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GENAI WEEK 2025

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Builders | Investors | Researchers

Meet the Visionaries Defining the Future of AI

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Jason Wei

Jason Wei

Member of Technical Staff

OpenAI

CoT & GPT O3

Arvind Jain

Arvind Jain

Founder & CEO

Glean

$7.2B Workflow Automator

Shannon McClenaghan

Shannon McClenaghan

CEO

StartX

Valuation: $40B

Rob Ferguson

Rob Ferguson

Head of AI for Startups

Microsoft

Startup Growth Expert

Deon Nicholas

Deon Nicholas

Founder

Forethought

$100M+ Funding, Customer Support AI

Steve Nouri

Steve Nouri

Founder & CEO

GenAI Works

AI Community with 12M+ Followers

Lenjoy Lin

Lenjoy Lin

Co-Founder

Genspark

Valuation 530M, All in one General Agent Companion

Ed Oates

Ed Oates

Co-Founder

Oracle

Third Largest Software Company

Jason Lopatecki

Jason Lopatecki

Founder & CEO

Arize AI

$540M Exit, Leads AI Observability

Chris O'Neill

Chris O'Neill

CEO

GrowthLoop
Nikhil Krishnan

Nikhil Krishnan

SVP & CTO

C3 AI

Market Cap: $3.5B

Shravan Narayen

Shravan Narayen

Partner

IVP

$7.25B+ Under Management

Tuhin Srivastava

Tuhin Srivastava

Co-Founder & CEO

Baseten

Valuation: $825M

Zihan Wang

Zihan Wang

Researcher & Ex-DeepSeek

Yutori

Digital Agents towards an AI Chief-of-Staff

Jeff Lu

Jeff Lu

Founder & CEO

Akool

#1 AI Video Generator

Sophie Ren

Sophie Ren

Founder & CEO

ChatSlide

Forbes 30U30 | Knowledge → Revenue via AI

Swapnil Jain

Swapnil Jain

CEO & Co-Founder

Observe.AI

Valuation: $800M

Jay Allardyce

Jay Allardyce

Co-Founder & President

GenAI.Works

AI Community with 12M Followers

Megh Gautam

Megh Gautam

CPO

Crunchbase

Startup intelligence and investment insights

Jack McCauley

Jack McCauley

Innovator of Residence, Board Trustee

UC Berkeley

Oculus VR Co-Founder

Saanya Ojha

Saanya Ojha

Partner

Bain Capital Ventures

Fund Size: $10B+

Ben Morss

Ben Morss

Developer Evangelist

DeepL

Valuation: $2B

Shaun Johnson

Shaun Johnson

Co-Founder & General Partner

AIX Ventures

Early investor of Perplexity, Hugging Face, WindSurf

Amit Jain

Amit Jain

CTO

Personify Health

Valuation: $3B

Balaji Ganesan

Balaji Ganesan

Co-Founder & CEO

Privacera

Valuation: $380M

Mandy Korphi

Mandy Korphi

Director of System Test Engineering

Verily

Funding: $2.5B

Dan Leiva

Dan Leiva

VP of Customer Service & Marketing Technology

eBay

4th-Largest E-Commerce Company

Peter Coats

Peter Coats

CFO

PayWedge

Valuation: $7.5B

Xenia Strunnikova

Xenia Strunnikova

Head of Customer Experience and Integrity Strategy and Operations

DoorDash

Largest US Food Delivery Platform

Chandrakant Patel

Chandrakant Patel

Chief Engineer

Ex-HP

Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame

Shub Agarwal

Shub Agarwal

Author of Successful AI Product Creation

5th-Largest American Bank

