Accelerating Your Business with AI

Vanja Josifovski is the Chief Technology Officer, Homes at Airbnb where he leads efforts around developing the technical vision and direction across the Homes business. Vanja was most recently CTO at Pinterest, where he was responsible for setting the technical strategy of the company in areas like machine learning and search, as well as managing the Applied Discovery engineering team. Prior to this role, he held positions as the Head of Discovery, Ads Engineering, and Growth Engineering. Before

Hilary Mason is the General Manager for Machine Learning at Cloudera and the founder of Fast Forward Labs, an applied machine learning research and advisory company that was acquired by Cloudera in 2017. Hilary is also the Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners and is on the board of the Anita Borg Institute. Previously, she co-founded HackNY.org, a non-profit that helps engineering students find opportunities in New York's creative technical economy, served on Mayer Bloomberg's Technolog

Greg Brockman is the co-founder and Chairman of OpenAI. He was formerly the CTO of Stripe, which he helped build from 4 to 250 employees.

As EVP & CTO of Microsoft, Kevin Scott’s 20-year career in technology spans both academia and industry as a researcher, engineer, and leader. Scott helps drive the technical vision that enables Microsoft to achieve its mission.

Prior to Microsoft, Scott was SVP of engineering and operations at LinkedIn, where he helped build the technology and engineering team and led the company through an IPO and six years of rapid growth. Scott also oversaw mobile ads engineering at Google

Andrew W. Moore, PhD, is a distinguished computer scientist with expertise in machine learning and robotics. He became the Head of Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence in January 2019. Moore previously worked at Google from 2006 to 2014 and was the founding director of Google’s Pittsburgh engineering office in 2006. He then spent a four-year hiatus at Carnegie Mellon University as the dean of the School of Computer Science. Andrew’s research interests encompass the field of “big data” — applying

Amit Ben is the Head of AI Technology for LogMeIn, Prior to his current role, Amit was the CTO and Cofounder of Nanorep (acquired by LogMeIn in 2017). He has over 15 years-experience leading and developing online solutions and Machine Learning algorithms.

Franziska Bell is the Head of Data Science Platforms at Uber, where she founded the Anomaly Detection, Forecasting Platform and Natural Language Platform teams. In addition, she leads Computer Vision, Strategic Finance, Experimentation, Behavioral Science, Infrastructure and Customer Support Data Science. Before Uber, Franziska was a Postdoc at Caltech where she developed a novel, highly accurate approximate quantum molecular dynamics theory to calculate chemical reactions for large, complex sys

Throughout his distinguished career, Neil Green has demonstrated a passion for technology and applying novel innovations to drive market disruption. Joining Otis in October 2018 as Vice President, Transformation and Chief Digital Officer, Neil is responsible for leading the new global Digital Technology function, responsible for the development of the company’s innovative digital business models and strategic partnerships with external partners. He also serves as a member of the Otis Executive C

As Senior Vice President of Data and Analytics at Gap Inc., Chris and his team are focused on unlocking the ability to use data science, analytics, and research to power better decision making consistently and confidently across the company’s portfolio of brands. Prior to Gap Inc., Chris led data teams for a wide variety of companies, including Apple, Intuit, JCPenney, and Enjoy. He has extensive experience building data science organizations, teams and platforms, and applying statistical and an

Andrew Hoh is the Product Manager for the Applied Machine Learning and the Machine Learning Infrastructure teams at Airbnb. He graduated with a BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. Previously, he has spent time building and growing Microsoft Azure’s distributed database, Azure Cosmos DB.

Ratnakar Lavu, senior executive vice president, chief technology officer, is responsible for overseeing Kohl’s technology team. Lavu has led the transformation of Kohl's omnichannel customer experience, creating a best-in-class experience in retail across mobile, social, kiosk, web and in-store point of sale. Lavu helped expand Kohl’s presence in Silicon Valley, with the opening of Kohl’s Digital Center in Milpitas.

