Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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About This Track
TiEcon 2021 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) track is a must-attend for those looking to expand their Artificial Intelligence knowledge and connect with like-minded leaders at the cutting edge of this fascinating field that has become an increasingly integral part of our daily lives. The Speakers will be bringing a broad range of perspectives to address critical Artificial Intelligence (AI) trends, challenges, and successes across horizontal platforms and vertical industry segments.
Engage in the diverse track through keynote sessions, panels, and fireside chats, for significant insights and added value to you and your business.
Join us to elevate your entrepreneurship journey with the AI/ML Track.
Track Agenda
- 05/07/2021 | 9:00 am - 9:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Battling Software Test Automation Barriers with the Fervor of the SpartansSpeakersAs the CEO of Tricentis, Sandeep brings over 25 years of enterprise software experience. He manages all business-related functions including business strategy, products, services, sales, marketing, and operations to achieve business profit and sales objectives. Sandeep most recently served as the COO of Appcelerator, the leading open source mobile application development platform. He was Vice President of Strategy and Industry Solutions at HP, where he also served as Vice President of Corporate Development. There, he was instrumental in developing and implementing the growth strategy that resulted in the software business growing 2X market over the last four years. Sandeep was instrumental in the formation of two startups, Determina (VMware) and Bluelane (VMware). He was also the CEO and founder of Oblix (Oracle), and co-founded eBoodle (EW Scripps), one of the first ecommerce comparison shopping services. Sandeep has an MBA from Stanford University, a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit, and a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Pune University, India. Sandeep is involved as an advisor and investor in various startups in Silicon Valley and India.
Award-winning entrepreneur-turned-publisher, columnist, author, television commentator, private investor and board director, Rich Karlgaard has a unique vantage point on the trends driving the business and economic climates.
Karlgaard is the publisher of Forbes magazine and writes a biweekly column, Innovation Rules, known for its witty and honest assessment of current business issues, and serves as a regular panelist on cable news' most popular business show, Forbes on FOX.
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- 05/07/2021 | 9:30 am - 10:00 am PDT
- 30 minsSpeakersAnima AnandkumarBren Professor at Caltech and Director of ML Research at NVIDIA
NVIDIA & CaltechAnima Anandkumar is a Bren Professor at Caltech and Director of ML Research at NVIDIA. She was previously a Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services. She has received several honors such as Alfred. P. Sloan Fellowship, NSF Career Award, Young investigator awards from DoD, and Faculty Fellowships from Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Adobe. She is part of the World Economic Forum's Expert Network. She is passionate about designing principled AI algorithms and applying them in interdisciplinary applications. Her research focus is on unsupervised AI, optimization, and tensor methods.Dr. Satya Mallick is the CEO of OpenCV.org. In 2017, he was named one of the top 30 AI people to follow on Twitter for 2017 by IBM's AI blog. Under Dr. Mallick's leadership, OpenCV has grown beyond a computer vision library to an organization that caters to the computer vision community through educational courses, edge AI hardware, competitions, forum and services. In his role as an educator, Dr. Mallick teaches OpenCV's popular computer vision and deep learning courses. He is also the principal author of LearnOpenCV.com - one of the largest computer vision blogs on the internet. Dr. Mallick is also a co-founder and CEO of OpenCV.ai. As the for-profit arm of OpenCV.org, the company provides consulting and implementation expertise for computer vision, deep learning and machine learning projects. Dr. Mallick received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.Steve Nouri is a data science leader who has evolved the way people look at AI and innovations. An author, academic and technical leader by profession, he aims to inspire people through the latest technology trends and projects and empowers prospective data scientists through high-quality education and learning materials. He is a member of the Forbes Technology Council, ICT Professional of the Year Gold Disruptor, and an accomplished influencer on LinkedIn. From humble beginnings as a software engineer and startup founder, he has worked in different IT roles before joining the Australian Computer Society as the Head of Data Science and AI.
