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Ismaen Aboubakare

Sr. Product Manager @ Salesforce

Ismaen Aboubakare a Product Manager at Salesforce, focusing on AI. With expertise in AI from his time at Airkit.ai, where he contributed to developing a platform for AI agents, he now drives innovation and growth in AI at Salesforce.

Nikolay Advolodkin

Principal Developer Advocate @ Sauce Labs

Nikolay Advolodkin is a distinguished software development and test automation expert, acclaimed international speaker, and AI explorer, currently serving as a Principal Developer Advocate at Sauce Labs and Founder of UltimateQA. With an unquenchable thirst for technology and a deep-seated passion for teaching, Nikolay has successfully trained over 150,000 developers across 184 countries, reflecting his universal appeal and commitment to broadening the horizons of knowledge.

Krishna Aerabati

Director of Engineering @ Relativity

Krishna Aerabati is a Director of Software Engineering at Relativity! He is always thinking about humans, machines and how machine intelligence can make it easy for humans dealing with tons of information! As a long time Greater Chicago area resident, he gets to discover eDiscovery industry, engineer products that aims to bring a bit more justice this world every day. He also likes to think if himself as a work-life-balance expert, but his family may disagree! These days, he is volunteering along with eminent members of scientific community organizations towards the goal of address the alarming crisis of Soil Extinction!

Anshu Agarwal

General Partner @ Converge VC

Anshu, Converge General Partner, has been successfully founding, building and exiting venture-backed tech companies in Silicon Valley. In 2018, Anshu co-founded Nimbella, leading the company as CEO from ideation to exit and was by Digital Ocean. Post-acquisition, Anshu served as the VP and GM of Digital Ocean’s Serverless & Kubernetes business unit. From 2000 to 2018, Anshu was a founding member or early executive heading product and marketing of four successful Silicon Valley B2B startups which were acquired by different public companies including Akamai, Juniper, HPE and Citrix. Anshu received a BSEE from Indian Institute of Technology, MSEE from Rutg
From 2000 to 2018, Anshu was a founding member or early executive heading product and marketing of four successful Silicon Valley B2B startups.
Anshu received a B.E. in E&C from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, an MS in EE from Rutgers University, and an MBA from Kellogg, Northwestern University.ev

Lata Ahuja

Sr Director of Engineering @ CarGurus

I have over a decade of experience building and leading successful teams that deliver cutting edge products. My previous places of employment span numerous industries, from workforce management to email marketing, to endpoint security.

I have worked at diverse companies and in various environments including startups and am currently at CarGurus.

I have experience in delivering products in the enterprise application space to small businesses by scaling technology teams.I have experience in delivering products in the enterprise application space to small businesses by scaling technology teams that effectively facilitate software development from prototype through hyper-growth curves that enable successful acquisitions.

Alexander Alten

CEO @ DataBloom AI

Alexander is the co-founder and CEO of Databloom AI, a company that enables the true value of data with a federated data lakehouse. Our flagship product, Blossom Sky, enables direct and real-time access to data silos and data pools and accelerates data processing across multiple data processing engines with federated data lakes.

I'm also one of the original creators of Apache Wayang (incubating), an open-source platform for cross-platform data processing. I have held executive data leader roles at Cloudera, Allianz, Evariant, e.on., and X, where I built big data cloud solutions, IoT, or AI to drive business outcomes.
Alexander is currently founder and CEO for Databloom, the Data Mesh company. Alexander operates at the crossroads of data driven enterprises, AI and computer science to deliver solutions that people remember.

Shan Anwar

Principal Software Engineer @ Intuit

As an Intuit employee for the past 11 years, Shan Anwar has served as a technical leader of various complex initiatives for distributed systems. His technical acumen and passion around automation has led him to create numerous innovative automation solutions and file patents in the field of Quality Automation and Operational Engineering. He currently leads Chaos Engineering for Intuit Developers Platform where his team responsible for reliability engineering. Prior to Intuit, he worked on cyber security research projects at Lockheed Martin. Earlier in his career, Shan co-authored publications submitted to IEEE conference on Markov-based control systems.

Ahmad Awais

CEO @ Langbase.com

Ahmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineering leader, founder, and CEO of Langbase.com. NASA Mars Ingenuity Helicopter mission code-contributor. Angel investor. Ex-VP of Developer Relations, Google Developers Advisory Board founding member, Node.js Community Committee Outreach Lead, Business Governance Board Member Linux Foundation & OpenAPI Initiative, WordPress Core Developer, and previously VP of Engineering at WGA. He has authored various open-source software tools used by millions of developers worldwide, like his Shades of Purple code theme (4M Dev Users) or projects like the corona-cli (10+ Billion Requests).

Gaurav Baid

Co-Founder & CPO @ Avataar

A deep learner who has an unquenchable quest for new experiences; a passionate consumer behaviour student who believes in starting with WHY; a wanderer at heart who seeks out adventure sports; an out and out entrepreneur who got business acumen handed down to him in genes are what describe Gaurav.

In his entrepreneurial journey at Avataar, Gaurav has set out to deliver meaningful & delightful enhancements to visual experiences by deploying 3D Computer Vision and AI technological advancements. His passion for the consumer tech space started early and he desires to foster a nurturing ecosystem for the next generation.

Monica Bajaj

VP of Engineering @ Okta

Monica Bajaj is a seasoned technology executive with vast industry experience leading global, diverse engineering teams. Her expertise spans technology, operations, global expansion, and product launch in areas such as Consumer/Enterprise, Infrastructure, Business Intelligence, DevOps, and Security. She is skilled in building high-performing, secure software systems that can handle millions of users and transactions with a focus on engagement, resiliency, and scalability. Monica has held senior engineering leadership positions at Okta, Workday, Network Appliance, and UKG. She earned a BS and MS in Computer Science from IIT Mumbai, India.

Tim Bates

CEO/Founder @ Tim Tech InSights

Timothy E. Bates, a U.S. Marine veteran, stands at the forefront of technology as a dynamic Fractional CTO. With a career spanning over three decades, he has been a pivotal force in the tech industry, navigating the realms of AI, machine learning, and immersive experiences. Tim's passion lies in blending technology with human potential, showcasing his cybersecurity and digital innovation expertise. His role as a mentor and educator highlights his commitment to sharing knowledge and fostering the next generation of tech enthusiasts. His insights, shared through Tim Tech Insight, reflect his dedication to demystifying technology and making it accessible all.
Tim’s passions include Robotics, CPU/GPU Competitive Overclocking, Blockchain, Immersive, and Game Development.

Adam Blum

CTO @ EmPath

Serial CTO/co-founder of AI/ML companies with several successful exits. Wrote first applied neural networks an embarrassing 30 years ago. Led first enterprise applied NLP product at Microsoft. Adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon.

Jeff Bodzewski

Founder | CEO @ agenci3

Award-winning data and digital transformation leader recognized by Harvard Business Review, IBM, and Oxford University Press for his innovative models that deliver measurable financial impact.

Jeff has launched new ventures and models as a tech foudner and consulting companies such as Omnicom, Google, Boston Beer, Nissan, Publicis Groupe, Unilever and AT&T. He spent several years as Centrica's senior advisor to deregulate state energy markets.

Jeff earned his MBA in Strategy from Kelley School at Indiana University Bloomington and a BA from Purdue University. He currently resides in Barrington, Illinois with his three sons and two rescue dogs.

Michelle Bonat

CTO @ AI Squared

Michelle is the CTO at AI Squared, responsible for all technology, IT, and Product Management. Most recently an AI CTO at JPMC, Michelle led AI Innovation for Chase Bank Digital, scaled data and AI solutions, and authored numerous AI/ML patents.

