Speakers

Mark Lohmeyer leads the Compute and AI Infrastructure business for Google Cloud. In this role, he is responsible for the Google Cloud Compute Engine, AI/ML infrastructure (Cloud TPU and GPU), Core ML services, block storage (Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk), and enterprise solutions (SAP on GCP, Google Cloud VMware Engine, etc.)
Mark’s background includes leadership roles in general management, product management, marketing, business development, and engineering management, across a wide range of core infrastructure technologies, including compute, storage, and networking.

Prior to joining Google, Mark was the SVP/GM of VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure Business Group. In this role, he led a large-scale, global organization, spanning engineering, operations,
product management, and product marketing for the VMware infrastructure portfolio across Private Clouds, Public Clouds, and Cloud Provider Partners / Sovereign Clouds.

Prior to VMware, Mark led the product team for Enterprise WAN and Routing at Cisco and was the GM for HA/DR and Storage solutions at Veritas Software. Earlier in his career, he worked on storage I/O hardware at Adaptec, and digital imaging research and hardware design at the Sarnoff Research Labs, and holds a patent based on this work.
Mark holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also served as the head teaching assistant for Computational Structures.

Barry Cooks is a global enterprise technology veteran with 25 years of experience leading teams in cloud computing, hardware design, application microservices, artificial intelligence, and more. As Vice President of Technology at Amazon, he is responsible for compute abstractions (containers, serverless, VMware, micro-VMs), quantum experimentation, high performance computing, and AI training. He oversees key AWS services including AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and Amazon SageMaker. Barry also leads responsible AI initiatives across AWS, promoting the safe and ethical development of AI as a force for good. Prior to joining Amazon in 2022, Barry served as CTO at DigitalOcean, where he guided the organization through its successful IPO. His career also includes leadership roles at VMware and Sun Microsystems. Barry holds a BS in Computer Science from Purdue University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.

Reynold D’Sa is the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering team which architects, develops, and manufactures the cloud hardware stack powering the Azure fleet. In his role at Microsoft, Reynold has led the development of custom silicon products like Azure Cobalt and Maia, and managed time-to-market delivery of at-scale AI supercomputing infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud. 

With his significant experience transforming the hardware lifecycle for growth and scale, Reynold has been instrumental in driving innovation and delivering solutions to meet the business demands of tomorrow. His work focuses on staying at the forefront of technology, ensuring Microsoft’s cloud hardware stack is built to enable advanced capabilities and support the next generation of cloud computing.

Yee Jiun Song serves as Vice President of Engineering at Meta, leading the Infrastructure Foundation organization. In this role, he oversees the strategy and development of Meta's AI, compute, and storage hardware platforms, custom silicon, supply chain operations, and the management of global infrastructure capacity.  

Yee Jiun's tenure at Meta started in 2010 when he joined the company as a Research Scientist with a focus on improving system reliability and fault tolerance. He later became Vice President of Engineering for the Core Systems organization, where he played a key role in developing the software systems necessary for Meta's services to scale reliably to millions of servers.

Yee Jiun is committed to research and innovation and has published in various academic conferences, including SOSP, OSDI, and ISCA.

Yee Jiun holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University.

David Glick serves as the senior vice president of Walmart’s Enterprise Business Services. He leads enterprise systems, including People Technology Modernization, Finance Tech, Associate Digital Experience (ADE) and Shared Services, that enable Walmart to spend smartly, act digitally and build trust with associates and shareholders. 

Before joining Walmart, David served as the chief technology officer for Flexe, a logistics and supply chain technology provider. There, he was responsible for building the foundational technology that allows for an open logistics network to optimize the delivery of goods. Prior to that, he was vice president of fulfillment and logistics tech for Amazon, where he was responsible for all the technology inside the walls of Amazon’s fulfillment centers, as well as the founding tech vice president of Amazon Logistics. 

David has over 20 years of experience in enterprise tech, product development, system architecture and logistics and fulfillment tech. 

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of South Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

Berta Rodriguez Hervas is the Chief AI and Analytics officer at Pfizer and serves as co-chair of Pfizer’s AI Council. Berta has an extensive background in AI, machine learning and analytics, with a track-record of quickly developing AI solutions and delivering them at scale in large global organizations. Until recently, Berta was Vice President of Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Machine Learning Operation at Stellantis, a global automotive company, designing and implementing the strategy for the next generation of autonomous vehicles. Prior to that, she held key program and product development roles at NVIDIA, Tesla, and Mercedes-Benz.

Alan Rosa is the SVP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Infrastructure and Operations at CVS Health .  The 3,500 colleagues and contractors in his organization are responsible for delivering services and experiences related to Digital Workplace, Contact Center, Infrastructure, Cloud and Technical Operations across all CVS lines of business.  In addition, Alan is the appointed CISO for the company responsible for health and integrity of the Cybersecurity program, GRC/Risk initiatives and Privacy Engineering.

Prior to joining CVS Health, Alan was the CISO and head of IT for Twitter where he was responsible for the Security program as well as all aspects of the Information Technology organization.  Alan has over 25 years of experience driving the development and evolution of enterprises technologies and teams for large multinational brands while building products and services that protect assets while avoiding risks.  He has held global leadership roles for companies such as Disney, MSG, General Electric and Quest Diagnostics. 

An award winning technology leader, Alan was named to the Top 100 of HITEC (Hispanic IT Executive Council), and the ComputerWorld Premier 100. Alan has served on various technical advisory boards and counsels including those for Dell, EMC, Cisco and VMware. 

Alan holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Florida, and Masters degrees from Columbia University and Seton Hall.  He also attended the Rutgers University College of Law. In addition he holds technical designations in the areas of Security, Networking, and Privacy.  He is a veteran of the US Navy having proudly served in the Submarine service. 

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Charles (Chuck) Alpert is Cadence’s AI Fellow and drives cross-functional Agentic AI solutions throughout Cadence’s software stack. Prior to this, has lead various pioneering teams in digital implementation, including Global Routing, Clock Tree Synthesis, Genus Synthesis, and Cerebrus AI.   Charles has published over 100 papers and received over 100 patents in the EDA space.  He is a Cadence Master inventor.  He has served as Deputy-Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, chaired the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, and earned IEEE Fellow. He received a B.S. and B.A. Degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA.

Sam Hamilton leads the Data, Analytics, ML, AI, and GenAI Platform teams, which delivers secure, high-quality and easy-to-use Visa core data assets as a service together with reliable and scalable platforms as services to enable Visa and its partners to rapidly and efficiently innovate data and AI-driven business products and services to lead the digital payment industry.

Laura was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Cologix in 2022 after serving as the company’s President and Chief Revenue Officer since 2018. Laura has over 25 years of experience in cloud and technology global leadership focused on GTM strategy, revenue growth, global customer success, sales and account management, and revenue and client relationship management.  Laura was EVP and Chief Customer Officer at Equinix, and prior she spent nine years at VMware, overseeing the Cloud Services business as co-General Manager and Vice President. Laura held global IT and technical support teams for Jeppesen, a Boeing Company, and served various technical and global leadership positions at Lockheed Martin.  Laura is also on the board of Digital Edge DC. Laura holds an MBA in Information Systems from Regis University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) in Marketing from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where she played collegiate tennis.

Rohit joined Iron Mountain in 2019 to establish and build out the Account Management function for our North American data center business. His current role is SVP & GM, Hyperscale, for Iron Mountain’s Data Center Business Unit. Rohit is responsible for IMDC’s global hyperscale business, including all commercial activities: sales, delivery, and account management, strategic direction for this business, operational oversight, and financial management in order to maximize customer satisfaction, deepen executive-level relationships, and develop and own our growth strategy.

Rohit has held previous roles within Iron Mountain, including VP & Global Head of Hyperscale Implementation & Account Management, where he was responsible for the successful onboarding and the overall customer experience for our hyperscale customers. Prior to that, he was VP, Sales & Customer Success, North America, where he was responsible for our commercial activities for retail & enterprise customers, including new logo acquisition, growth within existing accounts, customer satisfaction, and renewals of existing customers. Prior to that, he was VP, Account Management & Customer Success, North America, where he was responsible for the overall customer relationships for our enterprise and retail customers, including customer satisfaction and renewals of existing customers. Prior to Iron Mountain, Rohit held senior level positions with Verisign at their Security Services business unit and America Online/Time Warner.

Rohit represents Iron Mountain on the boards of the Data Center Coalition and Clean Energy Buyers Association. Rohit is also a board member of the Little Folks School in Washington, DC.

Mohamed and his team work closely with OEMs, silicon partners, tools, and the software ecosystem to ensure Arm is defining and developing solutions that meet the ever-changing requirements of the infrastructure markets. Prior to this role, he played a key role running Arm's IoT business.

Prior to joining Arm, Mohamed spent 10 years in various leadership roles at Broadcom including establishing the Mixed Signal Asic Products (MSAP) division and building Broadcom’s security and mobile payments business from the ground-up. Before Broadcom, Mohamed served in various leadership roles at Ember Corporation, an early IoT startup, where he most notably founded their European subsidiary, and held positions at Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, and Avici Systems, where he led the development of various products, including core terabit routers and top-of-rack ethernet switches.

Sean is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Cerebras Systems. Prior to Cerebras, Sean was Lead Hardware Architect of the IO virtualization fabric ASIC at SeaMicro. After SeaMicro was acquired by AMD, Sean was made an AMD Fellow and Chief Data Center Architect. Earlier in his career, he spent five years at AMD in their advanced architecture team. He holds a BS and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and has authored 16 patents in computer architecture.

Ram Velaga is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Core Switching Group at  Broadcom, responsible for the company’s extensive Ethernet switch portfolio serving broad markets including the service provider, data center and enterprise segments. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2012, he served in a variety of product management roles at Cisco Systems, including Vice President of Product Management for the Data Center Technology Group. Mr. Velaga earned an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University and an M.B.A. from Cornell University. Mr. Velaga holds patents in communications and virtual infrastructure.

Ankur Gupta is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Design Creation at Siemens EDA. This includes Test, Embedded Analytics, Digital IC design, Power Optimization, and Power Integrity Analysis. Formerly he was head of Product Management and Applications at Ansys, Semiconductor and Head of Applications Engineering for Digital Implementation & Signoff at Cadence Design Systems.

Ankur has 20+ years of experience in EDA, working on some of the industry’s most innovative Test, Digital Design, Implementation and Signoff products. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from Iowa State University.

RK Anand is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Recogni, an artificial intelligence startup based in San Jose specializing in building multimodal GenAI inference systems for data centers.

At Recogni, RK spearheads the company’s product development and Go-To-Market strategies within the data center industry.

With an unwavering commitment to customer needs and value creation, RK and the Recogni team are striving to deliver the highest performing and most cost and energy efficient multi-modal GenAI systems to the market.

RK brings over 35 years of leadership experience in data center compute systems, networking, and silicon development. His distinguished career includes engineering roles at Sun Microsystems and serving as Executive Vice President and General Manager at Juniper Networks. As one of the earliest employees at Juniper, RK played a pivotal role in the company’s growth from a startup to generating billions of dollars in revenue.

Nick Harris is the founder and CEO of Lightmatter, a pioneering photonic-computing company that is redefining AI infrastructure. An MIT-trained engineer and scientist, he won the MIT Technology Review’s TR35 award and holds numerous patents on revolutionary photonic technologies. His prolific research—published in top-tier journals such as Nature—has seeded new fields in photonic AI interconnects, processor design, and quantum computing. Under his leadership, Lightmatter has rapidly become the industry benchmark for ultra-fast photonics for connecting AI supercomputers.

John Overton is the CEO of Kove IO, Inc. In the late 1980s, while at the Open Software Foundation, Dr. Overton wrote software that went on to be used by approximately two thirds of the world’s workstation market. In the 1990s, he co-invented and patented technology utilizing distributed hash tables for locality management, now widely used in storage, database, and numerous other markets. In the 2000s, he led development of the first truly capable Software-Defined Memory offering, Kove:SDM™. Kove:SDM™ enables new Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities, while also reducing power by up to 50%. Dr. Overton has more than 65 issued patents world-wide and has peer-reviewed publications across numerous academic disciplines. He holds post-graduate and doctoral degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago.

Atif is the former Chief Digital Officer at McDonald’s and past President at Volvo and MGM Resorts. He’s now the founder of Ritual, an AI-powered platform helping organizations scale structured, intelligent decision-making. 

With a track record of leading digital transformation at the highest level, Atif brings valuable insight into how large enterprises adopt and scale AI effectively.

Atif has created over 500 billion dollars in enterprise value and advises cutting-edge companies like SpaceX and Anthropic. 

David co-founded and is the Head of MLPerf for MLCommons, the world leader in building benchmarks for AI. MLCommons is an open engineering consortium with a mission to make AI better for everyone through benchmarks and data. The foundation for MLCommons began with the MLPerf benchmarks in 2018, which rapidly scaled as a set of industry metrics to measure machine learning performance and promote transparency of machine learning techniques. In collaboration with its 125+ members, global technology providers, academics, and researchers, MLCommons is focused on collaborative engineering work that builds tools for the entire AI industry through benchmarks and metrics, public datasets, and measurements for AI Safety. Our software projects are generally available under the Apache 2.0 license and our datasets generally use CC-BY 4.0.

Barak Turovsky is the Chief AI Officer at General Motors. He is an operating advisor and product and business leader with over 25 years of experience in artificial intelligence (Generative AI/Large Language Models, Computer Vision, etc), Ads & Commerce, Cloud applications, and Enterprise Software.

Prior to General Motors, Barak was VP of AI at Cisco, Chief Product Officer at Trax Retail, and Director & Head of Product for Languages AI at Google.

Arun Nandi is a visionary keynote speaker, advisor and thought leader in AI. His professional experience driving impact for larger enterprises from Data, Analytics & Insights initiatives spans close to 20 years.

He was presented the Top 100 Influential AI & Analytics leaders award, the Top 40 AI Leaders under 40 award and LinkedIn Top Voice. He currently works as Chief Data & AI Officer at Carrier Global Corp, a Fortune 200 company. He previous was Head of Data & Analytics at Unilever. He has built AI and analytics practices from the ground up on multiple occasions.

Arun serves and consults with advisory boards and investment firms recognized as a credible voice in the industry. He was esteemed jury member at prestigious events such as The Drum Awards and LVMH’s Dare Competition. He has delivered keynote addresses at many events with other experts including Andre Ng (Deep Learning), Julien Simon (Hugging Face).

