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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top California based CTO’ operating in the Machine Learning space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Brien Colwell
CTO & Co-Founder of HeadSpin
Brien previously founded YC-backed Nextop. He worked on mobile architecture at Quora and started and led the Android team through many international launches. He was also an early engineer at Palantir and a lead engineer at a number of data and mobile startups.
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About HeadSpin: HeadSpin is a developer of a digital experience intelligence platform used to provide flawless digital experiences.
Krishnendu Chaudhury
Co-Founder and CTO of Drishti
Technology leader (deep learning, computer vision), inventor and author. Currently the CTO-cofounder of Drishti Technologies Palo Alto, which applies AI to manufacturing. Author of the book “Mathematics and Architectures of Deep Learning”, Manning Publications, New York. Several dozens of patents and publications in leading journals and conferences of the world.
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About Drishti: Drishti is a provider of AI-powered video analytics technology that gives visibility and insights for manual assembly line improvement.
Matthew Clower
Chief Technology Officer of Treasure Financial
Matthew Clower is the chief technology officer of Treasure Financial.
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About Treasure Financial: Using automation and machine learning to help companies identify, manage and monetize their idle cash
Shabd Vaid
Co-Founder, CTO of Strikedeck
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About Strikedeck: Strikedeck is building a revolutionary Customer Success automation solution to deliver an outstanding customer experience.
Mark Wheeler
CTO of DeepMap
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About DeepMap: DeepMap is accelerating safe autonomy by providing the world’s best autonomous mapping and localization solutions.
Amine Anoun
Co-Founder & CTO of Evisort
Amine Anoun is the co-founder and CTO of Evisort. Prior to that, he served as a data scientist at Uber.
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About Evisort: Evisort is an AI-powered contract management platform that provides visibility into any document.
Simon Williams
CTO of Lemonaid Health
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About Lemonaid Health: Lemonaid Health is a telemedicine platform that uses technology to change the way people interact with health care.
Ed Abbo
President and CTO of C3 AI
Ed Abbo is President and Chief Technology Officer at C3.ai, which provides an AI and IoT software platform-as-a-service to power enterprise digital transformations. Mr. Abbo leads C3.ai’s strategy and execution, including technology direction, innovation, and customer success. Prior to C3.ai, Mr. Abbo was Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation, where he was responsible for its application products. Prior to joining Oracle in 2006, he was Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer for Siebel Systems.
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About C3 AI: C3 AI is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation.
Tim Stonehocker
CTO of SoundHound
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About SoundHound: SoundHound is an innovator of invoice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies.
Vikesh Khanna
CTO & Co-founder of Ambient.ai
CTO & co-founder
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About Ambient.ai: Ambient.ai integrates computer vision intelligence and camera infrastructure to sensor and prevent security incidents.
Daniel Rasmuson
Co-founder & CTO of Labelbox
Dan Rasmuson is the Co-Founder and CTO of Labelbox, the leading training data management software company that is accelerating global access to artificial intelligence. He was previously an Engineering Manager at DroneDeploy where he started and grew their platform to more than 100 integrations. These integrations are now providing access to machine learning for aerial imagery all of the world. Dan is a technologist recognized in Forbes 30 under 30 and a youth national chess and ultimate frisbee champion.
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About Labelbox: Labelbox is a collaborative data training platform that creates and manages labeled data for machine learning applications.
Raj Neervannan
Chief Technology Officer of AlphaSense
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About AlphaSense: AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
Shawn Lewis
Founder, CTO of Weights & Biases
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About Weights & Biases: Weights & Biases provides a developer-first MLOps platform that offers performance visualization tools for machine learning.
Hakan Gultekin
Co-Founder and CTO of Chooch AI
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About Chooch AI: The enterprise AI platform for quickly developing and deploying world-class computer vision solutions.
Tudor Achim
CTO of Helm.ai
Tudor Achim is the Chief Technology Officer of Helm.ai.
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About Helm.ai: Helm.ai is a scalable artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicle.
Valentino Volonghi
CTO & Founding Team of NextRoll
He is the President and Founder of the Italian Python Association that runs PyCon Italy. Chief Technology Officer at NextRoll, Inc.
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About Italian Python Association, NextRoll: NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies rely on to grow their businesses.
Abraham Bachrach
Founder, CTO of Skydio
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About Skydio: Skydio uses artificial intelligence to create flying drones that are used by consumer, enterprise, and government customers.
Varun Ganapathi
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of AKASA
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About AKASA, Terminal.com: AKASA is an AI-powered automation company for revenue cycle management in healthcare.
Philipp Meisen
CTO & Cofounder of Breinify
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About Breinify, Philipp Meisen (LinkedIn): Predictive Personalization at Scale
Jacques Nadeau
Co-founder & CTO of Dremio
Jacques is currently co-founder and CTO of YapMap.com, a Visual Search & Discovery Engine for the social web. Jacques is an industry veteran with over 15 years of Internet technology experience. Prior to leading the technology efforts at YapMap, he was Director of Product with Quigo (acquired by AOL in 2007). Previously he led product development efforts at Offermatica (now part of Omniture/Adobe) and built the Avenue A | Razorfish analytics technology and services practice. Jacques has a B.A. from Pomona College.
