Rodney Clark is the Vice President of Microsoft’s Worldwide Internet of Things and Mixed Reality Sales team. In this role, Rodney is responsible for building Intelligent Solutions, from edge to cloud, with partners across the ecosystem, and driving sales and go to market execution to accelerate solution development and customer solution implementation.

A 20+ year Microsoft veteran, Rodney has held a number of executive positions within the company including, General Manager of the Global Alliances, General Manager of Strategy and Sales for the worldwide small and medium business team, and General Manager of Microsoft Across America, a Technical Sales and Marketing Evangelism organization. Prior to Microsoft, Rodney spent nine years with IBM.

Outside of work, Rodney serves as an advisor of the Board of Directors for Children’s Museum Seattle and the Craig School of Business CSU-Fresno.

An information technologist with global experience in designing, deploying and managing new product launches and unique technology solutions across multiple industries and market segments. Success across domestic and international hardware and software sales, services, and operations, inclusive of product design, business development, sales and new routes to market.

Currently, Microsoft General Manager IoT Device Experiences. The Internet of Things (IoT) Device Experience Team is responsible for the global relationship management and sales performance of more than 8,000 OEMs that are designing and selling many of the most exciting and widely used devices such as Point of Sale, Self Service Kiosks, Digital Signage, ATMs, GPS/PNDs, Industrial PCs and even wearable and other emerging IoT device categories. Sales ecosystem includes silicon providers, ODM’s, value-added resellers, system integrators, independent service vendors, service providers as well as OEMs. Our mission is to accelerate and scale repeatable device-to-cloud solutions with device ecosystem partners globally.

Previously, CEO at DDNi. A Silicon Valley-based device to cloud platform ecosystem provider for consumer and enterprise computer manufacturers and suppliers. A complete lifecycle management solution that collects and analyzes device data, personalizes a user experience, narrowcasts communication channel and delivers incremental revenue and profit throughout the lifecycle of each device. General Manager at Lenovo Group International. Led the consumer personal computer business. Launched Lenovo’s first ever consumer products and services into North America and implemented a new supply chain model for selected retailers and distributors. IBM Director of Technology Group. Led sales, development, product design and marketing teams on new generation hard drive designs. Launched the world's smallest removable hard drive. Created a global consumer brand strategy, product development, retail routes to market and service and support.

Sarah Maston is a senior solution architect at Microsoft. She works with our partner ecosystem to build global scalable IoT solutions on Azure. She specializes in process architecture and data solution architecture.

She is the inventor of the Project Edison, a safety notification and response 3rd party solution accelerator, for which she won the Microsoft Polaris Award. In her 20 year career, she has architected many of the data warehouses out in the world including those at Monster.com, CouchSurfing.com, and Boston Medical Center. Prior to joining Microsoft, she won an Excellence & Eminence Award at IBM for the invention of the Nutrition Graph and an Innovation Award for the invention of Simple Data Pipe.

Rebecca Christiansen leads Microsoft’s Azure IoT Co-Sell sales for the Americas, as part of the Worldwide IoT and Mixed Reality Sales team. Rebecca is responsible for driving accelerated IoT growth through Microsoft partners that have developed repeatable IoT solutions, bringing them to market at scale through GTM, sales readiness and co-sell program enablement. She has been with Microsoft for 5 years, spending her time working with OEM’s developing their IoT Strategy and onboarding their devices to Microsoft’s Azure Commercial Cloud while helping them monetize new revenue streams and digitally transform. Prior to her work in the IoT space, Rebecca worked as a regional sales development manager with one of Microsoft’s largest OEM partners to build and accelerate the growth of the US Windows business.

Prior to Microsoft, Rebecca spent nearly 10 years at Intel in Washington DC and California, spanning corporate finance and sales executive roles, most recently managing business development and sales execution for Hewlett Packard North America.

Analisa leads the marketing for IoT solutions and is focused on how Microsoft can go to market with our partners. Across the portfolio of IoT solutions, Analisa is responsible for the IoT solutions value proposition, global marketing strategy, and supporting partner co-sell motions. She also works in partnership with product marketing, engineering and sales to provide training, resources and programs to reduce barriers, foster beneficial relationships and enable partners to confidently bring IoT solutions to market.

Lou Lutostanski was named vice president, Internet of Things (IoT) for Avnet in March 2017. In this role, he works across the company to identify and create opportunities to leverage Avnet’s capabilities and expand the company’s reach and expertise to entrepreneurs, startups, leading technology OEMs and other IoT innovators, enabling them to bring IoT solutions to market, from idea to production. He reports to Pete Bartolotta, Chief Transformation Officer for Avnet.

Lutostanski has 30 years of experience and industry knowledge. He joined Avnet in 1987 as a system sales manager. Throughout the next 13 years, he gained increasing responsibility as a field application engineer, sales manager, branch manager, and vice president, area director. Lou left Avnet in 2000 and spent 12 years at Motorola/Freescale where he served as the global vice president of sales covering Hewlett Packard and Motorola, and then as vice president of sales and marketing for the Americas. Since his return to Avnet in 2013, he has served as vice president of sales for the Americas and as vice president of demand creation for the Americas.

