An industry-recognized IT leader in the design and delivery of cost-effective, high-performance technology solutions, Bradd Busick is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at MultiCare Health System. He has been featured in CIO Magazine, TED, recognized by Constellation Research as one of the top 150 innovative CXO’s in the country and is a two-time nominee as the top CIO in Washington state by CIO Insider. He was selected as the CIO of the year in 2023.

Busick delivers value to the enterprise by proactively offering broad, cutting-edge approaches for growing business and creating innovation across organizations such as Boeing, Ralph Lauren, Ford and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Busick has a Bachelor of Science and MBA from Pacific Lutheran University, with an emphasis in Technology and Innovation Management and is currently enrolled in the master’s program at Brown University. He is a certified Change Management practitioner, a board member of the PNW Chapter of Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP), recognized by the Business Examiner as one of South Sound’s 40 under 40 and is an adjunct faculty member in the Morken School of Business at Pacific Lutheran University.

Kristie Duffin is the Chief Technology Officer for Cascade Asset Management Company, a 100+ billion-dollar investment management firm responsible for managing the assets of Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Duffin joined Cascade in 2016 to drive the strategy for Cascade’s cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and data and application platforms.

Previously Duffin was Managing Director and Head of Global CRM at BlackRock based in Seattle and London. Duffin has held several technology leadership positions with financial companies managing software development, product and program management, and technology infrastructure.

Duffin is on the Advisory Board for the University of Washington Bothell School of Business and is a graduate of the University of Washington Seattle Foster School of Business with both a BA and a Technology MBA.

Kari Escobedo is a technology executive with 20+ years of leadership experience serving global Fortune 500 companies in the technology, healthcare, telecom, retail and sports entertainment industries. She is a change leader specializing in company technology transformations, including digital experience, data, product development, and M&A. 

Most recently, Escobedo was with the Seattle Mariners Baseball Club leading the team’s transformation to a data driven, technology enabled organization. During her time with the Mariners, she was recognized as CIO of the Year by Inspire CIO for Seattle in the Corporate category. Previously, Escobedo served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Bartell Drugs where, she transformed the company into a modern retail pharmacy leveraging data and technology.  Prior to Bartell Drugs, Kari lead the Ent & Digital Services teams for Kaiser Permanente of WA focusing on developing a product mindset to transform not only the enterprise systems but to focus on areas that include digital and mobile customer experiences. Formerly Vice President, Ent Sys Dev for T-Mobile, Kari led the technology team responsible for the development and delivery of solutions for the Customer Retail & Enterprise Systems that supported the T-Mobile business transformation.  Earlier in her career, Escobedo also held leadership roles at Starbucks and Microsoft, leading many of their technology teams. 

Escobedo is also very active in her communities and passions as a member of the Board of Advisors (College of Business & Economics) at Western Washington University, an advisor for the University of Washington Master of Science of Information Systems where she mentors MIS students, and is the governance board chair of WeCOACH, which is dedicated to the recruitment, advancement and retention of women coaches of all sports and levels.

Jeff Jones is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Milliman, Inc., an actuarial consulting and solutions firm headquartered in Seattle with revenues exceeding $1 billion. Jones was a CISO finalist at the 2023 Seattle Orbie Awards and continues to network with other CISOs and CIOs in the Seattle area.

Jones joined Milliman in 2016 and has demonstrated innovative skills advising practices internally, managing cybersecurity and incident response, and representing Milliman’s information security interests with major clients, auditors, and vendors. He came to Milliman following a consulting engagement with Nordstrom.  Prior to Nordstrom, Jones was the Senior Information Security Manager at Black Knight Financial Services, where he managed the internal risk management team and developed security policies.  

Early in his career, Jones served honorably in the United States Air Force. Jones brings over 30 years of information technology and information security experience to the CISO role, including tenures at IBM, AT&T, ADP, and First American CoreLogic.

Among his four degrees, Jones earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of California, Davis, and a Master of Science in Information Technology from Golden Gate University. Jones has a passion for serving in his community, and is a former VP of the 100 Black Men of Sacramento, a non-profit that mentors young men in underserved communities.

Brian Lent is one of the earliest pioneers of the modern AI era, a technical luminary whose career began at the genesis of the internet itself. While pursuing his Ph.D. at Stanford, he worked with a legendary group of computer science students — including Larry Page and Sergey Brin — at a research lab that would one day incubate the Google search engine. This formative experience gave him a front-row seat to some of the greatest technical challenges of the era, and a deep understanding of how to build new data-driven systems from the ground up.

