Matt Blumberg

Matt is the CEO of Acrolinx and has more than 30 years of leadership in scaling global disruptive technology businesses. Matt is passionate about the power of language — being precise with it, using it to move people, and ensuring brands maintain a consistent voice with it — and he is equally passionate about the power of technology to change lives for the better.

Jakub Zavrel

Jakub Zavrel is an AI researcher, technologist, and entrepreneur. After getting started in AI in the early 1990s, he pioneered research on the use of machine learning for natural language processing and information retrieval, and founded and grew Textkernel, a global market leader in the area of AI for understanding, connecting and analyzing people and jobs.

Fernando Rejon Barrera

Fernando Rejon Barrera is the co-founder and CTO of Zeta Alpha, an Amsterdam-based company specializing in next-generation enterprise AI Discovery Engines for High-Tech and R&D-centric Enterprises.

Joshua Pantony

Josh is a co-founder and the CEO of Boosted.ai. Since starting Boosted.ai in 2017, the company has helped dozens of investment managers – whose AUM totals over $1 trillion – implement machine learning in their portfolios. As a student at the University of Waterloo, Josh co-founded his first company, Maluuba, a deep learning natural language processing company. He has 8 patents to his name all of which are core Maluuba IP. Maluuba was later bought by Microsoft. Josh was also a Principal Machine Learning engineer at Bloomberg for 4 years and led many mission-critical initiatives.

Nick Maietta

Nick is the Director of Legal Automation at Luminos.AI where he leads the development and integration of legal workflows to address AI/ML risk. He works at the frontline of helping legal and risk leaders manage the uncertainties associated with AI deployment and governance, helping turn manual bottlenecks into streamlined approvals that accelerate AI adoption.

Lin Qiao

Lin Qiao is the CEO and co-founder of inference platform Fireworks AI, which empowers developers and businesses like Uber, Verizon, Cursor and Notion to build highly optimized and production-ready genAI applications. Prior to founding Fireworks, Lin was the co-creator and head of Meta’s PyTorch.

Dr. Spencer Torene

Dr. Torene is the Principal Research Scientist at Meibel.ai. Hear him speak at The AI Conference 2025 in San Francisco.

Ansh Kanwar

Ansh Kanwar is Chief Product Officer (CPO) overseeing Reltio’s global software engineering, product management, and technology operations. Ansh has extensive experience in product management, software development, product marketing, security, cloud computing, and technology operations.

Jay Chia

Jay Chia is one of the Co-Founders of Eventual, the company behind Daft open-sourced project. Prior to Eventual, he was a software engineer working on ML infrastructure for computational biology at Freenome and self-driving cars at Lyft, building large-scale data and computing platforms for diverse industries. Jay hails from the sunny island nation of Singapore, and fun fact he used to command a platoon of tanks in the Singapore military.

David Talby

David Talby is the CEO at John Snow Labs and Pacific AI, helping healthcare & life science organizations put AI to good use. He has two decades of experience building and running web-scale software platforms and teams – in startups, for open-source projects, and previously at Microsoft and Amazon. David holds a PhD in computer science and master’s degrees in both computer science and business administration.