Optimized Infrastructure
Enterprise Use Case
Hyungjun Kim
CEO
Squeezebits
Systems Optimization
Venkatesh Ramamurthy
Principal Engineer
Microsoft
Dharmesh Jani
Director of AI Infrastructure Ecosystem & Partnerships
Meta
Vaishali Ghiya
VP, Global Datacenter Services.
Wesco
Vaishali Ghiya has 27+ years of experience in Networking, Cloud and Security Sales, Solution Architecture, Systems Engineering, Product Management, Strategic Alliances and Engineering capacities, transforming 200+ people team. She is recognized as Top 50 Women Leaders of San Francisco.
Jonmichael Hands
CEO
FarmGPU
Jonmichael (JM) is a storage and AI expert, and sustainability leader. JM is currently the CEO of FarmGPU, an AI infrastructure company which hosts a decentralized cloud for AI on-demand compute and storage - and also partnering with Solidigm for the innovative AI central storage lab.
Jonmichael spent ten years at Intel in the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions group working on product line management, strategic planning, and technical marketing for the Intel data center SSDs. Jonmichael is the president of the Circular Drive Initiative, 501(c)(6) non-profit, promoting the secure reuse of drives and circular business models for the storage industry. Jonmichael started his storage career at Sun Microsystems designing storage arrays (JBODs) and holds an electrical engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines.
Moderator
James Kelly
VP Market Intelligence & Innovation
Open Compute Project
James joined the OCP Foundation staff in 2024 as VP Market Intelligence and Innovation, working with technology leaders in the community and augmenting the foundation’s directional strategy, innovation efforts and marketing. His contributions to the OCP proceed from over two decades of experience in technology research, engineering, product management and marketing.
Pyungsu Han
VP & CTO
Qualitas Semiconductor
Pyungsu Han is the Vice President and CTO of R&D at Qualitas Semiconductor.
He holds a Ph.D. from Yonsei University and previously worked at LG Electronics.
With deep expertise in high-speed interconnect technology, he leads cutting-edge R&D initiatives and drives strategic growth in the semiconductor industry.
Optimized Infrastructure
Gen AI
Agentic AI
Jeongkyu Shin
CEO
Lablup
Jeongkyu Shin is the founder of Lablup Inc. and has made significant contributions to open-source projects over the past two decades, including his lead developer role in the Textcube Project. He has served as an AI expert at Google Developers Experts since 2017 and was active in the Innovative Steering Board of the Northeast Asia Open Source Software Promotion Forum until 2022. In recognition of his contributions to the technology industry, he was awarded the prestigious Industrial Service Medal by the Korean government in 2024. Additionally, Jeongkyu supports startup companies as a technical mentor at Google for Startups Accelerator.
He holds a Ph.D. in Statistical Physics from POSTECH, where his research focused on complex systems, agent-based models, and computational neuroscience. Throughout his career, Jeongkyu has led machine learning and open-source projects in various companies and labs, specializing in text classification, entropy-related information compression, and contextual search. Since 2015, he has been developing Backend.AI, an open-source, hyper-scalable AI infrastructure platform (available at https://www.backend.ai).
Sakshi Naik
Lead Data Scientist
Walgreens Boots Alliance
Sakshi Naik is an AI Consultant at Walgreens Boots Alliance, where she leads the development of ethical and impactful AI solutions in healthcare. With a Master’s in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s in IT Engineering from Mumbai University, she brings deep technical expertise across data science, machine learning, and AI infrastructure.
Sakshi is also a recognized voice in AI policy. She has advised U.S. Senators and Members of the House of Representatives on the future of responsible AI and serves as Secretary of the IEEE Connecticut Section. As a member of the IEEE AI Policy Committee (AIPC), she actively contributes to shaping national and global frameworks for trustworthy AI.
Shri Subramanian
Group Product Manager
Datadog
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.
Daniel Xu
Head of Product Management
Snorkel AI
Moderator
Ankur Mehrotra
GM, SageMaker AI
AWS
Ankur Mehrotra is a GM at AWS Machine Learning and leads foundational SageMaker AI services such as SageMaker Studio, Notebooks, Training, Inference, Feature Store, MLOps, etc. Before SageMaker AI, he led AI services for personalization, forecasting, healthcare & life sciences, edge AI devices and SDKs, as well as thought leadership programs such as AWS DeepRacer. Ankur has worked at Amazon for over 15 years. Before joining AWS, he spent several years in Amazon’s Consumer organization, where he led the development of automated marketing/advertising systems, as well as automated pricing systems.
Storage
Systems Optimization
Moderator
Rashmi Gopinath
Co-founder & Managing Partner
BAM Corner Point
Rashmi Gopinath is a General Partner at B Capital Group where she leads the fund’s enterprise software practice in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, devops, and AI/ML sectors. She brings over two decades of experience investing and operating in cutting-edge enterprise technologies. She led B Capital’s investments in over 24 companies such as DataRobot, FalconX, Clari, Phenom People, Synack, Innovaccer, Labelbox, Fabric, 6Sense, Highspot, Pendo, Starburst, OwnBackup, Figment, Perimeter81, Zesty, among others.
