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Amit Goel

Head of Robotics Ecosystem and Edge AI Product
NVIDIA

Amit Goel leads NVIDIA's robotics and edge computing strategy, overseeing the full stack from hardware (Jetson, IGX Thor) through software frameworks (Isaac, Omniverse Robotics) to go-to-market initiatives with global robotics partners. Under his leadership, NVIDIA has established itself as the compute backbone for physical AI, working with companies across mobile manipulation, humanoids, and autonomous systems. Amit's background spans systems engineering, product strategy, and ecosystem development in accelerated computing. He holds a degree in electrical engineering and an MBA, and is a frequent speaker at robotics and AI conferences globally.

Industry
Job function
Company size
10,000+
Speaking sessions
Panel discussion
From World Models to Working Machines: Physical AI in the Real World
Sep 30
,
5:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 304
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Shane Robbins

Director, Product Marketing
CoreWeave

A go-to-market veteran, Shane Robbins sets strategy and messaging for CoreWeave's AI Services portfolio, spanning pre- and post-training, inference, reinforcement learning, and Sandboxes, and leads the team that aligns product, sales, and marketing behind every launch. He brings more than 20 years of product marketing leadership from AWS, Microsoft, and Booking.com, including a venture-backed startup later acquired by Apple.

Industry
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Learn More about Getting Started on CoreWeave
Oct 1
,
6:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 310
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Ninad Hogade

Senior Specialist Field Engineer
CoreWeave
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Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
Anatomy of Performance: Where Every Second Hides
Oct 1
,
4:00 pm
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Christopher Rinard

CTO and Founder
Standard Kernel Co.

Chris is CTO and founder at Standard Kernel Co. Prior, he was an incoming CS PhD student at Stanford in computer systems and undergraduate at MIT, where he published research in leading compiler, AI, and systems conferences. In industry, he has worked across AI and high-performance embedded systems, including delivering improved pretraining performance by up to 20% at MosaicML (now Databricks).

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Sarat Krishnan

Senior Director, AI Products and Rack Scale Infrastructure
Dell Technologies

Sarat Krishnan is Senior Director, AI Products and Rack Scale Infrastructure at Dell Technologies, where he leads the global team developing Dell's AI-optimized and rack-scale servers, including the first-to-market XE9712 GB200/GB300 NVL72 and the PowerEdge XE9812 VR200 NVL72. A 22-year Dell veteran, patent holder and 2026 ISG John Medica Award winner, he works closely with GPU silicon vendors, hyper-scalers and enterprise AI customers to deliver differentiated AI platforms.

Industry
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Company size
Speaking sessions
Panel discussion
Built Together: Inside the Dell + CoreWeave Engineering Partnership Powering Next-Gen AI
Sep 30
,
7:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 310
Panel discussion
Built Together: Inside the Dell + CoreWeave Engineering Partnership Powering Next-Gen AI
Oct 1
,
6:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 301
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Nick Kosicki

Senior Product Manager, CPU
CoreWeave
Industry
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Speaking sessions
Expo Theater
Evolving Role of CPUs In AI Workflows
Sep 30
,
5:00 pm
·
Expo Theater
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Shivendra Panicker

Senior Software Engineer II
CoreWeave

Shivendra Panicker is a Senior Software Engineer at CoreWeave, specializing in cluster orchestration for AI/ML platforms, with a focus on SUNK (Slurm-on-Kubernetes). He brings 10 years of industry experience designing and scaling cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes-managed GPU compute, and distributed systems. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from NYU.

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Rasika Subramanian

Staff Product Manager, AI Performance and Benchmarking
CoreWeave

Rasika Subramanian is a Staff Product Manager at CoreWeave, where she leads product for how CoreWeave measures and proves the performance of its AI cloud: benchmarking across industry, partner, and third-party evaluations, including its MLPerf® Training, Inference, and Endpoints submissions, and the continuous fleet-wide performance testing behind them. She authored CoreWeave's technical whitepaper on its MLPerf® Training v6.0 results. Before CoreWeave, she led AI Infrastructure and AIOps initiatives at Juniper Networks (HPE) for four years, and spent five years at Intel working on distributed architecture, HPC performance, and memory disaggregation. She is a named inventor on seven granted U.S. patents in accelerator resource allocation and pooled memory architecture. She holds an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, where she specialized in distributed computer architecture.

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Savio Dsouza

Sr. Engineering Manager, AI Insights
CoreWeave

Savio Dsouza is a Senior Engineering Manager at CoreWeave, where he leads engineering for customer-facing observability products, including Mission Control AI, Telemetry Relay, and Grafana. He focuses on building AI-native observability platform that enable customers operate complex infrastructure with greater visibility, reliability, and scale for modern AI Cloud workloads.

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Saurav Agarwalla

Senior Software Engineer
CoreWeave

Saurav Agarwalla is a Senior Software Engineer at CoreWeave on the Cluster Orchestration team, where he works on SUNK (Slurm on Kubernetes), CoreWeave’s unified AI training system that brings familiar Slurm workflows to Kubernetes-native infrastructure. Before CoreWeave, Saurav spent nearly a decade at AWS, most recently working on Amazon EKS and Kubernetes infrastructure at scale. He is passionate about distributed systems, Kubernetes, and building infrastructure that makes large-scale AI workloads easier to run.

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Emma Ramos

Sr Product Marketing Manager, GPU Compute
CoreWeave

Emma Ramos is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at CoreWeave, where she owns go-to-market for the GPU compute portfolio, bringing each new generation of NVIDIA accelerated computing to market on CoreWeave, from Hopper through Vera Rubin. Her work covers positioning, messaging, competitive strategy, and sales enablement. She joined CoreWeave as its first product marketing hire in 2023. She holds a BBA from the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

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Arunav Gupta

Software Engineer
CoreWeave

Arunav Gupta is a software engineer at CoreWeave, where he builds AI agents for infrastructure observability as part of the Mission Control team. His work focuses on building, evaluating, and improving agents that help users understand complex infrastructure. He holds a master’s degree in Data Science from New York University, where he studied machine learning and its applications to urban design.

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Prashanth Nalubandhu

Staff Specialist Field Engineer
CoreWeave

Prashanth Nalubandhu is a Staff Solutions Architect at CoreWeave working across the full stack of production AI — from bare metal GPU infrastructure to GenAI applications. With over 20 years of experience spanning AT&T, Morgan Stanley, and AWS, he has designed large-scale networks, built private air-gapped cloud regions for governments, and helped Fortune 500 companies move to the cloud. At CoreWeave he architects enterprise GPU environments, high-performance networking, and secure AI platforms for some of the most demanding AI workloads in production. He specializes in turning complex infrastructure into practical, measurable outcomes for teams building and scaling AI.