She spent 20 years in leadership roles across engineering, product and data science, founded her own Fintech, and lead product roles for three acquired companies. She led engineering and product for financial web applications globally at Oracle.

Michelle serves on the Advisory Board for Northwestern’s MBAi program. She received an MBA from Kellogg and an undergraduate degree from Northwestern.

Michael Bradley

Founder / Managing Partner @ Position 6 Advisory

AI Brown

CTO @ Veritone

Serial Entrepreneur. CTO of a public AI company, Veritone. BS Computer Science from Colorado School of Mines. USC MBA. Ex IBM. Standards author jcp, rfc, oasis. 2 kids and a chocolate lab.

Angel Camacho

Director of Product Marketing @ Redis

Enterprise product expert with years of experience in Cloud, Big Data, and AI/ML Solutions.As a Product Leader, I am committed to improving innovation, competitive intelligence, and market success in a multi-cultural environment.

Gina Casagrande

Director, Evangelism @ Adobe

Gina is a Principal Evangelist for Adobe Experience Cloud with over 20 years experience in technology and marketing. With a proven track record with C-level audiences through story-telling, she help brands translate strategy into technology. An expert in personalization, user experience design, content velocity, A/B/N testing, and real-time Behavioral Targeting optimizations, she helps businesses use analytics-based decision-making to deliver exceptional customer interactions across channels. She has worked with Adobe’s largest and most strategic accounts to re-align their business strategies and pivot their marketing directives to become more customer-centric and improve their ROI.

Felipe Castro Quiles

CEO @ Emerging Rule

Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Felipe holds a Dual MBA and specializes in Deep Learning, Blockchain Revolution, and Virtual Teaching. As founder of Emerging Rule and GENIA Latinoamerica, he shaped the first Western Hemisphere AI Strategy and advised Forbes, DevNetwork, Founders Institute, and IEEE Planet Positive 2030. Married with two children, Felipe's recent achievements include signing the First Regional AI Western Hemisphere Strategy. A survivor turned innovator, he leads Emerging Rule, focusing on K-12 education; GENIA Latinoamérica, driving the Western Hemisphere's AI Ecosystem; and HUBVERY, a drone delivery startup. Felipe brings a humane, life-inspired perspective to redefine the future.

Amreth Chandrasehar

Director of ML Engineering, Observability and SRE @ Informatica

Amreth is a Director at Informatica responsible for ML Engineering, Observability and SRE teams. Over last few years, Amreth has played key role in Public Cloud Migration, CNCF Architecture, Generative AI, Observability and AI/ML adoption at various organizations. Amreth is also co-creator of Conducktor Platform, serving T-Mobile's 140+ million customers, Tech Advisory board member at Observo.ai and Customer Advisory board member at AWS and Elastic.co. Amreth has been invited and spoken at several key conferences and has won several awards within the company and recently awarded 2 Gold Awards at Globee and an International Achievers Award for his contributions.

Stephen Chin

VP of Developer Relations @ Neo4j

Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j and author of The Definitive Guide to Modern Client Development, Raspberry Pi with Java, Pro JavaFX Platform, and the DevOps Tools for Java Developers title from O'Reilly. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including Devoxx, DevNexus, JNation, JavaOne, Joker, swampUP, and Open Source India. Stephen is an avid motorcyclist who has done evangelism tours in Europe, Japan, and Brazil, interviewing hackers in their natural habitat. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do AI, embedded, and robot programming together with his daughters.

Soudip Chowdhury

Founder and CEO @ Eugenie.ai

Dr. Soudip Roy Chowdhury is the founder and CEO of Eugenie.ai. Eugenie is on a mission to help manufacturing companies achieve economic and ecological sustainability using AI and IoT. His illustrative career spans over two decades in building enterprise software and AI products for IBM, Rakuten, Fractal.ai, and others. He holds a Ph.D. in machine learning, has co-authored close to 12 international peer-reviewed technical papers and journals, and 4 US patents. Dr. Chowdhury also holds an adjunct faculty position in one of the premier Indian institutes, IIT KGP. He is passionate about building AI products for the greater social good.

Roger Cummings

Founder & CEO @ FitStack

Entrepreneurial and driven chief executive, with 20 years of leading industry expertise in growing companies in domestic and international marketplaces. Building world-class technology management, product development, and fiscally responsible teams. History of breaking into and establishing new markets, increasing sales, and growing the bottom line while spearheading operational improvements to drive productivity and reduce costs.

Chander Damodaran

Managing Director & Global CTO @ Brillio

Chander Damodaran is a problem solver and evangelist focused on bringing in the right mix of business and technical competency to solve significant business problems. He thrives in fuzziness and loves defining the blueprint for digital transformation with clear outcomes and elevated customer experience. He is currently the Global Chief Technology Officer at Brillio.

Alpesh Doshi

CEO @ Fintricity

I am an entrepreneur focused on delivering solutions with emerging technology and digital transformation. One of the key areas are around leveraging the use of Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) across all parts of a business. Innovation drives growth in businesses!

Alpesh focuses on delivering solutions with emerging technology and digital transformation. He advises on how to leverage the use of Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) across all parts of a business and helping companies transform their business models. Specifically focused on Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence and Data. Areas of focus include architectures such as Data Meshes, and Cloud Native applications.

Gloria Felicia

Co-CEO, Cofounder @ Insightcircle.ai

Gloria Felicia (Glo) is a technology entrepreneur with 2x exits. She graduated from University of Virginia with a degree in Business and IT. In the past, Glo has done research in the area of Deep Neural Networks. Glo is currently running a Cybersecurity AI company called InsightCircle AI (https://insightcircle.ai) and is a board member to several other startups.

Together with Juliet Kelso and Grace Ng, she has co-founded Oasis Collective, a Women In AI Community which holds private brunches, dinners, and demo days.

To learn more about Gloria Felicia, please visit her website at www.gloriafelicia.com.

Alan Flower

EVP, Head Cloud Native & AI Labs @ HCL

Alan Flower is SVP for Cloud Native at HCL Technologies, and heads the HCL Cloud Native Labs & Advisory Services. A successful entrepreneur and technologist, Alan is deeply passionate about using technology to support the transformation of business and driving the creation of innovative products and services.

Anthon Gochev

VP of Engineering @ Luko

- Former full-stack software engineer (still writing code, sometimes)
- Executive experience in startups, having led product and engineering teams
- 1x successful exit two startups ago
- Experience in product strategy, roadmap development, and shipping software products from ideation to MVP to PMF
- Scaled teams at various stages of growth (4 to 10, 20 to 40 and 50 to 85)
- Super enthusiastic about the potential of AI and what it will bring to the future.

Taeil Goh

Sr Software Engineering Manager @ Capital One

I have over 14 years of software engineering experience primarily in cybersecurity delivering enterprise products to high-security industries such as government, military, and finance. Mainly as a software engineer but have been wearing multiple hats including CISO, UX lead, cloud architect, and product manager. Currently, I focus on evolving our cloud offering for both short term and long term growth. I love to wake up every day for another day of a challenge. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from San Francisco State University and master's degree in Master of Information and Data Science at UC Berkeley.

Maheedhar Gunturu

Founder, CEO @ Ittican.org

Maheedhar Gunturu is a seasoned technology executive with over 15+ years of experience in software development with extensive experience in Linux, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Internet-of-Things, Cyber Security, 5G and various software ecosystems. Mr. Gunturu also played an active role in open-source working on cutting-edge distributed systems projects like Hadoop, Hbase, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, OpenCV and PyTorch. Since 2018, Mr. Gunturu has been the Global Head and Director of Partnership & Solutions Engineering of ScyllaDB, an open-source distributed NoSQL system based on the seastar platform.

