Anthony Annunziata

Anthony leads IBM’s company-wide mission in open innovation for AI, including open source software, open data and models, partnerships, developer relations and community enablement.

Mark Roy

Mark Roy is a Principal AIML Architect for AWS, helping customers design and build agentic AI solutions. Mark’s work covers a wide range of use cases, with a primary interest in AI agents at enterprise scale.

Du’An Lightfoot

Du’An Lightfoot is a Sr. AI Engineer at AWS and international speaker who brings a unique perspective to AI transformation through his unconventional journey from USAF veteran in Afghanistan to technical innovation leader at AWS.

Hongpeng Guo

Hongpeng Guo is a Research Scientist at ByteDance Seed, where he works on developing large scale post-training and reinforcement-learning infrastructures. His research interests encompass large-scale machine learning systems in general.

Nyah Macklin

Nyah Macklin is a seasoned researcher and speaker on topics around AI, ML, Ethics, Governance, and Responsibility. Nyah serves as a Senior Developer Advocate for Artificial Intelligence at Neo4j, specializing in GraphRAG, knowledge graphs, and AI-driven developer tooling where Nyah has built high-impact technical communities and led initiatives that advance a critical understanding of AI and its use cases.

Christopher Kirchhoff

Christopher Kirchhoff is an expert in emerging technology, artificial intelligence, and the future of war. He helped found the Pentagon Silicon Valley’s office, which piloted flying cars and microsatellites in military missions and created a new acquisition pathway for start-ups now responsible for $80 billion dollars of technology acquisition by the Department of Defense.

DJ Patil

DJ Patil is an entrepreneur, investor, scientist, and leader in public policy. He has held senior roles in industry, academia, and government and his work has been featured in two Michael Lewis books.

Tillman Elser

Tillman Elser is a Senior Engineering Manager at Sentry, where he leads company-wide AI/ML initiatives. He developed Sentry’s issue grouping algorithm, and is presently leading engineering and research for Seer.

Dennis Pilarinos

Dennis Pilarinos is the founder and CEO of Unblocked, a developer platform that gives teams helpful answers to questions about their codebase. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of buddybuild, a mobile-focused continuous integration service that Apple acquired in 2018 and launched as Xcode Cloud.

Erin Kraemer

Erin Kraemer is aTech innovation and product leadership, AWS Agentic AI. She has been actively engaged with software development at Amazon for nearly 25 years.