Alexander Ratner, Ph.D

Alex Ratner is the co-founder and CEO at Snorkel AI, and an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington. Prior to Snorkel AI and UW, he completed his Ph.D. in CS advised by Christopher Ré at Stanford, where he started and led the Snorkel open source project, and where his research focused on applying data management and statistical learning techniques to emerging machine learning workflows such as creating and managing training data and applying this to real-world problems in medicine, knowledge base construction, and more. Previously, he earned his A.B. in Physics from Harvard University.

Alex Watson

Alex Watson, co-founder and chief product officer at Gretel.ai, has been a trailblazer in the technology sector, focusing on data security and innovation. Before founding Gretel, he launched Harvest.ai, a security startup that leveraged NLP and AI to protect cloud data, which was acquired by Amazon in 2016. At AWS, he pioneered Macie, one of the company’s leading security services. Alex’s technological roots run deep, with experience at the NSA and co-founding BTS to revolutionize battlefield communications, leading to the U.S. Army’s first deployment of 3G and 4G networks.

Andy Hock, Ph.D

Andy Hock is VP of Product Management at Cerebras Systems. Andy was the Senior Director of Advanced Technologies at Skybox Imaging, makers of high-resolution satellites, when the company was purchased by Google in 2014 for $500M. After the acquisition, he continued on as Product Manager at Google before joining the team at Cerebras. Prior to Skybox, Andy was the Senior Program Manager, business development lead and a Senior Scientist for Arete Associates. He holds a PhD in Geophysics and Space Physics from UCLA.

Arjun Sambamoorthy

Arjun Sambamoorthy is the Co-Founder at Armorblox, Arjun brings over a decade of experience in building security products, solving technical problems, and instilling engineering excellence. Previously, Arjun was a core member of the security group at Netskope, where he was instrumental in designing and developing Netskope’s DLP and Data Plane product lines. He was also part of the Unified Threat Management team at Juniper Networks, with a focus on improving the scale, performance, and efficacy of Juniper’s SRX platform. Arjun holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from UTDallas and multiple patents.

Cai GoGwilt

Cai GoGwilt has always been passionate about building products that make people more effective at their jobs. He is an MIT graduate in Computer Science and Physics, as well as a former software engineer at Palantir Technologies. By day, he’s a celebrated software engineer and thoughtful leader; by night, he’s a concert cellist and karaoke enthusiast.

Dan Shiebler, PhD

As the Head of Machine Learning at Abnormal Security, Dan builds cybercrime detection algorithms to keep people and businesses safe. Before joining Abnormal Dan worked at Twitter: first as an ML researcher working on recommendation systems, and then as the head of web ads machine learning. Before Twitter Dan built smartphone sensor algorithms at TrueMotion and Computer Vision systems at the Serre Lab.

Durga Kota

Durga Kota is the Chief Technology Officer for the Americas region and is responsible for leading the strategies to translate Fujitsu technology innovation into differentiated and industry-ready solutions for the region’s customers.

Throughout his 24-year career, Durga has held customer-facing, consultative solution-selling and technology leadership roles. His collaborative spirit and deep technical expertise enable him to build trust, work in true partnership with customers, and provide solution leadership that leverages advanced technologies to solve even the most complex challenges.

Durga holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi, and a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India.

Durga resides in the San Diego area with his family and likes to spend his free time trekking on one of the many trails in the area, or volunteering for the local food bank.

Eddie Zhou

Eddie joined Glean as a founding engineer. He leads a team of engineers and AI experts at Glean who work on challenging problems across Machine Learning, LLMs, NLU, domain adaptation, semantic search, and much more in order to build the world’s best work assistant. Previously, he worked as a research and software engineer for Google, contributing to a number of major projects, including natural language and semantic solutions. His current mission is to leverage AI and NLP technology to create the enterprise solution that speaks the language of each individual workplace.

Gaurav Rao

Gaurav is currently the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Machine Learning and AI at AtScale. He is responsible for defining and leading the business that extends the company’s semantic layer platform to address the rapidly expanding set of Enterprise AI and machine learning applications.

Most recently, Gaurav served as VP of Product at Neural Magic – innovators in software acceleration for deep learning utilizing sparse model architectures. Previously, he served in a number of executive roles at IBM spanning product, engineering, and sales that were focused on taking cutting edge data science, machine learning, and AI products and solutions to market; specializing in model training, serving, mlops, and trusted AI in the context of driving business outcomes for enterprise applications. He is also an advisor to data and AI companies.

Igor Taber

Igor is a founder and General Partner of Cortical Ventures an early stage AI-focused venture fund. Cortical Ventures was started to invent, incubate and invest in the companies leading the AI revolution. Previous, Igor was an early investor and SVP of Corporate Development at DataRobot where he was responsible for defining DataRobot’s growth strategy, fundraising, managing the sourcing and execution of mergers and acquisitions, and strategic partnerships. He raised >$500M in growth capital and executed multiple M&A transactions and partnerships.

