatric patients on a daily basis, many of which have recently been the victims of COVID. His educational background includes a BS in Neuroscience from Brandeis University, an MD from the Dartmouth/Brown Medical School Program, General Surgery Residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and surgical critical care fellowship training at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Maryland. FallCall Solutions was founded 5 years ago in response to the increasing number of Elder trauma victims seen in the trauma bay and the desire to change the narrative around personal emergency response systems.

Steve Chazin has nearly three decades experience designing, building, and selling innovative enterprise and consumer technology that changed the world. Steve reimagined collaboration in the cloud at Cisco, Salesforce, and Symantec, launched four successful startups, and created new solutions for video editing, file sharing, and web services long before each became commonplace. As Vice President of Products for Alarm.com, Steve defines next-generation offerings for protecting people at home, at work and beyond. Combining his extensive tech experience with keen insights of emerging consumer trends, Steve has a history of predicting the future, and is currently developing health and wellness solutions for a post Covid-19 world. Steve has been a recurring guest on major network news programs, appeared in the BBC television series “Business Nightmares” and took part in the CNBC documentary “Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippie”. Steve has written and published three books, is quoted by numerous online and printed publications, and is a highly sought-after speaker on topics like connected health and fitness, consumer technology and augmented reality. Steve was rehired by Steve Jobs to help reboot Apple in the late 1990s and was part of the team that returned Apple to profitability.

Anthony Dohrmann is the founder and inventor of Electronic Caregiver solutions. Anthony Dohrmann’s latest invention is Addison, the virtual caregiver. She is a state-of-the-art, 3D animated, connected caregiver designed to transform a residence into a digital Smart Health Home, providing chronic care management, rehabilitation, aging in place, behavioral health, and care coordination for patients of all ages.

Nancy Edwards Cronin is President and & Managing Director of ipCapital Group (ipCG). With 25+ years of consulting experience, Nancy serves as an advisor to companies that seek to solve challenges of innovation and intellectual property (IP), grow their business opportunities, and increase competitive advantage. Using the ipCG methodology and bespoke consulting services, Nancy leads engagements to address client issues in areas of IP intelligence, strategy, management, creation, and innovation. The many industries and technology areas served include energy and environmental technology, chemical manufacturing, construction and building materials, consumer products, electronics, food & beverages, home automation, health & wellness, medical devices, on-demand services, software, semiconductors, 3D printing, and wearable devices.

As the VP of Business Development and Licensing, Mark serves as the primary point of contact for all prospective global licensees and partnership of the company’s cuffless and calibration-free blood pressure monitoring technology. Prior to Valencell, Mark served as the VP of Business Development at Beyond Oblivion, leading the company’s global business development effort and rapidly expanding market reach and commercial pipeline in the process. As the Co-Founder and VP of Business Development at Trinity Convergence, Mark spearheaded all global business development efforts, serving as a key member of the corporate strategy team contributing to multiple acquisitions. As VP of Business Development for Valencell, Mark has built strategic and commercial relationships between Valencell and leading consumer and medical brands. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Aaron Goldmuntz is Chief Operating Officer for the Center for Medical Interoperability, a non-profit organization focused on advancing the seamless exchange of information to improve healthcare for all. He is also currently the Chair of the Interim Steering Committee for the Connectivity Standards Alliance’s Health and Wellness Working Group. Aaron has nearly twenty years of experience in strategy and business development related to medical technologies and is a champion for the value of medical device connectivity. He led business development for CardioNet (Philips/ BioTelemetry) the pioneering provider of mobile cardiovascular telemetry. At Guidant Corporation (Boston Scientific) he focused on investments and strategic alliances. Aaron received his BA in Biochemistry from the University of Colorado, his MHSA from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and his MBA from the Michigan Ross School of Business. He currently lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with his wife and three young children.