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About Dremio: Dremio is a data lake engine that offers tools to help streamline and curate data.
Jernej Barbic
Co-Founder and CTO of Ziva Dynamics
Jernej Barbic is the co-founder and CTO at Ziva Dynamics.
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About Ziva Dynamics: Ziva Dynamics is a software company that specializes in character creation and human simulation.
Josh Albrecht
CTO of Generally Intelligent
Josh thinks that computers and people are both interesting, so he started an AI recruiting company. He got paid to program video games in high school, published ML / NLP research, and sold a company. He enjoys playing new board games for the first time and can tell you exactly what he was doing during any minute in the past 10 years.
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About Generally Intelligent: Generally Intelligent is an AI research company that works on building human-level general machine intelligence that can learn naturally.
Matei Zaharia
Co-founder & CTO of Databricks
Matei Zaharia is an assistant professor of computer science at MIT and CTO of Databricks. He started the Spark project at UC Berkeley and continues to serve as its vice president at Apache. Matei also co-started the Apache Mesos project and is a committer on Apache Hadoop. Matei’s research work on datacenter systems was recognized through two Best Paper awards and the 2014 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
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About Databricks, Stanford University, The Apache Software Foundation: Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Mohan Reddy
Cofounder & Founding CTO of Astound
Mohan Reddy is the Co-Founder and Founding CTO at Astound.
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About Astound, FogHorn, FogHorn, SkyHive, Stanford University, The Hive, Vizzario: Astound is an enterprise software company that develops an AI platform for employee service.
Andrew Colombi
CTO and Co-Founder of Tonic.ai
Andrew Colombi is the CTO and Co-Founder at Tonic. Upon completing his PhD in Computer Science and Astrodynamics at UIUC in 2008, Andrew joined Palantir, leading the team of engineers that launched the company into the commercial sector. Later he began Palantir’s Foundry product, growing it into a keystone of the company’s offering. His extensive work in analytics across a full spectrum of industries gives him an in-depth understanding of the complex realities captured in data. He is building Tonic’s platform to reverse engineer data that parallels those realities and supply development teams with the resource-saving tools they most need.
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About Tonic.ai: Tonic mimics your production data to create safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development.
John Bruce
Co-Founder & CTO of Vivun
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About Vivun: Vivun provides the world’s first AI-Powered PreSales Intel & Ops platform
Sharon Zhang
CTO & Co-Founder of Personal AI
I am a scientist, a creator, and a builder. I believe in data, innovation, and humans. I am passionate about people and about technologies that evolve alongside humanity. I have pursued expertise in artificial intelligence for over the past decade, building NLP products that impact the lives of patients, employees, and everyday people. I strive to build companies that move the world forward – embracing the principles of original thinking and humane AI. And that is why my partners and I are creating Human AI Labs (hu.man.ai).
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About Personal AI: Personal AI is on a mission to organize the human mind and make it interactive and useful.
Rajeev Dadia
Chief Technology Officer of Saama
Saama Technologies‘ Chief Technology Officer, Rajeev Dadia drives the technology roadmap to enhance Saama’s technical edge and improve overall quality through leadership in delivery process and resource management. Previously at Saama, he lead the development of strategies, methodologies, and partnerships that enhance Saama’s solution sets offered during each client engagement. Rajeev focuses on cloud, syndicated data sources, social data, and mobile technologies as it impacts the data and analytics needs of the organization. He has 20 years of successive experience in leadership roles at Saama and at Silicon Graphics (SGI) in Corporate Information Systems. Rajeev has created BI and Analytic strategies for large organizations and managed large-scale deployments of data warehousing, analytics and applied data mining/predictive analytics systems in diverse business environments. He has also been involved in analysis, design and deployment of both B2C and B2B solutions in different vertical industries. In addition, he led the development of a Business Intelligence Center of Excellence operation to provide offshore development capabilities. He earned an M.S. in Computer Science at California State University, Chico.
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About Saama: Saama is the number one AI-powered clinical analytics cloud platform company delivering actionable business insights for life sciences.
Dhruvesh Patel
Chief Technology Officer of VOLANSYS TECHNOLOGIES
Dhruvesh has 20+ years of diverse experience building embedded software and systems for IoT, Multimedia, Networking, Wireless, Semiconductor, Telecom and Industrial Automation products. At Volansys, as Chief Technology Officer, Dhruvesh is responsible for steering business towards new technologies, formulating robust technology-centric business strategies, and leveraging technical innovations to address complex challenges. Dhruvesh has held variety of senior leadership roles in both, technology and management since 2001 and has served global markets including U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and India. He has worked with large corporations, as well as SME’s and start-up and has been endorsed for bringing to the table discrete solutions. His passion lies in envisaging cross-domain technology applications that open up diverse avenues for business and is adept at implementing those. Driven by this passion, Dhruvesh founded Xzadium Technologies in 2013, a product design & services company offering broad-based engineering services using a variety of client-partnership models for delivery. Within a span of 2 years, Xzadium gained the reputation of a trusted partner especially among small and medium sized product companies for covering entire product life cycle as well as its sustenance. Dhruvesh holds a master’s degree from IIT, Delhi, one of the most prestigious platforms for thinkers, innovators and learners alike.
