2026 Speakers - North America

Marissa Schmidt

Senior Director | Analyst

Gartner

Cydni Tetro

CIO

Coca-Cola

Amol Dharmadhikari

Vice President of Operational Excellence

Expedia Group

Erin Boyd

Chief Digital Commercial Transformation Officer

AES Corporation

Sandeep Dey

VP AI

T-Mobile

Robert Krutsch

Chief Technology Officer SW

NXP

Ebenezer Dadson

Chief AI Architect & Technical Fellow

Northrop Grumman

Will Hankla CSCP

Vice President of Transformation

The Hershey Company

Shilpa Daule

Director of Product Analytics

First Citizens Bank

Coco Wang

VP of Business Development

Unitree

Pierre-Alexandre Balland

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

Nishtha Jain

AI-Enabled External Innovation Platform Leader, R&D

CSL

Sunil Murthy

AI Field CTO

IBM

Chris Bruman

CDAO

DOW

Alice Hilson

Senior Director, Digital Innovation and Enterprise Technology

DuPont

Lutz Beck

Chief Information Officer

Daimler Truck North America

Ashish Garg

Principal Product Manager

Walmart

Sriram Sitaraman

CIO

Synopsys

Rucha Apte

Generative AI Architect

NVIDIA

Saurav Nanda

Senior Solutions Architect | Robotics | Physical AI

NVIDIA

Simon Ninan

SVP

Hitachi

Yogesh Garde

Vice President, Digital Strategy & Transformation

PepsiCo

Becky Soltanian PhD

Principal AI Engineer

Forterra

Dr. Massimiliano Moruzzi

Co-Founder

Xaba.ai

Shally Garg

Senior Technical Program Manager

NVIDIA

Raymond Mitten

Vice President, Advanced Digital Technologies

Imperative Chemical Partners

David Park   

CEO, Cofounder

Narada AI

Brenton House

Principal Advisor, Automation and Emerging Technology

IBM

Chuck Siu

VP, Product - Enterprise Journey & AI Transformation

Gap Inc.

Anjali Arora Mehra

Director, AI Strategy & Transformation

eBay

Payam Shokrzadeh

Technical Program Manager

Ford Motor Company

Grace Ableidinger

AI Developer Advocate

Red Hat

Allan Mendes

Principal AI Engineer

Mastercard

Kevin Shin

CISO

Samsung

José Álvarez

Director of Research

NVIDIA

Ryan Mosley

Medi-Cal Enterprise Systems Modernization (MESMD) Division Chief

California Department of Health Care Services

Sawyer Bowerman

AI Developer Advocate

Red Hat

Jesse Fewell

Program Director, Digital Transformation

BAE Systems

Helenio Gilabert

VP, Industrial Automation Services

Schneider Electric

Mike D’Arezzo

Executive Director of Information Security and GRC

Wellstar Health Systems

Carina Ruiz

Silicon Valley, Managing Partner

Deloitte

Anuradha Bhamidipaty

IBM Distinguished Engineer, Master Inventor, AI Research

IBM

Ajay Gupta

Chief Digital Transformation Officer

California DMV | State of California

Jamil Badrudeen

Vice President - Artificial Intelligence and Financial Engineering

State Street

Kushal Dagli

Global Data Center Deployment Optimization Lead

Microsoft

Vinesh Sukumar

Vice President - AI

Qualcomm

Trilok Agrawal

Director of Product Management

Qualcomm

Robbie Beyer

Director - Data Science and AI

RSM US LLP

Abraham Bagherjeiran

Sr. Director, Applied AI Research

eBay

Hiranya Maru

Senior InfoSec Director

Marriot

Manny Khan

Director of Cybersecurity

BitGo

Reena Brilliot

Director of Economic Development & Sustainability

City of Santa Clara

Jay Spreitzer

Executive Director, Cyber Threat Management Security and Protection for Evolving Cyber Threat Risk

