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Joe has 30 years of experience in Wireless Communications and is the 5G System Architect for Nvidia’s Cuda-RAN. Previously at Intel he was responsible for creating 4G & 5G Wireless Access system designs and accelerator architectures for v-RAN infrastructure including Deployment Options, Use Case Requirements and Architecture Specifications (FEC, Fronthaul) for CPU SoCs and FPGA solutions.

Joe has authored 2 books: “Signal Processing for Wireless Communications” and “Femtocells: Design & Application.” He obtained 37 Patents and received his Ph.D. (in EE/MA) from New York University. Joe is passionate about using technology to improve our lifestyle.

Jan Söderström is the Vice President and Head of Technology Office Silicon Valley at Ericsson reporting to Ericsson Group CTO. In this capacity he drives the technology leadership work in 5G, Cloud and IOT including co-creation with ecosystem partners. He has built up the Ericsson D-fifteen Lab which is an end-to-end 5G test network platform for use case innovation and testing. Jan has a PhD in Applied Physics from Chalmers University of Technology and spent his early career working with optoelectronic devices and optical networking.  

Jared Conway is a Senior Product Manager in NVIDIA's Enterprise and Edge acceleration group, responsible for end-to-end AI solutions for enterprises. Prior to NVIDIA, Jared held positions at Frame, a cloud platform for windows applications and Hawk Ridge Systems, the leading reseller of engineering solutions where he led engineering, product and customer success teams solving a variety challenges. He holds a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from University of Manitoba.

Raheel Khalid is a game industry and mobile operating systems veteran who is chief engineer for Verizon Labs' virtual reality division. Based on his experience building large-scale game engines and graphics platforms, he architected and set the technical vision for Verizon's future in VR streaming services.

Saurabh Jain is the director of products and strategic partnerships at NVIDIA, focused on building AI products for vision and data analytics. He’s also in charge of growing relationships with developers, ISVs, MSPs and OEMs to create an ecosystem that tackles some of the most complex challenges for smart retail, smart cities and public safety.

Jain has more than 10 years of experience in the fields of medical imaging, industrial automation and computer graphics. Prior to joining NVIDIA in 2008, he worked at Philips Healthcare designing CT scanners.

Boris Gokhman is the VP of Strategic Partnerships at AnyVision, the world’s leading AI Computer Vision platform. Boris joined the company at an early stage, where he founded and led the sales organization, and now focuses on expanding AnyVision’s footprint through partnering with global technology leaders, chipset and processor vendors, camera and IoT manufacturers, and channel partners. Boris works across a diverse set of verticals leveraging AnyVision’s cutting edge analytics, including government/defense, casino and gaming, retail, education, financial, and professional services organizations around the globe.

Steve Gu is CEO and Co-founder of AiFi, a startup that makes scalable auto-checkout technologies for brick-and-mortar retail stores. AiFi uses AI technology with proprietary computer vision algorithms and computing at the edge with low-power sensors and camera networks. Steve is an expert in computer vision, human-device interaction, and robotics.

Greg works with a variety of customers, ISVs, OEMs, and IHVs to position Nvidia’s Enterprise XR group at the forefront of delivering the richness AR/VR offers in interacting with enterprise data and models. Dr. Jones’ career has spanned public service, industry, and academics. Previous to NVIDIA, Greg was a member of the leadership of the SCI Institute, a 200-person research institute focused on scientific computing, image analysis, and data visualization and an Assistant Vice President for Research at the University of Utah. Greg has helped start numerous technology companies including university spin-offs and sits on several corporate boards.

Matt Scott is co-founder and CTO of Malong Technologies, a VC-backed, award-winning artificial intelligence startup based in China. The company produces leading computer vision technologies for the retail industry both in China and globally. He has 15+ years R&D experience in computer vision and machine learning.

Matt is a Senior Member of the IEEE (SMIEEE), has published 100+ patents, and 20+ research papers in the world’s top scientific conferences and journals. At CVPR 2017, Matt and his team won first place by a wide margin in the WebVision Challenge, an international computer vision competition from Google Research. 

Usman is a Product Manager for Cisco’s UCS C480 ML M5 Rack Server, a purpose-built server for deep learning.

Prior to joining Cisco, Usman was Software Engineer. Usman’s specialties include AI/ML, Software Defined Networking, Network Monitoring and Management, Web Application Development.

Usman has an M.B.A. from Cornell University and B.S. in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin.

Damien Faure is a solution manager on IoT Edge and enterprise AI for Atos. He is developing business and leading pre-sales at global group level. In the past years, Damien has led global private cloud engineering for Atos and delivered the top-level cloud projects. He also has a varied experience as Data Center manager, site CIO and software architect.

Yaming has over 20 years experience building telecom and embedded/IoT solutions. He was a key architect at delivering 3G GSM switches to many operators such as T-mobile, China Mobile in early days. He incubated Intel’s IoT software during his time at Wind River and led Mediatek’s consumer IoT products. Currently he is responsible for Supermicro’s IoT/embedded solutions by enabling innovative software on Supermicro servers. 

