Nitza Basoco

Nitza Basoco is a technology leader with over 20 years of semiconductor experience. At proteanTecs, she leads the Business Development team, responsible for driving partnership strategies and building value-add ecosystem growth. 

Previously, Nitza was the VP of Operations at Synaptics with responsibility for growing and scaling their worldwide test development, product engineering and manufacturing departments. Prior to Synaptics, Nitza spent a decade holding various leadership positions within the operations organization at MaxLinear, ranging from test development engineering to supply chain. Earlier in her career, Nitza served as a Principal Test Development Engineer for Broadcom Corporation and as a Broadband Applications Engineer at Teradyne.  

Nitza holds MEng and BSEE degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Shivam Bharuka

Shivam is an engineering leader with Meta as part of the AI Infrastructure team for the last three years. During this time, he has helped scale the machine learning training infrastructure at Meta to support large scale ranking and recommendation models, serving more than a billion users. He is responsible for driving performance, reliability, and efficiency-oriented designs across the components of the ML training stack at Meta. Shivam holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Daniel Wu

Daniel Wu is an accomplished technical leader with over 20 years of expertise in software engineering, AI/ML, and team development. With a diverse career spanning technology, education, finance, and healthcare, he is credited for establishing high-performing AI teams, pioneering point-of-care expert systems, co-founding a successful online personal finance marketplace, and leading the development of an innovative online real estate brokerage platform. Passionate about technology democratization and ethical AI practices, Daniel actively promotes these principles through involvement in computer science and AI/ML education programs. A sought-after speaker, he shares insights and experiences at international conferences and corporate events. Daniel holds a computer science degree from Stanford University.

Stelios Diamantidis

Stelios heads Synopsys' AI Solutions team in the Office of the President, where he researches and applies innovative machine-learning technology to address systemic complexity in the design and manufacturing of integrated computational systems. In 2020, Stelios launched DSO.ai™, the world’s first autonomous AI application for chip design. He has more than 20 years of experience in chip design and EDA software and has founded two companies in this space. Stelios holds an M.S. Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, California.

Girish Venkataramani

Prasun Raha

David Tai

Steven Woo

I was drawn to Rambus to focus on cutting edge computing technologies. Throughout my 15+ year career, I’ve helped invent, create and develop means of driving and extending performance in both hardware and software solutions. At Rambus, we are solving challenges that are completely new to the industry and occur as a response to deployments that are highly sophisticated and advanced.

As an inventor, I find myself approaching a challenge like a room filled with 100,000 pieces of a puzzle where it is my job to figure out how they all go together – without knowing what it is supposed to look like in the end. For me, the job of finishing the puzzle is as enjoyable as the actual process of coming up with a new, innovative solution.

For example, RDRAM®, our first mainstream memory architecture, implemented in hundreds of millions of consumer, computing and networking products from leading electronics companies including Cisco, Dell, Hitachi, HP, Intel, etc. We did a lot of novel things that required inventiveness – we pushed the envelope and created state of the art performance without making actual changes to the infrastructure.

I’m excited about the new opportunities as computing is becoming more and more pervasive in our everyday lives. With a world full of data, my job and my fellow inventors’ job will be to stay curious, maintain an inquisitive approach and create solutions that are technologically superior and that seamlessly intertwine with our daily lives.

After an inspiring work day at Rambus, I enjoy spending time with my family, being outdoors, swimming, and reading.

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
• Master of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
• B.S. Engineering, Harvey Mudd College

Sumti Jairath

Sumti Jairath is Chief Architect at SambaNova Systems, with expertise in hardware-software co-design. Sumti worked on PA-RISC-based Superdome servers back at HP, followed by several generations of SPARC CMT processors at Sun Microsystems and Oracle. At Oracle, Sumti worked on SQL, Data-analytics and Machine Learning acceleration in SPARC processors. Sumti holds 27 patents in computer architecture and hardware-software co-design.

Dr. Caiming Xiong

Dr. Caiming Xiong is VP of AI Research and Applied AI at Salesforce. Dr. Xiong holds a Ph.D. from the department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, SUNY and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Sriraman Chari

Ritu Goel

Ritu Goel is Director of Product Management at Adobe, where she has been driving strategy for AI/ML platform since its early days with the vision of democratizing AI/ML development at Adobe. Prior to this, Ritu has spent more than a decade leading product strategy and execution of various enterprise to consumer products and platforms at eBay, Macys.com and Infosys. Ritu has a bachelor of engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. 

Sree Ganesan

Sree Ganesan, VP of Product, d-Matrix: Sree is responsible for product management functions and business development efforts across the company. She manages the product lifecycle, definition and translation of customer needs to the product development function, acting as the voice of the customer. Prior, Sree led the Software Product Management effort at Habana Labs/Intel, delivering state-of-the-art deep learning capabilities of the Habana SynapseAI® software suite to the market. Previously, she was Engineering Director in Intel’s AI Products Group, where she was responsible for AI software strategy and deep learning framework integration for Nervana NNP AI accelerators. Sree earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and a PhD in computer engineering from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Victor Peng

Victor Peng is President of the Adaptive and Embedded Computing group at AMD. He is responsible for AMD’s Adaptive SmartNIC, FPGA, Adaptive SoC, embedded CPU, and embedded APU business that serve multiple market segments including the data center, communications, automotive, industrial, A&D, healthcare, test/measure/emulation, and other embedded markets. Peng also serves on the board of KLA Corporation.

Peng rejoined AMD in 2022 after 14 years at Xilinx, most recently serving as president and CEO. Prior to joining Xilinx, Peng worked at AMD as corporate vice president of silicon engineering for the graphics products group (GPG) and was the co-leader of the central silicon engineering team supporting graphics, game console products, and CPU chipsets. Prior to that, Peng held executive and engineering leadership roles at ATI, TZero Technologies, MIPS Technologies, SGI, and Digital Equipment Corp. 

Mark Russinovich

Mark Russinovich is Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s global enterprise-grade cloud platform. A widely recognized expert in distributed systems, operating systems and cybersecurity, Mark earned a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He later co-founded Winternals Software, joining Microsoft in 2006 when the company was acquired. Mark is a popular speaker at industry conferences such as Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft Build, and RSA Conference. He has authored several nonfiction and fiction books, including the Microsoft Press Windows Internals book series, Troubleshooting with the Sysinternals Tools, as well as fictional cyber security thrillers Zero Day, Trojan Horse and Rogue Code.