Wells Fargo

Jim Blevins

Chief Information Officer

Richwood Bank

Bala Muthiah

Director of Engineering

Lyft

Abby Pledger

Senior Director | Global Business Transformation

Mondelez International

Nicholas DeMeo

CIO

Vista Clinical Laboratory

Michael Calderin

Chief Information Security Officer

Barnes Aerospace

Jacob Combs

VP of Cybersecurity & Chief Information Security Officer

Tandem Diabetes Care

Sidney Rabsatt

Chief Product Officer

MindsDB

GS Jha

Global CIO and CISO

QuantumScape

Devendra Sharma

Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Exadel

Ryan Hicks

Director of Continuous Improvement

Intermountain Health

Claire Inan, P.E.

Water Program Manager - Data Center Development

Meta

Jay Paidipati

Vice President of Energy and Sustainability Program Management

Uptime Institute

Yuval Bachar

Founder & CEO

EdgeCloudLink

Jeslin Leston

Program Manager, Data Center Delivery

Microsoft

Andy Dickey

Head of Americas & Asia-Pacific - HP Construction Services

HP

Ganesh Mani

Senior Director of Engineering

GEICO

Jeff Wood

Vice President North America

Uptime Institute

Ganesh Raghavan

CISO

Provident Credit Union

Vijay Sanikal

Product Owner – Vehicle Simulation Integration

General Motors

Gabriel Hubert

CEO and Co-Founder

Dust

Ashay Satav

Director of Product Management

eBay

Iman Saleh

Responsible AI Fellow

Martin Renkis

Executive Director Data Center Infrastructure Services

Johnson Controls

Sureshkumar Karuppuchamy

Engineering Lead

eBay

Agatha Isabel

AI Governance & Compliance Lead

TikTok Product, PDPO

Sri Kodali

Global Head Developer Relations, Energy & Utility

NVIDIA

Dhruvil Darji

Senior System Software Engineer - Autonomous Driving

NVIDIA

Sandra Baer

CEO

Personal Cities

Moustafa El Bahaey

Chief Systems Engineer

EVRaid

Ed Clark

CIO

California State University

Erim Sezer

Director for Data Enablement & Digitalization

Bayer

Dave Stehlin

Chief Executive Officer

Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)

Bhupinder Singh Narang

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

LinkedIn

Esra Vural

Principal AI Engineer

Abbott

Sunzay Passari

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

UPS

Manmeet Dhillon

Enterprise AI Strategy Lead

HPE

Aaron Rzepka

Senior Director, IT Service Delivery

National Football League (NFL)

Reena Solomon

Head of AI Partnerships - North America

Airbus

Shamindra Peiris

Senior AI Product Manager

Visa

Tarun Sood

Chief Data and AI Officer

American Century Investments

Saima Shafiq

SVP, Head of AI Enablement

US Bank

Gunther Lenz

VP & GM, Productivity Solutions Division

Agilent

Nitin Kumar

Director of Data Science and GenAI

Marriott International

Kristi Kunworee Baishya

AVP – Data and AI Product Management

Nomura Holding America

Roger Strukhoff

Editor-in-Chief

International Data Center Authority (IDCA)

Troy Rydman

CISO

Packsize

Samir Rajadnya

Principal Architect

Microsoft

Edward Achtner

Vice President: Head of Applied Artificial Intelligence

BMO

Sanjoy Sarkar

Senior Vice President | Senior Director of Workflow Automation & Robotics

First Citizens Bank

Rhett Power

Contributor

Forbes Columnist

Prakul Sharma

AI & Insights Practice Leader

Deloitte

Brad Barton

SVP Construction Procurement

Applied Digital

Danny Fortson

West Coast Correspondent

The Sunday Times

Melissa Farney

Editor at Large

Data Center Frontier

Marzieh Abolhelm

VP, Model Risk Manager and AI Governance

MUFG Bank

Christopher (CJ) Johnson

Principal and Founder

Avanza Energy

Dominik Fry, P.E.

