Global Artificial Intelligence Conference

DAY -1 (SEPTEMBER 16TH 8:00AM-5:00PM (PST))

8:00 AM - 8:50 AMRegistration

8:00 AM - 9:30AM - Workshop: Artificial Agility (Juval Lowy, President, Idesign Inc.)

9:30 AM - 10:00AM Technical Track: AI/ ML Consumption Models - How to leverage AI/ ML for your Enterprise Workloads (Sriram Subramanian, Research Director, IDC)

10:10 AM - 10:40AM Keynote: AI, ML, Cloud for ML (Andrei Lopatenko, VP Technologies, Zillow Group)

10:40 AM - 10:50AM Break

10:50 AM - 11:20AM Finance Track: Governing Influence Index of AI enabled Real-time Digital Enterprises (Vikas Shah, Chief Architect, Knights of Columbus)

Technical Track: Multi-channel optimal path sequencing through Bayesian Deep Learning (Vishal Hawa, Chief Scientist, The Vanguard Group)

11:30 AM - 12:00PM Finance Track:  AI for Thematic and ESG Attribution in Investment Decisions (Steven Gustafson, CTO, Noonum & Robert Marsh, CIO, JUST Capital)

Technical Track: AI for Upgrading Humans on this Planet. Before it's too late. (Gunjan Gupta, Founder, Lightsphere AI)

12:10 PM - 12:40PM Technical Track: Video analytics at scale: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Spark (Claudiu Barbura, Director Engineering, Blueprint Technologies)

Business Track: Developing and implementing an effective patenting strategy (Alan Minsk, Partner, FisherBroyles)

12:45 PM - 1:15PM Mentoring Session With Speakers | AI in Finance | How to get into Stanford? | How do I make effective pitch to investors & customers? | Leadership Coaching for Behavior Change | System Design

1:20PM - 1:50PM Finance Track:  AI in Finance (Nitesh kumar, Senior Director, Affirm)

2:00PM - 2:50PM Keynote Panel: AI in Finance - Jay Nanduri (Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation) | Steven Gustafson (CTO, Noonum) | Evan Schnidman (Founder, EAS Innovation) | Dr. Michael Recce (Chief Data Scientist, Neuberger Berman) | Shankar Vaidyanathan (CEO, Noonum) - Moderator

2:50PM - 3:00PM Break

3:00PM - 3:30PM Technical Track: GPU Training Made Easy - Pre-train and fine-tune NLP models. (Vamsi Sistla, Director, Unify Consulting) + Business Track: Holographic data manipulation and visualization with Apache Spark and Microsoft Hololens (Gary Nakanelua, Managing Director, Blueprint Technologies)

3:40PM - 4:10PM Technical Track: Manage Full ML Model Lifecycle with Temporal (Maxim Fateev, Software Engineer, Uber) + Technical Track: Accelerating Value Delivery by Augmenting Application Support with NLP (Chatbots) (Arvind Sekhar, Manager Data Science, Corteva Agriscience)

4:20PM - 4:50PM Technical Track: Unlock the potential of your data: Optimize your data store architecture for AI/ML and Analytics (Andrea Fabrizi, Product Management, hewlett-packard enterprise) + Business Track:  Why Transparent AI is the only AI that can be trusted (Teresa Escrig, Architect, Microsoft)

DAY -2 (SEPTEMBER 17TH 8:00AM-5:00PM (PST) )

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Registration

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Workshop: Optimizing your Machine Learning in the Cloud and avoiding the Cloud Silo trap (Martin Lurie, Principal Solutions Engineer, Cloudera)

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Exhibitors Product Demo: Mandar Dange (CEO, FOCUS451, Inc) | Rahul Bhanose (CEO, bizAmica Software Pvt. Ltd) | Mark Engelen (CEO, RxLive) | Ash Naik (CEO, SalesPal) | Pavel Dmitriev (VP Data Science, Outreach) | Anurag Yadav (CEO, PrimaFelicitas & Stanford Alumni) | Ravi Amble (Founder & CEO, Suquino) | Sam Ramachandran (CSO, Chief Sales Officer)

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Healthcare Track: Reinventing Healthcare for the Digital Age (Kathleen McGrow, Executive Leader, Microsoft) + Technical Track:  Hard things about Sales - and how A/B testing can help (Pavel Dmitriev, VP Data Science, Outreach)

10:10 AM - 10:40 AM General Keynote: Innovation Today with Machine Learning (Paul Misener, VP, Amazon)

10:50 AM - 11:20 AM Business Track:  DeepBrew – AI at Starbucks (Brian Ames, Sr.Program Manager, Starbucks)(Video)

Technical Track: Flyte: Cloud native machine learning & data processing platform (Ketan Umare, Staff Software Engineer, Lyft)

10:20AM - 10:30AM Break

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM Business Track:  Opportunities for Blockchain and AI in the era of Climate Change (Eromosele Omomhenle, Senior Manager, ISV, Microsoft Corporation)

12:10 PM - 12:40 PM Business Track:  Reinforcement Learning in Business Applications (Anand Oka, Director, Microsoft)

Retail Track: User Experience Now Includes Machine Experience (Marianne Sweeny, Principal, Daedalus Information Systems)

