The Speakers and Panelists

VP AI/ML for IT, NVIDIA         

Rama Akkiraju is Vice President of AI for IT at NVIDIA. Previously, she held several leadership roles during her 20+ years at IBM, including IBM Fellow, Master Inventor, and CTO of Watson AI Operations. At IBM, Rama led AI initiatives like Personality Insights, Tone Analyzer, and scaled Watson's AI services to dozens of languages. She has authored 100+ technical papers and holds 50+ patents with 25+ pending. Recognized as a top innovator, Rama was named one of Forbes' "Top 20 Women in AI Research" and honored with awards such as UC Berkeley’s Athena Award and the "AI Industry Leader of the Year" by WLDA. She holds an MBA from NYU, where she received a gold medal for academic excellence.

Co-founder, Advisor, Investor, and former Google VP of Product and UX

Jennifer Kim Lin is an expert in AI, cloud-native platforms, and product innovation, with extensive experience leading global teams in technology and product development. She has held senior leadership roles at companies like Google, where she was VP of Product and UX for Google Cloud Platform, and Trimble Inc., where she served as SVP and Chief Platform Officer. Jennifer has a strong background in developing and scaling AI/ML solutions, cybersecurity, and emerging products across various industries. With her expertise in product strategy, operations, and global market expansion, Jennifer continues to shape the future of enterprise AI and cloud platforms.  

CEO of Fiddler.AI

Krishna Gade is the founder and CEO of Fiddler.AI, a Series-B enterprise company building a platform to address problems regarding bias, fairness, and transparency in AI. An entrepreneur and engineering leader with strong technical experience in creating scalable platforms and delightful consumer products, Krishna previously held senior engineering leadership roles at Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and Microsoft. Fiddler is the emerging standard for Enterprise AI Observability from statistical ML to Generative AI applications. It is a vital infrastructure component, providing the visibility, or “transparency,” layer to the entire enterprise AI application stack. With multiple iterations over product architecture, and managing many high-scale, paid customers in the enterprise, our team has shown operational excellence that’s expected of a high-performance observability system. The founding team of Fiddler came from Facebook AI Infra where they worked on Explainable AI for News Feed which was at the center of AI/ML at Facebook. 

Principal Scientist and Sr. Manager of Applied Science - Amazon AGI Foundation Models

Sravan currently leads and manages the LLMs efforts for Medical NLP at AWS, ASR science efforts in AWS Lex, building SOTA Text Summarization, Speech to text models for AWS customers in the domain of Conversational AI for various languages.  He scaled the AWS LLMs and ASR Applied Science team 2 to 30+ in 3 years spanning multiple teams across Seattle, Santa Clara, New York and Bangalore & delivered highly impactful features (like Text Summarization, Styled Slots, Custom Vocabulary, high-quality model upgrades) to the customers of AWS Lex and AWS Connect.  Sravan has onboarded several high-profile customers for AWS, and ensured a high-quality bar for their requirements. Sravan also drives cross-organizational efforts on In-context learning and prompt-tuning of LLMs.

Senior engineering director at NVIDIA

Jasmine Jaksic is a senior engineering director at NVIDIA, where she leads IT product development and management. Previously, she worked at Google, Stripe and SambaNova where she was instrumental in building and launching several pioneering products and technologies. She is a founding member of Istio, the leading open-source service mesh that helps organizations run distributed, microservices-based applications anywhere. She co-founded Posture Monitor, an application for posture correction that won Intel’s innovation award. She is also a contributing writer for The New York Times, Wired, NPR, Huffington Post, Newsweek and InfoQ. She is the author of “Life of a Silicon Valley Hipster” — a parody of all things Silicon Valley. 

Chief AI Officer, Ascendion

Daryush Laqab is a seasoned technology leader with over 20 years of experience driving innovation at the forefront of AI and software development. Currently serving as the Chief AI Officer at Ascendion, Daryush leverages his extensive background to revolutionize industries with cutting-edge AI solutions. Previously, he led AI and autonomous vehicle infrastructure initiatives at NVIDIA and managed product efforts for OmniAI at JPMorgan Chase. Daryush has also spearheaded cloud AI projects at Google and Microsoft, including Contact Center AI and Azure Machine Learning. His expertise spans product management, cloud computing, and enterprise AI, making him a key contributor to advancing AI-driven platforms.