AI Hardware Summit 2021

Fast, Efficient and Affordable AI

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Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States
13-16 September, 2021

“The AI Hardware Summit is a great place where lots of people interested in AI Hardware are coming together and exchanging ideas, and together we make the technology better. There’s a synergistic effect at these summits which is really amazing and powers the entire industry.”

John L. Hennessy, Chairman, Alphabet

Edge AI Summit 2021

The 4th Annual Edge AI Summit unites the technologists from around the world tasked with designing and developing real-world use cases that bring real-time and secure AI to low-power applications from the sensor-edge to device-edge, and to areas that have limited connectivity to the cloud.

$1.448B
raised by our partners since the last summit
65%
In-Person Attendance
75K
Extended Audience Reach
150%
year-on-year growth in user attendees since 2018

Why Attend

AI Hardware is evolving – and so are we! As machine learning models continue to grow in size and complexity, and more and more models enter production in enterprises worldwide, the way we approach accelerating these workloads is changing.

At the front end, data-centricity is taking precedence over model-centricity. At the back end, AI practitioners want systems that are performant and efficient, but also sustainable, explainable and accountable.

From massive research models like GPT-3, to day-to-day models deployed by enterprises around the world, we are lifting the hood on how to make AI fast, efficient and affordable.

AI Hardware Summit is evolving, we continue our mission to help those who are accelerating AI workloads in the cloud and at the edge, and this year is all about systems level AI acceleration.

Event Overview

Sept 13: Virtual Day

Sept 14-15: In-Person Summit, Streamed Globally

Sept 16: Virtual Roundtables

2021 Speakers

 

Aart de Geus

Chairman & Co-CEO
Synopsys

Since co-founding Synopsys in 1986, Aart has expanded Synopsys from a start-up synthesis company to a global high-tech leader. He has long been considered one of the world's leading experts on logic synthesis and simulation, and frequently keynotes major conferences in electronics and design automation. Dr. de Geus has been widely recognized for his technical, business, and community achievements with multiple awards including Electronic Business Magazine's "CEO of the Year," the IEEE Robert N.

Aart de Geus

Chairman & Co-CEO
Synopsys

Aart de Geus

Chairman & Co-CEO
Synopsys

Since co-founding Synopsys in 1986, Aart has expanded Synopsys from a start-up synthesis company to a global high-tech leader. He has long been considered one of the world's leading experts on logic synthesis and simulation, and frequently keynotes major conferences in electronics and design automation. Dr. de Geus has been widely recognized for his technical, business, and community achievements with multiple awards including Electronic Business Magazine's "CEO of the Year," the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal, the GSA Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award, the Silicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame Award, and the SVLG Lifetime Achievement Award. He serves on the Boards of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Applied Materials, the Global Semiconductor Alliance, and the Electronic System Design Alliance.

 

Cheng Wang

Co-Founder & SVP, Architecture & Engineering
Flex Logix

Originally from Shanghai, PRC.  Cheng has led the architecture, silicon implementation and software development for eFPGA over multiple generations from 180nm-16nm and now AI inferencing development at Flex Logix. Two years as VLSI designer at Zoran. BSEECS, UC Berkeley.  MSEE, EE PhD UCLA: designed 5 FPGA chips from 90nm to 40nm. 2013 Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award. 2014 ISSCC Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper. Multiple patents at UCLA and Flex Logix.

Cheng Wang

Co-Founder & SVP, Architecture & Engineering
Flex Logix

Cheng Wang

Co-Founder & SVP, Architecture & Engineering
Flex Logix

Originally from Shanghai, PRC.  Cheng has led the architecture, silicon implementation and software development for eFPGA over multiple generations from 180nm-16nm and now AI inferencing development at Flex Logix. Two years as VLSI designer at Zoran. BSEECS, UC Berkeley.  MSEE, EE PhD UCLA: designed 5 FPGA chips from 90nm to 40nm. 2013 Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award. 2014 ISSCC Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper. Multiple patents at UCLA and Flex Logix.

 

Greg Diamos

Engineering Lead
Landing AI

Greg leads transformation engineering at Landing AI, focusing on building new AI engineering organizations.  He is a founding member of MLPerf. Previously he lead AI research at Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL), where he helped develop the Deep Speech and Deep Voice systems. Before Baidu, Greg contributed to the design of compiler and microarchitecture technologies used in the Volta GPU at NVIDIA, including the invention of the SIMT independent thread scheduling system.

Greg Diamos

Engineering Lead
Landing AI

Greg Diamos

Engineering Lead
Landing AI

Greg leads transformation engineering at Landing AI, focusing on building new AI engineering organizations.  He is a founding member of MLPerf. Previously he lead AI research at Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL), where he helped develop the Deep Speech and Deep Voice systems. Before Baidu, Greg contributed to the design of compiler and microarchitecture technologies used in the Volta GPU at NVIDIA, including the invention of the SIMT independent thread scheduling system. Greg holds a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he led the development of the GPU-Ocelot dynamic compiler, which targeted CPUs and GPUs from the same program representation.

 

Lip-Bu Tan

Chairman & Founder
Walden International

Lip-Bu Tan is Founder and Chairman of Walden International (“WI”), and Founding Managing Partner of Celesta Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures, with over $5 billion under management.  He formerly served as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of Cadence Design Systems, Inc.  He currently serves on the Board of Schneider Electric SE (SU: FP), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), and Credo Semiconductor (NASDAQ: CRDO).

 

Lip-Bu Tan

Chairman & Founder
Walden International

Lip-Bu Tan

Chairman & Founder
Walden International

Lip-Bu Tan is Founder and Chairman of Walden International (“WI”), and Founding Managing Partner of Celesta Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures, with over $5 billion under management.  He formerly served as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of Cadence Design Systems, Inc.  He currently serves on the Board of Schneider Electric SE (SU: FP), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), and Credo Semiconductor (NASDAQ: CRDO).

 

Lip-Bu focuses on semiconductor/components, cloud/edge infrastructure, data management and security, and AI/machine learning.Lip-Bu received his B.S. from Nanyang University in Singapore, his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his MBA from the University of San Francisco. He also received his honorary degree for Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of San Francisco.  Lip-Bu currently serves on Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)’s Board of Trustees and the School of Engineering Dean’s Council, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s School of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council, University of California Berkeley (UCB)’s College of Engineering Advisory Board and their Computing, Data Science, and Society Advisory Board, and University of California San Francisco (UCSF)’s Executive Council. He’s also a member of the Global Advisory Board of METI Japan, The Business Council, and Committee 100. He also served on the board of the Board of Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) from 2009 to 2021, and as a Trustee of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore from 2006 to 2011.  Lip-Bu has been named one of the Top 10 Venture Capitalists in China by Zero2ipo and was listed as one of the Top 50 Venture Capitalists on the Forbes Midas List. He’s the recipient of imec’s 2023 Lifetime of Innovation Award, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) 2022 Robert N. Noyce Award, and GSA’s 2016 Dr. Morris Chang's Exemplary Leadership Award.  In 2017, he was ranked #1 of the most well-connected executives in the technology industry by the analytics firm Relationship Science. 

 

Norman Jouppi

Distinguished Engineer
Google

Norman P. Jouppi is a Distinguished Hardware Engineer at Google. He is known for his innovations in computer memory systems, including stream prefetch buffers, victim caching, multi-level exclusive caching, and development of the CACTI tool for modeling memory timing, area, and power. He has been the principal architect and lead designer of several microprocessors, contributed to the architecture and design of graphics accelerators, and extensively researched video, audio, and physical telepresence.

Norman Jouppi

Distinguished Engineer
Google

Norman Jouppi

Distinguished Engineer
Google

Norman P. Jouppi is a Distinguished Hardware Engineer at Google. He is known for his innovations in computer memory systems, including stream prefetch buffers, victim caching, multi-level exclusive caching, and development of the CACTI tool for modeling memory timing, area, and power. He has been the principal architect and lead designer of several microprocessors, contributed to the architecture and design of graphics accelerators, and extensively researched video, audio, and physical telepresence. His innovations in microprocessor design have been adopted in many high-performance microprocessors. His recent research has investigated the impact of emerging technologies such as non-volatile memory and nanophotonics on computer systems.

Jouppi received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1984, and a master of science in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1980. While at Stanford, he was one of the principal architects and designers of the MIPS microprocessor, and developed techniques for MOS VLSI timing verification. He joined HP in 2002 through its merger with Compaq, where he was a Staff Fellow at Compaq’s Western Research Laboratory (formerly DECWRL) in Palo Alto, California. In 2010, he was named an HP Senior Fellow. From 1984 through 1996 he was a consulting assistant/associate professor in the electrical engineering department at Stanford University where he taught courses in computer architecture, VLSI, and circuit design.

He currently serves on the research highlights editorial board of Communications of the ACM. Norm holds more than 75 U.S. patents, with one Compaq Key Patent award. He has published over 125 technical papers, with several best paper awards and two International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) Influential Paper Awards. In 2013, he received the ACM SIGARCH Distinguished Service Award. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

 

Euicheol Lim

Research Fellow, System Architect
SK Hynix

Euicheol Lim is a Research Fellow and leader of system architecture team in memory system research, SK hynix. He received the B.S. degree and the M.S. degree from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 1993 and 1995, and the Ph.D. degree from Sungkyunkwan University, suwon, Korea in 2006. Dr. Lim joined SK Hynix in 2016 as a system architect in memory system research. Before joining SK Hynix, he had been working as an SoC architect in Samsung Electronics and leading the architecture of most Exynos mobile SoC series.

Euicheol Lim

Research Fellow, System Architect
SK Hynix

Euicheol Lim

Research Fellow, System Architect
SK Hynix

Euicheol Lim is a Research Fellow and leader of system architecture team in memory system research, SK hynix. He received the B.S. degree and the M.S. degree from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 1993 and 1995, and the Ph.D. degree from Sungkyunkwan University, suwon, Korea in 2006. Dr. Lim joined SK Hynix in 2016 as a system architect in memory system research. Before joining SK Hynix, he had been working as an SoC architect in Samsung Electronics and leading the architecture of most Exynos mobile SoC series. His recent interesting point is memory and storage system architecture for AI and Big data system with various new media memory.

 

Gajinder Panesar

Fellow
Siemens

Gajinder ‘Gadge’ Panesar is a Fellow at Siemens. He was CTO at UltraSoC and joined Siemens via acquisition in 2020. One of Europe’s leading SoC architects, Gadge’s experience includes senior architecture definition and design roles within both blue-chip and start-up environments. He holds more than 20 patents and is the author of more than 20 published works. Prior to joining UltraSoC, he served at NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA).

Gajinder Panesar

Fellow
Siemens

Gajinder Panesar

Fellow
Siemens

Gajinder ‘Gadge’ Panesar is a Fellow at Siemens. He was CTO at UltraSoC and joined Siemens via acquisition in 2020. One of Europe’s leading SoC architects, Gadge’s experience includes senior architecture definition and design roles within both blue-chip and start-up environments. He holds more than 20 patents and is the author of more than 20 published works. Prior to joining UltraSoC, he served at NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA). As Chief Architect at Picochip he created the architecture of the company’s market-defining small-cell SoCs, and continued in this capacity after the company’s acquisition by Mindspeed Inc (NASDAQ:MSPD). His previous experience includes roles at STMicroelectronics, INMOS, and Acorn Computers. He is a former Research Fellow at the UK’s Southampton University, and a former Visiting Fellow at the University of Amsterdam.

 

Carole Jean Wu

Research Scientist
Facebook

Carole-Jean Wu is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research. Her research focuses on designing systems for at-scale execution of machine learning, such as personalized recommender systems and for mobile deployment. More generally, her research interests are in computer architecture with particular focus on energy- and memory-efficient systems. Carole-Jean chairs MLPerf Recommendation Benchmark Advisory Board and co-chairs MLPerf Inference. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton and B.Sc. from Cornell.

Carole Jean Wu

Research Scientist
Facebook

Carole Jean Wu

Research Scientist
Facebook

Carole-Jean Wu is a Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research. Her research focuses on designing systems for at-scale execution of machine learning, such as personalized recommender systems and for mobile deployment. More generally, her research interests are in computer architecture with particular focus on energy- and memory-efficient systems. Carole-Jean chairs MLPerf Recommendation Benchmark Advisory Board and co-chairs MLPerf Inference. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton and B.Sc. from Cornell. She holds tenure from ASU and is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Facebook AI Infrastructure Mentorship Award, the IEEE Young Engineer of the Year Award, the Science Foundation Arizona Bisgrove Early Career Scholarship, and the Intel PhD Fellowship, among a number of Best Paper awards.

 

Rob Telson

Vice President of Ecosystems & Partnerships
BrainChip

Rob Telson brings over 25 years of sales expertise in licensing intellectual property and selling EDA technology across multiple vertical markets. He has had success developing sales and support organizations at small, midsize, and large companies. At ARM, a global semiconductor and software design company, Rob was Vice President of Foundry Sales worldwide and prior was Vice President of Sales for the Americas. At Synopsys, he was responsible for building and developing a business focused on disruptive technologies in the semiconductor space.

Rob Telson

Vice President of Ecosystems & Partnerships
BrainChip

Rob Telson

Vice President of Ecosystems & Partnerships
BrainChip

Rob Telson brings over 25 years of sales expertise in licensing intellectual property and selling EDA technology across multiple vertical markets. He has had success developing sales and support organizations at small, midsize, and large companies. At ARM, a global semiconductor and software design company, Rob was Vice President of Foundry Sales worldwide and prior was Vice President of Sales for the Americas. At Synopsys, he was responsible for building and developing a business focused on disruptive technologies in the semiconductor space. Rob has been impactful on driving the growth and demand of BrainChip’s technology leading Worldwide Sales and Marketing and now developing and leading the Ecosystem and Partnerships at BrainChip. Rob holds a BS in political science from the University of Arizona and a Program for Leadership Development certificate from Harvard Business School.

 

Tim Kogel

Principal Applications Engineer
Synopsys

Tim Kogel is a Principal Engineer for Virtual Prototyping in the Synopsys Verification Group. He received his diploma and PhD degree in electrical engineering with honors from Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Aachen, Germany, in 1999 and 2005. He has authored a book and numerous technical and scientific publications on system-level modeling of SoC platforms. Tim is leading a team of applications engineering specialists, responsible for the definition, realization and deployment of Synopsys’ Virtual Prototyping solutions.