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About VOLANSYS TECHNOLOGIES: VOLANSYS is a Digital Transformation and Product Realization company offering an integrated portfolio of IoT services, solutions and IPs
Xiaodi Hou
Founder & CTO of TuSimple
Dr. Xiaodi Hou co-founded TuSimple in 2015 and serves as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Xiaodi Hou is an internationally renowned expert in artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision. Dr. Xiaodi Hou currently holds 13 patents in the field of autonomous vehicles. In the field of computer vision, Mr. Hou has developed leading theories in computational models for visual saliency. He earned a Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from the California institute of Technology and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Dr. Xiaodi Hou has presented at global events such as Web Summit and Nvidia’s GTC conference and has been featured in leading publications such as Wired and Forbes.
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About TuSimple: TuSimple is a self-driving truck company developing technology that allows them to drive from depot-to-depot without human intervention.
Arvind Sundararajan
CTO & Co-Founder of Abacus.AI
Arvind Sundararajan is the CTO and Co-Founder of RealityEngines.AI. Before starting RealityEngines.AI,he was a senior technical lead at Uber’s autonomous vehicles division where he led the Autonomy Systems team, responsible for wide ranging software initiatives across the autonomy stack spanning onboard software, ML, and infrastructure. Previously, he was the CTO and co-founder of Post Intelligence. Before Post Intelligence, he was at Google, where he was the technical lead for AdSense’s machine learning and serving system, and the technical lead for GMail’s backend system (part of the initial launch team). Arvind was the recipient of two founders awards at Google and has a M.S. (CS) degree from Stanford and a B.Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
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About Abacus.AI: Abacus.AI is a cloud services company that helps organizations design, train, and customize machine and deep learning models.
Nicolas Borensztein
Founder & CTO of CrowdAI
Founder at CrowdAI
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About CrowdAI: CrowdAI enables organizations to create and deploy custom models for visual AI and a code-free platform.
Peter Lee
Co Founder, CTO of GoodTime.io
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About GoodTime.io: GoodTime uses employee data to schedule interviews faster and cheaper for enterprises
Rohan Sathe
Co-Founder & CTO of Nightfall AI
Rohan Sathe is the Co-Founder & CTO of Nightfall.
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About Nightfall AI: Nightfall identifies business-critical data across SaaS, APIs, and data infrastructure so it can be managed and protected.
David Julian
Founder & CTO of NetraDyne
David Julian, co-founder and chief technology officer, leads Netradyne’s long-term technology vision. A 20-year technology R&D veteran, he sees near infinite potential for Computer Vision and Deep Learning to solve things from everyday problems to highly specialized use-cases from automotive, healthcare and energy exploration, to recreation and entertainment. Prior to co-founding Netradyne in 2015, David served as Principal Engineer at Qualcomm, where he was awarded over 100 US patents covering a wide range of technologies during his 12 year tenure at the company. While at Qualcomm, he was also the Project and Systems Engineering Lead of a multidisciplinary team for the company’s ultra low-power and ranging ultra-wideband R&D efforts, taking it from concept to system-on-chip (SOC) prototypes. David was also instrumental in Qualcomm’s Zeroth team achieving best performance on the 2015 NIST TREVID semantic indexing task for video. Before Qualcomm, David co-founded Mountain View Analytics and supported Voyager and Cassini Deep Space programs at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Julian holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University and a master’s of science and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
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About NetraDyne: NetraDyne engages in improving fleet safety through computer vision and in-depth data analysis.
David Casper
CTO, Americas and CISO of Moogsoft
He is a CTO | CISO at Moogsoft.
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About Moogsoft, Open Alliance for Cloud Adoption: Moogsoft is a provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter.
Richard Whitehead
Evangelist In Chief & CTO of Moogsoft
Richard Whitehead is chief evangelist at Moogsoft, a pioneer and leading provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter and is responsible for the successful introduction of products and technologies to the market. Previously, Richard was a consultant at JRW Strategies, where he provided product strategy, new market introduction, and competitive analysis advice to the software industry. Richard is the cochair of the monitoring and analytics working group at ONUG.
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About Moogsoft: Moogsoft is a provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter.
