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Keynote Speaker Profiles

Jeff Teper

President - Collaborative Apps & Platform
Microsoft

Known as the “Founder of SharePoint,” Jeff came to Microsoft because of the company’s approach to solving challenges and empowering people through software. A developer at heart, today Jeff leads Microsoft’s collaboration platform including Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive, which serve more than 1 billion people around the globe.

Outside of work, Jeff is an avid runner, and an avid fan of Disney and The Beatles. Jeff has an MBA from Harvard and a BS from New York University.

Jeff will keynote on: Collaborative Apps in the AI Era.

Karuana Gatimu

Director, Microsoft 365 Customer Advocacy Group
Microsoft

Karuana is a business architect and productivity expert currently working in the Microsoft Teams product group. With a 25-year history in collaboration technology and corporate IT, she is experienced in Microsoft 365 services with a focus on Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Power Platform. She combines her technical expertise with a passion for community management and a #PeopleFirst approach to business transformation. Her team currently drives worldwide adoption of Microsoft 365 services, product feedback, and technical readiness for IT professionals, developers, and productivity Champions, including the Microsoft 365 Champions program and the Teams Technical Community. Her specialized experience in enterprise, government, non-profit, and retail solution architecture allows her to build large scale adoption programs and create the Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist and Virtual Event Production courses. She is the host & executive producer of Coffee in the Cloud on YouTube and a frequent speaker on empowering female leadership in technology and the future of collaboration.

Karuana will keynote on Thriving in the Era of AI.

Paula Januszkiewicz

Founder and CEO
CQURE Inc. and CQURE Academy
Paula Januszkiewicz

Paula Januszkiewicz is the Founder and CEO of CQURE Inc. and CQURE Academy. She is also Enterprise Security MVP, honorable Microsoft Regional Director for CEE and a world-class cybersecurity expert, consulting customers all around the world. In 2017, Paula graduated from Harvard Business School.

She is a top speaker at conferences including Microsoft Ignite (she was rated No. 1 among 1,100 speakers at a conference with 26000 attendees), RSA (in 2017 in USA her two sessions were amongst the five hottest sessions), Black Hat 2018 USA or Gartner Security Summit. Her presentations gather thousands of people.

In 2019, Paula’s presentation was voted best of Black Hat Asia 2019 Briefings! Paula has 17 years of experience in the cybersecurity field, performing penetration tests, architecture consulting, training and seminars. Every year, before the pandemic, she took over 215 flights to provide security services, now she delivers tons of projects online.

Paula also creates security awareness programs for various organizations, including awareness sessions for top management. Paula is a member of the Technical Advisory Board at Royal Bank of Scotland – helping to keep its security at the highest level possible! What is more, Paula has access to a source code of Windows!

Paula will speak on: A Look into the Future: The Role of AI in Cybersecurity Operations

Keith Barry

Brainhacker

Renowned as the world’s foremost TV hypnotist, mentalist and Brain Hacker, Keith has been revolutionizing the entertainment industry on a global scale for numerous years. With his awe-inspiring abilities, he has been featured in over forty international television shows, captivating audiences with his mind-bending performances. Over the past two decades Keith has also written, produced and performed many of his own live and virtual shows, selling out venues across the world.


Beyond his successful career as a performer, Keith has become a much sought-after motivational speaker, delivering keynote speeches at prestigious events such as the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, T-FEST and TED. Notably, his TED Talk is one of the platform’s most celebrated, ranking among the top 25 talks of all time, amassing over 25 million views!

Keith will keynote on: Redefine The Impossible: Metamorphical Thinking

Dona Sarkar

Chief Troublemaker - Microsoft Inclusive AI and Accessibility
Microsoft

Amanda Silver

CVP of Developer Division
Microsoft
Dona Sarkar

Dona believes that you are one experiment away from being your most powerful self at work. And yes, in life!

Currently at her day job, she’s running 100 experiments as the Chief Troublemaker of the Microsoft AI and Copilot Extensibility Program. Her goal is that people all over the world can use Microsoft’s AI and Copilot programs to reason over their OWN data and truly make AI useful for their business.

Dona’s also a keynote speaker (fave audience is corporate leaders like YOU), a multi-published author (it turns out fiction writing is useful in software!),  the owner of the ethical luxury fashion brand called Prima Dona Studios and she has recently become a wine bar co-owner and is studying to be a sommelier.

A few years ago, she was named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Productive People and Cosmopolitan magazine’s Businessperson of the Year for her multi-faceted (aka weird) life.  And yes, she is always ready to get on a plane and come see YOU.

Dona’s ESPC Keynote:  These are DEFINITELY the droids you are looking for (AI, Copilots and What It Means For You)

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