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With a wealth of experience spanning communications, fintech, healthcare, and gaming industries, Warren Durrett is a distinguished product leader known for his expertise in identifying and evaluating untapped market opportunities. He is a passionate advocate of data-driven decision-making and is adept at developing strategies and product approaches that capture revenue and deliver value to users. His exceptional ability to build high-performing, collaborative, and cross-functional teams has been instrumental in driving maximum growth and fostering a culture of innovation.

As Accenture’s Chief Information Security Officer, Kris Burkhardt leads a team of over 800 security experts charged with protecting company, client, and people data. Kris is accountable for security operations, client data protection, cyber risk reduction strategies, incident response, cybersecurity integration of acquisitions and an industry-leading behavioral change program. Prior to serving as CISO, Kris helped create Accenture’s information security capability and led the implementation of information security technology. Previously, he managed large technology transformations for Accenture and for clients. Kris joined Accenture in 1995, and has served clients in the United States, Japan and Australia in key industries. He holds an Economics degree from the University of Michigan.

With over a decade of progressive experience in enterprise data management, I specialize in data cataloging, governance frameworks, data quality metrics and monitoring, and data problem management. I have successfully scaled data catalog adoption across enterprise environments, expanding user engagement from hundreds to thousands of active users while driving operational efficiency and measurable ROI improvements.

As a Certified Information Management Professional (CIMP) with a Data Governance specialization, I hold all Alation Brilliance Badges, the Alation Data Governance Advocate and the Alation Data Products Manager certifications. My technical competencies include Python, SQL, and eSQL, complemented by formal education in Finance. I'm passionate about leveraging data management, literacy, cataloging, and governance to create competitive advantages.

Satyen is the CEO and co-founder of Alation. Alation is the creator of AIOS™, the open, governed, self-improving intelligence operating system for enterprises that cannot afford to get AI wrong. The company serves more than 500 customers, including hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies, governmental agencies, and NGOs. Prior to Alation, Satyen spent nearly a decade at Oracle, where he ran the Financial Services Warehousing and Performance Management business. Prior to Oracle, Satyen was an associate with the private investment firm, Texas Pacific Group, and an analyst with Morgan Stanley & Co. He holds an MS in economics from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor's from Columbia University.

Rick Baker is Chief Operating Officer at Alation, where he leads the company’s go-to-market strategy and oversees Sales, GTM & Customer Operations, and Customer Solutions. A seasoned global revenue leader, Rick brings more than two decades of experience building high-performing teams and scaling go-to-market motions across disruptive and emerging technologies, including automation, IoT, robotics, and AI. Earlier in his career, Rick held leadership roles at Citrix, ClearPath Robotics, Volta, Airobotics, and Uniphore. Rick holds a Master’s degree in Business from The University of Texas at Austin, a Master’s in Theology and Philosophy from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a B.S. in Engineering & Industrial Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

GT Volpe is VP of Product at Alation, where he leads the product management team behind the Alation Intelligence Operating System (AIOS), spanning the full platform from catalog and lineage to data products and Agent Studio.

GT joined Alation as an early employee after several years in the business intelligence world, where he saw first-hand how hard it is to balance self-service access, shared semantics, and governance. He started as a sales engineer, helping customers evaluate and adopt the platform, and after moving from the US to the UK led Alation's go-to-market in EMEA before stepping into R&D in a product leadership role.

He is a Princeton graduate, lives in London, and grows bonsai trees, most of which are still alive.

Jonathan is VP, Global Partnerships at Alation. He oversees the AIOS(™) partner journey across Alation 700+ customers marrying together their strategic imperatives across an ecosystem of partners including GSIs, Hyperscalers. Jonathan brings over 25+ years of experience shaping product strategy, scaling innovation, and driving customer impact. He has held senior leadership roles at Peoplelogic.ai, Salesforce, Cloudflare, and Sun Microsystems, and holds advanced degrees in Mathematics and Computer EngineeringCalifornia.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Alation, I contribute to the development of innovative solutions in Agentic AI development. My work focuses on MCP server and tools, AI agent memory, and agentic workflows for data domains. These efforts aim to refine the intelligence and efficiency of AI-driven solutions within Alation's ecosystem.

I hold a Master of Science degree in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, where I specialized in scalable systems and architectural design. My professional background includes positions at Kloudio and Alation, where I have built scalable infrastructure, enabled advanced cloud solutions, and supported the development of impactful data-driven tools. My expertise lies in Agentic AI development, architectural design, and cloud infrastructure.

Machine Learning Engineer specializing in self-improving agentic systems for structured data. Expertise spans the full AI lifecycle—from training and optimizing models to building production-ready applications on top of them. A lifelong builder focused on solving complex ML problems and creating high-impact systems people love to use.

Kelsey Malof is an enterprise customer leader at Alation, where she helps organizations transform how they discover, govern, and leverage data and AI. Working with some of the world’s largest and most data-intensive organizations, Kelsey advises executive leaders on building trusted data foundations, modernizing data governance, and preparing their organizations for an increasingly AI-driven future.

With a focus on the intersection of data intelligence, governance, and AI, Kelsey brings a practical perspective on how organizations can move beyond simply cataloging data to making it actionable for people, analytics, and AI agents. She has worked closely with organizations across financial services, healthcare, media, retail, and other highly regulated industries to connect data strategy to measurable business outcomes.

Kyle Johnson is a Product Management leader at Alation, where he oversees the company's Data Quality & Observability, AI Governance, and Ontologies product areas. He works closely with engineering and customers to build the infrastructure organizations need to trust their data and govern how it's used — from monitoring data quality at scale to setting guardrails for AI agents.

Kyle brings a builder's mindset to product, especially focused on the practical mechanics of making data usable and trustworthy for both people and AI — helping teams move past cataloging and governance as checkbox exercises toward systems that actually hold up as AI adoption accelerates.