Tina Sturgis is currently the Senior Director, Product and Solutions Marketing responsible for the products across the Digital.ai AI-powered DevOps platform. With her she brings 25+ years of expertise driving market strategies for startups and enterprise software marketing, product and sales organizations. Prior to joining Digital.ai in January 2022, she held roles in at Starburst Data and GitLab, building and leading solution and partner marketing in these two startups. Prior to GitLab, she was responsible for marketing project and portfolio management, application lifecycle management and DevOps at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software (now Microfocus). She also has held marketing and sales roles at BMC, Mercury Interactive (now Microfocus), and Niku (Broadcom Clarity).

Dan is Managing Director and Co-Founder of Techstrong Research is a consultant, IT industry analyst, and thought leader focused on how emerging technologies such as AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics are impacting businesses. Dan is particularly interested in how businesses use these emerging technologies to alter their approaches to information security, governance, risk, and ethics. Dan provides advisory services directly to leadership at technology vendors that design and deliver security solutions to the market. He assists them in aligning their solutions with enterprise requirements. Dan is viewed as an expert in understanding security solutions and mapping them to the complex needs of business across industries. Prior to co-founding Techstrong Research, Dan was Managing Director at Hurwitz & Associates, an analyst and consulting firm. At Hurwitz & Associates Dan led research on a variety of studies and reports in the areas of data and AI, modern software development, security, multicloud computing.

Dan earned his B.A. in Political Science from Union College in New York and a J.D. from Boston College Law School, where he focused on emerging corporate strategies and intellectual property. As an attorney, Dan represented start-ups, cloud computing ventures, early stage startups as they sought funding. Dan is a co-author of Augmented Intelligence: The Business Power of Human-Machine Collaboration (CRC Press, 2020), Cloud for Dummies (John Wiley & Sons 2020), and Hybrid Cloud for Dummies (John Wiley & Sons, 2012).

Mitchell Ashley is a renowned strategist, speaker, advisor and technology executive. Mitch has led successful IT, SaaS and cybersecurity transformations. He’s led multiple teams in developing and bringing to market successful online services, cybersecurity, software and networking products and services.

Mitch serves as principal at Techstrong Research where he is part of a team of preeminent experts in digital transformation, DevOps, cloud-native, cybersecurity, data and AI/ML. In this role, he works with companies to align digital transformation and technology strategies to achieve disruptive goals and high-impact outcomes. Mitch also serves as Techstrong Group CTO, is in demand as a speaker and is widely followed online on his podcasts, Analyst Corner commentary and interviews on the highly popular Techstrong TV streaming video program where he engages with top digital and tech leaders from across the industry.