Post-Industrial Institute
Post‑Industrial Summit 2026: Autonomous Organizations
Speakers
Blaine Mathieu
Host
Subha Shetty
Fractional
Chief Product Officer
Registration
Summit Day Pass
Connect with peers and industry experts, explore in depth how AI agents will lead to Autonomous Organizations
$875
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✓ Connect with industry leaders and experts
✓ No fluff, just learning with fellow leaders
Summit Participation
Connect with peers and industry experts, explore in depth how AI agents will lead to Autonomous Organizations
$1,600
✓ Access to all speaker and panel sessions
✓ Access to networking activities
✓ Join a community of Post-Industrial leaders
✓ Connect with industry leaders and experts
✓ No fluff, just learning with fellow leaders
Summit + AI Acceleration Workshop
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$2,200
✓ Hands-on executive-level workshop
✓ Solutions for accelerating AI Transformation
✓ Facilitated by PII Founder, Frode Odegard
✓ Get help with your biggest challenges
✓ Workshop only available to 30 participants
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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.
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.
Lawrence Lee
Senior Director, Strategic Development
SRI International
Lawrence leads a strategic development team that accelerates the commercialization of SRI technologies through market analysis, customer validation, IP strategy, and venture development. He also leads a new commercialization services group that partners with U.S. Government and enterprise clients to improve the impact of R&D investments, including SRI’s DARPA Commercial Accelerator program that works with universities and startups to accelerate the commercialization of DARPA-funded technologies.
Prior to joining SRI as part of the merger of Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Lawrence was Vice President of Strategy & Planning at Xerox, where he developed Xerox’s Deep Tech venture studio that launched 4 startups and led global R&D strategy. Lawrence previously worked at two software startups; he was a co-founder at Zoundry and VP of Business Development at Mirror Worlds Technologies. Lawrence holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and is a graduate of Penn’s Management & Technology program at Wharton and the School of Engineering & Applied Science.
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.
Kence Anderson
CEO
AMESA
Kence Anderson is the founder and CEO of AMESA and former Director of Autonomous AI Adoption at Microsoft. He is a pioneer in the field of intelligent autonomous agents, having co-created “Machine Teaching”, a methodology that enables AI agents to develop real-world autonomy through simulation, feedback, and trial-and-error. Over the past seven years, Kence has focused exclusively on designing, building, and deploying intelligent autonomous agents for manufacturing and logistics, leading over 200 real-world deployments for Fortune 500 corporations. He is also the author of Designing Autonomous AI (O’Reilly, 2022) and founded AMESA as the platform for AI orchestration and practice AI agents that makes million-dollar decisions in enterprise operations.
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
Founder and Principal
Arysyn
Dr. Masa K. Maeda is the Founder and Principal of Arysyn, a leadership and transformation practice that helps executives navigate complexity with integrity and purpose. An executive coach, author, and transformation strategist, he is recognized for guiding leaders—from Fortune 100 firms to startups—through major organizational 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 (Summit View Books, 2025), which offers practical tools for leading through disruption. Through Arysyn, he helps executives align innovation, performance, and human well-being. His experience spans finance, energy, and technology, with clients including Morgan Stanley, Repsol, Claro Telecom, and the Panama Canal Authority. He holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Tokushima University and early R&D experience at Apple and Silicon Valley startup
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.
Dr. 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.
Subha Shetty
Chief AI Officer
Wayfound
(Bio coming soon)
Vishakha Gupta
Founder and CEO
ApertureData Inc.
(Bio coming soon)
Blaine Mathieu
Blaine Mathieu is a growth-stage executive with a record of turning AI and SaaS innovation into scalable business value. His career in Silicon Valley spans Gartner, Adobe, Corel, and GoodData as CEO, CMO, and CPO. He built and ran the Startup Advisory Practice at Momenta VC. Most recently, Blaine served as co-founder and CEO of Pratexo, an energy and asset intelligence startups.
Blaine combines deep product, go-to-market, and operational expertise across startups and public companies to accelerate revenue and market adoption. He is known for building partnerships that translate cutting-edge technology (AI, ML, IoT, edge, cloud) into real-world impact in energy, industrial, and enterprise software markets around the world.
Aaron Rieke
Senior Partner
Clarion AI Partners
Aaron is a lawyer, software engineer, and policy expert, based in Washington, DC. He has served at Federal Trade Commission (FTC), advised the White House, Congress, and leading technology companies on range of AI issues, and published high-impact empirical research.
Aaron’s work has been widely recognized in the popular press, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, the Economist, and other major publications.
Aaron earned his JD at Berkeley Law, where he was an Editor of the California Law Review and Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and a Fellow with the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.
Michael Dolbec
Managing Partner
Momenta Ventures, Menlo Park
Michael Dolbec is a Venture Industrialist focused on digital and deep tech innovators building the future of industry. He has held investment leadership roles at GE, LG, Orange, 3Com, and IBM. Michael’s investment career started at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and continued at Greylock. He backs the entrepreneurs using Physical AI to create autonomous industrial operations, self-optimizing infrastructure, adaptive logistics, and smart spaces.
Jaya Gupta
Partner
Foundation Capital
(Bio coming soon)
Nick Mehta
Board Member: Gainsight, F5, Pubmatic, Larridin
Mr. Mehta previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Gainsight, transitioning to a Board Member and Special Advisor to the CEO in August 2025. Prior, he served as Chief Executive Officer of LiveOffice, which was acquired by Symantec in January 2012. Before joining LiveOffice, Mr. Mehta served in several product management and engineering leadership roles at Symantec. Mr. Mehta holds a B.A. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College and an M.S. in Computer Science from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In addition to Gainsight, he currently serves on the boards of Larridin, F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV), Pubmatic (NASDAQ: PUBM).
