Keynote speakers
Industry leaders and composable visionaries shaping the future of brand experiences

Brandi Chastain
Olympic gold medalist and World Cup champion Brandi Chastain shares lessons from the mindset of elite athletes that can transform the way brands create, connect and build lasting impact with their audiences.
Brandi Chastain
Brandi Chastain is a co-founder of Bay FC and an iconic sporting figure. She was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2016 and the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame in 2018. Brandi helped bring women’s soccer to the masses during the 1999 Women’s World Cup finals when she scored a legendary penalty-kick goal and then struck her now infamous pose. She’s won two FIFA Women’s World Cups, two Olympic Golds, one Olympic Silver and the WUSA Championship. Brandi played at Santa Clara University, winning the Honda Sports Award as the nation’s top female soccer player. Over the past 30 years, she has held various coaching positions across the Bay Area at both the youth and collegiate levels and holds a U.S. Soccer A License. In 2004, she became a commentator and analyst for NBC during the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. Brandi founded Bay Area Women’s Sports Initiative, a nonprofit helping underserved girls learn leadership skills through sports. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband.

Sunil Subramanian
Digital transformation in the automotive industry goes beyond enabling car browsing—it paves the way for dynamic, personalized, and lifelong customer journeys. Discover how Volvo harnessed cutting-edge digital experience technology to align its digital platforms with the preferences of real-world shoppers, achieving remarkable results in a short span. This session will highlight how moving away from monolithic technology empowered Volvo Cars to achieve unparalleled agility, scalability, and seamless .com experience, all within a unified customer ecosystem spanning 100 global markets.
Sunil Subramanian
Sunil is a seasoned product management professional, passionate about building teams and launching digital products. Currently at Volvo Cars, he is leading a product cluster with 10+ product teams in Sweden, USA and India to deliver a premium experience for buying cars in 100 countries.

Feliz Papich
Join this fireside chat with Feliz Papich (Crocs), where we'll cover the true urgency of digital transformation in the fight for brand relevancy, and how Crocs emerged with digital foundations that let their marketing team move at the speed of culture.
Feliz Papich
Feliz Papich is the Vice President of Digital Product Management & Consumer Experience at Crocs, where she leads transformative digital initiatives that drive eCommerce revenue, site conversion, and traffic. With extensive experience across digital merchandising, content strategy, and product management at brands like Deckers and Merkle, she excels at translating technical requirements into creative solutions while building strong partnerships that deliver results-driven digital experiences.

Taryn Southern
Taryn Southern
Taryn Southern is an award-winning storyteller, speaker, and creative technologist with over two decades of experience in digital storytelling and brand strategy. A pioneer in AI, she created the world’s first AI pop album in 2017, cloned herself in 2020, and directed a Tribeca Film Festival documentary on brain-computer interfaces. Taryn has also led marketing and communications at a top neurotechnology company, driving two successful funding rounds totaling over $230M.

Subi Babu
Discover how MongoDB leveraged Contentstack's AI and Automate to eliminate obstacles and speed up their CMS migration, content publishing and SEO optimization. Plus, hear from our Contentstack AI expert Christine Masters and gain insights into how AI and Automate can significantly accelerate your content operations.
Having helped many global brands implement impactful AI approaches over the past 2 years, Christine offers practical strategies for enterprise AI adoption that actually work. Drawing from real-world successes and challenges, she will equip leaders with the frameworks they need to make smart AI decisions that deliver measurable results.
Subi Babu
Subi Babu leads software development for MongoDB's web team. With 15+ years of experience, including 8+ years at CNN.com, she's currently spearheading a massive CMS migration and digital transformation. A champion for diversity in tech and Gen-AI innovation, Subi is an expert in scaling teams and processes while establishing engineering best practices and fostering cross-functional collaboration.