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Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
Anatomy of Performance: Where Every Second Hides
Oct 1
,
4:00 pm
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Borko Djurkovic

Member of Technical Staff
Cohere

As a member of the technical staff at Cohere, Borko helps clients deploy secure, enterprise-grade AI solutions at scale. Borko is a constant learner with passion for all things related to Kubernetes and cloud native technologies. In his free time, he enjoys listening to podcasts, and running along the beautiful Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Canada.

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Brandon Jacobs

Principal Engineer
CoreWeave

Brandon Jacobs is a Principal Engineer at CoreWeave. Brandon helped found and served as tech lead of CoreWeave Kubernetes Service (CKS), and now leads the architecture of CoreWeave Sandbox, a serverless platform for running AI agents and reinforcement-learning workloads. Brandon's focus is building the cloud infrastructure behind frontier AI.

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Kevin Curtin

Managing Director and Head of AI Infrastructure
JPMorganChase

Kevin Curtin is a Managing Director and Head of AI Infrastructure Investment Banking for J.P. Morgan. Based in New York, Kevin leads sector coverage across the AI Infrastructure value chain, including data centers, neoclouds, and their associated power projects.

Kevin first joined J.P Morgan as an Analyst in 2013 after completing his B.A. in Economics, Phi Beta Kappa, from Wesleyan University. He lives in New York City with his wife and their daughter.

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Jan van der Vegt

ML Engineer
Exa

Jan van der Vegt is the tech lead on index management at Exa, where he builds large-scale streaming and batch data systems that process, store, and serve hundreds of billions of web pages. His experience spans machine learning, distributed systems, and search, including work in the aviation industry, founding an MLOps startup, and building agents and search systems at Databricks.

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Urvashi Chowdhary

VP of Product Management
CoreWeave
Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
The True Price of Intelligence: An Economic Study by Signal65
Sep 30
,
5:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 310

Mitch Lewis

Performance Analyst
Signal65
Industry
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Speaking sessions
Breakout session
The True Price of Intelligence: An Economic Study by Signal65
Sep 30
,
5:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 310

Max Kan

Analyst
SemiAnalysis

Max co-leads the Tokenomics team at SemiAnalysis. Previously, he co-founded an RL environment startup called Habitat and did Strategy and Product at Jane Street.

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Saahil Jain

CTO
You.com

Saahil Jain is the CTO of You.com. He started at You.com in December 2020 as a Founding Engineer and most recently served as the Head of AI. Before You.com, Saahil was a graduate researcher in the Stanford Machine Learning Group under Professor Andrew Ng, where he researched topics related to deep learning and natural language processing (NLP) in resource-constrained domains like healthcare. His research work has been published in machine learning conferences such as EMNLP, NeurIPS Datasets & Benchmarks, and ACM-CHIL among others. He has publicly released various machine learning models, methods, and datasets, which have been used by researchers in both academic institutions and hospitals across the world, as part of an open-source movement at Stanford to democratize AI research in medicine. Prior to Stanford, Saahil worked as a product manager at Microsoft on Office 365. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science at Columbia University and Stanford University respectively.

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Brian Standen

Director of Innovation and Partnerships
New Jersey AI Hub

Brian Chol Soo Standen is an experienced digital technology and innovation leader operating at the intersection of artificial intelligence, advanced computing, and enterprise-scale transformation. He brings deep expertise in building and governing venture-style innovation portfolios, translating emerging technologies into commercial and operational value, and connecting startups, research institutions, and large enterprises through high-impact collaboration frameworks.

Brian’s background spans AI/ML, quantum computing, advanced analytics, robotics, digital platforms, and next-generation R&D systems. He is known for designing investor-style governance models, overseeing multi-million-dollar innovation portfolios, and fostering trusted partnerships that accelerate applied research and scalable deployment. His leadership approach emphasizes ecosystem thinking—combining technical depth, commercial discipline, and execution rigor to move technologies from exploration to measurable real-world impact.

Brian holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and English from the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he graduated magna cum laude in Anthropology. His work includes patented innovation in advanced computing and published contributions in quantum computing, reflecting a career that bridges deep technical exploration with real-world application.

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Anders Fryxell

Chief Sales Officer
atNorth

Anders joined atNorth as CSO in 2023. A business minded and entrepreneurial leader, with broad sales experience from IT and BPO services. He has successfully transformed service providers towards increased sales and customer satisfaction where focus on employee engagement, digitalization and automation have been key success factors. Anders values the importance of earning trust for building successful organizations and business relationships. He has gained extended leadership experience from CEO, MD and CSO roles in companies like EcoDataCenter, Azets, Visma and Steria.

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Razmig Hovaghimian

Co-founder and CEO
Firebird.ai

Razmig Hovaghimian is co-founder and CEO of Firebird.ai, an AI infrastructure and cloud company focused on emerging markets. Previously, he founded and scaled companies reaching tens of millions of users monthly, including Viki (acquired by Rakuten) and machine learning company Pixel Labs (acquired by Nextdoor). He is also co-founder and joint patent holder of Embrace, a $25 infant incubator for the developing world that has helped more than one million people across 25 countries and war zones, and founded Play Time, through which he invests in AI and robotics alongside Leo Messi. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Stanford University, and is based in San Francisco.

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Faadil Shaikh

Specialist Field Engineer
CoreWeave

Faadil Shaikh holds a Master's in Computer Science and has a background in high-performance computing and systems optimization. As a Specialist Field Engineer at CoreWeave, he helps customers design, deploy, and run large-scale distributed training and inference workloads on high-performance GPU infrastructure, from cluster architecture to production troubleshooting.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
How I Met Your Inference | Serverless, Dedicated, and Self-Hosted Inference
Sep 30
,
4:00 pm
Hands-on lab
Anatomy of Performance: Where Every Second Hides
Oct 1
,
4:00 pm

Aayush Jaiswal

Specialist Field Engineer
CoreWeave

Aayush Jaiswal is a Specialist Field Engineer at CoreWeave, where he works with customers across the AI lifecycle, training and evaluating models, developing agents, and running sandbox and inference workloads on high-performance GPU infrastructure. He holds a Master's in Data Science and brings a background in machine learning engineering and generative model research.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
How I Met Your Inference | Serverless, Dedicated, and Self-Hosted Inference
Sep 30
,
4:00 pm
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Brian Venturo

Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder
CoreWeave
Keynote speaker

Brian Venturo is co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CoreWeave, where he defines the company's platform vision, growth strategy, and position at the forefront of AI infrastructure. Venturo spent CoreWeave's first seven years as Chief Technology Officer, building the technical foundation that powers the company's AI cloud platform today. His leadership helped establish CoreWeave's reputation for delivering infrastructure purpose-built for the unique requirements of AI. Prior to CoreWeave, Venturo was a partner at Hudson Ridge Asset Management LLC and a portfolio manager at Natsource Asset Management LLC. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Haverford College.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Executive / Founder
Company size
1,001-5,000

Kanishka Narayan

Minister of State (Minister for Artificial Intelligence)
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Jenson Button

Team Ambassador
AMF1

Jenson is one of Formula One's most accomplished drivers. Renowned for his racecraft, technical sensitivity, and adaptability, Jenson's glittering F1® career spanned 306 Grands Prix. In 2009 he achieved his ultimate ambition of winning the World Championship following a remarkable season. Jenson joined our partners Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team in 2026 as Team Ambassador. Together, CoreWeave and Aston Martin Aramco are striving to Pioneer The Possible.

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Jacomo Corbo

CEO & Co-founder
PhysicsX
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Alistair Pullen

CEO & Co-Founder
Cosine
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Kirthi K. Devleker

Senior Product Marketing Manager
NVIDIA
Sponsor

Kirthi K. Devleker is a technology marketing leader at NVIDIA, where he drives the positioning and market introduction of transformative AI platforms and the GPU architectures that power them. He played a pivotal role in bringing NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell architecture to market, including the Grace Blackwell and Grace Blackwell Ultra platforms, helping define their positioning around performance, scale, and business value. Kirthi specializes in translating complex datacenter technologies into compelling market narratives that connect architectural innovation with customer outcomes and demonstrate the economic value of AI infrastructure.

Industry
Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Job function
Product
Company size
10,000+

Brian Sparks

Senior Director, Networking Product Marketing
NVIDIA
Sponsor

Brian Sparks is a senior director of product marketing for the NVIDIA networking platforms. With over 25 years of experience in the data center networking and security market, his responsibilities have included various marketing and communication leadership roles, and strategic HPC-AI and networking ecosystem enablement. He currently holds Steering Committee and Marketing Working Group Chair positions in the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) and the Unified Communication Framework (UCF) Consortium. Brian holds a BA Communications from San Jose State University.

Industry
Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Job function
Product
Company size
10,000+
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Deepu Talla

VP and GM, Robotics and Edge AI
NVIDIA
Sponsor

Deepu Talla is the Vice President of Robotics and Edge AI at NVIDIA, where he is responsible for deploying AI technology in autonomous machines and intelligent devices, such as humanoids, industrial ARMs, mobile robots, intelligent video analytics, and factory automation. Previously, he was responsible for NVIDIA’s mobile business unit. Talla holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Industry
Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Job function
Product
Company size
10,000+
Speaking sessions
Panel discussion
From World Models to Working Machines: Physical AI in the Real World
Sep 30
,
5:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 304
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Xinyu Zhang

Software Engineer
Anyscale
Featured speaker

Xinyu Zhang is a Software Engineer at Anyscale, where he maintains the open-source Ray framework and builds the scalable infrastructure behind large-scale AI — from pretraining data curation to inference and reinforcement learning. He holds an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technology Institute.

Industry
Software Development
Job function
Engineering
Company size
51-200
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Corey Sanders

SVP, Product Management
CoreWeave
Keynote speaker

Corey Sanders is the Senior Vice President of Product at CoreWeave. In this role, Corey runs the product team focused on the Core AI Cloud, building out infrastructure and platform services for future growth and customer success. Corey resides with his family in New Jersey, working from the CoreWeave headquarters in Livingston.

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Jon Natkins

Solution Architect
ClickHouse
Featured speaker

Jon “Natty” Natkins is a Solutions Architect at ClickHouse and a longtime open-source data infrastructure practitioner. His career has spanned engineering, product, and technical leadership at companies like Cloudera, dbt Labs, and Braintrust, leaving him with a few strong opinions along the way. These days, he focuses on scalable data platforms, practical applications of AI, and figuring out which “impossible” customer problems are merely difficult.

Industry
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Company size
501-1,000
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Building Blazing Fast AI-Native Apps: A Developer's Guide to the Database Underneath
Oct 1
,
6:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 302

Jim Higgins

Chief Information Security Officer
CoreWeave
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Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Securing AI at Scale: CoreWeave and CrowdStrike on What Comes Next
Sep 30
,
4:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 301

Morgan McGuire

Senior Manager, AI Engineering
CoreWeave
Industry
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Speaking sessions
Breakout session
High-Performance Engineering: Forward Deployed at Aston Martin F1
Oct 1
,
6:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 304

Sara Sathyanandha

Forward Deployed AI Engineer
CoreWeave
Industry
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Speaking sessions
Breakout session
High-Performance Engineering: Forward Deployed at Aston Martin F1
Oct 1
,
6:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 304

Andy Manoske

Staff Product Manager, Security
CoreWeave

Andy Manoske is a Staff Product Manager at CoreWeave leading the company's Security Products and Enterprise initiatives. He led the launch of CoreWeave IAM and manages the development of Confidential Computing and customer-managed encryption products at CoreWeave. Prior to CoreWeave, Andy led the creation of Vault Enterprise and Boundary at HashiCorp, led the creation of Open Threat Exchange (OTX 2.0) at AlienVault, and at NetApp led the development of classified encryption technology within platforms such as Lockheed Martin's BlackCloud and the Boeing P-8A Poseidon.

Industry
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe: How IBM Deploys Sensitive Data and Workloads on CoreWeave
Oct 1
,
4:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 301
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Amy Chen

Senior Software Engineer
CoreWeave

Amy Chen is a software engineer at CoreWeave, Kueue reviewer, and WG-Batch co-chair. Today, she works with AI labs on Kubernetes-native workloads and scheduling: getting an MLE's Python file to run on the cluster, and using Kueue to make sure the GPUs it lands on stay busy for the cluster operators who own them. With her entire professional career built on top of Kubernetes, Amy has previously worked at Apple, VMware, Heptio, and Rancher Labs.

