BoxWorks 2017 - Blueprint for the Future of Work

October 10-12, 2017
Moscone Center West,
San Francisco, CA

This year’s BoxWorks is full of amazing speakers, sessions and tracks to help you drive the future of your business. Come join thousands of other executives, developers, administrators and business leads to share ideas and get inspired from each other.

Featured speakers

We’re bringing together some of the top minds in our industry and those from many others, all of whom bring amazing insights on the future of work.

Aaron Levie
Box CEO, Co-founder and Chairman
Aaron Levie is Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder and Chairman at Box, which he launched in 2005 with CFO and co-founder, Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind the product and platform strategy of Box, focusing on incorporating the best of secure content collaboration with an intuitive user experience suited to the way people work today. Aaron leads Box in its mission to transform the way people and businesses work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. He also serves as a member on the Box board of directors.
Aaron Levie
Box CEO, Co-founder and Chairman
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Director, Hayden Planetarium/BoxWorks 2017 Closing Keynote
Photo Credit: ©2013 AMNH, Photo by Roderick Mickens
Neil deGrasse Tyson was born and raised in New York City where he was educated in the public schools clear through his graduation from the Bronx High School of Science. Tyson went on to earn his BA in Physics from Harvard and his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia.
Tyson's professional research interests are broad, but include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way.
In 2001, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to serve on a 12-member commission that studied the Future of the US Aerospace Industry. The final report was published in 2002 and contained recommendations (for Congress and for the major agencies of the government) that would promote a thriving future of transportation, space exploration, and national security.
In 2004, Tyson was once again appointed by President Bush to serve on a 9-member commission on the Implementation of the United States Space Exploration Policy, dubbed the Moon, Mars, and Beyond commission. This group navigated a path by which the new space vision can become a successful part of the American agenda. And in 2006, the head of NASA appointed Tyson to serve on its prestigious Advisory Council, which will help guide NASA through its perennial need to fit its ambitious vision into its restricted budget.
In addition to dozens of professional publications, Dr. Tyson has written, and continues to write for the public. From 1995 to 2005, Tyson was a monthly essayist for Natural History magazine under the title Universe. And among Tyson's thirteen books is his memoir The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist; and Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, co-written with Donald Goldsmith. Origins is the companion book to the PBS-NOVA 4-part mini-series Origins, in which Tyson served as on-camera host. The program premiered on September 28 and 29, 2004.
Two of Tyson's recent books are the playful and informative Death By Black Hole and Other Cosmic Quandaries, which was a New York Times bestseller, and The Pluto Files: The Rise and Fall of America's Favorite Planet, chronicling his experience at the center of the controversy over Pluto's planetary status. The PBS/NOVA documentary "The Pluto Files", based on the book, premiered in March 2010.
In February 2012, Tyson released his tenth book, containing every thought he has ever had on the past, present, and future of space exploration: Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier.
For five seasons, beginning in the fall of 2006, Tyson appeared as the on-camera host of PBS-NOVA's spinoff program NOVA ScienceNOW, which is an accessible look at the frontier of all the science that shapes the understanding of our place in the universe.
During the summer of 2009 Tyson identified a stable of professional standup comedians to assist his effort in bringing science to commercial radio with the NSF-funded pilot program StarTalk. Now also a popular Podcast, and a limited-run Television Series on the National Geographic Channel, StarTalk combines celebrity guests with informative yet playful banter. The target audience is all those people who never thought they would, or could, like science.
In its first year on Television it was nominated for a "Best Informational Programming" Emmy.
Tyson is the recipient of twenty honorary doctorates and the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, the highest award given by NASA to a non-government citizen. His contributions to the public appreciation of the cosmos have been recognized by the International Astronomical Union in their official naming of asteroid 13123 Tyson. On the lighter side, Tyson was voted Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive by People Magazine in 2000.
Tyson's latest book, released in May 2017 is Astrophysics for People In A Hurry. This adorably readable book is an introduction to all that you've read, and heard about that's making news in the universe -- consummated, in one place, succinctly presented, for people in a hurry.
Recently Tyson served as Executive Editor and on camera Host & Narrator for Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, the 21st century continuation of Carl Sagan's landmark television series. The show began in March 2014 and ran thirteen episodes in Primetime on the FOX network, and appeared in 181 countries in 45 languages around the world on the National Geographic Channels. Cosmos, which is also available in DVD and BluRay , won four Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, two Critics Choice awards, as well as a dozen other industry recognitions.
Tyson is the fifth head of the world-renowned Hayden Planetarium in New York City and the first occupant of its Frederick P. Rose Directorship. He is also a research associate of the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Director, Hayden Planetarium/BoxWorks 2017 Closing Keynote
Dr. Jill Biden
Co-Founder of the Biden Foundation/Box Women's Summit Keynote Speaker
Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, is a mother and grandmother, a lifelong educator, a proud military mom, and an active member of her community. With the February 2017 launch of the Biden Foundation, Jill Biden and her husband will continue their commitment to strengthening the middle class, protecting women and children against violence, and supporting community colleges and military families.
Dr. Jill Biden
Co-Founder of the Biden Foundation/Box Women's Summit Keynote Speaker
Valerie Jarrett
Former Senior Advisor to President Obama/Box Women's Summit Fireside Chat
Valerie B. Jarrett was the longest serving Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama. She oversaw the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and Chaired theWhite House Council on Women and Girls.