Arun works with numerous service providers within the AI, data and Analytics ecosystem and shapes the strategy for his enterprise and the industry at large.

Arun is based in New York, NY, USA. He is a keen traveler, foodie and adventure motorcyclist.

Eliana Stefani, PhD is a Staff Autonomy & AI Research Engineer at Lockheed Martin, with expertise in autonomous systems, AI, and robotics. She has experience architecting solutions to complex problems, leading teams across engineering disciplines, and deploying artificially intelligent systems to the edge. 
 
As Principal Investigator, she architected the autonomy stack and developed novel autonomous driving software for the Lunar Terrain Vehicle, enabling a rover to navigate dynamic obstacles while traversing unmapped environments; garnering interest from additional customers. 
 
As Program Manager and later Chief Engineer, she architected system design, led a multi-disciplinary engineering team from research concept to successful test events, guided the program to a contract win, and interfaced with customers and stakeholders. 
 
Dr. Stefani's strong track record of delivering high-impact results and driving program success has been recognized with multiple awards from within Lockheed Martin. She has presented at conferences including NVIDIA's GTC-DC and Amazon's re:MARS. 

Donald is currently a Distinguished Engineer Microsoft, following his recent tenure as Distinguished Eningeer at LinkedIn, where he oversaw the company's generative AI strategy, architecture, and technology. He has more than 35 years of hands-on experience as a technical architect and CTO, with an extensive background in designing and delivering innovative software and services on a large scale. In 2013, Donald co-founded Maana, which pioneered computational knowledge graphs and visual no-code/low-code authoring environments to address complex AI-based digital transformation challenges in Fortune 50 companies. During his previous 15 years at Microsoft, Donald started the Knowledge and Reasoning group within Microsoft's Bing division, where he innovated "Satori", an internet-scale knowledge graph constructed automatically from the web crawl. He co-founded a semantic computing incubation funded directly by Bill Gates, portions of which shipped as the SQL Server Semantic Engine. Additionally, he created Microsoft's first internet display ad delivery system and led numerous AI/ML initiatives in Microsoft Research across embedded systems, robotics, wearable computing, and privacy-preserving personal data services.

Milind Naphade, SVP, Technology, leads the AI Foundations team at Capital One. In this capacity, Milind partners with product, tech, and business leaders to advance AI efforts, such as generative AI, at Capital One.

Prior to joining Capital One, Milind was the Chief Technology Officer of Metropolis at NVIDIA where he led the technology and innovation strategy and execution for NVIDIA’s Metropolis platform and product offerings. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Milind held executive and leadership roles at Cisco and IBM Research. As the Director of the cognitive systems organization at Cisco, he built the organization that focused on machine learning, natural language processing and AI. In his 14 years at IBM Research, Milind led several company-wide strategic AI initiatives in multimedia analytics and smarter planet solutions.

Ahmed Menshawy is the Vice President of AI Engineering at Mastercard. In this role, he leads the AI Engineering team, driving the development and commercialization of AI products that deliver business value across the organization. His work focuses on enabling Mastercard to harness the power of AI to solve complex problems, optimize operations, and enhance customer experiences. Ahmed collaborates with cross-functional teams to bring innovative AI solutions from concept to market, ensuring they align with Mastercard’s strategic objectives

An accomplished author and recognized contributor to the AI community, Ahmed has co-authored Deep Learning with TensorFlow and written Deep Learning by Example. His most recent book, Graph Learning for the Enterprise, published by O’Reilly, provides practical insights into efficiently training and deploying graph learning pipelines at scale

At Salesforce, Hitesh is responsible for the end-to-end architecture of platforms delivered to financial services and insurance clients globally. His focus is on working with key strategic customers to align Salesforce implementations with their business goals, particularly around the conjunction of Data+AI and CRM. This involves collaborating with retail and commercial banking, payments, wealth management, investment banking, insurance, and capital markets to influence product roadmaps and shape the future of technology in these industries. A significant part of Hitesh's role includes facilitating discussions with CTOs, CIOs, CDOs, and Chief Architects to: •⁠ ⁠Analyze current architectures and design target states. •⁠ ⁠Optimize Salesforce technologies for customer needs. •⁠ ⁠Integrate and Interoperate with Salesforce platforms within broader ecosystems. Being the executive sponsors for the customers, I play a key role in influencing product development within Salesforce by advocating for customer-driven innovations. 

Hitesh oversees end-to-end platform and solution architecture for global financial services and insurance clients. He specializes in aligning Salesforce solutions with strategic business objectives, particularly at the intersection of Data+AI and CRM. By collaborating with retail and commercial banking, payments, wealth management, investment banking, insurance, and capital markets, Hitesh helps influence product roadmaps and shape the future of technology in these industries.

A key part of his role involves engaging CTOs, CIOs, CDOs, and Chief Architects to analyze current architectures, design target states, and optimize Salesforce within broader ecosystems. As an executive sponsor, Hitesh champions customer-driven innovation, ensuring product development meets evolving industry needs.

A.K. Karan is the VP of advanced engineering & innovation at Baxter International, a leading medical device supplier. Karan joined Baxter in 2021 and currently leads the strategy for the company’s automation, digital-transformation, and operational-excellence processes. Prior to joining Baxter, Karan held a variety of leadership roles spanning engineering, operations and digital transformation.    

Abhijeet Gulati is the Head of AI & Senior Director of Engineering at Mitchell’s Auto Physical Damage (APD) business unit. Abhijeet is an accomplished technologist with over two decades of experience in the semiconductor, wireless, software & technology industry, focusing on AI, Machine Learning, NLP, Generative AI and SaaS solutions. He is a driven Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Analytics and business intelligence leader.

As the Head of AI at Mitchell International, Abhijeet has spent the past 5 years improving InsureTech inefficiencies, minimize decision biases, developed proprietary, differentiated enterprise scale AI products and an intelligent open platform that democratizes adoption of AI in enterprise business workflows. Abhijeet has extensive experience directing large-scale initiatives involving R&D, business & product strategy, operations, and advanced video, image and data analytics. Abhijeet has authored several patents on the application of AI in InsureTech industry. Abhijeet sits on the board of several AI standards, Ethical & Responsible AI committees.

As Head of AI & Messaging Platforms org at PayPal, Nikhil leads Product Management & Conversational AI Design teams. Nikhil is responsible for defining the vision & strategy to bring advancements in AI, especially Generative AI & NLU/NLP to power intuitive & intelligent experiences for PayPal's Consumers & Small-Medium Business Merchants. He brings over two decades of experience in building and growing enterprise scale consumer products across technology start-ups, growth companies and S&P 500 large companies. In recent years, my focus has been on building enterprise-scale vertical Applied AI platforms that offer capabilities & services such as AI powered Chatbot, Voice / IVR applications, Semantic & Lexical Search, Agent Assist Solutions (Smart Replies, Summarization) etc within Consumer Wallet, Payments, SMB Merchants, Shopping / Rewards & Customer Success domains. Nikhil also is a Product Advisor to a handful of startups leaders and CEOs. Nikhil has a technical background with Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and has also earned an AI & ML certification from MIT.

Mike Bahr joined DRW Holdings in 2013 and has built co-locations and stand-alone data centers for trading firms all over the world. Mike is also in charge of all MEP designs for all company offices globally. Mike also is co-founder of a start-up, Co-Low.com, a true subscription based colocation/data center finder for all IT needs. Mike lives in Crown Point, IN with his wife Colleen and his four children.

Dr. Rohith Vangalla is a Senior IEEE Member, AI Researcher, and Lead Software Engineer at Optum Technologies, specializing in AI-driven automation, cybersecurity, and enterprise AI infrastructure. With over ten years of experience, he has pioneered AI solutions in healthcare, digital marketing, and aviation, publishing impactful research that has transformed industry practices. At Optum, he has been instrumental in developing AI-driven chatbots, secure automation frameworks, and scalable AI solutions that enhance efficiency, compliance, and real-time decision-making. As a scholar, reviewer, and judge for major AI conferences, Dr. Vangalla continues to shape the future of AI infrastructure, privacy-first systems, and responsible AI development.

Daniel Wu is an accomplished technical leader with over 20 years of expertise in software engineering, AI/ML, and team development. With a diverse career spanning technology, education, finance, and healthcare, he is credited for establishing high-performing AI teams, pioneering point-of-care expert systems, co-founding a successful online personal finance marketplace, and leading the development of an innovative online real estate brokerage platform. Passionate about technology democratization and ethical AI practices, Daniel actively promotes these principles through involvement in computer science and AI/ML education programs. A sought-after speaker, he shares insights and experiences at international conferences and corporate events. Daniel holds a computer science degree from Stanford University.

Jacey leads AI, Data Science and Advanced Analytics for Pella Corporation. Pella Corporation, based in the U.S, is one of North America’s largest manufacturers of premium windows and doors. Jacey’s current focus is on expanding the footprint of AI, Data Science and Advanced Analytics at Pella Corporation, guiding the organization to realize the value promised in this space. Jacey is a storyteller who bridges the gap between the possible and the practical, ushering organizations along their journey to become data driven. Jacey holds master’s degrees from Iowa State University in business and data science. He carries strong advanced analytics experience across many industries including manufacturing, e-commerce, energy, financial services and real estate.

David Hinkler brings over three decades of comprehensive manufacturing expertise to the table. His career spans 17 years in Operational Technology (including industrial controls, automation systems, manufacturing execution systems, and quality systems) complemented by 16 years in Information Technology (covering ERP implementations, IT/OT integrations, security, and advanced analytics).

With leadership experience across multiple industries – from Life Sciences (15 years) and Food & Beverage (8 years) to Automotive (5 years) and Chemical (4 years) – David has developed exceptional depth of knowledge in industrial controls, data integration, manufacturing execution systems, quality management, and security implementations.

As a recognized industry expert, David has contributed to numerous technical committees and publications, including IEC 62443, ISA-95, BioPhorum, and MESA Smart Manufacturing, establishing himself as a thought leader in manufacturing technology integration and digital transformation.

Shreya Singhal is an Applied Generative AI Research Scientist at Claritev, where she works on building and optimizing large-scale AI systems with a focus on LLMs, multimodal models, and AI agents. She holds a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and has prior experience across industry and research roles at organizations such as Dell Technologies, Charles Schwab, and IIIT Hyderabad. Her work spans retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, and deploying production-grade AI pipelines, with a passion for advancing the infrastructure that powers generative AI.

Sakshi Naik is an AI Consultant at Walgreens Boots Alliance, where she leads the development of ethical and impactful AI solutions in healthcare. With a Master’s in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s in IT Engineering from Mumbai University, she brings deep technical expertise across data science, machine learning, and AI infrastructure.

Sakshi is also a recognized voice in AI policy. She has advised U.S. Senators and Members of the House of Representatives on the future of responsible AI and serves as Secretary of the IEEE Connecticut Section. As a member of the IEEE AI Policy Committee (AIPC), she actively contributes to shaping national and global frameworks for trustworthy AI.

Dagi provides architecture/design, engineering and construction leadership / expertise to internal and external resources for the delivery of IT capacity for greenfield, brownfield, retrofit and lease delivery projects globally.

His deliverables include data center site selection, managing efforts of land technical due diligence, engineering/designing/constructing the building shell/core, power, cooling, telecom, and controls infrastructure, environmental and building permitting all to align with Salesforce’s IT capacity roadmap for critical infrastructure builds, M&A, migration, optimization, decommissioning and leases.

Aswini is a Distinguished Architect at Walmart Global Tech, with over 22 years of IT experience in designing scalable AI/ML, micro frontend, microservices, and cloud applications. His professional expertise encompasses diverse domains including  e-commerce, finance, telecom and healthcare meticulously developed through his tenure at Walmart, Cisco, Equinix, Finastra, and TCS. Over seven years at Walmart, he has been a founding member of critical platforms like Last Mile Delivery, Fleet Management, MerchOne, Supplier Portal and several others. As a recognized expert in generative AI, Aswini specializes in leveraging machine learning and large language models to create transformative digital experiences, including personalized content generation and AI-driven customer engagement.

He has received numerous awards including Walmart’s Innovation Award, Equinix’s Top Performer Award, and Cisco’s Group Race Award. With many certifications in AI, machine learning, and cloud technologies, he stays at the forefront of innovation. Known for his strategic insights, Aswini has a proven ability to deliver transformative AI solutions across industries. 

Anusha Nerella is an award-winning AI and fintech innovator known for her original contributions in transforming institutional trading and digital finance. She has pioneered AI-driven trading strategies, real-time big data systems, and automation frameworks that have redefined how financial institutions operate. Anusha’s innovations—from modernizing Barclaycard’s digital payments infrastructure during COVID-19 to architecting intelligent trading models—have driven measurable impact, earning her recognition as a thought leader shaping the future of AI-powered finance.

Abhijeet Gulati is the Head of AI & Senior Director of Engineering at Mitchell’s Auto Physical Damage (APD) business unit. Abhijeet is an accomplished technologist with over two decades of experience in the semiconductor, wireless, software & technology industry, focusing on AI, Machine Learning, NLP, Generative AI and SaaS solutions. He is a driven Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Analytics and business intelligence leader.

As the Head of AI at Mitchell International, Abhijeet has spent the past 5 years improving InsureTech inefficiencies, minimize decision biases, developed proprietary, differentiated enterprise scale AI products and an intelligent open platform that democratizes adoption of AI in enterprise business workflows. Abhijeet has extensive experience directing large-scale initiatives involving R&D, business & product strategy, operations, and advanced video, image and data analytics. Abhijeet has authored several patents on the application of AI in InsureTech industry. Abhijeet sits on the board of several AI standards, Ethical & Responsible AI committees.

Richard Ho is Head of Hardware at OpenAI working to co-optimize ML models and the massive compute hardware they run on. Richard was one of the early engineers working on Google TPUs. Before Google, Richard was part of the D. E. Shaw Research team that built the Anton molecular dynamics simulation supercomputer. Richard started his career as co-founder and Chief Architect of 0-In Design Automation, a pioneer in verification tools for chip design (acquired by Mentor Graphics/Siemens). Richard has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and M.Eng, B.Sc. from University of Manchester, UK.

Nafea Bshara is a vice president/distinguished engineer working on compute, machine learning, network, and storage architecture with Amazon Web Services.

Chris Sharp has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, with an extensive background in developing technology strategies in global markets. He has a deep knowledge of the data center sector and is well positioned to expand technical innovation at Digital Realty.

