Transforming Business Applications with Generative AI: Creativity to Productivity
About This Talk
Discover the latest opportunities for enterprise innovation in the real world using generative AI. Learn from industry leaders about how this technology is revolutionizing everything from creative industries to manufacturing, and explore use cases and best practices for deploying generative AI in your own organization.
Speakers
Jeremiah is well recognized by both the tech industry and the media for his grounded approach to deriving insights through rigorous research. From corporate innovation, autonomous technology or modern wellbeing, he views every aspect of emerging technologies through the lens of growth, opportunity and constantly shifting consumer behaviors and expectations. Forever at the forefront, he identifies trends and advises major companies to adapt their business models to better connect with customers. His clients include Adobe, Cisco, Wells Fargo, Nestle, Esurance, Johnson & Johnson, Visa, and Colgate among others.
An acknowledged thought leader and widely read publisher, Owyang has appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today and Fast Company. He also publishes numerous research reports, playbooks and frameworks to help businesses navigate change, improve customer experiences and identify trends before they happen.
Owyang's career took shape as an analyst with Forrester Research, advising on social strategy for the interactive marketer. He was a Founding Partner and Research Director at Altimeter Group, specializing in customer strategy and emerging technologies. He formed Catalyst Companies in 2013 to focus on the emerging collaborative economy and the maker movement.
Owyang is recognized as the definitive authority on corporate innovation programs, ready to translate the next wave of powerful technologies and transform the way you do business.
A popular speaker and presenter at conferences and events around the world, from global conferences, corporate kickoffs, or on a TED stage, Jeremiah is ready to translate the next wave of powerful technologies and transform the way you do business.
Yan-David Erlich ("Yanda") is the Chief Operating Officer of Weights & Biases, the developer-first MLOps platform. In this role, he has built out the GTM, Marketing, Data, BizOps, and Strategy teams.
Prior, Yanda was a General Partner at Coatue where he helped start and ran the enterprise investing practice for Coatue's Venture funds (investing in Seed through Series B companies). He also personally led Coatue's AI/ML investments in Weights & Biases (Series A), Impira (Series B), Infinitus (Series A), Fin (Seed & Series A), Abacus (Series B), Covariant (Series B), and Raycast (Series A).
Yanda is a 4-time venture-backed Founder/CEO, most recently of Parsable: the Connected Worker platform for industrial teams. He also founded ChoiceVendor (acquired by LinkedIn), Mogad (acquired by Qualcomm) and Happiness Engines. He is an active angel and an early investor in Mixer Labs (acq. Twitter), Thumbtack, MasterClass, CircleUp, and Buddybuild (acq. Apple).
Yan-David started his career with software engineering and product management roles at both Google and Microsoft. He has a Bachelor of Science in both Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering from Rice University (Phi Beta Kappa) and an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Mr. Erlich has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Mr. Babin is a serial entrepreneur and seasoned CEO with over 20 years of experience in the automotive, SaaS, and AI industries. His first technology startup, which he founded at the age of 24, was a hybrid vehicle company funded by DFJ. Alex founded Zero Systems in 2015 with the aim of substantially increasing knowledge worker productivity by combining cutting-edge technology with advanced security and a user-centric application design. Alex is an expert in generative AI and large language models (LLM) with a focus on enterprise use cases. He is routinely featured in op-eds and media interviews at elite business and technical publications.
Kavitha Prasad leads Intel's overall AI strategy and execution efforts. She has held several engineering and leadership roles in her 20+ years tenure in the industry, and as an experienced Business and Technology leader across a wide range of system applications, system architecture, business development, and go-to-market strategies, Kavitha has delivered competitive solutions to Cloud, Enterprise, and Embedded markets.
Her broad hardware and software experience enables her to provide multiple successful products in ASICs, SOCs, FPGAs, and servers across various process nodes. In addition, leveraging her passion for building authentic customer relationships and coupling it with her technical engineering and business acumen, Kavitha delivers AI and Machine Learning solutions in training and inference across edge to cloud. Kavithare-joined Intel in 2021 to drive Intel's AI strategy and execution efforts. Before re-joining Intel, Kavitha was VP, Business and member of the founding team at SiMa.ai and served as director of engineering at Xilinx Corporation.
Previously, he led Heroku's (Salesforce Platform) Marketing and growth organizations resulting in 10x revenue growth to $550 mil ARR. Before Heroku, he led Growth for Box and scaled marketing efforts through their IPO phase. Before Box, Rajan was a founding member of a start-up at HP Enterprise, focused on building self-service platforms from the ground up for dev ops and developer products across database, security, and APM spaces. He led the marketing, growth, and analytics organization for the Online business platform that later became the SaaS business for HP Software.
Rajan has a Bachelor's in Computer Science and a Masters from UCLA Anderson business school.