Ms. Jarrett has worked throughout her tenure at the White House to mobilize elected officials, business and community leaders, and diverse groups of advocates. She led the Obama Administration’s efforts to expand and strengthen access to the middle class, and boost American businesses and our economy. She championed the creation of equality and opportunity for all Americans, and economically and politically empowering women in the United States and around the world. She oversaw the Administration’s advocacy for workplace policies that empower working families, including equal pay, raising the minimum wage, paid leave, paid sick days, workplace flexibility, and affordable childcare, and led the campaigns tore form our criminal justice system, end sexual assault, and reduce gun violence.

Ms. Jarrett has a background in both the public and private sectors. She served as the Chief Executive Officer of The Habitat Company in Chicago, Chairman of the Chicago Transit Board,Commissioner of Planning and Development, and Deputy Chief of Staff for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. She also served as the director of numerous corporate and not-for-profit boards including Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Stock Exchange, Chairman of theUniversity of Chicago Medical Center Board of Trustees, and Director of the Federal ReserveBank of Chicago. Ms. Jarrett has also received numerous awards and honorary degrees, including TIME’s “100 Most Influential People.”

Jarrett received her B.A. from Stanford University in 1978 and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981.
Valerie Jarrett
Former Senior Advisor to President Obama/Box Women's Summit Fireside Chat
Jeffrey Immelt
Chairman and CEO, GE/CIOWorks Keynote Speaker
Jeff Immelt is the 9th Chairman of GE, a position he has held since September 7th, 2001. He served as CEO for 16 years, transforming GE into a simpler, stronger, and more focused digital industrial company. Immelt revamped the company’s strategy, global footprint, workforce and culture, positioning GE for the future. During his tenure, industrial earnings doubled and GE returned $143B in dividends, more than in the cumulative history of the company.
Immelt was willing to disrupt GE reshaping the company’s portfolio during the last decade, with bold moves such as the $260 billion sale of GE Capital assets, the acquisition of platforms in Life Sciences and Renewables, adding global energy leader Alstom, the combination of GE Oil & Gas with Baker Hughes, and the divestitures of legacy businesses like GE Appliances, NBC Universal and Plastics. He was the architect of the GE Store, leveraging GE’s unique scale to drive growth. Under his leadership, GE re-established market leadership with technological innovation, grew a strong share position in essential industries, and built a backlog of $320 billion.
Immelt led several innovative transformations during his tenure. GE is the pre-eminent global company with more than 60% of its revenue coming from outside the U.S. Under his leadership, emerging market revenue quadrupled. GE became the first Digital Industrial building a strong digital platform in GE, establishing leadership in the Industrial Internet. GE is well positioned to lead the next revolution in productivity through additive manufacturing. GE has been a leader in important growth themes, like clean energy, through its ecomagination initiative. GE remains one of the top 10 most valuable brands in the world, and has consistently been viewed as the best company for developing leaders.
Immelt held several global leadership positions since joining GE in 1982, including roles in GE's Plastics, Appliances, and Healthcare businesses. In 1989, he became an Officer of the company and, in 2000, was appointed Chief Executive Officer.
He has been named one of the "World's Best CEOs" three times by Barron's. Since he began serving as CEO, GE has been named "America's Most Admired Company" by Fortune magazine and one of "The World's Most Respected Companies" in polls by Barron's and the Financial Times. He has received fifteen honorary degrees and numerous awards for business leadership.
Under the Obama administration, he chaired the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Immelt earned a B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1978 and an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1982. He and his wife have one daughter.
Jeffrey Immelt
Chairman and CEO, GE/CIOWorks Keynote Speaker
Scott Guthrie
Executive Vice President, Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Group
As executive vice president of the Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Group, Scott Guthrie is responsible for the company’s cloud infrastructure, server, database, CRM, ERP, management and development tools businesses. His engineering team builds Microsoft Azure, SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Active Directory, System Center, Visual Studio and .NET.
Prior to leading the Cloud and Enterprise Group, Guthrie helped lead Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud platform. Since joining the company in 1997, he has made critical contributions to many of Microsoft’s key cloud, server and development technologies and was one of the original founders of the .NET project. Guthrie graduated with a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Duke University. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.
Scott Guthrie
Executive Vice President, Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Group
Brian Chesky
Co-founder, CEO, Head of Community, Airbnb/Opening Keynote Fireside Chat