Industry
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Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Quota Isn't Enough: Topology Aware Scheduling on Modern GPU Clusters
Oct 1
,
7:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 301

Jesse Miller

Staff Product Manager
CoreWeave

Jesse Miller is a Staff Product Manager at CoreWeave, owning billing, monetization, and capacity planning tools. His focus is making sure customers get billed for the right usage and can see exactly where that usage went. He builds the systems that give customers transparency into their spend and confidence in every charge, and give CoreWeave revenue it can stand behind. Jesse has an extensive history in pricing, packaging, and monetization spanning early stage startups through public companies.

Industry
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Optimize Capacity, Control Cost, and Scale Economically
Oct 1
,
5:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 310

Samantha Pham

Staff Product Manager, Infrastructure Consumption and Monetization
CoreWeave

Samantha Pham is a Staff Product Manager at CoreWeave owning the company's Capacity Plans. She works on bringing flexibility back to the cloud to unblock AI innovation by providing new and more economical options for customers to procure capacity based on their varying demand patterns.

Industry
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Optimize Capacity, Control Cost, and Scale Economically
Oct 1
,
5:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 310

Engin Esin

Product Manager
Google Cloud
Customer
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Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Accelerating Multi-Cloud Workloads with Google Cloud and CoreWeave
Oct 1
,
4:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 310

Sean Derrington

Senior Product Marketing Manager
CoreWeave
Industry
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Company size
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Accelerating Multi-Cloud Workloads with Google Cloud and CoreWeave
Oct 1
,
4:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 310

Jacob Yundt

Vice President, Engineering, Compute Architecture
CoreWeave

Jacob Yundt is VP of Compute Architecture at CoreWeave, where he leads teams spanning hardware, firmware, systems engineering, compute fabrics and platform software. Since joining in April 2023, he has helped drive the launch of industry-leading AI infrastructure, including being first to launch GB200 and GB300 and upcoming VR NVL72.

Industry
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Scaling in the Agentic Era with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72
Sep 30
,
5:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 301
Panel discussion
Built Together: Inside the Dell + CoreWeave Engineering Partnership Powering Next-Gen AI
Oct 1
,
6:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 301

Harshdeep Singh Banwait

Senior Director of Product
CoreWeave

Harsh Banwait is Senior Director of Product at CoreWeave, where he leads product strategy for the company's compute platforms. He works at the front lines of the AI industry, partnering with top AI labs to define what the next generation of infrastructure needs to be and making sure it exists before the workloads arrive.

Industry
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Scaling in the Agentic Era with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72
Sep 30
,
5:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 301
Panel discussion
Built Together: Inside the Dell + CoreWeave Engineering Partnership Powering Next-Gen AI
Oct 1
,
6:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 301

Chris Van Pelt

Distinguished Engineer
CoreWeave
Keynote speaker

Chris Van Pelt is a Distinguished Engineer at CoreWeave, where he builds tools that help developers create better with AI. Chris co-founded Weights & Biases in 2017. His career has focused on making machine learning more accessible through better software, more effective workflows, and practical education for developers and researchers.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
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Anish Shah

Senior Engineer II
CoreWeave
Hands-on lab instructor

Anish Shah builds agent systems, evaluation and observability workflows, and technical education at CoreWeave. His work focuses on what happens after an AI demo: tracing behavior, testing whether an application works, designing tool interfaces people can inspect, and deciding where human review belongs. His path spans programming education, computer-vision research, analytics, recommendation systems, production ML, customer-facing ML support, and MLOps growth. That range shapes talks that connect system design to the practical decisions teams face when they build and operate AI applications. He uses concrete implementations and public work to explain what worked, what failed, and which conclusions the evidence can actually support.

Industry
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
Your Agent Learned to Cheat: Catching and Fixing Shortcuts
Oct 1
,
6:30 pm
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Lorenzo Balderrama Porras

AI Engineer, Developer Relations
CoreWeave
Hands-on lab instructor

Lorenzo Balderrama Porras builds agent systems, evaluation and observability workflows, and technical education at CoreWeave. His work explores voice agents, healthcare AI, and the practical challenges of making agentic applications reliable, understandable, and useful beyond the initial demo. As an AI Engineer in Developer Relations, he turns emerging AI capabilities into approachable demos, workshops, and technical content. His talks connect hands-on experimentation with real-world system design—showing how teams can trace agent behavior, evaluate performance, understand failures, and build AI applications with greater confidence.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Developer Relations
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
Your Agent Learned to Cheat: Catching and Fixing Shortcuts
Oct 1
,
6:30 pm
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Nisha Nadkarni

Specialist Field Engineer
CoreWeave
Hands-on lab instructor

Nisha Nadkarni is a Specialist Field Engineer at CoreWeave, where she helps customers architect and scale distributed training and large-scale inference workloads. More recently, her focus has centered on Dedicated and Serverless inference, helping customers serve their own weights on CoreWeave and run iterative inference experiments.

Industry
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
How I Met Your Inference | Serverless, Dedicated, and Self-Hosted Inference
Sep 30
,
4:00 pm
Hands-on lab
Anatomy of Performance: Where Every Second Hides
Oct 1
,
4:00 pm
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Agata Młynarczyk

AI Engineer
CoreWeave

Agata Młynarczyk is an AI Engineer at CoreWeave. She develops radio intelligence for the Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team, turning race-week communications into the insights and signals that help the garage make faster, smarter calls. She also works on ARIA, CoreWeave’s AI Research and Iteration Agent - the in-product coding agent that helps users analyze experiments and iterate on their work by optimizing its performance across diverse production environments. Outside of work she is interested in AI safety, mainly prompt injection: finding ways untrusted input can break an agent.

Industry
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
Signal in the Static — Fine-Tuning Speech Models Like an F1 Team
Sep 30
,
4:00 pm
Breakout session
High-Performance Engineering: Forward Deployed at Aston Martin F1
Oct 1
,
6:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 304
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Travis DePuy

Senior Account Solutions Architect
CoreWeave
Hands-on lab instructor

Travis is an Account Solutions Architect at CoreWeave, where he helps customers navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of ML and AI tooling to find the right solutions for their needs. He works at the intersection of infrastructure and applied AI, partnering with engineering teams to turn model development challenges into production-ready systems. Today he's here to make the case that before you reach for the training cluster, you might want to try something simpler first.

