Speakers AAI17 – BootstrapLabs, an Ares company

Danny Lange

VP of AI and Machine Learning, Unity Technologies

Previously Head of Machine Learning at Uber, GM, Machine Learning at Amazon, Development Manager, Big Data Analytics at Microsoft, Founder at Vocomo Software (acquired by Google). Author of numerous patents.

Richard Socher

Chief Scientist, Salesforce

Leading a team of AI researchers and engineers to push the state of the art in AI and bring it to everyone via an easy to use platform. Previously Founder and CEO at MetaMind (acquired by SalesForce), Ph.D. Machine Learning and Computer Vision at Stanford University.

Marten Mickos

CEO, HackerOne

Formerly SVP and GM of Hewlett-Packard’s Cloud Business, CEO of Eucalyptus, EIR at Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, SVP and GM of the Database Group of Sun Microsystems, CEO of MySQL AB.

Amir Khosrowshahi.

CTO AI Products Group, Intel

Amir has an AB and AM from Harvard and PhD from Berkeley. He started his career at Goldman Sachs where he was a derivatives trader. He then worked at startups, returned to school to study neuroscience, and then founded Nervana. He is now CTO of the AI Products Group at Intel..

Akli Adjaoute Ph.D.

Founder and CEO, Brighterion, Inc

Prior to Brighterion, Dr. Adjaoute was the founder and visionary who drove Cognitix Technologies. Dr. Adjaoute brings over 20 years of experience in developing useful artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. He is recognized as a leading figure in the international cognitive science community, where his contributions have received numerous awards.

Nicolai Wadstrom

Founder and CEO, BootstrapLabs

Coding since 10 y/o. Founder, CEO, CTO. Advisor, Parallel Entrepreneur, Operator, Angel Investors.

Lanny Cohen

Group Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini

Lanny S. Cohen is the Group CTO and member of the Group Executive Committee at Capgemini. As head of the Group’s CTO Network, Cohen acts across all the Capgemini businesses to help integrate new technology trends, respond to client needs and is ultimately responsible for strengthening the relationship with partners on technology matters.

Massimo Mascaro

Director, Data Engineering and Data Science at Intuit

Massimo currently serves at the Director for CTG Data Science and Data Engineering for the Consumer Tax group, leading the personalization and predictive analytics efforts behind the TurboTax family of products.

Dr. Colin P. Williams

Director of Strategy & Business Development at D-Wave Systems

Dr Colin has spent over 20 years in quantum computing and has developed and patented algorithms and applications. Prior Colin was a Senior Research Scientist for Advanced Computing Paradigms at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Colin earned his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 and wrote “Explorations in Quantum Computing,” the first textbook in the field.

Mark Weatherford

Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, vArmour

Former CISO, State of California, Chief Security Officer at North American Electric Reliability Corporation and Deputy at U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Rajendra Rao

CEO, Ford Smart Mobility

Previously worked for multinationals corporations – Procter & Gamble, 3M, and Brunswick in various operational, marketing and executive positions in Europe, Asia, Middle East and North America.

Benjamin Levy

Co-Founder, BootstrapLabs

Ben is a repeat entrepreneur who launched, built, and exited two startups in the financial technology space. Previously as Investment Banker he helped his clients raise over $300M and close over $5 Billions in M&A transactions.

Dr. Michael Dahlweid, MD, Phd

Chief Chief Medical Officer, GE Healthcare

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Sangeeta Chakraborty

Chief Customer Officer, Ayasdi

Prior to Ayasdi, Sangeeta built multiple professional services practices across a number of successful startups including Digital Fuel (acquired by VMWare), Inquira (acquired by Oracle) and Interwoven. Sangeeta began her career in consulting with Tata, Fujitsu and Vitria.

Herb Kelsey

CTO, New Context

C-Suite technologist with 20+ years experience; architect of global scale IT systems for commercial customers and governments at all classification levels.

Bradley Rotter

Impact Investor

Bradley is a long-time investor in technologies that impact the security of the homeland. He serves on the board of Halo Maritime Defense Systems, and founded AirPatrol Corporation.

Hema Raghavan

Head of Growth Relevance, LinkedIn

Hema leads a team of scientists and engineers employing large scale machine learning techniques to grow LinkedIn’s Social Network. Hema has a wide variety of industry experience in applying machine learning techniques to problem domains ranging from search advertising (at Yahoo! Labs) to question answering (at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center).

Parth Vasa

Head of Data Science, Bloomberg

Parth manages the engineers and scientist who work on Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Information Retrieval for the financial markets at Bloomberg LP.

Matt Wolff

Chief Data Scientist Cylance

Prof. Trevor Darrell

Director, Berkeley Deep Drive (BDD)

Prof. Darrell, is on the faculty of the CS Division for the EECS at UC Berkeley. He leads Berkeley’s DeepDrive Industrial Consortia, is co-Director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) lab, and is Faculty Director of PATH at UC Berkeley. He also guided Yangqing Jia during the creation of the Deep learning framework Caffe.

