Rakshit Agrawal

Prasad Akella

Dr. Prasad Akella, founder and chairman of the Drishti board, is creating his third massive market category that uses technology to extend human capabilities. In the 1990s, Prasad led the General Motors team that built the world’s first collaborative robots (“cobots,” projected to be a $12B market by 2025). In the early 2000s, as cofounder of the social networking pioneer Spoke, he envisioned and helped build the first massive social graph — a category now worth trillions. Today, at Drishti, he is working to combine the cognition of AI with the flexibility of humans in factories in the form of AI-powered production. Prasad is based in Mountain View, California.

Alessya Visnjic

Alessya Visnjic is the CEO of WhyLabs, the AI Observability company building the interface between AI & human operators. Prior to WhyLabs, Alessya was a CTO-in-residence at the Allen Institute for AI, where she evaluated commercial potential for the latest AI research. Earlier, Alessya spent 9 years at Amazon leading ML adoption & tooling efforts. Alessya is also the founder of Rsqrd AI, a global community of 1,000+ AI practitioners who are making AI technology Robust & Responsible.

Hooman Sedghamiz

Hooman Sedghamiz is Director of AI & ML at Bayer. He has lead algorithm development and generated valuable insights to improve medical products ranging from implantable, wearable medical and imaging devices to bioinformatics and pharmaceutical products for a variety of multinational medical companies.

He has lead projects, data science teams and developed algorithms for closed loop active medical implants (e.g. Pacemakers, cochlear and retinal implants) as well as advanced computational biology to study the time evolution of cellular networks associated with cancer , depression and other illnesses.

His experience in healthcare also extends to image processing for Computer Tomography (CT), iX-Ray (Interventional X-Ray) as well as signal processing of physiological signals such as ECG, EMG, EEG and ACC.

Recently, his team has been working on cutting edge natural language processing and developed cutting edge models to address the healthcare challenges dealing with textual data.

Christopher Nichols

Christopher Nichols is Director of IT/OT Resiliency & Support at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. He has been employed by the Fortune 500 manufacturer, Stanley Black & Decker for over seven years, and is currently Director of IT/OT Resiliency & Support. In this role, he is responsible for deploying Level 2/3 system architectures and connecting all other level systems to level2/3, while supporting them. Additionally, he manages remediation with Edge components, and deploys servers and connectivity for all OT-Related systems, plus Level 1 support of all OT-Related SW applications.

Jake Hillard

Jake Hillard is an expert in Signal Processing and has launched multiple laser satellite missions to space. He is a Peter Theil Fellow and currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Red Leader Technologies

Anthony Valle

Anthony Valle is a Senior Pre-Sales Engineer for North America and Latin America at Ipsotek, an Atos company. Anthony has over 20 years of experience in IT and security technology solutions for the rapidly growing tech-based world.  He works closely with clients in developing solutions for AI at the Edge, utilizing a patented Scenario-Based Rule Engine (SBRE), a powerful tool to precisely define behaviors of interest as they would unfold in the real-world dynamic and complex environment.

Prior to joining Atos, he performed first Sales Engineering and later Application engineering roles for Avigilon, one of the world's largest security manufacturers.   Throughout his career, he has held key management positions within the industry and sought many certifications to further his career in security technology. 

Roger Berg

Roger Berg is Vice President of DENSO’s North American Research and Development group. His latest research interests and responsibilities include next generation connectivity, mobile edge computing, connected automated vehicles and decentralized ledger technologies.

Prashant Tiwari

Chandra Khatri

Chandra Khatri is the Co-Founder at Got It AI, wherein, his team is building the world's first fully autonomous Conversational AI technology. Under his leadership, Got It AI is pushing the boundaries of the Conversational AI ecosystem and delivering the next generation of automation products. Prior to Got-It, Chandra was leading various kinds of applied research groups at Uber AI such as Conversational AI, Multi-modal AI, and Recommendation Systems.

 Prior to Uber AI, he was leading R&D for the Alexa Prize Competition (Alexa AI) at Amazon, wherein he got the opportunity to significantly advance the field of Conversational AI, particularly Open-domain Dialog Systems, which is considered as the holy-grail of Conversational AI and is one of the open-ended problems in AI. Prior to Alexa AI, he was driving NLP, Deep Learning, and Recommendation Systems related Applied Research at eBay. He graduated from Georgia Tech with a specialization in Deep Learning in 2015 and holds an undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani, India.

His current areas of research include Artificial and General Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Language Understanding, Conversational AI, Multi-modal and Human-agent Interactions, and Introducing Common Sense within Artificial Agents.

Charles Byers