Mengdi Wang

Mengdi Wang

Professor

Princeton University

Donald P. Eckman Award 2019

German Lancioni

German Lancioni

Chief AI Scientist & Principal Engineer

McAfee

Leader in Anti-virus Software

Jia Li

Jia Li

Co-Founder, Chief AI Officer

Live X

IEEE Fellow

Miha Kralj

Miha Kralj

Global Senior Partner

IBM

Cloud-AI Enterprise Transformation

Nick Mehta

Nick Mehta

CEO

Gainsight

Valuation: $1.1B+

Kahini Shah

Kahini Shah

Partner

Obvious Ventures

Fund Size: $1B+

Vijay Chandrasekhar

Vijay Chandrasekhar

Co-founder & CEO

Cosmos Innovation

Funding Amount: $27.8M

Stefan Leichenauer

Stefan Leichenauer

VP of Engineering

SandboxAQ

Valuation: $5B

John Koeter

John Koeter

Senior VP IP Group

Synopsys

Semiconductor IP Leadership

Sal Brogna

Sal Brogna

CEO

Informed Surgical

Medtech Leader and ex-COO of Intuitive

Daniel Wagner

Daniel Wagner

Founder, CEO, & Chairman

Rezolve AI

Valuation: $55M

Filip Kozera

Filip Kozera

Founder & CEO

Wordware

Funding Amount: $30M

Eleanor Qin

Eleanor Qin

AC Future
Monica Bajaj

Monica Bajaj

VP of Engineering

Okta

Market Cap: $18B

Vache Moroyan

Vache Moroyan

Chief Product Officer

Observe.AI

Valuation: $800M

Xi Chen

Xi Chen

Professor

NYU Stern School of Business

Andre Meyer Faculty Fellow

Yan Zhao

Yan Zhao

Innovative and Forward-Thinking Leader

Jim Dukhovny

Jim Dukhovny

President & CEO

Alef

World's First Flying Car

Charles Xie

Charles Xie

Founder & CEO

Zilliz

Funding: $40M

Cindi Howson

Cindi Howson

Chief Data & AI Strategy Officer

ThoughtSpot

Market Cap: $1.25B

Kelvin Low

Kelvin Low

Vice President

Samsung Foundry
Ted Stinson

Ted Stinson

CEO

Covariant

Funding: $222M

Ali Khodaei

Ali Khodaei

VP of AI Product

SandboxAQ

Valuation: $5B

Diana Zhou

Diana Zhou

Head of Engineering Operations

Plaid

Valuation: $6B

David Hefter

David Hefter

Director

BlackRock

World's Largest Asset Manager

Byung-Gon Chun

Byung-Gon Chun

Co-Founder & CEO

FriendliAI

LLM Inference Accelerator

Gunveer Gujral

Gunveer Gujral

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Meta

Pioneered Scalable AI Infrastructure

Chandni Dhanjal

Chandni Dhanjal

CEO & Co-Founder

@Wisement.AI

Satya Nitta

Satya Nitta

Co-founder & CEO

Emergence

Innovated Recursive Autonomous AI

Sana Wajid

Sana Wajid

Chief Development Officer & Senior Vice President

Fetch.ai

Funding: $62M

Sal Candido

Sal Candido

Co-Founder, CTO

EvolutionaryScale

Funding: $142M

Drew Dennison

Drew Dennison

Co-Founder & CTO

Semgrep

Funding: $193M

Ashish Agrawal

Ashish Agrawal

CTO

eudia

Funding: $102M

Byron Jones

Byron Jones

Product Leader

@C3 AI

Muddu Sudhakar

Muddu Sudhakar

Co-Founder & CEO

Aisera

Funding: $165M

Anupam Datta

Anupam Datta

Principal Research Scientist

@Snowflake

Funding: $1.65B

Zhou Yu

Zhou Yu

Founder

Arklex.ai

Forbes 30 under 30, 2018

Sebastien Jean

Sebastien Jean

CTO

Phison Technologies Inc.

