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Meet the operators, researchers, and builders taking the stage this year — from keynote leaders to hands-on lab experts.

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Jerry Liu

Co-Founder & CEO
LlamaIndex
Featured Speaker

Jerry is the co-founder/CEO of LlamaIndex, the most accurate and secure platform to automate document workflows with AI agents. Before this, he led ML monitoring at Robust Intelligence, did self-driving AI research at Uber ATG, and worked on recommendation systems at Quora.

Industry
AI Developer Tools / Data Frameworks
Job function
Executive / Founder
Company size
1-50

Alon Horev

Co-Founder & CTO
VAST Data
Featured speaker

Alon is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at VAST Data. Alon has led multiple engineering tracks and driven success with strategic customer engagements. Prior to joining VAST, Alon established a successful track record of designing and implementing innovative database and storage platforms at companies such as Cisco and IBM. Driven by curiosity and passion for technology Alon honed his skills through self-education and proudly served in the Israeli Defense Forces, where he sharpened his expertise by focusing on software and hardware development.

Industry
Data Infrastructure / Storage
Job function
Executive / Founder
Company size
501-1,000
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Dr. Fei-Fei Li

Leading AI Researcher and Professor, Stanford University | Founding Co-Director, Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute | Co-Founder, World Labs
World Labs
Featured Speaker

Dr. Fei-Fei Li is co-founder and CEO of World Labs and the inaugural Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, where she is founding co-director of the Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI). Creator of ImageNet, she is a pioneer of modern AI and founder of AI4ALL. Author of the acclaimed memoir 'The Worlds I See.'

Industry
AI Research / Spatial AI
Job function
Executive / Founder / Researcher
Company size
1-50

Jeremy Wohlwend

Co-Founder
Boltz
Featured Speaker

Jeremy is the co-founder and CTO at Boltz, where he helps build leading molecular design models and tools. Previously, Jeremy completed his PhD at MIT, advised by Regina Barzilay.

Industry
AI / Biotech (Drug Discovery)
Job function
Founder / Research
Company size
1-50

Bartley Richardson

Chief of AI
Crowdstrike
Featured Speaker

Bartley Richardson is Chief AI and Autonomous Systems Officer at CrowdStrike, where he leads AI strategy across Charlotte AI, the agentic SOC, and AI Detection and Response, extending the company's leadership in AI-native cybersecurity. Previously, Dr. Richardson was Senior Director of Engineering at NVIDIA, leading agentic AI, cybersecurity AI, and AI infrastructure, including the NeMo Agent Toolkit and Morpheus. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering.

Industry
Cybersecurity
Job function
AI Leadership
Company size
5,001-10,000

Renee Huang

Chief Product Officer
Cline
Featured speaker

Renee Huang is Chief Product Officer at Cline, building coding agents that adapt to each user. She previously led Snowflake's Cortex Analyst from prototype to production, and earlier built the first CLO-optimization product on Wall Street, trading over $5B in her first six months.

Industry
AI Developer Tools (Coding Agents)
Job function
Product Leadership
Company size
1-50

Autumn Moulder

Senior VP of Engineering
Cohere
Featured speaker

Autumn Moulder is SVP of Engineering at Cohere, leading engineering across LLM infrastructure, security, developer experience, and private deployments for the company's vertically integrated AI platform. She previously held senior infrastructure and data engineering leadership roles at Progressive Leasing.

Industry
AI / Foundation Models (Enterprise)
Job function
Engineering Leadership
Company size
201-500

Brian Belgodere

Senior Technical Staff Member - AI / ML Systems
IBM
Featured speaker

Brian Belgodere is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Research, where he leads development of the Cognitive Computing Cluster - a GPU-enabled HPC environment purpose-built for end-to-end Deep Learning as a Service. With over a decade of experience across systems engineering, infrastructure, and AI/ML, he specializes in the tooling and DevOps pipelines that turn research-scale compute into production-ready platforms.

Industry
Enterprise Technology / AI Research
Job function
Engineering / Technical Staff
Company size
10,000+

Jeffrey Li

COO (Head of Product & GTM)
Liquid AI
Featured speaker

Jeffrey Li is Head of Product and Go-to-Market (COO) at Liquid AI, connecting Liquid's technology with enterprises through high-velocity, customer-driven development. Previously an early employee at Scale AI, he expanded its labeling market into LLMs, audio, and document analysis, and was a founding team member of Gather Town.