Nick Knowlton is the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for ResMed, where he leads initiatives and strategy for healthcare interoperability and partnerships for ResMed companies Brightree and MatrixCare, which together cover the entire post-acute care continuum. Nick is also Chair of the board of directors for CommonWell Health Alliance and has been involved since helping form the Alliance in 2013. Nick is on the advisory board for the Home Care Technology Association of America and several other post-acute and interoperability advisory groups. He has championed dozens of health information exchange projects across acute, ambulatory and post-acute settings, has helped encourage an industry culture that emphasizes patient-centric interoperability and regularly provides feedback to the relevant federal agencies on policy issues that affect providers and patients across the care continuum. Nick has a Bachelor of Science with a Biochemistry major from the University of Notre Dame, and lives in Denver, CO with his wife and three children.

David spearheads the team in fulfilling Binah.ai’s vision and mission. He is a serial entrepreneur who has taken numerous start-ups from vision to international success: Hexatier (acquired by Huawei), Precos, Vanadium-soft, GreenCloud, Teridion and others. Binah.ai is David’s 13th start-up where he sets the strategy and manage the execution of the company's mission to enable wellness and healthcare services to everyone, everywhere.

Dan McCaffrey is the Vice President of Digital Health and Software at OMRON Healthcare, Inc., where he leads the digital health organization for the world’s number one blood pressure monitor brand. At OMRON, McCaffrey focuses on growing the business; innovation of the company’s digital health products and services such as the OMRON Connect app; adoption of VitalSight, OMRON’s first remote patient monitoring service. McCaffrey is a recognized digital health pioneer who was instrumental in helping fortune 500 companies build IoT technology infrastructure and in helping the FDA modernize its regulatory approach to digital health and medical devices. He has dedicated his academic and professional careers to the study of behavioral neuroscience, analyzing how technology and personalized data can empower people to make better health related decisions as Dan now focuses on discovering new ways to engage and motivate OMRON consumers to monitor their blood pressure regularly and manage their hypertension.

David Moss is the CTO and Co-Founder of Care Daily (rebranded from People Power Company), and has repeatedly demonstrated his ability to define and articulate powerful business growth strategies while driving cutting edge technology to bring massive opportunities to life. In the technology realm, David has 14 years experience in cloud computing, wireless sensornets, electrical engineering, computer science, embedded systems, and is the author of several patents pending. Prior to Care Daily, David worked with Rincon Research Corporation leading the sensornet engineering team to architect and deploy miniature low-power wireless sensors in some of the most rugged and challenging environments ever faced by sensornet developers, opening a new facet to the Internet of Things. Before that, David worked with Bitfone Corporation as both a software developer and firmware engineer, integrating Bitfone's revolutionary Over-the-Air Firmware Updates into tens of millions of Motorola cell phones around the world.

Lainie Muller is a 15-year veteran of the technology industry and an emerging voice on Smart Solutions for Aging in Place and Connected Caregiving. Lainie is Director of Wellness at Alarm.com, a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: ALRM) and the nation’s leading cloud-based platform for the smart home. The Wellness solution leverages Smart Home technology to support Aging in Place and independent living for older adults and those living with disabilities. Wellness, an integrated element of Alarm.com’s comprehensive ecosystem of home management technology, is currently in use in residential homes, senior living communities, schools and in remote caregiving programs funded by Medicare and Medicaid. The product has received critical acclaim from The New York Times, Kiplingers, CNN, NPR and TechCrunch. In 2010, Lainie joined BeClose, a privately funded start-up company, as the Director of Partnership Sales. In 2015, BeClose was “spun-in” to Alarm.com, an early-stage strategic investor of the company. The BeClose product is now available as Alarm.com Wellness. Prior to BeClose, Lainie served as National Sales Manager, Major Accounts Unit (MAU) at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, the online subsidiary of The Washington Post company, where she led a top revenue producing team driving Healthcare, Consumer Electronics and Retail sales. Lainie has been an active Board Member for the National Capitol Area Chapter, Alzheimer’s Association since 2012. She holds a BS in Business and Organizational Development from Vanderbilt University. Lainie lives in Chevy Chase, MD with her husband and two teenage boys.

Mr. Rose began his career in medical equipment manufacturing and has held senior leadership positions with multiple major electronics companies. Bob holds Business and Electrical Engineering degrees, is a Six Sigma Black Belt and also a Commercial Pilot. He has served as Hospital and Outreach Coordinator as well as a Command Pilot for Angel Flight West.

