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Meet our Speakers

Alex Iftimie

Deputy General Counsel, OpenAI

Gary Marcus

World-renowned expert on AI; Professor Emeritus, NYU; Author, Taming Silicon Valley

Nina Jankowicz

Co-Founder & CEO, The American Sunlight Project

Ben Goertzel

CEO, ASI Alliance

Divya Chander

CEO & Founder, Lucidify

Stuart Russell

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley

Pablos Holman

Managing Partner, Deep Future

Andrew Hessel

Chairman, Genome Project-write

Payal Arora

Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures, Utrecht University

Srujana Kaddevarmuth

Group Director AI Center of Excellence, Walmart

Scott Wiener

Scott Wiener, State Senator, California's 11th Senatorial District

Vanessa Parli

Director of Research, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI

Robert Silvers

Partner, Ropes & Gray and Former Under Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Zarinah Agnew

Research Director, Collective Intelligence Project

Dr. Ramses Alcaide

CEO and Co-Founder, Neurable

Hanan Alhaddi

Director and Chairman of the Automotive AI Committee, Connected Vehicle Trade Association

Subramaniam Balaji

Sr Director, Business Technology Platform, SAP Solution Advisory, SAP

Erin Boyd

Chief Digital Commercial Transformation Officer, AES

Carlos Calva

Founder, Midbrain

Calum Chace

Co-founder, Conscium

Prof Shuo Chen

General Partner, IOVC; Lecturer, Stanford

Cedric Clyburn

Senior Developer Advocate, Red Hat

Sam De Brouwer

Co-Founder and CEO, XY.AI Labs

Bill DeWeese

CTO, Airia

Daniel Erasmus

Chief Executive Officer, ClimateGPT

Bernardo Flores

Assistant Professor in the Computer Engineering Department, San Jose State University

Brian Gitt

Head of Business Development, Oklo

Hunter Goldman

Program Manager, Generative AI, Meta

Jeannette Gorzala

CEO, ACT AI NOW

Cobus Greyling

Chief Evangelist, Kore AI

Rajarshi Gupta

Sr. Director, Head of AI & Automation, Coinbase

Josiah Hagen

Director of Global Threat Intelligence Research, Trend Micro

Fatema Hamdani

Co-Founder, CEO & Director​, Kraus Hamdani Aerospace

Ulrik Stig Hansen

President & Co-Founder, Encord

Mark Heynen

CO-Founder, Knapsack

Kay Hofmeester

Creative Director, University of Washington

Maisie Holder

Managing Director, InspiredMinds!

Brooke Hopkins

Founder, Coval

Thomas Hurd

Founder, Zeki Data

Apurv Jain

Founder & CEO, MacroX

Ravi Jain

Head of Product and Technology, Project Tapestry

Dheeraj Jalali

Dheeraj Jalali, CTO, Voices.com

Tony Jebara

VP of AI, Spotify

Hemachandran Kannan

Vice Dean & Director - AI Research Centre, Woxsen University

Vijay Karunamurthy

Field CTO, Scale AI

Legare Kerrison

Developer Advocate, Red Hat

André M. König

CEO, Global Quantum Intelligence, LLC

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

Vijay Kotu

Chief Analytics Officer, ServiceNow

Raghu Krishnaiah

Chief Operating Officer, University of Phoenix

Celina Lee

Co-Founder & CEO, Zindi

Lydia Logan

VP of Global Education and Workforce Development, IBM

Nina Lopatina

Lead Developer Advocate, Contextual AI

Adrian Ludwig

Chief Architect, Tools for Humanity

Andrew Marmon

Research Engineer, Google DeepMind

Jonathan McCrea

Founder, Get Started with AI

Fiona McEvoy

Technology & AI Ethics Writer/Researcher & Founder, YoutheData.com

Mohsen Moazami

President (International), Groq

Joel Myhre

Humanitarian Innovator & Co-Chair, UN Global Information Management Working Group for GIS

Sunzay Passari

Sr Director - Innovation & Transformation, UPS

David Pacold

Product Director, Airia

Robert Petrosino

Strategic Engagement Advisor: AI, FBI

Tess Posner

Interim CEO, AI4ALL

Ivan Poupyrev

CEO, Archetype AI

Arthur Rasmusson

Principal AI Engineer, Office of the CTO, WEKA

Melissa Valentine

Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI

Andrew Schroeder

Vice President of Research and Analysis, Direct Relief

Cecilia Shen

CEO & Co-Founder, Cybever

Shruthi Shetty

Global Vice President, Business AI Adoption and Applied AI, SAP

Kai Tier

VP, Executive Creative Technology, Americas, RG/A

Loretta Tioiela

Founder & Managing Partner, Next Sequence

Lauren Vaccarello

CMO, WEKA

Monique van Dusseldorp

Content Director, World Summit AI, InspiredMinds!

Bob van Luijt

CEO & Co-Founder, Weaviate

Lucia Velasco

Head AI Policy, United Nations

Greg Whalen

CTO, Prove AI

Ilana Wisby

CEO, Quantum Moth

Michelle Yi

Co-founder, Generationship

Mike Zagorsek

Chief Operating Officer, SoundHound AI

Professor Dr. Thorsten O. Zander

Founder and Chief Scientist, Zander Labs

Check out our speakers from past WSAI events

Speaker Hall of Fame

 

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Yann LeCun

VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta

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Cassie Kosyrkov

Chief Decision Scientist, Google

Werner Vogels SQ
Werner Vogels

VP & CTO at Amazon

Stuart Russell - Berkeley
Stuart Russell

Professor of Computer Science, Berkeley University

Joelle Pineau
Joëlle Pineau

Professor and William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science, McGill University; Vice President of AI Research, Meta

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Gary Marcus

CEO & Founder, Robust AI; Co-author, Rebooting AI; Professor of Psychology & Neural Science, New York University

Yoshua Bengio (1)
Yoshua Bengio

Canada CIFAR AI Chair; Full Professor, Samsung AI; Professor, Université de Montréal; Scientific Director, Mila & IVADO

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Manuela Velosa

Head of AI Research, J.P. Morgan

Grady Booch
Grady Booch

Chief Scientist for Software Engineering & Fellow, IBM Research

Anil Seth SQ
Anil Seth

Professor of Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience, University of Sussex

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Athina Kanioura

Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, PepsiCo

Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands

Special Envoy

Jamie Metzl (1)
Jamie Metzl

Founder and Chair, One Shared World

Daphne Koller
Professor Daphne Koller

Founder and Chief Executive Officer (Insitro); Co-Founder, Coursera

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Lambert Hogenhout

Chief Data, Analytics & Emerging Technologies, United Nations

Steve Chien
Dr Steve Chien

NSCAI Commissioner; JPL Fellow; Technical Group Supervisor, Artificial Intelligence/Integrated Planning and Execution, California Institute of Technology/NASA

Raquel Urtasun
Raquel Urtasun

Founder & CEO, Waabi

ZOUBIN GHAHRAMANI
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
Geeta Nayyar

SVP, Chief Medical Officer, Salesforce

Tony Jebara
Tony Jebara

VP of Engineering and Head of AI and Machine Learning, Spotify