Tim Kogel

Principal Applications Engineer
Synopsys

Tim Kogel

Principal Applications Engineer
Synopsys

Tim Kogel is a Principal Engineer for Virtual Prototyping in the Synopsys Verification Group. He received his diploma and PhD degree in electrical engineering with honors from Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Aachen, Germany, in 1999 and 2005. He has authored a book and numerous technical and scientific publications on system-level modeling of SoC platforms. Tim is leading a team of applications engineering specialists, responsible for the definition, realization and deployment of Synopsys’ Virtual Prototyping solutions.

 

Rehan Hameed

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Deep Vision

Rehan Hameed received his PhD from Stanford University where he worked on energy efficient processor design and polymorphic multiprocessor architectures, and co-invented the Deep Vision architecture. In 2014 he co-founded Deep Vision and is now the CTO where he focuses on driving the company’s technological vision, including continuous evolution of the SW stack and silicon architecture. Previously he has worked on the design of multiple chips and algorithms for audio and vision processing.

Rehan Hameed

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Deep Vision

Rehan Hameed

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Deep Vision

Rehan Hameed received his PhD from Stanford University where he worked on energy efficient processor design and polymorphic multiprocessor architectures, and co-invented the Deep Vision architecture. In 2014 he co-founded Deep Vision and is now the CTO where he focuses on driving the company’s technological vision, including continuous evolution of the SW stack and silicon architecture. Previously he has worked on the design of multiple chips and algorithms for audio and vision processing.

 

Andrew Feldman

Co-Founder & CEO
Cerebras Systems

Andrew Feldman is co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. He is an entrepreneur dedicated to pushing boundaries in the compute space. Prior to Cerebras, he co-founded and was CEO of SeaMicro, a pioneer of energy-efficient, high-bandwidth microservers. SeaMicro was acquired by AMD in 2012 for $357M. Before SeaMicro, Andrew was the Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and BD at Force10 Networks which was later sold to Dell Computing for $800M.

Andrew Feldman

Co-Founder & CEO
Cerebras Systems

Andrew Feldman

Co-Founder & CEO
Cerebras Systems

Andrew Feldman is co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. He is an entrepreneur dedicated to pushing boundaries in the compute space. Prior to Cerebras, he co-founded and was CEO of SeaMicro, a pioneer of energy-efficient, high-bandwidth microservers. SeaMicro was acquired by AMD in 2012 for $357M. Before SeaMicro, Andrew was the Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and BD at Force10 Networks which was later sold to Dell Computing for $800M. Prior to Force10 Networks, Andrew was the Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at RiverStone Networks from the company’s inception through IPO in 2001. Andrew holds a BA and an MBA from Stanford University.

 

 

Karl Freund

Founder & Principal Analyst
Cambrian AI Research

Karl Freund is the founder and principal analyst of Cambrian AI Research. Prior to this, he was Moor Insights & Strategy’s consulting lead for HPC and Deep Learning. His recent experiences as the VP of Marketing at AMD and Calxeda, as well as his previous positions at Cray and IBM, positions him as a leading industry expert in these rapidly evolving industries. Karl works with investment and technology customers to help them understand the emerging Deep Learning opportunity in data centers, from competitive landscape to ecosystem to strategy.

 

Karl Freund

Founder & Principal Analyst
Cambrian AI Research

Karl Freund

Founder & Principal Analyst
Cambrian AI Research

Karl Freund is the founder and principal analyst of Cambrian AI Research. Prior to this, he was Moor Insights & Strategy’s consulting lead for HPC and Deep Learning. His recent experiences as the VP of Marketing at AMD and Calxeda, as well as his previous positions at Cray and IBM, positions him as a leading industry expert in these rapidly evolving industries. Karl works with investment and technology customers to help them understand the emerging Deep Learning opportunity in data centers, from competitive landscape to ecosystem to strategy.

 

Karl has worked directly with datacenter end users, OEMs, ODMs and the industry ecosystem, enabling him to help his clients define the appropriate business, product, and go-to-market strategies. He is also recognized expert on the subject of low-power servers and the emergence of ARM in the datacenter and has been a featured speaker at scores of investment and industry conferences on this topic.

Accomplishments during his career include:

  • Led the revived HPC initiative at AMD, targeting APUs at deep learning and other HPC workloads
  • Created an industry-wide thought leadership position for Calxeda in the ARM Server market
  • Helped forge the early relationship between HP and Calxeda leading to the surprise announcement of HP Moonshot with Calxeda in 2011
  • Built the IBM Power Server brand from 14% market share to over 50% share
  • Integrated the Tivoli brand into the IBM company’s branding and marketing organization
  • Co-Led the integration of HP and Apollo Marketing after the Boston-based desktop company’s acquisition

 

Karl’s background includes RISC and Mainframe servers, as well as HPC (Supercomputing). He has extensive experience as a global marketing executive at IBM where he was VP Marketing (2000-2010), Cray where he was VP Marketing (1995-1998), and HP where he was a Division Marketing Manager (1979-1995).

 

 

Uzi Baruch

CSO
Proteantecs

Uzi brings nearly twenty years of experience in managing R&D teams and high scale projects at leading, global hi-tech companies. Prior to joining proteanTecs, he held executive roles at Optimal+, first as VP of R&D, where he had been instrumental in driving the company’s big data offering, enabling customers to innovate manufacturing through a data-centric approach.

Uzi Baruch

CSO
Proteantecs

Uzi Baruch

CSO
Proteantecs

Uzi brings nearly twenty years of experience in managing R&D teams and high scale projects at leading, global hi-tech companies. Prior to joining proteanTecs, he held executive roles at Optimal+, first as VP of R&D, where he had been instrumental in driving the company’s big data offering, enabling customers to innovate manufacturing through a data-centric approach. Beginning of 2019, Uzi assumed the lead of Optimal’s new growth business, and led the sales and delivery groups of Optimal+ Automotive and Electronics business unit until the acquisition of the company by National Instruments. Before joining Optimal+, Uzi served as VP of R&D in the Enterprise Group at NICE.

 

Mrinal Iyer

Director of Engineering
Graphcore

Mrinal Iyer is Director of Engineering at Graphcore leading a team focused on developing highly performant and scalable Deep Learning benchmarks for MLPerf™. During his career, beginning at Intel and now at Graphcore, he has worked in many stacks of the semiconductor space, from cutting edge lithographic processes, system software, compilers, kernels to frameworks and applications. Mrinal holds a PhD from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, where he worked on large scale quantum-mechanics problems.

Mrinal Iyer

Director of Engineering
Graphcore

Mrinal Iyer

Director of Engineering
Graphcore

Mrinal Iyer is Director of Engineering at Graphcore leading a team focused on developing highly performant and scalable Deep Learning benchmarks for MLPerf™. During his career, beginning at Intel and now at Graphcore, he has worked in many stacks of the semiconductor space, from cutting edge lithographic processes, system software, compilers, kernels to frameworks and applications. Mrinal holds a PhD from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, where he worked on large scale quantum-mechanics problems.

 

David Patterson

Distinguished Engineer
Google Brain

David Patterson is a UC Berkeley professor of the graduate school, a Google distinguished engineer, and the RISC-V Foundation Vice-Chair. He received his BA, MS, and PhD degrees from UCLA. His Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC), Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), and Network of Workstation projects helped lead to multibillion-dollar industries. This work led to about 40 awards for research, teaching, and service plus many papers and seven books. The best known book is Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach and the newest is The RISC-V Reader.

David Patterson

Distinguished Engineer
Google Brain

David Patterson

Distinguished Engineer
Google Brain

David Patterson is a UC Berkeley professor of the graduate school, a Google distinguished engineer, and the RISC-V Foundation Vice-Chair. He received his BA, MS, and PhD degrees from UCLA. His Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC), Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), and Network of Workstation projects helped lead to multibillion-dollar industries. This work led to about 40 awards for research, teaching, and service plus many papers and seven books. The best known book is Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach and the newest is The RISC-V Reader. He and his co-author John Hennessy shared the 2017 ACM A.M Turing Award.

 

Mikhail Smelyanskiy

Director, AI System Co-Design Group
Facebook

Misha Smelyanskiy is a Director of AI System Co-Design Group at Facebook. The group delivers innovative, high-performance optimizations of key AI services on existing platforms, as well as co-designs future AI systems at datacenter scale.  Before joining Facebook in early 2017, Misha spent 13 years at Intel. First at Intel Parallel Computing Labs, leading application-driven parallel architecture research, which resulted in significant contribution to the definition of Intel first Many-Integrated Core architecture.

Mikhail Smelyanskiy

Director, AI System Co-Design Group
Facebook

Mikhail Smelyanskiy

Director, AI System Co-Design Group
Facebook

Misha Smelyanskiy is a Director of AI System Co-Design Group at Facebook. The group delivers innovative, high-performance optimizations of key AI services on existing platforms, as well as co-designs future AI systems at datacenter scale.  Before joining Facebook in early 2017, Misha spent 13 years at Intel. First at Intel Parallel Computing Labs, leading application-driven parallel architecture research, which resulted in significant contribution to the definition of Intel first Many-Integrated Core architecture. And later as the director of Exascale SW/HW co-design group, working with external HPC and Machine Learning customers to derive system-level hardware. Misha has published 50+ papers in top-tier architecture, supercomputing and ML conferences and journals. Misha won Green500 competition in 2012, developed world fastest distributed quantum system simulator in 2016, and was 2014 Gordon Bell Award Finalist.

 

Jawad Khan

Principal Engineer
Intel Corporation

Dr. Jawad Khan is a Principal Engineer at Intel® Corporation. He has over 16 years of experience with high performance storage and memory system design and delivering ground-breaking products and proof of concept prototypes using FPGAs. More recently Jawad’s focus has shifted towards optimizing system level architecture for AI/ML applications, with particular emphasis towards memory and storage bottlenecks. He is a prolific inventor with 74 patents granted and/or pending. Jawad received his Ph.D.

Jawad Khan

Principal Engineer
Intel Corporation

Jawad Khan

Principal Engineer
Intel Corporation

Dr. Jawad Khan is a Principal Engineer at Intel® Corporation. He has over 16 years of experience with high performance storage and memory system design and delivering ground-breaking products and proof of concept prototypes using FPGAs. More recently Jawad’s focus has shifted towards optimizing system level architecture for AI/ML applications, with particular emphasis towards memory and storage bottlenecks. He is a prolific inventor with 74 patents granted and/or pending. Jawad received his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati, in Computer Science and Engineering.

 

Rashmi Gopinath

General Partner
B Capital

Rashmi Gopinath is a General Partner at B Capital Group where she leads the fund’s enterprise software practice in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, devops, and AI/ML sectors. She brings over two decades of experience investing and operating in cutting-edge enterprise technologies. She led B Capital’s investments in over 24 companies such as DataRobot, FalconX, Clari, Phenom People, Synack, Innovaccer, Labelbox, Fabric, 6Sense, Highspot, Pendo, Starburst, OwnBackup, Figment, Perimeter81, Zesty, among others.

Rashmi Gopinath

General Partner
B Capital

Rashmi Gopinath

General Partner
B Capital

Rashmi Gopinath is a General Partner at B Capital Group where she leads the fund’s enterprise software practice in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, devops, and AI/ML sectors. She brings over two decades of experience investing and operating in cutting-edge enterprise technologies. She led B Capital’s investments in over 24 companies such as DataRobot, FalconX, Clari, Phenom People, Synack, Innovaccer, Labelbox, Fabric, 6Sense, Highspot, Pendo, Starburst, OwnBackup, Figment, Perimeter81, Zesty, among others.

Rashmi was previously a Managing Director at M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, where she led investments globally in enterprise software and sat on several boards including Synack, Innovaccer, Contrast Security, Frame, UnravelData, Incorta, among others.

Prior to M12, Rashmi was an Investment Director with Intel Capital where she was involved in the firm’s investments in startups including MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB), ForeScout (Nasdaq: FSCT), Maginatics (acq. by EMC), BlueData (acq. by HPE), among others. Rashmi held operating roles at high-growth startups such as BlueData (acq. by HPE) and Couchbase (Nasdaq: BASE) where she led global business development, product and marketing roles. She began her career in engineering and product roles at Oracle and GE Healthcare. She earned an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Mumbai in India.

 

Mark Maybury

Chief Technology Officer
Stanley Black & Decker

MARK MAYBURY is Stanley Black & Decker’s first Chief Technology Officer. In this position, Mark manages a team across the company's businesses and functions and advises on technological threats and opportunities, as well as provides access to all elements of the global technology ecosystem.

Mark Maybury

Chief Technology Officer
Stanley Black & Decker

Mark Maybury

Chief Technology Officer
Stanley Black & Decker

MARK MAYBURY is Stanley Black & Decker’s first Chief Technology Officer. In this position, Mark manages a team across the company's businesses and functions and advises on technological threats and opportunities, as well as provides access to all elements of the global technology ecosystem.

Prior to joining Stanley Black & Decker, Mark spent 27 years at The MITRE Corporation, where he held a variety of strategic technology roles. Most recently he served as Vice President of Intelligence Portfolios and prior to that was MITRE's Vice President and Chief Security Officer and Director of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC). Before joining MITRE, Mark served as a U.S. Air Force officer. He later returned to the Air Force as Chief Scientist from 2010 to 2013 where he advised the Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Air Force on a wide range of scientific and technical issues.

He is currently a board member on the Defense Science Board, Mark Twain House and Museum Board and the Connecticut Science Center Board and previously served on multiple years of service on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and the Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory committee. He is a fellow in both the IEEE and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

Mark earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from College of the Holy Cross (Fenwick Scholar, valedictorian), a master's degree in computer speech and language processing from Cambridge University, England (Rotary Scholar), a Master of Business Administration from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a doctoral degree in artificial intelligence also from Cambridge University.

 

Selcuk Kopru

Director, Engineering & Research, Search
eBay

Selcuk Kopru is Head of ML & NLP at eBay and is an experienced AI leader with proven expertise in creating and deploying cutting edge NLP and AI technologies and systems. He is experienced in developing scalable Machine Learning solutions to solve big data problems that involve text and multimodal data. He is also skilled in Python, Java, C++, Machine Translation and Pattern Recognition. Selcuk is also a strong research professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in NLP in Computer Science from Middle East Technical University.

