Infrastructure
Investment
Data Scientist
Gautam Hotti
Director of Generative AI
Novartis
Highly experienced and visionary Director and Head of Enterprise Architecture with over 20 years of experience in leading cross-functional teams to design, build and implement complex software systems and platforms. Proven track record of developing architecture services and processes, rolling out governance best practices, leading distributed systems architecture and development. Currently driving adoption of Generative AI in Novartis.
Investment
Innovation
Risk Mitigation
Business Leader
MLOps
Risk Mitigation
Data Scientist
Aayush Mudgal
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Pinterest
Aayush Mudgal is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest, currently leading the efforts around Privacy Aware Conversion Modeling. He has a successful track record of starting and executing 0 to 1 projects, including conversion optimization, video ads ranking, landing page optimization, and evolving the ads ranking from GBDT to DNN stack. His expertise is in large-scale recommendation systems, personalization, and ads marketplaces. Before entering the industry, Aayush conducted research on intelligent tutoring systems, developing data-driven feedback to aid students in learning computer programming. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
Viswanatha Allugunti
UX UI Mobility Manager
Johnson and Johnson
Infrastructure
Investment
Business Leader
Panel
Jack Qiao
Senior Manager Data Science & AI
Lowe's Companies Inc.
Linus Liang
Founder and Managing Partner
Kyber Knight Capital
Linus is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kyber Knight Capital. He brings over twenty-five years of experience in venture capital and entrepreneurship to his leadership role. Before starting Kyber Knight Capital, Linus spent a decade at Signia Ventures, where he continues as a Partner. His entrepreneurial pursuits include co-founding Embrace, the company behind the world’s most affordable infant incubator. To date, Embrace has impacted the lives of over 500,000 infants worldwide in over a dozen countries.
Before Embrace, Linus founded several software companies focusing on mobile technology and social networking. He is well known for joining Zynga’s founding team, following the acquisition of his start-up, where he served as the tenth employee.
Linus’s career also encompasses roles at major corporations, including Program Manager at Microsoft, database researcher at IBM, and a member of the investment team at Andreessen Horowitz.
Linus is a holder of a B.A. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley, as well as an M.S. in Computer Science, an M.A. in Education, and an MBA from Stanford University. He is a co-instructor for Stanford’s Frontier Technologies course and has previously taught a Big Data class at Stanford’s Business School.
Jeff Winter
Senior Director of Industry Strategy, Manufacturing
Hitachi Solutions America
Innovation
Regulation
Data Scientist
Marc Paradis
Vice President of Data Strategy
Northwell Holdings
This session is targeted at technical leaders interested in generative AI applications. Donna and Kevin will cover business use cases leveraging generative AI, patterns for building common scenarios and best practices for implementation.
Use cases
Innovation
Business Leader
Donna Schut
Head of Technical Solutions Management, Generative AI & Large Scale ML
Google Cloud
Kevin Tsai
Head of Technical Solution Architecture, Generative AI & ML Infrastructure
Google Cloud
Kevin currently leads a team of Solution Architects with focus on Generative AI and large-scale, accelerated infrastructure. Kevin has also led teams in Data Analytics, Data Management, and ML at Google, and has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry
Model Development
Data Scientist
Jack Qiao
Senior Manager Data Science & AI
Lowe's Companies Inc.
Peter Clark
Vice President, Digital Chemistry & Design
Novo Nordisk RDUS