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Meet the operators, researchers, and builders taking the stage this year — from keynote leaders to hands-on lab experts.

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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

Marc Murphy

Senior Vice President
Nasdaq
Featured speaker

Marc Murphy is a Senior Vice President for Nasdaq's North American Market Services, where he sets strategic product direction for Software Solutions and Technology Infrastructure, including the migration of Nasdaq's markets to the cloud and the application of emerging technologies. Before joining Nasdaq in 2010, Marc spent more than a decade in London and Australia at investment banks including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and Citibank.

Industry
Financial Services
Job function
Executive Leadership
Company size
1,001-5,000
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John Jordan

Staff Member of Technical Staff - Infrastructure
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
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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

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
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Richard Bonneau

VP & Global Head, AI for Drug Discovery
Genentech
Featured speaker

Richard Bonneau leads Prescient Design, a molecular design accelerator at Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, that pioneers new methods for combining machine learning and molecular modeling. Dr. Bonneau's work has produced new methods for inferring biological networks, predicting biomolecular structure, and designing macromolecular and biomimetic structures. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Washington, where he pioneered methods to predict biomolecular structure (Rosetta, with David Baker) and trained postdoctorally with Leroy Hood at the Institute for Systems Biology.

Industry
Biotech / Pharmaceuticals
Job function
Executive / Research Leadership
Company size
10,000+

Joe Spisak

VP of Product & Head of Open Source
Reflection AI
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
1-50

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

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. He co-founded the company in early 2024, initially pivoting through a healthcare-focused idea before landing on Willow's current product. 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

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

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

Autumn Moulder

Senior VP of Engineering
Cohere
Featured speaker

Autumn Moulder is SVP of Engineering at Cohere, leading engineering across LLM infrastructure, security, developer experience, and private deployments for the company's vertically integrated AI platform. She previously held senior infrastructure and data engineering leadership roles at Progressive Leasing.

Industry
AI / Foundation Models (Enterprise)
Job function
Engineering Leadership
Company size
201-500

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+

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

Sarah Guo

Founder & Partner
Conviction
Host

Sarah Guo is the founder of Conviction, an AI-native venture capital firm launched in 2022. Previously a General Partner at Greylock, she has been an early investor in leading companies including Cognition, Figma, Harvey, Mistral, Sierra and Thinking Machines. She co-hosts the popular AI podcast 'No Priors' with Elad Gil.

Industry
Venture Capital (AI)
Job function
Executive / Founder / Investor
Company size
1-50
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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

Lukas Biewald

SVP, AI Initiatives
CoreWeave
Keynote Speaker

Lukas Biewald is SVP of AI Initiatives at CoreWeave, leading strategy and innovation across the company's AI ecosystem. A pioneer in ML infrastructure, he co-founded and led Weights & Biases, the AI developer platform acquired by CoreWeave in 2025, and Figure Eight (formerly CrowdFlower), an early leader in ML data labeling acquired by Appen in 2019. He's dedicated his career to making machine learning more accessible to all.

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

Chen Goldberg

EVP, Product & Engineering
CoreWeave
Keynote Speaker

Chen Goldberg joined CoreWeave in August 2024 as Executive Vice President, Product & Engineering. Previously, she spent more than eight years at Google Cloud, where she most recently served as General Manager & Vice President of Engineering, leading the Kubernetes and Serverless portfolio. Earlier, she was Director of Engineering at HP. She holds a B.A. in Management and Computer Sciences and an M.B.A. from The Open University of Israel.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Executive / Product & Engineering
Company size
1,001-5,000
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Ian Buck

VP and GM, Hyperscale and HPC
NVIDIA
Keynote Speaker

Ian Buck is the vice president of Hyperscale and HPC at NVIDIA, leading the company's multi-billion dollar accelerated computing and datacenter business. He joined NVIDIA in 2004 and invented CUDA, and has testified before Congress and advised the White House on AI. Buck holds a B.S. from Princeton and a Ph.D. from Stanford, both in computer science.

Industry
Semiconductors / AI Hardware
Job function
Executive / Technology Leadership
Company size
10,000+

Peter Salanki

Chief Technology Officer
CoreWeave
Keynote Speaker

Peter Salanki has served as Chief Technology Officer at CoreWeave since March 2024. He previously held engineering leadership roles at the company, including Vice President of Engineering and Director of Engineering, from 2019 to 2024. Before joining CoreWeave, he was Director, Americas, Office of the CTO at Sandvine, an application and network intelligence company.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Executive / Technology Leadership
Company size
1,001-5,000
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September 30, 2026
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Mike Intrator

Chief Executive Officer
CoreWeave
Keynote Speaker

Michael Intrator is one of CoreWeave’s co-founders and has served as Chairman of the board of directors and as Chief Executive Officer and President since September 2017. Previously, he co-founded and led Hudson Ridge Asset Management, a natural gas hedge fund, and held senior portfolio management roles at Natsource Asset Management. He earned a B.A. in Political Science from Binghamton University and an M.P.A. from Columbia University.

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