Brian is the CEO and head of Community at Airbnb. He drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth as it provides interesting and unique ways for people to travel, as well as representing the interests of the millions of Airbnb hosts around the World. Under Brian’s leadership, Airbnb stands at the forefront of the sharing economy, and has expanded to over 3 million+ listings in more than 191 countries, as well as expanding into other areas of travel with Airbnb Trips. Brian met co-founder Joe Gebbia at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Industrial Design.
Brian Chesky
Co-founder, CEO, Head of Community, Airbnb/Opening Keynote Fireside Chat
Cheryl McKinnon
Principal Analyst Serving Enterprise Architecture Professionals, Forrester
Cheryl McKinnon is a principal analyst serving enterprise architecture professionals; she helps them support their firm's need for customer-driven technology capabilities in the age of the customer. Cheryl delivers research and advisory services in areas including enterprise content management (ECM), content archiving, enterprise file-sync and share, document-centric collaboration, life-cycle management, information governance, and eDiscovery.
Before joining Forrester, Cheryl ran an independent consulting firm, serving both private- and public-sector clients. Cheryl has served as vice president of marketing for industry association AIIM, was chief marketing officer of Nuxeo, and held senior management roles with OpenText and Hummingbird.
Cheryl frequently presents at events such as conferences, seminars, and webinars. She is a longtime member of AIIM and ARMA, and has served on their association conference and standards committees. Cheryl has been a guest contributor to a variety of industry publications and has been quoted in TechCrunch, FierceContentManagement, KMWorld, CMSWire, among others.
Cheryl has a bachelor's degree from the University of Winnipeg, an MA in history from Carleton University, and has completed coursework toward a Ph.D. in history at the University of Ottawa, though she remains (regrettably) "ABD."
Cheryl McKinnon
Principal Analyst Serving Enterprise Architecture Professionals, Forrester
Kevin Scott
CTO, Microsoft
Kevin Scott is chief technology officer for Microsoft. He joined LinkedIn (which Microsoft acquired in December 2016) in February of 2011. As senior vice president of engineering and operations and a member of LinkedIn’s executive management team, Scott helped build LinkedIn’s technology and technology team and led it through an IPO and six years of rapid growth.
Scott’s 20-year career in technology spans both academia and industry as researcher, engineer and leader. Prior to joining LinkedIn, he oversaw mobile ads engineering at Google, including the integration of Google’s $750 million acquisition of AdMob. Prior to its acquisition by Google, Scott was responsible for engineering and operations at AdMob, the world’s leading platform for mobile monetization.
Kevin Scott
CTO, Microsoft
David Kenny
Senior Vice President, IBM Watson and Cloud Platform
David Kenny is senior vice president, IBM Watson and Cloud Platform, spearheading the Watson technology platform development, as well as optimizing IBM’s public cloud for data and cognitive workloads.
David was most recently General Manager, IBM Watson, responsible for the Watson platform, its global ecosystem of business partners and developers, and emerging solutions. Prior to joining IBM, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Weather Company (Weather), where he oversaw the company’s portfolio of consumer and business-to-business weather brands and businesses including The Weather Channel, weather.com, wunderground.com and WSI. David was previously president of Akamai, the leading cloud platform designed to help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences to mobile and fixed Internet users.
Previously, he served as managing partner of VivaKi, the combined worldwide media and digital arm of Publicis Groupe, and he was co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Digitas Inc., atop global integrated brand agency.
David currently serves on the Board of Directors of Best Buy. He is also a director of Teach for America, a nonprofit that enlists recent graduates to teach and to effect change in under-resourced and low-income communities. David received an MBA from the Harvard School of Business, and a bachelor's degree from the GM Institute (now Kettering University).
David Kenny
Senior Vice President, IBM Watson and Cloud Platform
Eric Ries
Author, The Startup Way
Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, which has sold over one million copies and has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, which has become a global movement in business, practiced by individuals and companies around the world. This methodology was the inspiration behind his founding of the LTSE and his books The Leader's Guide and The Startup Way.
He has founded a number of startups, including IMVU, where he served as CTO, and he has advised on business and product strategy for startups, venture capital firms, and large companies, including GE, with whom he partnered to create the FastWorks program. Eric has served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School, IDEO, and Pivotal, and he is the founder and CEO of the Long-Term Stock Exchange.
He lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children.
Eric Ries
Author, The Startup Way
Glen de Vries
President and Co-Founder, Medidata Solutions
Glen is the President and Co-Founder of Medidata Solutions, the leading cloud platform for life sciences research. Glen has been driving Medidata's mission since the company’s inception in 1999: Powering smarter treatments and healthier people. His publications have appeared in Applied Clinical Trials, Cancer, The Journal of Urology, Molecular Diagnostics, STAT, Urologic Clinics of North America and TechCrunch. He is a member of the Carnegie Mellon University President’s Global Advisory Council, a Columbia HITLAB Fellow, a member of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association European Advisory Board, and serves on the board of the Young Scientist Foundation.

