Post-Industrial Institute
Post‑Industrial Summit 2025: Autonomous Organizations
Speakers
Dr. Masa K. Maeda
Author
Transformer of Leaders
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Explore how AI Agents will transform organizations and help us build the trillion dollar industries of the future
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✓ Participation in hands-on executive-level workshops
✓ Workshops facilitated by PII Founder, Frode Odegard
✓ Dive into key areas of transformations strategy
✓ Summit faculty assisting in your biggest challenges
✓ Workshops only available to 50 participants
Papi Menon
CPO / VP of Product, Outshift by 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.
Bonnie Chatterjee
Global Head of Solution Architecture
OpenAI
(Bio coming soon)
Karthick Iyer
Vice President, Systems Software
NVIDIA
Karthick Iyer is Vice President, Systems Software at NVIDIA where he leads multiple organizations at the forefront of Generative AI and Physical AI, spanning foundational blueprints (e.g., RAG), agentic AI workflows, advanced speech and audio production models (ASR, TTS, NMT, S2S), and LLM fine-tuning and post-training. His teams drive innovation in video search and summarization for Metropolis, tightly integrated with Cosmos and Omniverse, and spearhead synthetic data generation (SDG) to accelerate Physical AI and Smart Spaces. He also oversees large-scale data engineering and MLOps platforms, as well as embedded software for next-generation edge AI devices.
Previously, he led Amazon’s FireOS software development at Amazon Lab126 for Kindle, Echo, and FireTV devices, and as VP of Qualcomm’s Android Engineering, scaled the team from 20 engineers into a 500+ person global powerhouse that enabled over 1.2+ billion Android device launches on Snapdragon and still going strong.
Jeremiah Owyang
General Partner
Blitzscaling Ventures, AI Fund
Jeremiah Owyang is a keynote speaker who brings industry insights, easy to understand visual frameworks, relevant examples and pragmatic recommendations to audiences around the world.
His insightful analysis, pragmatic recommendations, and dynamic presentations have made him a sought-after speaker at conferences and corporate events worldwide. Known for his ability to distill complex concepts into clear, actionable insights, Jeremiah ensures that audiences leave with a deeper understanding of the digital landscape than when they arrived.
Jeremiah’s speaking engagements have spanned prestigious events and organizations, including SXSW, Dreamforce, Oracle Open World, Swiss Economic Forum, and at corporate HQs including Nestle, BMW, Coke, Walmart, Visa, Wells Fargo, Airbnb, Pfizer, J&J, Whole Foods, and more. He operates from a backyard Airstream in Silicon Valley, a unique workspace that has been featured in USA Today.
Parisa Naseralavi
Chief Operating Officer
XOPS
(Bio coming soon)
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. Tatyana Mamut
Co-Founder & CEO
Wayfound
Tatyana Mamut is Co-Founder & CEO of Wayfound, which helps companies manage and find ROI with AI agents. Since 2001, she has been a transformative product leader driving innovation through several technology shifts at AWS, Salesforce, Nextdoor, Pendo, and IDEO. She sits on company Boards and advises startups and investment funds. Tatyana has won many awards for her work and holds several technology & design patents. She has a PhD in economic anthropology from UC Berkeley and a BA in economics from Amherst College. She is a refugee from Ukraine and currently lives with her spouse and daughters in San Francisco.
Peter Marcotullio
Senior Vice President, Commercialization
SRI International
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.
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu
General Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures)
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu is currently the General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric Innovation Center (MELIC Ventures), which was launched in April 2020 as the innovation and investment arm of Mitsubishi Electric in North America. He is also serving as VP Innovation at Mitsubishi Electric US (MEUS). In MEUS, he has developed and launched SaaS businesses and new products in the fields of energy management, infrastructure monitoring, touchless interfaces, connected vehicles. He has led and managed product design and agile product development, built new business models, developed technology strategies, and bundled these steps into customized processes with continuous innovation.
Zafer was a senior principal research scientist in MERL between 2001 and 2016. In his MERL years, he was an inventor on more than 80 patents, co-authored more than 100 international journal and conference papers, made more than 50 key contributions to international standards including ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4a UWB PHY and MAC, IEEE 802.15.4e MAC, and MPEG 21. His technical expertise includes deep learning, stochastic signal processing, space-time adaptive processing, ultra-wideband and OFDMA wireless communications, and indoor localization and tracking, biomedical signal processing, and Li-ion battery modeling. He has written two books on wireless communication and localization systems published by Cambridge University Press.
