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Jaya Kawale
VP of Engineering, AI/ML
Tubi
Jaya Kawale is the head of Machine Learning at Tubi, a Fox Corporation content platform. Jaya´s team works on solving various ML problems for Tubi´s product, ranging from recommendations, content understanding and acquisition, ads ML, etc. Her team also work on the application of cutting edge machine learning technologies such as contextual bandits, deep learning, computer vision and NLP to improve user experience at Tubi.
Soojung Ryu
CEO
SAPEON
As a well-known expert in AI processors, Soojung Ryu is in charge of SAPEON in order to accelerate the company’s growth in the global AI market. She brings more than 25 years of extensive experience in leading various projects related to NPU and GPU.
Before she joined SK Telecom as the head of the AI accelerator office, Ryu was a University-Industry Collaboration Professor at Seoul National University, where she conducted R&D in the NPU and PIM. When she served as the Vice President of Samsung Group's R&D hub, she undertook diverse projects related to GPU. Ryu received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Animesh Singh
Executive Director, AI & Machine Learning
LinkedIn
Executive Director, AI and ML Platform at LinkedIn | Ex IBM Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer, Watson AI and Data | Founder at Kubeflow | Ex LFAI Trusted AI NA Chair
Animesh is the Executive Director leading the next generation AI and ML Platform at LinkedIn, enabling creation of AI Foundation Models Platform, serving the needs of 930+ Million members of LinkedIn. Building Distributed Training Platform, Machine Learning Pipelines, Feature Pipelines, Metadata engine etc. Leading the creation of LinkedIn GAI platform for fine tuning, experimentation and inference needs. Animesh has more than 20 patents, and 50+ publications.
Past IBM Watson AI and Data Open Tech CTO, Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer, with 20+ years experience in Software industry, and 15+ years in AI, Data and Cloud Platform. Led globally dispersed teams, managed globally distributed projects, and served as a trusted adviser to Fortune 500 firms. Played a leadership role in creating, designing and implementing Data and AI engines for AI and ML platforms, led Trusted AI efforts, drove the strategy and execution for Kubeflow, OpenDataHub and execution in products like Watson OpenScale and Watson Machines Learning.
Karen Wynne
US Impact Manager
Better Cotton Initiative
Karen Wynne spent most of her adult life working on and with smaller organic farms. After working on a farm in Virginia and starting a farm in New York state (and getting her degree in soil science), she moved south over twenty years ago. For a few years she delineated wetlands and mapped soil on land from Florida to Arkansas, and eventually set roots in Alabama.
Karen served as the founding executive director of the Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network, a grassroots organization focused on strengthening local and equitable food systems throughout the state. She shifted to providing individual technical assistance for farmers across the country, developing hundreds of farm plans focused on whole farm systems, sustainable and regenerative practices, and organic certification and transition.
For the past five years, Karen has worked with Better Cotton to build a stronger network of commodity cotton growers and key partners in the US and promote sustainable and regenerative practices at scale. She is also building better connections with their counterparts across the globe.
She still raises good food on her family’s 24 acres and even grows a little bit of Mississippi Brown heirloom cotton.
Zeb Winslow
Partner
Z3 Agriculture
Zeb Winslow is a fifth-generation farmer who uses a diverse mix of cover crops, including rye, triticale, oats, crimson clover, vetch and radishes while growing cash crops of corn, soybeans and cotton on 900 acres. Cover crops are allowed to grow as long as possible before planting to help with weed suppression and moisture conservation. If growing conditions allow, cash crops are planted green into the covers. In the past 10 years, Zeb has eliminated all tillage on his land, reduced his use of pesticides, and started to reduce synthetic fertilizers.
Nick Schroer
VP
Trailhead Capital
Michael Smith
General Partner
Regeneration VC
