AI and Future of Finance Conference

Jay Chaudhry is an accomplished entrepreneur, having founded a series of successful technology companies, most recently, Zscaler. With his proven track record of developing trailblazing innovations that address the demands for securing the seamless exchange of information, Jay’s latest pioneering technology is the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, a fundamentally new approach to secure highly mobile employees and help accelerate digital transformation. His vision and contributions to the IT security sector have made him a trusted advisor for many enterprise CIOs and CISOs.

In his current role, Jay leads Zscaler’s vision and strategy, steering the innovation path to stay ahead of requirements in the highly dynamic enterprise security space. Zscaler’s broad set of cloud-native Zero Trust security solutions help enterprises accelerate secure digital transformation for today’s direct-to-internet, cloud-first organizations.

Today, over 40% of Fortune 500 enterprises rely on Zscaler to simplify their IT operations, consolidate point security products, and improve security and user experience. Zscaler has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for 12 consecutive years (10 years for SWG and two years for SSE), and its cloud security service is used by 45M users at over 7,700 organizations globally. In 2023, the company doubled its ARR in less than two years, surpassing the $2B mark.

Hari Gopalkrishnan is chief technology and information officer for Bank of America and is a member of the company’s executive management team. Gopalkrishnan leads a global organization responsible for designing and delivering technology solutions for all eight lines of business, staff support groups, Global Information Security, and Technology Infrastructure.

Bank of America is an industry leader in financial services technology, with more than 7,800 patent filings, 59 million digital users, and global teams focused on cybersecurity, operational resiliency, data and analytic tools, and workforce enablement. Artificial intelligence platforms and innovation are embedded across the company and all lines of business, including more than 3 billion client interactions with Erica, over 90% of employees using Erica for Employees, and Erica for CashPro and in Markets and global research intelligence.

Gopalkrishnan joined the company in 2011. He previously led Bank of America’s Consumer, Business & Wealth Management Technology (CBWT) team, providing integrated technology solutions to the company’s consumer and small business, wealth management, business banking and commercial banking clients. His responsibilities included delivering capabilities across channels (online, mobile, ATM, contact center, voice, and conversational commerce), payments and merchant services, data, client relationship management, investment, credit and banking product platforms.

Gopalkrishnan is a member of the client advisory board for Year Up and the board of directors for Girls Who Code.

Sridhar Ramaswamy is the Chief Executive Officer of Snowflake, a role he assumed in February 2024, succeeding Frank Slootman. Ramaswamy joined Snowflake following its acquisition of Neeva, the AI-powered, advertising-free search engine he co-founded in 2023.

Before Snowflake, Ramaswamy spent over 15 years at Google, where he rose to Senior Vice President of Ads & Commerce, leading one of the company’s most critical business units. His deep expertise in technology, data, and AI innovation continues to shape Snowflake’s vision for the future.