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Day -1 (September 16th 8:00AM-5:00PM (PST))

8:00 AM - 8:50 AM Registration
8:00 AM - 9:30AM Workshop: Artificial Agility (Juval Lowy, President, Idesign Inc.)
9:30 AM - 10:00AM Technical Track: AI/ ML Consumption Models - How to leverage AI/ ML for your Enterprise Workloads (Sriram Subramanian, Research Director, IDC)
10:10 AM - 10:40AM Keynote: AI, ML, Cloud for ML (Andrei Lopatenko, VP Technologies, Zillow Group)(Video)
10:40 AM - 10:50AM Break
10:50 AM - 11:20AM Finance Track: Governing Influence Index of AI enabled Real-time Digital Enterprises (Vikas Shah, Chief Architect, Knights of Columbus)
Technical Track: Multi-channel optimal path sequencing through Bayesian Deep Learning (Vishal Hawa, Chief Scientist, The Vanguard Group)(Video)
11:30 AM - 12:00PM Finance Track:  AI for Thematic and ESG Attribution in Investment Decisions (Steven Gustafson, CTO, Noonum & Robert Marsh, CIO, JUST Capital)
Technical Track: AI for Upgrading Humans on this Planet. Before it's too late. (Gunjan Gupta, Founder, Lightsphere AI)
12:10 PM - 12:40PM

Technical Track: Video analytics at scale: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Spark (Claudiu Barbura, Director Engineering, Blueprint Technologies)(Video)
Business Track: Developing and implementing an effective patenting strategy (Alan Minsk, Partner, FisherBroyles)(Video)

12:45 PM - 1:15PM Mentoring Session With Speakers 
AI in Finance
How to get into Stanford?
How do I make effective pitch to investors & customers?
Leadership Coaching for Behavior Change
System Design
1:20PM - 1:50PM Finance Track:  AI in Finance (Nitesh kumar, Senior Director, Affirm)
2:00PM - 2:50PM

Keynote Panel: AI in Finance (Video)

Steven Gustafson (CTO, Noonum)
Evan Schnidman (Founder, EAS Innovation)
Dr. Michael Recce (Chief Data Scientist, Neuberger Berman)
Shankar Vaidyanathan (CEO, Noonum) - Moderator
2:50PM - 3:00PM Break
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Technical Track: GPU Training Made Easy - Pre-train and fine-tune NLP models. (Vamsi Sistla, Director, Unify Consulting)(Video)
Business Track: Holographic data manipulation and visualization with Apache Spark and Microsoft Hololens (Gary Nakanelua, Managing Director, Blueprint Technologies)
3:40PM - 4:10PM Technical Track: Manage Full ML Model Lifecycle with Temporal (Maxim Fateev, Software Engineer, Uber
Technical Track: Accelerating Value Delivery by Augmenting Application Support with NLP (Chatbots) (Arvind Sekhar, Manager Data Science, Corteva Agriscience)
4:20PM - 4:50PM Technical Track: Unlock the potential of your data: Optimize your data store architecture for AI/ML and Analytics (Andrea Fabrizi, Product Management, hewlett-packard enterprise)(Video)
Business Track:  Why Transparent AI is the only AI that can be trusted (Teresa Escrig, Architect, Microsoft)(Video)


Day -2 (September 17th 8:00AM-5:00PM (PST) )

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Registration
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Workshop: Optimizing your Machine Learning in the Cloud and avoiding the Cloud Silo trap (Martin Lurie, Principal Solutions Engineer, Cloudera)

8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Exhibitors Product Demo :
Mandar Dange (CEO, FOCUS451, Inc)
Rahul Bhanose (CEO, bizAmica Software Pvt. Ltd)
Mark Engelen (CEO, RxLive)
Ash Naik (CEO, SalesPal)
Pavel Dmitriev (VP Data Science, Outreach)
Anurag Yadav (CEO, PrimaFelicitas & Stanford Alumni)
Ravi Amble (Founder & CEO, Suquino)
Sam Ramachandran (CSO, Chief Sales Officer)
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Healthcare Track: Reinventing Healthcare for the Digital Age (Kathleen McGrow, Executive Leader, Microsoft
Technical Track:  Hard things about Sales - and how A/B testing can help (Pavel Dmitriev, VP Data Science, Outreach)(Video)
10:10 AM - 10:40 AM General Keynote: Innovation Today with Machine Learning (Paul Misener, VP,  Amazon)
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM

Business Track:  DeepBrew – AI at Starbucks (Brian Ames, Sr.Program Manager, Starbucks)(Video)
Technical Track: Flyte: Cloud native machine learning & data processing platform (Ketan Umare, Staff Software Engineer, Lyft)

10:20AM - 10:30AM Break
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Business Track:  Opportunities for Blockchain and AI in the era of Climate Change (Eromosele Omomhenle, Senior Manager, ISV, Microsoft Corporation)
12:10 PM - 12:40 PM

Business Track:  Reinforcement Learning in Business Applications (Anand Oka, Director, Microsoft)(Video)
Retail Track: User Experience Now Includes Machine Experience (Marianne Sweeny, Principal, Daedalus Information Systems)(Video)