Most recently, he was responsible for cloud innovation at Equinix, where he led the development of innovative cloud services solutions and developed new capabilities enabling next-generation, high-performance exchange, and interconnection solutions, facilitating broad commercial adoption of cloud computing on a global basis.

Previously, Chris held leadership positions at top network and colocation providers, including Qwest Communications, MCI/Verizon Business and Reliance Globalcom.

Amber Huffman is a Principal Engineer in Google Cloud responsible for leading industry engagement efforts in the data center ecosystem across servers, storage, networking, accelerators, power, cooling, security, and more. Before joining Google, she spent 25 years at Intel serving as an Intel Fellow and VP.  Amber is the President of NVM Express, on the Board of Directors for the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), on the Board of Directors for Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink), and the chair of the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project. She has led numerous industry standards to successful adoption, including NVM Express, Open NAND Flash Interface, and Serial ATA.

Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha is an IBM Fellow and IBM Chief Scientist for Brain-inspired Computers.  He is a cognitive computing pioneer who envisioned and now leads a highly successful effort to develop brain-inspired computers.  The groundbreaking project is multi-disciplinary, multi-national, multi-institutional and has had worldwide scientific impact.  It has been funded to the tune of >$200M by DARPA, DOD, DOE, and Commercial contracts.  Its resulting revolutionary computing architecture and ecosystem break from the prevailing von Neumann paradigm and constitute a foundation for new classes of ultra-low-power, compact, real-time, multi-modal sensorimotor information technology systems.

Dr. Modha has made significant contributions to IBM businesses via innovations in caching mechanisms for storage controllers, clustering algorithms for services, and coding theory for disk drives.  His work has been featured in Economist, Science, New York Times, BBC, Discover, MIT Technology Report, Associated Press, Popular Mechanics, Communications of the ACM, Forbes, Fortune, and IEEE Spectrum amongst thousands of media mentions.  Author of over 80 papers and inventor of over 200 patents, he has been a recipient of ACM’s Gordon Bell Prize; Misha Mahowald Prize; R&D Magazine’s 2016 Scientist of the Year; USENIX/FAST Test of Time Award; Best Paper Awards at ASYNC and IDEMI; First Place, Science/NSF International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge; IIT Bombay Distinguished Alumnus Award; UCSD ECE Distinguished Alumnus Award; R&D 100 Award; and is a Fellow of IEEE and World Technology Network. In 2013 and 2014, he was named as Best of IBM.  TrueNorth and NorthPole have both been accepted into the Computer History Museum.  On their 40th Anniversary, EE Times named Dr. Modha amongst 10 Electronics Visionaries to Watch.

Dr. Modha received BTech from IIT Bombay in 1990 and PhD from UCSD in 1995. 

Rochan is Founder, President and CEO of Enfabrica. Prior to founding Enfabrica, he was Senior Director and leader of the Data Center Ethernet switch silicon business at Broadcom, where he defined and brought to market multiple generations of Tomahawk/Trident chips and helped build industry-wide ecosystems including 25G Ethernet and disaggregated whitebox networking.

Prior, he held roles in product management, chip architecture, and applications engineering across startup and public semiconductor companies. Rochan holds a B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Wharton School, and has 6 issued patents.

Priya Kesavan is an AI Strategy Principal at Microsoft. In her current role, she leads the development of long-term strategies and roadmaps for Microsoft's in-house AI hardware systems. In the past, Priya held several leadership positions in product management for SoC and systems development at Intel and Cisco. Driven by a passion for harnessing AI to address complex real-world challenges and improve user experiences, she is a strong advocate for "AI for good." Priya is also committed to empowering women in technology and AI, spearheading initiatives to foster their growth and advancement. She holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Madras University.

A technical leader, Marc has led the design and construction of large-scale data center projects across the United States as well as in the Middle East and Asia. His projects have included greenfield, brownfield, build to suite, and adaptive reuse projects for colocation, corporate, and hyperscale data center customers.

Before joining CleanArc, Marc held leadership positions at leading data center consultancy firms Orchard Green Associates, Smith Engineering, PLLC and Syska Hennessy Group. Marc takes pride in understanding the technical and cultural nuances required for project execution across geographies. At CleanArc, he takes a collaborative and comprehensive approach to project management and execution, bridging the gaps between infrastructure and design/construction teams as CleanArc works to deliver best-in-class reliability, sustainability, supply chain management and capital efficiency during the entire data center life cycle. Marc holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MS in Real Estate from the NYU Shack Institute of Real Estate.

Rashmi Gopinath is a General Partner at B Capital Group where she leads the fund’s enterprise software practice in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, devops, and AI/ML sectors. She brings over two decades of experience investing and operating in cutting-edge enterprise technologies. She led B Capital’s investments in over 24 companies such as DataRobot, FalconX, Clari, Phenom People, Synack, Innovaccer, Labelbox, Fabric, 6Sense, Highspot, Pendo, Starburst, OwnBackup, Figment, Perimeter81, Zesty, among others.

Rashmi was previously a Managing Director at M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, where she led investments globally in enterprise software and sat on several boards including Synack, Innovaccer, Contrast Security, Frame, UnravelData, Incorta, among others.

Prior to M12, Rashmi was an Investment Director with Intel Capital where she was involved in the firm’s investments in startups including MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB), ForeScout (Nasdaq: FSCT), Maginatics (acq. by EMC), BlueData (acq. by HPE), among others. Rashmi held operating roles at high-growth startups such as BlueData (acq. by HPE) and Couchbase (Nasdaq: BASE) where she led global business development, product and marketing roles. She began her career in engineering and product roles at Oracle and GE Healthcare. She earned an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Mumbai in India.

 Brittany Miller is the Global Senior Vice President of Infrastructure Development at NTT Global Data Centers, overseeing global construction, engineering and supply chain operations.

 With over 15 years of experience, she has led major infrastructure projects across the data center, cloud and semiconductor industries.

 Before joining NTT Global Data Centers, Brittany held leadership roles at Microsoft and Intel, where she managed large-scale construction programs, supply chain operations and strategic infrastructure development.

Raul Martynek joined DataBank in 2017 as the Chief Executive Officer. In this role, he defines the strategic direction of the company and its operations. Raul is a 20+ year veteran in the telecom and Internet Infrastructure sector. He most recently served as a Senior Advisor for Digital Bridge Holdings LLC. Prior to Digital Bridge, he served as CEO for New Jersey-based data center and managed services operator Net Access, LLC. Net Access was acquired in 2015 by Denver-based data center operator Cologix. 5Prior to Net Access, he was the CEO of Voxel dot Net, Inc., a global managed hosting and cloud company, which was acquired by Internap Network Services Corp. in 2012. Mr. Martynek also served as the Chief Restructuring Officer of Smart Telecom, a Dublin, Ireland-based fiber carrier which was acquired by Digiweb in 2009.

Before that he evaluated investment opportunities in the telecommunications and Internet sector as a Senior Advisor at Plainfield Asset Management, a $4B hedge fund. Prior to Plainfield, Mr. Martynek spent 13 years with telecom and Internet provider InfoHighway Communications Corp; first as Chief Operating Officer of Eureka Networks and then as President and CEO of InfoHighway. InfoHighway was acquired by Broadview Networks in 2007. Mr. Martynek earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Binghamton University and received a Master Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

Karen oversees the planning and execution large scale data center projects for AREP’s PowerHouse Data Center platform.

Karen brings almost two decades of design, sustainability, and project management experience in the mission-critical sector, having successfully managed complex sustainable data center design and engineering projects, including campus developments, hyperscale built-to-suits, and major infrastructure renovations. As a sustainability SME, Karen was recently honored by the Green Building Initiative (GBI) as its 2024 Member of the Year for her exceptional dedication to improving the built environment.

Ashwin Gumaste is an AI Architect at Microsoft. He specializes in building AI systems, scaling networks, and model estimation. Before joining Microsoft, Ashwin held key roles at Infinera, Cisco, and Fujitsu, as well as academic positions at IIT Bombay and MIT. Earlier in his career at IIT Bombay, he designed, developed, and successfully commercialized carrier Ethernet switch routers, earning India's highest science and technology honor, the Bhatnagar Prize. A distinguished fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences in India, Ashwin has made significant contributions to AI and network engineering. He has authored three books, published 215 peer-reviewed papers, and holds 28 granted patents.

François Sterin joined the Data4 Group in December 2022 as Chief Operating Officer (COO). He has over 20 years of in digital infrastructure, datacenters and network for hyperscalers and cloud providers.  A member of the executive committee, he oversees the group business operations. He also manages the CSR policy via the Data4Good program.

Phill has more than 25 years of experience identifying new opportunities for further growth of leading data center infrastructure, network architecture, and cloud solutions in the U.S. and abroad.

As Chief Innovation Officer at Aligned, Phill is responsible for the management of revenue generation and profitability objectives, as well as championing key innovation, technology, and sustainability strategies aimed at maximizing new business development.

Prior to joining Aligned, Phill served as Chief Innovation Officer at EdgeConneX, where he was instrumental in driving strategies focused on creating the next generation of network edge-based data centers for the digital content ecosystem. Throughout his career, Phill has also served in numerous senior executive-level positions at Virtacore, Alcatel-Lucent, Savvis (now CenturyLink Technology Solutions), and MCI (now Verizon Digital Media Services). He currently holds eight active technology patents and serves on the Board of Directors for Netrality Data Centers as well as the Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) Advisory Board.

Ryan Mallory is President and COO at Flexential, and has 25+ years’ experience leading global infrastructure operations across network, platform, and customer-facing functions for top-tier data center providers.

At Flexential, Ryan leads day-to-day operations across all company functions—scaling the company’s national platform of 40+ data centers and a 100Gbps+ private network backbone to meet the demands of today’s high-density compute environments. Since joining in 2020, Ryan has helped advance the FlexAnywhere® platform, unifying colocation, interconnection, cloud, and managed services into a scalable solution for enterprises navigating AI, digital transformation, and compliance complexity.

Before Flexential, Ryan held leadership roles at Equinix, Digital Realty, XO Communications, SAVVIS, and UUNET.

Moshe Tanach is Founder and CEO at NeuReality.

Before founding NeuReality, he served as Director of Engineering at Marvell and Intel, leading complex wireless and networking products to mass production.

He also served as Appointed Vice President of R&D at DesignArt-Networks (later acquired by Qualcomm) developing 4G base station products.

He holds Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from the Technion, Israel, Cum Laude.

Sabastian Mugazambi is a seasoned technology leader with a passion for artificial intelligence and machine learning. As a Group Product Manager for Cloud AI Infrastructure at Google, Sabastian plays a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI acceleration. His focus on Cloud TPUs, Google's custom-designed machine learning processors on GCP, has enabled him to lead the charge on groundbreaking advancements in Cloud AI Infra technology. Sabastian's leadership as lead product manager has been instrumental in the successful launch of several generations of Cloud TPUs, including the v5e, v5p, and Trillium TPU. These innovations have empowered researchers, developers, and businesses to tackle the world's most complex AI challenges, from LLMs to broader cutting-edge generative models. With over half a decade of experience at Google, Sabastian has honed his expertise in the design, development, and deployment of AI infrastructure, and his deep understanding of the evolving AI landscape and commitment to delivering exceptional user experiences have made him a driving force in democratizing AI accelerators and making their power accessible to all through Google Cloud Platform. Previously, he founded and led a Natural Language Processing start-up that was acquired by a larger tech company and consulted on AI/ML programs for large tech companies. 

Matt Pfile is the founder and CEO of Crane Data Centers Inc., a data center developer and operator with a strong commitment to sustainability, customer centricity, and innovation. He has over 25 years of experience in telecom engineering, critical infrastructure acquisition, corporate banking, management consulting, and commercial negotiations. Prior to Crane, he spent 12+ years at Google leading over $5B of global infrastructure acquisitions and led the entry of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) into Australia and Japan, data center site selection strategy, third-party data center leasing, utility interconnections, and land acquisitions across the Americas and Asia. He received a degree in finance from Georgetown University and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Tom spearheads EdgeCore’s understanding and adoption of emerging technologies with a current focus on the impacts and demands of AI on the data center ecosystem.  While interacting with a broad spectrum of technologists, industry thought leaders, and community stakeholders, Tom ensures that EdgeCore stays at the forefront of innovation, geographic expansion, and future trends in order to deliver on the company’s promise to provide safe, sustainable, and futureproof data center solutions to the world’s largest cloud and technology companies. Tom’s industry experience began in the post-dot com early 2000s period and stretches through the rise of enterprise wholesale colocation in the 2000s, through the rise of hyperscale cloud in the 2010s, and now generative AI driven world.

Prior to joining EdgeCore, Tom worked for Amazon Web Services, where he was accountable for strategy and execution for new and existing regions across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas, along with diligence and strategy for additional regions under evaluation. Prior to Amazon, Tom was co-practice leader of Cassidy Turley’s (now Cushman & Wakefield’s) Data Center Advisory Practice, focused on end-user representation and capital markets transactions. Tom previously worked at CoreSite Realty Corporation as Regional VP of Sales.

Tom holds a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard College, with honors.

I was drawn to Rambus to focus on cutting edge computing technologies. Throughout my 15+ year career, I’ve helped invent, create and develop means of driving and extending performance in both hardware and software solutions. At Rambus, we are solving challenges that are completely new to the industry and occur as a response to deployments that are highly sophisticated and advanced.

As an inventor, I find myself approaching a challenge like a room filled with 100,000 pieces of a puzzle where it is my job to figure out how they all go together – without knowing what it is supposed to look like in the end. For me, the job of finishing the puzzle is as enjoyable as the actual process of coming up with a new, innovative solution.

For example, RDRAM®, our first mainstream memory architecture, implemented in hundreds of millions of consumer, computing and networking products from leading electronics companies including Cisco, Dell, Hitachi, HP, Intel, etc. We did a lot of novel things that required inventiveness – we pushed the envelope and created state of the art performance without making actual changes to the infrastructure.

I’m excited about the new opportunities as computing is becoming more and more pervasive in our everyday lives. With a world full of data, my job and my fellow inventors’ job will be to stay curious, maintain an inquisitive approach and create solutions that are technologically superior and that seamlessly intertwine with our daily lives.

After an inspiring work day at Rambus, I enjoy spending time with my family, being outdoors, swimming, and reading.

