Ansgar Dodt is VP Worldwide Sales for the Software Monetization division at Gemalto and has been with the company since December 2005. Dodt joined the company following Gemalto’s (formerly SafeNet) acquisition of Eracom, where he held the position of managing director on the executive board for four years.

Dodt has a proven track record of successfully managing businesses to meet major growth and profit goals. In his time as MD of Eracom, Dodt successfully positioned the company as a supplier to the smart card industry, doubled global sales in disc and file encryption and quadrupled sales per capita in the EMEA region. Prior to this, he worked as MD at Pari Capital, the former owner of Eracom, and as senior engagement manager for McKinsey, specializing in the high-tech sector.

Holger Kisker serves tech industry Vendor Strategy Professionals in predicting and quantifying tech industry disruptions. Holger analyzes trends and key paradigm shifts in the business process and software application market and has a deep knowledge of the end-to-end software life cycle from market analysis to portfolio planning, development, and successful market introduction. In his research, Holger covers all application software, such as ERP, CRM, SCM, BI, and industry-specific applications. With 12-plus years of deep industry expertise, Holger also focuses on the IT trends and opportunities in the energy market.

As the Director of EMEA Sales for Aria Systems, Luke heads all EMEA direct sales and channel partners activity. Most recently he has been the EMEA lead on the recently announced Aria Systems – CSC partnership. To meet the demand in Europe for cloud billing, Aria Systems partnered with CSC to jointly go-to-market with Cloudbill. This joint solution addresses the complex subscription billing requirements of the upper mid-market and enterprise. Prior to joining Aria Systems, Luke was the Director of Alliances at Oracle and BEA as well as held EMEA focused Sales Director roles. 

 Aria Systems is the leading provider of cloud billing and subscription management solutions for Global 2000 companies. The Aria Systems Subscription Billing & Management Platform is the industry’s only advanced, enterprise-class solution that automates and manages the entire subscriber life cycle for all recurring revenue models. www.ariasystems.com

A member of the Gemalto (formerly SafeNet) team for more than a decade, Todd Steel leads the product management efforts associated with Gemalto’s suite of software licensing and entitlement management cloud services.

Prior to his focus on cloud services for the software industry Todd has held multiple product management roles all focused on product lines designed to better service the licensing, entitlement management, and software protection needs of the software industry.

Mahesha Pandit is the founder and managing director of Xilcion. He has driven Scalable Computing Programme of the ICT KTN (a knowledge sharing body of UK’s Technology Strategy Board) articulating challenges associated with Cloud Computing and Multi-core Programming. He has proposed rigorous processes to maximise success of cloud adoption.

Mahesha is a post graduate in Software Systems with keen interest on software architectures, modelling and algorithms. In the past 16 years, Mahesha has architected and developed several software solutions aimed at automotive, aerospace and manufacturing sectors holding key technical and managerial positions with Bosch and Infosys.