Amnon Drori, Octopai With 20 years’ experience in the high technology industry, Amnon specializ- es in technology-oriented, pioneering startups working in new areas. He has been involved in four previous startups, two of which were acquired and the other two went public. These include Panaya (acquired by InfoSys) and Zend (acquired by Rogue Wave Software). Based in Tel Aviv, Israel with offices in NYC, Octopai was founded in 2015 by BI professionals who saw a real pain point in the sector. Octopai developed a centralized, cross-platform metadata search engine that enables BI groups to quickly and precisely discover and govern shared metadata, which dra- matically increases productivity, shortens time to market, and reduces risks associated with erroneous data. Caroline Egan, Inspiren Caroline Egan is a Director of Inspiren and has over 30 years’ experience in the technology sector, developing high-performing international channel and partner models working in both high growth scale-ups (for example, Arbor Software and Remedy) and in large vendor organizations (such as, Microsoft and Informix (IBM)). In addition, Caroline has coached and supported over 300 start-up/scale-up technology organizations, and developed partner strategies, models, and pro- grams through working with VCs, International Development Agencies, and large vendors. She is also the appointed Executive GTM Advisor for Microsoft Scale-up and Start-up in Europe. She has run her own successful channels and alliances consultancy, has mentored high growth Cloud IP vendor organizations through VC and devel- 85
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