Selcuk Kopru

Director, Engineering & Research, Search
eBay

Selcuk Kopru

Director, Engineering & Research, Search
eBay

Selcuk Kopru is Head of ML & NLP at eBay and is an experienced AI leader with proven expertise in creating and deploying cutting edge NLP and AI technologies and systems. He is experienced in developing scalable Machine Learning solutions to solve big data problems that involve text and multimodal data. He is also skilled in Python, Java, C++, Machine Translation and Pattern Recognition. Selcuk is also a strong research professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in NLP in Computer Science from Middle East Technical University.

 

Stelios Diamantidis

Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence Solutions, Office of the COO
Synopsys

Stelios Diamantidis

Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence Solutions, Office of the COO
Synopsys

Stelios Diamantidis

Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence Solutions, Office of the COO
Synopsys
 

Mike Henry

Co-Founder & CEO
Mythic

Mike Henry

Co-Founder & CEO
Mythic

Mike Henry

Co-Founder & CEO
Mythic
 

Dhiraj Mallick

VP Engineering and Business Development
Cerebras

Dhiraj Mallick

VP Engineering and Business Development
Cerebras

Dhiraj Mallick

VP Engineering and Business Development
Cerebras
 

Paolo Faraboschi

Vice President and HPE Fellow; Director, AI Research Lab, HP Labs
HPE

Paolo Faraboschi leads research in the Systems Research Lab at HP Labs. His technical interests lie at the intersection of hardware and software and include low power servers and systems-on-a-chip, workload-optimized, highly-parallel and distributed systems, ILP and VLIW processor architectures, compilers, and embedded systems. Faraboschi’s current research focuses on next-generation data-centric systems.

Paolo Faraboschi

Vice President and HPE Fellow; Director, AI Research Lab, HP Labs
HPE

Paolo Faraboschi

Vice President and HPE Fellow; Director, AI Research Lab, HP Labs
HPE

Paolo Faraboschi leads research in the Systems Research Lab at HP Labs. His technical interests lie at the intersection of hardware and software and include low power servers and systems-on-a-chip, workload-optimized, highly-parallel and distributed systems, ILP and VLIW processor architectures, compilers, and embedded systems. Faraboschi’s current research focuses on next-generation data-centric systems. His work on system-level integration for low energy servers and scale-out architectures is a key element of the HP Moonshot System, HP’s new class of software-defined servers built to address the energy efficiency challenges of hyperscale datacenters.

 Previously, Faraboschi led HP Labs research in system-level modeling and simulation, an effort that resulted in the COTSon open-source simulation platform. He is also the founder of HP’s Barcelona Research Office, which pioneered research in contentprocessing systems.. Before that, Faraboschi was technical lead for the Custom-Fit Processors Project at HP Labs, Cambridge (MA), building highly-optimized, softwaredefined CPU cores. In that role, he was the principal architect of the instruction set architecture for the Lx/ST200 family of VLIW embedded processor cores (developed with STMicroelectronics) which have been used for over a decade in a variety of audio, video, and imaging consumer products, including HP's printers and scanners.

 A regular keynote speaker at conferences and industry events, Faraboschi is an IEEE Fellow for "contributions to embedded processor architecture & system-on-chip technology." An active member of the computer architecture community, he also serves regularly on IEEE program and organizational committees, was guest editor of the 2012 edition of IEEE Micro TopPicks, and is co-author (with Josh Fisher and Cliff Young) of the book, “Embedded Computing: a VLIW Approach to Architecture, Compilers and Tools.” A co-holder of 24 granted patents, several other patent applications, and co-author of over 65 scientific publications, Faraboschi received his M.S. and Ph.D. (Dottora)

 

Kunle Olukotun

Co-founder and Chief Technologist
SambaNova Systems

Kunle Olukotun is Cadence Design Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He founded Afara Websystems, acquired by Sun in 2002. He is a Pioneer of Chip Multiprocessor Designs, Director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab, and Co-leader of the Data Analytics for What’s Next (DAWN) research program.

In 2017 Olukotun and Chris Ré founded SambaNova Systems. SambaNova Systems has developed a disruptive next-generation computing platform to power machine learning and data analytics.

Kunle Olukotun

Co-founder and Chief Technologist
SambaNova Systems

Kunle Olukotun

Co-founder and Chief Technologist
SambaNova Systems

Kunle Olukotun is Cadence Design Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He founded Afara Websystems, acquired by Sun in 2002. He is a Pioneer of Chip Multiprocessor Designs, Director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab, and Co-leader of the Data Analytics for What’s Next (DAWN) research program.

In 2017 Olukotun and Chris Ré founded SambaNova Systems. SambaNova Systems has developed a disruptive next-generation computing platform to power machine learning and data analytics.

 

Dheevatsa Mudigere

Research Scientist
Facebook

Dheevatsa Mudigere

Research Scientist
Facebook

Dheevatsa Mudigere

Research Scientist
Facebook
 

Reiner Pope

Senior Staff Software Engineer
Google

Reiner Pope

Senior Staff Software Engineer
Google

Reiner Pope

Senior Staff Software Engineer
Google
 

Ingolf Held

CEO
GrAI Matter Labs

Mr. Ingolf Held has been Chief Executive Officer of GrAI Matter Labs (GML) since January 2018. Prior to GML, he was responsible for technology strategy and product marketing of imaging and computer vision at Intel. He holds an MScEE from Erlangen University and an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management.

Ingolf Held

CEO
GrAI Matter Labs

Ingolf Held

CEO
GrAI Matter Labs

Mr. Ingolf Held has been Chief Executive Officer of GrAI Matter Labs (GML) since January 2018. Prior to GML, he was responsible for technology strategy and product marketing of imaging and computer vision at Intel. He holds an MScEE from Erlangen University and an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management.

 

Yvonne Lutsch

Investment Principal
Bosch Ventures

Yvonne is an accomplished Investment Principal at Bosch Ventures affiliate office located in Sunnyvale, and sources, evaluates, and executes venture capital deals in North America. Her specialty are investments in deep tech fields such as AI, edge and next gen. computing incl. quantum, robotics, industrial IoT, mobility, climate tech, semiconductors, or sensors. She is an investor and non-executive board member of Bosch Ventures’ portfolio companies Syntiant, Zapata AI, UltraSense Systems, Aclima, and Recogni.

Yvonne Lutsch

Investment Principal
Bosch Ventures

Yvonne Lutsch

Investment Principal
Bosch Ventures

Yvonne is an accomplished Investment Principal at Bosch Ventures affiliate office located in Sunnyvale, and sources, evaluates, and executes venture capital deals in North America. Her specialty are investments in deep tech fields such as AI, edge and next gen. computing incl. quantum, robotics, industrial IoT, mobility, climate tech, semiconductors, or sensors. She is an investor and non-executive board member of Bosch Ventures’ portfolio companies Syntiant, Zapata AI, UltraSense Systems, Aclima, and Recogni.
Prior to this position Yvonne was Director of Technology Scouting and Business Development, building up an Innovation Hub in Silicon Valley including startup scouting, business development while advising executives of the Bosch business units on their strategy. She has more than two decades of solid experience in manufacturing operations and engineering in the automotive and consumer electronics space – gained through different executive roles at Bosch in Germany.
Yvonne received a diploma in Experimental Physics from University of Siegen, Germany, and holds a PhD in Applied Physics from University of Tuebingen, Germany.

 

Brett Simpson

Co-Founder & Partner
Arete Research

Brett Simpson is a co-founder of Arete (formed in 2000) and is based in the firm's London office. He focuses on the global semiconductor component sector. Brett is a regular public speaker at industry events and after 17 years looking at the sector, has a wealth of experience to draw on. Prior to Arete, Brett spent two years at Goldman Sachs in an equity analyst role, specialising in European technology following three years with Ericsson UK, working in business development, covering all aspects of wireline and wireless telecom infrastructure.

Brett Simpson

Co-Founder & Partner
Arete Research

Brett Simpson

Co-Founder & Partner
Arete Research

Brett Simpson is a co-founder of Arete (formed in 2000) and is based in the firm's London office. He focuses on the global semiconductor component sector. Brett is a regular public speaker at industry events and after 17 years looking at the sector, has a wealth of experience to draw on. Prior to Arete, Brett spent two years at Goldman Sachs in an equity analyst role, specialising in European technology following three years with Ericsson UK, working in business development, covering all aspects of wireline and wireless telecom infrastructure.

 

Paul Lewis

CTO
Pythian

Paul is CTO at Pythian.

Paul Lewis

CTO
Pythian

Paul Lewis

CTO
Pythian

Paul is CTO at Pythian. Prior to Pythian he was Global CTO at Hitachi Vantara responsible for the leading technology evangelism, client executive advocacy, and external delivery of the Hitachi vision and strategy especially related to Digital Transformation and Social Innovation.  For the past 25+ years, Paul has focused on technology R&D and innovation, IT/business strategic plans and governance, security and risk management, software and infrastructure architecture as the CTO and Senior Executive Technologist of several financial services organizations from start-ups to large business services providers.

 

Vanessa Eriksson

SVP & Chief Digital Officer
Zenseact

Vanessa is currently SVP, Chief Digital Officer at Zenseact with the mission of bringing the company even further into the digital age. Managing petabytes of data as an asset while simultaneously leading the IT backbone, in pursuing Autonomous Driving. She is also a Member of the Board at Fidesmo and has been the Chairwoman of PwC’s CDO Advisory Board in 2017/18 and on Gartner’s EMEA and The America’s Data & CDO Advisory Boards between 2012 & 2017. A professional and experienced public speaker, Vanessa holds a proven track record in influencing key decision makers.

Vanessa Eriksson

SVP & Chief Digital Officer
Zenseact

Vanessa Eriksson

SVP & Chief Digital Officer
Zenseact

Vanessa is currently SVP, Chief Digital Officer at Zenseact with the mission of bringing the company even further into the digital age. Managing petabytes of data as an asset while simultaneously leading the IT backbone, in pursuing Autonomous Driving. She is also a Member of the Board at Fidesmo and has been the Chairwoman of PwC’s CDO Advisory Board in 2017/18 and on Gartner’s EMEA and The America’s Data & CDO Advisory Boards between 2012 & 2017. A professional and experienced public speaker, Vanessa holds a proven track record in influencing key decision makers. Result oriented, her leadership skills include motivating teams, relationship building and integrity. A mother of 3 girls, Vanessa very feels strongly about encouraging Girls in Tech and has effectively launched a GiT event in 2017 with 4 large companies to promote her cause. Women in Leadership and Gender Diversity are topics that are close to her.

 

Steven Woo

Fellow and Distinguished Inventor
Rambus


I was drawn to Rambus to focus on cutting edge computing technologies. Throughout my 15+ year career, I’ve helped invent, create and develop means of driving and extending performance in both hardware and software solutions. At Rambus, we are solving challenges that are completely new to the industry and occur as a response to deployments that are highly sophisticated and advanced.

Steven Woo

Fellow and Distinguished Inventor
Rambus

Steven Woo

Fellow and Distinguished Inventor
Rambus


I was drawn to Rambus to focus on cutting edge computing technologies. Throughout my 15+ year career, I’ve helped invent, create and develop means of driving and extending performance in both hardware and software solutions. At Rambus, we are solving challenges that are completely new to the industry and occur as a response to deployments that are highly sophisticated and advanced.

As an inventor, I find myself approaching a challenge like a room filled with 100,000 pieces of a puzzle where it is my job to figure out how they all go together – without knowing what it is supposed to look like in the end. For me, the job of finishing the puzzle is as enjoyable as the actual process of coming up with a new, innovative solution.

For example, RDRAM®, our first mainstream memory architecture, implemented in hundreds of millions of consumer, computing and networking products from leading electronics companies including Cisco, Dell, Hitachi, HP, Intel, etc. We did a lot of novel things that required inventiveness – we pushed the envelope and created state of the art performance without making actual changes to the infrastructure.

I’m excited about the new opportunities as computing is becoming more and more pervasive in our everyday lives. With a world full of data, my job and my fellow inventors’ job will be to stay curious, maintain an inquisitive approach and create solutions that are technologically superior and that seamlessly intertwine with our daily lives.

After an inspiring work day at Rambus, I enjoy spending time with my family, being outdoors, swimming, and reading.

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • M.S. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • Master of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
  • B.S. Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
 

Jianpeng Xu

Staff Data Scientist
Walmart Labs

Jianpeng Xu

Staff Data Scientist
Walmart Labs

Jianpeng Xu

Staff Data Scientist
Walmart Labs
 

Krishna Sankar

Distinguished Engineer, AI
US Bank

Krishna Sankar

Distinguished Engineer, AI
US Bank

Krishna Sankar

Distinguished Engineer, AI
US Bank
 

Bob Beachler

VP Product
Untether AI

Bob Beachler is VP of Product at Untether AI. Bob is a Silicon Valley veteran and proven senior executive with industry leaders such as Altera, Xilinx, and BrainChip, he brings to the company a wealth of experience in the development and marketing of FPGAs, software tools, vision processors and artificial intelligence acceleration devices.

Bob Beachler

VP Product
Untether AI

Bob Beachler

VP Product
Untether AI

Bob Beachler is VP of Product at Untether AI. Bob is a Silicon Valley veteran and proven senior executive with industry leaders such as Altera, Xilinx, and BrainChip, he brings to the company a wealth of experience in the development and marketing of FPGAs, software tools, vision processors and artificial intelligence acceleration devices.

 

Dr. Charles Fan

CEO and Co-Founder
MemVerge

Charles Fan is CEO and co-founder of MemVerge. Prior to MemVerge, Charles was the CTO of Cheetah Mobile leading its global technology teams, and an SVP/GM at VMware, founding the storage business unit that developed the Virtual SAN product. Charles also worked at EMC and was the founder of the EMC China R&D Center. Charles joined EMC via the acquisition of Rainfinity, where he was a co-founder and CTO. Charles received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union.

Dr. Charles Fan

CEO and Co-Founder
MemVerge

Dr. Charles Fan

CEO and Co-Founder
MemVerge

Charles Fan is CEO and co-founder of MemVerge. Prior to MemVerge, Charles was the CTO of Cheetah Mobile leading its global technology teams, and an SVP/GM at VMware, founding the storage business unit that developed the Virtual SAN product. Charles also worked at EMC and was the founder of the EMC China R&D Center. Charles joined EMC via the acquisition of Rainfinity, where he was a co-founder and CTO. Charles received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union.