Director of Product, PIPE-FLO

PIPE.FLO from Revalize

Peter Hoegler

Associate Director Data Center Solutions

EDF power solutions

Mayor Lisa Gillmor

Mayor

City of Santa Clara

Mir Islam

Head of AIOps and SRE Platform

PayPal

Mohit Goenka

Director of Engineering

Yahoo

Mark Scher

President and Founder

Applied High Voltage

Erica Garaffo

Large Load Energy Customer Development Lead

City of San Jose

Sri Soundararajan

Senior Manager - AI Software

Samsung Semiconductor

EJ Odo

Principal Product Manager

Microsoft

Lori Mitchell

Director

San José Clean Energy

Ambroise Lalloz

Director of Strategic Development

FirstBlock

Vincent Racine

DC & DCI Sales Engineer

EXFO

Alan Howard

Vice President, Data Center Solutions

National Power

Kevin Clark

VP, Head of Industrial Strategy

Siemens

Subhankar Dhar

Professor of Information Systems & TechnologySan Jose State University

San Jose State University

Olivier Crene

President, Digital Workplace, Cloud, and Infrastructure

Milestone Technologies

Bryan Dusza

Sales Director

Rypos

Dr. Joseph G. Allen, DSc, MPH, CIH

Professor and Director of the Healthy Buildings Program

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Ninad Kulkarni

Head of Digital Products- Supply Chain

PepsiCo

Eric Turon

Chief Experience Officer

Spartan Critical Systems

Shivani Cott, PhD

Senior Scientist

9 Foundations

Anne-Catherine Briand-Fortin

Delegate of Québec in Los Angeles

Québec Government Office in Los Angeles

Guillaume Lavallée

Senior Director, Innovation & Partnerships

Ecosystem

Andrew Klinman

Principal, Sales Engineer

Channel Performance

Michael Lisonbee

Director of Enterprise Sales: Data Center / Colocation

Ziply Fiber

R. Tee Gibson

Sales Support Engineer

Distech Controls

Dean Richards

Co-CEO

Global Piller Group

Ava Chawla

Field CTO; Data and AI

EDB

Edward Jingdong QU

CEO & Co-Founder

Vigiles Robotics Inc

David Warrick

EVP Enterprise

Overhaul

Rakshith Halevoor Prabhachand

Lead Product Manager

PayPal

Anthony Puleo

Director, Data Science & AI

AstraZeneca

Dan Isaacs

CTO

Digital Twin Consortium

Vivek Jain

Head, Wireless Sensor and Embedded Systems

Bosch Research

Olof Liberg

Head of Advanced Development & Research

Ericsson Silicon Valley

Ed Doran

VP of Strategy

Edge AI Foundation

Brady Poucher

Real Time Embedded Systems & DevSecOps Software Engineer

Boeing

Bill O’Such

Bill O’Such, Strategy Partner, San Francisco

Momenta Ventures

Doug Harp

Managing Partner, San Francisco

Momenta Ventures

David Palmer

Chief Product Officer

Pairpoint by Vodafone

Will Foss

Senior Director

Boston Dynamics

Pieter van Schalkwyk

CEO

XMPro

Sungho Kim

CEO

Hyundai Global Software Centre

Mark Vena

CEO and Principal Analyst

SmartTech Research

Gordon Johnson

Senior CFD Engineering (BSEE, CDCDP, DCEP)

Subzero Engineering

Saad Malik

CTO & Co-Founder

Spectro Cloud

Abraham Jun Zou

Former Vice President & Sr. Principal Engineer

Mastercard

Ravi Kiran Arikapudi

Head of Generative AI

Kimberly Clark

Himanshu Kaul

CTO

Elisium City

Apurva Meher

Head of Software Engineering, Intelligent Vehicles & MES

Ford Motor Company

Matt Hatton

Founding Partner

Transforma Insights