Dan Fu

Dan Fu is VP of kernels at Together AI and an incoming assistant professor of computer science and engineering at UCSD. His research develops efficient algorithms for machine learning, with a focus on developing solutions that are both theoretically efficient and practically fast on modern hardware.

Evangelos Simoudis

Evangelos Simoudis is a recognized expert on AI and new mobility. He has worked in Silicon Valley for 35 years as a venture investor, senior advisor to global corporations and governments, entrepreneur, corporate executive, and technologist.

Simeon Bochev

Simeon Bochev is the CEO and co-founder of Compute Exchange. Hear him speak at The AI Conference 2025 in San Francisco.

Tris Warkentin

Tris Warkentin leads Product Management efforts for Google DeepMind’s next-generation AI research, working to build the world’s most useful open models (Gemma) and achieve research breakthroughs on the path to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

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.