Scaling AI to enterprise-scale and beyond is a great feat of technical and organizational engineering. This panel will look at how to make deploying AI at scale easy for enterprises, which technical roadblocks exist, why they exist, and how companies are engineering around them.
Victoria Coleman
Victoria joined in 2024 as CEO of Acubed and Airbus’ Head of Research & Technology for North America. She has 35 years of experience and expertise that extends across multiple domains, from cybersecurity and computer science to emerging platforms and software engineering. Prior to joining Acubed, she served as the Chief Scientist of the United States Air Force where she was the preeminent scientific advisor to top leadership, including the Secretary of the Air Force, Air Force Chief of Staff and Chief of Space Operations. Her responsibilities included assessing a wide range of scientific and technical issues crucial to the department's mission, as well as identifying and analyzing technical challenges to provide innovative solutions. Prior to her role as Chief Scientist, Dr. Coleman served as the 22nd Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and serves as a Visiting Professor in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley.
Beyond her government service, her career includes executive roles at pioneering organizations such as Atlas AI P.B.C, where she spearheaded the development of cutting-edge AI solutions for sustainable development. She was also the founding director of the System Design Laboratory at SRI International, leading research in trustworthy systems and cyber security. She also has held leadership positions at companies including Samsung, Hewlett-Packard, Nokia, Yahoo, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Jim Keller
Jim Keller is the CEO of Tenstorrent and a veteran hardware engineer. Prior to joining Tenstorrent, he served two years as Senior Vice President of Intel's Silicon Engineering Group. He has held roles as Tesla's Vice President of Autopilot and Low Voltage Hardware, Corporate Vice President and Chief Cores Architect at AMD, and Vice President of Engineering and Chief Architect at P.A. Semi, which was acquired by Apple Inc. Jim has led multiple successful silicon designs over the decades, from the DEC Alpha processors, to AMD K7/K8/K12, HyperTransport and the AMD Zen family, the Apple A4/A5 processors, and Tesla's self-driving car chip.
Ric Lewis
Ric Lewis is Senior Vice President of Infrastructure for IBM and has global responsibility for the company’s servers, storage, associated software, and infrastructure support and services. He oversees IBM’s cloud business and also leads the IBM-wide mission for IBM Supply Chain.
Prior to joining IBM, Ric worked for 32 years at Hewlett Packard and Hewlett Packard Enterprise where he held numerous leadership roles focused on business and product innovation. Most recently, Ric was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Software Defined and Cloud Group, where his team incubated the software technology and strategy to enable as-a-service delivery of HPE’s entire portfolio. Ric’s groups created the industry-wide composable infrastructure product category and led it with an entirely new HW/SW design known as HPE Synergy that became the fastest new product/business in HP/HPE’s history to reach a billion dollars of revenue.
Ric led businesses and R&D organizations delivering many innovative, successful products and upgrades for HP/HPE including HPE Simplivity hyperconverged systems, HP Converged Systems, HP Bladesystem, HP OneView, Superdome 2, Superdome X, NonStop systems, Integrity servers, and the HP-UX and OpenVMS operating environments.
Chris Lattner
Chris Lattner is Co-Founder & CEO of Modular, and is a distinguished leader who founded and scaled critical infrastructure including LLVM, Clang, MLIR, Cloud TPUs and the Swift programming language. Chris built AI and core systems at multiple world leading technology companies including Apple, Google, SiFive and Tesla.