Generative AI Applications Summit 2025 | Rising Media | 3 June 2025 | Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, 340 N 3rd St, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA

Generative AI has taken the world by storm. To the public, it is by far the most exciting deployment of machine learning. To futurists, it is the most humanlike. And to industry leaders, it has the widest, most untapped range of potential use cases.

Generative AI Applications Summit translates the hype into value:
• Innovations: the latest advancements
• Use cases: developing genAI applications that deliver quantifiable business value
• Practicalities: measurable improvements to enterprise efficiencies and guidance on deployment and governance
• Hundreds of executives, data scientists and AI visionaries from manufacturing, logistics, marketing, e-commerce, financial and many more sectors will meet for keynotes, case studies and workshops over four days. Join the conference or apply for speaking.

We provide a platform for the burgeoning Generative AI community to share success stories and insights with their industry peers. Don’t miss four days that provide the perfect opportunity for in depth knowledge sharing, interactive, expert discussions and intensive industry networking.

2025 Speakers

Amrith Coumaran
Computer Vision Scientist, Privateer Space

Amy Neftzger
Senior Director, Advanced Analytics
A large healthcare organization, A large healthcare organization

Andreas Welsch
Founder & Chief AI Strategist, Intelligence Briefing

Aniket Vashisht
Senior Solution Architect, AWS

Bas Geerdink
Tech Lead, Aizonic

Ben Webster
Data Science Solutions Architect, NLP Logix

Bipin Chadha
SVP Data Science, CSAA Insurance (AAA)

Charles Thibault
Executive Vice President, IDT

Cho-Nan Tsai
President & CEO, Hyperionsoft

Chris Kuchar
Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Nice

David Howard
Data Scientist and Tech Lead, Datasite

Dr. David Perkins, CAP®, PMP®
Professor of Business Analytics
Grand Canyon University

Dean Abbott
Chief Data Scientist, Appriss Retail

Emily Smith
Founder & CEO, Side Nerd

Dr. Eric Siegel
Conference Founder, Machine Learning Week

Dr. Erika McBride
Head of Data, Analytics AI PMO and Governance, Paychex

Evan Wimpey
Director of Analytics, PyMC Labs

Fabio Ferraretto
Partner & CEO, Dhauz

Garret Anderson
AI Practice Leader, Digineer

Henry Castellanos
Director Data Science, Risas

James McCaffrey
Senior Scientist Engineer, Microsoft

James Taylor
Executive Partner, Bluepolaris

Jayda Koland Jones
Founder & Principal Consultant, BDJ

Dr. Jennifer Schaff
Vice President of Commercial Services, Elder Research

Joanne Rodrigues
Data Research Supervisor, State of California

Dr. John Elder
Founder & Chair, Elder Research

Dr. Karl Rexer
President, Rexer Analytics

Karl Weinmeister
Head of Product Developer Relations, Google Cloud

Karthik Hubli
Senior Software Engineer, Dell

Katie Bakewell
Data Science Solutions Architect, NLP Logix AI Realized

Konstantinos Karageorgos
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Welocalize

Kumaran Ponnambalam
Principal AI Engineer, Cisco

Ledion Lico
Data Scientist, Paychex

Mantek Singh
Machine Learning Engineer, Google

Maria Mora Mora
Data Science Engineer / Manager, Business Intelligence Analyst, Chronos A

Mark R. Kanner
Senior Principal Data Scientist
A large healthcare organization

Michael Griebe
Chief Data Officer, Hahn

Nathan Chappell
Chief AI Officer, Virtous

Preetish Kakkar
Senior Computer Graphics Engineer, Adobe

Rajagopalan Chandrasekharan
Scientist - F, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (retired)

Rama Durga Sekhar Angadala
Associate Director, Walmart

Ravi Jain
Chief Technology Officer, Tapestry, a project at X, Alphabet's innovation lab

Rohit Agarwal
Chief AI Officer, Bizom

Rohit Supekar
Lead Data Scientist, the NewYork Times

Sam McGee
Data Scientist II, STC Health

Scott Rosenkrans
Associate Vice President, Donorsearch

Sriram Selvam
Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Steven Hintze
Chief Data and Product Officer, Arizona Department of Child Safety

Steven Ramirez
Chief Executive Officer, Beyond The Arc

Thomas Baumann
Data Evangelist, La Mobiliere

2025 Sponsors

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Beyond the Arc
• Gooder AI

BRONZE SPONSOR:
• EM