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
• Master of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
• B.S. Engineering, Harvey Mudd College

Dave Lazovsky is the Co-founder and CEO of Celestial AI, the creators of the Photonic FabricTM. Celestial AI, founded in April 2020, has developed the optical interconnectivity technology platform for AI computing.

Prior to founding Celestial AI, Mr. Lazovsky was a Venture Partner at Khosla Ventures. He has 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry and over two decades of experience building and leading successful start-ups. In 2004 Mr. Lazovsky founded Intermolecular, a semiconductor and clean energy R&D and Intellectual Property licensing company. He served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, President and as a member of the board of directors from September 2004 through October 2014.

As President and CEO, Mr. Lazovsky led all aspects of the business through its lifecycle from early-stage start-up to public company. Intermolecular (IMI) went public on the NASDAQ in 2011. He currently has over 80 issued and pending U.S. patents.

Eui-cheol Lim is a Research Fellow and leader of Solution Advanced Technology team in SK Hynix. He received the B.S. degree and the M.S. degree from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 1993 and 1995, and the Ph.D. degree from Sungkyunkwan University, suwon, Korea in 2006. Dr.Lim joined SK Hynix in 2016 as a system architect in memory system R&D. Before joining SK Hynix, he had been working as an SoC architect in Samsung Electronics and leading the architecture of most Exynos mobile SoC. His recent interesting points are memory and storage system architecture with new media memory and new memory solution such as CXL memory and Processing in Memory. In particular, he is proposing a new computing architecture based on PIM, which is more efficient and flexible than existing AI accelerators, to process generative AI and LLM (large language Model) that is currently causing a sensation.

Sid Sheth is the co-founder and CEO of d-Matrix, the company changing the trajectory of commercially viable generative AI by introducing an entirely new computing paradigm designed from the ground-up for AI inference in modern datacenters.

Sid spent over two decades as a business and technical leader transforming startups into industry leaders and creating new categories of technology, taking them from innovations to commercialization. Before founding d-Matrix, Sid served as senior vice president & general manager for the Networking Business Unit at Inphi Corporation where he incubated and grew the group into a $1B+ business by focusing the business on the cloud and enterprise data center segment. Prior to Inphi, Sid was at NetLogic Microsystems (now Broadcom) and Intel where he ran marketing and worked in R&D for networking chips and processors.

Sid earned his MSEE from Purdue University, where he serves on the Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Board. He is a regularly featured speaker at industry tradeshows and conferences, is a published author at ISSCC and holds multiple patents.

Taeksang is a Corporate VP at Samsung Electronics where he is leading a team dedicated to pioneering cutting-edge technologies including CAMM, MRDIMM, CXL memory expander, fabric attached memory solution and processing near memory to meet the evolving demands of next-generation data-centric AI architecture. He has 20 years' professional experience in memory and sub-system architecture, interconnect protocols, system-on-chip design and collaborating with CSPs to enable heterogeneous computing infrastructure. Prior to joining Samsung Electronics, he worked at Rambus Inc., Micron Technology and SK hynix in lead architect roles for the emerging memory controllers and systems. 

Taeksang received his Ph.D. degree from KAIST, South Korea, in 2006. Dr. Song has authored and co-authored over 20 technical papers and holds over 50 U.S. patents.

Godwin Maben is a seasoned professional with an extensive 30-year experience in the semiconductor industry, specializing in low-power design and power optimization for System on Chip (SoC) architectures. Godwin has contributed to the development of SoCs for mobile, IoT, GPU, and networking applications, focusing on ARM and RISC-V based designs.

Godwin has a proven track record in developing the architecture of Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMIC) for mobile and IoT devices, and architecting mobile SoCs with advanced power structures, including power gating, Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS), and Multi-Voltage (MV) techniques.

In addition to optimizing logic, system, and RTL architectures to reduce power for hundreds of blocks, Godwin has extensive experience in RTL coding, specifically targeting energy efficiency for hundreds of partitions. Skilled in developing custom cells to minimize glitches and has implemented algorithms within tools to optimize power consumption.

Godwin has developed comprehensive methodologies for implementing zero-pin retention flops from pre-RTL to silicon and has architected tools such as UPF Architect. Additionally, has created higher-level abstractions to Natural Language Processing (NLP) for various tools, including HDL, SDC, and UPF.

With expertise in designing low-power circuits and HDL coding with a focus on low power, Godwin excels in power architecture, PMIC design, and debugging power issues from simulation through emulation, synthesis, place, and route (P&R), and Engineering Change Order (ECO) processes. Dedicated to advancing low-power design techniques and methodologies, ensuring the development of energy-efficient and high-performance semiconductor solutions.

Andrew Sloss is VP of Technology at Vaire Computing. A founding engineer at Arm,  he played a central role in the design and deployment of 27 commercial compute systems and helped scale the company’s architecture to over 150 billion chips shipped globally. He is the author of one of the most widely referenced books on ARM system architecture and has led engineering teams across embedded, mobile, and datacenter domains. At Vaire, Andrew brings decades of silicon and systems design experience to bear on one of the hardest challenges in computing: reducing AI energy costs at scale.

Matthew Burns develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon-to-Silicon solutions. Over the course of 25 years, he has been a leader in design, applications engineering, technical sales and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries. He currently serves as Secretary at PICMG. Mr. Burns holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University.

Dudy is a qualified manager and technology expert, with more than 30 years of experience in the networking industry. As a senior AI networking expert, he partners closely with the product and engineering teams to shape DriveNets’ vision for AI Networking, helping to deliver the high performance of a proprietary solution with a standards-based Ethernet implementation that provides unrivaled performance. Previously, Dudy served as the VP of Product Marketing at Ceragon. He also served as a Director of Solutions Engineering at Alvarion Ltd. Dudy holds an M.Sc.-E.E degree from the Tel Aviv University.

Nalini is a recognized leader at Deloitte in AI & Data Practice, standing at the forefront of AI innovation and Strategy. With a distinct path of achievements, she delivered over 30 talks on generative AI, emphasizing its safe usage and business efficiencies for life sciences and tech companies. Nominated as top 100 women in AI for 2023, 2024, she currently serves as the California state ambassador for Women in AI. Beyond her professional prowess, Nalini is a wellness instructor, artist, and a podcast host.

Ankur Mehrotra is a GM at AWS Machine Learning and leads foundational SageMaker AI services such as SageMaker Studio, Notebooks, Training, Inference, Feature Store, MLOps, etc. Before SageMaker AI, he led AI services for personalization, forecasting, healthcare & life sciences, edge AI devices and SDKs, as well as thought leadership programs such as AWS DeepRacer. Ankur has worked at Amazon for over 15 years. Before joining AWS, he spent several years in Amazon’s Consumer organization, where he led the development of automated marketing/advertising systems, as well as automated pricing systems.

Krishna is founder and CEO of SiMa.ai™, a machine learning company enabling effortless ML for the Embedded Edge.

Previously, he was the COO of Groq, a machine learning startup. He was with Xilinx for 18 years, where he was Senior Vice President and GM of Xilinx’s overall business prior to his most recent role as Executive Vice President, Global Sales. Prior to Xilinx, he held various engineering and business roles at Altera Corporation and Cypress Semiconductor. He holds 25+ international patents. He has also served on the board of directors of public and private companies.

Puneet Kumar, CEO and co-founder of Rivos Inc., which he established in May 2021. His impressive career includes leading the ChromeOS Platform Engineering team at Google as a Senior Director, where he oversaw the program's growth to over 100 million users. Puneet's entrepreneurial journey includes co-founding Agnilux (acquired by Google), where he served as VP of Engineering, and PASemi Inc. (acquired by Apple), where he was an Engineering Director in the Platform Architecture team. He also held senior leadership positions at SiByte Inc. (acquired by Broadcom) and was a Systems Researcher at Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center. Puneet holds a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Mahesh Maddury is the lead architect for MTIA at Meta. Prior to his current role, he has held senior technical leadership roles at early-stage startups and established companies like Cisco, Brocade and Intel where he has delivered multiple high-performance ASICs. Mahesh holds an MSEE from the University of Colorado, Boulder and is the author of more than 25 patents.

Prem Theivendran is Director of Software Engineering at Expedera, where he leads the development and productization of Expedera’s software toolchain and SDK. With an expertise in Deep Learning, Prem has held hardware and software design roles at Intel, Cisco, Cavium, and Xpliant. Prem holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ty Miller is the Chief Commercial Officer of STACK Infrastructure Americas, leading sales, marketing customer relationships, and strategic partnerships. With more than 25 years of industry experience, he has closed more than $20 billion in data center contracts and is known for aligning organizations to enhance the client experience. Ty previously held leadership roles at Digital Realty Trust, including VP of Global Accounts, and served in executive roles at Hosting.com, Telecom Asset Management, and Switch and Data. He holds a B.S. in Psychology and Business Administration from UCLA.

Pyungsu Han is the Vice President and CTO of R&D at Qualitas Semiconductor.
He holds a Ph.D. from Yonsei University and previously worked at LG Electronics.
With deep expertise in high-speed interconnect technology, he leads cutting-edge R&D initiatives and drives strategic growth in the semiconductor industry.

Anirudh Sharma is a researcher and inventor whose work spans human factors, speech and vision interfaces, and system design. With a research background at the MIT Media Lab and now at Amazon Lab126, he builds novel computing interfaces that merge advanced sensing with real-world applications. His first venture developed and shipped gait-sensing haptic insoles to help elderly and visually impaired people navigate through tactile feedback- now used worldwide. He later co-founded Graviky Labs, which turns air pollution into usable materials. His contributions have earned recognition from MIT Technology Review (TR35), Forbes 30 Under 30, TIME 100, and TED Global.

Manuel Botija is an engineer with degrees from Telecom Paris and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Over the past 17 years, he has led product innovation in semiconductor startups across Silicon Valley and Europe. Before joining Axelera, Manuel served as Head of Product at GrAI Matter Labs, which was acquired by Snap Inc.

Jeongkyu Shin is the founder of Lablup Inc. and has made significant contributions to open-source projects over the past two decades, including his lead developer role in the Textcube Project. He has served as an AI expert at Google Developers Experts since 2017 and was active in the Innovative Steering Board of the Northeast Asia Open Source Software Promotion Forum until 2022. In recognition of his contributions to the technology industry, he was awarded the prestigious Industrial Service Medal by the Korean government in 2024. Additionally, Jeongkyu supports startup companies as a technical mentor at Google for Startups Accelerator.

He holds a Ph.D. in Statistical Physics from POSTECH, where his research focused on complex systems, agent-based models, and computational neuroscience. Throughout his career, Jeongkyu has led machine learning and open-source projects in various companies and labs, specializing in text classification, entropy-related information compression, and contextual search. Since 2015, he has been developing Backend.AI, an open-source, hyper-scalable AI infrastructure platform (available at https://www.backend.ai).

Nikhil Tyagi is a recognized leader in next-generation technology, with a proven track record at the intersection of AI infrastructure, wireless innovation, and immersive computing. As Senior Manager of Wireless Device Innovation at Verizon, he leads strategic initiatives for breakthrough device categories that integrate AI, XR (AR/VR), and advanced connectivity.

Previously, Nikhil held key roles at Humane, Meta, and Apple, where he helped shape pioneering AI and XR experiences—from developing on-device intelligence for ambient computing, to architecting scalable XR systems and wearable platforms. His cross-functional expertise spans edge AI, spatial computing, and system-level wireless design, making him a pivotal voice in the evolving landscape of AI-driven interfaces."

Transformational Quality Leader with over 15 years of experience in mission-critical industries and technical infrastructure with a proven track record in driving operational excellence and product reliability and quality improvements through innovative strategies, exceptional leadership, and meticulous execution.  She is adept at enhancing organizational efficiency, reducing costs, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Anahita is a certified ASQ Six Sigma Black Belt and Quality Engineer with deep expertise in managing large-scale projects and leading cross-functional teams to achieve strategic goals.
Passionate about building and leading high-performing technical teams and enable their success and growth.

Sebastien Jean is the Chief Technology Officer at Phison Electronics, where he focuses on developing technology strategy and building alliances with other innovative companies.
His current focus includes AI, Space, Security, and Enterprise solutions.
Sebastien also works closely with engineering teams to help integrate new concepts into products. With 26 years of experience and over 30 filed patents, he has established himself as a thought leader in the storage industry.
Before joining Phison, he held senior technology positions at Micron, SanDisk, and Western Digital. He earned a BS in Computer Science at the University of Ottawa (Canada).

Mehir Arora is a founding engineer at ChipAgents, a company at the forefront of integrating agentic AI into Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workflows. Graduated from UC Santa Barbara, Mehir has contributed to advancing state-of-the-arts in AI methodologies, including a paper presented at ICML 2024. At ChipAgents, he focuses on developing agentic AI tools that enhance chip design and verification processes, aiming to significantly improve efficiency and productivity in semiconductor engineering. 

Haseeb Budhani is the CEO and co-founder of Rafay Systems. He previously co-founded and led Soha Systems, which was acquired by Akamai Technologies, where he later served as Vice President of Enterprise Strategy. Haseeb has also held executive and leadership roles at Infineta Systems, NET, and several other technology companies. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.

Shweta Behere is a Senior Engineering Manager at Workday, where she leads cloud platform engineering teams dedicated to building resilient and scalable systems. She is at the forefront of delivering AI solutions to enhance cloud platform infrastructure and observability. She currently serves as the IEEE Chair for the Women in Engineering Affinity Group for the Santa Clara Valley Section.

With over 18 years of experience, Shweta has made significant contributions to advancing public cloud, storage, and virtualization technologies, resulting in multiple patents and publications highlighting her innovative impact. Her leadership has earned her industry recognition, including being named among the “Top 50 Women of Impact in 2025" by Women Impact Tech and one of the “30 Outstanding Women in Engineering Leadership” by the Women Tech Network for her substantial contributions to the field.

Shweta is passionate about promoting women in engineering fields. As a thought leader, she addresses the challenges of balancing career and parenthood in tech, sharing her insights through articles and panel discussions. Through her mentorship, advocacy, and leadership, Shweta Behere inspires the next generation of technologists, especially women, and actively cultivates a more inclusive and supportive environment.

Ilissa Miller is the Founder and CEO of iMiller Public Relations, host of the NEDAS Live! podcast, and Editor-in-Chief of Data Center POST and TelecomNewsroom. With nearly 30 years of experience in PR, marketing, and digital infrastructure, Ilissa has launched global campaigns across data centers, cloud, and telecom. She serves on the Forbes Agency Council, advises the Nomad Futurist Foundation, and holds board roles with OIX and the In-building Wireless Association (TIWA).