Industry
AI / Foundation Models
Job function
Executive / Product Leadership
Company size
51-200

Sarah Guo

Founder & Partner
Conviction
Host

Sarah Guo is the founder of Conviction, an AI-native venture capital firm launched in 2022. Previously a General Partner at Greylock, she has been an early investor in leading companies including Cognition, Figma, Harvey, Mistral, Sierra and Thinking Machines. She co-hosts the popular AI podcast 'No Priors' with Elad Gil.

Industry
Venture Capital (AI)
Job function
Executive / Founder / Investor
Company size
1-50
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Shawn Lewis

Chief Superintelligence Officer
CoreWeave
Keynote Speaker

Shawn Lewis is Chief Super Intelligence Officer at CoreWeave, leading the company's efforts to build and scale software platforms for AI researchers and engineers. He was previously Founder and CTO of Weights & Biases, the AI developer platform acquired by CoreWeave, where he helped establish industry-standard tools for experiment tracking, evaluation, and AI observability. Shawn previously held engineering roles at Google and was Founder and CTO of Beep.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Engineering Leadership
Company size
1,001-5,000

Lukas Biewald

SVP, AI Initiatives
CoreWeave
Keynote Speaker

Lukas Biewald is SVP of AI Initiatives at CoreWeave, leading strategy and innovation across the company's AI ecosystem. A pioneer in ML infrastructure, he co-founded and led Weights & Biases, the AI developer platform acquired by CoreWeave in 2025, and Figure Eight (formerly CrowdFlower), an early leader in ML data labeling acquired by Appen in 2019. He's dedicated his career to making machine learning more accessible to all.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
AI Leadership
Company size
1,001-5,000

Chen Goldberg

EVP, Product & Engineering
CoreWeave
Keynote Speaker

Chen Goldberg joined CoreWeave in August 2024 as Executive Vice President, Product & Engineering. Previously, she spent more than eight years at Google Cloud, where she most recently served as General Manager & Vice President of Engineering, leading the Kubernetes and Serverless portfolio. Earlier, she was Director of Engineering at HP. She holds a B.A. in Management and Computer Sciences and an M.B.A. from The Open University of Israel.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Executive / Product & Engineering
Company size
1,001-5,000
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Ian Buck

VP and GM, Hyperscale and HPC
NVIDIA
Keynote Speaker

Ian Buck is the vice president of Hyperscale and HPC at NVIDIA, leading the company's multi-billion dollar accelerated computing and datacenter business. He joined NVIDIA in 2004 and invented CUDA, and has testified before Congress and advised the White House on AI. Buck holds a B.S. from Princeton and a Ph.D. from Stanford, both in computer science.

Industry
Semiconductors / AI Hardware
Job function
Executive / Technology Leadership
Company size
10,000+

Peter Salanki

Chief Technology Officer
CoreWeave
Keynote Speaker

Peter Salanki has served as Chief Technology Officer at CoreWeave since March 2024. He previously held engineering leadership roles at the company, including Vice President of Engineering and Director of Engineering, from 2019 to 2024. Before joining CoreWeave, he was Director, Americas, Office of the CTO at Sandvine, an application and network intelligence company.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Executive / Technology Leadership
Company size
1,001-5,000
Speaking sessions
Hands-on lab
Secure your AI infrastructure end to end
September 30, 2026
Fireside chat
Run AI workloads on NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72
September 30, 2026
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AI Pavillion
Featured session
Plan capacity and control costs at scale
September 30, 2026
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AI Pavilion
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Mike Intrator

Chief Executive Officer
CoreWeave
Keynote Speaker

Michael Intrator is one of CoreWeave’s co-founders and has served as Chairman of the board of directors and as Chief Executive Officer and President since September 2017. Previously, he co-founded and led Hudson Ridge Asset Management, a natural gas hedge fund, and held senior portfolio management roles at Natsource Asset Management. He earned a B.A. in Political Science from Binghamton University and an M.P.A. from Columbia University.

Industry
AI Cloud
Job function
Executive / Founder
Company size
1,001-5,000
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