He joined DataRobot from Intel Capital. As managing director at Intel Capital, Igor led AI and data investment practice Under his leadership, Intel Capital was recognized as one of the most active investors in AI. Igor has funded and served on boards for >20 organizations.

Jay Alammar

Jay Alammar, through his popular machine learning blog, Jay has helped millions of engineers visually understand machine learning tools and concepts from the basic (ending up in NumPy, pandas docs) to the cutting-edge (The Illustrated Transformer, BERT, GPT-3).

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Rama Akkiraju

Rama Akkiraju is a VP of Enterprise AI & Automation at NVIDIA. Prior to this, Rama held various leadership roles at IBM in her two decades-plus career. Most recently, Rama was an IBM Fellow, and a Master Inventor at IBM where she was the CTO of IBM Watson AI Operations product, a product to optimize IT operations management with AI. Prior to this role, Rama led the AI mission of enabling natural, personalized, and compassionate conversations between computers and humans where she and her team developed and delivered several differentiating AI Services such as Personality Insights, Tone Analyzer, Emotion Analysis, and Sentiment Analysis services to the IBM Watson platform. Rama also led the effort to scale IBM Watson’s AI services including Automatic Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding, and Chatbot services to dozens of languages. Before this, Rama led various projects and Research teams at IBM Watson Research Center and IBM Almaden Research Center in the areas of agent-based decision support systems, business process management, electronic marketplaces, and semantic Web services, for which she led a World-Wide-Web (W3C) standard.

Rama has co-authored over 100 technical papers. Rama has 50+ issued patents and 25+ pending. She is the recipient of 4 best paper awards in AI and Operations Research areas. Rama served as the President of ISSIP, a Service Science professional society for 2018, and continues to be on the organization’s Strategy committee. Rama holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and has received a gold medal from New York University for her MBA for the highest academic excellence.

Rama was named by Forbes as one of the ‘Top 20 Women in AI Research’ in May 2017, has been featured in ‘A-Team in AI’ by Fortune magazine in July 2018, and was named ‘Top 10 pioneering women in AI and Machine Learning’ by Enterprise Management 360 in April 2019. Rama is also the recipient of the University of California, Berkeley’s Athena award for Technical and Executive Leadership for 2020. In 2022, Rama was named ‘USA Industry innovator of the Year 2022’ by the Women in AI Organization and ‘AI Industry Leader of the Year 2022’ award by the Women Leaders in Data & AI (WLDA) organization.

Ryohei Fujimaki, PhD

Ryohei is the Founder & CEO of dotData. Prior to founding dotData, he was the youngest research fellow ever in NEC Corporation’s 119-year history, the title was honored for only six individuals among 1000+ researchers.

During his tenure at NEC, Ryohei was heavily involved in developing many cutting-edge data science solutions with NEC’s global business clients, and was instrumental in the successful delivery of several high-profile analytical solutions that are now widely used in industry.

Ryohei received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Sarah Kefayati

Sarah Kefayati is the Senior Technical Staff for IBM.

Vipul Ved Prakash

Vipul Ved Prakash is a software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of anti-spam company Cloudmark, social-media search company Topsy, and open-source AI company TogetherAI. In 2013, Topsy was acquired by Apple Inc. The acquisition was reported to be valued over $200M. In early 2000s, Prakash became widely known for creating Vipul’s Razor, a popular open-source anti-spam system. He was named to the list of 2003’s Top 100 young innovators in the world by MIT Technology Review for this work on anti-spam, at the age of 25.

Yashar Behzadi, PhD

Yashar Behzadi PhD is the CEO and Founder of Synthesis AI. He is an experienced entrepreneur who has built transformative businesses in AI, medical technology, and IoT markets. He has spent the last 16 years in Silicon Valley building and scaling data-centric technology companies. Yashar has over 30 patents and patents pending and a Ph.D. from UCSD with a focus on computer vision and AI.

Yochai Konig, Ph.D

Yochai Konig is Ada’s Vice president of Machine learning. He has over 30 years of experience in Machine Learning research, conversational AI, and Deep Learning. Prior to joining Ada, Yochai led the Genesys Innovation group as well as Genesys Advanced Research. Yochai was the co-founder and CTO of Utopy (acquired by Genesys) where he created the first Speech Analytics product “SpeechMiner” which started the Speech Analytics market. He started his career at SRI International as a Research Scientist  where he served as Principal Investigator for Department of Defense (DoD) research projects in the areas of Speech Recognition, Speaker Verification and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Yochai Konig is the inventor of over 100 patents and author of numerous academic papers. Yochai holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Berkeley,  and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, summa cum laude,  from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.