Industry
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
Signal in the Static — Fine-Tuning Speech Models Like an F1 Team
Sep 30
,
4:00 pm
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Mohammad Bakir

Account Solutions Architect
CoreWeave
Hands-on lab instructor

Mohammad Bakir is an Account Solutions Architect at CoreWeave, where he works with enterprise AI teams across solution design, adoption, and technical strategy. His background spans AI developer platforms, GenAI observability and evaluation, and customer-facing engineering. He also leads field enablement efforts around GenAI observability, helping translate emerging AI capabilities into practical workflows for customers and technical teams.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
Autoresearch: Building the Tireless Scientist
Sep 30
,
4:00 pm
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Uma Krishnaswamy

Senior Account Solutions Architect
CoreWeave
Hands-on lab instructor

Uma Krishnaswamy is a Senior Account Solutions Architect at Coreweave where she focuses on helping teams adopt ML developer tooling and production workflows for building, evaluating, and operating AI systems across industries including healthcare, financial services, and AI research.

Industry
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
Autoresearch: Building the Tireless Scientist
Sep 30
,
4:00 pm
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Brandon Kates

Forward Deployed Engineer
CoreWeave
Hands-on lab instructor

Brandon Kates is a Forward Deployed Engineer at CoreWeave, where he embeds with enterprise teams to build, evaluate, and ship production LLM and agentic applications using W&B Weave. He came up through enterprise AI delivery at C3 AI, and his current focus is autoresearch: agents that run their own experiment loops.

Industry
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
Autoresearch: Building the Tireless Scientist
Sep 30
,
4:00 pm
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Priya Dwivedi

Senior Staff ML Engineer
MasterClass

Priya Dwivedi is a Senior Staff ML Engineer at MasterClass, where she architected and shipped the production multi-agent system behind MasterClass Executive. She brings 18+ years in applied AI, including seven years founding a practice that delivered 100+ production systems across LLMs, computer vision, and NLP. She holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a B.Tech from IIT Delhi.

Industry
e-learning providers
Job function
Engineering Leadership
Company size
201-500
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Shruti Koparkar

Sr Manager, Product Marketing
NVIDIA
Sponsor

Shruti Koparkar is a Senior Manager, Product Marketing in the Accelerated Computing Group at NVIDIA, focusing on the NVIDIA AI inference platform. With extensive experience across the semiconductor and cloud computing industries, she helps organizations adopt, optimize, and scale AI infrastructure. Her cross-functional background spanning engineering, product management, and product marketing enables her to align technical innovation with strategic business outcomes. Shruti holds a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota

Industry
Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Job function
Product
Company size
10,000+
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Hannah Coutand

Director of Product Marketing, Vera CPU
NVIDIA
Sponsor

Hannah Coutand manages product marketing for the NVIDIA Vera CPU, where she directs the global go-to-market strategy, positioning, and messaging. Her work centers on articulating the value of Vera for the complex requirements of agentic AI and reinforcement learning, focusing on critical tasks such as code execution, orchestration, tool use, and data processing. Hannah oversees ecosystem activation, sales enablement, and product launches for both standalone NVIDIA Vera systems and the integrated Vera Rubin platform. She collaborates with NVIDIA engineering, cloud service providers, and top AI organizations to bring Vera-powered infrastructure to the market and drive its widespread adoption. Prior to her tenure at NVIDIA, Hannah served in various capacities within the Data Center and AI Group at Intel. She is a fluent French speaker and earned her MBA from Cornell University after completing a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering at the University of Virginia.

Industry
Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Job function
Product
Company size
10,000+
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
NVIDIA Vera CPU: The Foundation for Agentic AI
Oct 1
,
7:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 303
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Avinash Kaur

Product Lead, GenAI Software Co-Design
NVIDIA
Sponsor

Avinash leads Software Co-design with NVIDIA's most strategic Enterprise, Cloud, and Data ISV Platforms on their compute intensive Agentic AI workloads. Her focus spans all areas of Agentic AI development and deployment at production scale including open frontier models, long horizon agentic optimizations, post-training, optimal inference and agentic security in diverse environments.

Industry
Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Job function
Product
Company size
10,000+
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Max Gaedtke

Technical Lead for Simulation
nTop
Featured speaker

Max Gaedtke is the Technical Lead for Simulation at nTop. He focuses on building high-performance, GPU-native CFD simulations. He specializes in optimizing Lattice Boltzmann solvers and developing scalable algorithms to accelerate and simplify the integration of fluid dynamics into the design process.

Industry
Software Development
Job function
Engineering Leadership
Company size
51-200
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Beyond Faster Simulation: Hitting NASA's 2030 CFD Benchmark and the Infrastructure for Physics AI
Oct 1
,
7:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 304

Sean Evans

Host
Hot Ones
Keynote speaker

Sean Evans hosts Hot Ones on First We Feast, interviewing celebrities like Kevin Hart, Gordon Ramsay, and Scarlett Johansson over progressively spicier chicken wings, drawing 8+ million YouTube fans. The Chicago native cut his teeth as a Complex News host, interviewing stars like Allen Iverson and Manny Pacquiao, and is known for surviving the Carolina Reaper pepper twice. He was Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Talk Show Host in 2021.

Industry
Job function
Company size
1-50

Parag Agrawal

Founder
Parallel Web Systems
Keynote speaker

Parag Agrawal is the founder of Parallel Web Systems, a company unlocking the web for AI agents. Previously, he spent 11 years at Twitter, where he joined as an engineer before serving as CTO, and then CEO. Parag has a PhD from Stanford University in Computer Science and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT, Bombay.

Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Job function
Executive leadership
Company size
51-200

Brian Lewis

Associate Vice President - ML Engineering, AI
Eli Lilly and Company

Brian leads ML Engineering for Advanced Intelligence at Eli Lilly, building the AI and compute infrastructure powering Lilly's R&D. He built Lilly's first centralized ML/AI engineering team and now leads the platform letting scientists do what wasn't possible before. He joined Lilly in 2000 as a chemist, moved into tech in 2005, and has led work spanning lab systems and enterprise architecture. He holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Indiana U.

Industry
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Job function
Engineering Leadership
Company size
10,000+
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Building AI for Science: An Eli Lilly Perspective
Sep 30
,
7:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 304

Dr. Richard Ahlfeld

SVP for Physical and Scientific AI
CoreWeave
Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Panel discussion
From World Models to Working Machines: Physical AI in the Real World
Sep 30
,
5:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 304

Mandar Bapaye

CPO and CTO
MasterClass
Featured Speaker

Mandar Bapaye is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at MasterClass, where he leads the Product, Design and Technology teams. Since joining MasterClass in 2016, Bapaye has transformed the company's offering, evolving it from a single subscription platform into a multi-product brand — five consumer products built for the AI era: the core MasterClass experience, MasterClass On Call, MasterClass Coach, MasterClass Certificates and MasterClass Executive.

Prior to MasterClass, Bapaye built and led global engineering teams across startups and large technology companies including Samsung Research America, VMware. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Pune University, India.