John Arthur is a principal research scientist and hardware manager in the brain-inspired computing group at IBM Research - Almaden. He has been building efficient and high-performance brain-inspired neural network chips and systems for the last 25 years, including Neurogrid at Stanford and both TrueNorth and NorthPole at IBM. John holds a PhD in bioengineering from University of Pennsylvania and BS in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.

Manu Fontaine serves on the Governing Board of the Confidential Computing Consortium, hosted within the Linux Foundation. He is also the Founder and CEO of Hushmesh Inc., a Public Benefit cybersecurity startup and NATO DIANA Innovator based in the Washington, D.C. area. Hushmesh is developing, deploying, and operating the Mesh—a global information infrastructure akin to the Web, but with automated, decentralized cryptographic security built in. Built entirely on Confidential Computing technology, the Mesh blueprint is mathematically and technically optimal for securing the Agentic Era. Prior to Hushmesh, Manu led identity, privacy, and security-centric product initiatives in the data center, mobile, and consumer spaces at Brightspot, EMC, AOL, and Alcatel. He holds two Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louvain, Belgium.

Ipsita Mohanty is an accomplished AI Leader and Vice Chair of IEEE Women in Engineering, Santa Clara Valley, Region 6. With over 15 years of experience spanning Salesforce, Goldman Sachs, Walmart Labs, and Amdocs, she has led several impactful AI-driven initiatives, including architecting Salesforce-Tableau Agents and enhancing recommendation systems at Walmart. Ipsita holds a Master’s degree in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering from KIIT University. She is also the co-founder of QApp, an AI/ML automation platform empowering freelancers. Winner of several AI Awards and recognized among the Top 100 Women in AI Leaders globally, she actively contributes to AI research and community leadership while championing diversity in technology.

Leo Leung is a Director of Product Management for AI and Compute Infrastructure, shaping the strategy and development of Google Cloud's infrastructure offerings. Leo is an experienced product and marketing executive, launching over 100 products at both large vendors like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and startups across cloud applications, platforms, infrastructure, and enterprise storage. Over the course of his career, he has led multiple product and go-to-market teams, and managed partnerships across the ecosystem including AWS, Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, AMD, Cisco, Dell, HPE, and IBM. Leo has an MBA from the Tepper School of Business and a BA from Tufts University.

Badari has played a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of Advanced CPU design, Low Power Graphics, and Client SoC designs at Intel Corporation, contributing to over 10 generations of cutting-edge technology. His most recent role as a Senior Principal Engineer on the Meteor Lake Client SoC design team underscores his commitment to pushing the boundaries of design methodology, efficiency, and PPA optimization.

He has also completed  the System Design & Management Fellows program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A proud graduate of Arizona State University with a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Badari's focus was on VLSI design and Computer Architecture.  Beyond his technical focus, Badari has made significant impacts in Intel Capital and Intel Labs, spearheading efforts in New Business Incubation and contributing to long-range research definition and commercialization.

Badari is currently a Fellow in Cadence Design Systems and leads the Physical Design CAD and TFM teams developing best in class IP's and Chiplets in the Silicon Solutions Group. He leads teams exploring the application of Gen AI and Agentic AI capabilities for improving design efficiency and PPA for Cadence IP's and Chiplets in SSG.

Nathan Beach is Director of Product Management for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). He leads the product team working to make GKE a great platform on which to run AI workloads. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School and, prior to Google, led his own startup. He is a builder and creator passionate about making products that superbly meet user needs. He enjoys career coaching and mentoring, and he is eager to help others transition into product management and excel in their careers.

Ben Jawdat is the founding CEO of Revterra, where he is working to commercialize a kinetic stabilizer solution to solve power quality challenges at AI datacenters and other commercial/industrial sites. Prior to starting Revterra, he worked on the development of new superconducting materials at the University of Houston where he received his PhD in physics, and completed postdoctoral studies at the Air Force Research Laboratory and Rice University.

Dr. Laurent Moll most recently served as Vice President of Engineering at Qualcomm where he led a 500-person team creating infrastructure IP for Qualcomm’s chips, including NoC interconnects, memory subsystems, cache coherency subsystems and more. Laurent has led a storied career for over two decades, performing key technical roles at industry leaders such as Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq Computer Corporation, SiByte, Broadcom, Montalvo Systems and NVIDIA. Prior to his nearly 8-year tenure at Qualcomm, he was the Chief Technology Officer at Arteris Inc, a predecessor company of Arteris. Throughout his career, he has played an influential role in inventing the system-on-chip architectures, IP subsystems, and methodologies that are today the foundation of modern semiconductor design. Laurent earned his PhD in Computer Science at École Polytechnique and holds over 60 patents on various aspects of SoC technology.

James joined the OCP Foundation staff in 2024 as VP Market Intelligence and Innovation, working with technology leaders in the community and augmenting the foundation’s directional strategy, innovation efforts and marketing. His contributions to the OCP proceed from over two decades of experience in technology research, engineering, product management and marketing.

Jinwook Oh is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Rebellions, an AI chip company based in South Korea. After earning his Ph.D. from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), he joined the IBM TJ Watson Research Center, where he contributed to several AI chip R&D projects as a Chip Architect, Logic Designer, and Logic Power Lead. At Rebellions, he has overseen the development and launch of two AI chips, with a third, REBEL, in progress. Jinwook's technical leadership has been crucial in establishing Rebellions as a notable player in AI technology within just three and a half years.

A seasoned product leader who is passionate about cloud and innovation , Andrew Fetterer serves as the Group Product Manager for Google Distributed Cloud. In this role, he is responsible for the outbound product management that shapes how Google Cloud infrastructure operates on-premises and at the edge for the world's leading organizations.

Throughout his career, Andrew has a proven track record of building and scaling platforms and infrastructure from concept to category leadership.

As a Product Manager in our AI Infrastructure team, Hira looks out for how Google Cloud offerings can help customers and partners build more helpful AI experiences for users.  With over 30 years of experience building applications and products across multiple industries, he likes to hog the whiteboard and tell developer tales.

Asheesh Goja is Principal Gen AI Solutions Architect at AWS. Prior to AWS, Asheesh worked at prominent organizations such as Cisco and UPS, where he spearheaded initiatives to accelerate the adoption of several emerging technologies. His expertise spans ideation, co-design, incubation, and venture product development. Asheesh holds a wide portfolio of hardware and software patents, including a real-time C++ DSL, IoT hardware devices, Computer Vision and Edge AI prototypes. As an active contributor to the emerging fields of Generative AI and Edge AI, Asheesh shares his knowledge and insights through tech blogs and as a speaker at various industry conferences and forums.

Charlie Fu is an optoelectronics veteran with over 30 years of leadership experience spanning global industry leaders such as Lumentum, Harris, Nortel, and JDSU, as well as two innovative startup ventures. He currently serves as Technical Director of High-Speed Optical Interconnect Solutions at Amphenol ACS, where he leads the strategic development of next-generation optical technologies for AI and high-performance computing applications.

Throughout his career, Charlie has consistently demonstrated a unique ability to bridge deep technical knowledge with strong business insight—delivering impactful product roadmaps and driving widespread market adoption. He holds a Ph.D. in Optics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a B.S. in Optoelectronics from Tsinghua University. He is the named inventor on ten U.S. patents, has authored more than ten journal papers as well as a technical book.

Yuriy Bulygin is Co-Founder & CEO at Eclypsium. Prior to founding Eclypsium, Yuriy led the Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security and the microprocessor security analysis team at Intel Corporation. He also created CHIPSEC, the open-source firmware and hardware security assessment framework.

Taymur Ahmad is the Founder and CEO of actnano Inc. Prior to founding actnano, Mr. Ahmad had 18 years of manufacturing management experience with Fortune 50 companies such as Alcoa and Philips Electronics. Among other accolades, in 2010 he was awarded the "Visionary of the Year" award by Surface Mount Technology magazine. Mr. Ahmad's success stories have been featured in various magazines and newspapers including USA Today. Dell's Center for Entrepreneurs picked Mr. Ahmad to be one of the top 50 CEO's in the world. He is a member of the Dell founders 50 club and the Philips Alumni Club. Mr. Ahmad speaks 5 languages, and has lived in Europe and Asia. He earned his MBA from Business School Lausanne in Switzerland, and his Engineering degree from the University of Iowa.

Mark Kuemerle is Vice President, Technology, Custom Cloud Solutions at Marvell. In this role, Mark is responsible for defining leading-edge ASIC offerings, drives product competitiveness, and architects system-level solutions. Before joining Marvell, Mark was a Fellow in Integrated Systems Architecture at GLOBALFOUNDRIES and has held multiple engineering positions at IBM.   

He has authored numerous articles on die-to-die connectivity and multichip systems and holds several patents related to low-power technologies and package integration. Mark earned a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. 

Rhea has over a decade of experience in the data center and infrastructure industry with a real estate development background. She has worked for several of the largest DC developers in the world including Digital Realty, NTT and Compass as a Vice President. She also sat on the buy side for Oracle focusing on new and existing public region growth in EMEA. As Co-Chair of the Americas for iMWomen she is passionate about driving more opportunity in our industry. Rhea is currently Co-Founder and CCO of E3, an innovative master development firm specializing in power self-generation for data centers and sustainable economic growth to communities.

Na Li is Principal AI Solution Architect for the Infrastructure Line of Business (LOB) at Arm. She is responsible for creating AI solutions that showcase the values on Arm-based platforms. She has around 10 years of experience developing AI applications across various industries. Originally trained as a computational neuroscientist and received a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. 

Sakya is the founder and Chief Executive officer of EdgeCortix. He is an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologist, entrepreneur, and engineer with over a decade of experience in taking cutting edge AI research from ideation stage to scalable products, across different industry verticals.  He has lead teams at global companies like Microsoft and IBM Research / IBM Japan, along with national research labs like RIKEN Japan and the Max Planck Institute Germany. Previously, he helped establish and lead the technology division at lean startups in Japan and Singapore, in semiconductor technology, robotics and Fintech sectors. Sakya is the inventor of over 20 patents and has published widely on machine learning and AI with over 1,000 citations. 

Sakya holds a PhD. in Physics of Complex Systems from the Max Planck Institute in Germany, along with Masters in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Edinburgh and a Bachelors of Computer Engineering. Prior to founding EdgeCortix he completed his entrepreneurship studies from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Vaishali Ghiya has 27+ years of experience in Networking, Cloud and Security Sales, Solution Architecture, Systems Engineering, Product Management, Strategic Alliances and Engineering capacities, transforming 200+ people team. She is recognized as Top 50 Women Leaders of San Francisco. 

Karl Freund is the founder and principal analyst of Cambrian AI Research. Prior to this, he was Moor Insights & Strategy’s consulting lead for HPC and Deep Learning. His recent experiences as the VP of Marketing at AMD and Calxeda, as well as his previous positions at Cray and IBM, positions him as a leading industry expert in these rapidly evolving industries. Karl works with investment and technology customers to help them understand the emerging Deep Learning opportunity in data centers, from competitive landscape to ecosystem to strategy.

Karl has worked directly with datacenter end users, OEMs, ODMs and the industry ecosystem, enabling him to help his clients define the appropriate business, product, and go-to-market strategies. He is also recognized expert on the subject of low-power servers and the emergence of ARM in the datacenter and has been a featured speaker at scores of investment and industry conferences on this topic.

Accomplishments during his career include:

• Led the revived HPC initiative at AMD, targeting APUs at deep learning and other HPC workloads
• Created an industry-wide thought leadership position for Calxeda in the ARM Server market
• Helped forge the early relationship between HP and Calxeda leading to the surprise announcement of HP Moonshot with Calxeda in 2011
• Built the IBM Power Server brand from 14% market share to over 50% share
• Integrated the Tivoli brand into the IBM company’s branding and marketing organization
• Co-Led the integration of HP and Apollo Marketing after the Boston-based desktop company’s acquisition

Karl’s background includes RISC and Mainframe servers, as well as HPC (Supercomputing). He has extensive experience as a global marketing executive at IBM where he was VP Marketing (2000-2010), Cray where he was VP Marketing (1995-1998), and HP where he was a Division Marketing Manager (1979-1995).

Lisa Spelman is CEO of Cornelis Networks. As CEO, Lisa is responsible for the overall management of the company. She brings to the company more than two decades of executive leadership experience, most recently serving as corporate vice president in the Data Center & AI Group and general manager of Xeon Products and Solutions at Intel Corporation. During her tenure, she expanded Xeon’s capabilities to accelerate AI workloads, establishing CPUs as a leading inference engine across the industry. Lisa also held several senior leadership roles within Intel’s IT organization, including infrastructure operations and engineering, as well as positions in finance, data center product and brand marketing, and sales. She is a graduate of the University of Washington, with a degree in business administration.

Shanu Mathew is a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager/Analyst on US Sustainable Equity. He also serves as a research analyst on the US Equity team, focusing on companies’ sustainability and net zero efforts. He began working in the investment field in 2015. Prior to joining Lazard in 2021, Shanu was a Vice President and Head of ESG at First Eagle Alternative Credit. He has also worked at Expanse and started his career in investment banking at Evercore. Shanu has a BS in both Accounting and Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a member of the Investment Committee of Evergreen Climate Innovations, which provides capital and support to early-stage startups focused on climate solutions. Shanu has also been recurring guest on Wood Mackenzie’s ‘The Energy Gang’ podcast.

Maru is a seasoned DevOps engineer with over 15 years of experience architecting solutions that scale. He currently leads the Infrastructure team at Standard AI, where he orchestrates hybrid infrastructure that powers cutting-edge machine-learning workloads that are reshaping retail.

After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Maru has conquered diverse tech stacks throughout his career - from desktop and mobile applications to large scale distributed systems. Over his decade-plus journey through the startup ecosystem, he's delivered breakthrough solutions including smart car IoT devices, intelligent music learning platforms, and autonomous checkout systems. Maru gravitated towards the DevOps culture, finding a passion for scalable cloud-native technologies and continuous delivery of AI workloads.

