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GENAI WEEK 2025

SPEAKERS

Builders | Investors | Researchers

Meet the Visionaries Defining the Future of AI

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Speakers
Jason Wei

Jason Wei

Member of Technical Staff

OpenAI

CoT & GPT O3

Arvind Jain

Arvind Jain

Founder & CEO

Glean

$7.2B Valuation

Rob Ferguson

Rob Ferguson

Head of AI for Startups

Microsoft

Startup Growth Expert

Deon Nicholas

Deon Nicholas

Founder

Forethought

Funding Amount: $100M+

Steve Nouri

Steve Nouri

Founder & CEO

GenAI.Works

AI Community with 10M Followers

Eric Simons

Eric Simons

Co-Founder and CEO

Bolt

Valuation: $14B

Ed Oates

Ed Oates

Co-Founder

Oracle

Third-Largest Software Company

Soumya Batra

Soumya Batra

Author of Llama2 and Llama3

Ex-Meta
Michael Stewart

Michael Stewart

Managing Partner

M12

Microsoft's Venture Capital

Jason Lopatecki

Jason Lopatecki

Founder & CEO

Arize AI

$540M Exit, Leads AI Observability

Nikhil Krishnan

Nikhil Krishnan

SVP & CTO

C3 AI

Market Cap: $3.5B

Shravan Narayen

Shravan Narayen

Partner

IVP

$7.25B+ Under Management

Tuhin Srivastava

Tuhin Srivastava

Co-founder & CEO

Baseten

Valuation: $825M

Zihan Wang

Zihan Wang

Author of DeepSeek V2

Ex-DeepSeek

Autonomous Reasoning for LLMs

Vanessa Larco

Vanessa Larco

Formerly Partner

NEA

Led Consumer-Focused Venture Investments

Richard Socher

Richard Socher

Founder & CEO

You.com

Valuation: $900M

Jeff Lu

Jeff Lu

Founder & CEO

Akool

$40M ARR

Sophie Ren

Sophie Ren

Founder & CEO

Chatslide

Forbes 30U30 | Knowledge → Revenue via AI

Swapnil Jain

Swapnil Jain

CEO & Co-Founder

Observe.AI

Valuation: $800M

Jay Allardyce

Jay Allardyce

Co-Founder & President

GenAI.Works

AI Community with 10M Followers

Megh Guatam

Megh Guatam

CPO

Crunchbase

Startup intelligence and investment insights

Sharon Zhou

Sharon Zhou

VP of AI

AMD

Democratizing Dependable Enterprise LLMs

Jack McCauley

Jack McCauley

Innovator of Residence, Board Trustee

UC Berkeley

Oculus VR Co-Founder

Saanya Ojha

Saanya Ojha

Partner

Bain Capital Ventures

Fund Size: Over $10B

Ben Morss

Ben Morss

Developer Evangelist

DeepL

Valuation: $2B

Shaun Johnson

Shaun Johnson

Co-Founder & General Partner

AIX Ventures

Early investor of Perplexity, Hugging Face, WindSurf

Balaji Ganesan

Balaji Ganesan

Co-Founder & CEO

Privacera

Valuation: $380M

Tim Shi

Tim Shi

Co-Founder & CTO

Cresta.AI

Valuation: $1.6B

Peter Coats

Peter Coats

SVP

Wildcat Discovery Technologies

Valuation: $7.5B

Chandrakant Patel

Chandrakant Patel

Chief Engineer

Ex-HP

Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame

Mengdi Wang

Mengdi Wang

Professor

Princeton University

Donald P. Eckman Award 2019

Jia Li

Jia Li

Co-Founder, Chief AI Officer

Live X

IEEE Fellow

Miha Kralj

Miha Kralj

Global Senior Partner

IBM

Cloud-AI Enterprise Transformation

Nick Mehta

Nick Mehta

CEO

Gainsight

Valuation: Over $1.1B

Kahini Shah

Kahini Shah

Partner

Obvious Ventures

Fund Size: Over $1B

Vijay Chandrasekhar

Vijay Chandrasekhar