Industry
E-learning
Job function
Engineering Leadership
Company size
201-500

Carlo Baronio

Research Engineer
Cognition
Featured Speaker

Carlo Baronio works on algorithms and training infrastructure at Cognition. His work spans the training of Kevin-32B, the SWE-grep model family, and Cognition’s SWE-1.6 and SWE-1.7.

Industry
Software Development
Job function
Engineering
Company size
51-200
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Training Cognition SWE-1.7: Asynchronous RL at Global Scale
Oct 1
,
5:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 302

Lavanya Shukla

Managing Partner
Improbability Engine Capital

Lavanya Shukla built one of the defining product-led growth engines in AI. Over seven years as VP of Growth & AI at Weights & Biases, she helped scale the company from its first 100 users to millions of AI practitioners and into a platform used by leading AI labs and Fortune 500 companies, culminating in its $1.7B acquisition by CoreWeave in 2025. Today, she is Managing Partner of Improbability Engine Capital, a pre-seed and seed AI fund backed by Sequoia, Coatue, and operators from the major AI labs.

Industry
Venture capital
Job function
Partner
Company size
1-50
Speaking sessions
Panel discussion
Why Reflection AI Is Making the Open Intelligence Bet — and What It Means for Customizing and Deploying Models
Sep 30
,
4:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 302

Maulin Patel

VP of Product
Capital One
Featured Speaker

Maulin Patel is Managing Vice President of Product at Capital One, where he leads the strategy and development of the enterprise Generative AI and ML platforms. Prior to Capital One, he was a product leader at Google Cloud, building its AI Platform business from the ground up to support industry leaders such as Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple. His career also spans executive and technical leadership as General Manager at GE, scaling the smart buildings business, and Principal Data Scientist at Philips Research. An inventor with 40 patents, Maulin holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Dallas.

Industry
Financial Services
Job function
Product Leadership
Company size
10,000+
Jon Jones

Jon Jones

Chief Revenue Officer
CoreWeave
Keynote speaker

Jon Jones is Chief Revenue Officer at CoreWeave, where he leads the company’s Global Field Organization and go-to-market strategy. He is responsible for scaling CoreWeave through its next phase of growth, including global expansion and industry verticalization, while driving enterprise adoption, deepening customer success and support, and diversifying the company’s global customer base.

Prior to CoreWeave, Jones served as global vice president of startups and venture capital at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he played a key role in driving global cloud adoption and expanding AWS services from pre-product launch through large-scale growth, with a strong emphasis on AI innovation. A seasoned technology and AI executive, Jones brings more than two decades of Silicon Valley experience spanning startup founding, enterprise leadership, and guiding organizations through periods of significant business expansion and transformation.

He holds a B.A. in Economics from The University of California, Davis and an M.B.A from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Executive / Revenue
Company size
1,001-5,000
Jean English

Jean English

Chief Marketing Officer
CoreWeave
Keynote speaker

Jean English is the Chief Marketing Officer at CoreWeave, where she leads global marketing and communications strategy to accelerate the company’s brand, market presence, and business growth. Prior to joining CoreWeave, Ms. English was Chief Marketing Officer at Juniper Networks. She previously held CMO roles at Palo Alto Networks, NetApp, and IBM Asia Pacific, leading initiatives across cloud, AI, and cybersecurity. Ms. English earned a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Executive / Marketing
Company size
1,001-5,000
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Adrien Gaidon

Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer
Walden Robotics
Featured speaker

Dr. Adrien Gaidon is a Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Walden Robotics. Dr. Gaidon is  an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, a former Partner at Calibrate Ventures, and the former executive director of the ML division at Toyota Research Institute (TRI) with experience ranging from research to commercial transfer in mass-market, safety-critical products at Toyota.

Industry
Robotics Engineering
Job function
Engineering Leadership
Company size
51-200
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Rapidly Deploying Useful General-Purpose Robots at Walden Robotics
Oct 1
,
5:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 304

John Bogema

Senior Manager - Propulsion CAE and Data
Ford Motor Company
Featured speaker

John P. Bogema is a senior engineering leader at Ford Motor Company, where he leads calibration-connected data, analytics, and AI enablement across the company's propulsion organization. With deep technical roots in powertrain calibration and diesel emissions systems, John has spent his career bridging physics-based engineering with data-driven decision-making — from pioneering connected-vehicle analytics to advancing AI/ML adoption in calibration robustness and product development. His work has delivered significant enterprise impact, including tens of millions of dollars in cost and recall avoidance. John holds BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Tech and holds multiple patents in emissions diagnostics and sensing technologies.

Industry
Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
Job function
Engineering Leadership
Company size
10,000+
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Calibrated for Change, How Ford Is Integrating AI Into Propulsion Engineering
Oct 1
,
4:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 304

Ken Leisenring

Chief Engineer, Vehicle Propulsion Systems Engineering
Ford Motor Company
Featured speaker

Ken Leisenring is Chief Engineer for Vehicle Propulsion Systems Engineering at Ford Motor Company, bringing over 30 years of automotive engineering leadership rooted in a "mechatronics" foundation that bridges hardware and software innovation. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University's Center for Automotive Research, a background that has enabled him to lead at the intersection of control systems, powertrain calibration, and emerging digital technologies.

Industry
Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
Job function
Engineering Leadership
Company size
10,000+
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Calibrated for Change, How Ford Is Integrating AI Into Propulsion Engineering
Oct 1
,
4:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 304
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Christoph Stuber

Software Engineer - ML Platform
Grammarly
Featured speaker

Christoph is a Machine Learning Engineer at Superhuman, where he focuses on production model inference optimization for NLP systems. He studied computer science at TU Berlin and has worked across industries on data and ML engineering projects spanning computer vision, logistics, and natural language processing. He's passionate about making ML models fast, reliable, and cost-effective at scale.

Industry
Job function
Company size
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
How Grammarly Scales Real-Time Inference with vLLM on CoreWeave
Oct 1
,
4:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 302

Gavin Jackson

VP & Managing Director EMEA
CoreWeave
Industry
Job function
Company size
1,001-5,000

Tim Rocktäschel

Co-founder
Recursive Superintelligence
Industry
Job function
Company size

Pranay Reddy Samala

Member of Technical Staff
Parallel Web Systems
Featured speaker

Pranay Reddy Samala is the engineering lead for web agents at Parallel Web Systems, where he was one of the earliest engineers. He built the company's foundational components for agents, evals, and search from zero to one, including its state-of-the-art deep research system, and led the launch of the Monitor API.