Frank Schirrmeister is Executive Director, Strategic Programs, System Solutions in Synopsys' System Design Group. He leads strategic activities across system software and hardware assisted development for industries like automotive, data center and 5G/6G communications, as well as for horizontals like Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning. Prior to Synopsys, Frank held various senior leadership positions at Arteris, Cadence Design Systems, Imperas, Chipvision, and SICAN Microelectronics, focusing on product marketing and management, solutions, strategic ecosystem partner initiatives, and customer engagement. He holds an MSEE from the Technical University of Berlin and actively participates in cross-industry initiatives as Chair of the Design Automation Conference's Engineering Tracks.

WALDEN C. RHINES is President & CEO of Cornami. He is also CEO Emeritus of Mentor, a Siemens business, focusing on external communications and customer relations. He was previously CEO of Mentor Graphics for 23 years and Chairman of the Board for 17 years. During his tenure at Mentor, revenue nearly quadrupled and market value of the company increased 10X.

Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Dr. Rhines was Executive Vice President, Semiconductor Group, responsible for TI’s worldwide semiconductor business. During his 21 years at TI, he was President of the Data Systems Group and held numerous other semiconductor executive management positions.

Dr. Rhines has served on the boards of Cirrus Logic, QORVO, TriQuint Semiconductor, Global Logic and as Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (five two-year terms) and is currently a director. He is also a board member of the Semiconductor Research Corporation and First Growth Children & Family Charities. He is a Lifetime Fellow of the IEEE and has served on the Board of Trustees of Lewis and Clark College, the National Advisory Board of the University of Michigan and Industrial Committees advising Stanford University and the University of Florida.

Dr. Rhines holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science and PhD in materials science and engineering from Stanford University, a master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and Honorary Doctor of Technology degrees from the University of Florida and Nottingham Trent University.

Brett is a co-founder of Arete (formed in 2000) and is based in the firm's London office. He focuses on the global semiconductor component sector. Brett is a regular public speaker at industry events and after 17 years looking at the sector, has a wealth of experience to draw on. Prior to Arete, Brett spent two years at Goldman Sachs in an equity analyst role, specialising in European technology following three years with Ericsson UK, working in business development, covering all aspects of wireline and wireless telecom infrastructure.

Sherman Ikemoto is the Sales Development Group Director at Cadence Design Systems, where he leads global business development for the innovative Reality DC Digital Twin solution. With a passion for addressing challenges in data center design, performance, and sustainability, Sherman brings extensive expertise to the forefront of this critical industry. Previously, Sherman served as Managing Director and Board Member at Future Facilities, the pioneer of the original data center Digital Twin, and as North America Sales and Marketing Director at Flomerics, where he helped introduce computational fluid dynamics modeling to electronics cooling design. During his tenure at Future Facilities, Sherman was a sought-after speaker at prominent industry events like ITW, Data Center World, Uptime Symposium, and Data Center Dynamics. Sherman holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) from San Jose State University, where he was a member of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society, and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MSME) from Santa Clara University. His career reflects a deep commitment to advancing sustainable and efficient technologies for the data center industry.

Hugo Antoine is a Technology & Market Analyst, Computing and Software at Yole Group.
Hugo develops technology & market analyses covering computing hardware, software, and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
He holds a master's degree from Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne (France), with a focus on microelectronics and computing at the Centre of Microelectronics in Provence (France). In addition, he pursued an AI specialization at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal (Canada). Furthermore, he completed a dual-degree program in innovation management at emlyon business school, highlighting his expertise at the intersection of technology and business.

Janco joined Arete in 2023 and is based in the firm’s Cape Town office. He focuses on the global semiconductor component sector as an equity research analyst. Janco joined Arete after a distinguished career as a professional sportsman, where he took on various leadership roles and was a regular public speaker. 

Adrien Sanchez is Senior Technology & Market Analyst, Computing at Yole Group.
Adrien produces technology & market analyses covering computing hardware and software, AI, machine learning and neural networks.
Prior to Yole Group, he worked at AW Europe (Belgium), where he focused on image recognition & comprehension for ADAS. He also worked at ACOEM (France) on real-time sound classification using deep learning and edge computing.
Adrien graduated with a double degree at Grenoble Institute of Technology PHELMA (Grenoble INP Phelma, France) and Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM, France), and he earned an MSc on AI at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK).

Prashanth Thinakaran is a Distinguished AI Infrastructure Engineer at Clockwork Systems, a pioneer in nano-second precise network telemetry and software-driven resilience that addresses the unprecedented scale, performance, and reliability Modern AI workloads demand from GPU clusters. In this role, he partners with AI Infrastructure teams at enterprises, hyperscalers and neoclouds to increase their visibility into issues impacting cluster uptime and optimize their availability and utilization with Clockwork’s solution. 

Previously, he helped AI-native companies build on cloud-based GPU platforms, providing deep technical guidance on distributed training and inference, multi-node scaling, and performance tuning across complex infrastructure stacks. His Neocloud experience bridged the gap between product engineering and customer enablement, helping fast-moving teams adopt best practices in massive-scale model deployment and operations. Prior to that, Prashanth played a pivotal role at Cerebras Systems -  a market leader in high-speed inferencing, - in the design, and deployment of Condor Galaxy 1, a Wafer-scale supercomputer. His work enabled rapid deployment timelines and seamless scaling of AI infrastructure across globally distributed data centers designed for both Inference and Training.

Prashanth also holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Penn State, where his research focused on high-performance computing and cloud systems. His academic work has been published in top-tier venues including USENIX NSDI, ACM Middleware, ICDCS, and ACM SoCC. He has authored over a dozen peer-reviewed papers and a book chapter, and served as a reviewer for journals such as IEEE TPDS and TCC. During his Ph.D., he held teaching roles in systems programming, and computer architecture, and collaborated with Intel, VMware, and Adobe Research through internships, solving systems challenges at the intersection of academia and industry.

Jonmichael (JM) is a storage and AI expert, and sustainability leader. JM is currently the CEO of FarmGPU, an AI infrastructure company which hosts a decentralized cloud for AI on-demand compute and storage - and also partnering with Solidigm for the innovative AI central storage lab. 

Jonmichael spent ten years at Intel in the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions group working on product line management, strategic planning, and technical marketing for the Intel data center SSDs. Jonmichael is the president of the Circular Drive Initiative, 501(c)(6) non-profit, promoting the secure reuse of drives and circular business models for the storage industry. Jonmichael started his storage career at Sun Microsystems designing storage arrays (JBODs) and holds an electrical engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines.

Jason Rogers is the Chief Executive Officer of Invary, a cybersecurity company that ensures the security and confidentiality of critical systems by verifying their Runtime Integrity. Leveraging NSA-licensed technology, Invary detects hidden threats and reinforces confidence in an existing security posture. Previously, Jason served as the Vice President of Platform at Matterport, successfully launched a consumer-facing IoT platform for Lowe's, and developed numerous IoT and network security software products for Motorola.

Miro Hodak is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at AMD, where he focuses on AI performance and benchmarking. Prior to joining AMD, he served as an AI Architect at Lenovo and was a professor in physics at North Carolina State University before that. 

Miro has been actively involved with MLPerf and MLCommons since 2020, contributing to the development of multiple MLPerf benchmarks and submitting results across several rounds of Inference and Training. Since 2023, he has served as co-chair of the MLPerf Inference Working Group.

He has authored peer-reviewed publications in fields ranging from artificial intelligence and computer science to materials science, physics, and biochemistry, with his work cited over 2,500 times.

Shelly Henry is the CEO and Co-Founder of MooresLabAI, a company pioneering Agentic AI for semiconductor design and verification. With over 25 years of experience in silicon engineering and AI, including leadership roles at Microsoft and ARM, Shelly is driven by a mission to transform chip development through intelligent automation. He has led teams building high-performance SoCs and has a deep understanding of the verification bottlenecks plaguing the industry. At MooresLabAI, Shelly combines his technical expertise and entrepreneurial vision to accelerate chip innovation and empower engineering teams worldwide.

Vladimir is the Chief Technology Officer of Ayar Labs. Prior to founding Ayar Labs, he led the team that designed the world’s first processor to communicate using light. Vladimir was recently a professor of EECS at UC Berkeley, and was one of the key developers of the Rambus high-speed link technology. He holds a PhD from Stanford University.

Vishal is a deep tech entrepreneur and engineer with over 25 years of success in numerous strategic leadership capacities in semiconductors and related systems. His calling is driving and leading company and technology vision, building exceptional business and engineering teams in both startup and large-scale organizations. His seminal work has been in analog in-memory computing using non-volatile memories. Underpinning this are his numerous innovations in associative and in-memory compute architectures; SLC/MLC/TLC/QLC flash; network processors, and artificial intelligence architectures. He has over 100 patents, authored numerous publications, and holds an MSEE from University of Michigan and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Gangwon Jo is the co-founder and CEO of Moreh Inc., a startup funded by AMD that develops optimized infrastructure software, enabling more efficient and flexible AI infrastructure at scale. Moreh’s software supports AI workloads on AMD as well as other accelerator platforms, such as Tenstorrent.

Gangwon was the chief architect of “Chundoong,” a supercomputer built using AMD consumer GPUs, which was recognized as one of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers in 2012.

In 2022, Gangwon was named one of MIT Technology Review’s “Innovators Under 35.” He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University.

With a dynamic 20-year career in enterprise software, Jeff Echols has established himself as a leader in building differentiated solutions, strategic relationships, and driving joint partner success. He is currently the VP of Strategic Partners at Hammerspace, focusing on the company's AI Solutions and go-to-market strategy. His extensive experience spans enterprise and startup environments, including two IPOs and international assignments. Throughout his career at companies like WEKA, Nutanix, and CommVault, Jeff has led sales, product marketing, and corporate strategy teams, contributing to significant revenue growth and market differentiation.

Dr. Charles Le currently serves as Chief Technology Officer of Channel AI Solutions at GIGABYTE. He leads the AI software division and is the architect behind GIGABYTE’s flagship platform, AI TOP Utility, which empowers developers and enterprises to train and deploy large AI models with ease.

He is an expert in the training, finetuning, and inference of LLMs, LMMs, and other machine learning models, with deep knowledge across algorithm design, hardware acceleration, and system integration.

Before joining GIGABYTE, Dr. Le spent four years applying deep learning to the development of radiative cooling materials for marine robotics. He also has six years of experience in structural health monitoring and modal identification for infrastructure under dynamic loads such as earthquakes and wind. More recently, he has applied AI to enhance business intelligence, hardware R&D, and service AI assistants using tools like LangChain and LLM deployment.

Madison is a Partner at NEA investing in early-stage infrastructure, data, developer tools, and AI and she also leads the data and AI platform internally for improved investment decision-making. Across her investing career, she has worked with startups including World Labs, Factory, Delphina, Ceramic, Metabase, Mindtrip, Fixify, and others. Prior to investing, Madison was Head of Data Science and Machine Learning at startup Thrasio, Head of Data Science at Greycroft, and led a data science team at Facebook focused on the ad auction and deep learning with FAIR. Madison received a BS in Engineering from Stanford and grew up in Colorado performing in rodeos. She spends free time advising entrepreneurship organizations at Columbia, UW and Stanford and working towards a pilot's license. 

Philippe Soussan is Technology Portfolio Director at imec. For 20 years, he has held different positions in R&D management at imec in the field of sensors, photonics, and 3D packaging. Addressing these technologies from R&D up to manufacturing levels.  

His expertise lies in wafer-scale technologies, and he has authored over 100 publications and holds more than 20 patents in these fields. 

Since 2024, Philippe has been in charge of strategy definition within the “IC-link by imec” sector. This imec business line provides access to design and manufacturing services in the most advanced ASIC and specialty technologies.  

Mark Vinciguerra is an Associate Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) based in New York. He focuses on Generative AI training and inference, with the goal of helping customers architect, optimize, and scale their workloads across various AWS services. Prior to AWS, he went to Boston University and graduated with a degree in Computer Engineering.

Aman Shanbhag is a Specialist Solutions Architect on the ML Frameworks team at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he helps customers and partners with deploying ML training and inference solutions at scale. Before joining AWS, Aman graduated from Rice University with degrees in computer science, mathematics, and entrepreneurship.

Aravind Neelakantan is a Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), focusing on Generative AI training and inference solutions. His expertise spans artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, with research interests in performance analysis and optimization of AI workloads on heterogeneous architectures. Prior to AWS, Aravind developed reference architectures for large-scale AI clusters and specialized in AI inference performance optimization using hardware accelerators. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, specializing in heterogeneous HPC architecture.

Lukas Gentele is the CEO & Co-Founder of vCluster Labs, a venture-backed startup virtualizing Kubernetes to enable advanced tenancy models to increase utilization, reduce cost and make Kubernetes more dynamic than ever. vCluster enables platform and infra teams to create virtual Kubernetes clusters which are as scalable and isolated as traditional clusters but much more lightweight and versatile. Trusted by companies such as CoreWeave, Nscale, Adobe, and Deloitte, vCluster enables organizations to create fully isolated tenant clusters on any infrastructure, from public cloud to private clouds all the way to AI supercomputers powered by the latest GPUs. Lukas has been a keynote speaker and presenter at events such as KubeCon, DevOpsDays, ContainerConf, as well as at AWS and Kubernetes Community Days around the world.

Heath is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Edge Impulse, working to help customers bring enterprise grade AI to the Edge to solve real world problems. In his spare time, Heath enjoys training for ultra-endurance races, backpacking, and watching Formula 1.

David is a Developer Advocate at Edge Impulse, helping the community learn about the shift from the cloud to the edge, and how running AI/ML workloads on tiny devices is 100% achievable. In his spare time, David loves horsepower, drinks way too much coffee, and is an extreme recycler.

Brian Berdan, Sr. Product Manager, Leads the strategy, and development for inside plant connectivity hardware for Go!Foton. He has over 20 years of experience in product management, a noted technical author, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Debendra Das Sharma (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Odisha, India, in 1967. He received the B.Tech. degree (Hons.) in computer science and engineering from IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in computer systems engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA, in 1995.,He joined Hewlett-Packard, Roseville, CA, USA, in 1994, and Intel, Santa Clara, CA, USA, in 2001. He is currently an Senior Fellow with Intel. He is responsible for delivering Intel-wide critical interconnect technologies in Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCI Express), Compute Express Link (CXL), Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe), Coherency Interconnect, Multi-Chip Package Interconnect, and Rack Scale Architecture. He has been leading the development of PCI-Express, CXL, and UCIe inside Intel as well as across the industry since their inception. He holds 160+ U.S. patents and more than 400 patents worldwide.,Dr. Das Sharma has been awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT, in 2019, the 2021 IEEE Region 6 Engineer of the Year Award, the PCI-SIG Lifetime Contribution Award in 2022, and the 2022 IEEE CAS Industrial Pioneer Award. He is currently the Chair of UCIe Board, a Director of PCI-SIG Board, and the Chair of the CXL Board

James Tomko is SVP, Digital Infrastrcuture at Zayo.

