Steve Schwarzman is Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone, one of the world’s largest alternative investment firms with over $1 trillion AUM. Schwarzman has been involved in all phases of Blackstone’s development since its founding in 1985. Schwarzman is also a champion in AI education and research, and is an active philanthropist.

An industry-leading tech and Fortune 50 Chairman and CEO, Hans is the architect of Verizon’s “one network for all” 5G strategy. Verizon powers more than 140 million retail wireless connections, generating annual revenue of more than $130 billion dollars. Under Hans’ leadership, Verizon was first in the world to 5G and 5G Mobile Edge Compute.

Leading one of the largest VC firm in the world, Scott has led investments in industry-transforming biz, including Bloom, Cloudflare, Robinhood, Salesforce, Tableau, and Workday. Scott is actively involved with National Venture Capital Association, and is also an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford for principled entrepreneurship.

Turing Award winner for leading the invention, standardization, and commercialization of Ethernet local-area networking technology. Metcalfe is Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at The University of Texas at Austin; a Research Affiliate at MIT CSAIL.

Barbara is President and CEO of Siemens, where she guides the company’s strategy and engagement in serving the company’s largest market. Siemens USA employs approximately 45,000 employees in 50 states and Puerto Rico and generated $21.1 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2024.

Thomas is a member of the Executive Board of SAP SE. He heads the Customer Services & Delivery Board area with global responsibility for long-term customer value in the cloud. In addition, Saueressig leads cloud infrastructure, cloud operations, cloud lifecycle management, and private cloud delivery for SAP’s global customer base.

The goal of the Customer Services & Delivery organization is to further increase customer satisfaction by ensuring that customers get the best services, tools, and support to accelerate their cloud transformation and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) through the immense value of the integrated SAP portfolio. SAP helps customers to drive their business transformation effectively while maximizing the benefits of the cloud and AI.

Wassim is Qualcomm’s President for Middle East and Africa (MEA) and Senior Vice President for Government Affairs for Europe the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He is responsible for Qualcomm’s business and partnership strategy across the region, steering business development and operational activities in the areas of advanced connectivity, computing, AI an industrial IoT.

Turing Award Winner; Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto; VP Engineering fellow at Google and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Vector Institute. He is known to have introduced the backpropagation algorithm and the first to use backpropagation for learning word embeddings.

Turing award winner; Professor at University of Montreal, Founder & Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute; Most known for his pioneering work in deep learning. He co-directs the CIFAR Learning in Machines & Brains program as Senior Fellow and acts as Scientific Director of IVADO.

Turing award winner; Professor of Data Science, Computer Science, Neural Science, and Electrical Engineering at NYU; Chief AI Scientist at Meta; affiliated with the NYU Center for Data Science, the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, the Center for Neural Science, and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the CEO of OpenAI since 2019. Altman is considered to be one of the leading figures of the AI boom, esp in generative AI. Since 2011 Altman joined Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, and was its president from 2014 to 2019.

Russell is the Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley, and Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering, Computational Precision Health, Professor of Cognitive Science, and Honorary Fellow of Wadham College at Oxford.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. Rus’s research interests are in robotics, mobile computing, and data science.

Fei-Fei Li is a computer scientist, known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision. She is Sequoia Capital professor of computer science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and a co-director of the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab.

Chief Privacy & Trust Officer for IBM, overseeing the company’s privacy program, compliance and strategy on a global basis, and directing all aspects of IBM’s privacy policies. Chair, IBM’s AI Ethics Board; a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce AI Commission.

Dave is a serial entrepreneur and is the co-founder and a Managing Partner of Link. His early successes include the founding and sale of DataSage to Vignette in a stock deal of Unicorn scale, the co-founding of Vestmark (the leading innovator of wealth management technology with 1.6 million accounts and over $400 billion in managed assets), and the co-founding of Course Advisor which led to the formation of Link.

Tom is the Co-founder & CEO of JetZero. Formerly COO of prominent eVTOL startup BETA Technologies; early senior executive at Tesla. His entire career has been in mobility.