 

Arvind Sujeeth

Senior Director of Software
SambaNova Systems

Arvind Sujeeth is Sr. Director of Software at SambaNova Systems. Arvind leads the compiler organization and is responsible for shaping the company’s software vision. Before joining SambaNova Systems, Arvind was the co-founder and chief technology officer of fintech startup mines.io, using machine learning to increase financial access in emerging markets. He was previously a research assistant at Stanford University, where he developed compilers for parallel and heterogeneous computing platforms.

Arvind Sujeeth

Senior Director of Software
SambaNova Systems

Arvind Sujeeth

Senior Director of Software
SambaNova Systems

Arvind Sujeeth is Sr. Director of Software at SambaNova Systems. Arvind leads the compiler organization and is responsible for shaping the company’s software vision. Before joining SambaNova Systems, Arvind was the co-founder and chief technology officer of fintech startup mines.io, using machine learning to increase financial access in emerging markets. He was previously a research assistant at Stanford University, where he developed compilers for parallel and heterogeneous computing platforms. Arvind holds a PhD and MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a BS in computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

 

Andrei Lopatenko

VP, Engineering & Head of Search and Conversational AI
Zillow

As Vice President of Engineering at Zillow Group, Andrei leads the teams responsible for the company’s search and discovery engines, including search science, development, infrastructure, and operations. As part of this role, he heads Zillow Group’s conversational AI efforts, which consist of initiatives around natural language processing platforms, speech analytics, call center AI, and conversational interfaces, with the goal of improving Zillow’s business and customer services using natural language processing and speech understanding. 

Andrei Lopatenko

VP, Engineering & Head of Search and Conversational AI
Zillow

Andrei Lopatenko

VP, Engineering & Head of Search and Conversational AI
Zillow

As Vice President of Engineering at Zillow Group, Andrei leads the teams responsible for the company’s search and discovery engines, including search science, development, infrastructure, and operations. As part of this role, he heads Zillow Group’s conversational AI efforts, which consist of initiatives around natural language processing platforms, speech analytics, call center AI, and conversational interfaces, with the goal of improving Zillow’s business and customer services using natural language processing and speech understanding. 

Before joining Zillow in 2019, Andrei led search science teams within eBay and Walmart. Prior to Walmart he worked at Google and Apple, serving as a core contributor to products like Google web search, Apple Maps, Apple’s AppStore, and iTunes search engines. He previously led engineering efforts for Recruit Holdings’ AI Lab. He sat on the advisory board of Ozlo, a Conversational AI startup acquired by Facebook in 2017. 

Andrei earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from The University of Manchester, United Kingdom and Master of Science Degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

 

Jeff Boudier

Product Director
Hugging Face

Jeff Boudier is a product director at Hugging Face, creator of Transformers, the leading open-source NLP library. Previously Jeff was a co-founder of Stupeflix, acquired by GoPro, where he served as director of Product Management, Product Marketing, Business Development and Corporate Development.

Jeff Boudier

Product Director
Hugging Face

Jeff Boudier

Product Director
Hugging Face

Jeff Boudier is a product director at Hugging Face, creator of Transformers, the leading open-source NLP library. Previously Jeff was a co-founder of Stupeflix, acquired by GoPro, where he served as director of Product Management, Product Marketing, Business Development and Corporate Development.

 

Sanjive Agarwala

Corporate Vice President and General Manager, IP Group
Cadence

Sanjive Agarwala

Corporate Vice President and General Manager, IP Group
Cadence

Sanjive Agarwala

Corporate Vice President and General Manager, IP Group
Cadence
 

Steve Scargall

Intel Optane Technical Specialist
Intel

Steve Scargall is a Persistent Memory Technical Sales Specialist at Intel® Corporation. He wrote the highly popular “Programming Persistent Memory: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers” book and is responsible for supporting the enabling and development effort to integrate persistent memory technology into software stacks, applications, and hardware architectures.

Steve Scargall

Intel Optane Technical Specialist
Intel

Steve Scargall

Intel Optane Technical Specialist
Intel

Steve Scargall is a Persistent Memory Technical Sales Specialist at Intel® Corporation. He wrote the highly popular “Programming Persistent Memory: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers” book and is responsible for supporting the enabling and development effort to integrate persistent memory technology into software stacks, applications, and hardware architectures. This includes Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) with both proprietary or open source development, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Steve received a B.Sc in Computer Science and Cybernetics from the University of Reading, UK where he studied Neural Networks, AI, and Robotics. He has over 19 years’ experience providing support and development of the Solaris Kernel, ZFS and UFS file systems, and Performance Analysis on x86 and SPARC using DTrace debugging in enterprise and cloud environments during his tenure at Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Steve now focuses on Optane persistent memory and SSD technology solutions.

 

Daniel Wu

Course Facilitator
Stanford University

Daniel Wu is a technical leader who brings more than 20 years of expertise in software engineering, AI/ML, and high-impact team development. He is the Head of Commercial Banking AI and Machine Learning at JPMorgan Chase where he drives financial service transformation through AI innovation. His diverse professional background also includes building point of care expert systems for physicians to improve quality of care, co-founding an online personal finance marketplace, and building an online real estate brokerage platform.

Daniel Wu

Course Facilitator
Stanford University

Daniel Wu

Course Facilitator
Stanford University

Daniel Wu is a technical leader who brings more than 20 years of expertise in software engineering, AI/ML, and high-impact team development. He is the Head of Commercial Banking AI and Machine Learning at JPMorgan Chase where he drives financial service transformation through AI innovation. His diverse professional background also includes building point of care expert systems for physicians to improve quality of care, co-founding an online personal finance marketplace, and building an online real estate brokerage platform.

Daniel is passionate about the democratization of technology and the ethical use of AI - a philosophy he shares in the computer science and AI/ML education programs he has contributed to over the years.

 

Shreyansh Daftry

Robotics Technologist
NASA

Shreyansh Daftry is a researcher, technologist and consultant in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Space Technology. He is interested in pushing the boundaries of technology with innovation in the fields of Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Autonomous Robotics - Drones, Self-Driving (or Flying) Cars, etc. His lifelong ambition is to promote both the exploration of space and improvement of sustainable living on Earth.

Shreyansh Daftry

Robotics Technologist
NASA

Shreyansh Daftry

Robotics Technologist
NASA

Shreyansh Daftry is a researcher, technologist and consultant in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Space Technology. He is interested in pushing the boundaries of technology with innovation in the fields of Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Autonomous Robotics - Drones, Self-Driving (or Flying) Cars, etc. His lifelong ambition is to promote both the exploration of space and improvement of sustainable living on Earth.

Shreyansh received his M.S. degree in AI and Robotics from School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University USA in 2016, and his B.S. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2013. Currently, he is a Research Scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, working on AI technologies for robotic exploration of Earth, Mars and beyond!

 

Bryan Catanzaro

VP, Applied Deep Learning Research
NVIDIA

Bryan Catanzaro is vice president of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, where he leads a team finding new ways to use AI to improve projects ranging from language understanding to computer graphics and chip design. Bryan's research at NVIDIA led to the creation of CUDNN, and more recently, he helped lead the team that invented DLSS 2.0. Prior to NVIDIA, he worked at Baidu to create next-generation systems for training and deploying end-to-end, deep learning-based speech recognition.

Bryan Catanzaro

VP, Applied Deep Learning Research
NVIDIA

Bryan Catanzaro

VP, Applied Deep Learning Research
NVIDIA

Bryan Catanzaro is vice president of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, where he leads a team finding new ways to use AI to improve projects ranging from language understanding to computer graphics and chip design. Bryan's research at NVIDIA led to the creation of CUDNN, and more recently, he helped lead the team that invented DLSS 2.0. Prior to NVIDIA, he worked at Baidu to create next-generation systems for training and deploying end-to-end, deep learning-based speech recognition. Bryan received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.

 

Thomas Andersen

VP, AI and Machine Learning
Synopsys

Dr. Andersen heads the artificial intelligence and machine learning design group at Synopsys, where he focuses on developing new technologies in the AI and ML space to automate the future of chip design. He has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and EDA industry. Dr. Andersen started his career at IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, followed by managing synthesis/place-and-route engineering at Magma Design Automation and Synopsys. He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Stuttgart and a Ph.D.

Thomas Andersen

VP, AI and Machine Learning
Synopsys

Thomas Andersen

VP, AI and Machine Learning
Synopsys

Dr. Andersen heads the artificial intelligence and machine learning design group at Synopsys, where he focuses on developing new technologies in the AI and ML space to automate the future of chip design. He has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and EDA industry. Dr. Andersen started his career at IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, followed by managing synthesis/place-and-route engineering at Magma Design Automation and Synopsys. He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Stuttgart and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany.

 

Christopher Aberger

Senior Director, Software Engineering
SambaNova Systems

Christopher Aberger is a senior director of software engineering at SambaNova Systems where he directs the machine learning team. Christopher works on efficient training algorithms for new and emerging hardware architectures. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University where he studied the intersection of graph, database, and machine learning systems; this work received a Best Of award at VLDB in 2016 and an invited TODS article in 2017.

Christopher Aberger

Senior Director, Software Engineering
SambaNova Systems

Christopher Aberger

Senior Director, Software Engineering
SambaNova Systems

Christopher Aberger is a senior director of software engineering at SambaNova Systems where he directs the machine learning team. Christopher works on efficient training algorithms for new and emerging hardware architectures. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University where he studied the intersection of graph, database, and machine learning systems; this work received a Best Of award at VLDB in 2016 and an invited TODS article in 2017.

 

David Kanter

Founder & Executive Director
MLCommons

David founded and leads MLCommons, to make machine learning better for everyone through benchmarks, such as MLPerf, and building datasets and tools for data-centric AI.

David Kanter

Founder & Executive Director
MLCommons

David Kanter

Founder & Executive Director
MLCommons

David founded and leads MLCommons, to make machine learning better for everyone through benchmarks, such as MLPerf, and building datasets and tools for data-centric AI.

The mission of MLCommons™ is to make machine learning better for everyone. Together with its 50+ founding Members and Affiliates, including startups, leading companies, academics, and non-profits from around the globe, MLCommons will help grow machine learning from a research field into a mature industry through benchmarks, public datasets and best practices. MLCommons firmly believes in the power of open-source and open data. Our software projects are generally available under the Apache 2.0 license and our datasets generally use CC-BY 4.0.

 

Eitan Medina

Chief Business Officer
Habana

Prior to Habana, Eitan Medina was the VP and GM of the Fingerprint Business Unit at TDK-InvenSense. Prior to the TDK acquisition he was VP of Marketing at InvenSense and VP of Engineering at Audience Inc. (acquired by Knowles).

Eitan Medina

Chief Business Officer
Habana

Eitan Medina

Chief Business Officer
Habana

Prior to Habana, Eitan Medina was the VP and GM of the Fingerprint Business Unit at TDK-InvenSense. Prior to the TDK acquisition he was VP of Marketing at InvenSense and VP of Engineering at Audience Inc. (acquired by Knowles).

 

Mike Vildibill

VP & GM, Cloud Edge AI
Qualcomm

Mike Vildibill

VP & GM, Cloud Edge AI
Qualcomm

Mike Vildibill

VP & GM, Cloud Edge AI
Qualcomm
 

Saurabh Kulkarni

Head of Engineering for North America
Graphcore

Saurabh Kulkarni is currently the Head of Engineering in North America at Graphcore. In his career spanning 20 years, he has held leadership positions at Intel, Microsoft and Oracle prior to his current role at Graphcore. His roles have spanned Computer Architecture, Server Platform Architecture, Cloud infrastructure design, Virtual Machine sizing for Microsoft Azure, HPC infrastructure in the cloud and more recently hardware accelerators and scale-out infrastructure for AI compute in the cloud.

Saurabh Kulkarni

Head of Engineering for North America
Graphcore

Saurabh Kulkarni

Head of Engineering for North America
Graphcore

Saurabh Kulkarni is currently the Head of Engineering in North America at Graphcore. In his career spanning 20 years, he has held leadership positions at Intel, Microsoft and Oracle prior to his current role at Graphcore. His roles have spanned Computer Architecture, Server Platform Architecture, Cloud infrastructure design, Virtual Machine sizing for Microsoft Azure, HPC infrastructure in the cloud and more recently hardware accelerators and scale-out infrastructure for AI compute in the cloud.

After graduating from the University of Minnesota, Saurabh started his career at Intel Corporation, where he initially worked on several generations of X86 CPUs for client and server market segments. Towards the later part of his time at Intel, he was a platform architect in the data center group driving customer focused innovation in the enterprise platform and firmware security areas.

In 2014, Saurabh joined Microsoft in the Azure Compute team focusing on the IaaS platform and infrastructure, with particular emphasis on scale-out architecture. He drove the server platform architecture and Virtual Machine (VM) sizing strategy for various Azure VM families across general purpose and accelerated computing use cases including HPC/AI workloads. In this capacity, one of his primary areas of focus was efficient architectures for disaggregated resource management for general purpose and accelerated compute.

Saurabh briefly worked at Oracle in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team working on cloud native services before joining Graphcore, where he currently is the Head of Engineering for North America. In his current role, he works closely with customers to understand their AI workload needs for training and inference with the objective to devise efficient, end-to-end solutions that can be either deployed on-prem, on public clouds or in a hybrid cloud setting. He is also involved in the architectural definition of the next generation of Graphcore IPUs and systems being designed to fulfil the demanding needs of future AI workloads at scale.

 

Ziad Asghar

Vice President, Snapdragon Roadmap Planning and AI, XR & Competitive Strategy
Qualcomm

Ziad Asghar is Vice President, Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc (QTI).  He leads Snapdragon roadmap planning and Application processor technologies, covering all QC product lines.  Ziad drives the definition of the products ensuring that our products lead in technology and enable best in class user experiences while making tradeoffs between features, power, performance and cost.

Ziad Asghar

Vice President, Snapdragon Roadmap Planning and AI, XR & Competitive Strategy
Qualcomm

Ziad Asghar

Vice President, Snapdragon Roadmap Planning and AI, XR & Competitive Strategy
Qualcomm

Ziad Asghar is Vice President, Product Management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc (QTI).  He leads Snapdragon roadmap planning and Application processor technologies, covering all QC product lines.  Ziad drives the definition of the products ensuring that our products lead in technology and enable best in class user experiences while making tradeoffs between features, power, performance and cost.  He also leads Application Processor technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Camera, Graphics, CPU, Audio, Video and Security.  He also has responsibility for Competitive Analysis.  Ziad works across all teams including engineering and product management to ensure that we have the leading roadmap in the industry and continue to set the standard on all application processor technologies.  He works across all business units including Mobile, Automotive, Compute, XR, Edge Cloud and IoT.

