Bobak Tavangar

Bobak Tavangar is a co-founder and CEO at Brilliant Labs where he works alongside a small but mighty team who are building an open source AI glasses platform.

Byung-Gon Chun

Byung-Gon Chun is the Founder and CEO of FriendliAI, leading innovations that make AI deployment more efficient and scalable. With decades of experience at the intersection of AI platform and distributed systems, he blends academic rigor with practical leadership to advance AI performance and impact. He pioneered continuous batching, now the industry standard for LLM inference.

Arvind Gopal

Arvind is VP of Product Management and Strategy at eGain, where he leads innovation across AI, knowledge management, and customer experience. With 20+ years of experience, he specializes in building scalable solutions that drive customer engagement and operational efficiency. Arvind holds multiple patents in customer engagement technology and frequently speaks at industry events, including masterclasses on generative AI in customer service.

Wil Pong

Wil Pong is Vice President of Product at Fiddler AI, where he leads product management and design teams building the next generation of observability tools for AI systems.

Mark Sullivan

Mark Sullivan is a senior writer at Fast Company, covering the hardware and software products of large platform companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung. Before coming to Fast Company in January 2016, Sullivan wrote for VentureBeat, Light Reading, CNET, Wired, and PCWorld.

T.R. Vishwanath

T.R. Vishwanath is a Co-founder and Technical Infrastructure Lead at Glean, and he oversees the development and maintenance of integrations with various data sources. He enjoys designing reliable and fast solutions to meaningful user problems.

Saurabh Sharma

Saurabh Sharma is the Chief Product Officer at You.com, where he leads product strategy for enterprise AI tools that enhance workplace productivity through intelligent AI agents.

Ce Zhang

CTO of Together AI, building a cloud for artificial intelligence. Ce is also the Neubauer Associate Professor of Data Science at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Chicago. The goal of his research is to democratize machine learning.

Dan Schwarz

Dan is the co-founder and CEO of FutureSearch, building the world’s most advanced web research platform. Prior to founding FutureSearch in 2023, Dan served as CTO at Metaculus, the pre-eminent public forecasting platform. Dan was a Senior Software Engineer at Google and Waymo, and created Google’s currently running internal prediction market. He received a BS in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University.

Michele Catasta

Michele Catasta is President & Head of AI at Replit, where he is shaping the future of software creation through AI agents. In 2024, he architected and led the launch of Replit Agent, which has driven over two orders of magnitude in company revenue growth to date.