Paul Master
CTO of Cornami
Paul Master has over 30 years’ experience in high tech development and management in both start-up company environments and large corporations. His previous roles included positions as CEO, CTO, VP of Engineering, VP of Systems Engineering, VP of Architecture, and Director of Marketing among others. He has held positions in multiple startups, as well as larger companies such as The Boeing Company, ARGOSystems, & ACER America. Master was on the team that shipped the industry’s first Digital Trans-multiplexer, the first 3D Seismic Array Correlator for the Geophysical Industry, commercialized the first Cascaded Integrated Comb Filters IC’s and the first Smart Antenna Cellular Base Stations. Master helped start and commercialize the field of Reconfigurable Computing. While at The Boeing Company, Master co-founded a new division; to bring Reconfigurable Computing based telecommunications products to market. Master has over 100 patents issued or pending, over 35 professional publications and 13 first pass ASIC successes. He has been the keynote speaker & conference speaker at a variety of technical conferences dealing with multi-core, reconfigurable computing, FPGA, Software Defined Radio and Computer Architectures. His specialties are low power architectures, multi-core processor systems, digital signal processing, multi-media, software defined radio, wireless, massively parallel computing, & telecommunications. Master received a B.A. in Computer Science from The University of California at Berkeley, and a M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Santa Clara University.
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About Cornami: Cornami is a high-performance computing company that develops break-through computing architecture for real-time environments.
Aaron Kimball
CTO of Zymergen
At Zymergen, Aaron is responsible for building the data architecture to facilitate a robotics-driven approach to genome engineering. Prior to joining Zymergen, Aaron has worked at several big data-oriented startups. He was the first employee at Cloudera, where he helped with a variety of big data challenges. In 2010 Aaron cofounded WibiData, the big data application company. Aaron has been working with the open-source project Apache Hadoop since 2007 and authored Apache Sqoop and MRUnit. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree from the University of Washington in computer science.
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About Zymergen: Zymergen is a biotechnology company that specializes in machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence.
Robin Singh
CTO of Doxel
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About Doxel: Doxel delivers an AI-powered project controls platform that predicts costly delays and cost overruns on construction projects.
Sriram Chakravarthy
Founder & CTO of Avaamo
Founder and CTO of Avaamo.
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About Avaamo: Avaamo is a deep learning Virtual Assistant Platform for the enterprise.
Naren Thiagarajan
Co-Founder and CTO of FloydHub
Co-Founder / CTO at FloydHub.
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About FloydHub: FloydHub is a deep learning platform for training and deploying your machine learning and AI models in the cloud.
Victor Shtrom
Founder/CTO of Augmented Radar Imaging
Co-Founder, Chief Wireless Architect at Ruckus Wireless.
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About Augmented Radar Imaging: Augmented Radar Imaging delivers radar and advanced machine learning algorithms to power autonomous vehicles and warehouse robots.
Gary Lerhaupt
Co-Founder & CTO of Clockwise
Gary Lerhaupt is the Co-Founder & CTO at Clockwise.
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About Clockwise: Clockwise is an intelligent calendar system that uses artificial intelligence to help people get a dedicated block of time to be productive.
Luis Dussan
Founder, CTO and President of AEye
Luis Dussan is a co-founder and CEO of AEye.
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About AEye: AEye develops AI-powered LiDAR systems for vehicle autonomy, advanced driver assistance systems, and robotic vision applications.
Rosh Cherian
Co-Founder & CTO of CogniCor
Rosh leads the global technology team at CogniCor and works closely with clients and partners in solution design and architecting. An experienced software engineer, Rosh has over 15 years of experience in developing commercial software products for large enterprises in Europe and India. Prior to co-founding CogniCor, Rosh had worked in software architecting, development and deployment roles with Telefonica, HP, Agilent and Honeywell.
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About CogniCor, Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo: The Leading AI Digital Assistant Platform for Financial Services
Anna X. Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of Searchlight
Anna X. Wang is the Co-Founder and CTO of Searchlight. She is a former course assistant at Stanford University. Anna holds a master’s degree in computer science.
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About Searchlight: Searchlight is a people-centered Talent Intelligence Platform that helps companies build and retain winning teams.
Peter Kutrumbos
Co-Founder & CTO of TruLiv
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About TruLiv: TruLiv is an end-to-end multifamily investment platform
Vivek Garud
Co-Founder & CTO of Bidgely
Vivek is leading the technology team which is building the biggest and best energy analytics system yet. Prior to Bidgely, Vivek contributed to building voice recognition technology at Microsoft. He has a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from IIT Bombay. Once done solving the worlds energy problems, he fantasizes of becoming a full time musician and doing big things in Bollywood.
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About Bidgely: Bidgely leverages the power of AI to optimize utility customer engagement and is the choice of leading utilities
Niklas Lindstrom
Founder and CTO of unitQ
Niklas Lindstrom is the Founder and CTO at unitQ.
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About unitQ: unitQ is a product quality platform that helps companies drive growth and retention by fixing the right quality issues faster.
Vikhyat Chaudhry
Co-Founder, CTO and COO of Buzz Solutions
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About Buzz Solutions: Buzz Solutions provides AI-based actionable insights and predictive analytics for asset fault detection and inspection of power lines.
Marc Romano
Chief Technology Officer of Seismic
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About Seismic: Seismic is a sales enablement and marketing orchestration platform that improves close rates & delivers larger deals for sales teams.