Co-founder & CEO

Cosmos Innovation

Funding Amount: $27.8M

Stefan Leichenauer

Stefan Leichenauer

VP of Engineering

SandboxAQ

Valuation: $5B

Timothy Young

Timothy Young

CEO

Jasper AI

Valuation: $1.2B

Daniel Wagner

Daniel Wagner

Founder, CEO, & Chairman

Rezolve AI

Valuation: $55M

Filip Kozera

Filip Kozera

Founder & CEO

Wordware

Funding Amount: $30M

Tengyu Ma

Tengyu Ma

Chief AI Scientist

MongoDB

Ex-Voyage AI, acquired by MongoDB

Monica Bajaj

Monica Bajaj

VP of Engineering

Okta

Market Cap: $18B

Xi Chen

Xi Chen

Professor

NYU Stern School of Business

Andre Meyer Faculty Fellow

Jim Dukhovny

Jim Dukhovny

President & CEO

Alef

World's First Flying Car

Charles Xie

Charles Xie

Founder & CEO

Zilliz

Funding: $40M

Cindi Howson

Cindi Howson

Chief Data & AI Strategy Officer

Thoughtspot

Market Cap: $1.25B

Ali Khodaei

Ali Khodaei

VP of AI Product

SandboxAQ

Valuation: $5B

David Hefter

David Hefter

Director

BlackRock

World's Largest Asset Manager

Byung-Gon Chun

Byung-Gon Chun

Co-Founder & CEO

FriendliAI

LLM Inference Accelerator

Gunveer Gujral

Gunveer Gujral

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Meta

Pioneered Scalable AI Infrastructure

Chandni Dhanjal

Chandni Dhanjal

Senior Director, Product

Expedia Group

Market Cap: Over $20B

Satya Nitta

Satya Nitta

Co-founder & CEO

Emergence

Innovated Recursive Autonomous AI

Drew Dennison

Drew Dennison

Co-Founder & CTO

Semgrep

Funding: $193M

Zhou Yu

Zhou Yu

Founder

Arklex.ai

Forbes 30 under 30, 2018

Sebastien Jean

Sebastien Jean

CTO

Phison

Market Cap: Over $100B

Steven Hoffman

Steven Hoffman

Chairman & CEO

Founders Space

World's leading Incubator & Accelerator

Vaibhavi Gangwar

Vaibhavi Gangwar

Co-Founder & CEO

Maxim

Revolutionizing AI Evaluation Standards

Jenny Xiao

Jenny Xiao

Partner

Leonis Capital

Research-driven, AI-first and seed-stage VC

Junchen Jiang

Junchen Jiang

Assistant Professor

UChicago

Pioneered Video Quality Optimization

Andrew Mayne

Andrew Mayne

Founder & Ex-OpenAI

Interdimensional

Shaped Early AI Prompting

Ang Li

Ang Li

Founder & CEO

Simular

Pioneered Continual Learning Agents

Vic Bhatia

Vic Bhatia

Technical Founder & CEO

Fixpliance.AI

Automated Compliance Engineering Leader

Anu Shukla

Anu Shukla

Co-Founder & Executive Chairman

Botco AI

Generative AI Marketing

Dan Sahar

Dan Sahar

Co-Founder

Guidde

Raised $30M Funding

Dan Thomson

Dan Thomson

CEO

Sensay

Invented AI Replicas for Memory Care

Itamar Novick

Itamar Novick

Founder & General Partner

Recursive Ventures

Scaled Life360 to IPO

Lu Zhang

Lu Zhang

Founder & Managing Partner

Fusion Fund

Fund Size: $500M+

Ryan Wang

Ryan Wang

Co-Founder & CEO

Assembled

AI-Driven Support Operations

Anant Bhardwaj

Anant Bhardwaj

CEO

Instabase

$2B AI Platform Instabase

Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah Owyang

Investor

Blitzscaling Ventures

Fund Size: $50M

Hassan Sawaf

Hassan Sawaf

Founder & CEO

aiXplain

Democratized AI $16.5B-backed Platform

Manisha Raisinghani

Manisha Raisinghani

CEO

