SPEAKERS

Dr Jim Goodnight
Chief Executive Officer, SAS

As the CEO of SAS, the world’s leading business analytics software vendor, Jim Goodnight has led the company since its inception in 1976, overseeing an unbroken chain of revenue growth and profitability that is unprecedented in the industry. He is recognized globally for being a trailblazer among companies that top great workplace rankings.

Oliver Schabenberger
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer, SAS

As COO and CTO, Oliver Schabenberger sets the technology direction for SAS and executes the company’s strategic direction and business priorities. He oversees multiple divisions within SAS, including R&D, Sales, Marketing, Information Technology and Customer Support, as well as divisions focused on solutions for IoT, financial risk management and cloud.

Charles Senabulya
Vice President and Country Manager for SAS UKI.

In 2017 Charles became the Vice President and Country Manager for SAS UKI, where he is responsible for the region’s revenue delivery and operations. Charles’ focus is to continue to find new ways to engage and delight customers while growing SAS’ voice in, and share of, the UKI Analytics market.

Charles has been with SAS since 2010, joining as a Sales Manager for Banking and Insurance and was promoted to Sales Director, Financial Services in March 2012 and then to overall Sales Director for SAS UKI in 2016. Prior to SAS, Charles spent 10 years at IBM in various roles across Europe and Africa where his last role was as Director IBM Software Group, Sub-Saharan Africa, where he led the transformation of the business to become a growth market region.

Before joining IBM, Charles worked in various roles at Compuware and Parametric Technology. He has over 15 years of Executive Management within the Financial Services Industry, where he has worked with some of the leading Financial Institutes to deliver critical business transformation and innovation through technology.

Mark Smith
General Manager, Microsoft Solutions, Microsoft UK

Mark is a member of the Microsoft UK Leadership Team and runs Microsoft Solutions comprising of 325 diversely skilled people covering the three Microsoft Clouds. The teams comprise of Solution Specialist Sales and Technical Specialists in a shared service model serving over 800 business customers. (Global, Enterprise and Partner and Public Sector).

Mark has previously held a variety of leadership roles at Microsoft most recently running the Microsoft Intelligent Cloud Business including Azure and AI. Mark is also the executive sponsor for the Microsoft UK AI Country Plan. Other leadership roles include Western Europe Dynamics Partner Channel, Healthcare and Corporate Accounts.

Kate Russell
Technology and Digital TV Presenter

Kate Russell is a journalist and author who writes about technology and the Internet. Currently, Russell appears regularly on the BBC technology programme Click and writes a monthly column for National Geographic. Through her work, she aims to inspire the next generation of technologists.

Her website has won multiple awards for the best technology blog and she has been featured as one of the top 50 most influential women in UK IT by Computer Weekly for the past two years. Russell also writes about sci-fi and the internet. Her first book Working the Cloud delivered a collection of online tips, tricks and resources for small businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs. Her second book, Elite: Mostly Harmless, is a crowd-funded science fiction novel based on a remake of the computer game that first inspired her love of technology.