Anuj Jaiswal

Vice President R&D @ Embrace.io

VP of Engineering at Embrace.io, on to innovative journey of supporting our customer's mobile-first initiatives.

Engineering and Product leader with over two decade of experience building and launching products at high technology startups and companies. Led startups to successful acquisitions, customer and tremendous revenue growth. Acquired startups and led to successful integration and business growth. Founding member of four successful startups - Arkin acquired by VMWare, FrontRange acquired by Ivanti, DBO2 acquired by Industrial Scientific, and RIOTT.

I am passionate to build novel products with customer centric innovative mindset, making complex problems simple.

Grishma Jena

Data Scientist @ IBM

Grishma is a Data Scientist with UX Insights and Engagement, IBM Software in San Francisco. As the only Data Scientist, she supports 80+ user researchers in enhancing user experiences.

She earned her Masters in Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania, with research interests in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. She has delivered 50+ talks and workshops at conferences and universities globally.

She enjoys mentoring and teaching for using data and code to drive change. She is a Fellow of the Python Software Foundation, a Women in Data Science ambassador, and a Society of Women Engineers - Golden Gate leader.
She earned her Masters in Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. She has delivered 45+ talks and workshops at 20+ conferences and universities globally.

She enjoys mentoring and teaching new concepts and help people use data and code to drive change. In her free time, she enjoys traveling, cooking, and writing.

Stefan Johansson

VP @ Netfoundry

Stefan Johansson is a sales leader with nearly 25 years of experience in sales leadership and GTM operational roles. Mr. Johansson has European and LATAM responsibility for all aspects related to revenue growth and go-to-market strategy at NetFoundry, a security driven cloud native networking company. His 25-year career includes sales and GTM leadership roles at start ups as well as larger enterprise software companies such as Cisco, Canonical, DBCE, Citrix and IBM. His extensive experience covers DevOps-, IoT-, security-, network- and cloud domains.
Mr. Johansson has earned an MSC, Engineering Physics from Chalmers University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Chanaveer Kadapatti

Staff Product Manager @ AuditBoard

Professional Summary:

1. Product leader with 20 years experience leading product management & software development initiatives for New Product Development with major customer & financial impact. Led multi-functional teams across geographies - USA, UK, Europe & India.
2. Championed multi-product strategy & roadmap – security, on-prem & cloud data integration platforms, API platform & public REST APIs, authentication & authorization services, e-sign solutions
3. Successfully developed & launched products in fast paced cloud SaaS startup. Went IPO with Anaplan.
4. Owned & scaled up collaboration with high visibility customers, wider product team, engineering teams, marketing, customer success, sales, UX, support teams & external partners. Guided product development via customer research, alpha, beta, early access & general availability (GA) to achieve business objectives.
5. Impactful stakeholder management, cross functional team alignment & talent development.
6. Experienced in Sales enablement, business analysis and consulting at Cognizant. Led finance chartered accountants & engineering teams for implementing CPM (Corporate performance management) projects.
7. Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science, Post-Graduate in Management (Finance, Marketing).

Companies worked for:
1. Anaplan - Principal Product Manager (USA)
2. Cognizant - Product Owner (USA, UK, India)
3. SAP Labs India - Engineering (India)
4. Infosys - Engineering (India)https://www.linkedin.com/in/chanaveer-kadapatti-b-e-computer-eng-pg-management-4995215/

Shankar Kalyana

SVP & CTO @ Stantec

Only the most exceptional IBMers are appointed with the rare distinction of IBM Fellow, the highest technical honor in the company. Shankar led the creation of IBM’s Method for hybrid multicloud-enabled Enterprise Transformation, and received the IBM Corporate Award as a result. He has also won the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award four times – an accomplishment befitting only the most innovative thinkers in IBM. Shankar helps Enterprises worldwide on their Cloud-enabled Digital Transformation journeys

Kiran Kamity

Founder & CEO @ Deepfactor

Kiran Kamity has years of deep domain expertise in app security, DevOps, cloud computing, and containerization. He is the Founder and CEO at DeepFactor and a passionate serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He served as the Head of Product for Cisco’s Cloud BU after his startup, ContainerX, was acquired by Cisco. Kiran was also Founder/VP at RingCube, and after its acquisition by Citrix, he served in leadership roles for Citrix’s XenDesktop BU. With a Master's from Stanford Univ and a B.Tech from IIT, Madras, he is a TEDx speaker and a passionate advocate for early-in-career entrepreneurship. Loves nature, travel, and food.

Ari Kamlani

Senior AI Strategist and Technology Architect @ ex-Beyond Limits

Former AI Technology Architect in the CTO Office at Beyond Limits, operating at the intersection of Strategy, R&D Incubation & Innovation, Partnerships, and Product. He previously worked with leading firms such as ThoughtWorks, JP Morgan Chase, Techstars Ventures, Kudelski Group, Qualcomm, and Broadcom. He has a notable interest in working across early-stage incubating companies and working across Responsible AI dimensions.

Sudheer Kandula

Senior Software Engineer @ Nvidia

A Senior Software Engineer within NVIDIA's Compilers division. I hold a master's degree from San Jose State University and have accumulated over 12+ years of industry experience. My journey has taken me through esteemed companies such as VMware, Silver Peak (now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise), and Ericsson. My passion for innovation and my extensive experience drive my commitment to shaping the future of software engineering. I am dedicated to advancing the tech community through my work and contributions.

Sugandha Kapoor

Co-founder, CEO @ Shaztra

Startup founder with customer-focused product management experience. I lead cross-functional teams from ideation to launch to deliver products that delight users and drive business results.

Ayse Kaya

VP, Strategic Insights & Analytics @ Slim.AI

Ayse Kaya is a business strategist and analytics expert, currently spearheading data science operations as the VP of Strategic Insights & Analytics at Slim.AI. Kaya serves as an AI Ethics Advisory Board member at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University.

A graduate of the MIT Engineering Systems Division, Kaya was previously a strategy/analytics lead at CloudLock and Cisco Systems. Kaya has a proven track record of translating complex data into actionable insights and leading cross-functional teams towards analytical excellence. In addition to her corporate roles, Kaya is a frequently sought-after keynote speaker and panelist at leading industry events.

Diana Kelley

CISO @ Protect AI

Diana Kelley is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Protect AI. She also serves on the boards of WiCyS, The Executive Women’s Forum (EWF), InfoSec World, TechTarget Security Editorial, and DevNet AI/ML. Diana was Cybersecurity Field CTO for Microsoft, Global Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security, GM at Symantec, VP at Burton Group (now Gartner), Manager at KPMG, CTO and co-founder SecurityCurve. Her extensive volunteer work has included serving on the ACM Ethics & Plagiarism Committee, Cybersecurity Committee Advisor at CompTIA, CTO and Board Member at Sightline Security, Advisory Board Chair at WOPLLI Technologies, and RSAC US Program Committee.

Simba Khadder

Founder & CEO @ Featureform

Simba Khadder is the Founder & CEO of Featureform. After leaving Google, Simba founded his first company, Triton. There, him and his team built ML infrastructure that handled over 100M monthly active users.
He later open-sourced Featureform’s virtual feature store. Featureform's declarative python framework allow ML teams to define, manage, and serve their model features.
He’s also an avid surfer, a mixed martial artist, a published astrophysicist, and ran the SF marathon in basketball shoes.