Drew is the co-founder, CEO, and Board Director of Validic. Drew sits in a unique place in the industry possessing both the perspective and experience of a patented technologist and successful business leader. As CEO of Validic, Drew seeks to bring unique ideas to the marketplace as a means to grow the innovation and integration of technology into healthcare. He regularly writes, speaks and advises on these issues and has been featured on several prominent platforms such as NPR, Forbes, and Fortune. Additionally, Drew serves as a Board Member of the Consumer Technology Association and actively contributes to the CTA's Health and Fitness Technology Division's Standards Committee. He also serves on the eHealth Initiative's Leadership Council and Interoperability Workgroup, the Clinical Trials Transformation Institute's Mobile Devices Project, and the Federal Advisory Committee's joint-API Task Force on MU3.

Michael Skaff, Vice President (Healthcare Technology NA), Vayyar Imaging

For almost 20 years, Brad has been creating, developing and leading organizations in the medical device and remote monitoring industries. Brad is currently the Director of the Medical Business Unit for A&D Company in the Americas. His vast experience from large organization like GE Healthcare and Honeywell to startups like EarlySense give him a broad perspective of connected health markets. A&D is a worldwide leader in connected health and biometric measurement devices and services for consumer wellness and chronic condition management. A&D is dedicated to developing and manufacturing accurate biometric measurements by clinically validating our device to the highest standards.

Natalie Davis, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer, PreventScripts

Dan Josebachvili, Founder & CEO, Silvertree

Abby Katz is the Lifecycle Marketing Manager at Eight Sleep, where she oversees the lifecycle marketing program to drive growth throughout the entire customer journey. Her focus is on enhancing customer acquisition, engagement, and retention through strategic email and SMS campaigns. Prior to joining Eight Sleep, Abby worked at ASICS Digital, where she helped to lead the development and execution of the global loyalty strategy, driving customer retention, engagement and lifetime value across multiple brands and markets. Abby graduated from Union College and is a lifelong athlete and fitness enthusiast. As a former captain of her collegiate basketball team, she continues to be passionate about health and fitness.

As the Vice President of Withings Health Solutions, the B2B division of Withings, I oversee our global healthtech initiatives and impact on chronic condition management. Since joining Withings in 2014, I have managed consumer sales and marketing in Asia and later led the global sales team, with a focus on expansion in the United States. In 2019, I founded Withings Health Solutions to integrate Withings suite of products into the healthcare industry. Our division supports healthcare professionals across chronic disease prevention and management, remote patient monitoring, clinical research, and more. The mission is to remove the complexity out of running digital health programs, so care teams can focus on what they do best - taking care of their patients. Patient engagement is often defined as the process of actively involving patients in their own healthcare. I believe the opposite - patient engagement should involve integrating healthcare into the patient’s daily life. Our remote monitoring products and solutions are able to make a meaningful impact because they are designed to meet patients where they are - living their life.

Natalie Schibell is the VP Marketing Strategy, Intelligence, and Insights at Zyter|TruCare. She leads market intelligence initiatives and guides strategic decisions across all departments. With a keen focus on data-driven insights, she orchestrates market data collection, analysis, and dissemination to propel Zyter|TruCare to the forefront of the digital health industry. Natalie also directs the company's DOD Skillbridge Program, leveraging her expertise to mentor transitioning service members in their professional development journey. Before her current role, Natalie served as a VP, Principal Analyst, and VP, Research Director at Forrester, where she helped organizations leverage digital technologies to improve workflows and healthcare outcomes. A recognized industry thought leader, her research and analysis is widely cited in the WSJ, WSJ Pro-Venture Capital, Forbes, NBC News, USA Today, The Business Journals, Business Insider, Fierce Healthcare, Healthcare IT News, STAT News, LeMagIt, VentureBeat, Axios, Modern Healthcare, and many others. Natalie previously served as a Public Health Analyst at the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, where she deployed with the Community Interventions and Critical Populations Task Force and spearheaded digital transformation and communications for the National Wastewater Surveillance System, a $19B data surveillance project mitigating Covid-19 in 61 jurisdictions. Natalie is a former Navy Lieutenant Commander with 12 years of distinguished service in the Medical Service Corps. As the Deputy Director of Public Health at SUBASE New London, she administered preventive medicine and industrial hygiene policies that supported the healthcare and safety of 32,600 and the deployment readiness of 5,200 submarine students and 18 fast-attack submarines. While assigned to Navy Recruiting Command, she was recognized as “General Officer Recruiter" and "Diversity Officer Recruiter of the Year” for achieving talent acquisition excellence. She directed 400 staff in the market identification, prospecting, and onboarding of over 1,000 Officer selectees in 140 specialty programs and served as an executive advisor on talent acquisition strategy and innovation. Natalie holds an MPH from New York Medical College’s School of Health Sciences and Practice. She is an inductee of the Delta Alpha Chapter of Delta Omega, the National Honorary Society for Public Health. She earned a BS from The George Washington University’s Milken Institute of Public Health and an AOS from the Culinary Institute of America.

