Meena Arunachalam created one AI & Analytics optimized stack for CPUS and accelerators running data center workloads. In the past, she has been responsible for pre-Silicon software enabling for ML/DL workloads and system-level performance and power simulations for Intel products. She also worked on micro-architecture bottleneck analyses, cache/ memory hierarchy improvements and perf and power workload projections, energy efficiency tuning at scale and HPC optimizations for Xeon, Xeon Phi and FPGA products.

CJ Desai joined ServiceNow in 2016 as Chief Product Officer. Previously, he served as President of the Emerging Technologies Division at EMC from 2013 to 2016 where he was responsible for product strategy and engineering for several emerging businesses. Prior to EMC, CJ held various leadership roles at Symantec and began his career at Oracle. CJ has a Master's degree in Computer Science and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and serves on the board at Zebra Technologies.

Christopher Manning is a professor of computer science and linguistics at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford AI Lab. He is a leader in applying deep neural networks to Natural Language Processing, including work on tree recursive models, sentiment analysis, neural machine translation and parsing, and the GloVe word vectors. He founded the Stanford NLP group (@stanfordnlp), developed Stanford Dependencies and Universal Dependencies, and manages development of the Stanford CoreNLP software. Manning is an ACM, AAAI, and ACL Fellow, and a Past President of ACL.

John Markoff is a fellow at the Stanford Human Centered Artificial Institute. He is also a research affiliate at the Center for Advance Study in the Behavioral Sciences participating in projects focusing on the future of work and artificial intelligence.In 2013 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting as part of a New York Times project on labor and automation. He is currently researching a biography of Stewart Brand, the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog.

Erik Melander is co-founder and CEO of Astellent, a consulting company that improves how software is designed, developed, and delivered to help organizations achieve more. Astellent collaborates with ambitious people who use cloud services and machine intelligence to make things that matter. Previously, Erik has held a wide range of leadership positions across a broad array of computer technology disciplines, including systems architecture, data science, and software development.

Alex Schwing received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Technical University of Munich in 2006 and 2008 respectively, and obtained a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in 2014. Afterwards he joined University of Toronto as a postdoctoral fellow until 2016. His research interests are in computer vision and machine learning, where he has co-authored numerous papers on topics in scene understanding, inference and learning algorithms, deep learning, image and language processing and generative modeling.

Wenting Sun Wenting is the principal data scientist in Ericsson. She leads a team to develop cutting edge AI/ML applications in telecommunication domain. She also drives the activities of Ericsson’s active contribution in AI/ML open source platform Acumos (under Linux Foundation).

Joseph Wei advises and consults with VC/CVCs and startups on strategy, partnerships, go to market. He has developed a successful eco-system for Heuristic Capital/Lab360 in accelerating hardware startups. The eco-system includes investors, lawyers, CPAs, largest cloud and technology partners, electrical and industrial design firms, and, outsourced manufacturers, to help support and accelerate the growth of the startups.

Zongjie has expertise in new product / technology incubation, product strategy, Business Strategy & Operation, Machine Learning infrastructure, and Data Center technologies. She leads a Product Management team at Cisco to drive the new Machine Learning product from strategy to productization, GTM, and monetization.

Ben has a wide range of IT infrastructure experience along with leading infrastructure teams with a focus on innovation and excellence in engineering. He has a deep understanding of the Cisco product portfolio from the 3850 switch, 4500, Nexus 7k and 9k to the ASR1000. Specialties include IaaS, WAN strategy, Enterprise Compute and Storage, DC networking, Unified Communications, and SDN.

Passionate technologist in software and hardware engineering including system software, scientific, AI and cloud computing. Proven track record of building and driving high performance global teams, delivering innovative technology/products/solutions, and demonstrated mastery of numerous technologies including kernel, networking, filesystems, storage, security, cloud computing, etc. Experienced in product marketing, technical marketing and product management driven to show AI and Deep Learning as an enabler for innovation.

Trevor is a technologically minded leader bridging the gap between legacy business processes and technology-enabled disruption tools. He has deep domain expertise in artificial intelligence and NLP applied to finance, cryptoasset networks, and 20 years of experience in asset management, portfolio theory, risk management, capital markets, and options theory. His experience includes Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and global hedge funds. Currently Managing Director at Lazard based in Palo Alto. Sc. B. in Biochemistry (Honors) from Brown University.

Paul is the founder and CEO of ForePaaS, the first multi-cloud and automated platform as a service to scale fast and secure data analytics applications.