AI & Big Data 2026 Speakers

Lutz Beck

Chief Information Officer

Daimler Truck North America

Cydni Tetro

CIO

Swire Coca-Cola

Marzieh Abolhelm

VP, Model Risk Manager and AI Governance

MUFG Bank

Chad Smykay

AI CTO & Distinguished Technologist

HPE

Ryan Courtier

SVP AI Product Leader

Citi

Patrick Summers

Founding Enterprise Lead

Perplexity

Jose Alvarez

Director of Research

NVIDIA

Kapil Gupta

Former Sr. Director, Gen AI Product

The Cigna Group

Rhett Power

Contributor

Forbes Columnist

Sriram Sitaraman

CIO

Synopsys

Chris Bruman

CDAO

DOW

Sunil Murthy

AI Field CTO

IBM

Doug Freud

Vice President, AI

SAP

Jamil Badrudeen

Vice President - Artificial Intelligence and Financial Engineering

State Street

Leslie Karpas

Inception Global Head of Physical AI

NVIDIA

Arne Stoschek

VP AI and Autonomous

Airbus Acubed

Anjali Arora Mehra

Director, AI Strategy & Transformation

eBay

Ashish Garg

Principal Product Manager

Walmart

Dr Vinesh Sukumar

Vice President of AI

Qualcomm

Gunther Lenz

VP & GM, Productivity Solutions Division

Agilent

Sudha Reddy

Principal AI Product Leader - Enterprise Conversational AI

GEICO

Vida Vidyangi Patil

Host

Ctrl Alt Podcast

Shilpa Daule

Director of Product Analytics

First Citizens Bank

Matt Mahan

Mayor

City of San José

Animesh Singh

Executive Director, AI and Machine Learning Platform

LinkedIn

Gaurav Jain

Vice President - AI and Data Products

Rakuten

Coco Wang

VP of Business Development

Unitree

Nishtha Jain

AI-Enabled External Innovation Platform Leader, R&D

CSL

Simon Ninan

SVP | Global Head of Strategy

Hitachi

Manav Khatri

Vice President of Product & Strategy

Ford Credit

Carina Ruiz

Silicon Valley, Managing Partner

Deloitte

Robert Szmigiel

Founder and Vancouver Host

Canada's Podcast

Dhanshri More

Associate Vice President, AI Innovation and Engineering,

Molina Healthcare

Sandeep Sahai

Senior Director Payment Platforms

Visa

Pawel Czech

Co-Founder and CEO

NativelyAI

Tarun Sood

Chief Data and AI Officer

American Century Investments

Lagan Khare

Executive Director of Software Development Engineering and AI Enablement

CVS Health

Saima Shafiq

SVP, Head of AI Enablement

US Bank

Payam Shokrzadeh

Technical Program Manager

Ford Motor Company

Warren Durrett

Sr. Director of Product, Data and AI

Electronic Arts

Sean D. Mack

Chief Security Officer (CSO) & Managing Director

Information Security Media Group (ISMG)

Anuradha Bhamidipaty

Distinguished Engineer | IBM Master Inventor

IBM

Edward Achtner

Vice President: Head of Applied Artificial Intelligence

BMO

Reena Solomon

Head of AI Partnerships - North America

Airbus

Sundeep Jain

Enterprise AI Strategy, Global Cloud and Digital Infrastructure Leader

NXP Semiconductors

Keatra Nesbitt

Principal Solutions Engineer

Valkyrie

Rohini Gutha

Sr. Product Leader

Kaiser Permanente

Sawyer Bowerman

AI Developer Advocate

Red Hat

Niels Zeilemaker

Global CTO

Xebia

Becky Soltanian PhD

Principal AI Engineer

Forterra

Danny Fortson

West Coast Correspondent

The Sunday Times

Sean Alexander

Senior Vice President

Lumen Technologies

Devendra Sharma

Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Exadel

Troy Liljedahl

Sr. Director, Solutions Engineering

Backblaze

Sandra Ten Brink

AI Strategist

SAP

Tom Samiljan

Senior Content Strategist and Editor

WebMD Ignite

Kartheek Mahamkali

Site Reliability Engineering Leader

PayPal

Dr. Massimiliano Moruzzi

Co-Founder

Xaba.ai

Nitin Kumar

Director of Data Science and GenAI

Marriott International

Sunzay Passari

Director & Head - Architecture of Tomorrow (AI & Innovation)

