Vanessa Thompson is an accomplished business leader, advisor, consultant, and speaker. With a career spanning over a decade in the technology industry, she has served as an expert advisor for the world's most successful technology vendors and their clients, providing market and product strategy guidance and thought leadership content. Vanessa's extensive experience in collaboration and social business initiatives has helped her advise many companies on overcoming process, technology, and organizational challenges.

As a former Senior Vice President at Bluewolf, an IBM Company, Vanessa demonstrated critical reasoning and relationship skills suited to advisory services. She has also worked as a Vice President Research at IDC, where she managed a team of analysts and explored the merits of architectural designs in a meaningful way. Vanessa's current role as Senior Director of Product Marketing at Twilio Inc. involves defining and building a program to provide API-driven cellular connectivity for developers, giving them the ability to connect the next billion devices to the internet.

Vanessa studied a Bachelor of Business Studies, Information Management at Massey University, and has previously held roles as a Director of Product Marketing, Communications Products at Twilio, Director of Customer Programs and Ecosystems for IoT at Twilio and as a Research Manager for Enterprise Social Networks and Collaborative Technologies at IDC.