In this session, we'll unveil the latest updates to AI-enhanced tools like Microsoft Copilot in Azure, Azure Arc, and Azure Monitor that are designed to help you simplify and secure operations across on-premises, edge, and cloud environments. We’ll demo how you can leverage Azure’s flexible portfolio of management tools to automate configuration and deployment tasks, govern IT inventory anywhere, and observe across the full stack to ensure contingencies for failures.
Tom Jackson
Chief Architect
Tom is a customer focused, results driven technology executive with 20+ years in Financial Services. He is focused on transformation for business value while fostering a positive culture that values continuous learning, collaboration, and a growth mindset. Tom is currently leading NT’s tech transition to modern digital, ai, cloud, devops data and platform engineering.
Prior to working at Northern Trust, he worked for the Federal Reserve at the CTO and COO of National IT. Tom led the Central bank tech response to the pandemic, retired the last of the FRB’s mainframes and launched a broad digital / cloud first modernization strategy. The effort established the public secure controls foundation and defined the roadmap to drive the FRB primarily to Public Cloud. Tom contributed to FedNow (a cloud native realtime gross-settlement system), the digital dollar, and block chain settlement experiments while at the FRB.
Prior to his tenure at the Federal Reserve Tom served at Citigroup for 17 years designing and executing a variety of business and technology change initiatives leading efforts.
Prior to working at Northern Trust, he worked for the Federal Reserve at the CTO and COO of National IT. Tom led the Central bank tech response to the pandemic, retired the last of the FRB’s mainframes and launched a broad digital / cloud first modernization strategy. The effort established the public secure controls foundation and defined the roadmap to drive the FRB primarily to Public Cloud. Tom contributed to FedNow (a cloud native realtime gross-settlement system), the digital dollar, and block chain settlement experiments while at the FRB.
Prior to his tenure at the Federal Reserve Tom served at Citigroup for 17 years designing and executing a variety of business and technology change initiatives leading efforts.
Carl Lingenfelter
Artificial Intelligence Product Manager
Carl Lingenfelter is the Artificial Intelligence product manager for Northern Trust, where he leads the use of AI to improve productivity and deliver innovative client solutions.
Prior to this role, Lingenfelter served as head of technology strategy and optimization, leading strategy, digitalization, and optimization, and negotiating multi-year public cloud agreements. Lingenfelter also served as platform executive for Northern Trust’s Omnium® technology platform, which provides fund administration, trade operations, and investment analytics to asset managers and sophisticated institutional investors. Lingenfelter led the integration of the Omnium business following its acquisition from Citadel, and was head of strategy for Northern Trust’s asset servicing business, leading market development, innovation, strategic partnerships, and acquisitions.
Lingenfelter was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and McLarty Associates. He served as a policy advisor and speechwriter on economic and international affairs in President Clinton's White House, and on the staff of Congressman Lee Hamilton, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Lingenfelter also worked as staff director of the Illinois Office of Management and Budget and a trustee of the State Employees’ Retirement System.
Lingenfelter holds a B.A. in History and International Studies from Yale University and an M.B.A. in Economics and Finance from the University of Chicago.
Prior to this role, Lingenfelter served as head of technology strategy and optimization, leading strategy, digitalization, and optimization, and negotiating multi-year public cloud agreements. Lingenfelter also served as platform executive for Northern Trust’s Omnium® technology platform, which provides fund administration, trade operations, and investment analytics to asset managers and sophisticated institutional investors. Lingenfelter led the integration of the Omnium business following its acquisition from Citadel, and was head of strategy for Northern Trust’s asset servicing business, leading market development, innovation, strategic partnerships, and acquisitions.
Lingenfelter was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and McLarty Associates. He served as a policy advisor and speechwriter on economic and international affairs in President Clinton's White House, and on the staff of Congressman Lee Hamilton, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Lingenfelter also worked as staff director of the Illinois Office of Management and Budget and a trustee of the State Employees’ Retirement System.
Lingenfelter holds a B.A. in History and International Studies from Yale University and an M.B.A. in Economics and Finance from the University of Chicago.
Meagan McCrory
Product Manager
Meagan is a Product Manager on the Azure Arc platform team. She focuses on multi-cloud support as well as AI enhancements for Arc connected workloads.
Shiva Sivakumar
Partner Director of Product
Shiva Sivakumar has over 30 years of experience in the software industry, most of it is delivering enterprise software. Shiva heads product management for observability platforms and products at Microsoft, including Azure Monitor.