Past Speakers
We are grateful for the speakers who have contributed to making the Post-Industrial Forum a unique venue for discussions and connections that have a real impact.
Bonnie Chatterjee
Head of Solution Architecture
OpenAI
Rama Akkiraju
VP of Engineering
NVIDIA
Barbara Holzapfel
VP Education
Microsoft
Karthick Iyer
Vice President, Systems Software
NVIDIA
Deepam Mishra
Generative AI Innovation Leader and Strategic Advisor
AWS
Jacob Liberman
Sr. Manager, Enterprise GenAI Product Management
NVIDIA
Alfred Shen
Lead Generative AI Specialist
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Michael Costigan
VP, Salesforce Futures
Salesforce
Papi Menon
CPO, Outshift by Cisco
Cisco
Manjeet Singh
Senior Director, AI Product
Salesforce
Joe McMorrow
VP, Supply Chain Transformation
Cisco
Dr. Shelby Heinecke
Senior AI Research Manager, Agentic AI
Salesforce
Neerka Tandon
Head of Commerce Transformation
Cisco
Natalie Han
VP & CPO, GenAI
SAP
Alan Grogan
Executive Partner
IBM Global Business Services
James J. Piacentino
Global VP, Digital Industry Solutions
SAP
Deborah Magid
Director of Strategy
IBM Ventures
Vishy Gopalakrishnan
Chief Transformation Officer
ServiceNow
Utpal Mangla
VP and Senior Partner
IBM Global Business Services
Heather Jerrehian
VP Product Management, Employee Workflows
ServiceNow
Dr. C. Mohan
Fellow
IBM Research
Subhash Kodnad
SVP Engineering
Palo Alto Networks
Dr. Jim Spohrer
Director of Cognitive Open Technologies
IBM
Dr. Sohini Roychowdhury
Head of AI/ML, Generative AI Products
Accenture
Dr. Edgar Kalns
Specialist Leader, Conversational AI and Generative AI
Deloitte Consulting
Laureen Knudsen
Chief Transformation Officer
Broadcom
Peter Löfgren
SVP Global Startup Collaborations
ABB
Sam Nagar
SVP Factory Automation
Siemens
Jessica Swank
Chief People Officer
Box
Leslie Shannon
Head of Trend & Innovation Scouting
Nokia
Dr. Chetan Gupta
Global Head of AI Research
Hitachi
Andrew Lee
VP, Open Innovation
Samsung SDS
Dr. Dipanjan Ghosh
Chief Research Scientist, IAI Lab
Hitachi America Ltd.
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
GM, VP of Innovation
Mitsubishi Electric
John Suh
VP & Founding Director, New Horizons Studio
Hyundai Motor Group
Matthieu Soulé
Head BNP Paribas C.Lab America
BNP Paribas Group
Dr. Pandian Angaiyan
Chief Technology Officer
Tech Mahindra
David Vernal
Fmr. National Security Council
Stanford GSB
Steve Ciesinski
Past President and Senior Advisor
SRI International
Yossi Feinberg
Prof. of Management and Economics
Stanford GSB
Dr. Ulf Lindqvist
Senior Technical Director, Computer Science Lab.
SRI International
Dr. Trond Arne Undheim
Research Scholar
Stanford Existential Risk Initiative
Clay Phillips
Executive Advisor
SRI International
Chris Kunstadter
Global Head of Space
AXA XL
Peter Marcotullio
VP of Commercial R&D
SRI International
Benjamin Levy
Partner, Co-Head of Venture Capital & AI Innovation
Ares Management Corporation
Dr. Suresh Sunderrajan
President, Commercialization Group
SRI International
Jay Onda
Director, Venture Investments
Marubeni Ventures Inc.