Thomas Serval is the co-founder and CEO of Baracoda Group. A serial entrepreneur, visionary leader, and category creator, Thomas holds fifty patents in connected technologies and transforms large companies and the daily life of consumers through disruptive innovations. Having held executive managerial positions for Microsoft & Google, Thomas has steered Baracoda’s innovation toward daily healthtech, encouraging behaviors and habits for self-care and disease prevention. For the last decade, Thomas has focused on developing innovative technology that helps address preventative health needs and promotes positive health behaviors. Baracoda’s user-centric product development philosophy centers on integrating new technologies into everyday objects. Thomas is building his vision of Daily Healthtech with data analysis, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, and through gamification. He wants to empower people with data that they can rely on for quality, personalized information and use in their interactions with medical professionals. Ultimately, Thomas’ goal is to help people take a proactive approach to preventive care. From mapping people’s bathroom routines with AI to helping children form healthy habits in the bathroom, Thomas offers a forward-thinking approach earned through years of studying how people integrate data and adopt connected, intelligent tools into their personal practices. His products incorporate user-friendly interfaces that by design gather feedback to continually tailor experience and even anticipate demand for new solutions. Thomas is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (Ensae) and remains heavily involved with the schools’ interactions with startups and incubators. He is a regular lecturer at top French institutions such as ESCP, ESSEC, ENA and Corps des Mines. In 2017, he was a guest lecturer at Stanford University, and detailed how he created the connected oral care consumer product category. For his efforts across multiple decades delivering innovation in 2018, Thomas was knighted by the French President, presented the “Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur,” citing his innovative and entrepreneurial spirit.

Farman Syed, Vice President of Product, Tonal

Sensoria Health designs, develops and produces bio-sensing wearable garments. The vision of the company is that the Garment itself will become the next ultra-personal, mobile computer. Davide is a former Microsoft partner level executive with over 25 years of sales, marketing and extensive product management experience. As an intern he started the international localization group for MacWorks and MacOffice in 1987. More recently, he served as General Manager of the Health Solutions Group where he was in charge of marketing and product strategy for both HealthVault and the Amalga product line. He acted as Vice President of the Worldwide SMSP Medium Business division which he grew 18% YOY to over $14B. Davide also managed the Italian Marketing, Business and Enterprise operations for five years and brought it to number one in the world for contribution margin, 6th largest Microsoft subsidiary in the world by revenues.

Steve Chazin has nearly three decades experience designing, building, and selling innovative enterprise and consumer technology that changed the world. Steve reimagined collaboration in the cloud at Cisco, Salesforce, and Symantec, launched four successful startups, and created new solutions for video editing, file sharing, and web services long before each became commonplace. As Vice President of Products for Alarm.com, Steve defines next-generation offerings for protecting people at home, at work and beyond. Combining his extensive tech experience with keen insights of emerging consumer trends, Steve has a history of predicting the future, and is currently developing health and wellness solutions for a post Covid-19 world. Steve has been a recurring guest on major network news programs, appeared in the BBC television series “Business Nightmares” and took part in the CNBC documentary “Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippie”. Steve has written and published three books, is quoted by numerous online and printed publications, and is a highly sought-after speaker on topics like connected health and fitness, consumer technology and augmented reality. Steve was rehired by Steve Jobs to help reboot Apple in the late 1990s and was part of the team that returned Apple to profitability.

