Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML)
When & Where
AI/ML: Latest Advances in Artificial Intelligence
The Artificial Intelligence Track at TiEcon 2023 will highlight the latest advances in AI, such as Generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT), MLOPs (Machine Learning Operations), and the Application of AI for Customer Experience & Customer Success. We have a lineup of stellar speakers from across the industry spectrum who will share their thoughts and experiences, providing valuable help and guidance for both entrepreneurs and established industry professionals. Attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in hands-on training through the AI Bootcamp to complement what they learn during the AI Track Session. This is a must-attend Track, organized by industry veterans as Track Chairs, who have experience working at top companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Intel, VMware, Cisco, Juniper, Siemens, and Synopsys.
Track Agenda
- 05/04/2023 | 10:00 am – 10:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall A3Speakers
Debanjan SahaCEO
Data RobotDebanjan is the CEO of DataRobot. He joined DataRobot at the beginning of 2022 as President and COO, and was appointed CEO in July, 2022. Before joining DataRobot, he was VP/GM of Data Analytics services, including BigQuery, Dataflow, PubSub, Dataproc etc in Google Cloud (GCP). In that role, Debanjan led engineering, operations, and drove go-to- market strategy and overall P and L, for GCP Analytics business. Prior to joining Google, Debanjan led Database services at AWS where he led the development and launch of Amazon Aurora, a massively scalable relational database service re-imagined for the cloud. In 2019, Debanjan was named one of the technology executive of the year for transforming database industry. He is also responsible for launching AWS Glue, a data integration and transformation service at the core of AWS Datalake. Debanjan has also held multiple executive and technical leadership positions in IBM, including a 2-year international assignment in Shanghai, China. He started his career as a Principal Engineer at Tellium, an optical networking pioneer and helped them grow from an early stage start-up to a public company ($3B+ IPO). Debanjan is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Distinguished Member of the ACM and has co-authored a book, 50+ US patent applications, 100+ technical articles, including award winning papers and major Internet standards. He has a MS and PhD degrees from the University of Maryland, and a BTech from IIT, all in Computer Science.
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- 05/04/2023 | 10:30 am – 11:00 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall A3Speakers
Untitled Igor is the CEO and Founder of Pryon. Named an “Industry Luminary” by Speech Technology Magazine, he previously founded industry pioneer Yap, the world’s first high-accuracy, fully- automated cloud platform for voice recognition. After its products were deployed by dozens of enterprises, the company became Amazon’s first AI-related acquisition. The firm’s inventions then served as the nucleus for follow on products such as Alexa, Echo, and Fire TV.
Igor then served as a Program Director at IBM, and led the team that designed the precursor to Watson and developed the world’s first multimodal Web browser. He was awarded Eisenhower and Truman National Security fellowships to explore and expand the role of entrepreneurship and venture capital in addressing geopolitical concerns. As an innovator in human language technologies, he believes in fostering career and educational opportunities for others entering STEM fields. As such, he serves as a mentor in the TechStars’ Alexa Accelerator, was a Blackstone NC Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR), and founded a chapter of the Global Shapers, a program of the World Economic Forum.
Igor holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, where he was named an Outstanding Engineering Alumnus, and an MBA from The University of North Carolina.
Ankit JainMachine Learning Tech Lead
MetaAnkit Jain currently works as a machine learning tech lead at Meta where he works on a variety of deep learning problems. Previously, he was a ML researcher at Uber AI where he worked on application of deep learning methods to different problems ranging from food delivery, fraud detection to self-driving cars. He has co- authored a book on machine learning titled TensorFlow Machine Learning Projects. Ankit also teaches AI and machine learning at various boot camps to empower the next generation of technologists. Additionally, he’s been a featured speaker in many of the top AI conferences and universities and has published papers in several top conferences like Neurips, ICLR. He earned his MS from UC Berkeley and BS from IIT Bombay (India). Ashish is a Venture Capital investor focused on early-stage cloud, data/ml and cybersecurity startups. He helps technical founders build lasting companies as a trusted long-term partner. He enjoys supporting founders with a balance of technical know-how, customer insights and empathy. His recent investments include Harness (devops CI/CD automation), Isovalent (creators of Cilium and eBPF), CyCognito (external attack surface management) and Opaque Systems (confidential computing) where he is a Board Observer. He runs a deep network of software builders, sales leaders, investors and CXO buyers that he tries to make available to founders.
