Venue
The Westin Boston Seaport District
The Westin Boston Seaport District, 425 Summer St, Boston, MA 02210, USA

What is Qwoted?

Qwoted is a free expert network: we help reporters connect with experts & we help those same experts build relationships with top reporters.

Event Date Wed Oct 15 EDT - Thu Oct 16 EDT (in 5 months)
Location The Westin Boston Seaport District
425 Summer St, Boston, MA 02210, USA
Region Americas
Details

Boston's community of applied engineers, developers & executives is assembling.

With greater hardware efficiency and growing industry demand, fine-tuning infrastructure & optimizing deployment environments is essential.

Join your peers in facilitating the LLM & multimodal AI era, and leave with the tools to scale powerful, cost-effective applications on the journey to AGI.

We’re bringing together the brightest minds in AI to bridge the gap between cutting edge research & value-driving application for engineers & developers.

Unite with your ecosystem for three days of unrivalled networking, learning and discussion, so that you're able to:
• Conquer challenges in infrastructure, data layer, deployment, optimization, and beyond.
• Remain competitive, having assessed the latest cutting-edge applications & technologies.
• Leave connected with the East Coast's most innovative leaders, equipped with the tools and tech stack you need.

What you’ll get out of the summit:
• From strategic roadmapping, to ethicality debates, to model optimization - break down the roadblocks on your journey to the production line.
• Discover new pockets of innovation, and get up-to-speed in an ever-developing ecosystem.
• Leave as part of a global community, with a diverse network of local support.

Speakers

2025 Speakers

Anastasis Germanidis
CTO & Co-Founder, Runway

Anton McGonnell
VP, Product, SambaNova Systems

Jason Haupt
Chief Data Scientist, Optum

Bratin Saha
Chief Product & Technology Officer, DigitalOcean

Keri Olson
VP, IBM Data & AI Product Management, IBM

Darren Perry
Managing Director & Board Member, LEK Consulting

Dr. Denise Turley
VP, Corporate Systems, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Tiarne Hawkins
Partner, Generative AI Enterprise Strategy, Invisible

Derya Isler
VP, Product, SiriusXM

Jay Wilder
VP, Marketing, Deepset

Lachlan de Crespigny
Co-Founder, Revelo

Lydia Andresen
Partner, Director of AI Training, Invisible

Sadid Hasan
AI Lead, Microsoft

Leo Barella
Chief Architect, Financial Services & Insurance, Salesforce

Hitesh Seth
Chief Technology Officer, Takeda

Preethi Raghavan
VP, NLP & Machine Learning, Fidelity Investments

Jeff Chapman
Field CTO, Vectara

Andrea Dulko
UX Lead, Cloud Conversation AI, Google

John Patricio
Partner, Director of Strategy, AI Training, Invisible

Skander Fourati
AI, Machine Learning & Computer Vision, Encord

Vinod Goje
VP, Engineering, Bank of America

Stavros Zervoudakis
VP, Artificial Intelligence; Assistant Professor, NYU, Mutual of America

Devin Billings
Associate Director, Electrical Research & Development, Boston Dynamics

Dan Coates
President, YPulse, Inc.

Akash Sharma
CEO & Founder, Vellum

Kevin Kiley
President, Airia

Ofer Mendelevitch
Head of Developer Relations, Vectara

Carlo Appugliese
Watsonx Americas Leader, Customer Success, IBM

Serdar Kadıoğlu
VP, Artificial Intelligence, Fidelity Investments

Himanshu Jain
AVP, Data Science & AI, CVS Health

Nirupam Sarkar
VP, Data Science, Fidelity Investments

Christopher Buchholz
Director, Product Management, Seismic

Sean (Xiang) Ma, Ph.D
Head of Applied AI, Amazon Dashcart, Worldwide Stores, Amazon

Andrew Amann
CEO & Co-Founder, NineTwoThree Studio

Piyush Ranjan
AVP, Technology, Barclays

Danny Brock
VP, Customer Success, Fiddler

Brij Kishore Pandey
Principal Engineer, ADP

Kas Attanapola
Program Director, Product Management, IBM

Brett Harris
VP, AI Strategy & Enablement, SGK

Amin Assareh
VP, Data Science & Adjunct Professor, Fidelity Investments

Awais Sher Bajwa
Head of Data & AI, Bank of America

Andrew Patricio
Principal, Data & Analytics, UnidosUS

Jerry Gupta
Head of AI Products & Insurance, Armilla AI

Jack DiGiovanna
Chief Science Officer, Velsera

Mihir Naresh Shah
Senior Software Engineer, Intuit

Ratul Ghosh
Staff Data Engineer, Intuit

Vahan Petrosyan
CEO & Co-Founder, SuperAnnotate

Lindsay Richman
Co-Founder, Innvererse

Jayeeta Putatunda
NLP & Generative AI Manager, Senior Data Scientist, Fitch Group

Anna Litvak-Hinenzon
Chief AI Product Strategist, Advisor & Founder, al-tech.ai

Olivier Koch
VP, Applied AI, Onfido

Dr. Robert MacAuslan, PhD
VP, Artificial Intelligence, Southern New Hampshire University

Devshree Patel
Machine Learning Engineer, Intuit

Rob Truxler
Director, Engineering, Wayfair

Sanjay Yadav
Head of Engineering, Parlance

Jeff Joyce
Director of AI Content at Scale

Denise Cheung
SVP, Design & Innovation, InfoBeans

Aslam Merchant
VP, Head of Enterprise Architecture, Chief Architect, Kaiser Permanente

Vinod Das
Pharma R&D, AI Solutions Enablement, Bayer

Sukanya Moorthy
Senior Machine Learning Engineer II, Credit Karma

Het Mistry
Senior Business Intelligence Engineer, Navy Federal Credit Union

Dhanashree Lele
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Albertsons Companies

Manuel Ventero Peña
Engineering Manager, Data Science, Klaviyo

Carmel Shachar
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Faculty Director, Health Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School

Ripudaman Singh
Principal ML Scientist, Blue River Technology

Sponsors & Partners

2025 Partners

HEADLINE PARTNERS:
• IBM
• Invisible
• SambaNova
• SuperAnnotate

SUMMIT PARTNERS:
• Encord
• Amniscient
• DigitalOcean
• LEK
• Deepset
• XLXT
• Vectara
• Sudolabs
• Vellum
• Revelo
• Fiddler
• Airia
• Armilla
• Nine two three

SUPPORTING PARTNERS:
• Acara
• DZILI ZI
• International Business Times.
• atn Al Tools Network
• General Assembly
• Joebot.tv

COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
• Weka
• EDB Singapore