Industry
Job function
Company size
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Beyond the Benchmark: How Parallel Web Systems Builds Reliable Web Agents
Oct 1
,
5:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 303

Eric Ernst

Commercial Technology Ambassador
Aston Martin Aramco Formula One
Featured speaker

Eric Ernst joined Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team in 2026 as Commercial Technology Ambassador, bringing deep technical expertise and storytelling skills developed in extreme sporting environments from snow-covered mountains to open oceans. His tech journey began at age six when he learnt to program on a cassette-loaded computer. Now he connects, translates, and amplifies the technology partnerships powering Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™  Team.

Industry
Job function
Company size
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
High-Performance Engineering: Forward Deployed at Aston Martin F1
Oct 1
,
6:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 304

Jose Lopez

Software Engineer
Pinterest
Featured Speaker

Jose Lopez is a software engineer at Pinterest focused on the infrastructure that takes machine learning models from artifact to production. His work spans model deployment, serving reliability, and large-scale inference, with an emphasis on making ML rollouts safer and easier to operate.

Industry
Consumer Internet / Social
Job function
Engineering Leadership
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Fueling Innovation at Scale: Inside Pinterest's Machine Learning Platform
Sep 30
,
5:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 302

Marc Murphy

Senior Vice President
Nasdaq
Featured speaker

Marc Murphy is an SVP in Nasdaq's Financial Technology division. He leads the data center and network infrastructure business that lets trading firms run their systems next to Nasdaq's exchanges for fast, reliable market access, and he drives the evolution of AI across the division's software products, including advancing Nasdaq's Intelligence Platform and modernizing global trading infrastructure so clients can deploy advanced compute alongside Nasdaq's exchanges.Marc joined Nasdaq in 2010, before joining Nasdaq, Marc spent more than a decade in London and Australia at various investment banks, including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Citibank.

Industry
Financial Services
Job function
Executive Leadership
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Empowering Intelligence: Democratizing Data Access, Enhancing Efficiency, and Driving Smarter Decisions at Nasdaq
Sep 30
,
4:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 304
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John Jordan

Member of Technical Staff
Cohere
Featured speaker

JJ Jordan is a Member of Technical Staff on Cohere’s Internal Infrastructure team, where he builds orchestration, scheduling, and reliability systems to improve utilization of large-scale GPU training clusters. He previously spent 17 years at Microsoft working on Visual Studio, Azure observability, and distributed systems built on Kubernetes.

Industry
AI / Foundation Models (Enterprise)
Job function
Engineering Leadership
Company size
201-500
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Quota Isn't Enough: Topology Aware Scheduling on Modern GPU Clusters
Oct 1
,
7:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 301
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Jerry Liu

Co-Founder & CEO
LlamaIndex
Featured Speaker

Jerry is the co-founder/CEO of LlamaIndex, the most accurate and secure platform to automate document workflows with AI agents. Before this, he led ML monitoring at Robust Intelligence, did self-driving AI research at Uber ATG, and worked on recommendation systems at Quora.

Industry
AI Developer Tools / Data Frameworks
Job function
Executive / Founder
Company size
1-50
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Building the Document Context Layer for AI Agents at LlamaIndex
Sep 30
,
7:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 303

Priyanka Taneja

Software Engineer
Pinterest
Featured speaker

Priyanka is a software engineer at Pinterest, where she works on large-scale ML training infrastructure. She is passionate about building reliable systems for model training and serving and enjoys discussing the challenges of deploying ML at scale.

Industry
Consumer Internet / Social
Job function
Engineering Leadership
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Fueling Innovation at Scale: Inside Pinterest's Machine Learning Platform
Sep 30
,
5:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 302
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Kai Wei Tan

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
CoreWeave
Hands-On lab instructor

Kai Wei Tan is a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at CoreWeave, where he partners closely with enterprise customers to design and deploy production-grade AI systems. He has built and scaled generative AI solutions for Fortune 100 companies, leading the end-to-end development of generative AI agents.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Engineering / Technical Staff
Company size
1,001-5,000

Tara Madhyastha, Ph.D.

Staff Specialist Field Engineer
CoreWeave
Hands-on lab instructor

Dr. Tara Madhyastha is a Staff Specialist Field Engineer at CoreWeave. Trained in high performance computing, she is an interdisciplinary scientist, with contributions in the fields of computer science, educational technology and psychology. Before moving to industry in 2019, she led a neuroimaging lab at the University of Washington, developing new methods to study brain changes that occur with aging and neurodegenerative disease.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Engineering / Technical Staff
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
How I Met Your Inference | Serverless, Dedicated, and Self-Hosted Inference
Sep 30
,
4:00 pm
Hands-on lab
Anatomy of Performance: Where Every Second Hides
Oct 1
,
4:00 pm

Karan Nisar

Staff AI Solutions Architect
CoreWeave
Hands-on lab instructor

Karan Nisar is a Staff AI Solutions Architect at CoreWeave, where he helps enterprises operationalize Responsible AI for generative and agentic systems. He authored Governance Workflows for AI Agents, a practical guide, and created an open-source governance toolkit connecting evaluation, red teaming, human review, and evidence-backed release decisions.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Engineering / Technical Staff
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
Ship It or Block It: Red-Team and Govern a Production AI Agent
Oct 1
,
4:00 pm

Anu Vatsa

Robotics Field Engineering Lead
CoreWeave
Hands-on lab instructor

Anu Vatsa is a Field Engineer at CoreWeave, where he works hands-on with AI and robotics teams to organize diverse AI experiments into structured AIOps at scale. His work sits at the intersection of physical AI development and infrastructure, from tracking complex training, simulation data, and model behavior as it moves from lab to production. He’s driven by one goal: making advanced AI development workflows debuggable, reproducible, and fast enough to ship real-world applications.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Engineering / Technical Staff
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
Let's Get Physical with AI: Teaching Robots New Skills in Simulation
Oct 1
,
4:00 pm

Joe Spisak

VP of Product & Head of Open Source
Reflection
Featured speaker

Joe Spisak is VP of Product & Head of Open Source at Reflection. Previously a Product Director in Meta's Superintelligence Labs, he led product across PyTorch, Llama, and Meta's Agentic platform. With over a decade building AI platforms at Meta, Google, and Amazon, Joe helped make PyTorch the world's leading open-source AI framework and led the Llama initiative. He's also an active angel investor and advisor to frontier AI startups.

