Neal Secher is the Vice President and Head of Infrastructure Core, Security & Architecture Services at TD Bank. He has spent his career modernizing technical infrastructure for leading Financial Services firms. Neal has extensive experience with designing, building, and operating infrastructure for cloud architectures, large-scale data centers, latency-optimized network fabrics, software defined networks, secure business-to-business and Internet perimeters, and collaboration technologies.

Neal is a member of the Enterprise Leadership Council at MEF, and was previously on the Board of Directors at the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) and the New York Network Operators Group (NYNOG). Additionally, Neal sits on multiple vendor technical advisory boards and is a frequent speaker at industry events. He holds a BA from New York University.

Neal, his wife, and 3 children enjoy skiing and competitive swimming. They reside in Northern New Jersey with their dog Rosie.

Principal Network Architect with deep expertise in designing and transforming network infrastructure through cutting-edge technologies like software-Defined Network, Infrastructure as Code, and Zero Trust security frameworks. My role involves aligning technical solutions with broader business objectives, ensuring that the network not only meets today’s demands but is future proofed for emerging challenges.

As Head of Technology at Nokia enterprises, Senad Palislamovic is responsible for the strategy and technical evolution of Nokia’s enterprise presales organization, solution architecture and sales engineering teams.  As part of his role, Senad is directly engaged with the customer base spanning from Fortune 500, large and small enterprises all the way to public and private utilities and energy companies.  Senad’s technical involvement with Nokia’s enterprise customer base spans the entire Nokia ION wireline and wireless portfolio.  His current focus is in data center technologies and ongoing DC evolution.  Prior to this role, Senad led a sales engineering organization focusing on SDN and SDWAN technologies as part of Nuage Networks BU.  Before Nuage, Senad worked as Consulting Engineer within Nokia’s RBC ION organization focusing on the service provider market.  And before joining Nokia, Senad spent ten years with Juniper Networks in various customer facing engineering roles.  Senad holds a BS Degree in Telecommunications from Weber State University and has over 20 years of experience in networking and telecom industry, is a co-author of JUNOS High Availability Book, and numerous IETF RFC Standards in the area of IP/MPLS Control Plane signaling.

Dr. Wee is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of DevAI, an early-stage, VC-backed startup building network intelligence agents for the IT industry. Dr. Wee is a technology and business executive who held senior executive positions at Google, Cisco Systems, and Hewlett Packard. Dr. Wee was Vice President of Cross-Product Experiences at Google, where her team contributed to the iOS and Android mobile applications of Google’s products. Prior to this, Dr. Wee had a 10-year career at Cisco Systems where she held numerous executive positions, including Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Cisco DevNet and Vice President & Chief Technology and Experience Officer of Cisco’s Collaboration Business. Dr. Wee founded and led Cisco’s developer program, DevNet, and created a DevNet Partner Specialization integrated with Cisco’s partner program and DevNet Professional Certifications integrated with Cisco’s Learning and Certification business, which she also led. Previously, Dr. Wee had a 15-year career at Hewlett Packard, where she held a number of technical and leadership roles, including Vice President and General Manager of the HP Experience Software Business, Lab Director of the Mobile and Media Systems Lab at HP Labs, and Research Scientist in HP Labs.

Dr. Wee is an IEEE Fellow for her contributions in multimedia technologies and has received numerous awards, including Technology Review’s Top 100 Young Innovators award in 2002, INCIT’s Technical Excellence award in 2007, ComputerWorld’s Top 40 Innovators under 40 in 2007, Women in Technology’s Hall of Fame award in 2010, the Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women list in 2012, the Red Dot Design Award in 2015, Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award in 2019, and the YWCA Silicon Valley Tribute to Women Award in 2020.

Dr. Wee received her S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and she serves on the Visiting Committee of the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.