James has held various roles over his 36 years in telecommunications.  His extensive background across Product Development, Business Development, and Wholesale & Enterprise Sales has equipped him with deep technical expertise.  Currently, he leads Zayo's Digital Infrastructure sales division focused on AI, SaaS, Gaming, data centers, and media companies. 

James holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Bethany College and an MBA from Marymount University. He resides in Atlanta, GA.

With 20 years of SaaS experience across consumer and enterprise, Kyle led a team in LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions building ML products for SMBs, and now focuses on managed services, enterprise integrations, and the cloud application layer at Crusoe.

As Executive Vice President of Product Strategy and Solution Development at Flexnode, Zak leads product strategy for next-generation data center infrastructure designed to meet the demands of high-performance computing and AI workloads. His focus is on bridging technology, design, and business strategy to shape modular solutions that redefine how compute infrastructure is deployed and scaled.

Devin Avery brings over 20 years of experience in software engineering, specializing in enterprise and service provider software development. Currently serving as Product Development Architect at Virtana, he is driving the company’s approach for AI Factory Observability, Generative AI capabilities, and Infrastructure Observability. His career includes previous principal software engineering roles at Brocade and software engineering roles at CA Technologies, establishing a solid foundation in developing complex enterprise solutions.

Devin has a proven track record of designing and delivering scalable, high-quality software solutions through a disciplined, iterative, and use-case-driven design and testing philosophy. He holds multiple patents for his work on algorithms related to applying collection policies, traversing topologies, and testing abstractions. With a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire, Devin has a keen ability to decompose high-level user requirements into executable stories and effectively bridge the gap between development teams and product management. His skills have been instrumental in transforming legacy products into modern, customer-centric solutions.

Clayton Wagar is the Principal Consulting Engineer for Cloud Strategy in Nokia’s IP Division. He leads activities in both network infrastructure for AI, as well as AI operations and network automation. His career has included a variety of roles in strategy, sales, architecture, and product management in a variety of fields including core networking, broadband, wireless, and streaming media. Currently a Nokia delegate to the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, Clayton has previously contributed to key industry standards activities and emerging technology groups.

Letizia Giuliano, currently serving as the Vice President of IP Product Marketing and Management at Alphawave Semi, specializes in architecting cutting-edge IP solutions for high-speed connectivity and chiplet design. Prior to her role at Alphawave Semi, Letizia held the position of IP Product Line Manager at Intel, where she facilitated the integration of interface IP for external customers, as well as within Intel's graphics and CPU products. With a background in Electrical Engineering, Letizia has contributed significantly to her field through technical papers, presentations at prestigious conferences such as the Chiplet Summit, and her involvement in defining industry standards like OpenHBI and UCIe. She holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.

Anuraag is the co-founder and COO of TrueFoundry. He commands a strong background in AI/ML technologies and leads Product, GTM and Operations at the firm. Previously co-founded EntHire (HR tech platform) and sold the same to Info Edge. Also worked as the VP of Portfolio Management at WorldQuant where he applied sophisticated quantitative models to manage large-scale funds. He is an active angel investor with 20+ investments. Holds a Btech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

Pascal Misoph is Project Manager for Semiconductor & Microelectronics at Saxony Trade & Invest, the economic development agency of the Free State of Saxony. He specializes in promoting international partnerships in advanced microelectronics, semiconductor design, and AI hardware. Based in Dresden, Europe’s largest semiconductor cluster, Pascal works closely with industry and research institutions to foster investment, innovation, and collaboration. His focus includes energy-efficient AI solutions and fostering transatlantic partnerships. Pascal holds a Master’s degree in International Business Law and is responsible for strategic investor outreach in North America and Northeast Asia.

Mr. Karvat is a business leader with over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry spanning server, networking and storage markets, and has deep expertise in strategy development, product management, P&L management and M&A. He has held executive leadership positions at Marvell, Cavium and QLogic, and NetXen (Acquired by QLogic), and prior to that was at National Semiconductor and Broadcom (via Acquisition of ServerWorks).

Robert is part of the founding team of Lambda, a GPU Cloud purpose-built for AI training & inference that has raised over $800M. At Lambda, Robert has scaled revenue from single-digit millions to billions. Prior to Lambda, Robert led sales at Tempo Automation (IPO in 2022) & Stack Overflow ($1.8B acquisition).

Shriram Subramanian is a Group Product Manager at Datadog, where they lead the AI Monitoring product suite--building observability tools for LLMs, GPUs, and AI model training workloads. Before joining Datadog, Shriram was a data scientist at Meta focused on natural language processing and embedding models for ad creative optimization. Their work sits at the intersection of AI infrastructure, AI application development, developer experience, and scalable observability.

Sally Ward-Foxton has been writing about the electronics industry for more than a decade. As a freelance journalist she has published articles in EE Times, Electronic Design Europe, Microwaves & RF, ECN, Electronic Specifier: Design, IoT Embedded Systems, Electropages, Components in Electronics and many more. She also supplies technical writing and ghostwriting services to several of Europe's leading PR agencies. She holds a Masters' degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK.

Ingolf Held is co-founder and VP of Product at EUCLYD, an emerging leader in datacenter compute solutions. Prior to Euclyd, Ingolf was CEO at GrAI Matter Labs, a fabless semiconductor startup offering the world’s first neuromorphic Edge AI SoCs for advanced audio and video processing. Upon acquisition by Snap Inc. he led the custom silicon program for the company’s augmented reality glasses roadmap. In addition, Ingolf held senior engineering and marketing roles at Intel, Silicon Hive, Synopsys and NXP. He holds an MScEE from Erlangen University in Germany and an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management.

Harsha Bojja serves as a Principal AI Platform Architect at Microsoft, where he leads the design and development of AI systems and infrastructure. His expertise spans system performance optimization, availability modeling, and thermal management—critical for supporting large-scale training and inference clusters. Harsha’s career includes pivotal roles in AI/ML infrastructure and product development. His experience at Meta Platforms, Bell Labs, and cloud infrastructure startups has equipped him with deep technical insight and strategic vision. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, serves on the Industrial Advisory Board, and contributes to the OCP Rack and Power Steering Committee. Harsha has authored papers presented at IEEE, ASME, and ACEEE conferences, and actively contributes to the Open Compute Project community, reflecting his commitment to advancing scalable and secure AI infrastructure.

Alex Fleetwood is Chief Solutions Architect at Vaire Computing, a deep-tech startup pioneering near-zero energy AI chips based on reversible computing. A serial founder with multiple successful startups under their belt, Alex has built and scaled interdisciplinary teams at the cutting edge of AI, hardware, and systems design. At Vaire,  he is responsible for strategic partnerships, go-to-market strategy, and leading engagements with hyperscalers, government agencies, and foundries.

Brennen Smith is Head of Engineering at RunPod, building AI-focused GPU infrastructure that powers AI innovation at scale. With 10+ years in distributed systems, cloud architecture, and security, he has led teams delivering critical infrastructure supporting billions of active users. He led the development of Apple’s GPU Edge, expanding Apple’s Edge to support secure realtime workloads globally. He also developed multiple core methodologies used by the telecommunications industry to measure network performance.

 Cameron Villone is a High-Level Synthesis Technologist working with the Catapult High-Level Synthesis product management and marketing team, focusing on AI hardware deployment. He previously worked as a product marketing engineer for PowerPro, Siemens’ power optimization and analysis product. He held previous roles at Texas Instruments and General Motors. Cameron studied and graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology, obtaining both a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering, focusing on Robotics, Embedded Systems, and Computer Vision.

Darren started his career designing MIPS processors. From there, he transitioned to building large SoCs utilizing ARM processor IP. More recently, he served as VP of VLSI at two RISC-V startups, developing advanced SoCs for machine learning and AI. He is now a Solution Architect at Andes Technology, leveraging his CPU and SoC experience to help system designers solve their unique challenges using innovative IP.

Laura is in charge of portfolio company management at SCV. Laura is a Managing Partner with Silicon Catalyst and the Vice President of Operations for Silicon Catalyst Angels as well as an investor with Sand Hill Angels and a founding partner of The Batchery, a tech incubator in Berkeley California.Laura earned her Master Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wyoming (Go Pokes!).

Don Yu is the Special Assistant to the General Manager at Innodisk Corporation (TAIDEX: 5289). He joined the industrial PC field in 2002 and dedicated his sales profession in Korea, Pan-Asia, and the ANZ region from 2002 ~ to 2012. He works closely with local distributors, system integrators, value-added resellers, and Reps. He builds excellent relationships with clients and related teams and has several successful ODM/Customization project records in various industries and applications.
Starting in 2012, his job role was changed from a sales perspective to a product management perspective. He led his former company to be one of the significant AIoT, 5G/ Networking AIoT, and Medical solution providers worldwide.
With 20 years of experience in the industrial PC field, Mr. Don Yu joined Innodisk in 2021 and assisted Innodisk in migrating to the path of AI.
Mr. Don Yu's vision is to contribute to the Earth by leading a team and providing more intelligent solutions to improve our environment and make it a better place to live.

Ruchi Bhatia is a Computer Engineer with a Master’s degree in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University. She currently serves as a Product Marketing Manager at Amazon Web Services, driving awareness, engagement, and adoption of AI infrastructure solutions including Trainium and Inferentia. Ruchi is proud to be the youngest triple Kaggle Grandmaster across the Notebooks, Datasets, and Discussion categories. In her previous role as Product Marketing Manager at HP, she focused on data science and AI solutions, further strengthening her expertise at the intersection of technology and business. She also served as a Global Data Science Ambassador for Z by HP, sharing her knowledge with the broader data science community. Earlier in her career, Ruchi worked across the technology divisions of major global firms, gaining valuable industry perspective and experience. As Leader of Data Science at OpenMined, she guided a team of data scientists in developing innovative privacy-preserving AI solutions. Her expertise has led to speaking invitations at Google Cloud Next, NVIDIA GTC, and the University of Oxford, where she shares insights on AI and data science applications.

Ravi Mahatme is the Senior Director of Product at Celestial AI, where he leads product strategy and development across hardware, systems and software for next-generation AI infrastructure built on Celestial’s Photonic Fabric TM technology platform. His work focuses on solving data movement and scalability challenges in modern AI workloads.
Prior to joining Celestial AI, Ravi was part of the AWS SageMaker DeepEngines team, where he built foundational tools for distributed AI training and inference, including SageMaker Profiler.
Ravi spent over 17 years at Arm, transitioning from engineering to global product leadership roles. His experience spans semiconductor IP, high-performance CPU implementation, and NPUs—giving him deep insight into the full AI compute stack.
He has extensive experience working with customers across North America, Europe, and APAC.
Ravi holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University and a B.E. in Electronics from Mumbai University.

Kurtis Bowman, AMD’s Director of Architecture and Strategy, has a career in computer architecture spanning over three decades. He played a key role in numerous transformative innovations, including introducing integrated audio in PCs, democratizing affordable PC pricing, crafting scalable object storage, and incorporating cutting-edge technologies into server products. His expertise has been honed through his work with prominent companies like Compaq, Dell, and Panasas.

His passion extends beyond individual companies. He co-founded pivotal organizations like CXL, Gen-Z, and UALink, actively shaping the future of high-performance computing. He currently co-chairs the CXL Marketing Workgroup and chairs the UALink Board of Directors, while actively representing these consortia at industry events.

Kurtis’s dedication to innovation and collaboration has cemented his position as a leading figure in the high-performance computing industry, driving transformative technologies and fostering industry-wide advancements.

Sean is Group Product Manager, Storage at Google Cloud and joined with over 25 years of storage experience, specializing in AI and storage infrastructure and enterprise applications. Before Google, he was Sr. Director, PM at Exablox, where he helped launch the company. He also held various PM/PMM roles at Veritas/Symantec. Sean holds two B.S. degrees, including one in Material Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Stelios heads Synopsys' AI Solutions team in the Office of the President, where he researches and applies innovative machine-learning technology to address systemic complexity in the design and manufacturing of integrated computational systems. In 2020, Stelios launched DSO.ai™, the world’s first autonomous AI application for chip design. He has more than 20 years of experience in chip design and EDA software and has founded two companies in this space. Stelios holds an M.S. Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, California.

Taylor Smith is a Senior AI Advocate at Red Hat, where she champions open source innovation and the responsible adoption of AI at scale. With a background in software development, Kubernetes, Linux, and technical partnerships, she focuses on helping organizations build and operationalize AI using modern infrastructure. Taylor is passionate about making AI more accessible, trustworthy, and grounded in real-world use cases. 

Aditi is an investor at Hitachi Ventures, covering the entire digital stack from the infrastructure layer to the application layer. A computer engineer by training and a Fulbright alum, she has previously worked in applying AI and data science to various verticals.

Don leads the Cloud Developer Relations team for AI Infrastructure at Google Cloud. A 20-year veteran in Developer Operations, he is focused on empowering the global developer community to build and scale the next generation of AI applications on Google's cutting-edge platforms.

Rajoshi Ghosh is the Co-founder and Chief Ecosystem Officer at PromptQL, where she works across product, marketing, and sales to bridge the gap between research and real-world impact in AI. She brings PromptQL to AI change agents driving transformative projects—helping them build reliable, custom AI for their most critical data workflows.

Rajoshi has deep 0–1 startup experience in bringing disruptive technologies to new markets, including the launch of the Hasura GraphQL Engine. Before Hasura, she ran a technology consulting firm helping companies modernize infrastructure with containerized workloads. Earlier in her career, she was a bioinformatics researcher, with her work published in Nature.

Michael Alvaro brings over 12 years of industry expertise spanning construction and mathematics to his role as Principal Solution Architect at DataBank, where he serves as technical lead for the data center sales team. Specializing in enterprise colocation solutions, Michael guides organizations through complex infrastructure requirements involving high-performance computing deployments.

As AI workloads rapidly scale across enterprises, Michael has become a trusted advisor for deployments demanding both high-density air cooling and advanced liquid cooling solutions. His unique construction background provides critical insight into physical infrastructure challenges, while his mathematical foundation enables precise optimization of power, cooling, and space efficiency. Michael’s approach centers on translating complex technical requirements into actionable deployment strategies, helping clients understand not just what’s possible, but what’s most cost-effective and operationally efficient.

