Your hosts for the evening will include...

Rachel Weston Rowell, Senior Vice President - Insight Partners

Rachel spent the last decade-plus advising and coaching executives and executive teams at fast growing tech companies on how to scale their teams, their strategies, and themselves. She joined Insight Partners in 2021 to continue that work inside the portfolio. Her focus centers on scaling organizations and becoming excellent at leading through the fast cycles of change that high growth companies experience.

Wes Rosenberg, Vice President - Insight Partners

Wes has over 25 years of experience designing and implementing enterprise-class software and managing technology teams. Before joining Insight in 2022, Wes was CTO/VP of Product and Engineering at LevelsBeyond, ClearCaptions, and numerous mobile, telecom, and media startups. His current role at Insight is to guide product and technical teams in building best-of-breed organizations using processes, tech, and tools that help align with the business and deliver the right things.

Alex Williams, Founder and Publisher - The New Stack

Alex founded The New Stack 10 years ago alongside his wife, Judy. He's a longtime technology journalist who did stints at TechCrunch, SiliconAngle and what is now known as ReadWrite. Alex has been a journalist since the late 1980s, starting at the Augusta Chronicle in 1989 after completing his master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. While in college, Alex played baseball in France, which led him to writing stories of his experiences, and eventually a career in journalism.

Heather Joslyn, Editor-in-Chief - The New Stack

After a couple years in a senior editor role with The New Stack, Heather became the publication's Editor-in-Chief. Heather has a special interest in management and careers issues that are relevant to software developers and engineers. She previously worked as editor in chief of Container Solutions, a Cloud Native consulting company, and as an editor/reporter at The Chronicle of Philanthropy and the Baltimore City Paper.

KubeCon Reception with The New Stack, Insight Partners, and StackGen