Julia Connly
Discover how a leading sports organization transformed digital engagement into meaningful in-person connections, using innovative content strategies to create seamless experiences that brought fans closer to athletes both online and in physical spaces during one of the world's biggest sporting events.
Julia Connly
Julia Connly is an optimistic and focused product leader with a passion for sport. As the Manager of Digital Products & Platforms at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee, she led the launch of TeamUSA.com and 32 other websites for 17M annual users. With a knack for UX, Engineering, and Product, she turns big ideas into bold digital fan experiences.

Lo Etheridge
Contentstack as a platform: Building rich, adaptive digital experiences with data informed personalized content.
Get hands-on with Contentstack's APIs and SDKs to build personalized experiences that adapt in real-time based on user behavior and context. In this practical lab, you'll implement a working Contentstack solution using our marketplace quick-starter, explore the data architecture patterns that connect content models with user profiles, and troubleshoot common integration challenges between the content layer and data sources.
Lo Etheridge
Lo is a developer relations and product marketing professional with a demonstrated history of providing excellent technical education, product adoption & onboarding, community management, cross-functional leadership, and communications support in the higher education, non-profit, private, and public sectors. They are skilled in CMS technology and community-led growth with a passion for organizational behavior and philosophy.

Matt Black
Join our Director of Information Security and Global Head of Data Products for a no-nonsense discussion on keeping your customer data both useful and compliant. In this practical workshop on managing customer data, we'll cover the regulatory requirements that matter most to global businesses, share straightforward approaches to data protection, and show you how to balance personalization with privacy. Bring your real-world challenges for an insightful and useful session.
Matt Black
Mark leads Contentstack's Information Security team with a practical approach honed from years in highly regulated industries. He bridges the gap between customer needs and engineering solutions, developing pragmatic security programs that solve real business problems while navigating complex compliance landscapes.

James McDermott
Join our Director of Information Security and Global Head of Data Products for a no-nonsense discussion on keeping your customer data both useful and compliant. In this practical workshop on managing customer data, we'll cover the regulatory requirements that matter most to global businesses, share straightforward approaches to data protection, and show you how to balance personalization with privacy. Bring your real-world challenges for an insightful and useful session.
James McDermott
James McDermott is the Global Head of Data Products at Contentstack and co-founder of Lytics, with over 15 years of experience as a technology executive and entrepreneur. With a unique background spanning law, business development, and customer data platforms, James built Lytics from the ground up to help marketers unify and activate their customer data. His expertise in enterprise software, startups, and regulated industries now drives Contentstack's vision for integrated content and data solutions.

Mark Hentschel
Discover how a Contentstack customer transforms vast historical archives and individual customer data into meaningful personal narratives that connect people with their past while creating emotionally resonant digital experiences that evolve with each customer's journey of discovery.
Mark Hentschel
Mark's digital career began over 20 years ago, marked by his strong passion for harnessing technology to elevate customer experiences. Mark brings a wealth of expertise and a visionary perspective to the journey many take to achieve successful digital transformations.

Christine Masters
Discover how MongoDB leveraged Contentstack's AI and Automate to eliminate obstacles and speed up their CMS migration, content publishing and SEO optimization. Plus, hear from our Contentstack AI expert Christine Masters and gain insights into how AI and Automate can significantly accelerate your content operations.
Having helped many global brands implement impactful AI approaches over the past 2 years, Christine offers practical strategies for enterprise AI adoption that actually work. Drawing from real-world successes and challenges, she will equip leaders with the frameworks they need to make smart AI decisions that deliver measurable results.
Christine Masters
Christine Masters, the Senior Product Manager for Emerging Products at Contentstack, has more than 14+ years of experience in web content management and product development. A Certified Scrum Product Owner, Christine utilizes design thinking, automation techniques, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to solve real-world problems for customers. Christine's key products include Automate, AI Assistant, and Brand Kit.

