Ariel Imas

Co-President

Catalyst Capital Markets

Aunsha Nerella

AI & FinTech Innovation

State Street

Zeljka Lemaster

Global AI Accelerator Head of Hub US

Ericsson

Zeljka Lemaster is Head of AI Innovation and Incubation Hub US (AI3) at Ericsson. Her journey with artificial intelligence began during her Master's thesis, and she has been deeply involved in the field ever since. Together with her team, Zeljka actively collaborates within the Silicon Valley ecosystem, working on cutting-edge AI methodologies and solutions to integrate them into Ericsson's portfolio of products and services.

Kevin Cohen

Co-Founder

VetRec

Jacey Heuer

Head of AI & Data Science

Pella Corporation

Jacey leads AI, Data Science and Advanced Analytics for Pella Corporation. Pella Corporation, based in the U.S, is one of North America’s largest manufacturers of premium windows and doors. Jacey’s current focus is on expanding the footprint of AI, Data Science and Advanced Analytics at Pella Corporation, guiding the organization to realize the value promised in this space. Jacey is a storyteller who bridges the gap between the possible and the practical, ushering organizations along their journey to become data driven. Jacey holds master’s degrees from Iowa State University in business and data science. He carries strong advanced analytics experience across many industries including manufacturing, e-commerce, energy, financial services and real estate.

Dharmendra Modha

IBM Fellow, IBM Chief Scientist, Brain-Inspired Computing

IBM

Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha is an IBM Fellow and IBM Chief Scientist for Brain-inspired Computers.  He is a cognitive computing pioneer who envisioned and now leads a highly successful effort to develop brain-inspired computers.  The groundbreaking project is multi-disciplinary, multi-national, multi-institutional and has had worldwide scientific impact.  It has been funded to the tune of >$200M by DARPA, DOD, DOE, and Commercial contracts.  Its resulting revolutionary computing architecture and ecosystem break from the prevailing von Neumann paradigm and constitute a foundation for new classes of ultra-low-power, compact, real-time, multi-modal sensorimotor information technology systems.

 

Dr. Modha has made significant contributions to IBM businesses via innovations in caching mechanisms for storage controllers, clustering algorithms for services, and coding theory for disk drives.  His work has been featured in Economist, Science, New York Times, BBC, Discover, MIT Technology Report, Associated Press, Popular Mechanics, Communications of the ACM, Forbes, Fortune, and IEEE Spectrum amongst thousands of media mentions.  Author of over 80 papers and inventor of over 200 patents, he has been a recipient of ACM’s Gordon Bell Prize; Misha Mahowald Prize; R&D Magazine’s 2016 Scientist of the Year; USENIX/FAST Test of Time Award; Best Paper Awards at ASYNC and IDEMI; First Place, Science/NSF International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge; IIT Bombay Distinguished Alumnus Award; UCSD ECE Distinguished Alumnus Award; R&D 100 Award; and is a Fellow of IEEE and World Technology Network. In 2013 and 2014, he was named as Best of IBM.  TrueNorth and NorthPole have both been accepted into the Computer History Museum.  On their 40th Anniversary, EE Times named Dr. Modha amongst 10 Electronics Visionaries to Watch.

 

Dr. Modha received BTech from IIT Bombay in 1990 and PhD from UCSD in 1995.