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 Hall ASpeakers
Kevin Thompson is Tricentis’ Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of the Board. He joined Tricentis in April 2021. Most recently Kevin served as President and Chief Executive Officer of SolarWinds until his departure from the company at the end of 2020. He previously served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer from July 2006 to March 2010, and as Chief Operating Officer from July 2007 to March 2010. Prior to joining SolarWinds, Kevin was Chief Financial Officer of Surgient, Inc., a software company, from November 2005 until March 2006 and was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at SAS Institute, a privately-held business intelligence software company, from August 2004 until November 2005. From October 2000 until August 2004, Kevin served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Red Hat, Inc., a publicly-traded enterprise software company. Kevin holds a B.B.A. from the University of Oklahoma. As the former CEO and Board Member 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 mins Hall ASpeakers Anima 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. Sanjeev Agrawal serves as the President and Chief Operating Officer for LeanTaaS. He was Google’s first Head of Product Marketing. Since then, he has led three successful startups – CEO at Aloqa (acquired by Motorola), VP Products & Marketing at TellMe Networks (acquired by Microsoft) and Founder & CEO at Collegefeed (acquired by AfterCollege). Sanjeev graduated Phi Beta Kappa with an EECS degree from MIT and also spent time at McKinsey and Cisco Systems. He is a frequent speaker at HIMSS, EBPOM, Predictive Analytics World and other industry events, and also writes on his personal blog at http://medium.com/@saagrawa. He is an avid squash player and has been named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top entrepreneurs innovating in Healthcare. Helen Yu is an author and speaker with expertise in global customer-success and technology. Helen is a consultant to the largest technology companies in the world and is a board advisor to fast growth SaaS companies. Her specialty is driving growth while solving complex challenges. Through a career spanning early stage start-ups to Oracle, Adobe and Marketo, her work has enabled multibillion-dollar revenue growth and record profitability. A highly respected thought leader, she is a top Twitter influencer in AI, Blockchain, IoT, revenue growth, and startups with a weekly reach of more than 10M. Helen is recognized as a thought leader by organizations including IBM, Onalytica and Thinkers360. She speaks regularly at conferences including SXSW, TiECon, DMS, and Money2020.
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:00 am – 10:15 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall ASpeakers Raj is the founder and CEO of Kore.ai. For more than 25 years, Raj has been at the forefront of innovative solutions for global enterprises. Before starting Kore.ai, Raj was the CEO and founder of Kony, a leader in cloud-based mobile app development, and also co-founded ITouchPoint, Seranova, and Intelligroup.
Kore.ai (Orlando, FL) is a market-leading Conversational AI and Digital UX technology partner for Global 2000 companies. Kore provides Conversational AI and Digital UX-rich Virtual Assistants, designed specifically for enterprises, for a diverse range of use cases across industries for engaging customers, employees and partners. Its end-to-end, comprehensive no code Virtual Assistant Platform serves as a secure foundation for enterprises to design, build, test, host and deploy AI-rich virtual assistants across 30+ different Digital and Voice channels.
Kore.ai continues to add solutions for vertical and horizontal use cases addressing both CX and EX such as:
• SmartAssist (call center automation/digital deflection);• SearchAssist (modern conversational search engine);• WorkAssist (employee virtual assistant with IT, HR and productivity skills); and• BankAssist (banking VA)• HRAssist (human resources VA)• ITAssist (IT VA)Kore.ai has proven use cases for its technology with over a 100 customers in top verticals such has financial services, insurance, healthcare, CPG, retail, telecom and media. The Company’s customers include four of the top five banks and three top healthcare insurance companies. The Company currently has approximately 425 employees of which 80% are in India.Kore.ai has repeatedly won global analyst acclaim and has been positioned as a Leader in Everest Group’s ‘Intelligent Virtual Agents – Technology Vendor Landscape with Products PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2020’, Gartner Market Guide 2019 for Conversational Platforms, Gartner Market Guide for Virtual Customer Assistants 2019, and IDC Innovators: Conversational AI Software Platforms 2018, among others. Solomon is a Vice President at March Capital, where he focuses on fintech and enterprise software. Prior to joining March, Solomon was a Principal and an early member of Tusk Venture Partners where he invested in early stage technology companies. Investments Solomon worked on included Lemonade (IPO), Coinbase (IPO), Bird, Sunday and Care/of (acquired by Bayer). Prior to Tusk, Solomon was an M&A Analyst at Lazard where he worked on a variety of advisory assignments in the power and energy space. Solomon received a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia.