Zafer received his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering, Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in years 2002 and 1998, respectively; and M.B.A. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2013.
Nir Rokovitch
Chief Product Officer
MARA
Nir Rikovitch is responsible for driving MARA’s product vision forward, at the intersection of energy, AI, and computation. He brings deep expertise in product management, machine learning, and engineering leadership, with a proven track record in developing intelligent infrastructure across robotics, industrial automation, and autonomous systems.
Most recently, Nir served as Director of Product Management at Blue River, a John Deere Company, where he co-founded the autonomy unit and led the product strategy for autonomous construction machinery and advanced driver-assistance systems, unlocking more than $500 million in revenue across the enterprise portfolio.
Nir holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Technion, and a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University, with a focus on Autonomous Systems.
Michael Costigan
Vice President, Salesforce Futures
Salesforce
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.
Alison McCauley
CEO
Think with AI
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.
Karen Gordon
CEO
5 Dynamics
Karen Gordon is a trailblazing CEO and the visionary founder of 5 Dynamics, a company dedicated to transforming workplace dynamics through innovative AI-driven solutions. Under her leadership, 5 Dynamics has launched Simpli5, an AI-powered platform that enhances leadership and collaboration by fostering high-performance cultures, improving team alignment, and driving execution. Trusted by global leaders, including executives at LinkedIn, IDEO, Roche Genentech, and Harvard, Simpli5 is revolutionizing how organizations optimize processes and enhance teamwork.
Dr. Dipanjan Ghosh
Chief Research Scientist, Industrial AI Lab (IAL)
Hitachi America Ltd.
Dipanjan Ghosh is Chief Research Scientist in the Industrial AI Lab (IAL) at the R&D division of Hitachi America Ltd. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering where he focused on the intersection of consumer product design theory and AI. Previously he was a research engineer at the Research and Innovation Center of Ford Motor Company. In his 8 years at Hitachi he has focused on many problems in the repair and maintenance analytics, where he has led the development and deployment of many solutions for customers. Currently he is focused on applying Gen AI, Agentic AI, Knowledge Graphs technologies for industrial use-cases like agent defined industrial operations and workflows, organizational intelligence, etc.
Dr. Mallik Tatipamula
CTO
Ericsson Silicon Valley
Dr Mallik Tatipamula is CTO at Ericsson, Silicon Valley, whose 35-year career has significantly contributed to the evolution of global telecommunications from 2G to 5G and beyond. He has led four major architectural transitions: enabling mobile internet by integrating IP into mobile communication systems; scaling the internet backbone through IP-over-DWDM systems; pioneering software-defined 5G for Industry 4.0; and shaping the emerging global framework for 6G.
His seminal work includes quantifiable contributions to global telecom standards, practical innovations, and real-world implementations that accelerated the progression from 2G to 5G and laid the foundation for future 6G networks. These efforts have been central to building intelligent, secure, and connected digital infrastructure—helping bridge the digital divide.
In addition, Dr. Mallik has played a pivotal role in advancing collaboration across industry, academia, and government—aligning research, standards, policy, and funding roadmaps. He has also been a key driver of international cooperation, fostering global alignment on telecom innovation, standards, and 6G policy. He is a strong advocate for workforce development and digital inclusion. He has coauthored 2 books, over 100 publications/patents, delivered over 500 keynotes and guest lectures, mentored over 100 students. He has been elected to five national academies and awarded three honorary doctorates, alongside multiple international honours.
Dan Gibbons
CVP, Software Programmability and Computational Acceleration
AMD
Dan is a Corporate Vice President of Software Development in AMD’s Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group, where he leads the creation of cutting-edge Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software. His team’s innovative solutions empower customers to fully realize their design specifications on AMD Embedded products, driving next-generation performance and
reliability.
With a deep passion for crafting exceptional software and delivering outstanding customer experiences, Dan is at the forefront of integrating Al technologies to revolutionize software
development and enhance support for complex products in collaboration with customers.
Bringing 40 years of diverse industry experience, Dan blends engineering expertise with business development and executive leadership. He spent 24 years at Xilinx in various senior roles before the company’s acquisition by AMD in 2022. Earlier in his career, Dan served as VP of Engineering at an EDA startup and began his professional journey as a hardware design engineer at IBM.
Dan holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute.
Stefan Petzov
VP Innovation and Partnerships
Swisscom Silicon Valley Outpost
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.