Chandra Khatri

Cofounder @ Stealth

Chandra Khatri is a prominent figure in technology, best known for developing state-of-the-art AI products such as the world's first fully autonomous Conversational AI technology, the Alexa Prize (a ChatGPT-like voice experience for Alexa users 5 years before ChatGPT), ELMAR (the first Enterprise Language Model), and the first model to detect hallucinations.

He is the co-founder of Got It AI. In addition to developing products, he invests in and serves on the boards of cutting-edge technology companies.

Prior to Got-It, Chandra led a number of AI teams at Amazon (AI, Alexa Prize), Uber (Multimodal AI, Conversational AI), and eBay (Recommendation Systems).

Rajeev Koolath

CTO, Senior Partner @ DXC Technology

Rajeev is CTO, Chief Architect and IT Executive who has decades of experience forming and leading practices focusing on Digital Enterprise Architecture, AI/ML, Digital Products Delivery, key Transformation programs, Industry Partnerships, and high-value Advisory at global Fortune 100 enterprises.

He brings over 25 years of experience as Technology executive, Business visionary, and Servant leader - leading Enterprise Architecture, Transformational Change Management, and Delivery Practices with expertise in building world-class Technology and Consulting organizations, Lean business strategies, and digitizing multi-billion-dollar portfolios.

Chaitrali Kshirsagar

Machine Learning Engineer @ SYNTHETAIC INC.

Chaitrali is currently a Machine Learning at Synthetaic, a startup focused on building socially impactful AI solutions without the need of labelled data. Her work focuses on using Computer Vision techniques on satellite imagery to gain important insights ranging from natural disaster situations to conserving nature and animals. Her prior experiences include developing on-device ML solutions for sports telecasts and autonomous farm vehicles. Chaitrali is highly passionate about using AI for the betterment of the society and strives to make big impact through her work.

Deepak Kumar

CEO @ Doc-E.ai

Entrepreneur focusing on AI, DevRel, CyberSecurity & SaaS
Founder & CEO Doc-E.ai - Grow Developer Adoption by aligning Community Support, Advocacy, Content and Education.

CEO/CTO @Clearedin [acquired by Barracuda Networks]

Software Architect @BladeNetwork [acquired by IBM]

Sr. Software Engineer @AndiamoSystems [acquired by Cisco]
Software Engineer @SycamoreNetworks

B.Tech(H) IIT Kharagpur

Ajan Kutty

Principal Engineer @ Nvidia Corporation

Ajan Kutty is an AI infrastructure expert. He plays a crucial role in architecting and developing critical features for networking devices, enabling them to meet the unprecedented demands of AI/ML workloads. AI-specific use cases have imposed extraordinary expectations on networking infrastructure, and his contributions have been instrumental in surmounting these challenges. Before joining NVIDIA, he worked with Samsung and Dell. His expertise spans across various domains, including telecom, wireless protocols, and cloud networking.

Larry Lancaster

Zebrium CTO @ ScienceLogic

AI/ML since before it was cool (but still after backprop - Neural Networks Leadership Award, ICNN ‘95). Nimble Storage Chief Data Scientist. Glassbeam founder. NetApp Senior Engineer. I love attacking new challenges, achieving 90/10, and laying the groundwork for team expansion and product refinement. Mentor, modeler, hacker. Devoted father. Occasional opossum rescuer.

Manav Leslie

CTO @ Adarga AI

With more than 20 years experience building enterprise software. Last few years, I have been leading the collaboration between traditional software engineering teams and AI/ML teams, where both teams learn new skills from each other.

Tal Lev-Ami

CTO & Co-Founder @ Cloudinary

Tal Lev-Ami is Cloudinary's CTO and one of its Co-founders. Tal has extensive professional and academic background in software engineering, software architecture, security and program analysis. Tal's professional background includes being Chief Architect in technology startups Trivnet and Blue Security and founding of Ndivi, a boutique software development company. Tal has a PhD in computer science from Tel-Aviv University. Tal has three children and lives in Modiin, Israel.

Nava Levy

Tech Evangelist @ AIML

Nava is a Technology Evangelist for Data Science and MLOps. She started her career in tech with an R&D Unit in the IDF and later had the good fortune to work with and champion Cloud, Big Data, and DL/ML/AI technologies just as the wave of each of these was starting. Nava is also a mentor and judge at the MassChallenge accelerator and the founder of LerGO—a community driven EdTech venture. In her free time she enjoys cycling, 4-ball juggling, and reading fantasy and sci-fi books.

Shannon Lietz

CEO @ ThirdScore

Shannon Lietz is the CEO and Co-Founder of ThirdScore, a trust intelligence platform. Ms. Lietz has over 30 years of business, technology, and cybersecurity experience. She has previously managed and led large teams for several Fortune 500 companies, such as: Adobe, Intuit, ServiceNow, Sony, and many others. Ms. Lietz has a Bachelor's of Science in Biological Sciences and is a Faculty member at IANS Research. She is a leading contributor to the DevSecOps community, Cyber City Map, 324.ai, and RAVE Metrics.

Iveta Lohovska

Principal Data Scientist @ HPE

Iveta is Principal Data Scientist and AI Ambassador at HPE, with a mission to democratize decision intelligence and safe, reliable AI. She brings a unique combination of deep technical expertise, world-class public-speaking skills, analytics management experience, and the ability to lead organizational change. Iveta has guided more than 50 AI projects and designed HPE’s analytics program. She is the HPE Women’s Excellence Award Winner and a UN Advisor for AI Ethics.

Mario Lopez

CIO @ Bravent

Mario López is a Computer Engineer with more than 10 years of experience in projects using Microsoft technologies. Mario works as Chief Innovation Officer in Bravent (VeryTI Group) where he leads projects using the latest technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IoT, Mixed Reality, etc.

Mario’s work consists of the application of the most recent technologies to improve and solve the various problems that big companies face across a range of sectors, to ensure the success of their projects.

Bryant Macy

VP of Engineering @ Procore Technologies

Bryant is a software engineering, product and operations leader with 20+ years of experience leading teams in designing, developing and launching successful enterprise SaaS, Cloud, IoT and mobile software products.

Ohad Manor

CTO @ 4Cast

During the last 20 years I have been developing and leading development teams in the AI / DI world based on mathematical models.

Carlos Martin

CEO @ macami.ai

Carlos Martin is the CEO of macami.ai, a company focused in bringing business efficiency by using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI. Formerly Director of Strategic Alliances for Brazil at Blue Prism, the pioneer of the RPA market.

Carlos has a degree in Computer Science from ITESO and a Master’s in Technology Commercialization from UT Austin. He has 20+ years in IT with a solid experience in technology, systems, problem solving, research and business strategy.

Carlos is the author of the upcoming book “The Efficient Enterprise”, a business book that brings these technologies closer to the business user.

Maya Mikhailov

CEO @ SAVVI AI

Maya Mikhailov is the CEO / Founder of SAVVI AI, a Decision automation tool powered by Machine Learning. Before SAVVI, Maya co-founded GPShopper, a mobile SaaS platform acquired by Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) in 2017. At Synchrony, Maya was SVP / GM, leading a new business unit building AI-powered FinTech products.
A featured speaker at CES, Money 2020, Shop.org, CTIA, and other industry conferences, Maya has been highlighted in outlets such as Bloomberg, Forbes, CNBC, Business Insider, and others. She has authored articles for TechCrunch and Quartz. She has also been an Adjunct Professor at NYU, lecturing on mobile technology.