Market Cap: $100B+

Steven Hoffman

Steven Hoffman

CEO

Founders Space

World's leading Incubator & Accelerator

Vaibhavi Gangwar

Vaibhavi Gangwar

Co-Founder & CEO

Maxim

Revolutionizing AI Evaluation Standards

Bret Waters

Bret Waters

Instructor

Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship

Teaching Entrepreneurship at Stanford

Jenny Xiao

Jenny Xiao

Partner

Leonis Capital

Research-driven, AI-first and seed-stage VC

Manvinder Singh

Manvinder Singh

VP of AI Product Management

Redis

Funding: $110M

Junchen Jiang

Junchen Jiang

Associate Professor, Co-Founder

UChicago

LLM Inference Efficiency

Andy Singh

Andy Singh

CEO

Teqfocus Consulting LLC
Andrew Mayne

Andrew Mayne

Founder & Ex-OpenAI

Interdimensional

Shaped Early AI Prompting

Elaine Liu

Elaine Liu

Founder & CEO

Prosgrow.ai

Your AI Gateway to Trusted Services

Ang Li

Ang Li

Founder & CEO

Simular

Pioneered Continual Learning Agents

Vic Bhatia

Vic Bhatia

Technical Founder & CEO

Fixpliance.AI

Automated Compliance Engineering Leader

Gagan Reen

Gagan Reen

Advisor

GenAI.Works

AI Community with 10M Followers

Anu Shukla

Anu Shukla

Co-Founder & Executive Chairman

Botco AI

Generative AI Marketing

Dan Thomson

Dan Thomson

CEO

Sensay

Invented AI Replicas for Memory Care

Michael Dimler

Michael Dimler

SVP, Support Operations

Asurion

Providing Tech Support to 280M Customers

Matthew Phillips

Matthew Phillips

Director of AI Strategy

Asurion

Providing Tech Support to 280M Customers

Lu Zhang

Lu Zhang

Founder & Managing Partner

Fusion Fund

Fund Size: $500M+

Ryan Wang

Ryan Wang

Co-Founder & CEO

Assembled

AI-Driven Support Operations

Anant Bhardwaj

Anant Bhardwaj

CEO

Instabase

$2B AI Platform Instabase

Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah Owyang

Investor

Blitzscaling Ventures

Fund Size: $50M

Hassan Sawaf

Hassan Sawaf

Founder & CEO

aiXplain

Democratized AI $16.5B-backed Platform

Austin Welborn

Austin Welborn

Sales Engineer, Enterprise

Productboard

Funding: $262M

Manisha Raisinghani

Manisha Raisinghani

CEO

SiftHub

Revolutionized Logistics With AI

Rocky Yu

Rocky Yu

Founder & CEO

API House Ventures

Built Collaborative AI Innovation Hub

Alon Talmor

Alon Talmor

Founder & CEO

Ask-AI

Enterprise AI NLP Pioneer

Gurudutta Ramanathaiah

Gurudutta Ramanathaiah

Engineering Lead

Infinitus Systems, Inc.

AI-Driven Healthcare

Ivan Lee

Ivan Lee

Founder & CEO

Datasaur

Stanford-Educated Product Leader

Kyle Corbitt

Kyle Corbitt

Founder

OpenPipe

Democratizes Fine-Tuned AI Models

Rohit Valia

Rohit Valia

Founder & CEO

Tumeryk

Built Tumeryk's AI TrustScore System

Scott Clark

Scott Clark

Co-Founder & CEO

Distributional

Transformed Enterprise AI Reliability Testing

Stephen Delaporte

Stephen Delaporte

Founder & CEO

Avar Robotics

Powering Practical, People-Centered Robotics

Vanja Josifovski

Vanja Josifovski

CEO

Kumo AI

Democratized Predictive AI Globally

Sumeet Agrawal

Sumeet Agrawal

VP of Product Management

Informatica

Led Enterprise AI Integration

Manjula Mahajan

Manjula Mahajan

VP, Enterprise Technology, Data and AI

@Roller

Daniel Svonava

Daniel Svonava

Co-Founder and CEO

Superlinked

Redefining Vector Search Infrastructure

Vidya Narayanan

Vidya Narayanan

Co-Founder & CEO

FinalLayer

Automating Personal Branding with AI

Oussama Elachqar

Oussama Elachqar

Co-Founder

Oumi

Funding: $10M

Tedi Papajorgji

Tedi Papajorgji

VP of Engineering

Resemble AI

Led Netflix Voice Innovation

Munish Gandhi

Munish Gandhi

Founder & CEO

Statisfy

Agentic Customer Success Platform

Ray Wu

Ray Wu

Managing Partner

Alumni Ventures

Managing Partner of Alumni Ventures' AI Fund

Jeremiah Stone

Jeremiah Stone

CTO

SnapLogic

GE Software Executive Leader

Bo Li

Bo Li

CEO

Virtue AI

Funding: $30M

Ben Lerner

Ben Lerner

Co-Founder & CEO

Espresso AI

Funding: $11M

V S Joshi

V S Joshi

Global Head of Product Marketing

Digitate
Hemant Joshi

Hemant Joshi

CTO

FloTorch

AI Technology Leader

Suman Kanuganti

Suman Kanuganti

Co-Founder & CEO

Personal AI

Funding: $30M

Erol Guney

Erol Guney

Chief Software Architect

Avalara

Architecting Intelligent Automation: Lessons from the Frontlines of Enterprise AI

