Cristina Ionescu,
Advisory Director
Head of KPMG Romania Outsourcing HUB

Cristina has been part of KPMG in Romania for 16 years, having extensive audit as well as advisory experience, mainly focused at process reengineering, end-to-end outsourcing advisory, as well as internal control improvement projects. She started in 2013 the journey towards intelligent automation, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the impact these have on the business environment. Cristina is now leading the Outsourcing HUB KPMG Romania, the Romanian Outsourcing HUB, rendering robotized services for the Western Europe, mixing humans and robots for a more efficient tomorrow.

Jim Close,
Regional Vice President for the UK and Ireland
Kofax

Jim is the Regional Vice President for the UK and Ireland at Kofax. Jim has been in the UK technology market for four decades, with a variety of experience in software, telecoms, banking, pharma, retail, international leadership, marketing and sales. He is equally at ease in the boardroom, pitching to investors, leading hands-on turnarounds, or taking new technology to market and has become something of a specialist in de-tangling the jargon of technologists and creatively applying technology to real-life business problems.