A sample of the 200+ researchers, founders and engineers taking the stage this year.
Amara Okafor
VP of AI Research
Northwind Labs
Leads frontier model research; previously built large-scale retrieval systems used by hundreds of millions.
Kenji Watanabe
Founder & CEO
Synthflow
Building agentic developer tooling. Three-time founder, one exit.
Lena Vasquez
Distinguished Engineer
Helix Compute
Inference infrastructure and model serving at scale.
Priya Nandakumar
Research Scientist
Open Horizon
Works on evaluation, alignment and interpretability.
Tomás Ferreira
CTO
Layercake
Vector databases and RAG architecture.
Omar Haddad
Principal Researcher
Northwind Labs
Reinforcement learning and agent planning.
Grace Lin
Product Lead, AI
Meridian
Ships consumer AI products to tens of millions of users.
Marcus Bell
Head of Applied ML
Cedar Health
Applies multimodal models to clinical workflows.