Industry
AI Research
Job function
Product Leadership
Company size
201-500
Speaking sessions
Panel discussion
Why Reflection AI Is Making the Open Intelligence Bet — and What It Means for Customizing and Deploying Models
Sep 30
,
4:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 302
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Brandon Hootman

VP of Physical AI Platforms & Construction Autonomy
Caterpillar
Keynote speaker

Brandon Hootman is Vice President of Physical AI Platforms & Construction Autonomy
at Caterpillar. In this role, he has global accountability for Caterpillar’s physical AI
platform for machine and jobsite autonomy. This platform brings together
complex jobsite data; simulation; and AI development, training, and inference at scale to
accelerate robotics and AI-based autonomy for construction customers.

Industry
Industrial / Manufacturing (Physical AI)
Job function
Executive / AI Leadership
Company size
10,000+
Speaking sessions
Panel discussion
From World Models to Working Machines: Physical AI in the Real World
Sep 30
,
5:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 304

Alon Horev

Co-Founder & CTO
VAST Data
Featured speaker

Alon is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at VAST Data. Alon has led multiple engineering tracks and driven success with strategic customer engagements. Prior to joining VAST, Alon established a successful track record of designing and implementing innovative database and storage platforms at companies such as Cisco and IBM. Driven by curiosity and passion for technology Alon honed his skills through self-education and proudly served in the Israeli Defense Forces, where he sharpened his expertise by focusing on software and hardware development.

Industry
Data Infrastructure / Storage
Job function
Executive / Founder
Company size
501-1,000
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Data Architecture for AI: From Training Pipelines to Agent Memory
Sep 30
,
6:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 301

Silas Alberti

SVP Research & Founding Team
Cognition
Keynote speaker

Silas Alberti is SVP of Research and a founding team member at Cognition, the company behind Devin, the AI software engineer. Before Cognition, he was a PhD student in AI at Stanford, co-advised by Stefano Ermon and Chris Ré, a student researcher at Google DeepMind, and a quant trading intern at Jane Street. He also co-founded Cofactory and holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from LMU Munich, where he graduated valedictorian.

Industry
AI / Software Engineering Agents
Job function
Research Leadership / Founder
Company size
51-200
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Dr. Fei-Fei Li

Leading AI Researcher and Professor, Stanford University | Founding Co-Director, Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute | Co-Founder, World Labs
World Labs
Featured Speaker

Dr. Fei-Fei Li is co-founder and CEO of World Labs and the inaugural Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, where she is founding co-director of the Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI). Creator of ImageNet, she is a pioneer of modern AI and founder of AI4ALL. Author of the acclaimed memoir 'The Worlds I See.'

Industry
AI Research / Spatial AI
Job function
Executive / Founder / Researcher
Company size
1-50

Lawrence Liu

Co-Founder & CTO
Willow
Featured Speaker

Lawrence Liu is Co-Founder & CTO of Willow Voice (YC S24), the AI voice dictation platform backed by Y Combinator, Box Group, and founders of Reddit, Instacart, and HubSpot. Before Willow, Lawrence was Bootcamp Director at Stanford ASES, Stanford's top undergraduate startup incubator, and came up through the program himself as a Bootcamp Fellow (1 of 30 selected) and later a fellow at Breakthrough. He attended Stanford University and is based between Pittsburgh, PA and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Industry
AI / Voice Agents
Job function
Executive / Founder
Company size
1-50
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Building Voice AI at Scale: Fine-Tuning, Reinforcement Learning, and Personalization
Sep 30
,
7:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 302

Bartley Richardson

Chief of AI
CrowdStrike
Featured Speaker

Bartley Richardson is Chief AI and Autonomous Systems Officer at CrowdStrike, where he leads AI strategy across Charlotte AI, the agentic SOC, and AI Detection and Response, extending the company's leadership in AI-native cybersecurity. Previously, Dr. Richardson was Senior Director of Engineering at NVIDIA, leading agentic AI, cybersecurity AI, and AI infrastructure, including the NeMo Agent Toolkit and Morpheus. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering.

Industry
Cybersecurity
Job function
AI Leadership
Company size
5,001-10,000
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Securing AI at Scale: CoreWeave and CrowdStrike on What Comes Next
Sep 30
,
4:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 301

Renee Huang

CEO
Cline
Featured speaker

Renee is the CEO of Cline, enabling the future of AI-powered software development for everyone and building the best harness for open weights models. Previously, she led AI products at Snowflake, where she launched multiple AI data agent products including Cortex AISQL and Cortex Analyst.

Industry
AI Developer Tools (Coding Agents)
Job function
Product Leadership
Company size
1-50
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
How Cline Embraces an Open-Weights Model Ecosystem for AI Agents
Oct 1
,
6:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 303

Brian Belgodere

Senior Technical Staff Member - AI/ML Systems
IBM
Featured speaker

Brian Belgodere is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Research, where he leads development of the Cognitive Computing Cluster - a GPU-enabled HPC environment purpose-built for end-to-end Deep Learning as a Service. With over a decade of experience across systems engineering, infrastructure, and AI/ML, he specializes in the tooling and DevOps pipelines that turn research-scale compute into production-ready platforms.

Industry
Enterprise Technology / AI Research
Job function
Engineering / Technical Staff
Company size
10,000+
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe: How IBM Deploys Sensitive Data and Workloads on CoreWeave
Oct 1
,
4:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 301

Jeffrey Li

COO (Head of Product & GTM)
Liquid AI
Featured speaker

Jeffrey Li is Head of Product and Go-to-Market (COO) at Liquid AI, connecting Liquid's technology with enterprises through high-velocity, customer-driven development. Previously an early employee at Scale AI, he expanded its labeling market into LLMs, audio, and document analysis, and was a founding team member of Gather Town.

Industry
AI / Foundation Models
Job function
Executive / Product Leadership
Company size
51-200
Speaking sessions
Breakout session
Beyond the Harness: How LiquidAI Is Solving the Real Frontier Problems in On-Device Agents
Sep 30
,
4:00 pm
·
Moscone South, Level 3, Room 303
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Shawn Lewis

Chief Superintelligence Officer
CoreWeave
Keynote Speaker

Shawn Lewis is Chief Super Intelligence Officer at CoreWeave, leading the company's efforts to build and scale software platforms for AI researchers and engineers. He was previously Founder and CTO of Weights & Biases, the AI developer platform acquired by CoreWeave, where he helped establish industry-standard tools for experiment tracking, evaluation, and AI observability. Shawn previously held engineering roles at Google and was Founder and CTO of Beep.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Engineering Leadership
Company size
1,001-5,000
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