He has more than 20 years of experience in the wireless semiconductor industry where he has held a broad set of leadership positions from R&D to product management.  Prior to joining Qualcomm, Ziad was at Texas Instruments where he worked on systems design of UMTS & LTE and OMAP Product Management.  

Ziad holds an MBA from UCSD and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University and Southern Methodist University.

 

Andrew Grant

Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence
Imagination Technologies

Andrew Grant joined Imagination in 2018 as Senior Director of Business Development, responsible for strategic business development in AI and building the wider ecosystem of AI partnerships. Mr. Grant advises customers on the impact of new and emerging technologies and how best to utilise neural networks in edge devices.

Andrew Grant

Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence
Imagination Technologies

Andrew Grant

Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence
Imagination Technologies

Andrew Grant joined Imagination in 2018 as Senior Director of Business Development, responsible for strategic business development in AI and building the wider ecosystem of AI partnerships. Mr. Grant advises customers on the impact of new and emerging technologies and how best to utilise neural networks in edge devices.

Prior to working with Imagination Technologies, Mr. Grant was involved with spin-outs from UCL and CERN, chairing Satalia, an AI company based in London, for several years. He has also worked with UCL School of Management, WPP and has completed innovation projects on the Future of Automotive, Aviation, Retail and the IoT. At British Telecom he was a CIO and Marketing leader and he has also worked with Intel and HP.

Mr Grant has a particular interest in autonomous vehicles and ADAS and how AI can be used to create smarter IoT devices for vision, home and robotics use cases and is a frequent visitor to China and the ASEAN region

 

 

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.

Gayathri Radhakrishnan

Partner
Hitachi Ventures

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.

 

Cliff Young

Software Engineer
Google Brain

Cliff Young

Software Engineer
Google Brain

Cliff Young

Software Engineer
Google Brain
 

Dan McCreary

Distinguished Engineer in AI and Graph
Optum Technology

Dan is a distinguished engineer in AI working on innovative database architectures including document and graph databases. He has a strong background in semantics, ontologies, NLP and search. He is a hands-on architect and like to build his own pilot applications using new technologies. Dan started the NoSQL Now! Conference (now called the Database Now! Conferences). He also co-authored the book Making Sense of NoSQL, one of the highest rated books on Amazon on the topic of NoSQL. Dan worked at Bell Labs as a VLSI circuit designer where he worked with Brian Kernighan (of K&R C).

Dan McCreary

Distinguished Engineer in AI and Graph
Optum Technology

Dan McCreary

Distinguished Engineer in AI and Graph
Optum Technology

Dan is a distinguished engineer in AI working on innovative database architectures including document and graph databases. He has a strong background in semantics, ontologies, NLP and search. He is a hands-on architect and like to build his own pilot applications using new technologies. Dan started the NoSQL Now! Conference (now called the Database Now! Conferences). He also co-authored the book Making Sense of NoSQL, one of the highest rated books on Amazon on the topic of NoSQL. Dan worked at Bell Labs as a VLSI circuit designer where he worked with Brian Kernighan (of K&R C). Dan also worked with Steve Jobs at NeXT Computer.

 

Cyril Vancura

Partner
imec.xpand

Cyril Vancura is Partner at imec.xpand, an independently managed value-add venture capital fund that focuses on hardware-based nanotechnology innovations where imec technology, expertise, network and infrastructure will play a differentiating role. Based in Leuven, Belgium, Cyril is focusing predominantly on deeptech investment opportunities in Europe and the US. Before joining imec.xpand, Cyril was Investment Principal at Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC), the corporate venture arm of Robert Bosch GmbH.

Cyril Vancura

Partner
imec.xpand

Cyril Vancura

Partner
imec.xpand

Cyril Vancura is Partner at imec.xpand, an independently managed value-add venture capital fund that focuses on hardware-based nanotechnology innovations where imec technology, expertise, network and infrastructure will play a differentiating role. Based in Leuven, Belgium, Cyril is focusing predominantly on deeptech investment opportunities in Europe and the US. Before joining imec.xpand, Cyril was Investment Principal at Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC), the corporate venture arm of Robert Bosch GmbH. At RBVC he was based in Germany, as well as, in the affiliate office in Silicon Valley. Cyril holds a Ph.D. and a diploma (Master Degree) in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland.

 

Gordon Hirsch Wilson

CEO and Co-Founder
Rain Neuromorphics

Gordon Hirsch Wilson

CEO and Co-Founder
Rain Neuromorphics

Gordon Hirsch Wilson

CEO and Co-Founder
Rain Neuromorphics
 

Pulin Desai

Product Management Group Director
Cadence

Pulin Desai

Product Management Group Director
Cadence

Pulin Desai

Product Management Group Director
Cadence
 

Adam Abed

Product Marketing Director
Cadence

Adam Abed

Product Marketing Director
Cadence

Adam Abed

Product Marketing Director
Cadence
 

Dennis Abts

Chief Architect & Fellow
Groq

Dennis is an expert in scalable vector architectures for high-performance computing. Previously at Google, he worked on topologies for energy-proportional networking, and Cray, where he was a Sr. Principal Architect on several Top500 massively-parallel supercomputers. Dennis has published over 20 technical papers in areas of memory systems, interconnection networks, and fault-tolerant systems. He holds over two dozen patents spanning 20+ years of experience at Cray and Google.

Dennis Abts

Chief Architect & Fellow
Groq

Dennis Abts

Chief Architect & Fellow
Groq

Dennis is an expert in scalable vector architectures for high-performance computing. Previously at Google, he worked on topologies for energy-proportional networking, and Cray, where he was a Sr. Principal Architect on several Top500 massively-parallel supercomputers. Dennis has published over 20 technical papers in areas of memory systems, interconnection networks, and fault-tolerant systems. He holds over two dozen patents spanning 20+ years of experience at Cray and Google. Dennis holds a PhD in Computer Architecture from the University of Minnesota and is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM Computer Society.

 

Brandon Wang

Corporate Strategic Programs & New Ventures
Synopsys

Brandon Wang is a Vice President at Synopsys, overseeing corporate level growth strategies, including M&A, business and research partnerships, and new ventures. Prior to that, he served various senior management roles across strategy, marketing, solution engineering and R&D at Cadence and Arm.  An Electrical and Computer Engineer by training, Brandon holds 10 patents, and has published at 20+ IEEE conferences, in journal papers and invited talks; He also has an MBA degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Brandon Wang

Corporate Strategic Programs & New Ventures
Synopsys

Brandon Wang

Corporate Strategic Programs & New Ventures
Synopsys

Brandon Wang is a Vice President at Synopsys, overseeing corporate level growth strategies, including M&A, business and research partnerships, and new ventures. Prior to that, he served various senior management roles across strategy, marketing, solution engineering and R&D at Cadence and Arm.  An Electrical and Computer Engineer by training, Brandon holds 10 patents, and has published at 20+ IEEE conferences, in journal papers and invited talks; He also has an MBA degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

 

John Min

Director of AE
Andes Technology

John Min is the Director of Field Applications Engineering for North America at Andes.  John has been working for processor companies in the Silicon Valley for past 30 years with companies including at Hewlett Packard, LG, ARC, MIPS and SiFive.  He brings wealth of information on Architecture  of processors, IP and high performance processing.  John specializes in balancing the Power, Area and Performance to yield optimized SoC.  John is a graduate of University of Southern California with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering.

John Min

Director of AE
Andes Technology

John Min

Director of AE
Andes Technology

John Min is the Director of Field Applications Engineering for North America at Andes.  John has been working for processor companies in the Silicon Valley for past 30 years with companies including at Hewlett Packard, LG, ARC, MIPS and SiFive.  He brings wealth of information on Architecture  of processors, IP and high performance processing.  John specializes in balancing the Power, Area and Performance to yield optimized SoC.  John is a graduate of University of Southern California with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering.

 

Thang Tran

Principal Architect
Andes Technology

Dr. Thang Tran, Principal Architect of Andes Technology Corp. and veteran of many high-performance computing (HPC) designs. Dr. Tran has engineered innovative CPUs at Intel, AMD, Freescale, TI, Analog Devices among others. His doctoral thesis at the University of Texas at Austin from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department was on Superscalar Microprocessor Architecture with Multi-Bit Scoreboard Technique.

Thang Tran

Principal Architect
Andes Technology

Thang Tran

Principal Architect
Andes Technology

Dr. Thang Tran, Principal Architect of Andes Technology Corp. and veteran of many high-performance computing (HPC) designs. Dr. Tran has engineered innovative CPUs at Intel, AMD, Freescale, TI, Analog Devices among others. His doctoral thesis at the University of Texas at Austin from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department was on Superscalar Microprocessor Architecture with Multi-Bit Scoreboard Technique.

 

Matthew Burns

Technical Marketing Manager
Samtec

Matthew Burns develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon to Silicon solutions. Over the course of 20+ years, he has been a leader in design, technical sales and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries. Mr. Burns holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University.

Matthew Burns

Technical Marketing Manager
Samtec

Matthew Burns

Technical Marketing Manager
Samtec

Matthew Burns develops go-to-market strategies for Samtec’s Silicon to Silicon solutions. Over the course of 20+ years, he has been a leader in design, technical sales and marketing in the telecommunications, medical and electronic components industries. Mr. Burns holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University.

 

Jian Zhang

Engineering Manager and Senior Principle Engineer
SambaNova Systems

Jian Zhang

Engineering Manager and Senior Principle Engineer
SambaNova Systems

Jian Zhang

Engineering Manager and Senior Principle Engineer
SambaNova Systems
 

Romano Hoofman

Program Director
imec

Romano Hoofman is Program Director at imec.IC-link since 2016. He is currently responsible for the innovation programs of the unit and for the coordination of the EUROPRACTICE Service.

He started his career in industry, where he worked as a Principal Scientist at Philips Research and later on NXP Semiconductors. He covered many different R&D topics, ranging from CMOS integration, advanced packaging, thin film batteries, photovoltaics and (bio)sensors.

Romano Hoofman

Program Director
imec

Romano Hoofman

Program Director
imec

Romano Hoofman is Program Director at imec.IC-link since 2016. He is currently responsible for the innovation programs of the unit and for the coordination of the EUROPRACTICE Service.

He started his career in industry, where he worked as a Principal Scientist at Philips Research and later on NXP Semiconductors. He covered many different R&D topics, ranging from CMOS integration, advanced packaging, thin film batteries, photovoltaics and (bio)sensors.

Romano received his PhD from the Technical University of Delft in 2000, where he investigated charge transport in semi-conducting polymers. He has authored more than 30 publications and holds more than 10 patents in various research areas.

 

Sree Ganesan

Head of Software Products
Habana Labs

Sree Ganesan leads Software Product Management at Habana Labs, working alongside a diverse global team to deliver 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.  Ms. Ganesan joined Intel in 2001 and has held a variety of technical and management roles in software engineering, VLSI CAD and SOC design methodology. Ms.

Sree Ganesan

Head of Software Products
Habana Labs

Sree Ganesan

Head of Software Products
Habana Labs

Sree Ganesan leads Software Product Management at Habana Labs, working alongside a diverse global team to deliver 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.  Ms. Ganesan joined Intel in 2001 and has held a variety of technical and management roles in software engineering, VLSI CAD and SOC design methodology. Ms. Ganesan received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India and a PhD in computer engineering from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

 

Moshe Tanach

Co-Founder & CEO
NeuReality

Moshe Tanach

Co-Founder & CEO
NeuReality

Moshe Tanach

Co-Founder & CEO
NeuReality
 

Naveen Rao

CEO
Stealth Start-Up

Naveen Rao is corporate vice president and general manager of the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel Corporation.

Naveen Rao

CEO
Stealth Start-Up

Naveen Rao

CEO
Stealth Start-Up

Naveen Rao is corporate vice president and general manager of the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel Corporation.

Trained as both a computer architect and neuroscientist, Dr. Rao joined Intel in 2016 with the acquisition of Nervana Systems. As chief executive officer and co-founder of Nervana, he led the company to become a recognized leader in the deep learning field. Before founding Nervana in 2014, Rao was a neuromorphic machines researcher at Qualcomm Inc., where he focused on neural computation and learning in artificial systems. Rao’s earlier career included engineering roles at Kealia Inc., CALY Networks and Sun Microsystems Inc.

Rao earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Duke University, then spent a decade as a computer architect before going on to earn a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Brown University

 

Ty Garibay

VP of Engineering
Mythic

Ty is currently the VP of Engineering at Mythic, where he is leading the development of the first neural network accelerator based on analog computation. Previously, he was CTO at Arteris IP and led IC design teams at Intel/Altera, TI and ARM.  In days past, Ty participated in the development of microprocessors and SoCs at ARM, MIPS, Motorola, Cyrix and Alchemy.  Ty has more than 30 US patents granted. 

Ty Garibay

VP of Engineering
Mythic

Ty Garibay

VP of Engineering
Mythic

Ty is currently the VP of Engineering at Mythic, where he is leading the development of the first neural network accelerator based on analog computation. Previously, he was CTO at Arteris IP and led IC design teams at Intel/Altera, TI and ARM.  In days past, Ty participated in the development of microprocessors and SoCs at ARM, MIPS, Motorola, Cyrix and Alchemy.  Ty has more than 30 US patents granted. 

 

Anil Mankar

Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder
BrainChip

Anil Mankar has spent 30 years developing products in the semiconductor industry. At Western Digital, Mr. Mankar developed PC core Logic chipsets. During his years at Conexant Systems Inc. in the position of VP of Engineering, he developed multiple products across industry segments and later became the company's Chief Development Officer overseeing all product development for V92 Modem, DSL, Set-top boxes, PC audio and video 'System on a Chip' products. Mr. Mankar was SVP of VLSI Engineering at Mindspeed Technologies, responsible for Wireless and VOIP infrastructure product development.

Anil Mankar

Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder
BrainChip

Anil Mankar

Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder
BrainChip

Anil Mankar has spent 30 years developing products in the semiconductor industry. At Western Digital, Mr. Mankar developed PC core Logic chipsets. During his years at Conexant Systems Inc. in the position of VP of Engineering, he developed multiple products across industry segments and later became the company's Chief Development Officer overseeing all product development for V92 Modem, DSL, Set-top boxes, PC audio and video 'System on a Chip' products. Mr. Mankar was SVP of VLSI Engineering at Mindspeed Technologies, responsible for Wireless and VOIP infrastructure product development.