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- 05/04/2023 | 11:00 am – 11:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall A3Speakers
Dr. Pandian Angaiyan heads the technology office for Tech Mahindra’s Enterprise Technology SBU as CTO based out of San Jose office.
He has decades of experience in incubating & leading computing businesses based on niche technologies, which gives him the right tools to lead disruptive digital transformation initiatives for Tech Mahindra’s customers.
In his previous role, he has lead the Cloud Innovation Business for a global consulting company where he has played the role of Cloud Transformation Partner for several customers, helping define their cloud strategy, building a minimum viable products and eventually transforming them into full- fledged solutions.
He also incubated and built platform based Cloud services group and established ‘High Performance Computing Practice’ with integration and acquisition of niche technological expertise and provided a differentiating solution benefiting major customers. Dr. Pandian has two decades of experience in various computing technologies starting from embedded systems all the way to hyper scale architectures.
Dr. Pandian has a Ph.D., in symbolic and numeric computational algorithms for real time applications from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and has a Masters of Technology in Computer Engineering from Mysore University.
Hagay LupeskoVP Engineering
Mosaic MLHagay Lupesko is the VP Engineering at Mosaic ML and is on a mission to make ML training more efficient and accessible. Prior to Mosaic ML, Hagay was a Director of Engineering at Meta AI, where he led machine learning engineering and applied research to deploy state- of-the-art AI systems at a massive scale, and powered key businesses and user experiences across Meta's platforms. Hagay has also led Deep Learning Engineering teams responsible for building deep learning systems and tools to help engineers and scientists leverage artificial intelligence in their services and applications. Earlier in his career, Hagay engineered and shipped products across various domains from 3D medical imaging, through global-scale web systems, and up to deep learning systems used at scale by engineers and scientists worldwide. Hagay has a Masters degree from Tel Aviv University in Computer Science and Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Ben Gurion University. Ashish ThusooGeneral Manager
Amazon Web Serviceshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ashishthusoo Mark Pluta is currently Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Blume Global, a leader in global logistics and digital supply chain solutions. At Blume Global, Mark leads AI platform development and science teams, and drives architectural strategy for the cloud-, AI- and machine learning-based Blume Digital Platform. Prior to Blume Global, Mark was SVP, Head of Business Products for Infosys/Edgeverve. He has also worked in leadership roles at Marsh ClearSight, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Manhattan Associates, Netscape and Andersen Consulting. At Manhattan Associates, he was Chief Architect for all Manhattan products, including TMS and end-to-end visibility. He has a B.S. in engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- 05/04/2023 | 11:30 am – 12:00 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A3Speakers Mohit PadalkarGlobal Head- VP, Product and Engineering, Customer Digital Experience
VMwareMohit is a Product, Engineering, UX, and PMO leader who is currently responsible for VMware's AI-driven platform. He leads a team that works to create an engaging, unified, and simplified digital experience for VMware's customers.
With over 22 years of experience in technology, Mohit has been on the forefront of micro-services and cloud computing. In his previous roles as a Product & Technology Executive (CTO, CIO, CPO), he has built highly scalable technology platforms to support global omni-channel operations.
Mohit has a holistic and deep understanding of profitable e-commerce operations, including digital strategy, product management, software engineering, site experience, merchandising, content, digital marketing, and analytics.
Tatyana Mamut is a transformational technology executive who delivers game-changing results by anticipating the future, obsessing over customers, and building amazing teams. She was Product Leader and General Manager of successful new businesses at Nextdoor, Amazon, Salesforce, Pendo, and IDEO. She serves on the Board of Directors for Sauce Labs, and previously UserTesting, where she was the Compensation Committee Chairperson through the company's IPO and acquisition. Tatyana holds a BA in Economics from Amherst College, a PhD in Anthropology from UC Berkeley, and is a certified Scenario Planner, Yoga Instructor, and Reiki Master. Ashraf Karim is SVP of Product at Affirm. She leads the Financial Services Platform product organization, which powers the BNPL customer journey serving more than 6M+ customers and over 10K+ businesses. Ashraf joined Affirm from Paypal, where she was VP of Product Management for the Customer Success Platform organization. She has led product development for both consumer solutions and product platforms delivering scalable, personalized, and enriched experiences leveraging AI and best in class platform strategies. Prior to PayPal, Ashraf spent nearly 6 years at Google where she was Global Head of Prototypes and Tools, delivering productivity and operational excellence for the Online Partnership group. Prior to Product Management she had 14 years of Software Engineering and Management experience. Ashraf is a passionate advocate for girls and women pursuing STEM careers.
