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Shankar is the Chief Product Officer at WSO2. He has over 23 years of experience in the technology space, spanning multiple functions including web services, cloud deployments, solutions architecture, and engineering. Having held various leadership roles at the company over the past 19 years, he is now responsible for WSO2's overall product strategy.

Dr. Rania Khalaf is Chief AI Officer and GM of AI at WSO2, leading the company's AI and Agentic roadmap, including the new Agent Platform. With deep expertise at the intersection of AI, cloud platforms, and enterprise software, Dr. Khalaf has a proven track record of building AI-native products from zero to market and driving company-wide transformations. Previously, she was Chief Information and Data Officer at Inari, a unicorn biotech startup where she built its digital and AI organization through a period of extraordinary growth, delivering deep learning and knowledge graph platforms for gene discovery. She was Director of IBM Research AI Engineering and Distinguished Research Staff Member leading an organization of researchers and engineers at the frontier of AI and cloud, driving innovations from scientific breakthrough to market, including award-winning Watson products and open source projects that became industry standards. She holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from MIT and a PhD from the University of Stuttgart, with technical depth resulting in 90+ publications and over 8,000 citations. Rania serves on academic and industry boards and is a frequent speaker at institutions including MIT, Harvard, and UC Berkeley.

Derric Gilling is the Vice President and General Manager, API Platform BU at WSO2. He is also the founder of Moesif, the leading API analytics and monetization platform which is now part of WSO2. He enjoys helping enterprises better productize their APIs and leverage data to deliver more value from their APIs. Gilling is a frequent speaker on API strategy at developer conferences, including API World, Developer Week, Platform Summit, APIDays and has published a report with O'Reilly, API Strategy for Decision Makers.

In his role, Geethika is responsible for the overall operations of WSO2's IAM business unit with a special focus on its go-to-market strategies. Since joining WSO2 in 2011, he has contributed to the company's revenue growth in a number of roles, first focussed on the North American market, and now globally.

Sharya is the Vice President and General Manager of the Integration BU at WSO2. He started in WSO2's Corporate Development team before managing business development for the Integration BU, driving the BU's go-to-market strategy. He is now responsible for the overall strategy and management of the Integration BU.

Lakmal Warusawithana is VP and Distinguished Engineer at WSO2, specializing in cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, and platform engineering. He is a maintainer of OpenChoreo, a CNCF Sandbox project, and has led the design of scalable developer platforms for enterprises. Previously, he was VP of the Apache Stratos PaaS project and co-founded thinkCube, building cloud platforms for telecom operators. Lakmal is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.

Mifan is a senior leader heading the Solution Architecture function, the team that handles customer technical interactions and technical selling at WSO2. Mifan also works on the solutions side of WSO2 products. He works with many large customers to define their strategic roadmap and assist with architecture strategy. Before joining WSO2, Mifan has played multiple technology leadership and advocacy roles, including as co-founder and CTO of a technology startup, and as consultant spatial and technology architect for many government and private initiatives. He was also a founding member and board director of the Sahana Software Foundation, a global foundation that created the Open Source Sahana Disaster Management System. Mifan is a frequent speaker at events globally, dabbles in music, and is a fan of the Arsenal football club.