The AI Summit Silicon Valley 2021 | Informa PLC | 3 November 2021 | Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054, US

With a comprehensive two-day program of both aspirational and practical content, as well as a virtual exhibition of emerging tech, The AI Summit Silicon Valley is your chance to interact with a global audience of AI experts in the epicenter of technological innovation and secure your businesses place at the forefront of AI implementation.

Engage with world leading organizations, hear from the brightest minds and get exclusive insights into pioneering AI projects from all corners of the industry.
• Exclusive, boardroom-level insight from over 100 Fortune 500 decision makers
• Engage with the true pioneers of AI development with over 100 of the world’s leading solution providers
• Reconnect and network with your industry peers and engage in strategic conversations on how to prepare for an AI-powered future.

What to expect?
• The chance to hear keynotes led by CxOs from major brands as they outline their five-year plans
• Use of our AI-powered matchmaking tool
• The opportunity to benchmark your AI strategy
• An exclusive Omdia research report valued at $1999
• Access to the technical streams, covering Retail, Healthcare, Finance and AIOps
• The chance to explore our expo and experience first hand the latest AI releases from 150 expert suppliers.

2021 Speakers

Hicham Abdessamad
Chairman & CEO of Hitachi America, Ltd., Chief Executive of Hitachi’s Global Social Innovation Business (GSIB) for, Hitachi, Ltd.

Michael D. Abramoff, MD, PhD
Founder and Executive Chairman, Digital Diagnostics

Ramona Aubry, PhD
Director of Customer Success, expert.ai

Bojan Babic
Search and Local Discovery, Nextdoor

Ahsan Baig
Chief Information Officer/Chief Technology Officer, AC Transit

Ilaria Bencivenga
IoT Policy Manager, Access Partnership

Michael Berger
Head of AI Insurance, Munich Re

Brenna Berman
CEO & Executive Director, City Tech

Ravi Boggaram
CTO - Sr Director, Digital Services, PepsiCo

Jeff Boudier
Product Lead, Hugging Face

Mike Bowers
Chief Architect, Faircom

Dr. Michael Branicky
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kansas

Chunck Brokish
Director of Automotive Business Development, Green Hills Software

Steve Brumer
Partner, BH IoT Group

Josh Builta
Director of AI and IoT Research, Omdia

Marc Butterfield
Sr.Vice President, First National Bank of Omaha

James Caldwell
Manager, Information Technology, Boeing Global Services

John Canali
Senior Analyst, Omdia

Brandon Cannaday
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Losant

Arnab Chakraborty
Global Managing Director - Applied Intelligence North America Lead, Accenture

Dinesh Chandrasekhar
Head of Product Marketing, Data-in-Motion, Cloudera

Vikram Chatterji
Co-Founder & CEO, Galileo

Omer Cheema
Head of IoT Wi-Fi business, Renesas Electronics

Monica Chitre
Head of Product, MachineQ, a Comcast Company

Tracy Collins
VP of Americas, EkkoSense

Brad Coy
Senior Advanced Analytics Consultant, Nationwide Insurance

Dan Darnell
Head of Product Marketing, Dataiku

Manish Dasaur
Managing Director, Accenture Analytics

Amin Dashti Moghaddam
Principal Data Scientist, Capital One Labs

Aaron Defazio
Research Scientist, Facebook

Sridhar Deivasigamani
Clean Energy Technologist | Founder & CEO, Intellihot Inc

Deidre Diamond
Founder and CEO, CyberSN

Louis DiCesari
Global Head of Data, Analytics and AI, Levi Strauss & Co.