Lavu joined Kohl’s in 2011 as senior vice president, digital innovation. Lavu w

As the company’s Chief Scientist & SVP, Technology, Matthias is responsible for KAYAK's software architecture, mobile websites and applications, and KAYAK Labs - a group dedicated to the application of artificial intelligence within KAYAK. In 2016, Matthias led and launched successful integrations for KAYAK with Amazon Alexa, Facebook Messenger and Slack, which propelled the company into the spotlight as a category leader in AI and natural language processing.

John Fremont is an organizational leader, technology evangelist, influencer, and business strategist. He is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Hypergiant, and was previously a Managing Director and the Artificial Intelligence Lead for Accenture. He was also previously the Global Lead for Digital Product creation at Accenture Digital. John joined Accenture through the acquisition of Chaotic Moon by Accenture where he served as Chief Revenue Officer and partner.

AJ Abdallat is CEO of Beyond Limits, a full-stack artificial intelligence engineering company creating advanced software solutions that go beyond conventional AI. AJ has over 20 years’ experience building high-tech startups in the fields of bio-inspired artificial intelligence, reasoning systems and smart sensors. Prior to Beyond Limits, AJ was co-founder and CEO of several Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory startups where he raised over $150M in venture and strategic investment.
AJ holds a Ma

Jana’s a math and computer nerd who took the business path for a career. Today, she’s CEO of Nara Logics, a neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence company, providing a platform for recommendations and decision support. Her career has taken her from 3-person business beginnings to 50,000-person enterprises. She’s opened the European logistics software offices as part of American Airlines, dove into the internet in ’96 at Lycos, founded Intuit’s corporate Innovation Lab, helped define mass

Ameen Kazerouni moved from Mumbai, India to start his Bachelors in Computer Science at 16. After developing a keen interest in both AI and Medicine he proceeded to start his Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics at Emory University. His research covered wrangling data from Whole Slide Images, pathology reports and clinical data to build datasets for cohort discovery and analysis. During his tenure at Emory, he decided to do a short internship at Zappos to see what life was like outside the ivory tower

VP, Customer Experience Engineering, Walmart Aanan joins us with a vast amount of technical expertise in the retail and financial space, as well as a strong leadership track record. Prior to joining Walmart, Aanan led end-to-end customer experience engineering at American Express where she championed transformational cultural, talent, and technology change. Prior to that, she spent 11 years at PayPal, where she played a key role in building mobile commerce, the core checkout experiences

Sr. Director of Technology Alliances As the head of Technology Alliances, Michael Setticasi is responsible for all global technology partner relationships with DataRobot. Michael has helped DataRobot and other organizations over the past 15 years building out sales, OEM, channel and technology partnerships in the storage, security, data preparation, and advanced analytics space.

Rich Karlgaard is the former publisher and current editor-at-large and futurist of Forbes Media. His writing is known for its keen assessment of technology, economic, business and leadership issues. He is a regular commentator on the Fox Business channel, a speaker and panel moderator at business events, and a Silicon Valley investor and advisory board member.

Executive Chairman & CEO, The Opportunity Hub Rodney Sampson is heralded as the leading inclusive innovation, entrepreneurship and investment ecosystem builder in the world, particularly given his mission to ensure that everyone, everywhere, particularly socially disadvantaged communities.

Ilya Sutskever is a co-founder and the Chief Scientist of OpenAI. Previously, Ilya was one of the developers of AlexNet and of the Sequence to Sequence model.

Engineering Manager, Precision Ag Job Automation, John Deere Mark Chaney is an engineering manager at John Deere within the automation delivery organization. His role includes development and delivery responsibilities for machine and job automation, including computer vision. Most people don’t associate agriculture with high-tech, but in reality, some of the most advanced technology like computer vision is being used on farms and revolutionizing the way the food on our plates are grown.

Amir Khosrowshahi is VP and CTO of AI Products at Intel. His team is focused on building machine learning systems, including novel processors, software, algorithms, and solutions, as well as working with companies, academia, and government on a broad range of AI issues. Amir joined Intel as part of the acquisition of Nervana where he was co-founder and CTO. He has a research background in neuroscience, machine learning, and distributed computing.