Animesh Koratana
CEO
PlayerZero
Animesh Koratana is the Founder and CEO of PlayerZero, the leading AI production engineering platform. During his time at Stanford’s DAWN lab, Animesh had an insider view into the early development of ChatGPT’s coding capabilities. PlayerZero’s AI production engineers autonomously operate enterprise software, resolve production incidents, and catch defects before release—delivering up to 80% reduction in escaped defects and 65% faster resolution times for Global 2000 companies including Zuora and Georgia Pacific. The company is backed by Foundation Capital and the founders of Databricks, Figma, Vercel, and Dropbox.
Preethy Padmanabhan
CMO and EIR
Emergent Ventures
Preethy Padmanabhan is the Chief Marketing Officer & Executive-In-Residence for Emergent Ventures. She held prior VP of Marketing roles at Bidgely,Panzura and Senior Director/Director roles at Freshworks and Nutanix. She is an angel investor andhas been a Board Director for Anthriq & Board Advisor for Sendoso. She held non-profit Board Director roles with TiE Silicon Valley and How Women Lead. She hosts 10X Growth Strategies, a top 10% global podcast and events community. She has an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and an MS in Information Systems from BITS Pilani, India.
Aaron Fulkerson
CEO
Opaque Systems
Aaron Fulkerson has built multiple $100M+ businesses by following a simple through-line: trust and connection unlock growth. From bringing underserved communities online, to founding MindTouch and scaling knowledge collaboration globally, to creating ServiceNow Impact—which built trust and connection across the NOW ecosystem and became one of the company’s most successful products—Aaron’s mission has been consistent: creating platforms where trust and connection unblock human progress. Today at OPAQUE, Aaron is extending that mission into the age of AI, providing the trust layer that enables organizations to harness AI for human good, without compromising their data or their future.
Sriraman Sabesan
CEO
Ephanti Inc.
Bio coming soon.
Prukalpa Sankar
Founder and Co‑CEO
Atlan
Prukalpa Sankar is the Founder and Co‑CEO of Atlan, the context layer for AI adoption in modern enterprises.
Under her leadership, Atlan has pioneered a unified context graph and metadata lakehouse that bring together technical, business, and operational metadata to power AI‑ready data products, AI governance, and agentic workflows at scale.
Atlan is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Metadata Management Solutions, 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data & Analytics Governance Platforms, and a Leader and Customer Favorite in The Forrester Wave™: Data Governance Solutions. It has raised $200M+ from investors including GIC, Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Sequoia/Peak XV, and serves 350+ enterprises, including Mastercard, General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, FOX, Nasdaq, and Workday.
Before Atlan, Prukalpa co‑founded SocialCops (a New York Times Global Visionary and World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer), which built one of the world’s largest government data lakes and powered the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) monitoring systems.
She has been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30, Fortune 40 Under 40, CNBC’s Top 10 Young Business Women, and ET Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year.
A prolific voice on the future of data & AI, Prukalpa speaks and writes extensively about how context graphs, semantic layers, and AI‑native operating models can finally close data’s “last mile” — enabling humans and agents to work together with trusted, governed data.
Savannah Kunovsky
Managing Director, Emerging Technology
IDEO
Savannah leads organizations in building the next generation of technology – from AI and robotics to new hardware and the future of the internet. As Managing Director of IDEO’s Emerging Technology Lab, she helps global clients design breakthrough products used by billions. She’s pioneered emotion AI for mental health with Dr. John Gottman and co-founded Moringa School, a network of tech education programs in Africa. A former software engineer, Savannah has spoken at SxSW, MIT Media Lab, and Fast Company Innovation Festival, and her work has been featured by MIT, Forbes, and the World Economic Forum.
Subhash Kodnad
SVP of Engineering
Palo Alto Networks
Passionate Engineering Leader excited to build new technology products and motivate teams for the success of the company and its customers. I have 20 years of leadership experience in Telecom/Networking/Cybersecurity/IoT and ML/AI industry building best-in-class products with large cross-functional teams. I have constantly fostered an innovation culture within the teams resulting in a record number of product ideas from Engineering and patents getting filed in Wireless, IoT, Networking and Cybersecurity space. I’m a long-time champion for Inclusion and Diversity with focus on “Conscious culture” and “Intentional Career development for under-represented groups”. I have served as an Executive sponsor to hire from several DEI conferences and universities.
Klaus Wehage
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer
Global Copilot
(Bio coming soon)
Mansoor Khan
Head of Strategy and Growth
Post-Industrial Institute
Mansoor Khan brings deep experience with and insight into how technologies transform a variety of industries. After more than two decades in the Technology Services and Solutions industry, it is this understanding that has enabled him to scale several businesses by 10X or more. He has also had the opportunity to advise and invest in a broad range of startups and enterprises.
Mansoor’s most recent experience was CEO & Board Member of Veltris, where he drove the strategy, vision and growth of the company, delivered 10X growth, and secured a private equity capital raise. In his previous role as EVP & Business Head at Terralogic, Mansoor played a key role in scaling the company from inception (as Infonam) to a 1000+ people company. Mansoor spent the first 14 year of his career at Aricent (now CapGemini Engineering) across its evolution across Hughes Software to Flex to Aricent to Altran where as Head of Americas, Western Region, he grew the business to be a top revenue generation region.
A consummate learner, Mansoor’s career spans a diverse range of roles, spanning CEO, Board Member, Strategy, Corporate Development, Sales, and Operations Management. Mansoor holds a Masters in Management Studies from BITS, Pilani and is passionate about giving back to his Alma mater.
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