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Inka Sachse

Expert Regenerative Agriculture & Soil Health
Aid by Trade Foundation

Inka Sachse has been supporting international food and textile supply chains in their production, marketing and sustainability efforts for more than twenty years. After working a year on Irish farms, Inka studied organic agriculture at the University of Kassel, Germany. While spending a year with the ERASMUS programme at the university of agronomy in Perugia, Italy she gained insights into farm inspection and certification at the organic farming association AIAB Umbria.

Inka Sachse

Expert Regenerative Agriculture & Soil Health
Aid by Trade Foundation

Inka Sachse

Expert Regenerative Agriculture & Soil Health
Aid by Trade Foundation

Inka Sachse has been supporting international food and textile supply chains in their production, marketing and sustainability efforts for more than twenty years. After working a year on Irish farms, Inka studied organic agriculture at the University of Kassel, Germany. While spending a year with the ERASMUS programme at the university of agronomy in Perugia, Italy she gained insights into farm inspection and certification at the organic farming association AIAB Umbria. Following her diploma, she supported organic advocacy and lobby work with the networking organization IFOAM- Organics International in Bonn. She supported European importers, wholesalers, processors and farmer’s cooperatives as sales, sourcing, purchasing, quality and troubleshooting agent with the organic trade agency artebio in Lüneburg. Later she organized stakeholder educational and networking events, as well as sector studies around organic plant and animal production and -markets in Central and Eastern Europe for the NGO EkoConnect in Dresden. From 2014 onwards she has been supporting international supply chain actors on their strategy development for on- farm sustainability, especially regarding soil health and fertility, as well as doing holistic sustainability assessments and setting up GHG emission reduction and soil carbon sequestration projects for the private consultancy company Soil & More Impacts, later named sustainable AG in Hamburg. After nearly two years of common projects, Inka has started working directly for the Aid by Trade Foundation in July 2023 in order to further deep dive into sustainable farm impacts in smallholder environments. Inka speaks multiple languages and has been active in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. She loves working with farmers and sees her vocation in the integration of people, skills and knowledge as well as in the promotion of sustainable and innovative practices in the agricultural sector worldwide.

Throughout the AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit, we ALL will be talking about the wonders of large language models and why not! They offer tremendous advantage to enterprises and organizations, offloading work and resources to deliver enhanced value, efficiencies and end-user experiences. During this session, Sree Ganesan, head of software product with Habana, an Intel company, and Vasudev Lal, AI/ML research scientist with Intel Labs, will share their first-hand experiences in training and deploying large language models on Gaudi2 accelerators. They’ll introduce a variety of approaches they’ve taken to tame the LLM process, from training to fine-tuning to inference. To make it all real, we’ll focus on high-value ecosystem partners and share LLM demos that show our latest innovations.  

Author:

Sree Ganesan

VP of Product
d-Matrix

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.

Sree Ganesan

VP of Product
d-Matrix

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.

Author:

Vasudev Lal

AI/ML Research Scientist
Intel Labs

Vasudev Lal is an AI Research Scientist at Intel Labs where he leads the Multimodal Cognitive AI team. His team develops AI systems that can synthesize concept-level understanding from multiple modalities: vision, language, video and audio. His current research interests include equipping deep learning with mechanisms to inject external knowledge; self-supervised training at scale for continuous and high dimensional modalities like images, video and audio; mechanisms to combine deep learning with symbolic compute.  Prior to joining Intel, Vasudev obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Vasudev Lal

AI/ML Research Scientist
Intel Labs

Vasudev Lal is an AI Research Scientist at Intel Labs where he leads the Multimodal Cognitive AI team. His team develops AI systems that can synthesize concept-level understanding from multiple modalities: vision, language, video and audio. His current research interests include equipping deep learning with mechanisms to inject external knowledge; self-supervised training at scale for continuous and high dimensional modalities like images, video and audio; mechanisms to combine deep learning with symbolic compute.  Prior to joining Intel, Vasudev obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Author:

Tony Chan Carusone

CTO
Alphawave Semi

Tony Chan Carusone was appointed Chief Technology Officer in January 2022.  Tony has been a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto since 2001.  He has well over 100 publications, including 8 award-winning best papers, focused on integrated circuits for digital communication.  Tony has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and on the Technical Program Committees of world’s leading circuits conferences.  He co-authored the classic textbooks “Analog Integrated Circuit Design” and “Microelectronic Circuits” and he is a Fellow of the IEEE.  Tony has also been a consultant to the semiconductor industry for over 20 years, working with both startups and some of the largest technology companies in the world.

Tony holds a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Tony Chan Carusone

CTO
Alphawave Semi

Tony Chan Carusone was appointed Chief Technology Officer in January 2022.  Tony has been a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto since 2001.  He has well over 100 publications, including 8 award-winning best papers, focused on integrated circuits for digital communication.  Tony has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and on the Technical Program Committees of world’s leading circuits conferences.  He co-authored the classic textbooks “Analog Integrated Circuit Design” and “Microelectronic Circuits” and he is a Fellow of the IEEE.  Tony has also been a consultant to the semiconductor industry for over 20 years, working with both startups and some of the largest technology companies in the world.

Tony holds a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Author:

Marshall Choy

SVP, Product
SambaNova Systems

Marshall Choy is Senior Vice President of Product at SambaNova Systems and is responsible for product management and go-to-market operations.  Marshall has extensive experience leading global organizations to bring breakthrough products to market, establish new market presences, and grow new and existing lines of business.  Marshall was previously Vice President of Product Management at Oracle until 2018.  He was responsible for the portfolio and strategy for Oracle Systems products and solutions.  He led teams that delivered comprehensive end-to-end hardware and software solutions and product management operations.  Prior to joining Oracle in 2010 when it acquired Sun Microsystems, he served as Director of Engineered Solutions at Sun.  During his 11 years there, Marshall held various positions in development, information technology, and marketing. 

Marshall Choy

SVP, Product
SambaNova Systems

Marshall Choy is Senior Vice President of Product at SambaNova Systems and is responsible for product management and go-to-market operations.  Marshall has extensive experience leading global organizations to bring breakthrough products to market, establish new market presences, and grow new and existing lines of business.  Marshall was previously Vice President of Product Management at Oracle until 2018.  He was responsible for the portfolio and strategy for Oracle Systems products and solutions.  He led teams that delivered comprehensive end-to-end hardware and software solutions and product management operations.  Prior to joining Oracle in 2010 when it acquired Sun Microsystems, he served as Director of Engineered Solutions at Sun.  During his 11 years there, Marshall held various positions in development, information technology, and marketing.