12:45 PM - 1:15PM Mentoring Session With Speakers - Career Advice: Towards training an AI that explores careers

AI in Healthcare | The State of NLP | Agile Leadership for Business Success

1:20 PM - 1:50PM Business Track: Strategies for Human-AI Interaction and Collaboration (Phillip Hunter, Founder, CCAI Services) + Business Track: Getting a AI/ML startup off the ground (Ash Naik, CEO, SalesPal)

1:55 PM - 2:50 PM Keynote Panel : AI from Investment perspective - Austin Guyette (Investor, Voyager Capital) | Alok Nandan (General Partner, Emergent Ventures (USA)) | Kellan Carter (Partner, IGNITION) | Sanjit Dang (Co-Founder & Chairman, U First Capital) | Sarah Fay (Managing Director, Glasswing Ventures) - Moderator 

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Business Track: Supporting AI and Big Data with third-generation blockchain technology (Douglas Horn, CEO, GoodBlock) + Technical Track:  Breaking into Data Science - Advise for Junior and New Data Science Practitioners (Kevin Sun, Data Scientist, RealSelf)

3:40 PM - 4:10 PM Business Track: Minding Our Minds: Accelerating and Empowering Learning with Big Data, Analytics, and AI (Jeff Bergin, VP Professional Learning. Western Governors University)

4:10 PM - 5:30 PM AI Startup Pitches - Dr Parveez Ubed (CEO, ERC Eye Care) | Mandar Dange (CEO, FOCUS451, Inc) | Rahul Bhanose (CEO, bizAmica Software Pvt. Ltd) | Ravi Amble (Founder & CEO, Suquino) | Mark Engelen (CEO, RxLive) | David Davies (Founder, AgUnity) | Damian Pelliccione (CEO, Revry) | Hymanand Nellore (CEO, Naber) | Siddharth Darbha (Founder, Wagr) | Peter W Weber (Founder, Hyperion-Core Inc). Judges: Sudhir Kadam (Venture Partner, FYDA Growth Partners) | Ian Foley (Venture Partner, Level Ventures) | T.A. McCann (Director, Pioneer Square Labs) | Rahm Shastry (CEO, DriveU) | Radhika Malik (Investor, Samsung Catalyst Fund) | Cameron Borumand (Partner, Fuse Venture Partners) | KRS Murthy (CEO, I Cubed World) - Moderator

DAY -3 (SEPTEMBER 18TH 8:30AM-5:30PM (PST))

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Registration

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Workshop: How Blockchain is disrupting the Finance Industry (Anurag Yadav, CEO, PrimaFelicitas & Stanford Alumni)

9:40 AM - 10:10 AM Healthcare Track: Lessons Learned Applying Natural Language Processing for Healthcare AI (David Talby, CTO, John Snow Labs) + Technical Track: Building End-to-End Machine Learning Workflows with Kubernetes, Kubeflow Pipelines, and BERT (Antje Barth, Developer Evangelist, Amazon Web Services)

10:20 AM - 11:00 AM General Keynote: BigTech Disruption in Healthcare (Srini Gurrapu, Vice President, Claris (Subsidiary of Apple))

11:10 AM - 11:40 AM Business Track: Beyond Data Science: Strategic Change Management Considerations (Jack Chua, EVP Marketing, Education First) + Technical Track(Retail): Fast catalog discovery through transformers (Navid Imani, AI Research Scientist, eBay)

11:50 AM - 12:50 PM Keynote Panel: AI in Healthcare - Srini Gurrapu (Vice President, Claris (Subsidiary of Apple)) | Maryam Gholami (Group Vice President, Providence) | Michael Calhoun (CEO, Mindshare Medical) | Rohan Dsouza (Executive Vice President, Olive) | Cyril Philip (Principal, Providence) - Moderator

12:55 PM - 1:25PM Mentoring Session With Speakers - Raising Money for Startups | Quantum Workforce | Product Delivery: The Art and Science of DevOps | AI in Retail

1:30 PM - 2:05PM Technical Track:  Top Practical Challenges in Running Online Controlled Experiments at Scale in Industry (Somit Gupta, Data Scientist, Microsoft) + Healthcare Track: Maximizing the value of AI for patients and healthcare systems (Michael Calhoun, CEO, Mindshare Medical)

2:15 PM - 2:55 PM Technical Track: Quantum Computing with Amazon Braket (Chris Fregly, Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services) + Business Track (Healthcare/Pharma/BioTech): Where to start with AI in your health system (​Rohan Dsouza, Executive Vice President, Olive)

3:05 PM - 3:40 PM Business Track (Healthcare/Pharma/BioTech):  Implementing AI at Life sciences Companies (Siddhartha Bhattacharya, Director, Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC))

3:50 PM - 4:20 PM Healthcare Track: Skin Cancer Detection using AI (Sreya Muppalla, Data Scientist(Intern), Microsoft & Shreyaan Pathak, Data Scientist (Intern), Microsoft )

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Keynote Panel: AI in Quantum Computing - Terrill Frantz (Research Director , Harrisburg University)

Denise Ruffner (Chief Strategy Officer. Cambridge Quantum Computing) | Chris Papile (CEO, BraneCell) | Chris Fregly (Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services) | Christopher Bishop (Founder, Improvising Careers) - Moderator