Rashmi was previously a Managing Director at M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, where she led investments globally in enterprise software and sat on several boards including Synack, Innovaccer, Contrast Security, Frame, UnravelData, Incorta, among others.
Prior to M12, Rashmi was an Investment Director with Intel Capital where she was involved in the firm’s investments in startups including MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB), ForeScout (Nasdaq: FSCT), Maginatics (acq. by EMC), BlueData (acq. by HPE), among others. Rashmi held operating roles at high-growth startups such as BlueData (acq. by HPE) and Couchbase (Nasdaq: BASE) where she led global business development, product and marketing roles. She began her career in engineering and product roles at Oracle and GE Healthcare. She earned an M.B.A. from Northwestern University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Mumbai in India.
Debendra Das Sharma
TTF Co-Chair: CXL Consortium & Senior Fellow: Intel
CXL Consortium
Debendra Das Sharma (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Odisha, India, in 1967. He received the B.Tech. degree (Hons.) in computer science and engineering from IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in computer systems engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA, in 1995.,He joined Hewlett-Packard, Roseville, CA, USA, in 1994, and Intel, Santa Clara, CA, USA, in 2001. He is currently an Senior Fellow with Intel. He is responsible for delivering Intel-wide critical interconnect technologies in Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCI Express), Compute Express Link (CXL), Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe), Coherency Interconnect, Multi-Chip Package Interconnect, and Rack Scale Architecture. He has been leading the development of PCI-Express, CXL, and UCIe inside Intel as well as across the industry since their inception. He holds 160+ U.S. patents and more than 400 patents worldwide.,Dr. Das Sharma has been awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award by IIT, in 2019, the 2021 IEEE Region 6 Engineer of the Year Award, the PCI-SIG Lifetime Contribution Award in 2022, and the 2022 IEEE CAS Industrial Pioneer Award. He is currently the Chair of UCIe Board, a Director of PCI-SIG Board, and the Chair of the CXL Board
Prem Jonnalagadda
VP of Sales, US
iPRONICS
Puneet Kumar
CEO
Rivos
Puneet Kumar, CEO and co-founder of Rivos Inc., which he established in May 2021. His impressive career includes leading the ChromeOS Platform Engineering team at Google as a Senior Director, where he oversaw the program's growth to over 100 million users. Puneet's entrepreneurial journey includes co-founding Agnilux (acquired by Google), where he served as VP of Engineering, and PASemi Inc. (acquired by Apple), where he was an Engineering Director in the Platform Architecture team. He also held senior leadership positions at SiByte Inc. (acquired by Broadcom) and was a Systems Researcher at Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center. Puneet holds a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Letizia Giuliano
VP, IP Product Marketing & Management
Alphawave Semi
Letizia Giuliano, currently serving as the Vice President of IP Product Marketing and Management at Alphawave Semi, specializes in architecting cutting-edge IP solutions for high-speed connectivity and chiplet design. Prior to her role at Alphawave Semi, Letizia held the position of IP Product Line Manager at Intel, where she facilitated the integration of interface IP for external customers, as well as within Intel's graphics and CPU products. With a background in Electrical Engineering, Letizia has contributed significantly to her field through technical papers, presentations at prestigious conferences such as the Chiplet Summit, and her involvement in defining industry standards like OpenHBI and UCIe. She holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.
Cerebras Systems is redefining the future of AI with the world’s fastest inference engine—enabling breakthroughs in agentic intelligence, real-time reasoning, and AI coding assistants. Andrew Feldman, CEO and Co-Founder of Cerebras Systems, will share how ultra-fast inference speeds surpassing 3,000 tokens per second are transforming enterprise AI, unlocking dramatic productivity gains in AI coding and development workflows. By accelerating state-of-the-art open-source models from Meta, OpenAI, Qwen, DeepSeek, and others, Cerebras delivers both unmatched performance and tangible ROI for enterprises worldwide. This session will explore the next 12 months of AI infrastructure innovation and why ultra-fast inference is the foundation for a new era of super-intelligent applications—where AI doesn’t just assist in coding but redefines how software itself is imagined, written, and deployed.
Andrew Feldman
Co-Founder & CEO
Cerebras Systems
Andrew Feldman is co-founder and CEO of Cerebras Systems. He is an entrepreneur dedicated to pushing boundaries in the compute space. Prior to Cerebras, he co-founded and was CEO of SeaMicro, a pioneer of energy-efficient, high-bandwidth microservers. SeaMicro was acquired by AMD in 2012 for $357M. Before SeaMicro, Andrew was the Vice President of Product Management, Marketing and BD at Force10 Networks which was later sold to Dell Computing for $800M. Prior to Force10 Networks, Andrew was the Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development at RiverStone Networks from the company’s inception through IPO in 2001. Andrew holds a BA and an MBA from Stanford University.