Priyadarshan Kolte
Co-Founder & CTO of Baffle
Priyadarshan Kolte is the CTO at Baffle
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About Baffle: Baffle protects data in the cloud by securing the data analytics pipeline for modern enterprises without any code changes or disruption.
Rehan Hameed
CTO & Co-Founder of Deep Vision
Rehan received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering at Stanford where he focused his research on computer vision and low-power processors. Rehan has industry experience shipping multiple chips, optimizing GPUs, and creating image processing software. He holds multiple patents. He is an avid photographer.
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About Deep Vision: Deep Vision is AI startup that is building an AI inferencing chip for edge computing solutions.
Adam Rowell
Cofounder & CTO of Lucid
Stanford PhD and entrepreneur converting human vision to computer vision.Adam develops image processing and 3D graphics in any language onto any device. After his previous startup, he worked on building software for military vision and radar systems under highest pressure and conditions.
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About Lucid: AI platform extracting insights out of images and videos to serve the best content to convert users
Dylan Rhodes
Co Founder – CTO of Knowhere
Dylan Rhodes joined Knowhere as Co-Founder & CTO in 2015.
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About Knowhere: Information technology company using machine learning to deliver factual, community-first, and critical news information at scale.
Alexandros Potamianos
CTO & Co-Founder of Behavioral Signals
Alex is a well-regarded innovator in the field of speech and natural language processing, interactive voice response systems and behavioral informatics. He has over 20 years of leadership experience both in the corporate and entrepreneurial sides of business. His background includes working at AT&T Labs-Research, Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies and is a co-founder of Alesman.
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About Amazon, Behavioral Signals, National Technical University of Athens, University of Southern California: Behavioral Signals develops technology to analyze human behavior from voice data.
Lee Chae
Co-Founder and CTO of Brightseed
Lee Chae is the Co-founder and CTO at Brightseed.
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About Brightseed: Brightseed features artificial intelligence that reveals powerful compounds hidden in nature.
Nicole Hu
Chief Technology Officer & Co Founder of One Concern
Nicole Hu is a computer scientist and was named by the Forbes magazine as one of the world’s top thirty innovators, in its Forbes 30 under 30 edition, for Enterprise Tech, in January 2016. Nicole holds a graduate degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. Prior to Stanford, she had the opportunity of working on exciting projects at Flipkart, the fastest growing e-commerce platform in India.
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About One Concern: One Concern provides a resilience-as-a-service solution that helps customers uncover, prepare for, and mitigate unpredictable disaster risk.
James Wong
CTO, Co-founder of XP Health
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About Sand Hill Angels, XP Health: XP Health is an artificial intelligence-powered vision benefits platform for employees.
Sean Kandel
Founder & CTO of Trifacta
Sean Kandel is the founder and chief technical officer at Trifacta.Sean holds a PhD from Stanford University, where his research focused on new interactive tools for data transformation and discovery, such as Data Wrangler. Prior to Stanford, Sean worked as a data analyst at Citadel Investment Group.
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About Trifacta: Trifacta delivers an intelligent, collaborative data engineering cloud platform to transform data, ensure quality, and automate pipelines.
Nelson Vazquez
Co-Founder & CTO of Revl
Nelson Vazquez is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Revl.
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About Revl: AI Powered Video Souvenirs as a Service. Full end to end solution for roller coasters, skydive drop zones, race tracks, and zip lines.
Tyler Kohn
Cofounder and CTO of Continual
As RichRelevance’s CTO, Tyler manages product, engineering, operations, and data science to accelerate market and technical leadership. Tyler leads a global team of over 70 technologists in the continued development and innovation of the company’s big data infrastructure, and has pioneered his team’s prominent position in high-performance and distributed computing through conferences, Meet Ups, white papers and contributions to leading open source projects. Tyler brings over 15 years of technology leadership experience—ranging from Wall Street trading systems to wireless infrastructure to international device management—to this role. Before co-founding RichRelevance, he was a senior consultant at Lab49 where he was responsible for developing real-time analytic trading and reporting systems for Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank. Prior to Lab49, Tyler ran Axeda Systems development and implementations in European and Middle-Eastern markets, and was the founding chief architect of 2Roam. 2Roam’s wireless data platform was deployed across Asia, the US and Europe, and received PC Magazine’s Editors’ Choice award. Tyler holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Boston University.
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About Continual: Continual is a next-generation AI platform for the modern data stack powered by end-to-end automation and a declarative workflow.
Hung Tran
Founder/CTO of Got It AI
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About Got It AI: Democratizing Conversational AI: TrueNLP™ based Self Discovering, Self Training & Self Maintaining AI in the cloud
Pavan Bayyapu
CTO, Co-Founder of Regology
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About Regology: Regology is curating the world’s regulations to help businesses with compliance.
