Wayne Shearer is Managing Director of MagicOrange APAC, bringing more than 25 years of experience in executive finance leadership roles. Prior to joining MagicOrange, Wayne served as Head of Finance and Advice Shared Services for a Brisbane based insurance and banking organisation, where he gained firsthand experience with the challenges of demonstrating the value of shared services to business consumers.

Wayne’s areas of expertise include IT and shared services financial management, cost optimisation, program management, and strategic financial analysis.

Nikhil Batra is an Senior Research Director for the regional telecommunications team in IDC Asia/Pacific. Based in Australia, Nikhil focuses on Telecom Service Provider and tech vendor strategies, along with enterprise services across the A/P region. In his role, Nikhil works with the regional telecom teams to produce intelligence reports, market insights, and contributes to various consulting projects for leading regional telcos and tech vendors.

With about 12 years of experience in the telecom and technology Industry, Nikhil has worked with some of the industry giants like Verizon, IBM and most recently YTL Communications. Prior to IDC, Nikhil has worked in various roles including business analyst and solution consultant, creating strategy roadmaps, conceptualizing solutions for new products/initiatives, as well as defining different elements of go-to-market strategy.

Nikhil is a qualified Telecommunication Engineer with an MBA in Information Technology from SP Jain Global School of Management, Sydney.

David Head is the CTO for Asia Pacific & Japan at Omnissa, bringing over 25 years of experience leading global technical, product, and delivery teams. He focuses on driving innovation across the end user computing space for both customers and partners.

Gautam leads Solutions Engineering for Couchbase across APAC, working closely with enterprise customers to think through and implement their AI and data strategies end to end, from cloud to edge. His focus is on solving real business problems helping teams figure out where AI can genuinely move the needle and building the pragmatic technical solution to get there. Before this, he spent over a decade in MLOps, and DevOps transformation.

His view: getting AI right starts with the business problem, not the technology  and answering it properly means designing across cloud to edge, not just wherever it’s easiest to build. That’s the part of the job he focuses on most.

Simon leads Digital Realty’s Solutions Architecture team across Asia-Pacific, designing technical solutions across global data centers, private, public, and hybrid hosting environments, and complex networking landscapes. With over 25 years in technology, advisory, and services, he brings a consultative approach and deep expertise across Asian markets. Simon partners with enterprise customers to align technology with business objectives, drive innovation, and lead transformation initiatives, establishing him as a trusted advisor in digital transformation.

Colin Teubner is Field CTO at Camunda, helping enterprises rethink how they design, run, and improve their most critical business processes. He brings more than 20 years of experience in process automation, spanning enterprise software, consulting, and industry analysis. Colin began his career as an analyst at Forrester Research, advising Fortune 500 companies on business process management and automation strategy, then moved into software, building and taking to market automation technologies that power some of the world’s largest enterprises. Today, he works with Camunda’s largest customers to apply that experience to process re-engineering, agentic orchestration, and AI adoption.

Co-Founder and CTO of Kiandra, a Svitla Systems company, and a technology leader with more than 30 years of experience. He helped grow Kiandra from a two-person start-up into an award-winning Australian software company delivering hundreds of complex engagements across government and enterprise. Under his technical leadership, Kiandra expanded across Australia and Canada, accumulated more than 1 million development hours, received over 18 awards, and gained recognition from ARN, CRN and Deloitte. Martin remains closely involved in technology strategy, with expertise spanning custom software, application modernisation, enterprise low-code and AI-accelerated development.

Ram Tallavajhala is a Principal AI Field Engineer at Boomi, working across Global Field Engineering with a focus on the Asia-Pacific enterprise market. He partners with customers across education, resources, finance, and government to translate emerging AI and integration capability into field-tested demos, technical proof points, and talk tracks for analyst briefings and customer engagements.

Ram brings 25 years of enterprise integration experience to the role, 8 of them at Boomi, the majority spent building out generative and agentic AI capability since its inception. His work spans agent governance and orchestration, API and data management, event-driven architecture, and grounding AI systems in trusted enterprise data — with hands-on experience across major cloud AI platforms and enterprise application ecosystems.
He’s known internally for building field-executable positioning that holds up under scrutiny from sophisticated buyers and analysts — consistently pushing for honest, capability-versus-roadmap clarity rather than overstatement in customer- and analyst-facing material.