With 20 years of experience leading product design, development and strategy in Fortune 500 companies, Surbhi has built and led product and engineering teams at technology icons including Google, YouTube, Netflix, and Cisco. Over the last decade she has launched multiple successful & insightful products, many of which encompass AI and machine learning expertise. Additionally, Surbhi led query disambiguation and speech recognition efforts on leading edge Google Home and Google Assistant enabled devices using Google Cloud ML models. Currently Surbhi is leading Juniper's Customer Experience charter focused on incorporating Juniper's Experience-First Networking initiatives into every aspect of the customer journey. She is focused on building omnichannel engagements and ML based proactive and predictive support capabilities. Leveraging her EQ-based motivational leadership style, Surbhi is leading highly cross-functional initiatives enabling digital transformation of both services and enterprise business. Surbhi holds a Bachelor's in Engineering from IIT Kanpur and a Master's degree in computer science from Texas A&M University. She also holds General Management Program (GMP) degree from Harvard Business School Surbhi leads Global Inclusion & Diversity initiatives at Juniper and is passionate about supporting and giving back to the IIT community. She is a key leader of the IIT Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning forum, a Board Member for IIT Kanpur Foundation, and the former President of IIT West Coast alumni association. She has also Chaired and led the "Women in Product" San Francisco Bay Area organization and is an active member of Chief.
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- 05/04/2023 | 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A3Speakers Braden is a co-founder and Head of Technology at Snorkel AI. Before Snorkel, Braden spent four years developing new programmatic approaches for efficiently labeling, augmenting, and structuring training data with the Stanford AI Lab, Facebook, and Google. Prior to that, he performed NLP and ML research at Johns Hopkins University and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University.
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Track Chairs
has worked on recommendations systems and NLP at Amazon/Twitch, Twitter
and Capital One. He has founded startups and worked in large enterprises over
his 20+ year long career. Ashish published a book on Advanced NLP. He is the
co-founder of the IIT AI/ML forum growing it to over 1500 members.
Intel
substantial experience in semiconductor ecosystem related to EDA, IP, Design
Services, MAG, and Cloud. He is also responsible for Intel Foundry Services'
partner press releases, coordinating outbound partner activities, Intel external
technical presentations approver, and automation of internal processes.
As Founder and CEO of Vasten Inc, he has substantial experience in HPC,
SaaS, ML, and EDA. Prior to that, Lalit worked as Director of Data Engineering
and Machine Learning at Contiq, a content management AI startup.
As Director of Product Engineering and Customer Engagement at Cadence, he
managed an entire software product line with annual revenue in excess of $40M.
He has over 25 years of experience in product engineering, product
management, customer engagement and pre-post sales at Siemens, Synopsys,
and Cadence. He also has experience in license negotiations and technical
project management with government agencies such as DARPA, DOE, and GRI.
Juniper Networks
500 companies, Surbhi has built and led product and engineering teams at technology icons
including Google, YouTube, Netflix, and Cisco. Over the last decade she has launched
multiple successful & insightful products, many of which encompass AI and machine
learning expertise. Additionally, Surbhi led query disambiguation and speech recognition
efforts on leading edge Google Home and Google Assistant enabled devices using Google
Cloud ML models.
Currently Surbhi is leading Juniper's Customer Experience charter focused on incorporating
Juniper's Experience-First Networking initiatives into every aspect of the customer journey.
She is focused on building omnichannel engagements and ML based proactive and
predictive support capabilities. Leveraging her EQ-based motivational leadership style,
Surbhi is leading highly cross-functional initiatives enabling digital transformation of both
services and enterprise business.
Surbhi holds a Bachelor's in Engineering from IIT Kanpur and a Master's degree in computer
science from Texas A&M University. She also holds General Management Program (GMP)
degree from Harvard Business School
Surbhi leads Global Inclusion & Diversity initiatives at Juniper and is passionate about
supporting and giving back to the IIT community. She is a key leader of the IIT Artificial
Intelligence & Machine Learning forum, a Board Member for IIT Kanpur Foundation, and
the former President of IIT West Coast alumni association. She has also Chaired and led
the "Women in Product" San Francisco Bay Area organization and is an active member of
Chief.
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