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.
Yegor Denisov-Blanch
Yegor Denisov-Blanch is a researcher with the Stanford Software Engineering Productivity Research Group, where he studies how AI is changing software development.
Brady Forrest
Brady Forrest Ignite HQ is the founder and leader of Ignite Talks, a global platform for dynamic, five-minute presentations with a unique format: 20 slides, each auto-advancing every 15 seconds.
Kris Efland
Kris Efland is VP of Engineering at Deepgram, where he helps small, focused teams turn cutting-edge speech AI into practical tools for developers. Over the past two decades he’s shipped everything from consumer gadgets to global cloud services.