Dr. Anirudh Devgan is President and CEO of Cadence and is a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to becoming CEO in 2021, he was President of Cadence, before which he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Digital & Signoff and System Verification groups. Under his leadership, Cadence has significantly grown its computational software and hardware portfolio, expanded into adjacent and new markets, and achieved several years of record revenue growth. Prior to joining Cadence in 2012, Dr. Devgan was Corporate VP and member of the executive staff at Magma Design Automation and earlier held management and technical roles at IBM.

Dr. Devgan is widely recognized as one of the leading authorities in electronic design automation (EDA) and successfully pioneered the application of massively parallel and distributed architectures to create several industry firsts and most impactful products in the areas of SPICE simulation, library characterization, place and route, static timing, power, and electromagnetics, among several others. He also drove the first common compiler architecture for emulation and prototyping platforms.

Dr. Devgan is an IEEE Fellow, member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), has written numerous research papers, and holds 27 US patents. He has won several awards, including the prestigious Phil Kaufman Award for his extensive contributions to EDA as well as the IBM Corporate Award and IEEE McCalla Award. Dr. Devgan serves on the boards of the Global Semiconductor Alliance and the Electronic System Design Alliance.

Dr. Devgan received a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and MS and PhD degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Mark Lohmeyer leads the Compute and AI Infrastructure business for Google Cloud. In this role, he is responsible for the Google Cloud Compute Engine, AI/ML infrastructure (Cloud TPU and GPU), Core ML services, block storage (Persistent Disk and Hyperdisk), and enterprise solutions (SAP on GCP, Google Cloud VMware Engine, etc.)
Mark’s background includes leadership roles in general management, product management, marketing, business development, and engineering management, across a wide range of core infrastructure technologies, including compute, storage, and networking.

Prior to joining Google, Mark was the SVP/GM of VMware’s Cloud Infrastructure Business Group. In this role, he led a large-scale, global organization, spanning engineering, operations,
product management, and product marketing for the VMware infrastructure portfolio across Private Clouds, Public Clouds, and Cloud Provider Partners / Sovereign Clouds.

Prior to VMware, Mark led the product team for Enterprise WAN and Routing at Cisco and was the GM for HA/DR and Storage solutions at Veritas Software. Earlier in his career, he worked on storage I/O hardware at Adaptec, and digital imaging research and hardware design at the Sarnoff Research Labs, and holds a patent based on this work.
Mark holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also served as the head teaching assistant for Computational Structures.

Barry Cooks is a global enterprise technology veteran with 25 years of experience leading teams in cloud computing, hardware design, application microservices, artificial intelligence, and more. As Vice President of Technology at Amazon, he is responsible for compute abstractions (containers, serverless, VMware, micro-VMs), quantum experimentation, high performance computing, and AI training. He oversees key AWS services including AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and Amazon SageMaker. Barry also leads responsible AI initiatives across AWS, promoting the safe and ethical development of AI as a force for good. Prior to joining Amazon in 2022, Barry served as CTO at DigitalOcean, where he guided the organization through its successful IPO. His career also includes leadership roles at VMware and Sun Microsystems. Barry holds a BS in Computer Science from Purdue University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.

Yee Jiun Song serves as Vice President of Engineering at Meta, leading the Infrastructure Foundation organization. In this role, he oversees the strategy and development of Meta's AI, compute, and storage hardware platforms, custom silicon, supply chain operations, and the management of global infrastructure capacity.  

Yee Jiun's tenure at Meta started in 2010 when he joined the company as a Research Scientist with a focus on improving system reliability and fault tolerance. He later became Vice President of Engineering for the Core Systems organization, where he played a key role in developing the software systems necessary for Meta's services to scale reliably to millions of servers.

Yee Jiun is committed to research and innovation and has published in various academic conferences, including SOSP, OSDI, and ISCA.

Yee Jiun holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University.

David Glick serves as the senior vice president of Walmart’s Enterprise Business Services. He leads enterprise systems, including People Technology Modernization, Finance Tech, Associate Digital Experience (ADE) and Shared Services, that enable Walmart to spend smartly, act digitally and build trust with associates and shareholders. 

Before joining Walmart, David served as the chief technology officer for Flexe, a logistics and supply chain technology provider. There, he was responsible for building the foundational technology that allows for an open logistics network to optimize the delivery of goods. Prior to that, he was vice president of fulfillment and logistics tech for Amazon, where he was responsible for all the technology inside the walls of Amazon’s fulfillment centers, as well as the founding tech vice president of Amazon Logistics. 

David has over 20 years of experience in enterprise tech, product development, system architecture and logistics and fulfillment tech. 

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of South Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

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.

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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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.

Laura was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Cologix in 2022 after serving as the company’s President and Chief Revenue Officer since 2018. Laura has over 25 years of experience in cloud and technology global leadership focused on GTM strategy, revenue growth, global customer success, sales and account management, and revenue and client relationship management.  Laura was EVP and Chief Customer Officer at Equinix, and prior she spent nine years at VMware, overseeing the Cloud Services business as co-General Manager and Vice President. Laura held global IT and technical support teams for Jeppesen, a Boeing Company, and served various technical and global leadership positions at Lockheed Martin.  Laura is also on the board of Digital Edge DC. Laura holds an MBA in Information Systems from Regis University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) in Marketing from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where she played collegiate tennis.