This unique perspective propelled him to leadership roles at some of the world's most innovative companies. At Amazon, he built the company's first predictive analytics platform and data science team, creating the recommendation system that would become the foundation of e-commerce and would ultimately drive 30%+ of Amazon.com's revenues. He has since founded four innovative AI and data-driven companies, applying his deep technical expertise to solve some of the world's most complex problems, from next-generation credit scoring to a highly complex AI to power Level 5 full autonomous driving and real estate analytics.

Florin Rotar is Avanade’s CTO and is responsible for the strategic technology direction for the company. He is leading Avanade's Emerging Technology Group, Portfolio Management & Incubation Teams, Global Innovation Team and Market Research function.

Curious by nature and a technologist by trade ever since he typed LOAD “*”, 8,1 on his Commodore 64 in 1983, Rotar is an optimistic believer in the power of technology to make a genuine human impact. With a background as an entrepreneur, a practitioner and a technology leader, and spending the last 20 years between the U.S., U.K., Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, he uses his experience to guide teams and clients through the journey of realizing the potential and promise of the Microsoft platform. Rotar is a published co-author of the book "We the People: Human Purpose in a Digital Age: A Guide to Digital Ethics for Individuals, Organizations and Robots of All Kinds."

Wendy Turner-Williams is the founder and CEO of Culstrata-ai and theassociation.ai. Turner-Williams has 25+ years of experience in the AI, Data and Trust space at companies like Accenture, Microsoft and Salesforce. Following her recent stint as the chief data & analytics officer for Tableau, Turner-Williams has embraced her entrepreneurial spirit and is now focused on bringing proven chief data & AI fractional and best-in-class talent acquisition services to market. She is using her change agent and culture building experience to form and foster an AI, data, ethics, privacy and security professionals’ community with the intention of breaking silos, improving networking, and the identification and publication of technology self-regulation opportunities that ensures ethical AI and data handling.

Turner-Williams is an award-winning chief data & analytics officer, author, speaker and thought-leader. She serves on the advisory boards at Kensu and Women in Tech World Series (North America). She also supports the development of the next generation of AI, data and ML leaders as an adjunct professor for Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College CdataO certification program.

Pawan Uppuluri is a seasoned technology executive with 25+ years of experience building consumer products at internet scale. She has a track record of building products from early stage concept through launch; and building and managing large scale systems serving multi-billion dollar businesses. Most recently, she served as the Chief Technology Officer at Thrasio, a next generation consumer goods company. Prior to this, she was the Chief Technology Officer at Glossier and Director of Product & Engineering at Amazon. Uppuluri was named in Forbes “Next CIO 2021 - 50 innovative technology leaders transforming business for a radically different world” and Girl Geek “60 Female CTOs to watch in 2023.”

At Thrasio, Uppuluri oversaw product and technology building a machine learning driven merchandising and distribution platform across multiple e-commerce channels enabling demand optimization through pricing & marketing as well as supply chain optimization. At Glossier, a digital-first beauty company, she oversaw product and engineering for e-commerce & retail and helped transform the technology team and systems to deliver a best-in-class omnichannel platform. Previously, as the Director of Software Development in Alexa, Uppuluri led product and engineering for News, Voice of the Customer and Alexa Orchestration Engine which was the backbone workflow for Alexa.

Yi Zhou is a globally acclaimed AI thought leader and executive, renowned for his pioneering work in AI-powered business transformation. As an accomplished CTO and CIO, he has a distinguished track record of leadership at the intersection of technology and health care, with transformative roles at GE Healthcare and Quest Diagnostics. Notably, he was instrumental in setting industry standards through his participation in the MITA AI Committee, his trailblazing work in developing the GE Healthcare AI Standard & Playbook, and his leadership in launching the world's first FDA-approved AI-powered X-ray and MRI devices. 

Featured in the American Healthcare Leader magazine, Zhou has been honored with multiple industry awards, including two “CIO of the Year” Seattle ORBIE Awards (2023 and 2024 finalist), two CEO awards, and three DNA awards. He has authored numerous influential publications including Generative AI books, AI standards and articles, software architecture book, and life sciences papers.