 

Andres Rodriguez

Senior Principal Engineer AI
Intel

Andres Rodriguez is a Sr. Principal Engineer and AI Architect in the Data Platform Group at Intel Corporation where he designs deep learning solutions for Intel's customers and provides technical leadership across Intel for deep learning hardware and software products. He has 15 years of experience working in AI. Andres received a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University for his research in machine learning. He was the lead instructor in the Coursera course An Introduction to Practical Deep Learning to over 20 thousand students.

Andres Rodriguez

Senior Principal Engineer AI
Intel

Andres Rodriguez

Senior Principal Engineer AI
Intel

Andres Rodriguez is a Sr. Principal Engineer and AI Architect in the Data Platform Group at Intel Corporation where he designs deep learning solutions for Intel's customers and provides technical leadership across Intel for deep learning hardware and software products. He has 15 years of experience working in AI. Andres received a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University for his research in machine learning. He was the lead instructor in the Coursera course An Introduction to Practical Deep Learning to over 20 thousand students. He has been an invited speaker at several AI events, including AI with the Best, ICML, CVPR, AI Frontiers Conference, Re-Work Deep Learning Summit, TWIML, Startup MLConf, Open Compute Platform Global Summit, AWS re:Invent, Baidu World, Baidu Cloud ABC Inspire Summit, Google Cloud OnAir Webinar, and several Intel events, as well as an invited lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley.

 

Kavitha Prasad

VP Business Development and Systems Applications
SiMa.ai

Kavitha Prasad is the Vice President of Business Development and Systems Applications at SiMa.ai. Through close collaboration with customers and partners, Kavitha is responsible for defining the system-level architecture for SiMa.ai's machine learning SoC. She is a technology leader with over 22 years of experience in delivering multiple successful products in ASICs, SoCs, FPGAs, and servers across multiple process nodes.

Kavitha Prasad

VP Business Development and Systems Applications
SiMa.ai

Kavitha Prasad

VP Business Development and Systems Applications
SiMa.ai

Kavitha Prasad is the Vice President of Business Development and Systems Applications at SiMa.ai. Through close collaboration with customers and partners, Kavitha is responsible for defining the system-level architecture for SiMa.ai's machine learning SoC. She is a technology leader with over 22 years of experience in delivering multiple successful products in ASICs, SoCs, FPGAs, and servers across multiple process nodes. Prior to SiMa.ai, Kavitha was responsible for system solutions across embedded market segments for the Intel Platform Solutions Group, among other positions at Intel. Prior to Intel she held multiple technology roles at Xilinx and Philips. Kavitha holds a Master of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from San Jose State University.

 

Rangan Sukumar

Distinguished Technologist
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Rangan Sukumar is a data science/artificial intelligence architect. He is a Distinguished Technologist in the Chief Technology Office at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Prior to that, he was a scientist and a Group Leader responsible for knowledge discovery/data science workflows on the world’s fastest supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Rangan Sukumar

Distinguished Technologist
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Rangan Sukumar

Distinguished Technologist
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Rangan Sukumar is a data science/artificial intelligence architect. He is a Distinguished Technologist in the Chief Technology Office at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Prior to that, he was a scientist and a Group Leader responsible for knowledge discovery/data science workflows on the world’s fastest supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has a PhD in artificial intelligence and over 70 publications in areas of disparate data collection, organization, processing, integration, fusion, analysis and inference - applied to a wide variety of domains such as drug discovery, autonomous cars/robotics, education, social network analysis, electric grid modernization and public policy.

 

Suhas Mitra

Product Marketing Director
Cadence

Suhas Mitra is Director AIML Product Management and Marketing in Cadence Design Systems. His interests are in Deep Learning Hardware-Software co-design, Embedded Systems and Edge Computing. He holds a MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Masters in Business Administration. Currently he drives the Deep Learning Neural Accelerator (DNA) product line in Cadence Design Systems.

Suhas Mitra

Product Marketing Director
Cadence

Suhas Mitra

Product Marketing Director
Cadence

Suhas Mitra is Director AIML Product Management and Marketing in Cadence Design Systems. His interests are in Deep Learning Hardware-Software co-design, Embedded Systems and Edge Computing. He holds a MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Masters in Business Administration. Currently he drives the Deep Learning Neural Accelerator (DNA) product line in Cadence Design Systems.

 

Ron Lowman

AI Strategic Marketing Manager
Synopsys

Ron Lowman joined Synopsys in 2014 and is currently the AI Strategic Marketing Manager for the Solutions Group. Ron is responsible for driving Synopsys’ Artificial Intelligence market IP initiatives, including strategic business and market trend analysis.

Prior to joining Synopsys, Lowman spent 16 years at Motorola/Freescale in Controls Engineering, Automotive Product & Test Engineering, Product Management, Business Development, Operations, and Strategy Roles.

Ron Lowman

AI Strategic Marketing Manager
Synopsys

Ron Lowman

AI Strategic Marketing Manager
Synopsys

Ron Lowman joined Synopsys in 2014 and is currently the AI Strategic Marketing Manager for the Solutions Group. Ron is responsible for driving Synopsys’ Artificial Intelligence market IP initiatives, including strategic business and market trend analysis.

Prior to joining Synopsys, Lowman spent 16 years at Motorola/Freescale in Controls Engineering, Automotive Product & Test Engineering, Product Management, Business Development, Operations, and Strategy Roles.

Ron holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines and an MBA from the University of Texas in Austin.

 

Dave Barker

VP Digital Design
Luminous Computing

Dave Barker

VP Digital Design
Luminous Computing

Dave Barker

VP Digital Design
Luminous Computing
 

Peter Carson

Solutions Marketing Leader
Marvell

Mr. Carson leads solutions marketing for Marvell, focused on the company's 5G, cloud data center, enterprise and automotive markets. Prior to Marvell, he served as vice president global marketing for Pixelworks and held senior technical marketing and business development roles at Qualcomm, as well as at Flarion Technologies, where he was a member of the founding executive team and led the formation of the IEEE 802.20 standards working group. Earlier, Mr.

Peter Carson

Solutions Marketing Leader
Marvell

Peter Carson

Solutions Marketing Leader
Marvell

Mr. Carson leads solutions marketing for Marvell, focused on the company's 5G, cloud data center, enterprise and automotive markets. Prior to Marvell, he served as vice president global marketing for Pixelworks and held senior technical marketing and business development roles at Qualcomm, as well as at Flarion Technologies, where he was a member of the founding executive team and led the formation of the IEEE 802.20 standards working group. Earlier, Mr. Carson held domestic and overseas leadership roles at ArrayComm, ADC Telecommunications and Verizon Wireless, where he co-founded debitel AG, one of Europe’s largest largest MVNOs. 

 

Jeremy Roberson

Director of Inference Software
FlexLogix

Director of Inference Software at Flex Logix. Jeremy earned his BSEE, MSEE, and PhD EE degrees from UC Davis specializing in Signal Processing Algorithms. Jeremy has worked on algorithms and hardware accelerator architectures for machine learning and signal processing in domains such as automatic speech recognition, object detection for biomedicine, capacitive sensing systems, and more. He has several patents and publications within these areas. He has spent the last 6 years working on inference SW for AI accelerators, first at Intel, and now at Flex Logix. 

Jeremy Roberson

Director of Inference Software
FlexLogix

Jeremy Roberson

Director of Inference Software
FlexLogix

Director of Inference Software at Flex Logix. Jeremy earned his BSEE, MSEE, and PhD EE degrees from UC Davis specializing in Signal Processing Algorithms. Jeremy has worked on algorithms and hardware accelerator architectures for machine learning and signal processing in domains such as automatic speech recognition, object detection for biomedicine, capacitive sensing systems, and more. He has several patents and publications within these areas. He has spent the last 6 years working on inference SW for AI accelerators, first at Intel, and now at Flex Logix. 

 

Arvind Krishnamurthy

Short-Dooley Professor, Paul G Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington

Arvind Krishnamurthy is the Short-Dooley Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. His research interests span all aspects of building effective and robust computer systems, in the context of both data centers and Internet-scale systems. More recently, his research has focused on programmable networks and systems for machine learning. He is an ACM fellow, a past program chair of ACM SIGCOMM and Usenix NSDI and serves on their technical steering committees, is the Vice President of Usenix, and serves on the ICSI and CRA boards.

Arvind Krishnamurthy

Short-Dooley Professor, Paul G Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington

Arvind Krishnamurthy

Short-Dooley Professor, Paul G Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington

Arvind Krishnamurthy is the Short-Dooley Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. His research interests span all aspects of building effective and robust computer systems, in the context of both data centers and Internet-scale systems. More recently, his research has focused on programmable networks and systems for machine learning. He is an ACM fellow, a past program chair of ACM SIGCOMM and Usenix NSDI and serves on their technical steering committees, is the Vice President of Usenix, and serves on the ICSI and CRA boards.

 

Derek Chickles

Machine Learning Software Group Leader
Marvell

Derek Chickles leads the machine learning software group at Marvell developing the toolchain, runtime drivers, and Marvell DPU-optimized models all co-designed with Marvell hardware. Outside of ML, his past work also includes development of Marvell’s LiquidIO™ SmartNIC platform. He earned his BS degree in Computer Science from University of Colorado at Boulder. 

Derek Chickles

Machine Learning Software Group Leader
Marvell

Derek Chickles

Machine Learning Software Group Leader
Marvell

Derek Chickles leads the machine learning software group at Marvell developing the toolchain, runtime drivers, and Marvell DPU-optimized models all co-designed with Marvell hardware. Outside of ML, his past work also includes development of Marvell’s LiquidIO™ SmartNIC platform. He earned his BS degree in Computer Science from University of Colorado at Boulder. 

 

Christina Day

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Enterprise SSDs
Samsung Semiconductor Inc.

Christina Day as a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Samsung Semiconductor focuses her attention on the forces and behaviors that are driving NAND and Enterprise SSD demands.  Christina works tightly with cross functional teams and partners to educate them on market trends, ensuring forward looking plans are strategically implemented for enterprise server and storage platforms.  Her extensive experience and storage background help shape decisions internally and externally.  Christina has tapped into the software industry but forces of nature always seem to pull her back to storage.  

Christina Day

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Enterprise SSDs
Samsung Semiconductor Inc.

Christina Day

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Enterprise SSDs
Samsung Semiconductor Inc.

Christina Day as a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Samsung Semiconductor focuses her attention on the forces and behaviors that are driving NAND and Enterprise SSD demands.  Christina works tightly with cross functional teams and partners to educate them on market trends, ensuring forward looking plans are strategically implemented for enterprise server and storage platforms.  Her extensive experience and storage background help shape decisions internally and externally.  Christina has tapped into the software industry but forces of nature always seem to pull her back to storage.  

 

Frank Berry

VP Marketing
Memverge

Frank Berry is VP of Marketing at MemVerge. Before joining MemVerge, Frank was founder and senior analyst at IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source of testing, research and analysis covering data center infrastructure. Frank is also founder and publisher of awsdailynews.com. Prior to founding IT Brand Pulse, Frank was vice-president of corporate marketing for networking company QLogic, and vice president of marketing for storage company Quantum. 

Frank Berry

VP Marketing
Memverge

Frank Berry

VP Marketing
Memverge

Frank Berry is VP of Marketing at MemVerge. Before joining MemVerge, Frank was founder and senior analyst at IT Brand Pulse, a trusted source of testing, research and analysis covering data center infrastructure. Frank is also founder and publisher of awsdailynews.com. Prior to founding IT Brand Pulse, Frank was vice-president of corporate marketing for networking company QLogic, and vice president of marketing for storage company Quantum. 

 

David Kucher

Senior Principal Engineer
SambaNova Systems

David is a Software Engineer on the machine learning (ML) team at SambaNova, where he researches, implements, and trains state-of-the-art computer vision models on a variety of vision-related tasks. David is interested in efficient training of ML models, and creating software systems for ML. David completed his Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Bachelors in Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan.

David Kucher

Senior Principal Engineer
SambaNova Systems

David Kucher

Senior Principal Engineer
SambaNova Systems

David is a Software Engineer on the machine learning (ML) team at SambaNova, where he researches, implements, and trains state-of-the-art computer vision models on a variety of vision-related tasks. David is interested in efficient training of ML models, and creating software systems for ML. David completed his Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Bachelors in Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan.

 

Lata Jindal

Software Engineer
SambaNova Systems

Lata Jindal is a senior principal engineer at Sambanova systems who firmly believes AI will change the way we work and live in next 10 years. She is a seasoned professional whose work has spanned chip designs, systems and software. Before Sambanova, she has been a director at Intel and Oracle. She holds a masters in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi.

Lata Jindal

Software Engineer
SambaNova Systems

Lata Jindal

Software Engineer
SambaNova Systems

Lata Jindal is a senior principal engineer at Sambanova systems who firmly believes AI will change the way we work and live in next 10 years. She is a seasoned professional whose work has spanned chip designs, systems and software. Before Sambanova, she has been a director at Intel and Oracle. She holds a masters in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi.

 

Adam Wang

Software Engineer
SambaNova Systems

Adam is a Software Engineer at SambaNova and is passionate about integrating AI with other fields to provide better services. He worked at ASUS Intelligence Cloud Service Center and has experience in developing applications with AI. He holds a master's in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Adam Wang

Software Engineer
SambaNova Systems

Adam Wang

Software Engineer
SambaNova Systems

Adam is a Software Engineer at SambaNova and is passionate about integrating AI with other fields to provide better services. He worked at ASUS Intelligence Cloud Service Center and has experience in developing applications with AI. He holds a master's in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

 

Kent Orthner

Vice President,
Achronix

Kent Orthner has worked in the IP, semiconductor, and embedded industry for over 20 years, with a focus on all aspects of interconnect, IP interoperability, and FPGA design.  Prior to joining Achronix, Kent was the Vice President of Engineering at Arteris, where he developed and released the highly scalable and configurable Ncore cache-coherent SoC interconnect IP.  Before that, Kent worked at Altera for 11 years, where he led the development of the Qsys System Integration platform and the SystemConsole debug infrastructure.  At Achronix, Kent contributes to leading-edge FPGA architecture a

Kent Orthner

Vice President,
Achronix

Kent Orthner

Vice President,
Achronix

Kent Orthner has worked in the IP, semiconductor, and embedded industry for over 20 years, with a focus on all aspects of interconnect, IP interoperability, and FPGA design.  Prior to joining Achronix, Kent was the Vice President of Engineering at Arteris, where he developed and released the highly scalable and configurable Ncore cache-coherent SoC interconnect IP.  Before that, Kent worked at Altera for 11 years, where he led the development of the Qsys System Integration platform and the SystemConsole debug infrastructure.  At Achronix, Kent contributes to leading-edge FPGA architecture and SoC integration.  Kent holds a B.A.Sc. from the University of Ottawa, and a M.Eng from Carleton University, in Computer and Electrical Engineering, respectively.