Barry Bolding

Barry Bolding

Head of Strategy

Articul8 AI

Funding: $40M

Hadi Hosseini

Hadi Hosseini

Associate Professor

Stanford University
Junyu Huang

Junyu Huang

COO

Novita AI

Funding: $10M

Claude Zdanow

Claude Zdanow

Chairman & CEO

ONAR
Alvin Xiao

Alvin Xiao

Founding Partner

NYX Ventures

Fund Size: $150M

Basel Salahieh

Basel Salahieh

CEO

Vimmerse
James James

James James

Student

Stanford
Allyson Klein

Allyson Klein

Principal

TechArena
Rabi Guha

Rabi Guha

CEO & Co-Founder of Thesys

Thesys
Joseph Pigato

Joseph Pigato

President

Stanford Entrepreneurs
Geraldine Woloch Addamine

Geraldine Woloch Addamine

Founder & CEO

Good4work
Yiwen Li

Yiwen Li

Head of Venture & Alternative Investments

Bayview Development Group
Xuewei Wu

Xuewei Wu

Meta
Zheng Xu

Zheng Xu

Founder & CEO

eBots

Building AI-Powered Robots

Yann Bilien

Yann Bilien

Co-founder and Chief Scientist

@Rippletide

George Totev

George Totev

Chief Information Security Officer

Trustero
Mike Flynn

Mike Flynn

Partner/Principal

@EY

Linda Sheng

Linda Sheng

GM of Global Business

MiniMax
Pankaj Thapa

Pankaj Thapa

CEO

Mirror Security
Vinay Mahadik

Vinay Mahadik

Co-founder/CEO

xdge AI
Jacqueline Li

Jacqueline Li

AI Product Lead

Sophia Zhao

Sophia Zhao

Director of data science

@Humana

Elias Alagna

Elias Alagna

Chief Technologist

@HPE

Craig Gieringer

Craig Gieringer

Senior Vice President

Massed Compute
Kai Zhao

Kai Zhao

Founder & CEO

Video Tutor
Jas Kaur

Jas Kaur

CTO

@Teqfocus

Tript Singh Lamba

Tript Singh Lamba

Founder & CEO

@ProductNow

Aditya Narayana

Aditya Narayana

Co-Founder

Mirror Security
Philip Tannor

Philip Tannor

CEO

DeepChecks

Funding: $14M

Jimmy Cai

Jimmy Cai

Founder & CEO

FlowGen
Dinanath Gupt

Dinanath Gupt

Founder & CEO, Inventor: The Presence Economy

@360 World, Inc

Leo Xu

Leo Xu

AI Security Expert

Paul Fang

Paul Fang

President

Bay Area Founders Club

Connecting Bay Area Co-Founders & Investors

Chelsey Huang

Chelsey Huang

Co-Founder

FlowGen AI
Chris Kerzich

Chris Kerzich

VP of Public Affairs & Corporate Communications

AC Technology / BioMatrix
Mathieu Maalouf

Mathieu Maalouf

owner

@Clix Therapy

Eugene Zhang

Eugene Zhang

Founding Partner

TSV Capital

$5B Funding Raised

Lisheng Wang

Lisheng Wang

General Partner

TSV Capital

$5B Funding Raised

Oana Olteanu

Oana Olteanu

Investor

@Motive Force

Ryan Starks

Ryan Starks

Head of Marketing

Rising Team

Funding: $8M

Sean Mitchell

Sean Mitchell

VP of Customer Success

Gather AI

Funding: $17M

Yina Zhang

Yina Zhang

MC

Cloris Li

Cloris Li

MC

Harish Bharadwaj

Harish Bharadwaj

VP of Product Marketing

Broadcom
Sri Viswanath

Sri Viswanath

Managing Partner & CEO

Coatue Ventures
Natalia Bielczyk

Natalia Bielczyk

Founder & CEO

Ontology of Value

Helping Professionals Navigate Their Careers

Prat Malick

Prat Malick

Principal

Xfund
Cynthia Ju

Cynthia Ju

Marketing & PR Lead

@IOST

Natalie Etched

Natalie Etched

MC

Yefei Wang

Yefei Wang

MC

Ariadne Ledesma

Ariadne Ledesma

MC

Suby Dou

Suby Dou

MC

Penny Lorber

Penny Lorber

VP of Brand Community

@Love DAO INC

Mayukh Bhaowal

Mayukh Bhaowal

AI Product Leader

@ServiceNow

Matt Kretchmer

Matt Kretchmer

@HPE

Vitaly Godron

Vitaly Godron

Founder & CEO

@Faros AI

Eric Forst

Eric Forst

Co-Founder

@Kayeh AI

Bob Brennan

Bob Brennan

Vice President of Customer Solutions Engineering

@Intel Corporation

Cynthia Zhang

Cynthia Zhang

FutureX Capital

@Founder

Vivek Haldar

Vivek Haldar

Vice President, AI Agents

@Emergence

James Tandon

James Tandon

@Quantea

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