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.

Jessica Li Gebert

Jessica Li Gebert is a strategy consultant at Neudata, specializing in go-to-market for data and AI products. She’s experienced in investment and corporate strategy in life sciences, fintech, trade finance and academic research. Her focus lies in helping businesses worldwide navigate rising geopolitical tension and commercializing emerging tech products. Jessica holds an MA in International Relations and Affairs.

Philip Kiely

Philip Kiely leads Developer Relations at Baseten. Prior to joining Baseten, he worked across software engineering for a variety of startups.

Yujing Qian

Yujing Qian is the Head of Engineering at GMI Cloud, where he leads the development of cutting-edge GPU cloud infrastructure to help companies accelerate their AI workloads at scale.

Ion Stoica

Ion Stoica is a Professor in the EECS Department and holds the Xu Bao Chancellor Chair at the University of California at Berkeley.

Ty Smith

Ty “Patches” Smith is Senior Product Manager at Hashgraph, directing the roadmap for consensus & tokenization services, and directing AI‑native features.