Manish Modh

Founder & CEO @ Andromeda 360, Inc.

Manish Modh is Founder & CEO, Andromeda 360, Inc. where he is taking to market the A360 AI Delivery Platform. Previously, he was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for the Multicloud Management Platform for IBM Services. Prior to IBM, he was Founder/CTO of Gravitant, a cloud brokerage company that was acquired by IBM in 2015. He has 30+ software patents and software engineering degrees from Carnegie Mellon and the University of Houston-Clear Lake.

Jeremy Morgan

Senior Training Architect @ KodeKloud

Jeremy Morgan is on a mission to help developers get better at what they do. He's a Training Architect for Kode Kloud, and an avid tech blogger and speaker. He has two decades of experience as an engineer building software for everything from Fortune 100 companies to tiny startups.

Jeremy enjoys teaching through his popular tech blog and YouTube channel as well as contributing to open source as a .NET Foundation Member, and DevOps Institute Ambassador.

Simon Müller

CTO @ Wattx

I’m a tech person with an entrepreneurial mindset and experience in leading engineering teams. I like operating at the interface between technical systems and business processes.

In the past years, I've founded and sold a startup, built the digital lab of a German Mittelstand company, and now combine both aspects as the CTO of the Venture Builder wattx. Since we're building digital solutions and ventures for other (traditional) companies, I've been part of a team that tackles challenges from building a healthy food store online to engineering an IoT solution that reduces scrap in wet-milling processes.

Daniel Myers

Senior Manager, Developer Relations @ Snowflake

Daniel leads Developer Relations at Snowflake. Previously, he held leadership roles at several companies, including Google and Cisco. In addition, he led and founded multiple startups. Daniel has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and an MBA, and he is an inventor of three patents.

Giorgio Natili

Head of engineering @ Mozilla

Giorgio is the Director of Engineering at Mozilla for Firefox Desktop where they own the web extensions development platform and user experience, the localization processes and infrastructure for Mozilla, and the technology to enable Firefox integration with macOS, Windows, and Linux.

In the past, they led the non-Latin script Kindle rendering team to deliver millions of books on billions of devices in Japanese, Indic, Arabic, and Chinese. Giorgio also had the opportunity to lead the engineering effort to implement new payment methods and regulations for Amazon Brazil.

Giorgio organized Droidcon Boston, SwiftFest, and spoke to over 100 international conferences.

Chinmay Abhay Nerurkar

Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft

Chinmay Abhay Nerurkar is a Principal Engineer at Microsoft Ads, where he harnesses the power of AI/ML, Big Data, and Cloud-native technologies to deliver a premium, privacy-focused online advertising experience to internet users across mobile, digital, and connected TV platforms. He holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from New York University and brings over 14 years diverse experience in the AdTech, FinTech, Embedded Systems, and Video Processing industries. He is passionate about AI/ML assisted software solutions, low-latency distributed computing and takes a keen interest in Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models.
In my role as Principal Engineer at Microsoft Ads (formerly Xandr Inc.) I spearhead a multitude of strategic engineering initiatives across the Microsoft Advertising Org on Audience & Identity, Ad Attribution & Measurement through privacy compliant, AI/ML based solutions at scale. Xandr conducts over 400 billion daily real-time Ad auctions world-wide with an average response time below 250 milliseconds. Currently I’m leading Engineering on Advertiser First-Party Audience Modeling product suite for extending reach by 3-5x using Graph Neural Network (GNN) & LLM (GPT) embeddings and contextual modeling to address Ad-campaign under-spend. Apart from this, I’ve focused on building advanced ML-driven features like an innovative frequency management product that enables Advertisers to control the number of impressions seen by non-addressable users, Xandr’s Buy-side ML Product Suite for click & conversion prediction helping Advertisers to achieve their Ad-campaign KPIs across digital, mobile, video and CTV inventory, and an Identity Graph for Cross-Device Targeting with 11 Billion Nodes & 16 Billion Edges using a proprietary Household Resolution Algorithm based on HashMin and modified Gale-Shapley algorithm.

Prior to AdTech, I worked in Fintech to build a low-latency stock trading system that handled 3% of all US stocks traded daily by volume and an industry-first trading-fraud detection system that performed ML based trading-pattern detection on streaming order data. I worked on PTZ camera-based systems to perform real-time motion detection and facial recognition.

I have presented my work at conferences, including DeveloperWeek NYC, PAPIs LATAM Data Science conference, and Graph+AI ML conference. I have actively participated in industry panels, sharing insights on Machine Learning Engineering and Graph technology. I ran the Xandr’s Tech blog and had over 50 blog posts published by employees over two years. I’m a Senior Member of IEEE, an at-large member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon international honor society for computing disciplines and Program Chair for AdKDD ACM conference on knowledge discovery and data mining. Furthermore, I have played a key role in mentoring and guiding the career growth of engineering managers and individual contributors, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

I hold a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from New York University and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Mumbai.

Magith Noohukhan

Director Strategic Events Content @ Braze

As an Evangelist at Braze, Magith Noohukhan addresses the vision for customer engagement and how can brands feel empowered to create more meaningful human conversations with their customers which is natural, personalized, and the one that adds value. Prior to joining Braze, Magith held Evangelist positions across Germany at XING and Indeed.com and has more than 15 years of experience including working at the German Aerospace Center in Munich, Germany

Magith Noohukhan holds a Master's degree in Robotics Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany, and a bachelor's in Electronics and Communications Engineering.

Neil OConnell

MD @ Interactive

Neil is an experienced transportation and logistics leader focused on creating and driving innovative strategies that increase shareholder value. Neil focuses on solving customer problems with best practice products built with Agile methods and then automating the results. Neil worked for Oracle, APL and two stints as a CTO for logistics companies. Neil worked with PE/VCs acquiring and merging companies including extensive operations, IT and cash to cash process due diligence. Neil has a clear focus on profit, process, and capital optimization for his clients. Neil lived in the USA and Asia and was educated at USC.
• Demonstrated expertise in maximizing product value through Agile, Lean and SDLC
• Voice of customer evangelist driving product, placement, pricing, and promotion specifically to demonstrated customer buying preferences.
• Experienced in logistics, pharma/medical device, manufacturing, retail, hi-tech, and transportation verticals.
• Focused on building and then commercializing new, emerging technologies to the mass market.
• Specific experience building/using technology to establish, grow and optimize development and product teams supporting corporate initiatives and sales efforts.

Stephen Oladele

AI Developer Relations Engineer @ Encird

Stephen F. Oladele is a Machine Learning Developer Relations Engineer at Encord. He has a background in machine learning, having worked on end-to-end solutions in industries ranging from agriculture to health technology and manufacturing. He is an organizer at the MLOps.community and a 4-year AWS Community Builder. He founded AI Community Africa and Neurl, a developer education agency for data and AI startups..

Erwan Paccard

Head of Products @ Traefik Labs

Erwan Paccard is Head of Product at Traefik Labs where he leads product management and product marketing. Previously, he held worldwide senior product management and product marketing positions at Cisco, IBM, and smaller software editors for the past 25 years. Armed with broad and deep IT knowledge, he has seen the evolution of the technology stacks from virtualization to containers and cloud-native software stacks.

Azmath Pasha

Chief Technology Officer @ Metawave Digital

Azmath is a Information Technology Executive with over 25 years of progressive experience across multiple industry sectors. Azmath is highly successful in establishing vision and strategic capability in the marketplace by effectively leveraging emergent technologies such as Cloud Data Modernization, Data Mesh, Data Fabric, Digital Intelligence, Digital Transformation, Data Sciences, Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics.
Azmath with prior ""BIG 4"" high-performance technology consulting experience, had key responsibilities including help drive value/business initiatives for several large programs and projects across various industries.