Cerebras
Website: https://www.cerebras.net/
Cerebras Systems is a team of pioneering computer architects, computer scientists, deep learning researchers, and engineers of all types. Cerebras have come together to accelerate generative AI by building from the ground up a new class of AI supercomputer. Their flagship product, the CS-3 system, is powered by the world’s largest and fastest AI processor, our Wafer-Scale Engine-3. CS-3s are quickly and easily clustered together to make the largest AI supercomputers in the world, and make placing models on the supercomputers dead simple by avoiding the complexity of distributed computing. Leading corporations, research institutions, and governments use Cerebras solutions for the development of pathbreaking proprietary models, and to train open-source models with millions of downloads. Cerebras solutions are available through the Cerebras Cloud and on premise. For further information, visit https://www.cerebras.net or follow us on LinkedIn or X.
Mohamed Awad
SVP & GM, Infrastructure Business
Arm
Mohamed Awad leads the infrastructure line of business at Arm where he is responsible for leveraging Neoverse’s class-leading performance per watt to accelerate Arm’s growth across Cloud, HPC, 5G, and the Edge. Previously, Mohamed led Arm’s IoT line of business.
Prior to joining Arm, Mohamed spent 10 years in various leadership roles at Broadcom, including establishing the Mixed Signal Asic Products division and building its security and mobile payments business. Before Broadcom, Mohamed served in various leadership roles at Ember Corporation, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, and Avici Systems.
Mohamed has been named inventor or co-inventor on multiple patents throughout his career and holds a BS in Computer Science, from the University of Massachusetts.
Vinesh Sukumar
VP of Product Management for AI
Qualcomm
Vinesh Sukumar currently serves as VP of Product Management for AI at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc (QTI). In this role, he leads AI product definition, strategy and solution deployment across multiple business units.
He has about 20 years of industry experience spread across research, engineering and application deployment. He currently holds a doctorate degree specializing in imaging and vision systems while also completing a business degree focused on strategy and marketing. He is a regular speaker in many AI industry forums and has authored several journal papers and two technical books.
Panelists
Alan Rosa
CISO & SVP Technology
CVS Health
Alan Rosa is the SVP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Infrastructure and Operations at CVS Health . The 3,500 colleagues and contractors in his organization are responsible for delivering services and experiences related to Digital Workplace, Contact Center, Infrastructure, Cloud and Technical Operations across all CVS lines of business. In addition, Alan is the appointed CISO for the company responsible for health and integrity of the Cybersecurity program, GRC/Risk initiatives and Privacy Engineering.
Prior to joining CVS Health, Alan was the CISO and head of IT for Twitter where he was responsible for the Security program as well as all aspects of the Information Technology organization. Alan has over 25 years of experience driving the development and evolution of enterprises technologies and teams for large multinational brands while building products and services that protect assets while avoiding risks. He has held global leadership roles for companies such as Disney, MSG, General Electric and Quest Diagnostics.
An award winning technology leader, Alan was named to the Top 100 of HITEC (Hispanic IT Executive Council), and the ComputerWorld Premier 100. Alan has served on various technical advisory boards and counsels including those for Dell, EMC, Cisco and VMware.
Alan holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Florida, and Masters degrees from Columbia University and Seton Hall. He also attended the Rutgers University College of Law. In addition he holds technical designations in the areas of Security, Networking, and Privacy. He is a veteran of the US Navy having proudly served in the Submarine service.
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Berta Rodriguez-Hervas
Chief AI and Analytics Officer
Pfizer
Berta Rodriguez Hervas is the Chief AI and Analytics officer at Pfizer and serves as co-chair of Pfizer’s AI Council. Berta has an extensive background in AI, machine learning and analytics, with a track-record of quickly developing AI solutions and delivering them at scale in large global organizations. Until recently, Berta was Vice President of Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Machine Learning Operation at Stellantis, a global automotive company, designing and implementing the strategy for the next generation of autonomous vehicles. Prior to that, she held key program and product development roles at NVIDIA, Tesla, and Mercedes-Benz.
Sam Hamilton
SVP, Head of Data & AI
Visa
Sam Hamilton leads the Data, Analytics, ML, AI, and GenAI Platform teams, which delivers secure, high-quality and easy-to-use Visa core data assets as a service together with reliable and scalable platforms as services to enable Visa and its partners to rapidly and efficiently innovate data and AI-driven business products and services to lead the digital payment industry.
Moderator
Robert Brooks
Founding Team & VP, Revenue
Lambda
Robert is part of the founding team of Lambda, a GPU Cloud purpose-built for AI training & inference that has raised over $800M. At Lambda, Robert has scaled revenue from single-digit millions to billions. Prior to Lambda, Robert led sales at Tempo Automation (IPO in 2022) & Stack Overflow ($1.8B acquisition).