During our General Sessions, you’ll hear VMware’s leadership share our vision and strategy for today’s rapidly changing IT environment. To make the most out of your VMworld experience, attend a Showcase Keynotes to go in-depth with solutions-driven content.

Showcase Keynotes are a unique opportunity to hear directly from the VMware leadership team about the critical technology challenges that IT professionals face today. From building a multi-cloud strategy to managing Kubernetes, we’re providing insights and direction to help you return to the office Monday morning ready to solve your biggest business issues.

Digital Workspace

Becoming a Champion of Employee Experience [DW3459KE]

Shankar Iyer, SVP and GM, EUC , VMware

Seasoned executive with track record of leading high growth businesses across multiple software and SaaS companies in different segments from startups to $1 billion+. Strong proven expertise in market transformations, operational management across multiple functions and defining and executing product and GTM strategy. Demonstrated track record of combining product categories into large platform-centric businesses through M&A and organic growth. Proven people leader with success in managing cross-functional teams across products, engineering, marketing and operations. Excellent communicator and spokesperson across the Board level, customer and industry forums, with press and analysts and internal teams. (via Linkedin)

Shawn Bass, VP & CTO, End User Computing, VMware

Shawn Bass is VP, CTO of End User Computing at VMware He is a recognized expert in the desktop virtualization industry. With over 20 years of consulting experience, he has worked with terminal services, application virtualization and VDI since its very inception. During his career, he provided consulting services to a wide variety of vertical markets including financial services, insurance, high tech, ISVs, health care, higher education, oil/gas, and state and federal governments.

HCI

The Foundation for your Future-proof Infrastructure [HCI3551KE]

Cormac Hogan, Director and Chief Technologist, VMware

My name is Cormac Hogan and I work in the HCI (HyperConverged Infrastructure) Business Unit at VMware. I joined VMware in 2005, and have previously held roles in VMware’s Technical Marketing & Technical Support organizations. I have written a number of storage related white papers and have given numerous presentations on vSphere storage best practices and features. I am also the co-author of the “Essential Virtual SAN” book published by VMware Press, and the “vSAN 6.7U1 Deep Dive” book.

John Gilmartin, GM & SVP, Hyperconverged Infrastructure Business Unit HCIBU, VMware

John Gilmartin is the General Manager & Vice President of the Integrated Systems Business Unit at VMware, Inc. He rejoined VMware in January 2013 as vice president of products, Storage and Availability. Prior to that, Gilmartin served as vice president of Marketing at Coraid. Before joining Coraid, he led the product marketing team for VMware’s virtualization platform, VMware vSphere. Gilmartin holds a B.S.E from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Hybrid Cloud

Transform Infrastructure and Operations from the Data Center to the Cloud [HYB3544KE]

Raghu Raghuram, Chief Operating Officer – Products & Cloud Services, VMware

Raghu Raghuram joined VMware in 2003 with responsibility for all VMware’s product and service offerings and centralized services, support and operational functions. In this role, Raghuram’s primary focus is on VMware’s cloud services offerings.

Mark Lohmeyer, SVP and GM, Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware

Mark Lohmeyer is the SVP/GM, Cloud Platform BU at VMware. Prior to joining VMware he served as the VP, Product Management, Enterprise Rounding for Cisco. He holds a Master from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Purnima Padmanabhan, Vice President Product Management – Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware

Purnima has extensive experience in building and marketing innovative products in the fields of cloud infrastructure, security, and enterprise mobility. Most recently, Purnima was the CEO of Cavirin, a cloud security company, where she drove a turnaround and positioned the company for growth in a high velocity segment. Prior to that, Purnima served as the COO of MokaFive, a desktop virtualization company, where she was responsible for global product operations and as the Director of Product Management for BMC’s $500M Service Management business, where she drove portfolio planning, product definition, and M&A. She has also held various strategy, marketing and product roles at Marimba (acquired by BMC), Loudcloud (acquired by EDS/HP) and McKinsey. Purnima holds a MBA from Stanford University, a Master’s in Computer Engineering from University of Southern California and Bachelors in Computer Engineering and Classical Music.

Modern Apps

VMware Tanzu and Your Kubernetes Journey [MOD3543KE]

James Watters, SVP, Strategy, Pivotal

James serves as the Senior Vice President at, Strategy at Pivotal, where he has helped shepherd Pivotal Platform into a highly disruptive enterprise software business, and helped led Pivotal’s efforts to bringing Pivotal’s cloud-native platform to the world. (via pivotal.io)

Craig McLuckie, Vice President R&D, Cloud Native Apps, VMware

Craig is the VP of R&D for VMware’s Cloud Native Applications business unit. Craig arrived at VMware via the acquisition of Heptio, a company that he co-founded and led as CEO. Previously, Craig spent time in senior positions at Microsoft and Google; at the latter he made significant contributions to Google Compute Engine and Kubernetes. Craig also co-founded the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Eryn Muetzel, Director, Product Management, VMware

Eryn has been focused on the container ecosystem for the past four years, bringing open source infrastructure solutions to customers during her time at Heptio, Mesosphere, and VMware. Eryn is currently a Director of Product Management at VMware, where she leads business and product efforts making cloud native computing accessible to everyone.

Multi-Cloud

Multi-Cloud Strategies to Operate at Scale [MC3545KE]

Joe Kinsella, Vice President and CTO, Products, CloudHealth, VMware

Joe Kinsella is the CTO and Founder of CloudHealth Technologies, which is now part of VMware. Joe was previously VP of engineering at the Amazon-backed cloud archiving company Sonian, where he was a pioneer of using multiple public clouds at scale. He was also a managing director at Dell, where he led global engineering teams delivering multiple SaaS products, and VP of Engineering at SilverBack Technologies (acquired by Dell), where he helped pioneer remote IT management software.

Networking and Security

Networking and Security for the Cloud Era [NETS3413KE]

Tom Gillis, SVP/GM, NSBU, VMware

Tom Gillis is the SVP/GM of the Network and Security Business Unit at VMware. Prior to joining VMware, Tom Gillis was CEO of Bracket Computing, a company he founded in December 2011. Before starting Bracket, Gillis was VP/GM of the Security Technology Group at Cisco Systems and VP of Marketing and part of the founding team of IronPort Systems which was acquired by Cisco in 2007.

Jacob Rapp, Director and Lead Technologist, Networking and Security, VMware

Security

Intrinsic Security – How Your VMware Infrastructure Can Turn the Tide in Cybersecurity [SEC3412KE]

Tom Corn, Senior VP, VMware

Tom Corn is the Senior Vice President of Products for VMware’s Security BU, which includes the Carbon Black portfolio of security solutions. Prior to this role, Tom was the Chief Strategy Officer of RSA Security, overseeing corporate strategy, M&A, alliances, advanced development, and the CTO Office. Tom held other roles at RSA including GM of the data security business. Tom holds a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo and a MBA from Harvard University.

Shawn Bass, VP & CTO, End User Computing, VMware

Shawn Bass is VP, CTO of End User Computing at VMware. He is a recognized expert in the desktop virtualization industry. With over 20 years of consulting experience, he has worked with terminal services, application virtualization and VDI since its very inception. During his career, he provided consulting services to a wide variety of vertical markets including financial services, insurance, high tech, ISVs, health care, higher education, oil/gas, and state and federal governments.