sifthub

Revolutionized Logistics With AI

Rocky Yu

Rocky Yu

Founder & CEO

API House Ventures

Built Collaborative AI Innovation Hub

Alon Talmor

Alon Talmor

Founder & CEO

Ask-AI

Enterprise AI NLP Pioneer

Gurudutta Ramanathaiah

Gurudutta Ramanathaiah

Engineering Lead

Infinitus Systems

AI-Driven Healthcare

Ivan Lee

Ivan Lee

Founder & CEO

Datasaur

Stanford-Educated Product Leader

Kyle Corbitt

Kyle Corbitt

Founder

OpenPipe

Democratizes Fine-Tuned AI Models

Rohit Valia

Rohit Valia

Founder & CEO

Tumeryk

Built Tumeryk's AI TrustScore System

Scott Clark

Scott Clark

Co-Founder & CEO

Distributional

Transformed Enterprise AI Reliability Testing

Stephen Delaporte

Stephen Delaporte

Founder & CEO

Avar Robotics

Powering Practical, People-Centered Robotics

Vanja Josifovski

Vanja Josifovski

CEO

Kumo AI

Democratized Predictive AI Globally

Sumeet Agrawal

Sumeet Agrawal

VP of Product Management

Informatica

Led Enterprise AI Integration

Daniel Svonava

Daniel Svonava

Co-Founder & CEO

Superlinked

Redefining Vector Search Infrastructure

Vidya Narayanan

Vidya Narayanan

Co-Founder & CEO

FinalLayer

Automating Personal Branding with AI

Andy Singh

Andy Singh

Founder & CEO

Teqfocus Consulting LLC

Built $35M Tech Firm

Tedi Papajorgji

Tedi Papajorgji

VP of Engineering

Resemble AI

Led Netflix Voice Innovation

Munish Gandhi

Munish Gandhi

Founder & CEO

Statisfy

92% Renewable Prediction Accuracy

Matt Butcher

Matt Butcher

CEO

Fermyon

WebAssembly Cloud Computing Engineer

Ray Wu

Ray Wu

Managing Partner

Alumni Ventures

Venture Capital in Blockchain

Jugal Anchalia

Jugal Anchalia

Co-Founder & CEO

Cobalt

Healthtech and Devtools Innovator

Jeremiah Stone

Jeremiah Stone

CTO

SnapLogic

GE Software Executive Leader

Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner

CEO

Espresso AI

Funding: $11M

John Koeter

John Koeter

Senior VP IP Group

Synopsys

Semiconductor IP Leadership

Hemant Joshi

Hemant Joshi

CTO

FloTorch

AI Technology Leader

Jeff Yang

Jeff Yang

CTO

Rising Team

Startup Technology Strategist

Kaycee Lai

Kaycee Lai

Founder & CEO

Promethium

Fund Size: $34.5M

Ken Osborn

Ken Osborn

VP of Product Marketing

Teqfocus Consulting LLC

Tech Startup Leader

Suman Kanuganti

Suman Kanuganti

Co-Founder & CEO

Personal AI

Funding: $30M

Erol Guney

Erol Guney

Chief Software Architect

Avalara

AI Drug Discovery Architect

Joseph Johnson

Joseph Johnson

CEO

LedgerUp.ai

SaaS Revenue Expert

Jonathan Bikoff

Jonathan Bikoff

Head of Partnerships & GTM

Personal AI

Valuation: $30M

Manos Koukoumidis

Manos Koukoumidis

Co-Founder & CEO

Oumi

Funding: $10M

Junyu Huang

Junyu Huang

COO

Novita AI

Funding: $10M

Shub Agarwal

Shub Agarwal

SVP, Product Management and AI

U.S. Bank
Claude Zdanow

Claude Zdanow

Chairman & CEO

ONAR
Alvin Xiao

Alvin Xiao

Founding Partner

NYX Ventures

Fund Size: $150M

Lenjoy Lin

Lenjoy Lin

Co-Founder

Genspark
Gagan Reen

Gagan Reen

Advisor

GenAI Works
Michael Kravec

Michael Kravec

CSO

@BlueYeti

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