General Session Day 1

Description

Key Learnings

Speakers

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  Jeff Kinder

  Jeff Kinder is executive vice president of Product Development and Manufacturing Solutions at Autodesk. In this role, he leads strategy and execution across Autodesk's design and manufacturing portfolio. With a forward-looking focus on speed, data, cloud-based workflows, user experience, flexible business models, and customer outcomes, Kinder is helping to catalyze the digital transformation in manufacturing. Kinder previously served as chief digital officer for Autodesk and oversaw the company's digital platforms and customer experience. In this role, he was responsible for creating the connective tissue between the company's customers, products, and data. His responsibilities included building end-to-end digital platforms – from customer data and self-service to entitlements and licensing, to modern enterprise applications such as identity, order, and financial systems. In his role, Kinder led Autodesk's business model transformation from selling perpetual licenses and maintenance to growth through subscriptions and consumption. Prior to joining Autodesk in 2018, Kinder led large-scale, customer-focused digital transformations across a range of industries. Most recently, he was head of consumer products and global marketplaces at OpenTable. Before that, Kinder helped lead a digital transformation at JP Morgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, where he was president of Chase Offers and head of digital products including Chase.com and the Chase mobile app. Prior to that, Kinder was senior vice president at Yahoo responsible for products including the company's flagship home page, as well as Yahoo Finance, Sports, News, Entertainment, Shopping, Travel, Autos, and Small Business. Before joining Yahoo, Kinder spent more than 10 years in senior roles at Cendant Corporation, Adventureseek, and the Boston Consulting Group. Early in his career, Kinder served as an officer in the US Navy. Kinder is currently on the board of directors of Switchfly, Inc. He previously served on the boards of Carlson Wagonlit Travel as well as Yahoo7, an Australian joint venture between Yahoo and 7 Media Group. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
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  Diana Colella

  As executive vice president of Autodesk's Media & Entertainment (M&E) solutions group, Diana plays a key role in growing and expanding the software company's presence in film & television production, as well as video game development. She leads a 400-person team on both the strategy and execution of Autodesk's award-winning media & entertainment products, including Maya, 3ds Max, Flow Capture and Flow Production Tracking. She believes the future of the film & TV industry will be through envisioning and enabling production in the cloud and is leading her team to achieve that vision by building Autodesk Flow, the Autodesk industry cloud for M&E. In the two decades that Diana has been with Autodesk, she has occupied a wide range of leadership roles, which rapidly deepened her extensive experience in strategically transforming business models, creating new product offerings and optimizing processes on a global scale. Diana is a strong advocate for women in the company, previously leading Montreal's chapter of the Autodesk Women's Network to great acclaim. Now, as the executive sponsor of the global program, she helps empower women at all levels of Autodesk to achieve their full potential. Diana holds a Master of Business Administration from McGill – HEC University in Montreal, Canada. She earned a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting from Concordia University in Montreal and is a Certified Public Accountant.
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  Raji Arasu

  As Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Raji drives Autodesk's technology strategy and platform efforts that accelerate industry cloud offerings and power the developer ecosystem to amplify customer value, expand market opportunities, and increase employee productivity. Raji oversees Autodesk's research function that leads future exploration of emerging industry trends such as generative design, autonomous assembly, and net-zero efforts. She stewards cross-company initiatives around data, AI, and core capabilities like graphics and next-generation design environments. Raji delivers extensibility and interoperability to our industries through data exchange connectors, open data formats, and APIs. Finally, in keeping with Autodesk's focus on being a trusted partner to its customers, Raji stewards security, compliance, and data ethics by applying leading technology solutions and governance processes. Raji is a technology executive with 30 years of experience in e-commerce, marketplaces, payments, and fintech industries, delivering innovative customer experiences and business growth through product and platform contributions. She led transformation in these companies by building high-performing global teams with a strong engineering culture and systems thinking. Previously, as senior vice president of platform engineering at Intuit, Raji helped shape the platform strategy and technology culture, led the company's mobile, data, and cloud transformation, and expanded foundational core capabilities that amplified innovation for customers and fueled business growth across industry verticals. Before Intuit, Raji served as CTO at StubHub and held other leadership roles at eBay. Raji has received public recognition for her work promoting and mentoring diversity and women in successful leadership roles in technology. She advises several startups and helps C-Suite technology leaders forge solutions critical to the industry through her board advisory role on CTO Forum. She has over 8 years of experience serving on public company boards and is currently on the board of directors for MediaAlpha Inc. Raji holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University in India.
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  Andrew Anagnost

  Andrew Anagnost is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Autodesk. Dr. Anagnost's career spans more than 25 years of product, business, and marketing experience focused on driving strategy, transformation, and product development — and includes positions at Autodesk, Lockheed Aeronautical Systems Company, and EXA Corporation. He also completed a doctorate degree at Stanford University and worked at NASA Ames Research Center as an NRC post-doctoral fellow. Anagnost began his career at Autodesk in 1997 and has held a wide range of roles in the areas of marketing, new business development, product management, and product development. Prior to becoming President and CEO in June 2017, he served as Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of the Business Strategy & Marketing organization. In this role, Andrew served as architect and leader of Autodesk's business model transition—moving the company to become a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions provider. Previously, Anagnost held various executive positions across Autodesk. Early in his Autodesk career, he led the development of the company's manufacturing products and grew Autodesk Inventor revenue to over $500 million. Anagnost is a member of the Autodesk Board of Directors. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and holds both an MS in Engineering Science and a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University. Anagnost joined the board of directors of HubSpot, Inc. in September 2023.
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  Amy Bunszel

  Amy is an executive vice president at Autodesk, leading Autodesk's architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) solutions portfolio. She leads a global team in developing and delivering AI powered desktop, web, and mobile apps that have been adopted by millions of design, engineering and construction professionals worldwide. Amy is responsible for product and industry strategy, as well as software development for Autodesk's AEC design and make solutions including the Autodesk AEC Collection, Autodesk Forma, AutoCAD family, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Civil 3D, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and more. Before this role, she also led the manufacturing design and media and entertainment solutions teams. Prior to that, she transformed Autodesk's best-selling AutoCAD product line into a modern multi-platform offering that serves as the backbone of the company's subscription business. Amy is passionate about helping customers achieve better outcomes— be they cost, schedule, carbon, occupant experience, and more. She enjoys connecting the dots between strategy and large-scale product execution, as well as building high-performing teams to deliver value to customers. With over 30 years' experience, she has worked in technology as an entrepreneur, innovator, and software company founder. Amy holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She serves on the board of directors of Pixelworks (PXLW) and is a member of the President's Council for Cornell Women, the Entrepreneurship Program at Cornell, and The Athena Alliance.