Philip Rathle
CTO
Neo4J
Philip helped pioneer the graph database category as Head of Product and now CTO of Neo4j from sub $1M to $200M+ ARR. He is the author of The GraphRAG Manifesto, calling the trend for graph-based retrieval augmented generation (GraphRAG) a key resource for grounding GenAI in enterprise-trusted knowledge. Neo4j is valued at over $2 billion and trusted by thousands of organizations, including Cisco, Adobe, Intuit, Uber, Walmart, Airbus, JPMorgan Chase, BASF, BMW, Gilead, Merck Group, and Pfizer. Neo4j is playing a key role in the GenAI stack for high-stakes enterprise applications, serving as long-term memory for LLMs and providing AI accuracy, transparency, and explainability for builders, auditors and regulators.Philip has spearheaded industry standards initiatives including ISO GQL – the first ISO standard for database query languages in nearly 40 years – formally recognizing graphs as a generational technology. Prior to Neo4j, Philip held senior roles at Accenture, Tanning Technology Corporation, and Embarcadero Technologies. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University and is based in Silicon Valley.
Anu Parthasarathy
Chief Executive Officer
AnuPartha
Anuradha Parthasarathy (Anu) is the chief executive officer and founder of AnuPartha, a retained executive search firm exclusively focused on transformational leadership searches across multiple geographies, including the US, Europe, and Asia. Over the last 30+ years, Anu has built an extensive network and robust expertise spanning geographies, industries, and a broad range of functional roles.
Her advisory work spans global technology sectors — from scaling AI and robotics orchestration software at GreyOrange, to enabling enterprise software expansion with SnapLogic, to guiding leadership evolution at Arista Networks, and transforming supply chain leadership at semiconductor majors such as Marvell and Analog Devices.
She has pulled off a few tough assignments like finding the technical cofounder and CTO for Observe.AI on one hand and the country head for The Republic of Loca Loka, a new Tequila brand!
Drawing on her global perspective and deep Silicon Valley network, she has become a trusted partner for companies seeking to accelerate growth, enter new markets, and embed resilience in leadership. Guided by her belief that “transformational leaders don’t just respond to change — they harness it to redefine what’s possible,” she helps organizations cultivate leadership capable of shaping the future. At the Post-Industrial Summit 2025, she chairs the panel on “Developing Transformational Leaders.”
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.
Shubha Govil
Chief Product Officer
SauceLabs
(Bio coming soon)
Dr. Masa K. Maeda
Author
Transformer of Leaders
Dr. Masa K. Maeda is an executive coach, author, and transformation strategist recognized for guiding leaders—from Fortune 100 firms to startups—through complex change in more than 50 organizations worldwide. His mission is to enable organizations to thrive ethically and adaptively in an age of extreme transformation.
Masa is the author of Steady In Adversity: Leading your people through uncertainty, pressure, and the unknown, published by Summit View Books in 2025. In his book he provides examples and practical tools for leaders navigating under difficult conditions.
In his coaching practice, Masa helps executives align innovation, performance, and human well-being, making them well placed to lead transformations. His experience covers a broad array of sectors, including finance, energy, and technology. Masa has supported leaders in organizations as different as Morgan Stanley, Repsol, Claro Telecom, and the Panama Canal Authority.
Masa’s background background spans behavioral economics, systems thinking, advanced technologies, and early hands-on R&D experience at Apple and Silicon Valley startups. He holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Tokushima University in Japan.
Andrew Lee
VP, Open Innovation
Samsung SDS
(Bio coming soon)
Juho Parviainen
Partner
IDEO
Juho Parviainen is passionate about creating transformative products, experiences, and businesses that accelerate positive change in the world. His craft is rooted in interaction design—particularly at the intersection of people and emerging technologies—resulting in more delightful and useful everyday products and services.
Over the past two decades at IDEO, Juho has helped lead IDEO Europe and Product Design in North America, contributing to projects across diverse sectors including retail, gaming, telecommunications, media, and health. His tenure at IDEO included a two-year assignment with IKEA’s global strategic communications team, where he developed communications and brand strategies, launched new products, and supported efforts to make the company more innovative and customer-focused.
In addition to fostering IDEO’s design community, Juho has taught human-centered design at Hyper Island—where he studied digital media and creative technology—and mentored startups at Seedcamp. He frequently lectures on the power of design at universities and organizations around the world.
Juho is an avid marathon and ultra-distance runner. Outside work, you’ll most likely find him running. Often on the myriad trails of Marin County.
