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Manu Hanspal

Investigations and Conduct Monitoring Director
Compass Group

Manu Hanspal

Investigations and Conduct Monitoring Director
Compass Group

Manu Hanspal

Investigations and Conduct Monitoring Director
Compass Group
 

Adrian Leung

Data Protection Officer & Interim European CISO
Equifax

Adrian is presently Equifax UK’s Group Data Protection Officer where he is responsible for leading its privacy program and developing its privacy capabilities and function.  Prior to Equifax, Adrian was Head of Information Security and Data Protection at Catalyst where he built its security and privacy functions.

Adrian Leung

Data Protection Officer & Interim European CISO
Equifax

Adrian Leung

Data Protection Officer & Interim European CISO
Equifax

Adrian is presently Equifax UK’s Group Data Protection Officer where he is responsible for leading its privacy program and developing its privacy capabilities and function.  Prior to Equifax, Adrian was Head of Information Security and Data Protection at Catalyst where he built its security and privacy functions. Adrian has more than 20 years of privacy and information security experience gained through a variety of roles across different industry sectors including as a security consultant for Deloitte where he provided specialist security advisory and assurance services to his Financial Services & Telco clients. He adopts a pragmatic approach to privacy and security and strongly believes it to be a business enabler. Adrian also led a security awareness programme which won the 2018 Peer Award for Excellence in Information Security – Security Training Category.

 Adrian holds a Ph.D. in Information Security from Royal Holloway and has contributed to the development of international security standards. He is regularly invited to speak at privacy and security conferences.

 

Vikas Chandra

Senior Director, AI
Meta

Vikas Chandra is Senior Director at Meta Reality Labs where he works on AI research focusing on AR and VR products. Prior to Meta, he was Director of Applied Machine Learning at Arm Inc. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He held the positions of Visiting Scholar (2011 – 2014) and Visiting Faculty (2016 - 2017) in the EE department at Stanford University. He has authored 120+ research publications and is an inventor on 40+ US and international patents. Dr.

Vikas Chandra

Senior Director, AI
Meta

Vikas Chandra

Senior Director, AI
Meta

Vikas Chandra is Senior Director at Meta Reality Labs where he works on AI research focusing on AR and VR products. Prior to Meta, he was Director of Applied Machine Learning at Arm Inc. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He held the positions of Visiting Scholar (2011 – 2014) and Visiting Faculty (2016 - 2017) in the EE department at Stanford University. He has authored 120+ research publications and is an inventor on 40+ US and international patents. Dr. Chandra received the ACM-SIGDA Technical Leadership Award in 2009 and was invited to the 2017 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering. He is a senior member of IEEE.

 

Suqiang Song

Engineering Director, Data Platform & ML Infrastructure
Airbnb

As engineering director, Suqiang leads multiple teams of ML infrastructure engineers, driving machine learning platforms and infrastructure solutions for all product and engineering teams in Airbnb.

As a senior AI leader, he works closely with senior partners in product and engineering to shape Airbnb’s vision in AI and ML, streamline innovations, and ensure Airbnb has a complete set of AI infrastructure that meets long-term needs.

Suqiang Song

Engineering Director, Data Platform & ML Infrastructure
Airbnb

Suqiang Song

Engineering Director, Data Platform & ML Infrastructure
Airbnb

As engineering director, Suqiang leads multiple teams of ML infrastructure engineers, driving machine learning platforms and infrastructure solutions for all product and engineering teams in Airbnb.

As a senior AI leader, he works closely with senior partners in product and engineering to shape Airbnb’s vision in AI and ML, streamline innovations, and ensure Airbnb has a complete set of AI infrastructure that meets long-term needs.

Previously, Suqiang served as Vice President, Data Platforms and Engineering Services at Mastercard, as one of the Data / AI commit board members to identify strategies and directions for Data Enablement, Data and ML platforms across multiple product lines and multiple deployment infrastructures. He has led worldwide engineering teams of data engineers, Machine Learning engineers, and data analysts to build unified data and ML platforms both on-premise and on-cloud for Mastercard

 

Sravanthi Rajanala

Director, Machine Learning & Search
Walmart Tech

Sravanthi Rajanala is the Director of Data Science and Machine Learning in Walmart's Search Technologies. She began her career in telecom and worked for Microsoft and Nokia before joining Bing Search in 2011 to work in machine learning and search. Sravanthi has led initiatives in query and document understanding, ranking, and question answering. In 2021, she joined Walmart and now leads the Search Core Algorithms, Machine Translation, and Metrics Science.

Sravanthi Rajanala

Director, Machine Learning & Search
Walmart Tech

Sravanthi Rajanala

Director, Machine Learning & Search
Walmart Tech

Sravanthi Rajanala is the Director of Data Science and Machine Learning in Walmart's Search Technologies. She began her career in telecom and worked for Microsoft and Nokia before joining Bing Search in 2011 to work in machine learning and search. Sravanthi has led initiatives in query and document understanding, ranking, and question answering. In 2021, she joined Walmart and now leads the Search Core Algorithms, Machine Translation, and Metrics Science. Sravanthi holds a Master's degree in Computational Science from the Indian Institute of Science and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Osmania University.

