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# AI Visionaries take the stage
## Meet our inspiring speakers and apply to become one yourself
## Want to speak at WSAI USA?
If you’re part of spearheading the AI revolution and share our community’s passion for using tech to shape a positive future, then we’d love to hear from you.
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### 3- YEAR
Waiting List
### 1,000s
Annual Submissions
### 100+
Speakers on stage
## Past Speakers Include
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## Meet our Speakers
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##### Alex Iftimie
Deputy General Counsel, OpenAI
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##### Gary Marcus
World-renowned expert on AI; Professor Emeritus, NYU; Author, Taming Silicon Valley
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##### Nina Jankowicz
Co-Founder & CEO, The American Sunlight Project
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##### Ben Goertzel
CEO, ASI Alliance
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##### Divya Chander
CEO & Founder, Lucidify
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##### Stuart Russell
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
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##### Pablos Holman
Managing Partner, Deep Future
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##### Andrew Hessel
Chairman, Genome Project-write
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##### Payal Arora
Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures, Utrecht University
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##### Srujana Kaddevarmuth
Group Director AI Center of Excellence, Walmart
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##### Scott Wiener
Scott Wiener, State Senator, California's 11th Senatorial District
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##### Vanessa Parli
Director of Research, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
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##### Robert Silvers
Partner, Ropes & Gray and Former Under Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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##### Zarinah Agnew
Research Director, Collective Intelligence Project
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##### Dr. Ramses Alcaide
CEO and Co-Founder, Neurable
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##### Hanan Alhaddi
Director and Chairman of the Automotive AI Committee, Connected Vehicle Trade Association
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##### Subramaniam Balaji
Sr Director, Business Technology Platform, SAP Solution Advisory, SAP
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##### Erin Boyd
Chief Digital Commercial Transformation Officer, AES
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##### Carlos Calva
Founder, Midbrain
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##### Calum Chace
Co-founder, Conscium
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##### Prof Shuo Chen
General Partner, IOVC; Lecturer, Stanford
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##### Cedric Clyburn
Senior Developer Advocate, Red Hat
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##### Sam De Brouwer
Co-Founder and CEO, XY.AI Labs
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##### Daniel Erasmus
Chief Executive Officer, ClimateGPT
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##### Bernardo Flores
Assistant Professor in the Computer Engineering Department, San Jose State University
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##### Brian Gitt
Head of Business Development, Oklo
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##### Hunter Goldman
Program Manager, Generative AI, Meta
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##### Jeannette Gorzala
CEO, ACT AI NOW
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##### Cobus Greyling
Chief Evangelist, Kore AI
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##### Rajarshi Gupta
Sr. Director, Head of AI & Automation, Coinbase
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##### Josiah Hagen
Director of Global Threat Intelligence Research, Trend Micro
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##### Fatema Hamdani
Co-Founder, CEO & Director, Kraus Hamdani Aerospace
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##### Ulrik Stig Hansen
President & Co-Founder, Encord
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##### Mark Heynen
CO-Founder, Knapsack
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##### Kay Hofmeester
Creative Director, University of Washington
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##### Maisie Holder
Managing Director, InspiredMinds!
