SPEAKERS
What's on the agenda at OpenText World 2026?
OpenText World kicks off Monday with preconference programming, followed by three days to explore big ideas, dig into your priority topics, and get answers from people who know the work.
Get a big-picture look at what’s happening each day below, then head over to the Session catalog to get more granular.

Speakers
Head to the session catalog to find sessions, speakers, and opportunities to connect with peers across energy and resources, financial services and insurance, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, and public sector.
Featured Speakers

Lloyd Adams
COO, Global Enterprise Sales
Microsoft

Ayman Antoun
CEO
OpenText

Andrea Baptiste
ISV Canada Sales Leader
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Shannon Bell
EVP, Chief Product and Technology Officer
OpenText

Nicholas Carter
Sr Director Analyst
Gartner

Cassio Christianini
Head of AI GTM, Americas
SAP

Todd Cione
EVP, Chief Sales Officer
OpenText

Simon Ellis
Group Vice-President
IDC

Jessica Faddis
Lease Management & GIS Manager
ExxonMobil

Frank Gundlich
Global Head of SAP Data & AI
Capgemini

Evan Hardie
Senior Research Director
IDC

Ted Harrison
SVP, Sales
OpenText

Shari Lava
Group Vice-President
IDC

Amy Machado
Research Director
IDC

Muhi Majzoub
EVP, Client Advocacy and Technology Alliances
OpenText

Lisa Martin
Emcee | Tech Analyst

Megan McFarland
Vice President of IS Operations
Ochsner Health

Jens Ophalvens
Partner
Deloitte

George Parapadakis
Research Director
Aspire

Alan Pelz-Sharpe
Founder
Deep Analysis

John Villali
Senior Research Director
IDC Energy Insights

Reid Wiseman
NASA Astronaut, Artemis II Commander, US Navy test pilot

Michael Wrock
Associate Vice President, Technology Solutions
Humana
External Speaker

Larry Atherton
OpenText SME
Ekasys Inc.

Tony Baldwin
CTO
Ecostyle

Chris Blackwelder
Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture and Digital Engineering
Kimberly-Clark

Rachel Bland
SVP Products
LearnExperts

Robert Bock
CEO
R-DEX Systems, Inc.

Jessica Bzdyl
Document Management Product Owner
CIBC Bank USA

Saurayan Chaki
Managing Director
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Christopher Crowder
Application Development Manager
Southern Company

Jonathan Cullender
Heading up Shell's Integration Technologies Department with an Enterprise-wide scope and a portfolio
Shell

Justin Davidson
Senior Manager, Solution Delivery
The Commonwell Mutual Insurance Group

Dipankar Debroy
Technical Architect Project Manager
Kering

Erik Dustrude
Business Process Manager
Catalent

Joe Ehrlich
Product Owner
CHS INC

Yemi Falokun
Global ISV AI/ML Partner Engineering Lead
Google Cloud

Matthew Forester
Information and Systems Architect
UCOR LLC

Joachim Gutheil
Manager IT Quality
Abbott Laboratories

Tim Haers
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Product Owner
Oleon

Scott Heiman
IT Asset & Configuration Management Practice Owner
SLB

Valarie Hernandez
Business Analyst
Travis County Auditor’s Office

Jeffrey Hudson
Sr. IT Manager Integrations
Valvoline Global
Anil Jacob
Sr. Manager
PG&E

Richard Jones
EDI Team Leader
Novelis
Natalie Kern
VP, Software Partner Solution Adoption
SAP Deutschland SE & Co. KG

Thomas LaBatt
Chief Transformation Officer
One Aligned, Inc.

Gina Lafleur
Tech and Platforms Lead
Pfizer

Russell Lindell
System Architect
ExxonMobil

Richard Low
IT Manager, Content Management
QuidelOrtho

Ramalingam Lyyamperumal
ECM Product Owner
Chevron

Elchin Mahmudov
IT Service Management Lead
Petroleum Development Oman

Venkateswara Mavillapalli
Technology Engineer
Norfolk Southern Corporation

Tonya McDougald
Product Owner
ExxonMobil

Shelley Moore
Documentum SME/Tech Lead, Content Management
Southern Company

Marielly Mora
Document Control Manager
SLB

Angela Nelson
Sr. Records Management Analyst
Puget Sound Energy
Debbie Nyquist
Sr. Program Manager - EDI
Nordstrom

Michael O'Loughlin
Managing Partner
Argonautic Global

Aditya Panwar
Senior Developer
United

Cliff Pardue
Vice President Supply Chain
Bealls Inc

Gabriella Popovych
Director of Customer Success
Ecodocx

Prashant Roy
Manager, Enterprise Content Management
CHS INC

Ashok Satapathy
IT Director
CHS INC

Ron Schell
Director, Enterprise Applications
Metropolitan Utilities District

Sharon Schumacher
Information Management Lead
ElectraNet

Sarah Sedgman
CEO
LearnExperts

Stephen Tarara
Lead Engineer
Prime Therapeutics

Jesse Thomas
General Manager, Strategy & Innovation
Southern Nuclear Operating Company

Andrew van Nostrand
Senior Partner Technology Strategist
Microsoft

Sharvari Vanarase
Project Manager
Siemens Healthineers

Srinivas Vindula
Technical Architect
Siemens Healthineers

Marc Washburn
Global Category Manager
Intel Corporation

Amy Weintraub
Managing Director
CIBC

Michael White
Director, IT Order to Cash Delivery
Red Hat
Joris Timmermans
Director
Deloitte
Speakers

Waqas Ahmed
VP, Software Development
OpenText

Mohammed Arafat
VP, Global ITOM BU Sales
OpenText

Julio Arteaga
Principal Solutions Consultant
OpenText

Theo Austin
Principal Consultant
OpenText

Eric Baca
SVP, Sales
OpenText

David Baron
Principal Product Manager
OpenText
Paulo Barrett
VP, Professional Services
OpenText

Martin Bazinet
Director of Technology, Canada
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Jonathan Beardsley
Director, Alliance and Solution Marketing
OpenText

Shlomi Ben-Hur
Principal AI Developer
OpenText

Gabriela Bezada-Alfaro
Principal Solutions Consultant
OpenText

Ruchi Bhardwaj
Principal Product Manager
OpenText
Dipalli Bhartt
Product Marketing Manager
OpenText
Jonathan Blake
Sr. Director, Project Management
OpenText
Anne Blanchard
Sr. Manager, Product Management
OpenText

Mike Bolte
VP, Solutions Consulting
OpenText

Colin Brown
VP, Software Development
OpenText

Salvador Camacho
Lead Solutions Consultant
OpenText

Tracy Caughell
Sr. Director Product Management
OpenText
Tom Chapin
Lead Value Engineer
OpenText
Nathan Christen
Principal Solutions Consultant
OpenText

Anita Chu
Chief Information Officer and Core Operations Leader Deloitte Canada & Chile
Deloitte

Greg Clark
Director Product Management
OpenText

Dean Clayton
Principal Product Manager
OpenText