Alessio Santoriello
Lin Qiao
Lin is an engineering director leading the development of PyTorch, AI compilers, and on-device AI platforms at Facebook. She drove AI research to production innovations across hardware acceleration, enabling model exploration and model scale, building production ecosystem and platforms for on-device and privacy-preserving AI. She received a Ph.D. in computer science, started her career as a researcher in Almaden Research Lab, and later moved to the industry as an engineer. Prior to Facebook, she worked on a broad range of distributed and data processing domains, from high-performance columnar databases, OLTP systems, streaming processing systems, data warehouse systems, and logging and metrics platforms.
Judy Priest
Judy Priest is a Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft's Cloud and AI Group. She drives innovation, integration, and operations in next generation Data Center platforms supporting Azure, AI, and MS's Enterprise software. Judy has over 25 years of experience in developing data centers systems and silicon, high speed signaling technologies and optics, circuit design, and physical architectures for compute, storage, graphics, and networking.
Judy has previously worked at Cisco Systems, Silicon Graphics, Hewlett-Packard, and Digital Equipment Corporation, as well as two startup ventures. She serves on the Board of Directors for Women's Audio Mission, a local SF nonprofit moving the needle for girls, women, and GNC individuals in STEM through music. Judy was awarded Business Insider's 2018 Most Powerful Female Engineers and InterCon Networking's 2020 Top 100 Leaders in Engineering.
Joseph Sawicki
Joseph Sawicki is a leading expert in IC nanometer design and manufacturing challenges. Formerly responsible for Mentor's industry-leading design-to-silicon products, including the Calibre physical verification and DFM platform and Mentor's Tessent design-for-test product line, Sawicki now oversees all business units in the Siemens EDA IC segment.
Sawicki joined Mentor Graphics in 1990 and has held previous positions in applications engineering, sales, marketing, and management. He holds a BSEE from the University of Rochester, an MBA from Northeastern University's High Technology Program, and has completed the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.
Weifeng Zhang
Weifeng Zhang is the Chief Scientist of Heterogeneous Computing at Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure, responsible for performance optimization of large scale distributed applications at the data centers. Weifeng also leads the effort to build the acceleration platform for various ML workloads via heterogeneous resource pooling based on the compiler technology. Prior to joining Alibaba, Weifeng was a Director of Engineering at Qualcomm Inc, focusing on GPU compiler and performance optimizations. Weifeng received his B.Sc. from Wuhan University, China and PhD in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego.
Sassine Ghazi
Sassine Ghazi leads and drives strategy for all business units, sales and customer success, strategic alliances, marketing and communications at Synopsys. He joined the company in 1998 as an applications engineer. He then held a series of sales positions with increasing responsibility, culminating in leadership of worldwide strategic accounts. He was then appointed general manager for all digital and custom products, the largest business group in Synopsys. Under his leadership, several innovative solutions were launched in areas such as multi-die systems, AI-assisted design and silicon lifecycle management. He assumed the role of chief operating officer in August, 2020 and was appointed to the role of president in November 2021. Prior to Synopsys he was a design engineer at Intel.
Sassine holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Lebanese American University; a B.S.E.E from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.S.E.E. from the University of Tennessee.
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.
Roger Berg
Roger Berg is Vice President of DENSO’s North American Research and Development group. His latest research interests and responsibilities include next generation connectivity, mobile edge computing, connected automated vehicles and decentralized ledger technologies.
