Alex Penfold
Alex Penfold is the co-founder of premium men’s skincare company Jaxon Lane. Alex co-founded Jaxon Lane with his wife, Jen, because he found himself constantly dipping into her skincare. They set off to South Korea to develop innovative, high-quality skincare products for men, that are designed in a fun, approachable way. Whether it's a sheet mask that gives you an instant healthy glow, or a sunscreen that is non-greasy, non-white, and doesn't smell like sunscreen, their mission is to develop innovative, effective products that just inspire men to love skincare.
Since its 2018 launch, Jaxon Lane has been featured by GQ, Harper's Bazaar, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, New York Magazine, Glamour, The London Times, and more. Jaxon Lane products have won multiple grooming awards, including Men's Health Magazine's 2019 Grooming Awards. The brand is a best seller at retailers like Urban Outfitters and Mr. Porter, and its products are trusted by Hollywood stars like Nick Jonas, and Justin Theroux, to get red-carpet ready.
Narae Chung
Narae Chung is the CEO and co-founder of Cardon, the cactus-based personal care brand for men that provides high quality products at an affordable price by using advanced Korean R&D. Originally from Korea, Chung has worked in the beauty and grooming industry (SK-II, Olay, Gillette) as a P&G brand manager and experienced the early hypergrowth in the men’s care category in Asia. While attaining her MBA at Wharton Business School, she saw the emergence of men’s self-care arising in the U.S. and started Cardon which brings Korean skincare to U.S. market by leveraging unique ingredients such as cactus extract to address male-specific skincare needs (skin irritation, redness from shaving, etc.). Before launching Cardon in 2019, Chung was an Associate Director of Growth Marketing at Walmart eCommerce and a brand manager at P&G.
Andrew Richards
CEO and co-founder of Codeplay, Andrew started his career writing video games in the days of 8-bit computers, progressing to become a lead games programmer at Eutechnyx™, where he wrote best-selling titles such as Pete Sampras Tennis and Total Drivin’. Codeplay have been producing compilers for games consoles, special-purpose processors and GPUs since then. As well as being CEO and Founder of Codeplay Software Ltd, Andrew is also the Chair of the Software working group of the HSA Foundation™ and former Chair of the SYCL™ for OpenCL™ sub-group of the Khronos® Group.
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Tien Shiah
Tien Shiah is Senior Manager, Marketing for High Bandwidth Memory at Samsung Semiconductor Inc. In this capacity, he serves as the company’s product consultant, market expert, and evangelist for HBM in the Americas, focused on providing a clear understanding of the tremendous benefits offered by HBM in the enterprise and client marketplaces. He brings more than 16 years of product marketing experience from the semiconductor and storage industries, and has presented at a number of industry conferences, such as Flash Memory Summit, the Storage Developer Conference, and Dell EMC World. He holds an MBA from McGill University (Montreal, Canada), and an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of British Columbia.
Rick Stevens
Rick Stevens is Argonne’s Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences.
Stevens has been at Argonne since 1982, and has served as director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division and also as Acting Associate Laboratory Director for Physical, Biological and Computing Sciences. He is currently leader of Argonne’s Exascale Computing Initiative, and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago Physical Sciences Collegiate Division. From 2000-2004, Stevens served as Director of the National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid Project and from 1997-2001 as Chief Architect for the National Computational Science Alliance.
Stevens is interested in the development of innovative tools and techniques that enable computational scientists to solve important large-scale problems effectively on advanced scientific computers. Specifically, his research focuses on three principal areas: advanced collaboration and visualization environments, high-performance computer architectures (including Grids) and computational problems in the life sciences. In addition to his research work, Stevens teaches courses on computer architecture, collaboration technology, virtual reality, parallel computing and computational science.
Paolo Faraboschi
Paolo Faraboschi is a Vice President and HPE Fellow and directs the Artificial Intelligence Research Lab at Hewlett Packard Labs. Paolo has been at HP/HPE for three decades, and worked on a broad range of technologies, from embedded printer processors to exascale supercomputers. He previously led exascale computing research (2017-2020), and the hardware architecture of “The Machine” project (2014-2016), pioneered low-energy servers with HP’s project Moonshot (2010-2014), drove scalable system-level simulation research (2004-2009), and was the principal architect of a family of embedded VLIW cores (1994-2003), widely used in video SoCs and HP’s printers. Paolo is an IEEE Fellow (2014) for “contributions to embedded processor architecture and system-on-chip technology”, author of over 100 publications, 70 granted patents, and the book “Embedded Computing: a VLIW approach”. He received a Ph.D. in EECS from the University of Genoa, Italy.
Kim Hazelwood
Kim Hazelwood is an engineering leader whose expertise lies at the intersection of scalable computer systems and applied machine learning. Her roles at Facebook have included multiple engineering organizational leadership roles across Infrastructure and Research. Prior to Facebook, Kim held positions including Director of Research at Yahoo Labs, Software Engineer in the datacenter division of Google, Research Scientist at Intel, and tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Kim holds a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard University and has authored over 50 publications and one book. She is a recipient of the MIT "Top 35 Innovators under 35" award, the ACM SIGPLAN "Test of Time" Award, the Anita Borg Early Career Award, and an NSF Career Award. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Computing Research Association.