Adam McKenzie
Co-Founder & CTO of Rescale
Adam is responsible for leading the technical team at Rescale. Prior to founding Rescale, Adam spent three years as a consultant at Slalom Consulting developing web based business applications for businesses in the high-tech and commercial real estate sectors. Adam began his career at Boeing, where he spent seven years working on multiple programs, primarily as a structural and software engineer on the 787 program designing, analyzing, and optimizing the wing.
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About Rescale: Rescale is a cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to build, compute, analyze, and scale simulations.
Stephan Kletzl
CTO / DPO of UserGems
Stephan Kletzl is Founder at SmartHires.
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About SmartHires, UserGems: An AI-powered solution that combines relationship data and trigger events to identify buyers who will most likely buy from you
Cha Li
CTO/Co-Founder of FetchyFox
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About FetchyFox: The Digital Marketplace and AI Intelligence Platform for public spaces, like airports.
Xinwen Zhang
Co-Founder & CTO of HireEZ
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About HireEZ: HireEZ offers AI powered recruitment software that allows intelligent sourcing, engagement, analysis, and integration on existing platforms.
John Taggart
Co-Founder and CTO of WeaveGrid
John Taggart is the co-founder and CTO of Weave Grid.
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About WeaveGrid: WeaveGrid develops electrification software for the scalable deployment of electric vehicles on the electric grid.
Jin Lim
CTO & Co-Founder of Intellimize
Jin is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Intellimize. Prior to Intellimize, Jin held various senior engineering positions at Yahoo, including most recently the VP of Engineering role where he led the Personalization Platform group responsible for building large-scale personalized recommendations across the Yahoo network. Prior to Yahoo, Jin co-founded and sold Blue Tiger Networks, a startup that specialized in peer-to-peer trading platform. Jin has a BA in Computer Science from Cambridge University.
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About Intellimize: Intellimize is a startup offering tools for marketers to drive conversions by personalizing websites.
Bart Peintner
CTO, Founder of Loop AI Group Cognitive Computing
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About Loop AI Group Cognitive Computing: Unsupervised Cognitive Computing Platform (HPC Appliance or Embedded)
Egor Gryaznov
CTO & Co-Founder of Bigeye
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About Bigeye: Bigeye is a data quality engineering platform that helps data teams effortlessly measure, improve, and communicate data quality.
Egor Gryaznov
CTO & Co-Founder of Bigeye
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About Bigeye: Bigeye is a data quality engineering platform that helps data teams effortlessly measure, improve, and communicate data quality.
Catherine Jue
Co-Founder, CTO of Sway Finance
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About Sway Finance: Sway Finance is bringing artificial intelligence to the accounting industry.
Andrew Dong
Co-Founder and CTO of Celential.ai
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About Celential.ai: Celential.ai is an early-stage startup bringing to market AI-driven services to empower people to own their career development.
Anna Wang
Co-Founder & CTO of Copysmith
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About Copysmith: The world’s best AI copywriter. Use AI to write copy for ads, product descriptions, social media posts, landing pages, blog posts, and more.
Benjamin Gleitzman
CTO & Co-Founder of Replicant
Benjamin Gleitzman is CTO and Co-Founder of Replicant, a Conversational AI platform founded on the belief that machines are ready to have useful, complex conversations that will transform the way they interact with the world. He is also a technologist, artist, and founder of the hacker collective Ruse Laboratories, creator of the The Algorithm Auction, originator of Pup’s Pool Party, and producer at Sublimate NYC. He was the CTO and Co-Founder of MONA, a non-drug, non-invasive Virtual Reality Therapy platform used by doctors to safely and effectively treat pain, discomfort and anxiety. Gleitzman was Senior Software Engineer at Hunch, a collective intelligence decision making system based in NYC and acquired by eBay. Gleitzman invented and developed the technologies powering the personalized eBay Feed, the largest redesign of the eBay homepage and functionality since its launch. Gleitzman graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he worked with Hal Abelson to enhance introductory programming experiences using mobile devices. Gleitzman was a visiting researcher at Google Research in Mountain View, California where he built App Inventor for Android, a graphical programming language for creating Android phone applications that is now at the core of the MIT Center for Mobile Learning. He was the founder of NextStep Tech, an organization teaching software engineering, creative thinking, and entrepreneurship to junior and high school students. He was the CTO at Network Awesome, a new kind of online TV experience and the largest curated video site in the world. In his spare time he enjoys creating electronic music, discussing programming concepts, and playing WikiMaze, his remake of Encarta 95’s classic trivia game. He posts useful bits of knowledge at http://gleitzman.com and http://blog.gleitzman.com
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About Replicant: Replicant is an AI voice technology that solves problems over the phone, improves customer experience, and reduces cost.
Ivan Shcheklein
CTO & Co-Founder of Iterative.ai
CTO & Founder at Iterative.ai. Former Co-founder&Engineer of the The Tweeted Times (acquired by Yandex).
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About Iterative.ai: Iterative.ai is an MLOps platform that develops lifecycle management for datasets and machine learning models.