Lutostanski graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and earned an MBA from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He resides in Austin, Texas.

Benedikt Abendroth is a Senior Security Program Manager at Azure Sphere, an end-to-end solution for securely connecting IoT devices. In his current role, he is leading security assurance, incident response, and advocacy with the IoT security community and policymakers. Drawing on Azure Sphere’s expertise across silicon, operating system, and cloud security, Benedikt focuses on how customers and governments can maximize the opportunities of IoT with a high level of trust and security. He has a background in international relations and information security, and studied in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. His professional experience in the private, public, non-governmental and military sectors includes Microsoft’s Digital Diplomacy team, Microsoft Research, the German Council on Foreign Relations, and an NGO in Cairo in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Benedikt also served in Human Intelligence Operations in the German Armed Forces, including a deployment to Afghanistan.

David Trice joined Honeywell about a year ago, quickly transitioning from his role as Chief Product Officer for the Connected Enterprise in HBS to the GM and Vice President of Honeywell Connected Enterprise for Buildings. His responsibilities include driving the strategy for Honeywell’s Connected Buildings to ensure that we operate fast and meet the challenges of the rapidly changing market. He also leads the development of processes that allow us to rapidly scale up agile software development and blend that capability with domain expertise to solve customer problems in the Building market better than our competition.

David brings to Honeywell more than 28 years of experience as a serial entrepreneur with strong product development and software capabilities. He joined us from IoT software provider CX Technologies, a company he established and served as CEO. Prior to that, he held leadership roles with StarPound Technologies, Oracle, and he founded Revenue Technologies (which was acquired by Oracle). He earned a bachelor’s degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Cameron leads the Microsoft "through partner" IoT strategy and scale initiatives. He looks to partner with great companies to produce impactful and repeatable end-to-end IoT Solutions together. Cameron provides: expertise; process; development assistance; clarity of vision; co-investment; ecosystem matchmaking; and program management capabilities to enable Microsoft partners to achieve more, together. Cameron’s team is responsible for delivering the strategy, business development efforts, programs and tools that enable our partner facing organization to scale, and help more partners deliver their best.

Brandy Stanley serves as the parking services manager for the city of Las Vegas. In this role, she oversees all aspects of the city’s parking system including the operation of parking meters, enforcement, collections, off-street facility management and contract negotiations. She is also responsible for technology evaluation and implementation, supporting new development with parking expertise, facilitating parking for special events, recommending policy and setting the direction and mission for how the parking system can best support the city’s economic development goals. Stanley has been with the city of Las Vegas since June 2011, and has gained extensive experience in the parking industry across the country during her 25-year career. She previously held positions as parking manager for the city of Manchester, New Hampshire; regional manager for Standard Parking Corporation in Richmond, Virginia; Miami, Florida and Austin, Texas; and has held parking management positions in New Orleans, Louisiana and Seattle, Washington.

Stanley earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington and an MBA from The University of Texas. She is a member of the International Parking Institute, is a founding board member of Women In Parking, and serves on the board of directors for the Southwest Parking & Transportation Association. She develops and makes frequent educational presentations to industry peers at various conferences throughout the country.

As EVP, Marketing & Strategic Partnerships, Neil leads FlashParking’s transition from isolated parking asset to connected mobility hub at the center of the smart city.

Neil served as Head of Marketing & Sales Operations for Residential Energy at Tesla and Sr. Director of Business Development for SolarCity. Prior to that, Neil spent seven years at The Coca-Cola Company leading the McDonald’s Division for Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa and as the Senior Brand Manager for the Coca-Cola brand in North America. Neil lives in Austin and enjoys spending time with his two girls. Neil earned a B.A. in Journalism and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his M.B.A. from Auburn University.

Rafael is responsible for developing the ecosystem strategy for AI Powered Computer Vision Solutions. He works at the intersection of Microsoft engineering and the most important ISVs and Startups to drive strategic deals, acquisitions and GTM partnerships to secure billions of connected smart cameras are connected to Azure IoT and powered by Microsoft AI.

He has performed a mix of corporate and field roles, including Director AIoT Partner Development, Enterprise Sales Director, Regional STU Manager, Financial Services Industry Manager and E-Commerce Marketing Manager.

Shannon Sentell is the Chief Operating Officer for Stealth Power – the global leader in mobile power and idle-reduction technology. Before he joined Stealth Power, Shannon was an Assistant Professor and Director of the Physics Program at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he retired after 24 years of service as an Army officer.

Shannon served in several strategic-level Army staff positions, including Senior Defense Fellow in the Office of Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Congressional Liaison Officer for the Secretary of the Army and as Legislative Advisor to the Army Chief of Staff. Additionally, he held numerous front-line tactical leadership positions including tank and scout platoon leader, executive officer and company commander. He deployed twice to the Middle East in support of Operations Vigilant Warrior and Iraqi Freedom.

Shannon is a native of Gaffney, South Carolina, and a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point where he earned the Clifton Carroll Carter Award as the highest ranked Mechanical Engineering graduate in his class. He holds two advanced degrees including a PhD in Nuclear Engineering and is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his post-doctoral studies as an Army War College Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Shannon lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Amala and sons Gray, Sloan and Talbot.