Application & Gen AI Integration (Business Leaders) Track
AI Technologists
Infrastructure Procurement
Gayathri Radhakrishnan
Partner
Hitachi Ventures
Gayathri is currently Partner at Hitachi Ventures. Prior to that, she was with Micron Ventures, actively investing in startups that apply AI to solve critical problems in the areas of Manufacturing, Healthcare and Automotive. She brings over 20 years of multi-disciplinary experience across product management, product marketing, corporate strategy, M&A and venture investments in large Fortune 500 companies such as Dell and Corning and in startups. She has also worked as an early stage investor at Earlybird Venture Capital, a premier European venture capital fund based in Germany. She has a Masters in EE from The Ohio State University and MBA from INSEAD in France. She is also a Kauffman Fellow - Class 16.
Parasvil Patel
Partner
Radical Ventures
Parasvil Patel is a Partner with Radical Ventures where he works with entrepreneurs building and deploying AI technologies. Prior to joining Radical, Parasvil was with KKR and started his career with BCG. Parasvil holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and received a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay.
John Wei
Venture Investment Director
Applied Ventures
John Wei is a venture investment director at Applied Ventures. He focuses on a range of deep tech areas and industry verticals, including advanced materials, semiconductor manufacturing and industrial & enterprise software. He also manages Applied Ventures’ investment activities in the Greater China region.
Prior to joining Applied, John was a key member of the SABIC Ventures investment team, where he led multiple investments in advanced materials, energy, sustainability, manufacturing and agriculture space in North America, Europe and Greater China.
Earlier in his career, John held various commercial and technical roles at The Linde Group and General Electric with experiences mostly in the petrochemical, power generation, alternative energy and oil & gas industries.
John has a Bachelor degree from Tsinghua University and a PhD from Rutgers University, both in Chemical Engineering. While at Rutgers, he also earned a Master's degree in Computer Science. In addition, John holds an MBA degree from UCLA with a focus in Finance and Entrepreneurship.
Santosh Raghavan
Sr. Staff Hardware Technologist
Groq
Santosh Raghavan is a seasoned hardware technologist at Groq, where he drives innovation in high-performance and energy-efficient solutions for Generative AI applications. His expertise lies in evaluating and designing cutting-edge technologies that deliver exponential improvements in performance per dollar and performance per watt. Building on his experience in advanced memory development at Intel and high-speed digital and analog circuits at MaxLinear, he leverages his PhD in Semiconductor Materials from UCSB to push the boundaries of what's possible.
Groq
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Organizations are witnessing the dawn of the data-driven, AI, and regulatory era. The data-driven and digital transformation of organizations is occurring at a rapid pace in order to stay relevant and pave the way to a sustainable future. The consolidation of an organization’s data into a governed, trusted, and well-managed environment that supports both AI development and production workloads is playing a crucial role in this transformation. Organizations want to take advantage of AI, but they need a trusted foundation and access to the data. Our mission is to deliver a trusted, enterprise-wide, data and AI backbone for transforming IBM into an AI Enterprise. This is helping to accelerate the infusion of data and AI in business processes and provide a fertile environment for identifying, building, and deploying responsible generative AI solutions. The resulting benefits to business are reduced time to find and consume data, reduced time to implement initiatives across business units, reduced end-to-end cycle time, and delivering insights that were previously impossible.
C-Suite
AI Technologists
Business Leader
Digital Change
Ranjan Sinha, Ph.D.
IBM Fellow, VP, and CTO
IBM
Ranjan Sinha is an IBM Fellow, VP, and CTO focusing on AI strategy to develop a turnkey approach to enabling AI with enterprise data. He is a digital transformational leader and innovator in data platforms, data engineering, and data science. He is on the front lines of transforming IBM into an AI Enterprise and helping IBM's clients navigate their data and AI journeys in a hybrid cloud environment. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers, books, and patents. He has been awarded federal and university research grants, and won the global sort benchmark for JouleSort and PennySort. He holds a PhD in computer science from RMIT University in Australia, has been a research academic at the University of Melbourne, and held data science roles at eBay Inc. He is passionate about promoting wellness, safety and empowerment of vulnerable groups, and an advocate for social and global issues.
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Brandon Welch
CEO & Co-Founder
Mad Capital
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C-Suite
AI Technologists
Business Leader
Digital Change
Shaloo Garg
Managing Director
Microsoft - Late Stage Startups & Unicorns
Shaloo Garg is Managing Director, Late Stage Startups & Unicorns and based out of Silicon Valley. She brings a combination of strong startup, enterprise, strategic partnership and corporate development experience.
Previously, Shaloo was Partner , Global Oracle Innovation at Oracle where she lead the Global Corporate Innovation practice of commercializing revenue opportunities for startups into the enterprise client base and partner ecosystem. She has also lead go-to-market for Oracle’s cloud business and was part of the M&A team that acquired Peoplesoft, Siebel, Retek etc. Prior to joining Oracle, she was in a couple of early stage startups. Shaloo is passionate about Tech for Good and is President , BOD at UN Women, Silicon Valley , a “Champion of Innovation” at UN Women where she is spinning up virtual Innovation Labs with Universities leveraging emerging technologies to encourage digital literacy in developing countries for young girls who do not have access to education.
Shaloo strongly believes that technology’s best use case ever is using its power to impact wider social issues like hunger, poverty, STEM education, clean water, energy, sustainable cities etc in developing and under-developed economies. Shaloo is a Guest speaker at Penn Law School and is an MBA from Delhi University and has done specialization in Innovation and Design Thinking from Stanford d.School. Words to live by: “In life, there are no mistakes… only lessons” – Vic Johnson.
Aku Aakriti Srikanth
Founding Partner
WomenOfAI Ventures
- Aku Aakriti Srikanth is the Managing Director of an AI Venture Studio and was an AI Executive at Workday (ex- DataRobot Director of Product - MLOps).
- Previously, she worked at Neotribe Ventures (founded by NEA GP with $356 under management) where she focused on seed stage startups and was a Principal at Mitsui Sumitomo CVC. She also worked with the General Catalyst Managing Director/ex - CTO of Dropbox via sourcing deals.
- MS & BS in Computer Science with a focus on machine learning and AI.
- She started career in investment banking at D.E.Shaw and strategy consulting at Deloitte.
- She was the Head of AI Product Strategy at IBM Watson and launched the Red Hat AI.
- She founded Microsoft for Startups : AI Amalgamators as featured on Forbes.
- She launched “Community of 100+ AI Executives” sponsored by Google, SVB & Salesforce featuring the Forbes VC Midas List Editor and VC firms.
- She was featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List and Nasdaq’s Leading Women in AI on CNBC,.
- US awarded her the EB1 greencard based on extraordinary abilities in AI and is the founder of the WomenOfGenAI in partnership with WomenOfAI.org.
Brian Halweil
Strategic Associate
Astanor Ventures
Wendy Zhang
Global Head of Data and Analytics - Enterprise Functions
TheAssociation.AI