Anthony Dohrmann is the founder and inventor of Electronic Caregiver solutions. Anthony Dohrmann’s latest invention is Addison, the virtual caregiver. She is a state-of-the-art, 3D animated, connected caregiver designed to transform a residence into a digital Smart Health Home, providing chronic care management, rehabilitation, aging in place, behavioral health, and care coordination for patients of all ages.

Sarah King was named chief client officer in June 2021. She leads the enterprise growth strategy by connecting clients with Optum’s capabilities to remove friction, lower costs and improve health outcomes. She champions a purpose-driven culture and empowers teams to deliver exceptional client experiences and unlock opportunities to create a higher performing health system that works better for everyone. Previously, King served as chief growth officer of Optum Health and Optum Insight, and deepened client relationships by bringing the voice of the market to product roadmap, capital, governance and strategy discussions. Since joining the company in 2002, she has held several client leadership roles, including regional vice president of UnitedHealthcare national accounts. Before UnitedHealth Group, King held sales and client management positions with Aetna New York and Aristokraft, a division of Fortune Brands. King has more than 25 years of health care experience, delivering results through market strategy, client engagement, solution consulting, and building strategic partnerships. She is passionate about developing teams and inclusive environments where people can bring their authentic selves to their work. King holds a Bachelor of Arts in business from Grove City College and has a long-standing passion for community service and philanthropy, having served on boards of nonprofits such as My Father’s House, a children’s home in Senegal.

Girish Naganathan has served as Dexcom’s EVP, Chief Technology Officer since October 2022 and is responsible for setting global strategy and direction for the Research and Development organization, driving the execution of technology roadmaps, and accelerating new product research, development, and commercialization. Girish has close to 25 years of experience spanning the Consumer Electronics, Data Storage, IoT, and Broadband industries. Prior to joining Dexcom, Girish spent over ten years at Technicolor, most recently serving as Chief Technology Officer and General Manager of the Broadband Product Division. In these roles, he set the company’s strategic technology direction, leading product development and deploying IoT and broadband solutions across markets and industries. This work included driving innovation across multiple product lines, ensuring the success of technology acquisitions, building relationships with key customers and partners, and fostering a culture of accountability and agility. Before joining Technicolor, Girish held several leadership positions at Seagate Technology. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Colorado, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, and a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from PSG College of Technology.

David Puckett serves as the Global Devices Organization's Head of Product Strategy. He is responsible for steering the device product vision, long-term product roadmap, and commercial opportunities across Comcast Cable, Comcast Syndication partners, and Sky Europe in his current position. He directs the device strategy for all consumer and SMB products across the Connectivity and Platforms business units of the company, including Xfinity, Comcast Business, and Sky. In his 18 years at Comcast, David oversaw the introduction of numerous products and features and the expansion of the company's portfolio. He has delivered innovation in various positions, including Product Marketing, Product Development, Product Management, and Product Strategy, always with the customer experience in mind. Before joining Comcast in 2005, David spent eight years executing consumer marketing strategies across direct and indirect sales channels for both consumer and business-to-business services at various private and public Internet Services companies in both start-up and established stages. David has four hyper-connected Generation Z children. Although David is one of the rare individuals who began his career by handing out free Dialup Internet Service CDs in retail stores and continues to work in an industry that has paved the way for advanced technologies such as AI, AR/VR, Blockchain, Edge Computing, Cloud Gaming, Videoconferencing, IoT, and whatever the Metaverse ends up being, his children are too preoccupied creating content with Tiktok or video games to care.

Ashton joined Parks Associates with over 15 years experience in sales, business development, account management and sponsorship sales within the hotel and sports industries. She is now part of the business development team managing event sponsorships and custom marketing services. Ashton graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with a BA in Business Administration and concentration in Marketing. After working for Four Seasons Resorts for nearly 10 years, Ashton spent the next seven years working with PGA TOUR pro golfers and their corporate sponsors/partners before joining Parks Associates.

