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Speakers for 2024

Keynote Speakers

Aditi Gokhale
Fmr Chief Strategy Officer Northwestern Mutual
Brad Porter
Founder & CEO - Collaborative Robotics
Ethan Mollick
Professor - University of Pennsylvania

AI Awards

Drew Houston
Founder & CEO - Dropbox
Fotini Christia
Professor - MIT
Ray Stata
Co-founder - Analog Devices, Inc.
Wardah Inam
CEO - Overjet

Investors

Anna Khan
General Partner - CRV
Ansaf Kareem
Managing Partner - Latitude Capital
Habib Haddad
Managing Partner - E14 Fund
Jake Seid
Partner - Ballistic Ventures
James Cham
VC - Bloomberg Beta
Kahini Shah
Partner - Obvious Ventures
Kyle Richless
GP & Co-Counder - Sugar Free Capital
Mark Gorenberg
Managing Director - Zetta Venture Partners
Michel Zaidler
VC Investor - Quona Capital
Rebeca Hwang
Partner - Kalei Ventures
Rohini Chakravarthy
Managing Partner - NewBuild VC
Sheena Jindal
General Partner - Sugar Free Capital
Shuja Keen
Managing Director - TRG
Somak Chattopadhyay
Founder & Managing Partner - Armory Square Ventures
Tod Hynes
Serial Founder & Investor - MIT | Clymate Studios

Finance

Alice Nawfal
Cofounder & COO - Notabene
Erkko Etula
CEO & Co-Founder - Brooklyn Investment Group
John Nay
Founder and CEO - Norm AI
Jon Xu
Co-Founder - FutureAdvisor
Lisa Besserman
Head of Innovation, Chase Operations - JP Morgan Chase
Matt Turner
Deputy Editor-in-Chief - Business Insider
Monica Brand Engel
Co-Founder and Managing Partner - Quona Capital
Runik Mehrotra
Co-founder & Chief Investment Officer - Vise

Enterprise Software

Aparna Chennapragada
CVP - Microsoft
Arun Pamulapati
Sr. Staff Security Field Engineer - Databricks
Burak Gokturk
VP Engineering, Cloud AI, Google Cloud - Google
Caroline O'Brien
Chief Data Officer & Head of Product - Afiniti
Daniela Braga
CEO - Defined.ai
Dr. Sherry Marcus
Director of Generative AI Science - Amazon Web Services
Fawad Ahmad
SVP | Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer - State Farm
JJ Zhuang
Co-Founder - NYA Labs
Jay Dawani
CEO and CoFounder - Lemurian Labs
Jesse Zhang
CEO - Decagon
Jonathan Cohen
VP of Applied Research - NVIDIA
Jonathan Rosenberg
CTO and Head of AI - Five9
Max Kolysh
CEO - Dover
Omar Khawaja
VP, Security - Databricks
Sami Shalabi
Co-Founder & CTO - Maven AGI
Surojit Chatterjee
CEO & Co-Founder - Ema Unlimited Inc
Waseem AlShikh
CTO - Writer

Products and Tools

Anthony Johnson
CTO - Lighty AI
Dan Mason
Principal, AI - Stride
Joe Khoury
Managing Director & Partner - BCG
Juan Santiago
Founder & CEO - Santex
Michael Carlson
Partner, Head of Stride Labs - Stride
Mikey Kindler
Co-founder & COO - Lighty AI
Pablo Di Si
President & CEO - Volkswagen Group of America
Richard Rabbat
Co-founder & CEO - Lighty AI
Roeland Nusselder
Co-Founder and CEO - Plumerai
Shishir Mehrotra
Co-Founder and CEO - Coda
Ziad Sultan
Vice President of Personalization - Spotify

Health

Andy Beck
CEO - PathAI
Elissa Welle
Journalist - Freelance
Jared Goodner
Co-Founder and CTO - Akido Labs
Manolis Kellis
Professor - MIT, Broad Institute
Maryam Shanechi
Sawchuk Chair and Professor - University of Southern California
Peter Yoo
Senior Director of Neuroscience and Algorithms - Synchron
Prashant Samant
Co-founder and CEO - Akido Labs
Sadegh Salehi
Principal Machine Learning Scientist - Overjet
Sam Sinai
Co-founder, Head of Machine Learning - Dyno Therapeutics
Tom Oxley
CEO & Founder - Synchron

Climate

Dr. Julie Pullen
Partner & Chief Scientist- Propeller Ventures
Himanshu Gupta
CEO - Climate Ai
James J. Collins
Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science - MIT
Qichao Hu
Founder & CEO - SES AI Corp.

Policy and Security

Avishan Bodjnoud
Chief Information Management Officer - UN Dept. of Peace Operations
Dilawar Syed
Deputy Administrator - U.S. Small Business Administration
Helena Fu
Director, Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies - Department of Energy
Janet Haven
Executive Director - Data & Society
Jeff Alstott
Director - Center for Technology and Security Policy (TASP), RAND
Jennifer Rochlis
President & CEO - Advancing Frontiers, Inc.
Joseph Keller
Tech Policy Researcher Nonresident Fellow, Brookings Institution

Presenters

Arun Saigal
CEO - Thunkable
Michelle Huang
Special Projects - Tiktok
Mohamed Salah
CTO - American Financing Corporation
Songyee Yoon
Managing Partner - PVP
Sudhanshu Mishra
Student - Harvard Business School
Whitney Espich
CEO - MIT Alumni Association

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