12:45 PM - 1:15PM

Mentoring Session With Speakers 
Career Advice: Towards training an AI that explores careers
AI in Healthcare
The State of NLP
Agile Leadership for Business Success

1:20 PM - 1:50PM Business Track: Strategies for Human-AI Interaction and Collaboration (Phillip Hunter, Founder, CCAI Services)(Video)
Business Track: Getting a AI/ML startup off the ground (Ash Naik, CEO, SalesPal)
1:55 PM - 2:50 PM

Keynote Panel : AI from Investment perspective (Video)

Austin Guyette (Investor, Voyager Capital
Kellan Carter (Partner, IGNITION
Sarah Fay (Managing Director, Glasswing Ventures) - Moderator 
   
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Business Track: Supporting AI and Big Data with third-generation blockchain technology (Douglas Horn, CEO, GoodBlock)
Technical Track:  Breaking into Data Science - Advise for Junior and New Data Science Practitioners (Kevin Sun, Data Scientist, RealSelf)
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM Business Track: Minding Our Minds: Accelerating and Empowering Learning with Big Data, Analytics, and AI (Jeff Bergin, VP Professional Learning. Western Governors University)
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM

AI Startup Pitches
Dr Parveez Ubed (CEO, ERC Eye Care)
Mandar Dange (CEO, FOCUS451, Inc)
Rahul Bhanose (CEO, bizAmica Software Pvt. Ltd)
Ravi Amble (Founder & CEO, Suquino)
Mark Engelen (CEO, RxLive)
David Davies (Founder, AgUnity)
Damian Pelliccione (CEO, Revry)
Hymanand Nellore (CEO, Naber)
Siddharth Darbha (Founder, Wagr)
Peter W Weber (Founder, Hyperion-Core Inc)

Judges:

Sudhir Kadam (Venture Partner, FYDA Growth Partners)
Ian Foley  (Venture Partner, Level Ventures)
T.A. McCann (Director, Pioneer Square Labs
Rahm Shastry (CEO, DriveU)
Radhika Malik (Investor, Samsung Catalyst Fund)
Cameron Borumand (Partner, Fuse Venture Partners)
KRS Murthy (CEO, I Cubed World) - Moderator

Day -3 (September 18th 8:30AM-5:30PM (PST))

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Registration
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Workshop: How Blockchain is disrupting the Finance Industry (Anurag Yadav, CEO, PrimaFelicitas & Stanford Alumni)(Video)
9:40 AM - 10:10 AM Healthcare Track: Lessons Learned Applying Natural Language Processing for Healthcare AI (David Talby, CTO, John Snow Labs)
Technical Track: Building End-to-End Machine Learning Workflows with Kubernetes, Kubeflow Pipelines, and BERT (Antje Barth, Developer Evangelist, Amazon Web Services)(Video)
10:20 AM - 11:00 AM General Keynote: BigTech Disruption in Healthcare (Srini Gurrapu, Vice President, Claris (Subsidiary of Apple))(Video)
11:10 AM - 11:40 AM Business Track: Beyond Data Science: Strategic Change Management Considerations (Jack Chua, EVP Marketing, Education First)
Technical Track(Retail): Fast catalog discovery through transformers (Navid Imani, AI Research Scientist, eBay)
   
11:50 AM - 12:50 PM

Keynote Panel: AI in Healthcare (Video)
Srini Gurrapu (Vice President, Claris (Subsidiary of Apple))
Maryam Gholami (Group Vice President, Providence)
Michael Calhoun (CEO, Mindshare Medical)
Rohan Dsouza (Executive Vice President, Olive)
Cyril Philip (Principal, Providence) - Moderator

12:55 PM - 1:25PM Mentoring Session With Speakers 
Raising Money for Startups
Quantum Workforce
Product Delivery: The Art and Science of DevOps
AI in Retail
1:30 PM - 2:05PM Technical Track:  Top Practical Challenges in Running Online Controlled Experiments at Scale in Industry (Somit Gupta, Data Scientist, Microsoft)
Healthcare Track: Maximizing the value of AI for patients and healthcare systems (Michael Calhoun, CEO, Mindshare Medical)
2:15 PM - 2:55 PM Technical Track: Quantum Computing with Amazon Braket (Chris Fregly, Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services)(Video)
Business Track (Healthcare/Pharma/BioTech)Where to start with AI in your health system (​Rohan Dsouza, Executive Vice President, Olive)(Video)
   
3:05 PM - 3:40 PM
 
Business Track (Healthcare/Pharma/BioTech):  Implementing AI at Life sciences Companies (Siddhartha Bhattacharya, Director, Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC))
3:50 PM - 4:20 PM Healthcare Track: Skin Cancer Detection using AI (Sreya Muppalla, Data Scientist(Intern), Microsoft & Shreyaan Pathak, Data Scientist (Intern), Microsoft )(Video)
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Keynote Panel: AI in Quantum Computing (Video)
Christopher Bishop  (Founder, Improvising Careers) - Moderator

NOTE: Agenda and speakers subject to change without notice