Rohit joined Iron Mountain in 2019 to establish and build out the Account Management function for our North American data center business. His current role is SVP & GM, Hyperscale, for Iron Mountain’s Data Center Business Unit. Rohit is responsible for IMDC’s global hyperscale business, including all commercial activities: sales, delivery, and account management, strategic direction for this business, operational oversight, and financial management in order to maximize customer satisfaction, deepen executive-level relationships, and develop and own our growth strategy.

Rohit has held previous roles within Iron Mountain, including VP & Global Head of Hyperscale Implementation & Account Management, where he was responsible for the successful onboarding and the overall customer experience for our hyperscale customers. Prior to that, he was VP, Sales & Customer Success, North America, where he was responsible for our commercial activities for retail & enterprise customers, including new logo acquisition, growth within existing accounts, customer satisfaction, and renewals of existing customers. Prior to that, he was VP, Account Management & Customer Success, North America, where he was responsible for the overall customer relationships for our enterprise and retail customers, including customer satisfaction and renewals of existing customers. Prior to Iron Mountain, Rohit held senior level positions with Verisign at their Security Services business unit and America Online/Time Warner.

Rohit represents Iron Mountain on the boards of the Data Center Coalition and Clean Energy Buyers Association. Rohit is also a board member of the Little Folks School in Washington, DC.

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.

Sean is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Cerebras Systems. Prior to Cerebras, Sean was Lead Hardware Architect of the IO virtualization fabric ASIC at SeaMicro. After SeaMicro was acquired by AMD, Sean was made an AMD Fellow and Chief Data Center Architect. Earlier in his career, he spent five years at AMD in their advanced architecture team. He holds a BS and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and has authored 16 patents in computer architecture.

Ram Velaga is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Core Switching Group at  Broadcom, responsible for the company’s extensive Ethernet switch portfolio serving broad markets including the service provider, data center and enterprise segments. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2012, he served in a variety of product management roles at Cisco Systems, including Vice President of Product Management for the Data Center Technology Group. Mr. Velaga earned an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University and an M.B.A. from Cornell University. Mr. Velaga holds patents in communications and virtual infrastructure.

Ankur Gupta is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Design Creation at Siemens EDA. This includes Test, Embedded Analytics, Digital IC design, Power Optimization, and Power Integrity Analysis. Formerly he was head of Product Management and Applications at Ansys, Semiconductor and Head of Applications Engineering for Digital Implementation & Signoff at Cadence Design Systems.

Ankur has 20+ years of experience in EDA, working on some of the industry’s most innovative Test, Digital Design, Implementation and Signoff products. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from Iowa State University.

RK Anand is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Recogni, an artificial intelligence startup based in San Jose specializing in building multimodal GenAI inference systems for data centers.

At Recogni, RK spearheads the company’s product development and Go-To-Market strategies within the data center industry.

With an unwavering commitment to customer needs and value creation, RK and the Recogni team are striving to deliver the highest performing and most cost and energy efficient multi-modal GenAI systems to the market.

RK brings over 35 years of leadership experience in data center compute systems, networking, and silicon development. His distinguished career includes engineering roles at Sun Microsystems and serving as Executive Vice President and General Manager at Juniper Networks. As one of the earliest employees at Juniper, RK played a pivotal role in the company’s growth from a startup to generating billions of dollars in revenue.

Nick Harris is the founder and CEO of Lightmatter, a pioneering photonic-computing company that is redefining AI infrastructure. An MIT-trained engineer and scientist, he won the MIT Technology Review’s TR35 award and holds numerous patents on revolutionary photonic technologies. His prolific research—published in top-tier journals such as Nature—has seeded new fields in photonic AI interconnects, processor design, and quantum computing. Under his leadership, Lightmatter has rapidly become the industry benchmark for ultra-fast photonics for connecting AI supercomputers.

John Overton is the CEO of Kove IO, Inc. In the late 1980s, while at the Open Software Foundation, Dr. Overton wrote software that went on to be used by approximately two thirds of the world’s workstation market. In the 1990s, he co-invented and patented technology utilizing distributed hash tables for locality management, now widely used in storage, database, and numerous other markets. In the 2000s, he led development of the first truly capable Software-Defined Memory offering, Kove:SDM™. Kove:SDM™ enables new Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities, while also reducing power by up to 50%. Dr. Overton has more than 65 issued patents world-wide and has peer-reviewed publications across numerous academic disciplines. He holds post-graduate and doctoral degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago.

Atif is the former Chief Digital Officer at McDonald’s and past President at Volvo and MGM Resorts. He’s now the founder of Ritual, an AI-powered platform helping organizations scale structured, intelligent decision-making. 

With a track record of leading digital transformation at the highest level, Atif brings valuable insight into how large enterprises adopt and scale AI effectively.

Atif has created over 500 billion dollars in enterprise value and advises cutting-edge companies like SpaceX and Anthropic. 

David co-founded and is the Head of MLPerf for MLCommons, the world leader in building benchmarks for AI. MLCommons is an open engineering consortium with a mission to make AI better for everyone through benchmarks and data. The foundation for MLCommons began with the MLPerf benchmarks in 2018, which rapidly scaled as a set of industry metrics to measure machine learning performance and promote transparency of machine learning techniques. In collaboration with its 125+ members, global technology providers, academics, and researchers, MLCommons is focused on collaborative engineering work that builds tools for the entire AI industry through benchmarks and metrics, public datasets, and measurements for AI Safety. Our software projects are generally available under the Apache 2.0 license and our datasets generally use CC-BY 4.0.