Chaks Chigurupati
Chief Technology Officer of Securiti
Chaks Chigurupati is the Chief Technology Officer at SECURITI.ai. He is the former head of Architecture at Elastica. Deep expertise in architecture and design of reliable software systems in networking and computing. Previously spent 10 years at Cisco and architected and implemented various product functionalities, including the highest end CRS core routers.
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About Securiti: AI Powered Data Security & Privacy | “Most Innovative Startup” RSA | Forrester Wave Leader
Pep Gubau
Executive Chairman, CTO & Co-Founder of Aizon
Pep is an IT entrepreneur and has been working in IT for the last 25 years, being pioneer in Linux adoption in the 90s, cloud in the 2000s and big data in the last years. Although having a theoretical economics and maths profile, his early career was as a software developer for the chemical industry. He later was CTO & COO of an IT consulting firm, leading a team of more than 200 engineers until 2003 when Pep created his first IT company with a clear core principle: customer centric focus. Two more followed. In 2013 Pep started thinking on the next thing to work on. bigfinite is the result of this initial spark that immediately caught fire in Pere and Toni. Pep is Economist (University of Barcelona) with an engineering background.
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About Aizon: Aizon is a cloud-based SaaS platform that helps optimize industrial processes in biotech and pharma.
Leonard Zerman
CTO of Cognixion
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About Cognixion, Smartstones: Cognixion is a neural interface startup creates AI-powered products for individuals with disabilities.
Robert Ochshorn
Co-founder and CTO of Reduct
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About Reduct: Reduct is an AI-powered cloud video platform that aims to allow for richer human communication.
Emile Contal
Co-Founder and CTO of Crossing Minds
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About Crossing Minds: The smartest recommendation platform for your business.
Randolph Voorhies
Co-Founder / CTO of inVia Robotics
Rand has extensive experience working on robotics projects ranging from autonomous submarines to ground robots to quadrotors. He earned both his Masters and PhD degrees in Robotics from the University of Southern California.
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About inVia Robotics: InVia Robotics provides next-generation robotics warehouse automation solutions for e-commerce distribution centers and supply chains.
Ciro Donalek
CTO & Co-Founder of Virtualitics
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About Virtualitics: Visualize and understand your data as never before thanks to our innovative use of VR/AR, Machine Learning and Natural Language.
Vikas Ramachandra
CTO of Onward Assist
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About Onward Assist, Onward Health: Onward Assist is an Oncology AI platform for better treatment decisions.
Glenn Kramer
CTO of xCures
Glenn Kramer is an inventor, systems architect, and technology leader. At EIT in 1993 he founded one of the first Internet consultancies. When EIT was acquired by VeriFone, he architected the suite of Internet Commerce products that helped foster the sale of VeriFone to Hewlett Packard. Glenn next founded a boutique consultancy focused on solving hard Internet-based business problems while developing intellectual property for his clients. More than a decade later, he joined SRS Acquiom as Head of Development, and subsequently Chief Data Scientist, where he developed data and financial products for M&A, including the SRS Clearinghouse product and a patented, SEC-registered investment fund that used predictive analytics to get merger parties better returns for escrow funds. Glenn is currently CTO at xCures, using AI to help cancer patients get the best treatments possible when they have exhausted the standard of care options available to them. He holds 22 issued US Patents and is the author of a book published on the MIT Press, plus numerous journal and conference articles.
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About xCures: xCures is an AI-based precision oncology platform that tightly integrates cancer research and care.
Valerie R. Coffman
CTO and Co-Founder of Swayable
Valerie is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and received a PhD in Physics from Cornell where she wrote software for studying the fracture properties of materials. After graduation, she spent 5 years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology writing open source software for materials science research. For the past three years she has been providing data science consulting to startups, specializing in natural language processing and search engine technology.
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About Swayable: Swayable is a data platform that predicts changes in consumer opinion and intentions
Neil Conway
Co-Founder and CTO of Determined AI
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About Determined AI: Determined AI is a machine learning tech company that revolutionizes the way deep models are trained and deployed.
Fang Yu
Co-founder & CTO of DataVisor
CTO and Co-Founder of DataVisor. Fang’s work focuses on “big-data for security.” Over the past 10 years, she has been developing algorithms and building systems for identifying various malicious traffic such as worms, spam, bot queries, faked and hijacked account activities, and fraudulent financial transactions. Fang received her Ph.D. degree from the EECS Department at University of California at Berkeley.
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About DataVisor: DataVisor is a fraud detection company powered by transformational AI technology.
