Sandy Carter is the Vice President of Amazon Web Services focused on Enterprise Workloads like Microsoft and helping companies with innovation and technology. One of the leading pioneers in the digital business revolution, Sandy was a driving force of Innovation at IBM for the last decade. She was responsible for connecting emerging technology companies and accelerators with enterprises to increase productivity while fostering a community of innovation. She is an extreme innovator and bestselling author publishing her 5th book Extreme Innovation: Three Superpowers for Purpose and Profit, built on her revolutionary research with Carnegie Mellon SV. Sandy was named Top 3 Innovation Influencer at SXSW in 2017, Top 5 Social Influencer at Social Media World in 2017, Top 4 Bot Influencer by BotsCamp in 2017, Digital Influencer in 2016 by Forbes, a Social Media Legend, Top 10 Women in Technology by CNN, and top 100 Influencer in AI, IoT, and Social Business by Onalytica. Sandy is the Chairman of the Board of Girls in Tech. She was honored 2X with the AIT United Nations Member of the Year award for helping developing countries with technology. She is an Advisor to startups in AI, IoT, and AR/VR. A trailblazer behind new business market entry and a recognized thought leader, Sandy has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Business Insider, Forbes, and Venture Beat.

Advisory Board

The function of the IoT Community, is to focus on the adoption & application of IoT in commercial environments, seeking to understand & contribute to applying the technology or overcoming the wide variety of barriers, inhibitors, and technical & operational issues. As a member of the board, Sandy will provide impartial input and guidance to the overall vision, strategy and execution that is helping to shape the current and future direction for the IoT Community, as well as the broader IoT industry.

Ms. Nancy Shemwell serves as the Chief Operations Officer of the IoT Community and Co-Chair of the IoT Community Security Privacy Trust in IoT Center of Excellence will undertake key contributions to help deliver on the IoT Community’s forward directions to move ‘up the technology stack,’ while adding scale to its growing member business. Ms Shemwell most recently served as Chief Executive Officer at entegra technologies (now Vericlave), inc. since May 2016. She served as the Chief Operating Officer of DataSpan, Inc until January 8, 2016. Ms. Shemwell served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Multi-Link Inc. She served as an Executive Vice President of Global Sales & Services at Symmetricom Inc. from July 2006 to October 12, 2007 and also as its Senior Vice President of Sales and Service. Ms. Shemwell joined Symmetricom in 2004. She served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Jovial Test Equipment. With over twenty-five years in the telecommunications industry, Ms. Shemwell has held a variety of senior positions with global business responsibilities including assignments in Europe and North America. Her experience covers a broad spectrum of general management, sales and marketing roles in rapidly developing markets. A sixteen year career with Nortel Networks, where Ms. Shemwell held titles of President of Micom Communications Corporation (a Nortel subsidiary), Vice President of Business Segments and Vice President of Sales & Marketing of Wiltel (Nortel’s largest enterprise distributor) and Director of Marketing of Europe, Middle East and Africa. She served as a Director of Call Genie Inc. (also Known as VoodooVox, Inc) from October 26, 2006 to February 2014. Ms. Shemwell served as a Director of UpSnap, Inc. from October 26, 2006 to February 6, 2014. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Baylor University and a Master of Science in Business Administration from the American Technological University.

Amber Armstrong is a passionate CMO that thinks like a CEO.  She currently serves as a strategic leader and CMO for IBM Watson IoT.  As CMO, she leads all aspects of marketing inclusive of brand, product, digital, and demand generation. Armstrong is dedicated to the application of both the art and the science of marketing to improve client experiences through account based marketing and strategic product marketing approaches.  She serves her teams to inspire innovation, continual learning, and agile marketing execution. As an Artificial Intelligence (AI) enthusiast, Armstrong has focused her career in applying AI across customer experience, commerce, marketing, development, and supply chain across a series of divisions at IBM and other technology companies. Armstrong has a MBA for University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Adrianne Court, Chief HR Officer of Alkami, has extensive US and international business expertise with 25+ years of Human Resources leadership experience with public and privately-held organizations spanning in size from 500 to 50,000 employees. Due to the sustainable and business-relevant culture, talent and human resources programs championed, she helped organizations achieve noteworthy recognitions, including BEST PRIVATE COMPANIES FOR LEADERS, TOP 25 BEST PLACES FOR RECENT GRADS, STRATEGIC HR EXCELLENCE, BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR; and, she was named 2013 HR EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR by DallasHR. She, along with 13 other writers, co-authored Bravely She Flies released on Mother’s Day 2017 a book giving women an opportunity to voice and share stories of resiliency. She has a BA from Scripps College, MA from Southern Methodist University and completed studies toward a PhD from Dallas Baptist University.

Advisory Board

The function of the IoT Community, is to focus on the adoption & application of IoT in commercial environments, seeking to understand & contribute to applying the technology or overcoming the wide variety of barriers, inhibitors, and technical & operational issues. As a member of the board, Adrienne, will provide impartial input and guidance to the overall vision, strategy and execution that is helping to shape the current and future direction for the IoT Community, as well as the broader IoT industry.

As the global marketing leader in the IoT Division at SAS, Michele Null is an evangelist for artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, promoting the importance of a robust analytics lifecycle to drive valuable outcomes in IoT initiatives across industries. Michele and her team play an important role in growing SAS in the world of IoT. She is focused on collaborating with the commercial business development team to identify, further develop, and amplify strategic partnerships. She works closely with customers and partners to understand market requirements and then works in conjunction with product management and R&D to ensure technology and solutions meet key market needs and will help drive business value. Michele enjoys being an active member of leading IoT consortiums including the Industrial Internet Consortium, the IoT Community and RIoT. After graduating from the University of Virginia, Michele began her journey in the technology field, which has spanned nearly 20 years. Prior to joining SAS in 2014, Michele held various roles during her tenure at IBM including product management, product marketing and program management.

