Keynotes

Melissa Di Donato is Chair and CEO of Kyriba. With over 20 years in the tech industry, Melissa was previously CEO of open source infrastructure software company, SUSE, and has held executive roles across Europe and the US, including SAP, Salesforce, IBM and Oracle. She also serves as a member of the Supervisory Board of Porsche and a Non-Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Europe. She previously served as a Non-Executive Director for the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation & Technology; continues to serve the Department for Business and Trade's SME Digital Adoption Taskforce; and was the inaugural chair of the 30% Club’s Technology Working Group - a global campaign to boost female representation across the world’s largest companies.

Colin Wittmer serves as Chief Financial Officer, leading PwC's Finance function and shaping the firm's portfolio strategy to help serve clients in new ways while delivering profitable growth. He brings an outcomes-oriented, strategy-driven and analytically rigorous perspective to the role.

A 30-year PwC veteran, Colin previously served as PwC’s Deals Leader, where he set the practice’s strategy and support of client transactions from end-to-end. He served as global client partner for one of the firm’s largest clients and has assisted with hundreds of intricate domestic and global transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures, IPOs, spin-offs and served as New York Metro Deals Leader and US Divestitures Leader. Colin also spent two years in Zurich, coordinating inbound private equity transactions across Europe.

Colin received his bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from the University of Michigan. He lives in Chatham, New Jersey, and is married with three children.

Mickey North Rizza is Group Vice-President for IDC’s Enterprise Software. She leads the Enterprise Applications & Strategies research service along with a team of analysts responsible for IDC’s coverage of next generation of enterprise applications including digital commerce, employee experience, enterprise asset management and smart facilities, ERP, financial applications, HCM and payroll applications, procurement, professional services automation and related project-based solutions software, supply chain automation, and talent acquisition and strategies. In her role, Mickey and the team advises clients on these intelligent, modern, and modular enterprise applications for businesses of all sizes with an emphasis on the key trends, opportunities, innovation and the IT and Business Buyer concerns, requirements, and buyer behaviors.

Mickey has over 20 years' experience as a practitioner in supply chain, sourcing and procurement. Prior to IDC, Ms. North Rizza worked as an award-winning analyst for AMR Research and Gartner and has several years of technology vendor experience aiding practitioners on their transformation journey and assisting with market messages. Ms. North Rizza is the founding member of the ISM Supply Chain Risk Management Group, which she chaired in 2015.