Danny Dig
Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado

Katie Duffy
Director of Facebook IQ, Facebook

Dr Eric Eskioğlu
Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Officer, Novant Health

Lucian Fogoros
Co-Founder, IIoT World

Tyler Folkman
Head of AI & Product, BEN Group

Dr Samuel Franklin
Senior Director of Data Science & ML Engineering, Pluralsight

Paul Franzon
Professor of electrical and computer engineering, North Carolina State University

Lisa Gillmor
Mayor, City of Santa Clara

Ibrahim Gokcen
Chief Technology Officer, Neo Holdings

Barton Goldenberg
Founder & President, ISM

Caroline Goodbody
Director of Product, Comcast Smart Cities, Comcast

Klaus Haller
Senior Security Architect, AXA

Zach Hanson
Product Lead - Rewards Platform, Capital One

Ganesh Harinath
Vice President & CTO, 5G MEC, AI Platforms, Blockchain & Next-Gen Applications, Verizon

Matt Hatton
Founding Partner, Transforma Insights

Amy Hodler
AI Evangelist, Fiddler

Liangjie Hong
Director of Engineering, AI, LinkedIn

Bennett Indart
SMART World Executive Leader, NTT Data

Manoj Iragavarapu
VP Digital Strategy Consulting & Security, AI Innovation Consortium

Eric Jang
CEO, DeepBrainAI

Adam Jansen
Senior Innovation Manager, Volvo Group

Claus Jensen
Chief Innovation Officer - EVP of R&D and IT, Teledoc Health

Nick Johnson
Director of AI Data Engineering, BEN Group

Cesar Johnston
Acting CEO,Energous

Greg Jones
Chief Technology Officer, Kajeet

Ajay Joseph
Chief Technology Officer, iBASIS

Ajay Joshi
Deputy Chief Information Officer, City of Phoenix

Jay Kachhadia
Data Scientist, ViacomCBS

Shadaab Kanwal
Managing Director Digital, Data, and Analytics, Charles Schwab

Jeremy Kaufmann
Principal, Scale Venture Partners

James Kay
Director of Sales, Laird Connectivity

David Keene
Chief Strategy Officer, Speechmatics

Kevin C. Kent
Founder & CEO, Critical Facilities Efficiency Solutions

Andrei Khurshudov
Director of IoT Analytics, CAT Digital, Caterpillar

Ganapathy Krishnan
Vice President - Engineering, Flipkart

Nick Kritikos
TSC Member, Baseline Protocol, an EEA Community Project, OASIS

Saurabh Kulkarni
Head of Engineering for North America, Graphcore

Ajoy Kumar
Principal Data Scientist - Power Generation, Asset & Data Management, Engineering and Ops, PG&E

Mohan Kumar
Professor of Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology

Bharath Kurapati
Program Manager, Process Engineering, Peet's Coffee

Danny Lange
SVP - AI, Unity

Eric Lenington
Founder and CEO, Object Spectrum

Moises Levy
Principal Analyst, Omdia

Alfonso Limon
Chief Liaison of Research and Development, Oneirix Labs

Dennis Liu
Associate Director - Global Strategy & Business Development, Ford Research & Innovation Center, Ford Motor Co.

Yuan Luo
Chief AI Officer & Professor, Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS)

Monika Mangla
Digital Transformation Strategy and Program Manager, Chevron

John Marshall
CEO, World Ethical Data Forum

Jack McCauley
Board Trustee, UC Berkeley

Conor McGann
Senior Director, Software and Data Systems, Plenty

Dhagash Mehta
Senior Manager, Investment Strategist - Machine Learning and Asset Allocation, Vanguard

Marcelo Mendonca
Technical Leader, Manufacturing 4.0 Data Analytics, General Motors

Arte Merritt
Conversational AI Partnerships, Amazon

Ron Minnich
Software Engineer, Google

Marko Mitic
Software Security Architect, NVIDIA

Donna Moore
CEO & Chairwoman, LoRa Alliance

Praveen Moturu
VP - Chief Enterprise Architect, Mars

Kurt Muehmel
Chief Customer Officer, Dataiku

Girish Naganathan
Chief Technology Officer, Technicolor

Ram Naidu
Senior Vice President - AI, Cambridge Consultants

Lin Nease
Chief Technologist IoT, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Nicole Newmeyer
Technical Director for NSA Internet of Things (IoT), National Security Agency