Vanja Josifovski is the Chief Technology Officer, Homes at Airbnb where he leads efforts around developing the technical vision and direction across the Homes business. Vanja was most recently CTO at Pinterest, where he was responsible for setting the technical strategy of the company in areas like machine learning and search, as well as managing the Applied Discovery engineering team. Prior to this role, he held positions as the Head of Discovery, Ads Engineering, and Growth Engineering. Before

Hilary Mason is the General Manager for Machine Learning at Cloudera and the founder of Fast Forward Labs, an applied machine learning research and advisory company that was acquired by Cloudera in 2017. Hilary is also the Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners and is on the board of the Anita Borg Institute. Previously, she co-founded HackNY.org, a non-profit that helps engineering students find opportunities in New York's creative technical economy, served on Mayer Bloomberg's Technolog

Greg Brockman is the co-founder and Chairman of OpenAI. He was formerly the CTO of Stripe, which he helped build from 4 to 250 employees.

As EVP & CTO of Microsoft, Kevin Scott’s 20-year career in technology spans both academia and industry as a researcher, engineer, and leader. Scott helps drive the technical vision that enables Microsoft to achieve its mission.

Prior to Microsoft, Scott was SVP of engineering and operations at LinkedIn, where he helped build the technology and engineering team and led the company through an IPO and six years of rapid growth. Scott also oversaw mobile ads engineering at Google

Andrew W. Moore, PhD, is a distinguished computer scientist with expertise in machine learning and robotics. He became the Head of Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence in January 2019. Moore previously worked at Google from 2006 to 2014 and was the founding director of Google’s Pittsburgh engineering office in 2006. He then spent a four-year hiatus at Carnegie Mellon University as the dean of the School of Computer Science. Andrew’s research interests encompass the field of “big data” — applying

Amit Ben is the Head of AI Technology for LogMeIn, Prior to his current role, Amit was the CTO and Cofounder of Nanorep (acquired by LogMeIn in 2017). He has over 15 years-experience leading and developing online solutions and Machine Learning algorithms.

Franziska Bell is the Head of Data Science Platforms at Uber, where she founded the Anomaly Detection, Forecasting Platform and Natural Language Platform teams. In addition, she leads Computer Vision, Strategic Finance, Experimentation, Behavioral Science, Infrastructure and Customer Support Data Science. Before Uber, Franziska was a Postdoc at Caltech where she developed a novel, highly accurate approximate quantum molecular dynamics theory to calculate chemical reactions for large, complex sys

Throughout his distinguished career, Neil Green has demonstrated a passion for technology and applying novel innovations to drive market disruption. Joining Otis in October 2018 as Vice President, Transformation and Chief Digital Officer, Neil is responsible for leading the new global Digital Technology function, responsible for the development of the company’s innovative digital business models and strategic partnerships with external partners. He also serves as a member of the Otis Executive C

As Senior Vice President of Data and Analytics at Gap Inc., Chris and his team are focused on unlocking the ability to use data science, analytics, and research to power better decision making consistently and confidently across the company’s portfolio of brands. Prior to Gap Inc., Chris led data teams for a wide variety of companies, including Apple, Intuit, JCPenney, and Enjoy. He has extensive experience building data science organizations, teams and platforms, and applying statistical and an

Andrew Hoh is the Product Manager for the Applied Machine Learning and the Machine Learning Infrastructure teams at Airbnb. He graduated with a BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. Previously, he has spent time building and growing Microsoft Azure’s distributed database, Azure Cosmos DB.

Ratnakar Lavu, senior executive vice president, chief technology officer, is responsible for overseeing Kohl’s technology team. Lavu has led the transformation of Kohl's omnichannel customer experience, creating a best-in-class experience in retail across mobile, social, kiosk, web and in-store point of sale. Lavu helped expand Kohl’s presence in Silicon Valley, with the opening of Kohl’s Digital Center in Milpitas.