 

Tien Shiah

Senior Manager, Marketing
Samsung

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.

Tien Shiah

Senior Manager, Marketing
Samsung

Tien Shiah

Senior Manager, Marketing
Samsung

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.

 

Young Paik

Senior Director, Product Planning, PP/BB (NAND) - Storage Pathfinding
Samsung Semiconductor Inc.

Young Paik is a Senior Director in Product Planning at Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. He works with a variety of flash and DRAM technologies that are focused on Artificial Intelligence and Business Intelligence. Young’s current responsibilities are in new use cases that push the limits of the boundaries of modern hardware and software. He has a long history working for Silicon Valley startups, specializing in technologies related to: databases, numerical and legal analytics, data visualization, cloud, and data centers.

Young Paik

Senior Director, Product Planning, PP/BB (NAND) - Storage Pathfinding
Samsung Semiconductor Inc.

Young Paik

Senior Director, Product Planning, PP/BB (NAND) - Storage Pathfinding
Samsung Semiconductor Inc.

Young Paik is a Senior Director in Product Planning at Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. He works with a variety of flash and DRAM technologies that are focused on Artificial Intelligence and Business Intelligence. Young’s current responsibilities are in new use cases that push the limits of the boundaries of modern hardware and software. He has a long history working for Silicon Valley startups, specializing in technologies related to: databases, numerical and legal analytics, data visualization, cloud, and data centers.

Young earned Bachelor’s degrees in both physics and math at the University of California at Irvine, and attended graduate school in astronomy at the University of California at Berkeley where he studied supernovae.

 

Sarah Peach

Senior Director, Memory Manager
Samsung

Sarah Peach manages new product introduction for Samsung’s US memory business.

Sarah Peach

Senior Director, Memory Manager
Samsung

Sarah Peach

Senior Director, Memory Manager
Samsung

Sarah Peach manages new product introduction for Samsung’s US memory business.

 

Saurabh Kulkarni

Head of Engineering for North America
Graphcore

Saurabh Kulkarni is currently the Head of Engineering in North America at Graphcore. In his career spanning 20 years, he has held leadership positions at Intel, Microsoft and Oracle prior to his current role at Graphcore. His roles have spanned Computer Architecture, Server Platform Architecture, Cloud infrastructure design, Virtual Machine sizing for Microsoft Azure, HPC infrastructure in the cloud and more recently hardware accelerators and scale-out infrastructure for AI compute in the cloud.

Saurabh Kulkarni

Head of Engineering for North America
Graphcore

Saurabh Kulkarni

Head of Engineering for North America
Graphcore

Saurabh Kulkarni is currently the Head of Engineering in North America at Graphcore. In his career spanning 20 years, he has held leadership positions at Intel, Microsoft and Oracle prior to his current role at Graphcore. His roles have spanned Computer Architecture, Server Platform Architecture, Cloud infrastructure design, Virtual Machine sizing for Microsoft Azure, HPC infrastructure in the cloud and more recently hardware accelerators and scale-out infrastructure for AI compute in the cloud.

After graduating from the University of Minnesota, Saurabh started his career at Intel Corporation, where he initially worked on several generations of X86 CPUs for client and server market segments. Towards the later part of his time at Intel, he was a platform architect in the data center group driving customer focused innovation in the enterprise platform and firmware security areas.

In 2014, Saurabh joined Microsoft in the Azure Compute team focusing on the IaaS platform and infrastructure, with particular emphasis on scale-out architecture. He drove the server platform architecture and Virtual Machine (VM) sizing strategy for various Azure VM families across general purpose and accelerated computing use cases including HPC/AI workloads. In this capacity, one of his primary areas of focus was efficient architectures for disaggregated resource management for general purpose and accelerated compute.

Saurabh briefly worked at Oracle in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team working on cloud native services before joining Graphcore, where he currently is the Head of Engineering for North America. In his current role, he works closely with customers to understand their AI workload needs for training and inference with the objective to devise efficient, end-to-end solutions that can be either deployed on-prem, on public clouds or in a hybrid cloud setting. He is also involved in the architectural definition of the next generation of Graphcore IPUs and systems being designed to fulfil the demanding needs of future AI workloads at scale.

 

Joshua Saxe

Chief Scientist
Sophos

Joshua Saxe is Chief Scientist at Sophos, where he manages the Sophos AI team, and provides strategic leadership for the company’s research and development efforts.  Before joining Sophos, Joshua was Chief Data Scientist at Invincea, where he led the development of machine learning systems for analyzing, detecting and blocking malware executables and malicious behavior, and was Principal Investigator on multiple DARPA funded efforts focused on applying machine learning and data visualization to the federal government’s cybersecurity challenges.  He is the author, with Hillary Sanders, of th

Joshua Saxe

Chief Scientist
Sophos

Joshua Saxe

Chief Scientist
Sophos

Joshua Saxe is Chief Scientist at Sophos, where he manages the Sophos AI team, and provides strategic leadership for the company’s research and development efforts.  Before joining Sophos, Joshua was Chief Data Scientist at Invincea, where he led the development of machine learning systems for analyzing, detecting and blocking malware executables and malicious behavior, and was Principal Investigator on multiple DARPA funded efforts focused on applying machine learning and data visualization to the federal government’s cybersecurity challenges.  He is the author, with Hillary Sanders, of the book Malware Data Science, from No Starch Press, and an author on multiple patents and peer-reviewed security machine learning papers.

 

Frank Ferro

Senior Director, Product Management
Rambus

Frank Ferro

Senior Director, Product Management
Rambus

Frank Ferro

Senior Director, Product Management
Rambus

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Author:

Andrew Feldman

Co-Founder & CEO
Cerebras Systems

Andrew Feldman is co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. He is an entrepreneur dedicated to pushing boundaries in the compute space. Prior to Cerebras, he co-founded and was CEO of SeaMicro, a pioneer of energy-efficient, high-bandwidth microservers. SeaMicro was acquired by AMD in 2012 for $357M. Before SeaMicro, Andrew was the Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and BD at Force10 Networks which was later sold to Dell Computing for $800M. Prior to Force10 Networks, Andrew was the Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at RiverStone Networks from the company’s inception through IPO in 2001. Andrew holds a BA and an MBA from Stanford University.

 

Andrew Feldman

Co-Founder & CEO
Cerebras Systems

Andrew Feldman is co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. He is an entrepreneur dedicated to pushing boundaries in the compute space. Prior to Cerebras, he co-founded and was CEO of SeaMicro, a pioneer of energy-efficient, high-bandwidth microservers. SeaMicro was acquired by AMD in 2012 for $357M. Before SeaMicro, Andrew was the Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and BD at Force10 Networks which was later sold to Dell Computing for $800M. Prior to Force10 Networks, Andrew was the Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at RiverStone Networks from the company’s inception through IPO in 2001. Andrew holds a BA and an MBA from Stanford University.

 

Author:

Lip-Bu Tan

Chairman & Founder
Walden International

Lip-Bu Tan is Founder and Chairman of Walden International (“WI”), and Founding Managing Partner of Celesta Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures, with over $5 billion under management.  He formerly served as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of Cadence Design Systems, Inc.  He currently serves on the Board of Schneider Electric SE (SU: FP), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), and Credo Semiconductor (NASDAQ: CRDO).

 

Lip-Bu focuses on semiconductor/components, cloud/edge infrastructure, data management and security, and AI/machine learning.Lip-Bu received his B.S. from Nanyang University in Singapore, his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his MBA from the University of San Francisco. He also received his honorary degree for Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of San Francisco.  Lip-Bu currently serves on Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)’s Board of Trustees and the School of Engineering Dean’s Council, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s School of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council, University of California Berkeley (UCB)’s College of Engineering Advisory Board and their Computing, Data Science, and Society Advisory Board, and University of California San Francisco (UCSF)’s Executive Council. He’s also a member of the Global Advisory Board of METI Japan, The Business Council, and Committee 100. He also served on the board of the Board of Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) from 2009 to 2021, and as a Trustee of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore from 2006 to 2011.  Lip-Bu has been named one of the Top 10 Venture Capitalists in China by Zero2ipo and was listed as one of the Top 50 Venture Capitalists on the Forbes Midas List. He’s the recipient of imec’s 2023 Lifetime of Innovation Award, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) 2022 Robert N. Noyce Award, and GSA’s 2016 Dr. Morris Chang's Exemplary Leadership Award.  In 2017, he was ranked #1 of the most well-connected executives in the technology industry by the analytics firm Relationship Science. 

Lip-Bu Tan

Chairman & Founder
Walden International

Lip-Bu Tan is Founder and Chairman of Walden International (“WI”), and Founding Managing Partner of Celesta Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures, with over $5 billion under management.  He formerly served as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of Cadence Design Systems, Inc.  He currently serves on the Board of Schneider Electric SE (SU: FP), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), and Credo Semiconductor (NASDAQ: CRDO).

 

Lip-Bu focuses on semiconductor/components, cloud/edge infrastructure, data management and security, and AI/machine learning.Lip-Bu received his B.S. from Nanyang University in Singapore, his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his MBA from the University of San Francisco. He also received his honorary degree for Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of San Francisco.  Lip-Bu currently serves on Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)’s Board of Trustees and the School of Engineering Dean’s Council, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s School of Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council, University of California Berkeley (UCB)’s College of Engineering Advisory Board and their Computing, Data Science, and Society Advisory Board, and University of California San Francisco (UCSF)’s Executive Council. He’s also a member of the Global Advisory Board of METI Japan, The Business Council, and Committee 100. He also served on the board of the Board of Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) from 2009 to 2021, and as a Trustee of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore from 2006 to 2011.  Lip-Bu has been named one of the Top 10 Venture Capitalists in China by Zero2ipo and was listed as one of the Top 50 Venture Capitalists on the Forbes Midas List. He’s the recipient of imec’s 2023 Lifetime of Innovation Award, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) 2022 Robert N. Noyce Award, and GSA’s 2016 Dr. Morris Chang's Exemplary Leadership Award.  In 2017, he was ranked #1 of the most well-connected executives in the technology industry by the analytics firm Relationship Science. 

Author:

Rashmi Gopinath

General Partner
B Capital

Rashmi Gopinath is a General Partner at B Capital Group where she leads the fund’s enterprise software practice in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, devops, and AI/ML sectors. She brings over two decades of experience investing and operating in cutting-edge enterprise technologies. She led B Capital’s investments in over 24 companies such as DataRobot, FalconX, Clari, Phenom People, Synack, Innovaccer, Labelbox, Fabric, 6Sense, Highspot, Pendo, Starburst, OwnBackup, Figment, Perimeter81, Zesty, among others.

Rashmi was previously a Managing Director at M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, where she led investments globally in enterprise software and sat on several boards including Synack, Innovaccer, Contrast Security, Frame, UnravelData, Incorta, among others.

Prior to M12, Rashmi was an Investment Director with Intel Capital where she was involved in the firm’s investments in startups including MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB), ForeScout (Nasdaq: FSCT), Maginatics (acq. by EMC), BlueData (acq. by HPE), among others. Rashmi held operating roles at high-growth startups such as BlueData (acq. by HPE) and Couchbase (Nasdaq: BASE) where she led global business development, product and marketing roles. She began her career in engineering and product roles at Oracle and GE Healthcare. She earned an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Mumbai in India.

Rashmi Gopinath

General Partner
B Capital

Rashmi Gopinath is a General Partner at B Capital Group where she leads the fund’s enterprise software practice in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, devops, and AI/ML sectors. She brings over two decades of experience investing and operating in cutting-edge enterprise technologies. She led B Capital’s investments in over 24 companies such as DataRobot, FalconX, Clari, Phenom People, Synack, Innovaccer, Labelbox, Fabric, 6Sense, Highspot, Pendo, Starburst, OwnBackup, Figment, Perimeter81, Zesty, among others.

Rashmi was previously a Managing Director at M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, where she led investments globally in enterprise software and sat on several boards including Synack, Innovaccer, Contrast Security, Frame, UnravelData, Incorta, among others.

Prior to M12, Rashmi was an Investment Director with Intel Capital where she was involved in the firm’s investments in startups including MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB), ForeScout (Nasdaq: FSCT), Maginatics (acq. by EMC), BlueData (acq. by HPE), among others. Rashmi held operating roles at high-growth startups such as BlueData (acq. by HPE) and Couchbase (Nasdaq: BASE) where she led global business development, product and marketing roles. She began her career in engineering and product roles at Oracle and GE Healthcare. She earned an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Mumbai in India.

Author:

Karl Freund

Founder & Principal Analyst
Cambrian AI Research

Karl Freund is the founder and principal analyst of Cambrian AI Research. Prior to this, he was Moor Insights & Strategy’s consulting lead for HPC and Deep Learning. His recent experiences as the VP of Marketing at AMD and Calxeda, as well as his previous positions at Cray and IBM, positions him as a leading industry expert in these rapidly evolving industries. Karl works with investment and technology customers to help them understand the emerging Deep Learning opportunity in data centers, from competitive landscape to ecosystem to strategy.

 

Karl has worked directly with datacenter end users, OEMs, ODMs and the industry ecosystem, enabling him to help his clients define the appropriate business, product, and go-to-market strategies. He is also recognized expert on the subject of low-power servers and the emergence of ARM in the datacenter and has been a featured speaker at scores of investment and industry conferences on this topic.