Glen received his undergraduate degree in molecular biology and genetics from Carnegie Mellon University, worked as a research scientist at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and studied computer science at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematics.

You can follow Glen on Twitter at @CaptainClinical.
Glen de Vries
President and Co-Founder, Medidata Solutions
Jeetu Patel
Chief Product Officer
Jeetu Patel is Chief Product Officer. He leads the Box Platform organization, driving the strategy of platform business and developer relations. He also oversees corporate strategy and development organization for Box. Before joining Box, he was General Manager and Chief Executive of EMC’s Syncplicity business unit. Prior to EMC, Jeetu was president of Doculabs, a research and advisory firm focused on collaboration and content management across a range of industries, including financial services, insurance, energy, manufacturing and life sciences.
Jeetu holds a B.S. in Information Decision Sciences from the University of Illinois Chicago.
Jeetu Patel
Chief Product Officer
Chris Yeh
Senior Vice President of Product
Chris Yeh is Senior Vice President of Product at Box, where he is responsible for product management, platform strategy, partner ecosystem development and third-party innovation. Chris joined Box from Yahoo!, where he was the product lead for Yahoo! Groups, Delicious and other community products. Chris was also the head of the Yahoo! Developer Network, a third-party developer program. Prior to Yahoo! Chris was Vice President of Marketing at Tacit Software, which was acquired by Oracle in 2008.

Chris holds an M.B.A. from Wharton and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
Chris Yeh
Senior Vice President of Product