Dr. Chetan Gupta
Head of AI Research
Hitachi

Chetan Gupta is a visionary and a leader in the field of Industrial AI. At Hitachi, he is the GM of the Advanced AI Research Center in Japan, leads the Industrial AI Lab in NA, and leads the Global AI CoE. He is proud to be a part of one of the strongest teams in applied AI that is building fundamental horizontal technologies for industrial and societal AI, building solutions across verticals, and opening new research frontiers in AI applied to real world challenges. Chetan has close to 200 papers and patents in applied AI, data mining/machine learning, data stream systems, complex event and related topics. Chetan holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics and M.S. in Mathematical Computer Science and Chemical Engineering.

Frode Odegard
Chairman and CEO
Post-Industrial Institute

Frode Odegard studies how enterprises, investors, and policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, which provides advisory, educational, and strategic services to corporates and investors to help them turn disruption into opportunity. Frode is also the founder of the Post-Industrial Forum, a global community formed to develop and promote a better understanding of the post-industrial transition and how to navigate it. Its members include investors, executives, founders, and policymakers.

Dr. Ivan Poupyrev
Founder and CEO
Archetype AI

An award-winning inventor, engineer and technology innovation director, with a track record of success, Ivan brings over 20+ years of experience in leading cross-functional teams to deliver cutting edge technical and product innovation. With deep technical expertise in spatial computing and interaction design, advanced sensors and natural interaction, mobile and wearable devices, he led development of many new technologies shipped in millions of products for such companies like Google, Disney, and Sony, as well as Adidas, Levi’s, YSL and others. He is currently leading a nascent

Ivan’s has over 100 issued US patents and his work has been published extensively in scientific conferences such as ACM SIGGRAPH, CHI, and UIST. He was honored with awards, such as the National Design Award for Interaction Design and Consumer Technology Association’s Technology Achievement Award. Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, elected his work into its permanent collection and Fast Company magazine described him as “one of the best interaction designers in the world.” In 2021, he was also honored by the Carnegie Foundation as a “Great Immigrant. Great American.” for his contributions and actions that have “enriched and strengthened our society and democracy”.

Leslie Shannon
Head of Trend and Innovation Scouting
Nokia

A Silicon Valley-based futurist, Leslie Shannon focuses on identifying connectivity-related tech disruptions and opportunities, including developments in robotics, drones, visual analytics, cloud gaming, generative AI, and especially augmented and virtual reality.

Leslie is the author of the book Interconnected Realities, a look at the current and future development of XR and spatial computing, and, with Catherine D. Henry, Virtual Natives, an examination of how Gen Z and Gen Alpha’s use of digital technologies is revolutionizing how humans relate to both computers and each other.

Stefan Petzov
VP Innovation and Partnerships
Swisscom

Stefan Petzov is leading Swisscom’s Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley. In this role, he is responsible for identifying and evaluating new technologies and services. Stefan is also responsible for strategic innovation initiatives and works closely with the senior leadership to ensure that Swisscom is always at the forefront of innovation.

Dr. Suresh Sunderrajan brings over 25 years of experience and a passion for innovation at the intersection of technology and business. He focuses on developing SRI’s commercialization strategy and provides overall leadership for the institute’s commercialization efforts. Sunderrajan oversees SRI Ventures, Global Partnerships, the Nomura-SRI Innovation Center (NSIC), SRI Products and the Center for Innovation Strategy and Policy (CISP).
Previous to SRI, Sunderrajan was Associate Laboratory Director for Advanced Energy Technologies at Argonne National Laboratory. He earned a doctorate in chemical engineering from North Carolina State University and a master’s degree in system design and management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sunderrajan holds more than 30 U.S. patents and has received the Distinguished Inventor Award at Eastman Kodak.

Dr. Artem Harutyunyan
Co-Founder and CTO
Bardeen Inc.

