Gayathri Radhakrishnan
Gayathri is currently Partner at Hitachi Ventures. Prior to that, she was with Micron Ventures, actively investing in startups that apply AI to solve critical problems in the areas of Manufacturing, Healthcare and Automotive. She brings over 20 years of multi-disciplinary experience across product management, product marketing, corporate strategy, M&A and venture investments in large Fortune 500 companies such as Dell and Corning and in startups. She has also worked as an early stage investor at Earlybird Venture Capital, a premier European venture capital fund based in Germany. She has a Masters in EE from The Ohio State University and MBA from INSEAD in France. She is also a Kauffman Fellow - Class 16.
Gilles Backhus
Milind Naphade
Milind Naphade, SVP, Technology, leads the AI Foundations team at Capital One. In this capacity, Milind partners with product, tech, and business leaders to advance AI efforts, such as generative AI, at Capital One.
Prior to joining Capital One, Milind was the Chief Technology Officer of Metropolis at NVIDIA where he led the technology and innovation strategy and execution for NVIDIA’s Metropolis platform and product offerings. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Milind held executive and leadership roles at Cisco and IBM Research. As the Director of the cognitive systems organization at Cisco, he built the organization that focused on machine learning, natural language processing and AI. In his 14 years at IBM Research, Milind led several company-wide strategic AI initiatives in multimedia analytics and smarter planet solutions.
Pankaj Dugar
Pankaj is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of North America for AI21 Labs - a leader in generative AI and Large Language Models, with the mission to bring reliable Generative AI solutions to the enterprise.
Previously, he was the Vice President of Product and Data Partnerships at Databricks where he built over 100 successful partnerships from the ground up.
Prior to Databricks, he led the Google Cloud Platform team responsible for its largest, and most strategic cloud partnerships.
He has over two decades of experience holding leadership roles in sales and corporate strategy at large multinational technology and management consulting firms, including Oracle, Cisco and McKinsey.
Pankaj graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in CS and has an MBA from the Harvard Business School.