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:00 am - 10:15 am PDT
- 15 minsSpeakers
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:15 am - 10:30 am PDT
- 15 minsSpeakersTom Lawry serves as National Director of AI for Health & Life Sciences at Microsoft and previously served as Director of Worldwide Health. Tom helps clinical and health leaders implement analytical solutions that improve the quality and efficiency of health services delivered around the globe. Prior to Microsoft Tom served as a Senior Director at GE Healthcare and as CEO of an early stage hosted software company. His new book from HIMSS & CRC Press is: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: A Leader's Guide to Winning in the New Age of Intelligent Health Systems was a 2020 bestseller.Advanced AI at Varian Medical Systems
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:30 am - 11:00 am PDT
- 30 minsSpeakersExecutive Director and Head of Artificial Intelligence Practice & StrategyMorgan StanleyShailesh GavankarExecutive Director and Head of Artificial Intelligence Practice & Strategy
Morgan StanleyShailesh is Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, heading Wealth Management Technology's AI, Analytics and Machine Learning teams based across the globe. He is considered thought leader in AI/ML practice area and guiding firm's AI/ML strategy. In his role he is helping firm to improve sales and digital marketing strategy using big data and machine learning. Help protect firm by using state of art payment and internal fraud detection based on supervised learning and anomalous pattern detections. Shailesh has patent filed in the field of using anomaly detection to detect system outages. He is very passionate with his vision of democratizing AI/ML usage. He helped build Enterprise scale analytic platform that is used by over 500+ Data Analysts and citizen data scientists to find business insight and decision making. He helped build Self Service virtual assistant platform using AI/NLP that is used by over 20k FAs/CSAs of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. Shailesh is a visionary leader with over 25 years of experience leading and managing global data and analytics organization. His areas of expertise include big data platforms, Business Intelligence, predictive analytics, AI and Machine Learning.Vijay SaraswatManaging Director and Global head of Artificial Intelligence R & D
Goldman SachsVijay leads a team of researchers and engineers building knowledge extraction, representation and reasoning frameworks for the firm. He joined the firm as a vice president in 2017 and was named managing director in 2019. Over his 30 year research career, Vijay has been a member of the Research Staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center; member of the Research Staff, district manager and technology consultant at AT&T Research, and distinguished member of the Research Staff as well as chief scientist at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center. Additionally, he has served as chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at two startups. Vijay has also served as a professor of Computer Science at The Pennsylvania State University and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. Vijay has published more than 100 papers and collaborated with more than 100 researchers. He received the 1989 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the 2005 Most Influential Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications (OOPSLA) Paper Award for his work. Vijay earned a BTech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1982. He earned an MS and PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985 and 1989, respectively.Frida Polli is a venture-backed CEO, award-winning neuroscientist at Harvard and MIT, and holds an MBA from Harvard, a PhD from Suffolk and a BA from Dartmouth. She is the co-founder of pymetrics, a company pioneering the use of neuroscience and data science to accurately predict hiring outcomes and remove hiring bias through patented games and algorithms. Frida speaks four languages and lived in five foreign countries before settling in Manhattan with her husband and two daughters.Prahalad Thota is Senior Vice President and Head of Enterprise Analytics & Data Science at Wells Fargo & Co. responsible for leading the centralized AI Model Development COE that develops and deploys AI/ ML models; delivering enterprise-scope analytics and capabilities; providing analytical consulting services across the enterprise; building and governing analytical platforms, tools, and processes to help Wells Fargo prepare for the future; leading the Analytic Leadership Council; and driving enterprise approaches to recruit, develop and retain the analyst community. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Prahalad was Head of Analytics at Charles Schwab responsible for delivering advanced analytics and data management for Marketing, Product, Segment, and Bank organizations. Before Schwab, Prahalad worked at PayPal for over four years in various roles - first building and leading the Global Marketing Analytics team and then heading Marketing and Product Management for Latin America Business Unit. He also spent about eight years leading various analytics, marketing and product management teams within the Credit Card division of Capital One Financial Services. Prahalad started his career as a consultant at Arthur Andersen working on strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and risk consulting assignments for financial services companies.
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- 05/07/2021 | 11:00 am - 11:30 am PDT
- 30 minsSpeakersPh.D., Chief Technology Officer & Sr. Vice President of Engineering, Storage Division, ISG,Dell TechnologiesSudhir SrinivasanPh.D., Chief Technology Officer & Sr. Vice President of Engineering, Storage Division, ISG,
Dell TechnologiesSudhir Srinivasan is the Chief Technology Officer for the Storage Division at Dell Technologies. In this role, he is responsible for coordinating the technology strategy across the storage product portfolio and driving innovation everywhere. Additionally, he currently leads the engineering teams that build our products in Object Storage, Stream Storage and Dataset Management. Sudhir is a 21+ year veteran of the information infrastructure industry with particular expertise in scalable storage architectures where he has authored many patents. He was a pioneer in scale-out and software-defined storage architectures before they were known as such in the industry. Prior to Dell, Sudhir held leadership roles at start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science.
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Track Chairs
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Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
All eyes on the business and human impact of AI
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Cloud & Security
Exciting new paradigms in cloud and security with a zero-trust position
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Entrepreneurship
Exploring the revolutionary future of entrepreneurship
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TiE Youth
Fostering youth entrepreneurship
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Healthcare Reimagined
Reinventing healthcare in the age of the global pandemic
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Future of Work
Exploring the nature of work, workplace and workforce with the 4th industrial revolution
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Global Connect
Scaling global connectivity post digital transformation
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CXO Forum
The CXO track provides an opportunity for the highest potential startups to interact with their biggest potential customers
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Diversity and Inclusion
The Diversity & Inclusion track will focus on generating best practices for harnessing diversity and inclusion to drive innovation today and for the future.
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Social Impact Entrepreneurship
Dare to Change the World for Good