Speakers

Nishant Lodha leads product and technology advocacy for Cornelis, driving the company's mission to redefine the role of the network in the age of AI. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he shapes product strategy, go-to-market motion, and industry partnerships for high-performance networking built to power distributed AI training and inferencing at scale.

With 25+ years across compute, networking, and storage, Nishant has held leadership roles at some of the industry's most influential infrastructure companies and standards bodies. He's a sought-after voice at industry events, known for cutting through the noise on what it actually takes to network AI and HPC workloads, from massive training clusters to distributed inferencing.

Before Cornelis, Nishant built his expertise at Intel, Marvell/Cavium/QLogic, HPE/Compaq/Tandem, and Sun Microsystems/StorageTek. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Ethernet Alliance and on the IBTA Steering Committee.