Ashish Patel

Founder & CTO @ Blueshift Innovations

Kiran Peddireddy

SME Data Engineer @ CoxAutomotive

Kiran Peddireddy is a Data Engineer technical & strategic leader with over 15 years of experience enabling companies with digital transformation and helping them become data-driven organizations. A highly regarded thought leader with a strong background in data engineering, data analytics, Cloud Migration, and automation. Currently leading Data Engineer Modernization efforts at Cox Automotive with teams of data engineers & analysts to upgrade the existing tool stack and decommission legacy data stream systems, enrich data streams, and build modern data applications.

Roy Penn

CTO @ Tymely AI

Roy is the co-founder and CTO of Tymely AI, a startup aiming to end the ubiquitous frustration of interacting with customer service. Tymely does so by creating an AI-agent that is indistinguishable from the best human representative.
Prior to that he led the engineering and R&D groups at 3 start ups and was a captain in the Israeli military intelligence.
He is a father of 3, who likes to travel and read whether he has time for it or not.

Natalie Pistunovich

AI Consultant @ AI Consulting

Natalie is an avid learner and question asker, an OpenAI ambassador, a Google Developer Expert for Go, a public speaker and a sailor.

Currently she is heading everything tech related at a Stealth Mode startup, organizing tech conferences (Security, SRE, AI and Go), and the Berlin chapters of the Go and Women Techmakers user groups.

She worked in 4 continents as a Lead Developer Advocate, Engineering Manager, Software and Hardware Engineer, and a Co-Founder of a mobile start-up. In her free time, she is wondering if there is life on Mars.

Raul Popa

CEO @ TypingDNA

Raul is the co-founder and CEO of TypingDNA, an AI startup that authenticates people by their typing patterns. The technology is used for security purposes like authentication and fraud detection. Raul's leadership has earned TypingDNA global recognition, including from Forbes, TechCrunch, ProductHunt, Gartner, and Frost&Sulllivan. Among others, the company received funding from Google's AI fund, Gradient Ventures, and TechStars Ventures. Raul was recognized as a top AI influencer and won a 2021 EY Emerging Entrepreneur award. With over 20 years of experience building software, UX-focused products and AI systems, he's a sought-after speaker at events worldwide.

Deepak Ramakumar

VP Cloud Engineering @ Ruckus Networks

Engineering Leader in building multi billion dollar product engineering company with expertise in Cloud, Security Data Lake and ML Platforms

Madhan Rangaswamy

CTO @ development united

Madhan Rangaswamy is a seasoned technologist with more than two decades of proven expertise in delivering large scale, enterprise grade systems with consistent results. He has worked in companies like Hewlett Packard, Symantec, Computer Associates, Proctor & Gamble, Trilliant Inc, Apple, Securly and now as a Technical Consultant for Smart City Projects

Payal Rani

Staff Software Engineer @ Robinhood

Payal is a Staff Software Engineer at Robinhood. She is responsible for building infrastructure to quickly detect any cybersecurity threat against Robinhood in near real-time.
With more than 16 years of experience in Engineering across multiple companies including IBM and Microsoft, Payal is passionate about the intersection of Cloud, ML and Cybersecurity. At Microsoft, she wore many hats - shipped security features for Windows 10 as a TPM, breached some of the foundational services at Microsoft as a Red teamer, strengthened Azure platform security as Software Development Engineer, and shipped features in Microsoft Sentinel as Applied Machine Learning Engineer.

Vaijanath Rao

Head of Data Science @ Quicken

I am currently the Head of Data Science at Quicken.com, where I lead teams to deliver new sets of data-driven capabilities and automated insights to users. I am responsible for ML across all the teams, including Product, Marketing, and Finance.

I have an extensive knowledge in natural language processing, machine learning, information retrieval, web search engines, data mining, personalization, and distributed large-scale systems. Recently, I've been focusing on developing generative AI for financial transactions to explore its applications beyond text and images.

In my free time, I enjoy reviewing machine learning books, papers, and conferences for select publications and events.

Swanand Rao

Chief Product Officer @ CloudAEye

Swanand's experience extends to executive roles at CloudAEye, Adobe, Microsoft, Oracle, and other Fortune 500 companies. Swanand has contributed to the field of product management through both books and articles, and as an inventor on numerous patents. He holds an Executive MBA from University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, Masters in Computer Science from University of Southern California.

Surbhi Rathore

CEO, Co-founder @ Symbl.ai

Surbhi is the CEO and Co-founder of Symbl.ai, a machine learning platform that helps businesses amplify communication experiences in their products and solutions. Her goal is to empower builders to easily craft unique AI-powered real-time and post meeting/call experiences that enhance human intelligence. Starting her journey as a software developer in India, she's spent over a decade working on CX solutions for major telcos and enterprises worldwide, adapting to changing customer expectations. She's a vocal advocate for immigrant founders and firmly believes in creating value through collaboration without borders.

Asit Kumar Sahoo

AI Product Lead @ Iron Mountain

Seasoned Product Leader with Diverse Expertise

I bring over 10 years of hands-on experience as a product professional, having successfully launched products from scratch and grown portfolios valued at $100M+ for esteemed companies across the US and APAC regions.

My background spans both B2B and B2C products, and I thrive in designing both hardware and software solutions, catering to the needs of private and government clients alike.

We are exploring cutting-edge GenAI, NLP, and Computer Vision technologies, paving the way for groundbreaking use cases and positioning ourselves as industry leaders in the IDP space.He holds an MBA from the prestigious Ivy league Columbia Business School, US, and a Master's equivalent in Industrial Management from NITIE, India. He is also a trained Computer Science Engineer having done a Bachelor of Technology from India.

Asit has advised publicly listed company CEOs, industry association leaders, and other C-level executives to turn around businesses and consulted startups on creating new products and business lines in India. He not only co-founded an e-commerce company but also scaled the business 4x year on year in 3 years while setting up strategic partnerships with firms across India and China. He has led multimillion-dollar M&A integrations and launched new innovative products and led the growth strategy for a $100+ Mn business catering to 3500+ businesses in the US.

Asit specializes in 0 to 1 products taking them from concept to launch (drawing from my Startup experience which I had cofounded in India) and is an expert on Growth scaling (drawing from experience at Equifax, EY & Nomura). Currently he works for Flexport ( TIME's Most Influential Companies of 2022 and a CNBC Disruptor Company) where he leads an entire new product line to make Global Trade easy starting with the Fortune 500 companies in the US. At Equifax Asit led the Product Growth and New product innovations for US’s Commercial businesses.
Some of his accomplishments :

International Jury:
Edison Awards
Stevie Awards - Judge at Middle East North Africa Stevie Awards, Sales & Customer Service
Globee Award - Judge at the CEO World Awards, Women World Awards, and Business Excellence Awards.
Webby Awards
Codie Awards
Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards

Membership:
MLE℠ – Member of Leaders Excellence awarded by Leaders Excellence at Harvard Square
Academy member -International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences
AICRA-All India Council for Robotics & Automation

Patent Filed

Patent 1 - 360 degree real-time risk assessment of business for reliable supply chain operations - Business Credibility Product

Patent 2 - CSRA Score – Multidimensional risk assessment including alternative risks for onboarding, portfolio monitoring, and collection purpose

When not working, he pursues his passion for the Climate change mission. He is always looking out for moonshot ideas and pragmatic actionable to not feel inspired but also to make an outsized impact on society.

