Nafea Bshara
Amber Huffman
Amber Huffman is a Principal Engineer in Google Cloud responsible for leading industry engagement efforts in the data center ecosystem across servers, storage, networking, accelerators, power, cooling, security, and more. Before joining Google, she spent 25 years at Intel serving as an Intel Fellow and VP. Amber is the President of NVM Express, on the Board of Directors for the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), on the Board of Directors for Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink), and the chair of the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project. She has led numerous industry standards to successful adoption, including NVM Express, Open NAND Flash Interface, and Serial ATA.
Amber Huffman
Amber Huffman is a Principal Engineer in Google Cloud responsible for leading industry engagement efforts in the data center ecosystem across servers, storage, networking, accelerators, power, cooling, security, and more. Before joining Google, she spent 25 years at Intel serving as an Intel Fellow and VP. Amber is the President of NVM Express, on the Board of Directors for the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), on the Board of Directors for Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink), and the chair of the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project. She has led numerous industry standards to successful adoption, including NVM Express, Open NAND Flash Interface, and Serial ATA.
Amber Huffman
Amber Huffman is a Principal Engineer in Google Cloud responsible for leading industry engagement efforts in the data center ecosystem across servers, storage, networking, accelerators, power, cooling, security, and more. Before joining Google, she spent 25 years at Intel serving as an Intel Fellow and VP. Amber is the President of NVM Express, on the Board of Directors for the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), on the Board of Directors for Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink), and the chair of the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project. She has led numerous industry standards to successful adoption, including NVM Express, Open NAND Flash Interface, and Serial ATA.
Amber Huffman
Amber Huffman is a Principal Engineer in Google Cloud responsible for leading industry engagement efforts in the data center ecosystem across servers, storage, networking, accelerators, power, cooling, security, and more. Before joining Google, she spent 25 years at Intel serving as an Intel Fellow and VP. Amber is the President of NVM Express, on the Board of Directors for the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), on the Board of Directors for Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink), and the chair of the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project. She has led numerous industry standards to successful adoption, including NVM Express, Open NAND Flash Interface, and Serial ATA.
Ruchi Bhatia
Ruchi Bhatia is a Computer Engineer with a Master’s degree in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University. She currently serves as a Product Marketing Manager at Amazon Web Services, driving awareness, engagement, and adoption of AI infrastructure solutions including Trainium and Inferentia. Ruchi is proud to be the youngest triple Kaggle Grandmaster across the Notebooks, Datasets, and Discussion categories. In her previous role as Product Marketing Manager at HP, she focused on data science and AI solutions, further strengthening her expertise at the intersection of technology and business. She also served as a Global Data Science Ambassador for Z by HP, sharing her knowledge with the broader data science community. Earlier in her career, Ruchi worked across the technology divisions of major global firms, gaining valuable industry perspective and experience. As Leader of Data Science at OpenMined, she guided a team of data scientists in developing innovative privacy-preserving AI solutions. Her expertise has led to speaking invitations at Google Cloud Next, NVIDIA GTC, and the University of Oxford, where she shares insights on AI and data science applications.
Ingolf Held
Ingolf Held is co-founder and VP of Product at EUCLYD, an emerging leader in datacenter compute solutions. Prior to Euclyd, Ingolf was CEO at GrAI Matter Labs, a fabless semiconductor startup offering the world’s first neuromorphic Edge AI SoCs for advanced audio and video processing. Upon acquisition by Snap Inc. he led the custom silicon program for the company’s augmented reality glasses roadmap. In addition, Ingolf held senior engineering and marketing roles at Intel, Silicon Hive, Synopsys and NXP. He holds an MScEE from Erlangen University in Germany and an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management.
Nick Harris
Nick Harris is the founder and CEO of Lightmatter, a pioneering photonic-computing company that is redefining AI infrastructure. An MIT-trained engineer and scientist, he won the MIT Technology Review’s TR35 award and holds numerous patents on revolutionary photonic technologies. His prolific research—published in top-tier journals such as Nature—has seeded new fields in photonic AI interconnects, processor design, and quantum computing. Under his leadership, Lightmatter has rapidly become the industry benchmark for ultra-fast photonics for connecting AI supercomputers.
Daniel Xu
Shri Subramanian
Shriram Subramanian is a Group Product Manager at Datadog, where they lead the AI Monitoring product suite--building observability tools for LLMs, GPUs, and AI model training workloads. Before joining Datadog, Shriram was a data scientist at Meta focused on natural language processing and embedding models for ad creative optimization. Their work sits at the intersection of AI infrastructure, AI application development, developer experience, and scalable observability.