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:15 am – 10:45 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall ASpeakers Shailesh 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 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. Shay is responsible for overall company growth and strategic direction. He has more than 18 years of entrepreneurial leadership, product development, and management experience with growth-stage, venture-backed companies, and high-growth software divisions within Fortune 50 companies. Previously, Shay was the global leader for Smarter Care at IBM. He successfully led and managed the acquisition of Curam Software to establish IBM’s leadership at the intersection of Social Programs and Healthcare. He has a BS & MS degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the Action School of Entrepreneurship. Shay currently serves on the board of the Austin Technology Council (ATC) and previously served as the Vice-Chair of Innovation for the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce. Principal/Partner, National Leader Artificial Intelligence & Head of Data EngineeringKPMG Sreekar KrishnaPrincipal/Partner, National Leader Artificial Intelligence & Head of Data Engineering
KPMGDr. Sreekar Krishna is Principal/Partner in the Digital Technology practice in KPMG US. He specializes in innovation and creative business solution delivery using AI-enabled Digital Transformation, specifically, Big Data Machine Learning and Knowledge from Unstructured Data. Working with KPMG's customers, he has helped to evangelize the transition of various industry partners from a traditional data warehousing to a sophisticated Big Data Analytics driven culture. He focuses on developing successful operating models for Enterprise-scale AI and other associated technologies such as Natural Language Processing, Billion-scale Data Processing, Ranking, Information Retrieval and Simulation.
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:45 am – 11:00 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall ASpeakers Tom 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.
Parin has spent the last decade developing AI technologies and analytics infrastructure. He currently leads company wide strategic AI decision making at Varian Medical Systems in his role as Vice President of Advanced AI. In previous roles, he architected and managed a continuous deep reinforcement–learning AI, and closing sales with top tier pharma, to deliver personalized planning for glucose regulation. He also formed strategic partnerships and architected multiple processors and hardware algorithms to build a cluster-level AI and analytics acceleration platform.
Parin was formally educated at UC Berkeley, holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from UC San Diego and is a former Associate Scientist at Stanford. His career spans 24 years at six startups and two public companies in various individual contributor, leadership and executive positions in hardware and systems architecture. He holds over 50 patents which have either been granted or are pending approval.
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- 05/07/2021 | 11:00 am – 11:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall ASpeakers Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer & Sr. Vice President of Engineering, Storage Division, ISGDell Technologies Sudhir 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.
Ken serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Epic IO, IntelliSite & Broad Sky Networks. Ken has an early background in nuclear physics and reactor engineering, and over 20 years of business-to-business technology and information security expertise.
Prior to joining IntelliSite, Ken was the General Manager & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Dell Technologies Safety & Security, IoT, and Computer Vision business unit. During his tenure, he was recognized as one of Dell Technologies top security and public safety experts who were instrumental in establishing and growing Dell Technologies Safety and Security solutions.
Prior to Dell Technologies, Ken was a Fellow at the U.S. Department of State. Earlier in his career, he spent close to eight years building a hyper-growth business for Cisco’s Safety and Security, Access Control, and Emergency Response business unit. Previously, Ken was a Partner in one of the largest contract field sales organizations in the United States and served as a Nuclear Engineer for the United States Navy.
Ken holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Business Management from the University of Phoenix and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Clemson University. He is a member of the Security Industry Association (SIA) and serves on the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee for the University of South Florida Muma College of Business, an Advisory Board Member for the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security, and a member of the Forbes Technology Council.
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Track Chairs
TiEcon 2021 Tracks
- AI & Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
All eyes on the business and human impact of AI
- Cloud & Security
Cloud & Security
Exciting new paradigms in cloud and security with a zero-trust position
- Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Exploring the revolutionary future of entrepreneurship
- TiE Youth
- Healthcare Reimagined
Healthcare Reimagined
Reinventing healthcare in the age of the global pandemic
- Future of Work
Future of Work
Exploring the nature of work, workplace and workforce with the 4th industrial revolution
- Global Connect
Global Connect
Scaling global connectivity post digital transformation
- CXO Forum
CXO Forum
The CXO track provides an opportunity for the highest potential startups to interact with their biggest potential customers
- Diversity and Inclusion
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.
- Social Impact
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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
Dare to Change the World for Good