Johnathan McGowan
CEO
PayOS
Johnathan McGowan is the co-founder and chief executive officer at PayOS, a global payments and services platform for the agentic era. He brings over seven years of experience building and scaling payment technologies across startups and global leaders. Previously, he held product leadership roles at TabaPay, co-founded the real estate platform Trusty, and began his career at Visa.
Dr. Alireza Boloorchi
CEO and Founder
Catch Up AI
CS Adjunct Professor, OSU
Alireza Boloorchi is a seasoned AI and organizational leadership strategist and architect. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has over 15 years of leadership experience across multiple industries, with a focus on flattening enterprises and building adaptive organizations. Currently, he serves as the CEO and Founder of Catch Up AI, an autonomous engineering management platform, and as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science.
Alireza’s career includes a pivotal role as VP of AI Strategies and Head of the Center of Excellence at a $3B tech startup, along with technical leadership positions at Visa and KLA. He is also a Certified Agile Coach and a trusted advisor to several startups, including serving as a portfolio advisor at Expert Dojo.
Sejal Daswani
Chief People Officer
Deputy
(Bio coming soon)
Rahul Ramkumar
Founding Chief Product Officer
Rocket
(Bio coming soon)
Rajesh Radhakrishnan
VP of Autonomy
Serve Robotics
(Bio coming soon)
Rama Akkiraju
Vice President, Enterprise AI
NVIDIA
Rama Akkiraju is the Vice President of Enterprise AI at NVIDIA, where she leads the AI-at-
NVIDIA mission to build Agentic AI platforms and AI agents that enhance employee
productivity and drive business and operational effectiveness.
Previously, Rama was an IBM Fellow, Master Inventor, and CTO of IBM Watson AIOps. Over
her career, she has led the design and development of enterprise AI products spanning
generative and agentic AI, machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), speech
recognition, human-computer interaction (HCI), decision support systems, business process
management, and semantic web services.
A TED AI speaker and W3C standards contributor, Rama has co-authored more than 100
technical papers, holds over 50 patents, and has received multiple academic and industry
honors. Some of her recognitions include four best paper awards (INFORMS, AAAI), Forbes’
Top 20 Women in AI Research (2017), Fortune Magazine ‘A-Team in AI’ in 2018, UC Berkeley’s
Athena Award (2020), and AI Industry Leader of the Year (2022) by Women Leaders in Data &
AI. She holds a master’s degree in computer science and graduated as valedictorian of her
MBA program at New York University.
Sahil Shah
Founder and CEO
FlowState AI
Sahil Shah is the Founder and CEO of FlowState AI, a San-Francisco–based company
building the world’s first “AI Watcher” platform — enabling video content teams to
search and automate workflows over videos at scale. Previously, Sahil spent eight years
advancing autonomous systems at Waymo, Ike (acquired by Nuro), and Apple, where
he led efforts in computer vision, scene understanding, and perception for self-driving
vehicles.
With nearly fifteen years of experience in AI for visual data — spanning robotics,
security, and media — he now focuses on bringing the same level of intelligence and
automation to enterprise video. Sahil holds a Master’s from Carnegie Mellon
University’s Robotics Institute where he was a James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellow
and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from BITS Pilani.
At FlowState, his team’s vision is simple: to build the “Snowflake for Video”!
Henry Peter
Co-Founder & CTO
Ushur
Henry Peter is the Co-Founder and CTO of Ushur, where he leads the development of AI-
powered Customer Experience AutomationTM for regulated industries. He architected Ushur’s
Agentic Experience Framework and Ushur Intelligence, which bring multi-agent systems, real-
time reasoning, and built-in compliance to enterprise automation.
A veteran engineer and systems architect, Henry previously designed large-scale
communications software at Dialogic, Veraz Networks, and Lucent Technologies. His work now
focuses on transforming automation from rule-based workflows to intelligent, self-improving AI
agents that understand, plan, and act across complex customer journeys.
He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.E. in
Electronics and Communication Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy.
Akash Gupta
Co-Founder & CEO
Grey Orange
(Bio coming soon)
Manjeet Singh
Sr. Director of Product Management, AgentForce
Salesforce
Manjeet is Senior Director of Product Management for Salesforce AI and Agentforce platform.
Previously, he has held VP of products @ IRM and Head of Products roles at ServiceNow. He is
passionate about building AI powered products and staying super fit to create a long term impact
in the world.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and an MBA in product innovation and
marketing from Leavy School of Business Santa Clara, California.
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