Amy Konary, Global VP, Subscribed Strategy Group, Zuora
Amy Konary is Global VP, Subscribed Strategy Group, Zuora. She has over 20 years of experience advising companies on subscription business strategies. As founder and chair of the Subscribed Institute, a think tank for the subscription economy, she convenes business executives, thought leaders, and industry experts and generates research and industry benchmarks on subscription transformation topics. Amy also advises Zuora customers on subscription business strategy development, execution, and maturity.
Darim Rahmatallah, Senior Product Manager, Thales Software Monetization
Darim is the unique breed who possess both the deep technical expertise and the ability to explain that technology in dynamic terms for the lay person. He has been involved in software monetization/licensing for over two decades. Having started his career in pre- and post-sales support, Darim then moved to the product management side of the business. He is currently responsible for guiding the Thales Software Monetizing product strategy and roadmap, along with maintaining an effective product identity. You will find him to be a riveting speaker not to be missed.
Dave DiMillo, Vice President ñ Global Solution Sales, Thales Software Monetization
Dave is an industry expert in software business models and entitlement management with a focus on the E2E software monetization lifecycle. He currently leads multiple teams within Thalesí Software Monetization business unit including the Business Value and Business Development teams. He is responsible for ensuring our sales people get beyond selling by helping our customers realize the financial impact of having their business problems addressed. Dave is responsible for Thalesí value selling program, ROI tools and customer-facing solution collateral.
Dean Bass, Product Development Director, Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis
Dean Bass is a Product Development Director for Oxford Instruments. He has over 20 years of industry acumen in guiding high tech R&D organisations towards strategic development and portfolio management. Currently managing a team of over 80 scientists and engineers for the NanoAnalysis business, he is responsible for driving People and Change Leadership within the organisation. His Program and Project Leadership expertise has allowed him to accelerate his team to new levels of performance through a combination of business analysis, process re-engineering, and change leadership skills.
John Hubbard, Business Process Expert, Software Entitlement & Licensing, Philips
John is the Business Process Expert for Software Entitlement & Licensing at Philips, with over two decades of experience in software development and process management. In his current BPE role, John is responsible for designing and implementing the standard process for software entitlement and license management in Philips. He has built and grown a cross-functional network of subject matter experts within Philips to capture requirements, evaluate process design changes, implement integrations between Sentinel and Philips ìhome-grownî and vendor managed systems, and to review and validate developed functional changes related to software entitlements and licensing. John and his team collaborate with Program Management to develop strategies for process adoption and plan the transformation activities with Philips business units needed to migrate their processes, systems and data from current state to the target. John and his wife live in Spokane, Washington USA and are happily observing at a distance the (ad)ventures into adulthood of their young adult children.
Julie Donnell, Director, Global Business Value Consulting, Thales Software Monetization
Julie Donnell is an industry expert on software licensing, deployment and delivery, with a passion for delighting customers. As the Director, Global Business Value Consulting at Thales, she helps customers quantify the value of modernizing their software licensing platform and approach, focusing on business impact and ROI. Working in the software industry for more than 20 years, Julie has a deep cross-organizational experience with the global challenges associated with bringing software products to market. Julie earned a B.S. in Computer Information Science and a Master of Business Administration and she is a big Penn State football fan!
Mark Thomason, Research Director, Digital Business Models & Monetization, IDC
Mark Thomasonís research examines traditional and emerging monetization models for digital products and services and identifies disruptive business models and technologies such as cloud services, product to ìaaSî transformation, and monetization enabled by innovation accelerators such as IoT. Mark holds a B.S. in Management of Information Systems from University of Central Florida and an M.S. in Business Administration from Keller Graduate School of Management.
Stephan Liozu, Chief Value Officer, Thales Group
Stephan M. Liozu, Ph.D. is Chief Value Officer at Thales Group and founder of Value Innoruption Advisors, a consulting boutique specializing in value-based pricing, digital pricing, and industrial pricing. He is the author of ten pricing books including ìMonetizing Dataî published in 2018 with Dr. Ulaga. Stephan holds a Ph.D. in Management from Case Western Reserve University, an M.S. in Innovation Management from Toulouse School of Management, and an MBA in Marketing from Cleveland State University.