Mohamed Sayed

CEO @ Heuro Labs

Mohamed Sayed bootstrapped and leads Heuro Labs GmbH, a small and mighty AI company based in Berlin. Heuro Labs, established in 2015, has worked with who's who in Energy, Automotive and Logistics before making some key discoveries a few years ago and doubling down on its path to synthesising intelligence in a small form factor.
Mohamed Co-Authored the G20 policy brief on AI and its impact on the labor market. Previously, Mohamed Held senior technical positions at Nokia, HERE, Yahoo! and Symantec. He is an avid reader, enjoys learning new things, teaching himself music composition and playing strategic board games.

Joshua Scotton

CTO @ Personify XP

Joshua Scotton co-founded Personify XP, a pioneering AI firm delivering real-time behavioural analytics and anonymous personalisation for various sectors including e-commerce, automotive, finance, and healthcare. Joshua holds a PhD from the University of Warwick's Intelligent and Adaptive Systems Group and has a rich background in software development and product management, infusing AI innovation to drive results.

Igor Seletskiy

CEO @ Cloud Linux Inc

Igor Seletskiy is the Founder and CEO of CloudLinux, TuxCare, and AlmaLinux OS Foundation. Igor launched CloudLinux in 2009, forging it into today’s prominent player in the Linux, Enterprise & service provider ecosystems. In 1997, he formed PSOFT, pioneering products for the service provider market such as multi-server commercial control panel, website builder, and one of the first web file managers. Igor Seletskiy is a respected and accomplished technology guru specializing in Linux, kernel development, cloud, and security. He is a frequent and enthusiastic speaker at industry events worldwide, and a passionate commentator on many sector issues.

Zafar Shahid

Sr. Staff Engineer @ Meta

Dr. Zafar Shahid received his Ph.D. from the University of Montpellier, France in 2010. From 2001-2006, he was a Sr. Software Engineer at Streaming Networks, working on Real-time multimedia products. During 2011-2015, he worked as a Media Encoding Architect for multiple start-ups designing both IPTV and low latency video pipelines. During 2016-2019, he worked on GeForce Now cloud gaming platform at Nvidia. Since 2019, He is technical lead at Meta Platforms, where he is working both with Academia and Industry to solve the hardest problem in Multimedia Processing. Dr. Shahid has more than 40 publications and three patents.

Akshay Sharma

Chief AI Officer @ Lyric

Akshay has worked in solving zero-to-one problems in healthcare using data and ML. Most recently as the CTO of doc.ai, Akshay and his team were the first in the world to crack federated learning on health data both on server and phones, bringing privacy to remote clinical trials. Akshay is also the vice chairman of the IEEE group running decentralized clinical trials where he leads the novel biomarkers workgroup, building new standards for DCTs. Previously, he built the world's first consumer-controlled API for health data exchange at Human API. Currently he runs hotg.ai as the CEO and co-founder.

Akram Sheriff

IOT Software Architect @ Cisco

Akram Sheriff is an IoT Software Engineer/Technologist with the Cisco IoT Engineering team. Akram holds 30+ software patents, both granted / under review by (USPTO), Germany/EU region.

Akram has done cutting edge AI/ML early stage startup work with DL, tinyML along with EDA, fabless semiconductor companies globally.

He specializes on different wireless protocols, IoT software stacks, AI/Machine learning, Enterprise WiFi, IoT architectures, and the Cloud networking domain.

Akram is also a frequent presenter in many Internal Cisco Live, Devnet , APJC SecCon -2020 and external conferences in topics related to AI/ML, Wireless Networking , IOT and Cloud technologies.

Suhas Shetty

Senior Engineering Manager @ SoFi

Engineering leader with over 13 years of experience building products across big data, conversational AI and financial recommendations. I am currently heading engineering for SoFi Insights, managing teams responsible for Financial insights, Credit score monitoring and ML based user feeds. Led SoFi Insights through a period of substantial growth, exceeding a million users and driving tens of millions of revenue. Skilled at delivering complex technical projects while managing timelines and cross functional expectations. Practice inclusive leadership & intentional talent development while managing high performance teams.

Hugo Shi

CTO @ Saturn Cloud

Hugo Shi a data science leader with 15 years of experience with data science and software projects at companies ranging from JP Morgan to the Chicago Trading Company. He is the CTO and co-founder of Saturn Cloud where he helps to make sure that Saturn Cloud is secure, scalable and easy to use for all data science teams. Hugo has a PhD in Signal Processing and his academic research focused on iterative reconstruction algorithms in medical imaging.

Harish Kumar Singh

Director @ Lacework

Been in enterprise security/analytics for over 10 years. 2 startups as founding engineer (joined < 5 employees) and started 1 as a cofounder.
Have always been working on data-problems from an ML/AI and analytics point of view. Extracting insights from the data and enabling users to get answers for various questions on the data is my expertise.

Bhawna Singh

CTO @ Okta

Bhawna Singh is a senior technology executive with 20 years of experience in successfully building and leading talented teams of engineers to transform and scale technology for a global user base. Bhawna has led multiple tech transformations, scaled systems from 0 to 100 million monthly users, led global expansion of products, participated in multiple acquisitions and spearheaded innovation to drive user growth and engagement, delivering multi million dollar revenue growth.

Vivek Singhal

CEO & Chief Data Scientist @ Cellstrat Inc.

Vivek is an Entrepreneur and Thought Leader in Artificial Intelligence and deep-tech industries. He is an eminent data scientist with expertise in AI, ML and Data Science.

Vivek has worked in the tech industry for top global companies, such as IBM, AT&T and Schlumberger. He is currently a Co-Founder at CellStrat (www.cellstrat.com) – a leading AI firm that is developing cutting-edge Generative AI products for global enterprises.

Vivek runs one of the largest AI research communities via CellStrat, focussed on GenAI, NLP and Computer Vision.

Vivek holds a B.E. from IIT Roorkee and an MBA from Georgia State University, Atlanta.

Rohit Sinha

VP of Enterprise Solutions @ Encora

Rohit Sinha is a Director of Product Development at Synerzip. He works with various technology companies and helps them in fulfilling their product and technology roadmaps. He leads teams of architects, tech leads, project managers, and QA professionals. Before the current position, Rohit was in different technology roles including solutions architect and s/w developer for many years. Rohit holds an MBA concentrating in Information Technology from UT Dallas. He also holds both MS and BS in computer science and has earned the PMP credential.

Marisa Smith

Developer Advocate

Marisa has a background in theoretical and computational physical chemistry, and she's run experiments at particle accelerators worldwide. After finishing her Ph.D., she moved into industry. First was the prestigious Insight Data Science boot camp, where she retrained as a Data Scientist. Then she became Streamlit's first developer advocate, working on initiatives throughout the company. After Streamlit's acquisition by Snowflake, she moved on to other opportunities and found Shipyard. She has a passion for learning and teaching others. She has been lucky enough to present at several webinars and conferences, ranging in topics from python, deployment, physics and chemistry.

Gihad Sohsah

CTO @ Capoom

Applied machine learning and deep learning specialist
• 10+ years of experience as a Lead Data Scientist
• Expertise in Forecasting, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Fraud Detection and Prevention, and Risk Assessment
• MSc. Computer Science

Vishal Srivastava

CTO @ Fortium partners

Vishal Srivastava is an accomplished technology/product executive with 15 years of experience in a variety of industries. He has a proven track record of delivering results in fast-paced, dynamic environments and is skilled at building, managing and leading high-performing teams. Vishal has a strong technical background and is well-versed in a wide range of technologies, including cloud computing, data analytics, ML/AI and software engineering. He is a strategic thinker with excellent problem-solving skills and a strong ability to translate complex technical concepts into business terms. He holds a Bachelor's degree from Cochin University and MS CS from Columbia University.

