Generative AI Product Innovation & Strategy

Product and business leader mastermind behind productization of one of the first ever Deep Neural Networks with Google Translate, leading up to the great AI awakening story by NY Times. He is currently Executive In Residence, Scale Venture Partners. Barak Turovsky is a Former Chief Product Officer at Trax Retail, Head of Languages AI product team at Google, Product executive at Microsoft and PayPal.

Head of Product & Strategy, Cisco. A visionary thought leader and accomplished technology executive. With a focus on solving customer problems and driving ROI through technology, they excel in new product development, digital transformations, and strategic portfolio management. Their expertise spans diverse industries, including healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and entertainment, with proficiency in cloud platforms, big data, IoT, AI/ML, and mobile products.

Founder / Product Management Executive of Velocity AI. Experienced Strategic team leadership, product innovation, and Agile product development expertise, dedicated to transforming organizations. Expertise in the application of new technology: AI/MachineLearning, Cross-platform digital experiences, Strategic team leadership.

CEO & Founder of Asha AI, a remote care solution that empowers elders to age in place more effectively, while keeping caregiving family members informed on patient health, through the powers of conversational AI and voice-enabled health solutions. She’a serial entrepreneur with 15+ years of experience in product innovation and strategy, and a proven track record for building successful businesses from ground up to fruitful liquidity events.

CEO & Founder of Doppler, a turnkey platform for creating, hosting, and deploying an AI model of you available on all social media platforms. He’s also the co-founder of Cerebral Valley, the biggest developer-focused AI community for founders and builders.

Co-founder of Hadrius (YC W23), a Y Combinator company that automates the entire SEC ongoing compliance process with AI for financial firms. With vast experience in the finance industry, Som is a highly accomplished professional with unique expertise in finance, hedge funds, compliance, artificial intelligence, and large language models.

High Growth Gen AI Startup, Scale AI. Builds groundbreaking products, disrupts markets, and fuels economic growth. Lead diverse teams of engineers, problem-solving globally. With expertise in PCB schematics, firmware development, and business development, including VC pitches and strategic partnerships, they deliver innovative solutions.

Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers. Priya has worked with entrepreneurs both as an investor and an acquirer. Priya was part of Square’s Corporate Development team as a Deal Lead. She worked in several acquisitions in the mobile payment, SMB SaaS and AI machine learning spaces.

Product Executive Workday. An accomplished tech executive, data scientist, and venture capital expert, possesses core strengths in engineering, AI/ML, product management, and team building. With a notable track record, she has led strategic initiatives at DataRobot, IBM Watson/Red Hat, and NVIDIA, and has been recognized for her contributions, including Nasdaq’s Leading Women in AI award. She actively supports AI entrepreneurs and VC programs while championing women in AI.

Founder and Investor at Iterative Ventures, Ex-Meta. A highly accomplished professional with expertise in entrepreneurship, venture capital, software engineering, and data science. With a background in building scalable data platforms at renowned companies like WhatsApp and Facebook, Richard brings valuable insights into technologies such as Apache Airflow, Spark, and Kubernetes. His skill set spans Python, SQL, statistical modeling, and analytics, making them a valuable speaker on various topics in the tech industry.

Bill Wright, an accomplished technology leader, currently serves as the Chief Architect and AI/ML strategic lead at Red Hat. He initiated Red Hat’s AI Networks initiative, emphasizing AI and machine learning in mobile networks and Edge infrastructure. Bill is also the founder and chair of the Enterprise Neurosystem AI/ML open source community, focusing on large-scale AI infrastructure for global challenges. His impactful career includes a pivotal role at VMware, where he catalyzed the NFV technology revolution, generating billions in revenue. Bill is a sought-after speaker, recognized with multiple executive awards and actively contributes to emerging 6G technologies as an O-RAN nGRG member.

Marcus is founder of Breadcrumb.ai. He is Head of Partnerships at Cerebral Valley. Marcus is a technology entrepreneur with over a decade of experience building and growing startups from 0 – 1. Before Breadcrumb he led operations at TrueChoice Solutions, the global leader in preference analytics, where he led and scaled a global team servicing hundreds of fortune 1000 clients such as Mcdonald’s, Amazon, Rheem, Cisco, Rio Tinto. Marcus has previously founded two investor backed startups, including a SaaS payments and agreement platform for freelancers and a coding school. He also founded a venture studio that spun up remote product teams for top global VCs and startups. While still in college he built an internet radio station with 1 million monthly active users and raised money for a potential $40 million commercial real estate project.

Dr. Derick En’Wezoh is an entrepreneurial physician and investor at Susa Ventures where he invests in healthcare and technologies outside of healthcare focused on AI/ML/NLP/LLMs and workflow automation. Derick is an experienced healthcare leader. Before joining Susa Ventures, Derick led Growth at Viz.ai, a leader in AI-driven disease detection and care coordination, where he built several departments and helped take Viz.ai from idea to the $1b+ company it is today. Before Viz.ai, Derick was a surgical resident at Stanford Hospital. He completed his MD at Harvard, his MBA at Stanford, and is an alumnus of Stanford Biodesign. Derick is deeply committed to supporting entrepreneurs and investing in innovations that positively impact the lives of others.

Mark LaRosa is operating partner at Amplify Partners. Mark specializes in helping technical founding teams develop a technical strategy and determine proper sequencing, prioritization, and big-picture thinking for the product roadmap and features. Mark has more than 15 years of experience in infrastructure, database/analytics, and global-scale distributed systems. Previously, Mark was Principal Solutions Architect at AWS’ Strategic Accounts division. Earlier in his career, Mark has held various technical sales and solutions architect leadership roles at Interana, MemSQL, and Coraid.