Karen Myers
Director, AI Center
SRI International
Gerald Brady
Managing Director
Silicon Valley Bank
Dr. Amit Mulgaonkar
Director, Global Partnerships
SRI International
Yosuke Kogure
Executive Director, Future Innovation Group
Nomura Holding America
Dr. Susmit Jha
Technical Director, Neuro-Symbolic Research Group
SRI International
Sujatha Sundararaman
Head of Search, Understanding and Voice, YTM
Walmart
Lawrence Lee
SVP Commercialization
SRI
Nick Giannakakis
CIO
Motor Oil (Hellas) SA
Pete Swabey
Editorial Director, EMEA
The Economist Intelligence Unit
Shawn Fitzgerald
Research Director
IDC
Nick Elverston
Partner
Ashurst
Dr. Suran Goonatilake
Visiting Professor, Computer Science
Univ. College London
Julie Albright
Digital Sociologist
USC
Dr. Edwin Locke
Dean's Professor Emeritus, Leadership & Motivation
University of Maryland
Dr. Hans van Ees
Prof., Corp. Governance and Institutions
University of Groningen
Dr. Daniel Yar Hamidi
Prof., Entrepreneurship
University of Borås
Sarah Luger
Principal, Technology Group
Orange Silicon Valley
Dr. Kai Goebel
VP, Director of Intelligent Systems Lab
Xerox PARC/SRI
Taavi Rõivas
Fmr. Prime Minister
Estonia
Stefan Petzov
VP of Innovation and Partnerships
Swisscom
Aman Sirohi
VP, CISO & Platform
People.ai
Dušan Vuksanovic
CEO, Silicon Valley Outpost
Swisscom
Philip Rathle
CTO
Neo4j
Sejal Daswani
Chief People Officer
Deputy
Shubha Govil
Chief Product Officer
SauceLabs
Prukalpa Sankar
CEO
Atlan
Akash Gupta
CEO
GreyOrange
Rajesh Radhakrishnan
VP of Autonomy
Serve Robotics
Nir Rikovitch
Chief Product Officer
MARA
Rei Goffer
Co-Founder/CSO
Tomorrow.io
Tatyana Mamut
CEO
Wayfound
Fred Thiel
Chairman and CEO
MARA
Subha Shetty
Chief AI Officer
Wayfound
Kei Onishi
CEO and Managing Director
Yamaha Motor Ventures
Angelo Del Priore
Founding Partner
HP Tech Ventures
Chris Cowart
Managing Director
Nomura-SRI Innovation Center
Amar Hanspal
CEO
Bright Machines
Dr. Ivan Poupyrev
Founder and CEO
Archetype AI
Mike Tung
CEO
Diffbot
Vishakha Gupta
Founder & CEO
ApertureData
Aaron Fulkerson
CEO
Opaque Systems
Henry Peter
CTO & Co-Founder
Ushur
Chester Leung
Co-Founder, Head of Platform Architecture
Opaque Systems
Manish Kothari
Past President, SRI; Founding Partner
First Spark Ventures
Dr. Evangelos Simoudis
Managing Director
Synapse Partners
Michael Dolbec
Managing Partner
Momenta Ventures
Grant Allen
General Partner
SE Ventures
Kevin Novak
Managing Partner & Founder
Rackhouse Venture Capital
Alexandra Johnson
Managing Director
HEED Capital
Steve Goldberg
Partner
Finistere Ventures
Rimas Kapeskas
Operating Partner
Cambridge Capital
Andrew Bright
Managing Director
Woodside Capital
Amir Sarhangi
CEO and Founder
Skyfire
Dr. Artem Harutyunyan
Co-Founder and CTO
Bardeen Inc.
Arti Raman
Founder & CEO
Portal26
Alison McCauley
Founder and CEO
Unblocked Future
Animesh Koratana
CEO
PlayerZero
Dr. Alireza Boloorchi
CEO
Catch Up AI
Rahul Ramkumar
Founding Chief Product Officer
Rocket
Sahil Shah
CEO
FlowState AI
Johnathan Gowan
CEO
PayOS
Sriraman Sabesan
CEO
Ephanti Inc
William Zeng
Cofounder
Sweep.dev
Jeremiah Owyang
General Partner, AI Investments
Blitzscaling Ventures
Preethy Padmanabhan
CMO & EIR
Emergent Ventures
Kence Anderson
CEO
AMESA
Parisa Naseralavi
Chief Operating Officer
XOPS
Dan Isaacs
General Manager
Digital Twin Consortium
Jon Seneger
Senior Advisor
Nordic Innovation House
Dr. Tomaz Suklje
CEO
Nordoon
Genevieve Leveille
Founder and CEO
AgriLedger
Jonathan Levi
CEO
HACERA
Dr. Amber Ghaddar
Founder
AllianceBlock
Clara Durodié
AI Strategist & Board Director
Cognitive Finance
Toby Lewis
CEO
Novum Insights
Aaron Rieke
Senior Partner
Clarion AI Partners
Alan Laubsch
CEO
Generation Blue
Àrmann Kojic
CEO
Nanom
Keith Weiner
CEO
Monetary Metals
James Haft
Chairman
DLTx
Robert Dugdale
Senior Director, Client Services
IPsoft
Jim Glasgow
Cofounder and CTO
Unseen Technologies
Bruce Pittman
Chief Innovation Officer
SpaceBilt
Rosemary Coates
Executive Director
Reshoring Institute
Anne Boysen
Founder and CEO
After the Millennials
David Ross Beatty
CEO
Beatinvest Ltd.
Patrick Suel
President
Diamond Edge Ventures
Ken Gatz
Founder & CEO
Proseeder Technologies
Robert Massoudi
Founder and CEO
Nu Axiom
Jan Beránek
Founder, Group CEO
U+
Frode Odegard
CEO
Post-Industrial Institute
Dr. Yaron Brook
Chairman
Ayn Rand Institute
Blaine Mathieu
Host and MC
Post-Industrial Institute (PII)
Mark LaCour
Editor-in-Chief
Oil & Gas Global Network
Eythor Ivar Jonsson
VP of Research
Post-Industrial Institute
Jason Crawford
Author
The Roots of Progress
Sergei Mitrofanov†
CMO
Post-Industrial Institute
Tim M. Crawford
CIO, Strategy Advisor
AVOA
Denyse Cardozo
Fmr. CEO
Silicon Valley Forum
Dr. Cristián Saracco
Founding Partner
Allegro 234
Dr. Masa K. Maeda
Author
Transformer of Leaders
Karen Gordon
CEO
5 Dynamics
Anu Parthasarathy
CEO
AnuPartha
Helen Disney
Founder and CEO
UnblockedEvents
Jill Nephew
CEO
Inqwire