Advisory Board

The function of the IoT Community, is to focus on the adoption & application of IoT in commercial environments, seeking to understand & contribute to applying the technology or overcoming the wide variety of barriers, inhibitors, and technical & operational issues. As a member of the board, Michele will provide impartial input and guidance to the overall vision, strategy and execution that is helping to shape the current and future direction for the IoT Community, as well as the broader IoT industry.

Tamara Dull is Principal Open Source Technologist at AWS Open Source, prior to this, Tamara was Director of Emerging Technologies for SAS Best Practices, a thought leadership team at SAS Institute. Through key industry engagements, provocative articles, and straightforward publications, she delivers a pragmatic perspective on big data, the Internet of Things, open source, privacy, and cybersecurity. Tamara began her high-tech journey long before the internet was born, and has held both technical and management positions for multiple technology vendors and consultancies, including a non-profit. Her latest publication is called “A Non-Geek’s A-to-Z Guide to the Internet of Things.” She is listed in the IoT Institute’s “50 Most Influential Women in IoT,” as well as the “Big Data 2016: Top 100 Influencers and Brands” and “Top 100 Big Data Experts to Follow in 2016” lists.

Advisory Board

The function of the IoT Community, is to focus on the adoption & application of IoT in commercial environments, seeking to understand & contribute to applying the technology or overcoming the wide variety of barriers, inhibitors, and technical & operational issues. As a member of the board, Tamara will provide impartial input and guidance to the overall vision, strategy and execution that is helping to shape the current and future direction for the IoT Community, as well as the broader IoT industry.

Amy Konary joined Zuora as VP of Customer Business Innovation in 2017 with close to 20 years of experience advising companies on subscription business strategies. She is the founder and chair of the Subscribed Institute, a think tank for the subscription economy. Through the Subscribed Institute, Amy brings together a community of business executives, thought leaders, and industry experts at a series of Executive Summits, and generates research and industry benchmarks on subscription transformation topics. Amy also advises Zuora customers on the subscription business strategy development, execution, and maturity. Prior to Zuora, Amy was an industry analyst with IDC for 19 years, where she launched the company’s SaaS practice and produced the industry’s first SaaS forecast. She also launched a research and advisory practice on subscription strategy and led that for more than 10 years. Amy has worked with many of the largest and most influential technology, manufacturing, and telecommunications companies, helping them to generate millions in subscription revenues.

Women in IoT Center of Excellence – Alliances, Pillar of Excellence Leader.

Advisory Board

The function of the IoT Community, is to focus on the adoption & application of IoT in commercial environments, seeking to understand & contribute to applying the technology or overcoming the wide variety of barriers, inhibitors, and technical & operational issues. As a member of the board, Amy will provide impartial input and guidance to the overall vision, strategy and execution that is helping to shape the current and future direction for the IoT Community, as well as the broader IoT industry.

Ms. Jeanne Bayless is a seasoned early stage venture capital investor as well as serial entrepreneur. Presently Ms. Bayless is a Partner with Bayless Capital, a Dallas based early stage venture capital fund with $50M under management. Prior to Bayless Capital, Ms. Bayless was CEO of Innovation Catalyst and The Catalyst Fund, a Baton Rouge based non-profit venture development organization, which was formed by Ms. Bayless in concert with community leaders to strengthen and broaden Louisiana’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Prior to joining Innovation Catalyst, Ms. Bayless was the Managing Partner of the U.S. office of STAR Ventures, an international venture capital fund with $1B under management. Before joining STAR, she served as Director of Strategic Investments for Intel Capital managing financially attractive investments in support of Intel’s strategic objectives. Prior to her tenure at Intel Capital, Ms. Bayless was the Founder, CEO and President of AnswerSoft, a venture capital startup that developed software for the automation of inbound call center operations. AnswerSoft was acquired by Davox Corporation in 1998, and Ms. Bayless assumed the role of VP of Marketing after the acquisition. After Davox she assumed the role of VP of Marketing at NetBoost Corporation, a startup that developed solutions for the acceleration of network applications. NetBoost was acquired by Intel Corporation in 1999. Ms. Bayless also served as the Chairman of the North Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization, the Board of the Metroplex Technology Business Council and the Advisory Boards of the Entrepreneurs’ Foundation of North Texas and the University of Texas at Dallas School of Management. Ms. Bayless is a frequent guest speaker and lecturer on entrepreneurship and cross-border startups. Ms. Bayless holds an M.S. in Management Science from The University of Texas at Dallas and a B.S. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University. She received the Distinguished Former Student Award CSE from Texas A&M University in 2010.

Advisory Board

The function of the IoT Community, is to focus on the adoption & application of IoT in commercial environments, seeking to understand & contribute to applying the technology or overcoming the wide variety of barriers, inhibitors, and technical & operational issues. As a member of the board, Jeanne, will provide impartial input and guidance to the overall vision, strategy and execution that is helping to shape the current and future direction for the IoT Community, as well as the broader IoT industry.

Deanna Shaw – UX Architect/Tech Director at VMWare, As an Design Executive, Deanna champions innovative teams in creating technology designs for the future. With expertise in Design Thinking, leading edge technology, and cognitive psychology Deanna leads collaborative teams across Development Offering Management and Clients to produce designs that deliver business value and impact. Deanna’s leadership has contributed to: the design of Intelligent Buildings where clients can reduce their energy consumption and operational cost, Digital Twin where engineering will form a new feedback loop with the field to revolutionize appliances and reduce time to market, and Manufacturing which results in more reliable product development with savings in up time.