Michelle Grover

Biography

Michelle Grover is a visionary enterprise technology executive and board member with over 30 years of experience leading high-performing, global technology organizations. Most recently, she served as the first Chief Technology Officer at Slalom, where she oversaw the global technology organization which included infrastructure, data, enterprise IT and architecture. Renowned for her "Buy the Foundation, Build the Advantage" philosophy, Michelle has a proven track record of managing capital budgets up to $150M and decoupling revenue growth from operational overhead.  Prior to her tenure at Slalom, she held leadership roles at Twilio, SAP Concur, and First Command. Michelle is recognized for driving innovation, scaling operations, and advising companies on emerging technology and growth strategy.

Sessions

1. The Invisible Infrastructure Is Writing Itself

   Tue, Nov 3, 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM CT

   Track Engineering

   Every decision a company makes runs on data nobody is watching, until it breaks. Now AI is writing into that record faster than anyone can verify it. Rani Johnson has held the CIO seat five times. With Michelle Grover, she gets into where verification belongs, why an untraceable output is worse than a wrong one, and what it costs to build the check instead of auditing the damage later.