Anil Ravindranath is Founder & CTO of rapt.ai where he leads the team building next gen Agentic-AI automation platform for GPUs. He is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in building enterprise products, and previously worked as Technical Director at Data Domain/EMC. Anil worked in system architecture, storage, data mgmt., scheduler algorithms, virtualization and apply heuristics for workload mgmt. and system efficiency. Anil has been granted with over 15 patents.

Marc Evans is a semiconductor executive with deep expertise in CPU and DSP IP and SoC architecture. At Andes Technology USA, he leads branding, go-to-market strategy, and strategic partnerships for Andes and its high-performance RISC-V subsidiary, Condor Computing.

He began his career in processor and memory system design at Amdahl, Hewlett-Packard, and Rambus, and was an early R&D team member at Tensilica. He later held leadership roles at Tensilica and CEVA, driving IP adoption across global accounts. Marc holds a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

John Solensky is the Vice President of Solutions Engineering at DataBank, where he leads a team focused on delivering colocation, cloud, and AI infrastructure solutions. With over 26 years of industry experience , John brings deep expertise in helping enterprises design and deploy secure, scalable, and high-performance platforms.

Since joining DataBank in 2020, John has been instrumental in advancing the company’s solutions engineering strategy, enabling customers to modernize IT environments and harness the power of AI-driven applications hosted in DataBank’s facilities. His leadership emphasizes collaboration, technical excellence, and a client-first approach, ensuring that organizations can rely on DataBank for mission-critical workloads and next-generation innovations.

Ian Smythe is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Baya. He recently joined Baya and brings over 25 years of international experience leading business groups and technology teams. Ian has a background in developing and implementing marketing strategies for major technology companies.

Before joining Baya, Ian was Vice President of Product Marketing at Arm, where he served on the leadership team and oversaw all product marketing activities across business areas. He led the team responsible for messaging around Arm’s recent IPO.

Ian has built relationships within the compute ecosystem and has extensive experience working with partners to understand changing compute needs that inform future product strategies. His expertise spans multiple market sectors and technologies, including CPU, graphics, data centre, mobile, automotive, IoT and Edge, open-source software stacks, and AI.

He began his tenure at Arm in 2009 as Director of Marketing for the Media Processing Group (MPG), focusing on the development and launch of the Arm Mali GPU, which became the world’s best-selling GPU. Prior to this, Ian held senior roles in marketing and engineering at companies which include a leading semiconductor vendor and a DSP start-up.

Ryan Hatch is Product Manager at Hydra Host, focused on making high-performance AI Servers accessible on demand. He combines deep product management experience with a computer science background to shape solutions that help AI teams deploy faster, scale globally, and run workloads at the best price:performance ratios.

Paul is Vice President of Marketing at Expedera, a leading provider of AI Inference NPU semiconductor IP. He brings a talent for transforming new technology into products that excite customers. Previously, Paul was VP Marketing at PLDA, specializing in high-speed interconnect IP, until its acquisition by Rambus. Before PLDA, he was Senior Director of Marketing at Rambus. Paul brings more than 25 years of marketing experience including Quicklogic, Aptina (Micron), and others. He holds a BS in Management and Marketing from Manhattan College.

Rahul is a product leader with over 15 years of experience in AI, cloud infrastructure, and quantum computing. As Director of Product at SpiNNcloud, he leads the development of brain-inspired AI accelerators and inference systems, built to break through the energy bottleneck of AI . His work tackles a critical challenge in AI today: bridging the gap between growing model complexity and the energy and architectural constraints of conventional compute. Previously, Rahul held product leadership roles at Microsoft and advised startups on computing infrastructure across cloud, edge, and on-prem environments.

Mohamed is dedicated to making custom silicon design more accessible and collaborative for innovators across the globe. With two decades of experience spanning mixed-signal leadership at Texas Instruments and groundbreaking work in custom chip creation, Mohamed’s journey includes launching ChipFoundry and NativeChips.ai to lower the barriers for hardware startups, engineers, and researchers. His efforts are focused on enabling new ideas in silicon for AI, IoT, and next-generation technologies, supporting an open and vibrant hardware community that’s redefining the future of semiconductor innovation

Pallishree Panigrahi is the Head of Data at Amazon Key, where she leads global data strategy, engineering, and analytics to power Amazon’s smart access and delivery products. With over 15 years of experience at Amazon, Meta, and other leading organizations, she has developed scalable data platforms that drive innovation, operational excellence, and customer trust.

Her work encompasses predictive intelligence, real-time feedback loops, and ethical AI frameworks that shape user-centric technology. Pallishree is passionate about designing intelligent systems that harmonize innovation with accountability, and she regularly shares insights on how to construct trustworthy AI from data to deployment.

Ofir Azoulay-Rozanes is the Director of Product Management at Anjuna Security. He brings over 30 years of experience in the software industry, including 15 years in cybersecurity. His career spans software engineering and product management leadership roles. Before joining Anjuna, Ofir led security products at Imperva and JFrog.

Saba Gurusubramanian leads engineering, product, and technology at Virya Autonomous Technologies (part of the Maini Group), where he focuses on building intelligent mobility solutions for people and material movement in controlled environments.

With over 14 years of experience in the automotive and mobility sector—including 12 years in the U.S. leading powertrain, active safety, ADAS, and autonomy programs—Saba has taken multiple systems from concept to production across global OEM platforms. His core expertise lies in systems engineering, with a strong foundation in rapid prototyping, system architecture, functional safety, HW/SW integration, and software-defined vehicle development.

He has led large, cross-functional teams across domains such as sensing, perception, localization, planning, controls, embedded systems, powertrain, UI/UX, and telematics—bridging deep tech with scalable real-world deployment.

An engineer at heart and automotive technologist by passion, Saba is driven by a vision to make mobility safer, smarter, and more sustainable through innovation.

Dion Harris, Senior Director of HPC and AI Infrastructure Solutions at NVIDIA, leads product strategy across scientific computing, cloud, and AI infrastructure. He also contributes to the company’s sustainability steering committee, with a focus on data center energy efficiency. Prior to joining NVIDIA, he held product leadership roles at Dell/EMC and Symantec. Dion earned both his MBA and bachelor’s degree in Economics from UC Berkeley.

Greg McNutt is the Technical Director at PureStorage, Inc. where he has spent nearly a decade developing efficient methods of utilizing expensive hardware and limited power and supporting relatively high touch engineering labs.  Over his career has has spent many years working on products from lowest level facilities to cloud and high scale products.  Greg studied dependable computing at Stanford University.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/gcmcnutt

With over 25 years of comprehensive systems, payload, and mission engineering leadership, having led high-performing teams for the highest levels of system architecture and design for SAR, SIGINT, and EO remote sensing missions and constellations. Prior to joining ispace-U.S., Jeremy most recently served as Principal Space Consultant for Amazon Web Services and Mission Architect for SEAKR Engineering.
 Jeremy is passionate about driving high-payoff technical missions, including disruptive technology demonstrations. These include DARPA Blackjack and Pit boss, TacSat-2, and National Program Operations and Mission Extensions. Jeremy earned his bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.

Navya Veeturi is the founder of Wywa.ai First Responder, an open initiative focused on protecting communities and forests from wildfires through the power of low-cost sensors, edge AI, and generative intelligence. With a background in leading AI and data engineering teams at NVIDIA, Navya combines technical expertise, product vision, and community impact to build scalable, AI-driven solutions that empower first responders, local leaders, and citizens.

Gil Santaliz is the Founder and CEO of NJFX, the first Premium Connectivity Hub positioned in Wall, New Jersey. Gil has pioneered two decades of experience in the telecommunications industry with vast experience in subsea and data center infrastructure.

NJFX has established a unique ecosystem that enables 35+ network operators across Europe, South America, and the Caribbean to interconnect without recurring cross-connect fees.

NJFX is a 64,000-square-foot subsea colocation facility, offering Tier 3 infrastructure

designed to provide resilient, secure, and redundant network connectivity. It features three Meet-Me Rooms, ensuring diverse and scalable interconnection options. NJFX’s strategic location and robust infrastructure drive the development of secure, low-latency pathways that bypass legacy choke points, enhancing the efficiency and security of global networks.

Dave Driggers is the Chief Executive and Technical Officer and founder of Cirrascale Cloud Services. Mr. Driggers establishes and drives the vision and mission of the company while providing guidance for the development and implementation of the company’s specialized cloud-based, bare-metal server and accelerator partner for artificial intelligence development, training and inference solutions. As the previous founder of Racksaver, Verari Systems, and Cirrascale Corporation, he has an extensive background in hardware development serving various HPC and Artificial Intelligence vertical markets.

Assaf Gad is the Chief Strategy Officer and General Manager at Intuition Robotics, focusing on bridging the gap between technology and real-world challenges, particularly for vulnerable populations. A seasoned product leader, Gad's career is driven by a passion for creating innovative user experiences using cutting-edge technology, creative problem-solving, and business insight.

With extensive experience in both hardware and software product development, Gad has led teams from ideation to market, emphasizing meaningful technology. He uses storytelling to connect technology with people, highlighting the interplay between user experience, innovation, and consumer brands.

Gad has a history of pioneering new user experiences. At N-trig, he introduced digital writing technologies that led to its acquisition by Microsoft for the Surface portfolio. At PointGrab, he integrated computer vision solutions into devices by Samsung, TCL, and Lenovo. Prior to Intuition Robotics, he led marketing and strategic partnerships at Audioburst and mentors startups at Techstars Barclays Accelerator in Tel Aviv. He also held leadership roles at Powermat Technologies, modu Mobile, and Telmap Ltd (acquired by Intel). Gad holds a BSc. in Computer Science from The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.

David Geddam is a Senior AI Advisor and Chief AI Architect  with Global Solutions and Architecture group at World Wide Technology, with 25+ years of experience in AI, healthcare tech, and enterprise solutions background. He’s held key roles at Kaiser Permanente, GE Healthcare, Philips, IBM Watson Imaging, and multiple startups. David holds degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare Technology and specializes in AI including Agentic frameworks + Gen AI, Cloud computing, NLP, Computer vision, and Real-time Inferencing+ Guidance and Navigation. On the hobbies front, he plays competitive Tennis and Soccer in St. Louis.

Dickson Tsai is a product engineer at Anthropic, where he works on Claude Code, an AI tool that autonomously writes, debugs, and executes code directly in the terminal. He pioneered "hooks," a feature enabling developers to inject custom scripts into the AI agent's workflow. Previously, Dickson worked as a pre-training data research engineer at Anthropic and as a growth engineer on Google Search.

 Xiaotong is an infrastructure engineer at Databricks with a background in database optimization. Her current focus is LLM inference optimization as an SGLang contributor

Meeta Lalwani is Senior Director of Product Management at Virtana, where she leads the company’s AIOps, Generative AI, and Event Intelligence portfolio for its SaaS-based observability platform. With over 18 years of experience in enterprise software, she has a track record of delivering products that solve complex infrastructure challenges at scale.

At Virtana, Meeta drives the vision and execution for AI Factory Observability, enabling organizations to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance across GPUs, compute, network, storage, and AI workloads. Her expertise spans full-stack observability, large-scale distributed systems, and applying AI/ML to improve system reliability and efficiency.

Meeta is known for bridging deep technical insight with practical business outcomes, helping teams reduce costs, increase performance, and accelerate innovation in demanding hybrid and AI-first environments.

Dharmesh Patel serves as the General Manager and head of the Quality Engineering Organization at Microsoft. In this capacity, he oversees the AI Fleet Quality team to ensure AI capacity, stability, and reliability throughout the hardware supply chain from manufacturing to data centers. His responsibilities include enabling Microsoft to scale AI capacity while maintaining high hardware quality standards across all stages of product development from concept through mass production. With nearly twenty years of experience in managing complex products and promoting process excellence within data centers, Dharmesh is a recognized leader in his field.

Taeksang is a Corporate VP at Samsung Electronics where he is leading a team dedicated to pioneering cutting-edge technologies including CAMM, MRDIMM, CXL memory expander, fabric attached memory solution and processing near memory to meet the evolving demands of next-generation data-centric AI architecture. He has 20 years' professional experience in memory and sub-system architecture, interconnect protocols, system-on-chip design and collaborating with CSPs to enable heterogeneous computing infrastructure. Prior to joining Samsung Electronics, he worked at Rambus Inc., Micron Technology and SK hynix in lead architect roles for the emerging memory controllers and systems. 

Taeksang received his Ph.D. degree from KAIST, South Korea, in 2006. Dr. Song has authored and co-authored over 20 technical papers and holds over 50 U.S. patents.

Volker Politz is the Chief Sales officer at Semidynamics, responsible for all IP sales and business development activities as well as product marketing. Prior to this, he was VP sales at Roviero, held EU Sales and Global Auto Business management positions in Verisilicon and worked as IP sales manager in Synopsys Europe. He was Vice President of Product and Segment Marketing at Imagination Technologies. He is an international marketing, business development and management executive with over 30 years’ experience in semiconductor and technology companies. He also held roles and responsibilities in Europe, Asia and the United States with experience built from engineering, marketing, sales, and general management positions at Hitachi and Renesas. He has broad know-how in vertical domains such as digital multimedia, broadcast technologies, automotive, industrial, mobile, security and AI. Volker holds a Masters engineering degree in communication electronics from Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany and an MBA from Open University, United Kingdom.

Miranda Gardiner is the Executive Director of iMasons Climate Accord (ICA) -- a groundbreaking non-profit, focused on emissions reductions and sustainability in data centers. Under her visionary guidance, it has emerged as the premier, collaborative arena for digital infrastructure’s commitment to achieving ambitious climate goals by uniting the largest and most influential companies (such as Google, Meta, AWS, and Microsoft) in driving transformative initiatives.

Miranda has grown the ICA to a robust network of member companies with a combined market cap of over $8T, with 30+% of them represented on the various technical committees to ensure a “by the members, for the members” approach. Centered around Power, Equipment, and Materials, ICA has published a Maturity Model and case studies to address critical topics.

She has presented at Climate Week NYC and Datacloud Global Congress, and contributed to publications like PERE’s 2024 Data Centers Report.

In 2020, she received LEED Fellow status from USGBC, and in 2025, was recognized in Data Centre Magazine's inaugural “Top 100 Women in Data Centers”.