Dr. Paula Wilbourne

Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer, Sibly

Prior to joining Sibly, Dr. Wilbourne coordinated a national empirically-based psychotherapy training program in Motivational Interviewing and Motivational Enhancement Therapy for the Department of Veteran’s Affairs. A true scientist-practitioner, she has worked to leverage data and research to transform healthcare in the country’s largest integrated healthcare system.

Jan Erik Solem

CEO and Founder, Mapillary

Previously Computer Vision Researcher at Apple, PhD in Applied Mathematics at Lund University, Founder and CTO at Polar Rose. Member of the Swedish National Committee for Mathematics, and author of books on programming with Python.

Jack Clark

Strategy & Communications Director, OpenAI

Previously Reporter for Bloomberg LP and CBS Interactive, Jack is now leading OpenAI’s communications and helping the world understand AI.

Aditya Kalro

Engineering Manager, Facebook

Previously Senior Software Development Engineer at Yahoo and Microsoft, Aditya is now leading the Core Machine Learning Platform (FBLearner Flow) at Facebook.

Alex Holub

Co-founder, Vidora

Ph.D., Machine Learning and Computer Vision at Caltech. Previously researcher in advanced AI and Virtual Reality, and former Director PM at Ooyala.

Mike Tamir

Chief Data Science Officer, Takt

Previously Director of Data Sciences at MetaScale, Instructor and Chief Science Officer at Galvanize, Faculty Member at UC Berkeley, and advisor to many early stage startups including Skymind.io. Ph.D. in Modeling Applications in General Relativity and Quantum Statistical Mechanics from University of Pittsburgh.

John Mannes

Writer at TechCrunch

John Mannes is a writer at TechCrunch covering developments in artificial intelligence and trends in venture capital.

Li Jiang

GSV Asset Management

Li works with entrepreneurs and companies that make a positive impact on the future of humanity. GSV invests in high growth technology companies.

Mark Goldstein

Entrepreneur, Advisor and Investor

Managing Partner at Advisors.fund. Founder at Bad Ass Advisors, Executive Chairman at HireAthena, Camio. Active angel investor, Mark has been a board member of and advisor to over 50 firms.

Susan Altman

Partner at K&L Gates LLP

Susan Altman is a partner at K&L Gates’ Pittsburgh office, focusing her practice on Commercial Technology and Sourcing and Artificial Intelligence. Ms. Altman navigates businesses through the complexities of today’s technology-enabled commercial transactions in order to help lower costs and improve revenues. She helps clients properly structure contracts in ways that foster long-term, positive commercial relationships, whether through subscription agreements, licensing, strategic alliances, or outsourcing transactions.

Karim Galil

Founder at Mendel Health

Karim is co-founder and CEO of Mendel.ai. He has received his MD and medical residency in Cairo, Egypt. Karim is also an entrepreneur by spirit, his first company Kryptonworx led health tech in the MENA region with customers like Pfizer and Ministry of Health in UAE. Karim has also helped many companies in the field of medical image processing like Sirona, Straumann and 3D Diagnostix. At Mendel, Karim continues to innovate AI-powered solutions to real-world healthcare challenges.

Eric Save

Partner at K&L Gates LLP

Eric Save is a corporate/M&A partner in the firm’s San Francisco office and a member of the firm’s Latin America practice. He has represented clients with respect to a broad range of matters in Mexico, Brazil and other parts of Latin America, including cross-border M&A transactions, joint ventures, venture capital investments, start-up company matters, investments in energy and mining projects, secured lending transactions, and the establishment or sourcing of operations in the region.

Jean-Baptiste Su

Principal Analyst. Atherton Research & FORBES Technology Columnist

JB also writes the popular Forbes column TechPulse 360, on disruptive innovation, focused on emerging trends like IoT, AI, VR, autonomy and mobility. Prior to Atherton Research, JB had a successful 20+ years career as a business and technology journalist, working at leading media groups, including IDG, Havas Publishing, La Tribune and L’Expansion.

Jeremy Stanley

VP Data Science, Instacart

Previously, Jeremy was chief data scientist and EVP of engineering at Sailthru, which builds data-driven solutions for marketers to drive long-term customer engagement and optimize revenue opportunities. As chief data scientist, he was responsible for the intelligence in the marketing personalization platform, which included prediction, recommendation, and optimization algorithms.

Mark Nelsen

Senior Vice President of Risk and Authentication Products, Visa

Mark Nelsen is Senior Vice President at Visa Inc. where he is responsible for leading Visa’s global Risk and Authentication Products organization whose teams deliver solutions across fraud risk, credit risk, and authentication. In this role, his focus spans across new technology, new product development, core product management, and product optimization often including sophisticated solutions serving merchants, acquirers and client financial institutions.

Meghan Conroy

CEO and Founder, CAPTUREPROOF, Inc.

Meghan Conroy has questioned for years why, in the most connected era in history, access to health care is still one of our biggest challenges. In 2012, she embarked on a journey to answer that challenge with CAPTUREPROOF. CAPTUREPROOF is the HIPAA-compliant app to capture, compare and share medical photos and video asynchronously to enable doctor-to-doctor and doctor-to-patient visual communication.