VB Transform 2020 | Venture Beat | 14 July 2020 | Virtual Event

Longer deep-dives
More time will be dedicated to track sessions for in-depth discussions on what worked, what didn’t, and practical advice from the trenches.

More conversations
To facilitate more dialogue and ideas exchange, we are creating more time for Q&A with speakers and overall networking.

Top AI tech showcase
We are raising the bar for 2020 to identify the most exciting startups with truly unique offerings.

2020 Speakers

Ramy Nassar
Author of AI Product Design Handbook and Managing Partner, 1000 Days Out

Ted Shelton
Founder, Robodomo

Mady Mantha
Senior Technical Evangelist, Rasa

Anusha Sethuraman
Head of Product Marketing, Fiddler Labs

Carla Saavedra Kochalski
Director of Conversational AI & Messaging Products, Capital One

Kay Firth-Butterfield
Head of AI and Machine Learning and Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum

Dr. Timnit Gebru
Co-lead of Ethical AI Research Team, Google Brain

Francesca Rossi
IBM Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM Research

Jaime Fitzgibbon
Founder & CEO, Ren.ai.ssance Insights

Huma Abidi
Senior Director of AI Software Products, Intel

Matt Marshall
Founder & CEO, VentureBeat

Kurt Muehmel
Chief Customer Officer, Dataiku

Marianna Tessel
Chief Technology Officer,

Jana Eggers
CEO, Nara Logics

Sandra Nudelman
Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Chase

Rajeev Chand
Partner and Head of Research, Wing Venture Capital

Kurt Muehmel
Chief Customer Officer, Dataiku

Seth Colaner
Editorial Director, VentureBeat

Renee Yao
Global Healthcare AI Startups Lead, NVIDIA

Fiona Tan
Senior Vice President, Walmart U.S. Technology

Saurabh Gupta
Chief Research Officer, HFS Research

Charles Elkan
Global Head of ML, Goldman Sachs

Rajeev Chand
Partner and Head of Research, Wing Venture Capital

Rich Roth
SVP, Chief Strategic Innovation Officer, CommonSpirit Health

Seth Colaner
Editorial Director, VentureBeat

Melissa McSherry
SVP and Global Head of Data, Security and Identity Products, Visa

Lori Sherer
Partner, Bain & Company

Ryohei Fujimaki
CEO & Founder, dotData Inc.

Dean Takahashi
Lead Writer, GamesBeat

Carla Saavedra Kochalski
Director of Conversational AI & Messaging Products, Capital One

Huma Abidi
Senior Director of AI Software Products, Intel

David Ryan Polgar
Author & Industry leader

Dr. Richard Khoury
Associate Professor, University Laval

Dr. Kim Voll
Co-Founder, Stray Bombay Company

Kate Shores
Player Dynamics Designer, Riot Games

Liza Wood
Director of Research & Data Science, Two Hat

Jaime Delange
Director of Product, Slack

Hui Wang
VP of Data Science, PayPal

Dimitris Tsementsiz
Senior Quantitative Researcher, Goldman Sachs

Jacob Wilson
Principal, PwC

Jed Dougherty
VP of Field Engineering, Dataiku

Justin Norman
VP of Data Science, Yelp

Kyle Wiggers
AI Staff Writer, VentureBeat

Michael Gran
VP Of Services, Anaconda

Wei Li
Vice President and General Manager, Intel

Romer Rosales
Senior Director and Head of Consumer AI, LinkedIn

Hari Sivaraman
Head of AI Content Strategy, VentureBeat

Ameen Kazerouni
Head of ML/AI Research, Zappos

Chris Kakkanat
Data Science Senior Director/Team Leader, Pfizer

Kurt Muehmel
CCO, Dataiku

Ion Stoica
Co-founder, Rise Labs (UC Berkeley)

Jed Dougherty
VP of Field Engineering, Dataiku

Justin Norman
Vice President, Data Science, Yelp

Will Griffin
Chief Ethics Officer, Hypergiant

Ayodele Odubela
Data Scientist, SambaSafety

Yakaira (Kai) Núñez
Senior Director, Research & Insights, Platform Products, Salesforce

Krystal Maughan
PhD Candidate with focus on Machine Learning, Differential Privacy & Provable Fairness, University of Vermont

Linden Hillebrand
VP Global Customer Success and Support, Cloudera

Adam Warrington
Senior Director, Engineering, Cloudera

Sam Charrington
Host, TWIML

Cynthia Stoddard
CIO & Senior Vice President, Adobe

Hari Sivaraman
Head of AI Content Strategy, VentureBeat

Ken Dodelin
VP Conversational AI Products, Capital One

Matt Marshall
Founder & CEO, VentureBeat

Juan Bertiche
Partner, Globant

Barak Turovsky
Head of Product, NLU, Google AI

Noelle Silver
Head of Instruction, Data Science, Analytics and Full Stack Web Development, HackerU

