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Aditya Arun is a PhD from IIIT Hyderabad with specialization in Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing. His research has been published in top international machine learning conferences like CVPR, ECCV, and BMVC, and his PhD was funded by Visvesvaraya PhD Fellowship. In grad school, he co-founded and was the CTO of Drishyam.ai, which aimed at applying computer vision and machine learning to automate customer support. He did his undergrad at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra majoring in Computer Science. He has also worked with IBM India as a Data Analyst before joining grad school.

Satish Mandalika is a seasoned executive leader with 22+ years of experience in the healthcare and financial sectors. During his career, Satish has shown a natural aptitude for conceiving digital strategies for large enterprises, as well as creating innovative artificial intelligence and security solutions with a corporate presence, Satish’s expertise includes enterprise security, SaaS, B2B, and B2C initiatives, client support and satisfaction, cost reduction measures, artificial intelligence, entrepreneurial ventures, big data and machine learning, and numerous facets of sales and marketing strategies.

Michael Plisinski is the Chief Executive Officer of Onto Innovation and has over 25 years of semiconductor capital equipment experience. He previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors for Rudolph Technologies since 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Plisinski served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Rudolph Technologies since October 2014 and was the Vice President and General Manager, Data Analysis and Review Business Unit since February 2006 when the Company merged with August Technology Corporation.

Norm Fjeldheim is the former Chief Information Officer and Head of Global Facilities at Illumina, the global leader in next-generation DNA sequencing, which he joined in 2016. Prior to joining Illumina, Mr. Fjeldheim spent 28 years at Qualcomm, the semiconductor pioneer of 3 generations of mobile wireless technologies, the last 17 years as Chief Information Officer and Head of Global Security. Mr. Fjeldheim holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Information Systems from San Diego State University.

Tom Gruber is a product designer and entrepreneur who uses AI technology to augment human intelligence. He was co-founder and head of design for the team that created Siri, which brought AI to the mainstream and established the modern paradigm of virtual assistants. At Apple for over 8 years, Tom led the Advanced Development Group that designed and prototyped new capabilities for products that bring intelligence to the interface.

Dr. Richard Post is a technologist, CEO and co-founder of two companies, Applied Science and Technology, Inc. (ASTeX) NASDAQ:ASTX and NEXX Systems, Inc. The majority of chips in your smart phone will have been processed or packaged using ASTeX or NEXX products.

Gary is currently CEO of Excelerate, a scale stage accelerator that connects the most promising startups to a network of global 2000 companies and executives. Gary has 30 years experience in CEO, board and executive roles across venture backed, mid-size and large global technology companies. As a way to give back, Gary enjoys helping the leaders and boards of non-profit organizations scale up their impact

I have been in the software industry for the last 10 years in multiple roles. I have been a product manager for the last 5 years in solutions varying from SaaS to ERP. There are lots of different domains I have worked on and I am my vision and my mission has always been to push harder to become the best version of myself.

Lisa L. Riecken is an accomplished and driven customer success and marketing expert with over 20+ years of global experience in the high tech and leadership development industries. She has held integral roles in the launching and scaling of multiple high tech startups, creating and growing customer success and customer marketing departments from the ground up, as well as launched and operated wellness and leadership development businesses. Lisa possesses a proven ability to build and sustain loyal customer bases, generate revenue maximizing programs, construct viable markets, create and inspire successful teams, and formulate impactful strategies that maximize short- and long-term profitability at the company, team, and individual levels. Devoted to playing a critical role in the successful launch, expansion, and exit of startups, while maximizing human capital effectiveness throughout the journey.

Jeswil Mascarenhas is a Sr. Software Developer and Team Lead with experience working on highly scalable systems over the past 5 years. He has varied experience ranging from developing standalone scalable applications, to integrating backend systems with different customer facing applications like iOS, Android and Web Applications. He is a quick learner and is able to quickly adapt to the highly volatile technologies. Jeswil hold a Master’s degree in Embedded Systems from Manipal Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the Gold medal for the Best Outgoing Post Graduate Student.

Vineeth is a Data Science and Machine Learning Professional with 14+ years of experience as a Developer, Researcher and Leader. He has spent the past 6+ years working on a variety of problems in the Visual Processing and Natural Language Processing domains. Pride myself on being a quick learner and an alternative thinker when coming up with solutions for a problem.

Vinay Gupta has 17 years of experience in the IT industry, with over 10 years in senior technical management positions, responsible for architecting and building enterprise software products.

Rajiv Baronia is a seasoned technology executive with 30 years of cross-functional experience combining technical expertise with business and management acumen. As a serial entrepreneur, he has a proven track record of launching innovative startups, and leading them through growth and successful exits.

Randy Friedman is a skilled enterprise SaaS executive and Go To Market Strategist focused on AI, ML and Analytics products. Accomplished design thinker and process driven collaborator servicing internal and external stakeholder groups. Talented metrics driven people manager with full P&L accountability for product, marketing, sales, go-to-market, customer success, operations teams. BA from UC Berkeley, MBA from Columbia University.

Results oriented executive with a proven track record in financial and strategic management within fast growth, high tech industries. Over 25 years of diverse financial experience with expertise in public financing (7 registered offerings including Brooks Automation, AMSC and ONTO Innovation Inc) and strategic mergers and acquisitions

Jack Porter is a serial entrepreneur and has been the founder and CEO of 11 companies. He has led the successful exits of 7 acquisitions and 10 IPOs. His companies have all been based on using advanced math to solve business-critical and high-value processes. Mr. Porter has also written 8 books on advanced technology and startups and is a frequent speaker at industry events.