Accomplishments during his career include:

  • Led the revived HPC initiative at AMD, targeting APUs at deep learning and other HPC workloads
  • Created an industry-wide thought leadership position for Calxeda in the ARM Server market
  • Helped forge the early relationship between HP and Calxeda leading to the surprise announcement of HP Moonshot with Calxeda in 2011
  • Built the IBM Power Server brand from 14% market share to over 50% share
  • Integrated the Tivoli brand into the IBM company’s branding and marketing organization
  • Co-Led the integration of HP and Apollo Marketing after the Boston-based desktop company’s acquisition

 

Karl’s background includes RISC and Mainframe servers, as well as HPC (Supercomputing). He has extensive experience as a global marketing executive at IBM where he was VP Marketing (2000-2010), Cray where he was VP Marketing (1995-1998), and HP where he was a Division Marketing Manager (1979-1995).

 

Karl Freund

Founder & Principal Analyst
Cambrian AI Research

Karl Freund is the founder and principal analyst of Cambrian AI Research. Prior to this, he was Moor Insights & Strategy’s consulting lead for HPC and Deep Learning. His recent experiences as the VP of Marketing at AMD and Calxeda, as well as his previous positions at Cray and IBM, positions him as a leading industry expert in these rapidly evolving industries. Karl works with investment and technology customers to help them understand the emerging Deep Learning opportunity in data centers, from competitive landscape to ecosystem to strategy.

 

Karl has worked directly with datacenter end users, OEMs, ODMs and the industry ecosystem, enabling him to help his clients define the appropriate business, product, and go-to-market strategies. He is also recognized expert on the subject of low-power servers and the emergence of ARM in the datacenter and has been a featured speaker at scores of investment and industry conferences on this topic.

Accomplishments during his career include:

  • Led the revived HPC initiative at AMD, targeting APUs at deep learning and other HPC workloads
  • Created an industry-wide thought leadership position for Calxeda in the ARM Server market
  • Helped forge the early relationship between HP and Calxeda leading to the surprise announcement of HP Moonshot with Calxeda in 2011
  • Built the IBM Power Server brand from 14% market share to over 50% share
  • Integrated the Tivoli brand into the IBM company’s branding and marketing organization
  • Co-Led the integration of HP and Apollo Marketing after the Boston-based desktop company’s acquisition

 

Karl’s background includes RISC and Mainframe servers, as well as HPC (Supercomputing). He has extensive experience as a global marketing executive at IBM where he was VP Marketing (2000-2010), Cray where he was VP Marketing (1995-1998), and HP where he was a Division Marketing Manager (1979-1995).

 

Author:

Yvonne Lutsch

Investment Principal
Bosch Ventures

Yvonne is an accomplished Investment Principal at Bosch Ventures affiliate office located in Sunnyvale, and sources, evaluates, and executes venture capital deals in North America. Her specialty are investments in deep tech fields such as AI, edge and next gen. computing incl. quantum, robotics, industrial IoT, mobility, climate tech, semiconductors, or sensors. She is an investor and non-executive board member of Bosch Ventures’ portfolio companies Syntiant, Zapata AI, UltraSense Systems, Aclima, and Recogni.
Prior to this position Yvonne was Director of Technology Scouting and Business Development, building up an Innovation Hub in Silicon Valley including startup scouting, business development while advising executives of the Bosch business units on their strategy. She has more than two decades of solid experience in manufacturing operations and engineering in the automotive and consumer electronics space – gained through different executive roles at Bosch in Germany.
Yvonne received a diploma in Experimental Physics from University of Siegen, Germany, and holds a PhD in Applied Physics from University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Yvonne Lutsch

Investment Principal
Bosch Ventures

Yvonne is an accomplished Investment Principal at Bosch Ventures affiliate office located in Sunnyvale, and sources, evaluates, and executes venture capital deals in North America. Her specialty are investments in deep tech fields such as AI, edge and next gen. computing incl. quantum, robotics, industrial IoT, mobility, climate tech, semiconductors, or sensors. She is an investor and non-executive board member of Bosch Ventures’ portfolio companies Syntiant, Zapata AI, UltraSense Systems, Aclima, and Recogni.
Prior to this position Yvonne was Director of Technology Scouting and Business Development, building up an Innovation Hub in Silicon Valley including startup scouting, business development while advising executives of the Bosch business units on their strategy. She has more than two decades of solid experience in manufacturing operations and engineering in the automotive and consumer electronics space – gained through different executive roles at Bosch in Germany.
Yvonne received a diploma in Experimental Physics from University of Siegen, Germany, and holds a PhD in Applied Physics from University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Author:

Kunle Olukotun

Co-founder and Chief Technologist
SambaNova Systems

Kunle Olukotun is Cadence Design Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He founded Afara Websystems, acquired by Sun in 2002. He is a Pioneer of Chip Multiprocessor Designs, Director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab, and Co-leader of the Data Analytics for What’s Next (DAWN) research program.

In 2017 Olukotun and Chris Ré founded SambaNova Systems. SambaNova Systems has developed a disruptive next-generation computing platform to power machine learning and data analytics.

Kunle Olukotun

Co-founder and Chief Technologist
SambaNova Systems

Kunle Olukotun is Cadence Design Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He founded Afara Websystems, acquired by Sun in 2002. He is a Pioneer of Chip Multiprocessor Designs, Director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Lab, and Co-leader of the Data Analytics for What’s Next (DAWN) research program.

In 2017 Olukotun and Chris Ré founded SambaNova Systems. SambaNova Systems has developed a disruptive next-generation computing platform to power machine learning and data analytics.

Author:

Cliff Young

Software Engineer
Google Brain

Cliff Young

Software Engineer
Google Brain

Author:

Marc Tremblay

Distinguished Engineer
Microsoft

Marc Tremblay, Ph.D.: Marc is a Distinguished Engineer and VP in the Office of the CTO (OCTO) at Microsoft. His current role is to drive the strategic and technical direction of the company on silicon and hardware systems from a cross-divisional standpoint. This includes Artificial Intelligence, from supercomputer to client devices to Xbox, etc., and general-purpose computing. Throughout his career, Marc has demonstrated a passion for translating high-level application requirements into optimizations up and down the stack, all the way to silicon. AI has been his focus for the past several years, but his interests also encompass accelerators for the cloud, scale-out systems, and process technology. He has given multiple keynotes on AI Hardware, published many papers on throughput computing, multi-cores, multithreading, transactional memory, speculative multi-threading, Java computing, etc. and he is an inventor of over 300 patents on those topics.

Prior to Microsoft, Marc was the CTO of Microelectronics at Sun Microsystems. As a Sun Fellow and SVP, he was responsible for the technical leadership of 1200 engineers. Throughout his career, he has started, architected, led, defined and shipped a variety of microprocessors such as superscalar RISC processors (UltraSPARC I/II), bytecode engines (picoJava), VLIW, media and Java-focused (MAJC), and the first processor to implement speculative multithreading and transactional memory (ROCK – first silicon). He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from UCLA and his Physics Engineering degree from Laval University in Canada. Marc is on the board of directors of QuantalRF.

Marc Tremblay

Distinguished Engineer
Microsoft

Marc Tremblay, Ph.D.: Marc is a Distinguished Engineer and VP in the Office of the CTO (OCTO) at Microsoft. His current role is to drive the strategic and technical direction of the company on silicon and hardware systems from a cross-divisional standpoint. This includes Artificial Intelligence, from supercomputer to client devices to Xbox, etc., and general-purpose computing. Throughout his career, Marc has demonstrated a passion for translating high-level application requirements into optimizations up and down the stack, all the way to silicon. AI has been his focus for the past several years, but his interests also encompass accelerators for the cloud, scale-out systems, and process technology. He has given multiple keynotes on AI Hardware, published many papers on throughput computing, multi-cores, multithreading, transactional memory, speculative multi-threading, Java computing, etc. and he is an inventor of over 300 patents on those topics.

Prior to Microsoft, Marc was the CTO of Microelectronics at Sun Microsystems. As a Sun Fellow and SVP, he was responsible for the technical leadership of 1200 engineers. Throughout his career, he has started, architected, led, defined and shipped a variety of microprocessors such as superscalar RISC processors (UltraSPARC I/II), bytecode engines (picoJava), VLIW, media and Java-focused (MAJC), and the first processor to implement speculative multithreading and transactional memory (ROCK – first silicon). He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from UCLA and his Physics Engineering degree from Laval University in Canada. Marc is on the board of directors of QuantalRF.

Author:

Victoria Rege

Director of Alliances & Strategic Partnerships
Graphcore

Victoria has over a decade of experience in the semiconductor space. She currently heads up Strategic Partnerships at Graphcore, working with key customers and leading Research & Universities AI engagements. Previously she held several leadership positions at NVIDIA from global alliances, product marketing and campaigns to the founding of the GPU Technology Conference. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Victoria worked in the hedge fund space, as Executive Director for the Hedge Fund Business Operations Association. Victoria is a frequent contributor to ACM SIGGRAPH and is Immersive Chair for the SIGGRAPH 2019 Conference. She's also an active member of the Consumer Technology Association's AI Working Group.

Victoria Rege

Director of Alliances & Strategic Partnerships
Graphcore

Victoria has over a decade of experience in the semiconductor space. She currently heads up Strategic Partnerships at Graphcore, working with key customers and leading Research & Universities AI engagements. Previously she held several leadership positions at NVIDIA from global alliances, product marketing and campaigns to the founding of the GPU Technology Conference. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Victoria worked in the hedge fund space, as Executive Director for the Hedge Fund Business Operations Association. Victoria is a frequent contributor to ACM SIGGRAPH and is Immersive Chair for the SIGGRAPH 2019 Conference. She's also an active member of the Consumer Technology Association's AI Working Group.

Author:

Cheng Wang

Co-Founder & SVP, Architecture & Engineering
Flex Logix

Originally from Shanghai, PRC.  Cheng has led the architecture, silicon implementation and software development for eFPGA over multiple generations from 180nm-16nm and now AI inferencing development at Flex Logix. Two years as VLSI designer at Zoran. BSEECS, UC Berkeley.  MSEE, EE PhD UCLA: designed 5 FPGA chips from 90nm to 40nm. 2013 Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award. 2014 ISSCC Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper. Multiple patents at UCLA and Flex Logix.

Cheng Wang

Co-Founder & SVP, Architecture & Engineering
Flex Logix

Originally from Shanghai, PRC.  Cheng has led the architecture, silicon implementation and software development for eFPGA over multiple generations from 180nm-16nm and now AI inferencing development at Flex Logix. Two years as VLSI designer at Zoran. BSEECS, UC Berkeley.  MSEE, EE PhD UCLA: designed 5 FPGA chips from 90nm to 40nm. 2013 Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award. 2014 ISSCC Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper. Multiple patents at UCLA and Flex Logix.

Author:

Rick Merritt

Staff Writer
NVIDIA

Rick Merritt

Staff Writer
NVIDIA

Author:

Jimmy Pike

SVP & Senior Fellow, Servers and Infrastructure Systems
Dell EMC

Jimmy D. Pike is a Senior Vice President and Senior Fellow at Dell EMC and serves as a senior system architect and technologist in the office of Dell’s Server and Infrastructure System’s CTO. In addition to his duties as an “at large” technologist, he focuses on high-performance computing, machine learning, and edge computing.

A longtime industry figure with more than 50 patents, Jimmy has served in various executive and technology roles:
• An analyst at the analyst firm of Moor Insights & Strategy
• Chief Architect of Dell’s Enterprise Solutions group and HPC lead technologist
• Chief Architect and Technologist for Dell’s Data Center group.

Jimmy has as also served in various other leadership roles at Intel, AT&T, NCR, and Harris Corporation.

Jimmy Pike

SVP & Senior Fellow, Servers and Infrastructure Systems
Dell EMC

Jimmy D. Pike is a Senior Vice President and Senior Fellow at Dell EMC and serves as a senior system architect and technologist in the office of Dell’s Server and Infrastructure System’s CTO. In addition to his duties as an “at large” technologist, he focuses on high-performance computing, machine learning, and edge computing.

A longtime industry figure with more than 50 patents, Jimmy has served in various executive and technology roles:
• An analyst at the analyst firm of Moor Insights & Strategy
• Chief Architect of Dell’s Enterprise Solutions group and HPC lead technologist
• Chief Architect and Technologist for Dell’s Data Center group.

Jimmy has as also served in various other leadership roles at Intel, AT&T, NCR, and Harris Corporation.

Author:

Sailesh Kottapalli

Senior Fellow, Chief Architect, Datacenter Processor Architecture
Intel

Sailesh Kottapalli is an Intel Senior Fellow and the chief architect of data center processor architecture in the Silicon Engineering Group. He leads a team of architects responsible for developing the architecture of Intel® Xeon® and Intel® Atom™ server product lines as well as the overall compute solutions strategy for datacenter segment. He also leads a cross-organizations effort in driving the technology leadership on the Interconnect pillar. Kottapalli joined Intel in 1996 as a design engineer working on the first Intel® Itanium® processor, then code-named “Merced.” Subsequently, he served as lead engineer for several Intel Itanium and Intel Xeon processor evaluations, and more recently, as lead architect for a series of Intel Xeon server processors. His work in this area earned Kottapalli an Intel Achievement Award for delivering record generational performance improvements in a high-end server product. An active participant in industry and internal conferences, Kottapalli has authored or co-authored several published technical papers, delivered talks and taken part in roundtables and panel discussions. He has also been granted approximately three dozen patents in processor architecture, with additional patents pending. Kottapalli holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Andhra University in India and a master’s degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech.

Sailesh Kottapalli

Senior Fellow, Chief Architect, Datacenter Processor Architecture
Intel

Sailesh Kottapalli is an Intel Senior Fellow and the chief architect of data center processor architecture in the Silicon Engineering Group. He leads a team of architects responsible for developing the architecture of Intel® Xeon® and Intel® Atom™ server product lines as well as the overall compute solutions strategy for datacenter segment. He also leads a cross-organizations effort in driving the technology leadership on the Interconnect pillar. Kottapalli joined Intel in 1996 as a design engineer working on the first Intel® Itanium® processor, then code-named “Merced.” Subsequently, he served as lead engineer for several Intel Itanium and Intel Xeon processor evaluations, and more recently, as lead architect for a series of Intel Xeon server processors. His work in this area earned Kottapalli an Intel Achievement Award for delivering record generational performance improvements in a high-end server product. An active participant in industry and internal conferences, Kottapalli has authored or co-authored several published technical papers, delivered talks and taken part in roundtables and panel discussions. He has also been granted approximately three dozen patents in processor architecture, with additional patents pending. Kottapalli holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Andhra University in India and a master’s degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech.

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