Lavu joined Kohl’s in 2011 as senior vice president, digital innovation. Lavu w

As the company’s Chief Scientist & SVP, Technology, Matthias is responsible for KAYAK's software architecture, mobile websites and applications, and KAYAK Labs - a group dedicated to the application of artificial intelligence within KAYAK. In 2016, Matthias led and launched successful integrations for KAYAK with Amazon Alexa, Facebook Messenger and Slack, which propelled the company into the spotlight as a category leader in AI and natural language processing.

John Fremont is an organizational leader, technology evangelist, influencer, and business strategist. He is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Hypergiant, and was previously a Managing Director and the Artificial Intelligence Lead for Accenture. He was also previously the Global Lead for Digital Product creation at Accenture Digital. John joined Accenture through the acquisition of Chaotic Moon by Accenture where he served as Chief Revenue Officer and partner.

AJ Abdallat is CEO of Beyond Limits, a full-stack artificial intelligence engineering company creating advanced software solutions that go beyond conventional AI. AJ has over 20 years’ experience building high-tech startups in the fields of bio-inspired artificial intelligence, reasoning systems and smart sensors. Prior to Beyond Limits, AJ was co-founder and CEO of several Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory startups where he raised over $150M in venture and strategic investment.
AJ holds a Ma

Jana’s a math and computer nerd who took the business path for a career. Today, she’s CEO of Nara Logics, a neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence company, providing a platform for recommendations and decision support. Her career has taken her from 3-person business beginnings to 50,000-person enterprises. She’s opened the European logistics software offices as part of American Airlines, dove into the internet in ’96 at Lycos, founded Intuit’s corporate Innovation Lab, helped define mass

Ameen Kazerouni moved from Mumbai, India to start his Bachelors in Computer Science at 16. After developing a keen interest in both AI and Medicine he proceeded to start his Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics at Emory University. His research covered wrangling data from Whole Slide Images, pathology reports and clinical data to build datasets for cohort discovery and analysis. During his tenure at Emory, he decided to do a short internship at Zappos to see what life was like outside the ivory tower

VP, Customer Experience Engineering, Walmart Aanan joins us with a vast amount of technical expertise in the retail and financial space, as well as a strong leadership track record. Prior to joining Walmart, Aanan led end-to-end customer experience engineering at American Express where she championed transformational cultural, talent, and technology change. Prior to that, she spent 11 years at PayPal, where she played a key role in building mobile commerce, the core checkout experiences

Sr. Director of Technology Alliances As the head of Technology Alliances, Michael Setticasi is responsible for all global technology partner relationships with DataRobot. Michael has helped DataRobot and other organizations over the past 15 years building out sales, OEM, channel and technology partnerships in the storage, security, data preparation, and advanced analytics space.

Rich Karlgaard is the former publisher and current editor-at-large and futurist of Forbes Media. His writing is known for its keen assessment of technology, economic, business and leadership issues. He is a regular commentator on the Fox Business channel, a speaker and panel moderator at business events, and a Silicon Valley investor and advisory board member.

Executive Chairman & CEO, The Opportunity Hub Rodney Sampson is heralded as the leading inclusive innovation, entrepreneurship and investment ecosystem builder in the world, particularly given his mission to ensure that everyone, everywhere, particularly socially disadvantaged communities.

Ilya Sutskever is a co-founder and the Chief Scientist of OpenAI. Previously, Ilya was one of the developers of AlexNet and of the Sequence to Sequence model.

Engineering Manager, Precision Ag Job Automation, John Deere Mark Chaney is an engineering manager at John Deere within the automation delivery organization. His role includes development and delivery responsibilities for machine and job automation, including computer vision. Most people don’t associate agriculture with high-tech, but in reality, some of the most advanced technology like computer vision is being used on farms and revolutionizing the way the food on our plates are grown.

Amir Khosrowshahi is VP and CTO of AI Products at Intel. His team is focused on building machine learning systems, including novel processors, software, algorithms, and solutions, as well as working with companies, academia, and government on a broad range of AI issues. Amir joined Intel as part of the acquisition of Nervana where he was co-founder and CTO. He has a research background in neuroscience, machine learning, and distributed computing.