UPS

Mark Albertson

Senior Writer

SiliconANGLE Media

Pierre-Alexandre Balland

Chief Data Scientist at CEPS, Visiting Professor at Harvard & Co-founder

General Robotics

Esra Vural

Principal AI Engineer

Abbott

Kristi Kunworee Baishya

AVP – Data and AI Product Management

Nomura Holding America

Chris Maddock

Head of Product & Engineering

Unstructured

Dominic Sartorio

Vice President of Product Marketing

Denodo Technologies

Tarang Vaish

CTO

Granica

Bhupinder Singh Narang

Director/Principal Staff – R&D Regulatory Compliance – Data & AI

LinkedIn

Erim Sezer

Director for Data Enablement & Digitalization

Bayer

Satyen Sangani

CEO & Co-Founder

Alation

Allan Mendes

Principal AI Engineer

Mastercard

Mayank Bansal

Senior Manager, AI & Operations

Grazitti Interactive

Anuradha Bhamidipaty

IBM Distinguished Engineer, Master Inventor, AI Research

IBM

Ido Arieli Noga

CEO & Co-Founder

Yuki

Salome Mikadze

Product Strategist and Co-Founder

Movadex

Adrish Sannyasi

Vice President, Customer Solutions and Delivery

Rhino Federated Computing

Rucha Apte

Generative AI Architect

NVIDIA

Senior representative, Deloitte

David H. Holtzman

CSO & Technical Advisor

Naoris Protocol

Sureshkumar Karuppuchamy

Engineering Lead

eBay

Jitender Aswani

Senior Vice President of Engineering

Starburst

Anthony Puleo

Director, Data Science & AI

AstraZeneca

Saurav Nanda

Senior Solutions Architect | Robotics | Physical AI

NVIDIA

Hamed Faqirzai

Vice President of Global Development

Luna PR

Iman Saleh

Responsible AI Fellow

Greg Cosso

Co-Founder

Topio Networks

Nikita Sachdev

Founder & CEO

LUNA PR

Agatha Isabel

AI Governance & Compliance Lead

TikTok Product, PDPO

Arihant Jain

Product Management - AI/ML

TikTok

Ashay Satav

Director of Product Management

eBay

Vijay Sanikal

Product Owner – Vehicle Simulation Integration

General Motors

Joseph Rose

President

JBS Dev

Alan Gibson

CRO

Datacamp

Mir Islam

Head of AIOps and SRE Platform

PayPal

Jorge Torres

Co-Founder & CEO

MindsDB

Shally Garg

Senior Technical Program Manager

NVIDIA

Bala Muthiah

Director of Engineering

Lyft

Szymon Kulec

Lead Developer Advocate

RavenDB

Prakul Sharma

AI & Insights Practice Leader

Deloitte

Robbie Beyer

Director - Data Science and AI

RSM US LLP

Shamindra Peiris

Senior AI Product Manager

Visa

Nishant Lakshmikanth

Engineering Leader in AI Infrastructure

LinkedIn

Manmeet Dhillon

Enterprise AI Strategy Lead

HPE

Payal Fofadiya

Engineering Manager

LinkedIn

Pavana Kumar Chandana

Principal Engineering Manager

Northern Trust

Kapil Poreddy

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Walmart Global Tech

Kevin Shen

Principal Product Manager

VeloDB

Julien Khaleghy

CEO & Founder

SerpApi

Senior Representative, HP

Grace Ableidinger

AI Developer Advocate

Red Hat

Abraham Jeevagunta

Head of Advanced Concepts

Cequence

Senior Representative, Exadel

Gabriel Hubert

CEO and Co-Founder

Dust

Senior Representative, Evantage

Dr. Gurpinder Dhillon

Head of Data & AI Ecosystem

Senzing

Sindhu Gangadharan

MD, SAP Labs India - Head, Customer Innovation Services

SAP

Maik Taro Wehmeyer

Co-Founder & CEO

Taktile

Senior representative, S&P

Avinash Deshpande

Field CTO - Data

Workato

Claire Bushnell

Strategic Solutions Engineer

Retool

Ava Chawla

Field CTO; Data and AI

EDB