Neha Sampat
Disrupt or be disrupted. Contentstack's visionary duo Neha Sampat (CEO) and Gurdeep Dhillon (CMO) as kick off ContentCon with a bold look at what's ahead for digital experiences in 2025 - and 2030. They'll reveal how iconic brands rewrite the rules to dominate their markets and unveil Contentstack's vision for marketing in the AI era, where hyper-personalized experiences adapt in real-time.
Neha Sampat
Neha Sampat is a three-time tech founder and CEO, and currently founder and CEO at Contentstack. Neha is a relentless advocate for building great places to work and achieving equity in tech. She was recognized as one of Austin Business Journal’s 2023 Women in Business Awards and a Best CEO in 2022.

Gurdeep Dhillon
Disrupt or be disrupted. Contentstack's visionary duo Neha Sampat (CEO) and Gurdeep Dhillon (CMO) as kick off ContentCon with a bold look at what's ahead for digital experiences in 2025 - and 2030. They'll reveal how iconic brands rewrite the rules to dominate their markets and unveil Contentstack's vision for marketing in the AI era, where hyper-personalized experiences adapt in real-time.
Gurdeep Dhillon
Gurdeep Dhillon is a seasoned marketing executive with nearly two decades of experience in enterprise software. He is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Contentstack, delivering Composable Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) to the world's leading brands. Gurdeep is a proven driver of growth, market presence, and brand relevancy, and has applied his expertise in marketing leadership positions at SAP, Marketo, Adobe, and Zuora. His passion for fostering collaborative environments has made him a builder and grower of high-performance teams. With regional and national recognition as a top marketer, he regularly speaks at notable industry events such as Dreamforce and Adobe Summit.

Conor Egan
See how Contentstack EDGE allows you to reimagine the possibilities of digital experience by seamlessly integrating intelligent content management with real-time first-party data activation. Experience how brands can deliver hyper-personalized, adaptive experiences that evolve with every customer interaction while staying authentically on-brand. Witness the future of digital experiences where content adapts, data informs, and every touchpoint matters—closing the loop between rich customer insights and actionable content delivery that truly sets great experiences apart from merely good ones.
Conor Egan
Conor Egan manages Contentstack’s industry-leading product and engineering teams. He has 15+ years of experience building products that have earned multiple software patents, won industry awards, and led digital transformation at the world’s largest brands. Conor and his team are devoted to improving the user experience by creating best-in-class products that bring technical and non-technical users together to create digital transformations.

Tim Benniks
Contentstack as a platform: Building rich, adaptive digital experiences with data informed personalized content.
Get hands-on with Contentstack's APIs and SDKs to build personalized experiences that adapt in real-time based on user behavior and context. In this practical lab, you'll implement a working Contentstack solution using our marketplace quick-starter, explore the data architecture patterns that connect content models with user profiles, and troubleshoot common integration challenges between the content layer and data sources.
Tim Benniks
Tim Benniks is a Developer Experience Lead who shapes tech perception and developer velocity through content creation, product alignment, and advocacy, leveraging his journey from Front-end Developer to Global Director of Web Development with expertise in Vue, Nuxt, MACH and composable architectures.

Preseetha Pettigrew
There's so much more to successful personalization than "just" having the right technology in place, and many brands hit a wall as soon as they attempt to scale personalization initiatives. Join our platinum sponsors in this buzzword-free debate: Is personalization really necessary and achievable for every brand, and if so, what's stopping us all from getting there (and what can we do about it)?
Preseetha Pettigrew
Preseetha Pettigrew is VP Global Partnerships at Contentstack, with two decades of partnership and consulting experience. She leads the global partner team to develop and deliver strategic programs to accelerate mutual business growth.

JR Leighty
Learn how companies are actually capturing, analyzing, and acting on data as it flows in. You'll see the technical setup and organizational processes that separate successful CDP implementations from expensive disappointments.
JR Leighty
JR Leighty specializes in driving strategic growth for leading global brands. Prior to joining Contentstack through the acquisition of Lytics, he served in multiple leadership roles focused on new business acquisition and global expansion across the Americas, APAC, and MENA regions.
