VB Transform 2025 - Speakers

Andrew Ng

Founder
deeplearning.AI

Varun Mohan

CEO & Co-Founder
Windsurf

Hilary Packer

EVP & CTO
American Express

Ashok Srivastava

SVP & Chief AI AND Data Officer
Intuit

Desirée Gosby

VP of Emerging Technology
Walmart

Deepak Agarwal

Chief AI Officer
LinkedIn

Ramana Thumu

CTO
Expedia

Olivier Godement

Head of Product, API
OpenAI

Scott White

Product Lead, Claude.ai
Anthropic

May Habib

CEO & Co-founder
Writer

Awais Sher Bajwa

Head of Data & AI Banking
Bank of America

Xuedong Huang

Chief Technology Officer
ZOOM

Will Grannis

VP & CTO
Google Cloud

Richard Clarke

SVP & Chief Analytics Officer
Highmark Health

Matthew Kropp

Managing Director & Senior Partner
BCG

Kay Zhu

Co-Founder & CTO
GenSpark.ai

Matthias Keller

Chief Product Officer
KAYAK

Merrin Kurian

Distinguished Engineer & Director, AI Platform
Intuit

Amjad Masad

Co-Founder & CEO
Replit

Matt Marshall

CEO & Founder
VentureBeat

Dr. Panos Korfiatis

Consultant
Mayo Clinic

Matt Redlon

Principal Technologist
Mayo Clinic

Armand Ruiz

VP of AI Platform
IBM

Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec

VP of Technology
AWS

Nathan Lambert

Senior Research Scientist
Ai2

Dylan Patel

Founder, CEO & Chief Analyst SemiAnalysis

Milind Naphade

SVP Technology, Head of AI Foundations
Capital One

Steve Bowman

GM, Enterprise AI
Chevron

Ashan Willy

CEO
New Relic

Greg Matson

Senior Vice President, Head of Products and Marketing
Solidigm

Shailesh Nalawadi

Head of Product
Sendbird

Shawn Malhotra

CTO
Rocket Companies

Katie Zigelman

SVP of Marketing
ActiveFence

Hugo Bowne-Anderson

Data & AI Consultant

Tiffany To

SVP Platform & Enterprise
Atlassian

Anu Bharadwaj

President
Atlassian

Chet Kapoor

Chairman & CEO
DataStax, an IBM company

Akshay Bhargava

GVP, Product Management
New Relic

Rebecca Li

Investment Director
Amex Ventures

Sean Lie

CTO and Co-Founder
Cerebras Systems

Hassaan Raza

Co-Founder & CEO
Tavus

Michael Stewart

Managing Partner
M12

Susan Etlinger

Senior Director, Azure AI
Microsoft

Joanne Chen

General Partner
Foundation Capital

Dan Henley

Senior Field Engineering Leader,
AI Gateway Technology
F5

Thys Waanders

SVP, AI Transformation
Cognigy

Satya Nitta

CEO
Emergence

Barak Turovsky

Chief AI Officer
General Motors

Tejas Dharamsi

Sr. Staff Software Engineer
LinkedIn

Michael A. Pfeffer

SVP & Chief Info and Digital Officer
Stanford Health Care and Stanford University School of Medicine

Carrol Chang

CEO
Andela

Braden Holstege

Managing Director & Partner
BCG

Sam Hawes

Partner & Associate Director
BCG

Roger Cummings

CEO
PEAK:AIO

Priya Srinivasan

VP of Core Software Products, Software Support & SRE
IBM

Michael Nuñez

Editorial Director
Venturebeat

Carl Franzen

Executive Editor
Venturebeat

Emilia David

Senior AI Writer
Venturebeat

James Thomason

Sr. Technology ContributoR
Venturebeat

Emma Brunskill

Associate Professor,
Computer Science Department
Stanford University

Yaad Oren

Global Head of SAP Research & Innovation
SAP