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Autonomy
Robotics
On-Device ML
Enterprise Use Case

Author:

Eliana Stefani

Staff Autonomy & AI Research Engineer
Lockheed Martin

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. 

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Eliana Stefani

Staff Autonomy & AI Research Engineer
Lockheed Martin

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. 

Networking

Author:

Matthew Burns

Technical Marketing Manager
Samtec

Matthew Burns develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon-to-Silicon solutions. Over the course of 20+ years, he has been a leader in design, applications engineering, technical sales and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries. Mr. Burns holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University.

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Matthew Burns

Technical Marketing Manager
Samtec

Matthew Burns develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon-to-Silicon solutions. Over the course of 20+ years, he has been a leader in design, applications engineering, technical sales and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries. Mr. Burns holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University.

Networking

Author:

Dave Lazovsky

Co-Founder & CEO
Celestial

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.

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Dave Lazovsky

Co-Founder & CEO
Celestial

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.

Author:

Ram Velaga

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Core Switching Group
Broadcom

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.

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Ram Velaga

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Core Switching Group
Broadcom

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.

Author:

RK Anand

Co-Founder and CPO
RECOGNI

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.

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RK Anand

Co-Founder and CPO
RECOGNI

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.