Featured Speaker

Jim Blackwell


Jim Blackwell is a managing director in BDO Digital. He brings more than 25 years of IT solution design and delivery to enterprise and mid-market businesses in the Indianapolis area. 

Jim is the managing director of the Indianapolis office where he leads a team of IT professionals that include cloud architects, project managers, developers, business analysts, data analytics developers, and client experience professionals. He is devoted to ensuring client satisfaction throughout the entire delivery of each project. His technical background and strong leadership history allow him to help drive the right technical solutions and ensure they are being delivered to produce expected results. His passion is making the complex understandable. 

Jim has led infrastructure, cloud, and managed services delivery teams in the US and India during his career. He developed his technical skills as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer in the Indianapolis market and has used that experience to help business leaders create long term digital transformation strategies that resolve business problems and scale for long term growth.

MBA, University of Southern Indiana B.A., Ambassador University