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The Meet & Greet is the perfect opportunity to reconnect with peers, expand your network, and discuss the state of ML across the cloud-edge continuum! Join attendees from both Edge AI Summit and AI Hardware Summit for this extended networking session.

We will soon announce a luminary guest speaker who will present in the middle of the function, followed by a drinks reception for both events.

Order of ceremony:
4:00 - 5:00 PM: Informal Networking
5:00 - 6:00 PM: Guest Keynote Speaker
6:00 - 7:00 PM: Drinks Reception

Vision
NLP and Speech
Connectivity and 5G
Chip and Systems Design
On Device ML
Edge Trade Offs
Innovation at the Edge
Data Science
Hardware and Systems Engineering
Software Engineering
Strategy
Industry & Investment

The true potential of AI rests on super-human learning capacity, and on the ability to selectively draw on that learning. Both of these properties – scale and selectivity – challenge the design of AI computers and the tools used to program them. A rich pool of new ideas is emerging, driven by a new breed of computing company, according to Graphcore co-founder Simon Knowles. At the AI Hardware Summit, Phil Brown, VP Scaled Systems Product discusses the creation of the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) – a new type of processor, specifically designed for AI computation. He looks ahead, towards the development of AIs with super-human cognition, and explores the nature of computation systems needed to make powerful AI an economic everyday reality.

Developer Efficiency
Enterprise AI
ML at Scale
Novel AI Hardware
Systems Design
Data Science
Hardware Engineering
Software Engineering
Strategy
Systems Engineering

Author:

Phil Brown

VP, Scaled Systems Product
Graphcore

Phil leads Graphcore’s efforts to build large scale AI/ML processing capability using Graphcore unique Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) and IPU-Fabric and Streaming Memory technology. Previously he has held a number of different roles at Graphcore including Director of Applications, leading development of Graphcore’s flagship AL/ML models, and Director of Field Engineering, which acts as the focal point for technical engagements with our customers. Prior to joining Graphcore, Phil worked for Cray Inc. in a number of roles, including leading their engagement with the weather forecasting and climate research customers worldwide and as a technical architect. Phil holds a PhD in Computational Chemistry from the University of Bristol.

Phil Brown

VP, Scaled Systems Product
Graphcore

Phil leads Graphcore’s efforts to build large scale AI/ML processing capability using Graphcore unique Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) and IPU-Fabric and Streaming Memory technology. Previously he has held a number of different roles at Graphcore including Director of Applications, leading development of Graphcore’s flagship AL/ML models, and Director of Field Engineering, which acts as the focal point for technical engagements with our customers. Prior to joining Graphcore, Phil worked for Cray Inc. in a number of roles, including leading their engagement with the weather forecasting and climate research customers worldwide and as a technical architect. Phil holds a PhD in Computational Chemistry from the University of Bristol.

  • Highlighting the ethical and practical challenges of accessing patient data and how best to overcome shared challenges
  • Developing trust across those involved in the formation of real-world data
  • De-identify personal information using a risk-based approach and putting valuable data in the hands of data scientists

Author:

Aaron Mann

Co-Founder and CEO
Clinical Research Data Sharing Alliance

Aaron Mann

Co-Founder and CEO
Clinical Research Data Sharing Alliance

Author:

Peter Mesenbrink

Executive Director Statistician
Novartis

Peter Mesenbrink

Executive Director Statistician
Novartis

Author:

Rebecca Li

Executive Director
Vivli

Rebecca Li

Executive Director
Vivli

Author:

Julie Holtzople

Senior Director of Clinical Transparency & Data Sharing
AstraZeneca

Julie Holtzople

Senior Director of Clinical Transparency & Data Sharing
AstraZeneca
  • Predictive approaches to treatment effect heterogeneity (PATH), and offer the potential to identify predictive biomarkers, and to understand which treatment a patient may be more likely to benefit from
  • The two primary classes of PATH models include risk models and more flexible effect models, with a proliferation of newly published approaches in recent years
  • Limitations of these approaches such as how to appropriately evaluate their accuracy are an area of active research

Author:

David Paulucci

Director of Data Science
Bristol-Myers Squibb

David Paulucci

Director of Data Science
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Chip Design
Edge AI
Enterprise AI
ML at Scale
NLP
Novel AI Hardware
Data Science
Hardware Engineering
Software Engineering
Strategy
Systems Engineering
Industry & Investment

Author:

Lip-Bu Tan

CEO
Intel

Lip-Bu Tan is chief executive officer of Intel Corporation and serves on the company’s board of directors. He was appointed to his position in March 2025.

Tan is an accomplished executive with more than two decades of semiconductor and software experience and deep relationships across the technology ecosystem. He has received several accolades for his significant contributions to the industry, including the 2022 Robert N. Noyce Award, the Semiconductor Industry Association’s highest honor, and was named one of Forbes’ Top 50 Venture Capitalists.

Tan previously served as chief executive officer of Cadence Design Systems Inc. and was also a member of its board of directors. During his 12 years as Cadence’s chief executive officer, he led a reinvention of the company and drove a cultural transformation centered on customer-centric innovation that enabled Cadence to more than double its revenue, expand operating margins and significantly outperform the market.

Tan is a founding managing partner of Walden Catalyst Ventures and chairman of Walden International, a leading venture capital firm. He has also served on the boards of public companies Credo Technology Group and Schneider Electric.

Tan holds a Bachelor of Science in physics from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, a Master of Science in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.

Lip-Bu Tan

CEO
Intel

Lip-Bu Tan is chief executive officer of Intel Corporation and serves on the company’s board of directors. He was appointed to his position in March 2025.

Tan is an accomplished executive with more than two decades of semiconductor and software experience and deep relationships across the technology ecosystem. He has received several accolades for his significant contributions to the industry, including the 2022 Robert N. Noyce Award, the Semiconductor Industry Association’s highest honor, and was named one of Forbes’ Top 50 Venture Capitalists.

Tan previously served as chief executive officer of Cadence Design Systems Inc. and was also a member of its board of directors. During his 12 years as Cadence’s chief executive officer, he led a reinvention of the company and drove a cultural transformation centered on customer-centric innovation that enabled Cadence to more than double its revenue, expand operating margins and significantly outperform the market.

Tan is a founding managing partner of Walden Catalyst Ventures and chairman of Walden International, a leading venture capital firm. He has also served on the boards of public companies Credo Technology Group and Schneider Electric.

Tan holds a Bachelor of Science in physics from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, a Master of Science in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.

  • Exploring the digital endpoint development process with a case-study
  • Measuring what matters; identifying and addressing needs. Dealing with concerns around development, validation, regulatory concerns
  • Putting endpoints to use via deployment in clinical trials

Author:

Yiorgos Christakis

Senior Data Scientist, Early Clinical Development
Pfizer

Yiorgos Christakis

Senior Data Scientist, Early Clinical Development
Pfizer
  • Using AI to evaluate the demographic population and trial operational performance trade offs of exclusion of non-safety required chronic conditions in the eligibility criteria
  • Benchmarking and differentiating between Schedule of Assessment(SoA) procedures relative to different time periods and peer groups to drive greater operational efficiency

Author:

Michael Dandrea

Principal Data Scientist
Genentech

Michael Dandrea

Principal Data Scientist
Genentech
  • Assessing representativeness of randomized clinical trials using ML fairness metrics and surveillance data
  • Using these metrics to assess and monitor representativeness of clinical trials
  • New tools for designing representative and more efficient single and multi-site trials

Author:

Kristin Bennett

Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Kristin Bennett

Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute