Discover the untapped opportunities of applied AI
AI trailblazers, machine learning experts, forward thinking executives, data scientists, and product and engineering innovators will gather at the MITCNC Applied AI Conference to share how to build real-world AI solutions as well as impact of AI in our society and life.
THE WORLD'S SMARTEST MINDS
From Amazon to Zeta Venture Partners, we've got an insanely smart group of folks who will discuss where they see the Future of AI and the opportunities that have them excited.
Agenda
9:00 AM
Check-In / Light Breakfast & Networking
10:00 AM
Welcome
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Shuja Keen
Managing Director, The Resource Group
10:10 AM
TIM Talk: The Future of AI – Mens et Manus + Machines
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Hemant Taneja
Managing Director, General Catalyst
10:30 AM
TIM Talk: AI in AR /VR and Gaming
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Danny Lange
Vice President, AI & Machine Learning, Unity Technologies
10:50 AM
Coffee Break
Track 
11:10 AM
Panel: AI Frontiers – Straight from the Labs
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Ed Boyden
Professor, MIT
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Surya Ganguli
Assistant Professor, Stanford University
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Manolis Kellis
Professor, MIT
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Vijay Pande
General Partner, Andreesen Horowitz
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Eduardo Torres-Jara
CEO, Robot Rebuilt
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Amar Kendale
SVP Product, Livongo Health
11:10 AM
Panel: Unsupervised Earlystage Investing
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Elad Gil
Chairman, Color
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Vanessa Larco
Partner, NEA
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Aileen Lee
Founder and Partner, Cowboy Ventures
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Leonard Speiser
Investor & Founder, Neuron.VC & Markov
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Ajay Sudan
Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners
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Moderator: Sarah Guo
Principal, Greylock Partners
11:55 AM
Panel: Ghost in the Machine – AI and Autonomous Autos
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Irfan Essa
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Ali Jameel
CEO, TPL Holdings
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Joel Pazhayampallil
Co-Founder, Drive.ai
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Lior Ron
Co-Founder + President, Otto
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Moderator: Sarah Mirza
Partner, Artegis Law Group
11:55 AM
Panel: Acquiring Intelligence – A Closer Look at the AI Corporate VC and M&A landscape
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James Cham
Partner, Bloomberg Beta
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Pegah Ebrahimi
COO Global Technology Banking, Morgan Stanley
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Matt Garratt
VP, Salesforce Ventures
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Steve McLauhglin
CEO, FT Partners
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John Rodkin
Managing Director, Samsung NEXT Start
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Moderator: Alex Rosen
Managing Director, IDG Ventures
12:20 PM
Fireside Chat: Autonomous Autos
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Sterling Anderson
Co-Founder, Aurora
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Moderator: Sarah Mirza
Partner, Artegis Law Group
12:40 PM
Lunch and Networking
01:40 PM
TIM Talk: AI and It’s Application to Industry Workloads
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Swami Siva subramanian
Vice President AI, Amazon Web Services
2:00 PM
TIM Talk: AI + Cloud + Enterprise
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Diane Greene
Senior Vice President, Google Cloud
2:20 PM
TIM Talk: AI – AI on the Horizon: Directions, Challenges, Futures
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Eric Horvitz
Technical Fellow & Director, Microsoft Research
2:40 PM
TIM Talk: AI in SaaS
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Steven Tamm
Chief Technology Officer, Salesforce.com
3:00 PM
Coffee Break
Track
3:20 PM
Panel: When HAL Met Sally – How AI will Optimize Marketplaces
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Robert Phillips
Head of Marketplace Optimization Decision Science, Uber
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Monica Rogati
Equity Partner, Data Collective
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Jim Roskind
VP / Distinguished Engineer, Amazon
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Jeremy Stanley
VP of Data Science, Instacart
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Moderator: Sourav Dey
Partner, DataHoliks
3:20 PM
Panel: AI Idol
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Aaref Hilaly
Partner, Sequoia Capital
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Umair Khan
Partner, Mentors.Fund
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Ben Levy
Partner, Bootstrap Labs
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Rob Neivert
Venture Partner, 500 Startups
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Qasar Younis
COO & General Partner, Y Combinator
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Moderator: Shan Sinha
CEO / Founder, HighFive
4:05 PM
Panel: AI in the Enterprise
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John Apostolopoulos
VP / CTO Enterprise Segment, Cisco
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Mitali Dhar
Director Global Product Partnerships, Google
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Andrew Fano
Managing Director, Accenture AI R&D
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Chris Farmer
Chief Marketing Officer, Afiniti
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Usman Rabbani
Head of Innovation and Technology, KKR
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Moderator: Vivek Mohta
Partner, DataHoliks
4:05 PM
Panel: Founder’s Journey
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Troy Astorino
CTO, PicnicHealth
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Aye Moah
Chief of Product / Co-Founder, Boomerang
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Oliver Roup
Founder and CEO, VigLink
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Nikunj Mehta
Founder & CEO, Falkonry
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Moderator: Reshma Khilnani
Engineer, Box
4:50 PM
Coffee Break
5:10 PM
Fireside Chat: AI & Security
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Rehan Jalil
CEO, Elastica
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Zulfikar Ramzan
Chief Technology Officer, RSA
5:30 PM
TIM Talk: AI – The Past, The Present and The Future
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Mark Gorenberg
Managing Director, Zetta Venture Partners
5:50 PM
Closing Remarks
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Shuja Keen
Managing Director, The Resource Group
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SPOTLIGHT REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR AGENDA BELOW
6:00 PM
Spotlight Reception
7:30 PM
Welcome, Dinner & Comedy
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Host: Jeff Applebaum
Comedian & Entrepreneur
8:30 PM
Fireside Chat: Mens et Manus + Heart
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Spotlight Honoree: Megan Smith
3rd U.S. Chief Technology Officer, United States
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Spotlight Host: Shishir Mehrotra
Entrepreneur
9:30 PM
Dessert, Poker & Dancing
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Underneath all the AI hype, real breakthroughs are happening – the advent of deep learning toolkits made possible by huge amounts of data, cloud based computing and low cost storage that pattern, image and voice recognition – allowing AI developers to create solutions which are predictive of needs of its users and the capabilities are growing at exponential rates.
If you’re looking for cutting edge research, case studies of successful AI projects, AI rock stars, multidisciplinary use cases — and truly inspiring ideas that just might change the world — make plans to join us on March 25th for the MITCNC Tech Conference in Redwood City.
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