Dr Beau Norgeot
Chief Data Officer, Lucid Lane

James Odeyinka
Technical Cloud Architect and Cybersecurity Leader, Walgreens

Hassan Omidi Firouzi
VP, Applied AI ML Lead, JPMorgan Chase & Co

Chris Pearson
President, 5G Americas

Duan Peng
SVP - Data & AI, WarnerMedia

Allen Proithis
CEO, Capstone Partners

Nils Puhlmann
Co-founder, Cloud Security Alliance

Bali Raghavan
Head of Engineering, Forward

Nicole Raimundo
Chief Information Officer, Town of Cary

Dinesh Ramasvamy
Global Leader - Advanced Solutions, Verizon Business group, Verizon

Nikon Rasumov-Rahe
Leading PM for AI Data & Feature Engineering, Facebook

Lee Ratliff
Senior Principal Analyst, Omdia

Ramya Ravichandar
Vice President, Sustainability Products, JLL

Federico Riveroll
Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist, OpenBlender

Paul Russell
VP, Wireless Products Business Manager, Teledyne LeCroy

Trent Salvaggio
Executive Director, IoT Talent Consortium

Sam Samaras
Global R&D Vice President for Science & Technology, Unilever

Kenneth Sanford
Sales Engineering VP, OpenBlender

Anas Sawaf
Digital Technologies Business Partner/Product Owner - Data Analytics and IIoT, Kimberly-Clark

Manoj Saxena
Executive Chairman, CognitiveScale and Chairman of Responsible AI

Keith Schaub
Vice President of Strategy and Technology, Advantest America

Stan Schneider
Board Member, Teleoperation Consortium

Tracci Schultz
Senior Vice President Strategic Planning, Engineering and Operational Solutions, FedEx

Tony Shakib
Partner/GM, Microsoft Azure IoT, Microsoft

Jason Shepherd
VP of Ecosystem, ZEDEDA

Behrooz Shirazi
IUCRC Program Director, National Science Foundation

Ricky Singh
VP, IoT Americas, Software AG

Thomas Sohmers
Head of Distributed Systems, Groq

Sri Sukhi
Head of Energy Analytics, SunPower

Jordan Sun
Chief Innovation Officer, City of San José

Moshe Tanach
CEO & Co-Founder, NeuReality

René Torres
Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Communications Group, General Manager, IOT Strategic Accounts, Intel Corporation

Deep Varma
CTO, Varo Bank

Erik Varney
Managing Director, Telematics and Industrial IoT, Verizon

Venu Vasudevan
Director, Data Science & AI Research, Procter & Gamble

Denis Vilfort
Director PAN-HPE marketing, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Andy Vitus
Partner, Scale Venture Partners

Monark Vyas
Managing Director, Applied Intelligence - Products West, Accenture

Michael Weller
Senior Innovation Advisor, Verizon Business Group in the Manufacturing/Energy/Utility Practice, Verizon

Michael Wilkinson
CEO and Founder, Paragon Innovations

Christopher Witbracht
Global Director, Anheuser-Busch InBev

Shahar Yaacobi
Head of Marketing, IoT, Amdocs

Emigdio Zambada
AVP, Advanced analytics leader, Nationwide Financial

2021 Sponsors and Partners

INDUSTRY PARTNERS:
• Accenture
• IBM Watson

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• Dataiku
• DataRobot
• Microsoft

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Government of Canada
• Pluraslight

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Blue Yonder
• BMC Software
• Cambridge Consultants
• DDN Storage
• Speechmatics
• Stefanini Group
• Veritone

SILVER SPONSORS:
• DeepBrain AI
• Fiddler
• Graphcore
• Groq
• Riverlane
• Samasource
• StellarX
• Welocalize

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• ColdQuanta
• Mobius Labs
• MTS
• NeuReality

HEADLINE MEDIA PARTNERS:
• AI Magazine
• Quantum Computing Report