Artem is an engineering leader and co-founder of Bardeen Inc., where he serves as CTO. With deep expertise in distributed systems and cloud computing, Artem has led engineering and product teams at Mesosphere and Qualys, driving innovations in distributed systems, real-time data processing, and large-scale computing and storage infrastructure development. Before his career in industry, Artem worked at CERN, contributing to the research and development of the computing infrastructure of LHC experiments. He holds a PhD in Computer Science.

Alison McCauley
Founder and CEO
Unblocked Future

Alison is Founder and CEO of Unblocked Future, a consultancy that drives adoption at the forefront of emerging tech, and has been working with pioneers in artificial intelligence since 2010. Her focus in on the human dimension of unlocking business value from transformative technology, and she has helped executives to navigate and inspire tech-driven change for over 20 years. Working at the nexus of the enterprise, disruptive innovation, and organizational change at the birth of many categories, Allison serves as a trusted advisor to both pioneers building new markets and the business leaders seeking to leverage new technology.

Alison is the author of international best-selling book Unblocked (published by O’Reilly Media, 2019), her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Venture Beat. Over 90,000 students have taken her course created for LinkedIn, and she is a speaker at conferences around the world.

Angelo Del Priore
Founding Partner
HP Tech Ventures

Angelo has played nearly every role in the venture ecosystem, including investor, board member, advisor, early startup employee, and acquirer. He has helped numerous tech companies grow from 0 to 1 as well as $1B and beyond. His primary expertise is in strategy, business development, negotiations, and financial analysis.

Currently, Angelo is a founding partner at HP Tech Ventures, where he leads investments in AI, Data Science, AR/VR, Hybrid Work, and Edge Computing. He is on numerous boards, including at AdHawk Microsystems, Mobalytics, Mojo Vision and Owl Labs.

Dušan Vuksanovic
CEO, Silicon Valley Outpost
Swisscom

Dušan Vuksanovic is a global leader in the cybersecurity and innovation space, currently serving as the CEO of Swisscom Outpost in Silicon Valley, where his primary focus is cybersecurity. With over 15 years of experience, including his role as a former CISO, Dušan has a deep expertise in security management across information security, physical security, and safety. He has successfully developed corporate security programs, fostered a security-conscious culture, and effectively managed security risks.

Dušan’s industry experience spans telecommunications, information technology, blockchain, healthcare, education, robotics, human resources, supply chain, finance, and mergers & acquisitions. He has worked in various organizational environments, including startups, SMEs, and large enterprises in countries such as Switzerland, the United States, and Mexico.

Dušan also serves as an advisor and coach, providing guidance in the areas of cybersecurity, innovation, and leadership, and holds positions on advisory boards across multiple countries.

Laureen Knudsen
Chief Transformation Officer
Broadcom

Laureen has led enterprise transformations in four global companies.  She works with industry leaders and internal experts to define the future of business and bring Lean principles to all parts of an organization, focusing on optimizing end-to-end value stream flows, removing waste, and ensuring executives can make data-driven decisions. 

Laureen is the Co-Author of Modern Business Management: Creating a Built-to-Change Organization. Laureen is a Forbes Technology Council Member and she is also on the Forbes 2021 Top 100 Women in Tech list.

Joe McMorrow
VP, Supply Chain Transformation
Cisco

Joe McMorrow leads a global team that drives supply chain strategy and execution to deliver a secure, adaptable and sustainable supply chain. Under his leadership, Supply Chain transformation has led multiple transformational efforts that positioned Cisco’s supply chain to recover, learn and evolve from the recent global supply chain challenges. Joe is the executive sponsor of supply chain’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiative, where he oversees enterprise-level transformational efforts to achieve Net Zero by 2040, embed circularity across Cisco’s entire product portfolio, and responsibly source and manufacture products.

Joe joined Cisco in 2008 and has focused on designing and implementing cross-functional capabilities that support the achievement of complex, multi-year transformations. He has held a variety of leadership roles within Supply Chain Operations, including Senior Director of Component Operations and Transformation and Director for Global Supplier Management and Supply Chain Transformation.

