2019 poweredUP Tampa Bay Tech Festival Set For May 23

ST. PETE, FL - From poweredUP Tampa Bay: The 2019 poweredUP Tampa Bay Tech Festival is set for May 23 at the Mahaffey Theater and the Dali Museum, featuring technology leaders from Silicon Valley, Seattle, New York, Boston, Atlanta and Tampa Bay.

The top-billed speakers are Spence Murray, serial entrepreneur and instigator at Salesforce, currently featured on National Geographic’s Valley of the Boom, and Otto Berkes, co-founder of the X-BOX and developer of HBO GO. Additional speakers include:

• Jim Trainor, the FBI’s former highest-ranking cyber expert and current SVP, AON
• Minsoo Pak, noted Futurist and Partner Principal, EY
• The Chief of Staff at Jabil
• The CEOs of A-LIGN, Hays, KnowBe4 and Malwarebytes
• The CIOs of Iron Mountain, Jabil, Moffitt Cancer Center and Tech Data
• The CISOs of Ancestry.com, Check Point Software Technologies and Raymond James Financial
• The CTO of Sirius
• And another half-dozen more

“We live in a tech hub that is filled with incredible, inspiring talent and we created this event to highlight them,” says Jill St. Thomas, CRO and Executive Director of Tampa Bay Tech, the region’s tech council. “Our companies are building technologies that are impacting the ways we work and live and we want to make sure everyone knows, and is transformed by, those stories. Each and every session will provide some key learnings to take back to your team and execute on.”

The event will also showcase live graphic recording from RIDG, live media coverage by St. Pete Catalyst and a live global broadcast courtesy of Zoom.

For full event details and tickets, visit https://poweredup.tech/2019festival/.