Richard Socher
Chief Scientist and EVP, Salesforce

Julie Choi
VP and GM, Artificial Intelligence Product and Research Marketing, Intel

Parag Agrawal
CTO, Twitter

Matt Marshall
Founder & CEO, VentureBeat

Janet Slifka
Director of Research Science, Amazon Alexa AI

Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek
Head of Conversational Research, VERSA Agency

Igor Jablokov
CEO & Founder, Pryon

Mady Mantha
Senior AI Evangelist, Rasa.com

Krishna Gade
CEO & Co-founder, Fiddler.ai

Alexis Crowell
Head of IoT Marketing, Intel

Eboni Chaffee
Director of Customer Experience, Intel

Julie Hanson
Head of Thought Leadership Marketing, Intel

Rick Hack
Head of Media & Entertainment Partnerships, Intel

Barak Turovsky
Head of Product, NLU, Google AI

Prem Natarajan
VP of Alexa Artificial Intelligence & Head of Natural Language Processing, Amazon

Rachel Payne
Managing Director, Head of Technology and Innovations, FullCycle

Valerie Nygaard
Product Lead, Google Assistant & Duplex

Noelle Silver
Head of Instruction, Data Science, Analytics and Full Stack Web Development, HackerU

Rodney Sampson
Executive Chairman & CEO, OHUB

Matt Marshall
CEO, VentureBeat

Shari Johnston
Partner, Account-Based Practice Lead, Winning by Design

Brian Kaminski
Chief Customer Officer, Conversica

Will Webb-Purkis
Senior Vice President, Product Management, Conversica

Rashmi Vittal
CMO, Conversica

Kevin Colosimo
Sr. Director of Digital Strategy and Innovation, Oracle

Jim Kaskade
CEO, Conversica

Krystal Maughan
Ph.D. Candidate with focus on Machine Learning, Differential Privacy & Provable Fairness, University of Vermont

Dean Takahashi
Lead Writer, GamesBeat

Maribel Lopez
Founder & Principal Analyst, Lopez Research

Deepu Talla
Vice President and General Manager of Embedded and Edge Computing, NVIDIA

Maribel Lopez
Founder & Principal Analyst, Lopez Research

Jeremy King
SVP of Technology, Pinterest

Nicole Alexander
Professor Marketing & Technology, NYU & Former SVP, Chief Innovation Expert, Ipsos
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Brian McCarson
VP & Sr. Principal Engineer, Internet of Things Group (IOTG), Intel Corporation

Matt Marshall
Founder & CEO, VentureBeat

Zoubin Ghahramani
Chief Scientist, Uber

Maribel Lopez
Founder & Principal Analyst, Lopez Research

Mazen Rawashdeh
CTO, eBay

Kunle Olukotun
Chief Technologist & Co-Founder, SambaNova Systems and Cadence Design Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University

Shaun Moore
CEO,Trueface

Gil Becker
President & CEO,Anyclip

Mark Fitzgerald
Director, Autonomous Vehicle Practice, Strategy Analytics

Ramine Roane
VP of AI and Software, Xilinx

Dr. James Peng
Co-founder & CEO, Pony.ai

Dr. Song Han
Assistant Professor, Inventor of Deep Compression, MIT

Jim Kane
Vice President, Product Line Management, Magna

Nand Mulchandani
Acting Director and CTO, U.S. Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center

Stacey Schulman
CIO of IoT Vision/Retail, Intel

Dr. Josh Sullivan
Head of Modzy

Anthony Robbins
Vice President, North America Public Sector, NVIDIA

Shuchi Rana
Senior Director, HeadSpin

Kunle Olukotun
Chief Technologist & Co-Founder, SambaNova Systems and Cadence Design Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University

Vaibhav Vavilala
Technical Director, Pixar Animation Studios

Jimmy Nassif
Head of IT Planning Systems, BMW Group

Matt Scott
Co-Founder and CEO, Malong Technologies

Jered Floyd
Office of the CTO, Red Hat

Maribel Lopez
Founder & Principal Analyst, Lopez Research

Cesar Romeo
Principal ML Engineer, Unity Technologies

Dr. Matthias Merkel
Oregon Science & Health University

Amit Phadnis
Chief Digital Officer, GE Healthcare

Matt Marshall
CEO, VentureBeat

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2020 Sponsors

• data iku
• intel
• CapitalOne
• NVIDIA
• modzy
• CLOUDERA
• dotDATA
• twohat
• DELL Technologies
• inference
• ANACONDA
• conversica
• SambaNova SYSTEMS
• XILINX
• Globant
• ODSC
• Aigents
• tryo labs
• WOMEN IN DATA
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• MBOLDEN
• static.wixstatic
• W Digital
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