Nancy Green is the Founder and Principal Strategy Consultant of The SAA Group, LLC, which is a boutique consulting company focused on accelerating organizations strategic success in the digital health sector. Nancy is an award-winning global healthcare and strategic business development executive with background in stimulating growth, bringing new and disruptive innovation technology to the market as well as a strong thought leader and creator of strategic alliances. Bringing over 26 years’ experience in the healthcare and technology industries as well as leading global healthcare strategy for Verizon, she has helped organizations design, accelerate and implement growth strategies. Nancy has been a recognized expert in the healthcare ecosystem and the interrelationships between providers, payers, life sciences, health-tech, and retail. Her strengths lie in helping craft strategic plans for accelerating a business, as well as focusing organizations on the customer experience to design outcome-driven solutions that increase market penetration and position a company to succeed. Recognized in the industry as being in the Top 200 2022 Healthcare Tech leaders by Parks and Associates and an innovator by the Intelligent Health Association for Innovation in the Healthcare Field. She follows her personal passion of innovating in the Healthy Aging space by leading these efforts at the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) where she is the Chair of the Healthy Aging Special Interest Collaborative.

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE: Consumer electronics, mobility services and devices, connected health and wellness. Kristen Hanich heads Parks Associates' consumer electronics and mobility research, with expertise in other verticals including connected cars, mobile networking, healthcare, wellness, and independent living. She leads a mix of custom and syndicated research projects throughout the year, with a focus on major players and emerging trends. Kristen specializes in bridging the gap between data-driven and narrative approaches to understanding the consumer markets via a mix of qualitative and quantitative research approaches. Kristen has dual master's degrees in applied anthropology and public health from the Universities of North Texas in Denton and Fort Worth. She earned her BSc in health at the University of Texas at San Antonio and has a graduate certificate in Geographic Information Systems.

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE: Connected Health, Connected Home Technologies and Services, Connected Entertainment Products and Services. Jennifer manages the research department and Parks Associates' process for producing high-quality, relevant, and meaningful research. Jennifer also leads and advises on syndicated and custom research projects across all connected consumer verticals and guides questionnaire development for Parks Associates’ extensive consumer analytics survey program. Jennifer is a certified focus group moderator, with training from the Burke Institute. Jennifer earned her PhD in religion, politics, and society and an MA in church-state studies from Baylor University. She earned her BA in politics from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

Sarah joined Parks Associates as a Research Analyst on the Entertainment side and covers topics such as OTT and consumer electronics. Sarah earned her PhD in Experimental Psychology from The University of Texas at Arlington. She also earned an MS in General Experimental Psychology from Murray State University and a BS in Psychology from Xavier University.

Jason Paris joined Parks Associates as an analyst studying international telephone, cable, and satellite providers and is now a member of the business development team. Jason graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BA in psychology and government. After working for the Texas House of Representatives, Jason spent the previous seven years in New York City working with portable and enterprise healthcare technologies.

Parks Associates mission is to help companies navigate the changing consumer technology landscapes through data-driven market insights, extensive consumer and industry intelligence, and executive conferences. With over two decades of dedication to the company, Elizabeth Parks, President and Chief Marketing Officer, has been instrumental in shaping its growth and success, along with the continued focus of delivering timely and quality industry and consumer insights on the broadband, entertainment, connected home and SMB industries. Elizabeth's commitment to Parks Associates' overarching mission is unwavering. Parks Associates provides clients with the most comprehensive consumer and industry research and analysis to empower businesses to make informed decisions in an ever-evolving landscape. Elizabeth's journey with Parks Associates began after graduating with a BA in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Plano Texas with her husband and three children.

Ross Rubin is a contributing analyst at Parks Associates and the founder and principal analyst at Reticle Research Ross has focused on innovation in the technology, media and telecom markets for over 20 years. Prior to founding Reticle Research, he was executive director and principal analyst at The NPD Group. Prior to NPD, he founded and managed the consumer access and technology service at Jupiter Research (acquired by Forrester Research), where he served as vice president and chief research fellow. He has contributed to and been quoted by leading publications and media outlets hundreds of times. Ross is a graduate of Cornell University.

Chris is a Senior Researcher with Parks Associates, covering the connected home market. He was previously a Director of Insights at PeopleMetrics in Philadelphia and the Data Manager of a youth-serving collaborative in New Orleans. He has performed research for companies in a variety of industries, including the telecom/ISP space. Chris earned his BBA in Marketing from the College of William & Mary and his MBA in Marketing and Finance from American University.