 

Prasad Saripalli

Distinguished Engineer
Capital One

Prasad Saripalli serves as a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, a technology driven bank on the Fortune 100 list, redefining Fintech and Banking using data, technology, AI and ML in unprecedented ways. Most recently, Prasad served as the Vice President of AIML and Distinguished Engineer at MindBody Inc - a portfolio company of Vista which manages the world's fourth-largest enterprise software company after Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP.

Prasad Saripalli

Distinguished Engineer
Capital One

Prasad Saripalli

Distinguished Engineer
Capital One

Prasad Saripalli serves as a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, a technology driven bank on the Fortune 100 list, redefining Fintech and Banking using data, technology, AI and ML in unprecedented ways. Most recently, Prasad served as the Vice President of AIML and Distinguished Engineer at MindBody Inc - a portfolio company of Vista which manages the world's fourth-largest enterprise software company after Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP. Earlier, he served as VP Data Science at Edifecs, an industry premier healthcare information technology partnership platform and software provider, building Smart Decisions ML & AI Platform with Ml Apps Front. Prior to this, Prasad served as CTO and VP Engineering at Secrata.com, provider of Military grade Security and Privacy solutions developed and deployed over the past 15 years at Topia Technology for the Federal Government and the Enterprise, and as CTO & EVP at ClipCard, a SaaS based Hierarchical Analytics and Visualization platform.

At IBM, Prasad served as the Chief Architect for IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise (http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/us/en/). At Runaware, he served as the Vice President of Product Development. As a Principal Group Manager at Microsoft, Prasad co-led the development of virtualization stack on Windows 7 responsible for shipping Virtual PC7 and Windows XP Mode on Windows 7.


Prasad teaches Machine Learning, AI, NLP, Distributed Systems, Cloud Engineering and Robotics at Northeastern University and the University of Washington Continuum College.

 

Nikhil Gulati

VP, Engineering & Product Strategy
Baker Hughes

Nikhil Gulati

VP, Engineering & Product Strategy
Baker Hughes

Nikhil Gulati

VP, Engineering & Product Strategy
Baker Hughes
 

Marc Tremblay

Technical Fellow & Corporate VP
Microsoft

Marc is a Distinguished Engineer and VP in the Office of the CTO (OCTO) at Microsoft. His current role is to drive the strategic and technical direction of the company on silicon and hardware systems from a cross-divisional standpoint. This includes Artificial Intelligence, from supercomputer to client devices to Xbox, etc., and general-purpose computing. Throughout his career, Marc has demonstrated a passion for translating high-level application requirements into optimizations up and down the stack, all the way to silicon.

Marc Tremblay

Technical Fellow & Corporate VP
Microsoft

Marc Tremblay

Technical Fellow & Corporate VP
Microsoft

Marc is a Distinguished Engineer and VP in the Office of the CTO (OCTO) at Microsoft. His current role is to drive the strategic and technical direction of the company on silicon and hardware systems from a cross-divisional standpoint. This includes Artificial Intelligence, from supercomputer to client devices to Xbox, etc., and general-purpose computing. Throughout his career, Marc has demonstrated a passion for translating high-level application requirements into optimizations up and down the stack, all the way to silicon. AI has been his focus for the past several years, but his interests also encompass accelerators for the cloud, scale-out systems, and process technology. He has given multiple keynotes on AI Hardware, published many papers on throughput computing, multi-cores, multithreading, transactional memory, speculative multi-threading, Java computing, etc. and he is an inventor of over 300 patents on those topics.

Prior to Microsoft, Marc was the CTO of Microelectronics at Sun Microsystems. As a Sun Fellow and SVP, he was responsible for the technical leadership of 1200 engineers. Throughout his career, he has started, architected, led, defined and shipped a variety of microprocessors such as superscalar RISC processors (UltraSPARC I/II), bytecode engines (picoJava), VLIW, media and Java-focused (MAJC), and the first processor to implement speculative multithreading and transactional memory (ROCK – first silicon). He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from UCLA and his Physics Engineering degree from Laval University in Canada. Marc is on the board of directors of QuantalRF.

 

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.

Lip-Bu Tan

CEO
Intel

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.

 

Krishna Rangasayee

Founder & CEO
SiMa.ai

Krishna is founder and CEO of SiMa.ai™, a machine learning company enabling effortless ML for the Embedded Edge.

Previously, he was the COO of Groq, a machine learning startup. He was with Xilinx for 18 years, where he was Senior Vice President and GM of Xilinx’s overall business prior to his most recent role as Executive Vice President, Global Sales. Prior to Xilinx, he held various engineering and business roles at Altera Corporation and Cypress Semiconductor. He holds 25+ international patents. He has also served on the board of directors of public and private companies.

Krishna Rangasayee

Founder & CEO
SiMa.ai

Krishna Rangasayee

Founder & CEO
SiMa.ai

Krishna is founder and CEO of SiMa.ai™, a machine learning company enabling effortless ML for the Embedded Edge.

Previously, he was the COO of Groq, a machine learning startup. He was with Xilinx for 18 years, where he was Senior Vice President and GM of Xilinx’s overall business prior to his most recent role as Executive Vice President, Global Sales. Prior to Xilinx, he held various engineering and business roles at Altera Corporation and Cypress Semiconductor. He holds 25+ international patents. He has also served on the board of directors of public and private companies.