Joe began his career journey in a manufacturing at the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group working as a Manufacturing Industrial Engineer. Joe then joined Intel Corporation’s a Manufacturing Systems Engineer, before moving into engineering management. Joe holds a degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA.

Pandian Angaiyan
Chief Technology Officer
Tech Mahindra

Dr. Pandian Angaiyan heads the technology office for Tech Mahindra’s Technology Business as CTO based out of San Jose office. He has three decades of experience in incubating & leading computing businesses based on niche technologies, which gives him the right tools to lead disruptive digital transformation initiatives for Tech Mahindra’s customers. 

In his previous role, he has lead the Cloud Innovation Business for a global consulting company where he has played the role of Cloud Transformation Partner for several customers, helping define their cloud strategy, building a minimum viable products and eventually transforming them into full- fledged solutions. He also incubated and built platform based Cloud services group and established ‘High Performance Computing Practice’ with integration and acquisition of niche technological expertise and provided a differentiating solution benefiting major customers. Dr. Pandian has two decades of experience in various computing technologies starting from embedded systems all the way to hyper scale architectures.

Dr. Pandian has a Ph.D., in symbolic and numeric computational algorithms for real time applications from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and has a Masters of Technology in Computer Engineering from Mysore University, India.

Dr. Natalie Han
VP & Chief Product Officer, GenAI
SAP 

Natalie Han is a visionary leader in AI and data science with over a decade of experience driving innovation at companies like Google, Intuit, LinkedIn, and now SAP. She leads product development for Generative AI applications in Business AI at SAP.  She has spearheaded transformative projects, including AI-driven models and platforms, contributing to significant product advancements, user engagement, and business outcomes. With deep expertise in Generative AI and large language models, she excels at creating data-driven strategies that influence product and business decisions.

Originally from Inner Mongolia, Natalie holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and has completed postdoctoral research at Stanford University on Medical Images Processing. She was recognized as the top 50 Women Leader of San Jose for 2024. 

Papi Menon
CPO / VP of Product, Outshift by Cisco
Cisco

Papi is the CPO / VP of Product Management for Outshift by Cisco, whose charter is to discover the next transformational business opportunity for Cisco by incubating emerging technologies and serving new markets and personas. At Outshift by Cisco, Papi leads the Product Management, Design, and Business Development functions. Prior to joining Cisco, his experience in product leadership included executive roles at HashiCorp, GitHub, MuleSoft, and Docker, to name a few. Experienced as a product leader in both Product Led Growth (PLG) and Enterprise go-to-market models, he has successfully built and scaled product organizations for multiple world class developer-focused and cloud products.

Mick Costigan leads the Salesforce Futures team, helping Salesforce leadership and customers anticipate, imagine and shape the future, with a focus on AI, sustainability, customer experience, and work. Mick has two decades of experience in innovation and futures at Salesforce and in strategy consulting across four continents. He was also a Salesforce Fellow in the AI policy team at the World Economic Forum.

Dr. Trond Undheim
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Stanford University

Trond is a futurist, scholar, podcaster, and venture partner, and an expert on the evolution of technology and society. He is a Research Scholar in Global Systemic Risk, Innovation, and Policy at the Stanford Existential Risk Initiative (SERI) at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University. He is also a venture partner at Antler, and a co-founder of technology foresight consulting firm Yegii. Formerly with Tulip Interfaces, Hitachi Ventures, MIT, WPP, Oracle, and the EU, Trond is the co-author (with Natan Linder) of Augmented Lean (2022), he is the author of Health Tech (2021), Future Tech (2021), Pandemic Aftermath (2020), Disruption Games (2020), and Leadership From Below (2008). He hosts the Futurized podcast and is a Forbes columnist in manufacturing.

Trond’s work has featured in a variety of business, industrial, and mainstream media, including The Boston Globe, NPR’s Cognoscenti, Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, IndustryWeek, and MIT News. He holds a Ph.D. on the future of work and artificial intelligence and is based between Wellesley, MA, and Palo Alto, CA.