Jered Floyd is a Technology Strategist in Red Hat's Office of the CTO, investigating the intersection of emerging technology trends with Red Hat's enterprise businesses. His current focus is on edge computing platforms and architectures, and their interaction with 5G network architecture and IoT applications. Previously, Jered served as CTO and Founder at Permabit, developing and integrating deduplication, compression, and distributed primary storage for Linux.

Yaron Ekshtein is a serial entrepreneur with deep technological experience in cloud architecture, networking and AI. Prior to Iguazio, Yaron was the founder of Shift, an AI flight control platform.

As head of solution architecture at Stratoscale Yaron deployed many real world use cases and production environments. Prior to that, at various management positions at Citrix, PMC-Sierra, 3Com and others Yaron managed global team defining cloud architecture, edge computing and mobile technologies. Yaron Holds a BSc in Electrical engineering HIT and BS in business from the university of Vermont.

Adel El Hallak is director of product management for NGC, where he is responsible for the strategy and delivery of products across NVIDIA's GPU-Optimized SW portfolio. Prior to NVIDIA, Adel was director of product management for IBM's cognitive systems unit. His mission was to help organizations realize business value with machine and deep learning through optimized hardware and software offerings. During his 14 years at IBM, Adel also held leadership positions across sales and marketing for HPC and advanced analytics. Adel holds a degree in computer science from McGill University and an MBA from Warwick Business School.

Phil is the Vice President of System Software and architect for NGC, NVIDIA’s content registry for accelerated compute applications, and is the lead architect for the EGX Software Stack for Edge Computing. Phil has been working in GPUs and Accelerated Computing for as long as there have been GPUs, and is now focused on security, performance, and manageability at edge locations.

MJ has over 15 years in product development of new platforms and live services spanning video games, eCommerce, and robotics.
Currently at Postmates X, she is focused on developing Serve, a socially-aware autonomous delivery robot.
Previously she led the Product team at Anki building personality-driven home robots for children, adults, and families.

Ash is a Senior Director of Cloud Marketing at Mellanox Technologies. He leads overall cloud market strategy, solutions marketing, and ecosystem partnerships for cloud service provider and telco cloud market segments.

Ash is an accomplished hi-tech industry leader focused on the intersection of technology, products/solutions, and markets. He has over 20 years of experience in building and marketing high impact, fast revenue growth technology industry products and solutions at large, mid-size and startup companies. Ash's broad technology domain expertise include Cloud Data Centers, Cloud Services Orchestration, Network Virtualization, Software-Defined Networking(SDN), Network Function Virtualization(NFV), 5G, Networking (Routing, Switching, Network Management), Enterprise Wi-Fi, VoIP, End User Devices and Mobile Apps.

Dan has solutions marketing responsibilities for Ribbon’s core networking portfolio for private and public clouds as well as Ribbon’s security analytics portfolio. Prior to Ribbon, he worked for Empirix, a market leader for testing, monitoring, and analytics solutions, where he held multiple management positions responsible for product marketing, product management, sales engineering and professional services. Dan earned a BS from Union College and an Masters of International Management from the University of Denver.

Kundana Palagiri, is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft Azure working on Storage and Edge computing platform with past experiences in building PaaS services for app deployment and infrastructure services for VM management in Azure. She lives in Redmond, WA with her husband and three kids.

Steven Goddard is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft Azure working on Storage and Edge computing platform with past experiences on StorSimple, Windows Server, Small Business Server, Exchange and many other products. He lives in Seattle, WA with his wife, daughter, and frenchie.

Arjun is currently Account General Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, supporting AT&T. The team is working with AT&T to introduce Multi-Access Edge Computing Services towards enterprise customers to leverage the network edge to turn today’s data into impactful and immediate business outcomes.

Prior to joining HPE in 2019, Arjun spent time consulting early stage firms within the telecom space with their growth and funding strategies. Previously, he has held roles at Ericsson and Motorola focusing on the Tier 1 North American Wireless and Cable Market.

Amit Jain is the Sr. Director of Product Management at Nutanix. He has over 18+ years of industry experience and is responsible for evangelizing, strategizing and creating roadmap for IoT and AI initiatives at Nutanix. He holds a BS/MS in Computer Sc. from IIT, Univ of Michigan and MBA from Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley).

Mahesh Patil is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Nutanix. He currently leads the IOT and Edge computing effort at Nutanix. His primary focus is one-click deployment and management of edge clusters, applications and designing tools to simplify building and deploying ML applications on the edge. He joined Nutanix from PernixData where he was one of the founding engineers who architected and built the distributed data fabric for accelerating storage access in virtualized environments. Prior to PernixData he spent 11 years in VMware, primarily in the operating systems team working on memory and resource management and building the embedded hypervisor product.