Frank Cohen
Founder & CTO of Appvance.ai
App Performance and Architecture Expert and Silicon Valley Inventor (3 patents, 2 pending), serial entrepreneur (2 exits). I started the Antivirus market with Symantec Norton Antivirus & Utils. I got Apple onto the Web. I got Sun into Web messaging and social media. I started the Open Source Testing movement (PushToTest, Appvance, $5M Series B in January 2019) to 3 million downloads/650,000 users of my TestMaker software test platform. I helped start the Agile movement, then the DevOps movement. I seek to be a driving force in a start-up or a division within a organization. I built my career in Silicon Valley as a detail-oriented problem solver, strategic thinker, and “go to” guy. I’m excited about new technology. I feel truly engaged when researching a problem and find my own articles appear at the top of Google search results. I love rolling my sleeves up and sprinting to a solution. I contribute to and start open-source and Maker Movement projects for positive social impact. I help my teammates and everyone in the world make their own inventions and advance their careers. People know me for emotional intelligence, passion, and humor. Social is the way to market products through engagement, influence, and advertising. I’m an expert. A friend was recently losing herself to a moment of fear and asked me “How do you stay so calm?” Lead teams from 5 to 50 people, often reporting to the senior management/board . Always prepared (project plans, backlogs, milestones, UX illustrations), thoughtful in my answers, and value truth over looks/posturing. Always develop a solution to share best practices, lessons, patterns, and anti-patterns. I am a great communicator. Author of “Java Testing and Design”, the seminal book on designing large scale apps for performance and getting developers and testers working together.
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About Appvance.ai, Clever Moe: Appvance.ai is the AI-driven test generation, which is revolutionizing how software testing is performed.
James Richards
VP Engineering & CTO of Udacity
James Richards is Vice President of Engineering at Udacity. Prior to joining Udacity he worked at Nest Labs, leading server-side development teams. During his time at Nest, he oversaw the release of several versions of the thermostat, smoke detector, and security camera focusing on the interaction model of these IoT devices. James also was an early engineer and leader at LinkedIn. Over his eight years he built and lead teams helping LinkedIn scale to hundreds of millions of users and thousands of employees.
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About Udacity: Udacity develops an online learning platform offering programs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics sector.
Aaron Sloman
CTO of CLIPr
Aaron Sloman is a Microsoft veteran and experienced entrepreneur. He oversees aspects of technology architecture and development for Communities for Cause and its clients, bridging the gap between business strategy and implementation. Aaron worked at Microsoft during the wave of technology change that began in the late 1990’s. He worked alongside clients’ executive teams to drive thought leadership and map to technology solutions, leading the implementation teams for the Gap, Starbucks, MSN, Ford, buy.com and Intel – in many cases serving as a virtual CTO in situations where Microsoft had made strategic investments. In 2005 Aaron left Microsoft to form speakTECH, an award winning technology consulting firm which was acquired by Perficient in 2010. Over the course of five years, Aaron grew speakTECH to become a leading implementation partner for the largest internet companies & enterprises including MySpace, Disney, Dell and Microsoft. Today Aaron is an avid entrepreneur, working alongside exciting new companies.
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About CLIPr, Communities for Cause, Ownzones Entertainment Technology, Veebit, Ximble: CLIPr is a video analysis and management (VAM) platform using AI and machine learning for videos
Vijay Mohan
CTO of PICKL
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About : Hyper-local human brand insights: On demand data from shoppers.
Michael Murray
CTO of Digit
Founder at Digit
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About Digit: Digit is a finance app that analyzes your spending habits and automatically saves the perfect amount every day.
Gregory Alan Bolcer
CTO of Bitvore
Greg is currently the CTO and Founder of a high tech, big data management and computing software company located in the heart of the Tech Coast in Southern California. A unique and talented individual with a blend of deep technical expertise and business development experience; well connected in the Internet and software industries; strong network security and open source background; a pioneer in the Web application, Web protocol, and Peer to Peer (P2P) networking spaces; excellent early-stage fund raising skills; strong ties to government and academia; high profile, high-tech industry news and analyst presence; experience in both buy-side and sell-side mergers & acquisitions.
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About Bitvore, Bitvore: Bitvore provides unprecedented business insights from unstructured data.
Alan Chaney
Chief Technology Officer of Bitvore
Alan started down the technology path years before he knew anything about software. A guy who’s always been fascinated by how things work, he fed his curiosity by disassembling everything from clocks to motorcycles. When he learned that software offered the same sort of intellectual stimulation, but without the solder burns, he quickly changed his focus from re-wiring objects to writing code. During his career as an academic and entrepreneur Alan’s dedicated himself to reinventing everything from networked storage to streaming media, always focused on doing things better, faster and more elegantly than previously imagined.
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About Bitvore: Bitvore provides unprecedented business insights from unstructured data.
Igor Mameshin
Co-Founder and CTO of Agile Stacks
Senior Director at EPAM Systems.
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About Agile Stacks, EPAM Systems: Agile Stacks provides DevOps automation platform for cloud infrastructure and machine learning.
Jay Brown
CTO of The Meta
Jay Brown is the CTO of The Meta.
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About The Meta, The Meta: Esports training software
Chen-Ping Yu
Co-Founder, CTO of Phiar Technologies
Co-Founder & CEO at Phiar. Extensive cutting-edge research background in artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, and cognitive science.
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About Phiar Technologies: Phiar’s Ultra-lightweight Spatial AI Engine enables vehicles to perceive its surroundings, and powers our first use case in AR Navigation.