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##### Brooke Hopkins
Founder, Coval
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##### Thomas Hurd
Founder, Zeki Data
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##### Apurv Jain
Founder & CEO, MacroX
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##### Ravi Jain
Head of Product and Technology, Project Tapestry
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##### Dheeraj Jalali
Dheeraj Jalali, CTO, Voices.com
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##### Tony Jebara
VP of AI, Spotify
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##### Hemachandran Kannan
Vice Dean & Director - AI Research Centre, Woxsen University
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##### Vijay Karunamurthy
Field CTO, Scale AI
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##### Legare Kerrison
Developer Advocate, Red Hat
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##### André M. König
CEO, Global Quantum Intelligence, LLC
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##### Rembrand Koning
Co-director of the Tech for All Lab, Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard (D^3); Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
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##### Vijay Kotu
Chief Analytics Officer, ServiceNow
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##### Raghu Krishnaiah
Chief Operating Officer, University of Phoenix
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##### Celina Lee
Co-Founder & CEO, Zindi
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##### Lydia Logan
VP of Global Education and Workforce Development, IBM
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##### Nina Lopatina
Lead Developer Advocate, Contextual AI
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##### Adrian Ludwig
Chief Architect, Tools for Humanity
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##### Andrew Marmon
Research Engineer, Google DeepMind
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##### Jonathan McCrea
Founder, Get Started with AI
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##### Fiona McEvoy
Technology & AI Ethics Writer/Researcher & Founder, YoutheData.com
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##### Mohsen Moazami
President (International), Groq
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##### Joel Myhre
Humanitarian Innovator & Co-Chair, UN Global Information Management Working Group for GIS
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##### Sunzay Passari
Sr Director - Innovation & Transformation, UPS
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##### David Pacold
Product Director, Airia
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##### Robert Petrosino
Strategic Engagement Advisor: AI, FBI
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##### Tess Posner
Interim CEO, AI4ALL
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##### Ivan Poupyrev
CEO, Archetype AI
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##### Arthur Rasmusson
Principal AI Engineer, Office of the CTO, WEKA
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##### Melissa Valentine
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
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##### Andrew Schroeder
Vice President of Research and Analysis, Direct Relief
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##### Cecilia Shen
CEO & Co-Founder, Cybever
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##### Shruthi Shetty
Global Vice President, Business AI Adoption and Applied AI, SAP
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##### Kai Tier
VP, Executive Creative Technology, Americas, RG/A
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##### Loretta Tioiela
Founder & Managing Partner, Next Sequence
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##### Lauren Vaccarello
CMO, WEKA
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##### Monique van Dusseldorp
Content Director, World Summit AI, InspiredMinds!
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##### Bob van Luijt
CEO & Co-Founder, Weaviate
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##### Lucia Velasco
Head AI Policy, United Nations
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##### Greg Whalen
CTO, Prove AI
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##### Ilana Wisby
CEO, Quantum Moth
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##### Michelle Yi
Co-founder, Generationship
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##### Mike Zagorsek
Chief Operating Officer, SoundHound AI
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##### Professor Dr. Thorsten O. Zander
Founder and Chief Scientist, Zander Labs
### Check out our speakers from past WSAI events
## Speaker Hall of Fame
##### Yann LeCun
VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta
##### Cassie Kosyrkov
Chief Decision Scientist, Google
##### Werner Vogels
VP & CTO at Amazon
##### Stuart Russell
Professor of Computer Science, Berkeley University
##### Joëlle Pineau
Professor and William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science, McGill University; Vice President of AI Research, Meta
##### Gary Marcus
CEO & Founder, Robust AI; Co-author, Rebooting AI; Professor of Psychology & Neural Science, New York University
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##### Yoshua Bengio
Canada CIFAR AI Chair; Full Professor, Samsung AI; Professor, Université de Montréal; Scientific Director, Mila & IVADO
##### Manuela Velosa
Head of AI Research, J.P. Morgan
##### Grady Booch
Chief Scientist for Software Engineering & Fellow, IBM Research
##### Anil Seth
Professor of Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex
##### Athina Kanioura
Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, PepsiCo
##### Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
Special Envoy
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##### Jamie Metzl
Founder and Chair, One Shared World
##### Professor Daphne Koller
Founder and Chief Executive Officer (Insitro); Co-Founder, Coursera
##### Lambert Hogenhout
Chief Data, Analytics & Emerging Technologies, United Nations
##### Dr Steve Chien
NSCAI Commissioner; JPL Fellow; Technical Group Supervisor, Artificial Intelligence/Integrated Planning and Execution, California Institute of Technology/NASA
##### Raquel Urtasun
Founder & CEO, Waabi
##### Zoubin Ghahramani
Chief Scientist, Uber; Professor, University of Cambridge
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##### Hui Cheng
Head of JDX Silicon Valley Research Center, JD.COM
##### Geeta Nayyar
SVP, Chief Medical Officer, Salesforce
##### Tony Jebara
VP of Engineering and Head of AI and Machine Learning, Spotify