Speakers & Panelists

Rama Akkiraju

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.

Jasmine Jaksic

Senior Engineering Director, 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.

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