VP & Head of Digital Offering - Sandvik Rock Processing Solutions

Sandvik

Petra Sundström is on the board of Concentric AB and Vice President & Head-Digital Offering at Sandvik Rock Processing, one of Sandvik’s 4 Business Areas. Petra was previously with Husqvarna Group and among other things she led the initiative called the Connectivity Hub defining first digital strategy for the group and rolling it out in all 4 Divisions at that point in time. She has a background in Computer Science engineering and a PhD in Human Machine Interaction.

Chief Product Officer and General Manager, Software
Hitachi Vantara

As the global head of products, Radhika is responsible for the vision, strategy, delivery, and business performance for all our products and solutions across data storage, data management and analytics, as well as Hitachi’s industry-leading Lumada IoT and industrial software.

Radhika has a unique combination of deep technical expertise and experience in end-to-end business management. She has incubated and scaled several businesses in her previous leadership roles at Lenovo, HP, Cisco, NetApp and Nimble Storage. Before joining Hitachi Vantara in September 2020, Radhika was executive vice president and general manager of software at 3D Systems.

Radhika is a passionate advocate for diversity in tech. She has a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and a master’s in business administration degree from San Jose State University.

Head of Digitalization
Hitachi Energy

David Goddard is Head of Digitalization for Hitachi Energy and is responsible for driving the company’s digital evolution. He was previously with Cisco Systems in various executive leadership roles, most recently being responsible for the global IoT practice. In his earlier roles with Cisco, he led Cisco Customer Assurance, the crisis response organization, and the security research and operations organization. He holds a bachelor’s degree in telecommunication and electrical engineering.

Chief Technology Officer
GlobalLogic Inc.

Dr. Sunil K. Singh is a technologist with a distinguished career and hands-on experience in conceptualizing, designing, building, and launching innovative technology products and services. As CTO – Engineering, Sunil oversees GlobalLogic’s overall Delivery Excellence charter, including Horizontal Practices (for driving technical expertise in Delivery and customer engagement around modern technologies) and Global Delivery Assurance.

Prior to joining GlobalLogic, Sunil was the Managing Partner at Citadel Ventures, a venture investment arm and technology firm that incubated hi-tech startups in areas of big data analytics, AI, supply chain, and food delivery. Previously, he has held multiple executive roles in technology organizations. As the President and CTO of Greenfence, he worked with the world’s top retailers, food manufacturers, and certification bodies to create a technology platform for supply chain transparency to source with compliance verification automation. He also previously served as GlobalLogic’s APAC Head and MD of India. As CEO and CTO of Informance, he defined a new category of operational analytics SaaS platform for Manufacturing Intelligence, and led the company to a successful exit in a PE transaction. Other innovative products he’s helped launch include an adaptive learning platform for lesson delivery over connected tablets, UCCNet (the demand-supply synchronization platform for CPG companies), and robotic medical devices.

Chief Marketing Officer
GlobalLogic Inc.

In his 20+ years of industry experience, Arya Barirani has led marketing teams in some of the most well-known brands in the technology industry, including Symantec, Hewlett Packard, Veritas, Mercury Interactive, and Infoblox. His domain expertise spans multitudes of product and service categories such as DevOps, security, IT management software, storage management, and networking.

Prior to joining GlobalLogic, Arya was Vice President of Product Marketing at Infoblox, where he drove company and product positioning, as well as global go-to-market, content marketing. Before that, Arya was Senior Director of Global Campaigns / Product Marketing at Symantec, where he created global promotional campaigns for Symantec’s security and storage software portfolio.

Using a highly customer-centric approach, Arya specializes in creating differentiated messaging and connecting the dots between brands and buyers. His work integrates the entire spectrum of marketing disciplines and communications channels, including digital, social, web, and traditional media and advertising.

Arya lives in Northern California with his wife and two children, and he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Marketing from the University of Iowa.