Padmini Ranganathan is Global Vice President, Product Strategy, SAP Procurement solutions.  In this role, she leads a team of experts focused on watching emerging trends and helping shape the future of digital and sustainable procurement.  Prior to this, Padmini led an incubation role, delivering SAP Ariba Supplier Risk – a data-driven microservice innovation that enables risk-conscious business decisions.

In her 25+ year career journey, Padmini led the Analytics for Industries marketing team at SAP which brought to market the first analytical applications and content to drive business value and adoption of SAP’s analytics technologies. Before joining SAP, Padmini led T&E and category procurement products at Ariba, and part of the team that transitioned the first Ariba products into the Cloud.  Prior to Ariba, Padmini worked at Oracle, where she was part of the procurement product management team that delivered the first web-based, self-service applications for procurement and a technical consultant in the areas of order management, inventory & distribution, procurement and manufacturing.

Padmini is a passionate advocate for bringing technology to business users that simplifies and enriches their daily work and decision making. And as the SAP Sustainability Council lead for Procurement with Purpose initiatives, she is dedicated to helping businesses balance their costs with conscience, to drive economic value while making a sustainable impact on the larger world.

Padmini has a post-graduate diploma in computer science from UC Berkeley, California, and a bachelor’s degree in commerce with a major in Cost & Management Accounting from Bangalore University, India. 

Dawn Tiura, CEO and President of SIG, SIG University and Future of Sourcing digital publication, has more than 26 years of leadership experience, with the past 22 years focused on the sourcing and outsourcing industry. In 2007, Dawn joined SIG as CEO, but has been active in SIG as a speaker and trusted advisor since 1999, bringing the latest developments in sourcing and outsourcing to SIG members. Prior to joining SIG, Dawn held leadership positions as CEO of Denali Group and before that as a partner in a CPA firm. Dawn is actively involved on a number of boards promoting civic, health and children's issues in the Jacksonville, Florida area. Dawn is a licensed CPA and has a BA from the University of Michigan and an MS in taxation from Golden Gate University. Dawn brings to SIG a culture of brainstorming and internal innovation.

After an extensive career in the retail sector purchasing soft and hard goods from manufacturers and wholesalers, managing logistics, and working with technology providers, Michele switched to the financial industry eleven years ago. Since that time Third Party Risk has become her passion. Today, Michele leads the Third Party Management Team within Technology who are accountable for TD Bank's Infrastructure, Cloud, and Employee Enablement Vendors, as well as the Enterprise Protect portfolio. She likes to view the services she manages for the Bank quite simply as once you open your laptop or save a file, it is likely you are using a service that Michele's Team buys. On top of that, her Team buys services that keep the Bank's data safe!