John Stafford

Chief Executive Officer @ Parallel Communications

John has accumulated extensive expertise in the fields of telecommunications, IoT, AI and ML applications, holography, radiometric sensing, mobility, and payments technology. He has over 35 years of experience in engineering, product development, marketing, business development and public relations in technology fields. Before joining Parallel, John was responsible for marketing and business development for a semiconductor start-up; and was a divisional manager at NEC America where he successfully launched multiple product lines and managed new technology introductions. John holds a Bachelor’s degree in Broadcasting from the University of Wisconsin–Platteville.

Roxy Stimpson

VP of Engineering, Office of the CTO @ F5

Roxy, Head of Innovation & VP of Engineering in the Office of the CTO, leads a charter to accelerate the pace and impact of innovation at F5 – a security and application delivery company. She advocates leveraging technology, lean-agile processes, and machine and human connections to deliver tangible positive impacts. Before F5, Roxy was the CTO of IoT World Labs leading global teams to create, build, and launch an innovative digital data transformation SaaS platform. She holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Washington with 25+ years of experience in enterprise technology and business transformation.

Shankar Subramaniam

CTO @ Concentric AI

I am the founder/CTO of an AI/LLM data security posture management (DSPM) startup. I am responsible for product, engineering, technical pre-sales and post-sales customer success.

Vijji Suryadevara

CEO & Founder @ Akyavi LLC

Vijji is an Entreprenuer, Tech Leader, Speaker & Startup Investor. She is passionate about using technology and innovation to create positive change in society.

In her role as the Head of Delivery of Cognitive Solutions at Tonomus NEOM , she is focused on AI, IOT & Metaverse driven Cognitive Cities.

Vijji was the Founder, CEO & CTO of CareerWaze an AI driven Future of Work startup and Founder & CEO of BPA Technologies, a VC funded Content management startup which was acquired by a Moody’s group company.

Vijji is also the founding director of nonprofit SeemandhraForum.org and nonprofit initiative Shespeaksbureau.org.

Andrei Tara

CEO @ Openfabric

Founder & CEO @openfabricai - the world's first platform that provides straightforward access to AI solutions through the elimination of technical hurdles

Kerem Tomak

Founder, CEO @ Frankfurt School

I have over 25 years of experience in AI, analytics, and digital marketing, and I am the founder and CEO of mindspaceAI, a startup that develops generative AI solutions for various domains and industries. I am also an MIT certified professional in machine learning and AI, and a board member and advisor for several organizations in the fields of finance, technology, and innovation.

My mission is to bridge the gap between digital and physical worlds, and to understand how people make decisions in different environments, such as online, offline, and AR/VR.

Juan (John) Tubert

CTO @ Tombras

Juan recently joined Tombras after 17 years at R/GA, where, in addition to creating breakthrough work for brands, he helped build the agency’s near-shore office in Buenos Aires. Juan’s leadership in the creative technology space has led to work widely recognized by industry awards. With a deep knowledge of artificial intelligence, diversity, the metaverse and machine learning, Juan is helping Tombras create culture-cutting, innovative digital creative work.

Mike Tung

CEO @ Diffbot

Mike Tung is the CEO and Founder of Diffbot, an adviser at the Stanford StartX accelerator, and the leader of Stanford's entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. In a previous life, he was a patent lawyer, a grad student in the Stanford AI lab, and a software engineer at eBay, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Mike studied electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley and computer science at Stanford.

Ketaki Vaidya

AI Product Manager @ Oracle

Ketaki Vaidya is an AI Product Manager at Oracle. She hosts a podcast, "Personal Branding for Professionals" which shares career development strategies to help professionals build a successful career in tech. The podcast serves as a career development resource for over 7000 professionals. As a woman in tech, she is involved with various initiatives like the 1 Million Women in STEM and Women in Data Science that are addressing the gender gap in the industry. She has been featured in the Entrepreneur Magazine, Mind the Product blog, and the 1 Million Women in STEM campaign for her work.

Bob van Luijt

CEO & Co-Founder @ Weaviate

Bob is CEO and co-founder of SeMI Technologies, the business created around the open-source vector search engine Weaviate. Besides SeMI and Weaviate. Bob is a frequent speaker on the topics of open source, digital technology, software business, and creativity. He has spoken at around 100 events (including TEDx) on the aforementioned topics in Europe and the US.

Vaclav Vincalek

CTO @ 555vCTO

Over the past 25+ years Vaclav has developed his talents from a foundation in information technology and web security to the connected worlds of crowd-sourced knowledge and social media. He is an award-winning technologist specializing in founding and growing service and software organizations with a strong emphasis on emerging markets. He presents an unusual combination of both deep technical expertise and broad business knowledge with a global perspective.

Jurgen Weichenberger

VP AI - New Value Streams @ Schneider Electric

Industrial Analytics is the fusion of manufacturing, production, reliability, integrity, quality, sales and after-market analytics. By combining the skills and experience, we are creating the next level of AI & ML Solutions for our clients at the Schneider Electric AI Hub. My team is responsible for developing the next generation value streams where we are looking at the challenges of the future of our clients and solving it with our Industry Domain Knowledge and Products which form the Schneider DNA.

Richard Whitehead

Chief Evangelist @ Dell Technologies

As Chief Evangelist, Richard brings a keen sense of what is required to build transformational solutions. He’s also a DevOps Institute Ambassador.

As CTO, and Technology VP, Richard brought new technologies to market, and was responsible for strategy, partnerships and product research.

Richard served on Splunk’s Technology Advisory Board through their Series A, and more recently co-chaired the ONUG Monitoring & Observability Working Group.

Richard holds three patents, and is considered dangerous with JavaScript.A former CTO, and Technology VP, Richard brought new technologies to market, and was responsible for strategy, partnerships and product research.
Richard served on Splunk’s Technology Advisory Board through their Series A, providing product and market guidance.
He served on the Advisory Boards of RedSeal and Meriton Networks, was a charter member of the TMF NGOSS architecture committee, Chaired a DMTF Working Group, and recently co-chaired the ONUG Monitoring & Observability Working Group.
Richard holds three

Scott Wilcox

Founder @ Here and Tomorrow

Scott currently serves as CTO & Co-Founder of LitX, a SaaS platform for civil litigation and as Principal at Here and Tomorrow, a boutique agency providing technology and product consulting services. He also serves on the Board for Directors of Eventbase Technologies Inc - the leading mobile event technology platform for premium brands.

Previously, Scott was both the Chief Innovation Officer and first CTO of SXSW where he developed the web and mobile software, IT, digital marketing, and video production necessary for producing the world renowned SXSW Interactive, Music, and Film conferences and festivals held every March in Austin, TX.

Misha Yalavarthy

Engineering Manager of Security @ Semgrep

I'm currently a Security Engineer at Cloudflare where we are helping to build a better Internet.

Tobias Zwingmann

Managing Partner @ RAPYD.AI

Tobias Zwingmann is an experienced Data Scientist with a strong business background. He is Co-Founder of the German AI startup RAPYD.AI and helps companies to implement machine learning and AI faster while achieving meaningful value. With over 15 years of professional experience in a corporate setting, he has additionally gained extensive experience in building data science use cases and developing an enterprise-wide data strategy.