What if your next wave of AI innovation could be funded from the IT budget you already have?
Join fellow IT leaders for a candid conversation on how IT leaders are rethinking cloud ERP roadmaps, weighing analyst perspectives on AI and identifying practical ways to fund innovation from existing IT budgets. In a few powerful hours, you’ll exchange ideas, compare approaches and leave with takeaways to bring back to your organization.
Speakers
Get practical perspective from leaders who work closely with organizations navigating ERP modernization, AI pressure and budget constraints. We will discuss what analysts are watching, what IT teams are prioritizing and where leaders may be able to uncover budget for innovation.
Hetal Shah
Universal Destinations & Experiences
Hetal Shah is a senior technology and operations executive with over 20 years of experience leading enterprise transformation across complex, large-scale organizations.
Currently at Universal Destinations & Experiences, she leads a global technology and innovation portfolio spanning North America and Japan. Her expertise encompasses enterprise strategy and transformation, operating model design, digital and AI initiatives, portfolio governance, and organizational leadership.
Her work focuses on bridging strategy, investment, and execution to build sustainable organizational capabilities and realize measurable business value.
Johnna Folz-Freson
Johnna Folz-Freson is an enterprise technology executive with 20+ years of experience guiding global technology strategy, application modernization, shared services, data platforms, ERP, HRIS, finance, service management, cloud, and cybersecurity across industrial, manufacturing, energy, and shared-services organizations. She brings a board-relevant perspective on technology-enabled transformation, enterprise risk, operating model maturity, capital stewardship, and sustainable value creation.
Rod Masney
Rimini Street
Mr. Masney serves as the Regional CTO for the Rimini Street North America Central region. He supports Rimini Street as a key technology engagement partner across the organization, facilitating strategic conversations, collaboratively develop roadmaps, and helping to align Rimini Street’s efforts with business imperatives.
Mr. Masney is a skilled executive leader with over 38 years of experience, including 32 years in global manufacturing. He has deep expertise in SAP, ServiceNow, Oracle, IBM, VMWare, and Microsoft environments.
Prior to joining Rimini Street, Mr. Masney was a CIO at O-I Glass where he oversaw IT and digital operations for 200+ IT professionals, contractors, and outsourced partners.
Previously, Mr. Masney was VP of Global Technology Service Delivery, Global Information and Technology Architect, and Director of IT at O-I Glass. He has extensive knowledge of information security, process automation, and manufacturing technology.
Mr. Mansey holds a bachelor of Science from Penn State University. Mr. Masney is passionate about community service, volunteeing for United Way of Greater Toledo as Chair of the Digital Strategy and Data Analytics Committee and for the University of Toledo as Chair of the Information Systems Advisory Committee. He is also a founding member of the National Association of Manufacturers Cybersecurity Advisory Council.
Shruti Basavaraj Ahluwalia
The Institute of Internal Auditors
Shruti B. Ahluwalia has spent 20+ years building technology for people with high expectations: Disney guests, Citi and American Express cardmembers, and clinicians caring for patients. Her conviction is simple. The tech is almost never the hard part. The hard part is getting it to matter to an actual human.
Today, she is VP of Technology, AI and Product Experience at The Institute of Internal Auditors, where she leads the rebuild of how the organization serves its 260,000+ members worldwide, with AI at the center. Before the IIA, she led AI platform and transformation work across a $300M+ portfolio at The Walt Disney Company and held executive digital and technology roles at Citi and American Express. She also co-founded InCare, a healthcare company she built and exited.
Her keynote thesis, Live Deliciously: The Science of Savoring in the Age of AI, asks the question most AI conversations skip: if AI gives us back time, what will we do with it? She also speaks on AI transformation and on leading teams through it without losing the human experience.
Shruti holds an MBA from NYU Stern, a B.Sc. from UVA’s McIntire School of Commerce, and a certificate in Designing and Building AI Products and Services from MIT. She lives in Orlando with her three children and is passionate about helping women build careers in tech and product leadership.
Will Lassalle
Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance
Will Lassalle is a technology executive and CTO/CISO at Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, with more than 20 years leading technology, cybersecurity and transformation in regulated industries. His work spans AI adoption, application architecture and governance, helping organizations move from promising pilots to secure, practical deployment. He brings an executive perspective on turning AI capabilities into business value while maintaining clear accountability.”