Col. David Vernal (Ret.)
Sloan Fellow, Stanford GSB
fmr. National Security Council

David Vernal is a retired Air Force colonel with experience in intelligence and cyber operations. He participated in electronic warfare operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the counter-terror fight in Iraq and Syria, the growth of cyber operations, supporting nuclear planning and command-and-control at U.S. Strategic Command, and managing policy deliberations as part of the National Security Council staff. His final active-duty assignment was as Director of Intelligence for Sixteenth Air Force, the service’s information warfare headquarters.

Currently a Sloan Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, David is studying the applications of Large Language Models for national security applications. He holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University and a master’s in Taiwan Studies from National Chengchi University, where he studied as a Department of Defense Olmsted Scholar.

Vishy Gopalakrishnan
Chief Transformation Officer
ServiceNow

At ServiceNow, Vishy works with customers to define and drive transformational outcomes using the ServiceNow platform. Prior to ServiceNow, Vishy worked at AT&T where his roles included enterprise transformation, corporate strategy, innovation, and product management. Prior to AT&T, his work experience includes stints at SAP, Nokia, Ernst & Young, and Motorola.

Vishy is a member of the visiting faculty at the University of California, Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET). He is a co-author of Work Goes Mobile (Wiley & Sons, 2006).

Amir Arhangi
CEO and Founder
Skyfire

(Bio pending)

Parisa Naseralavi
SVP Global Operations & Monetization
ServiceNow

(Bio pending)

Peter Marcotullio
VP of Commercial R&D
SRI

With more than 20 years of business development experience, Peter Marcotullio directs commercial sector business development for SRI International. Focusing on strategic, long-term partnerships with clients, he directs market research and analysis, intellectual property management, commercialization and business strategy development, new venture creation, and marketing. Peter holds five patents, and he led the creation of several SRI venture companies.

Before joining SRI, Peter was a venture manager with Thermo Technology Ventures based in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he participated in the founding and financing of more than a dozen new companies. At Primex Technologies (acquired by General Dynamics) Peter led research, development and planning for the $500 million defense and aerospace firm that was spun-out from Olin Corporation in 1996.

Peter holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University. He has taken graduate and executive management courses at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Stanford University School of Business. Marcotullio is also a graduate of the Defense Acquisition University’s Defense Systems Management College.

Dan Isaacs
General Manager
Digital Twin Consortium

Dan Isaacs is Chief Technology Officer and General Manager of Digital Twin Consortium® (DTC™), where he is responsible for driving the technical direction for the Member Consortium, liaison partnerships and business development support for new memberships. Dan is also the Chief Strategy Officer for Object Management Group® (OMG®), where he develops and implements a comprehensive strategy to align OMG consortia (AREA, CISQ, DTC, OMG Standards Development Organization, and Responsible Computing).

Previously, Dan was Director of Strategic Marketing and Business Development at Xilinx where he was responsible for emerging technologies including AI/Machine Learning, including defining and executing the ecosystem strategy for the Industrial IoT. Prior to joining the Digital Twin Consortium, Dan was responsible for Automotive Business Development focused on Automated Driving and ADAS systems.  Dan represented Xilinx to the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). He has more than 25 years of experience working in automotive, Aerospace and consumer-based companies including Ford, NEC, LSI Logic and Hughes Aircraft.

An accomplished speaker, Dan has delivered keynotes, presentations and served as panelist and moderator for IIC World Forums, Industrial IoT Global conferences, Embedded World, Embedded Systems, and FPGA Conferences. He is a member of international advisory boards and holds degrees in Computer Engineering: EE from Cal State University, B.S. Geophysics from ASU.

Ronald Rubens
Founder and CEO
SentioCX

(Bio pending)

Jacob Liberman
Sr. Manager, Enterprise GenAI Product Management
NVIDIA

(Bio pending)

Leslie Shannon
Head of Trend and Innovation Scouting
Nokia

A Silicon Valley-based futurist, Leslie Shannon focuses on identifying connectivity-related tech disruptions and opportunities, including developments in robotics, drones, visual analytics, cloud gaming, generative AI, and especially augmented and virtual reality.

Leslie is the author of the book Interconnected Realities, a look at the current and future development of XR and spatial computing, and, with Catherine D. Henry, Virtual Natives, an examination of how Gen Z and Gen Alpha’s use of digital technologies is revolutionizing how humans relate to both computers and each other.

Artem is an engineering leader and co-founder of Bardeen Inc., where he serves as CTO. With deep expertise in distributed systems and cloud computing, Artem has led engineering and product teams at Mesosphere and Qualys, driving innovations in distributed systems, real-time data processing, and large-scale computing and storage infrastructure development. Before his career in industry, Artem worked at CERN, contributing to the research and development of the computing infrastructure of LHC experiments. He holds a PhD in Computer Science.

Laureen Knudsen
Chief Transformation Officer
Broadcom

Laureen has led enterprise transformations in four global companies.  She works with industry leaders and internal experts to define the future of business and bring Lean principles to all parts of an organization, focusing on optimizing end-to-end value stream flows, removing waste, and ensuring executives can make data-driven decisions. 

Laureen is the Co-Author of Modern Business Management: Creating a Built-to-Change Organization. Laureen is a Forbes Technology Council Member and she is also on the Forbes 2021 Top 100 Women in Tech list.

Papi is the CPO / VP of Product Management for Outshift by Cisco, whose charter is to discover the next transformational business opportunity for Cisco by incubating emerging technologies and serving new markets and personas. At Outshift by Cisco, Papi leads the Product Management, Design, and Business Development functions. Prior to joining Cisco, his experience in product leadership included executive roles at HashiCorp, GitHub, MuleSoft, and Docker, to name a few. Experienced as a product leader in both Product Led Growth (PLG) and Enterprise go-to-market models, he has successfully built and scaled product organizations for multiple world class developer-focused and cloud products.

Vishy Gopalakrishnan
Chief Transformation Officer
ServiceNow

At ServiceNow, Vishy works with customers to define and drive transformational outcomes using the ServiceNow platform. Prior to ServiceNow, Vishy worked at AT&T where his roles included enterprise transformation, corporate strategy, innovation, and product management. Prior to AT&T, his work experience includes stints at SAP, Nokia, Ernst & Young, and Motorola.

Vishy is a member of the visiting faculty at the University of California, Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET). He is a co-author of Work Goes Mobile (Wiley & Sons, 2006).

Daniel R. Isaacs
CTO and GM: Digital Twin Consortium
Chief Strategy Officer, Object Management Group

Dan Isaacs is Chief Technology Officer and General Manager of Digital Twin Consortium® (DTC™), where he is responsible for driving the technical direction for the Member Consortium, liaison partnerships and business development support for new memberships. Dan is also the Chief Strategy Officer for Object Management Group® (OMG®), where he develops and implements a comprehensive strategy to align OMG consortia (AREA, CISQ, DTC, OMG Standards Development Organization, and Responsible Computing).

Previously, Dan was Director of Strategic Marketing and Business Development at Xilinx where he was responsible for emerging technologies including AI/Machine Learning, including defining and executing the ecosystem strategy for the Industrial IoT. Prior to joining the Digital Twin Consortium, Dan was responsible for Automotive Business Development focused on Automated Driving and ADAS systems.  

Dan represented Xilinx to the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). He has more than 25 years of experience working in automotive, Aerospace and consumer-based companies including Ford, NEC, LSI Logic and Hughes Aircraft.

An accomplished speaker, Dan has delivered keynotes, presentations and served as panelist and moderator for IIC World Forums, Industrial IOT Global conferences, Embedded World, Embedded Systems, and FPGA Conferences. He is a member of international advisory boards and holds degrees in Computer Engineering: EE from Cal State University, B.S. Geophysics from ASU.