AI Tech Leaders' Club September
Over 50 senior AI Tech Leaders (CTOs/VPs/Directors/Staff Engineers) will gather in Mountain View, CA, to network, discuss common challenges, and brainstorm solutions in small groups. The event will feature a panel with prominent guest speakers and two collaborative brainstorming sessions.
Food and drinks will be served throughout the entire event.
In order to be approved, you must have a current or recent title such as CTO/CPO/VP/Head/Fellow/Director of AI/Engineering/Product, Staff/Distinguished Engineer, or similar.
Guest Speakers:
Manohar Paluri, Meta, VP AI; creator of Llama
Manohar's experience spans Computer Vision, Robotics, and Machine Learning. His team is building foundational models for text, images, video, music, speech, audio, and multi-modal both to understand and generate for the benefit of various products at Facebook as well as the research community at large. His team built Llama model family for text which is currently among the best open-source LLMs and Emu models which are image generation models that power multiple media products at Meta.
Svetlana Sicular, Gartner, VP AI; former VP at VISA
Svetlana is a thought leader at the intersection of data and AI. She is on a mission to help organizations - from governments and multinational corporations to startups - achieve digital transformation by using AI. Her current research interests focus on the ongoing shifts in AI and ML; responsible AI and AI governance; and data-centric AI. Svetlana has been covering generative AI since the inception of this term and has been authoring the Generative AI hype cycle profile since. She developed important, now commonly recognized ideas: multidisciplinary data science teams, the role of Chief Data Officer, data & analytics governance in the age of AI and personal analytics.
Bob Friday, Juniper Networks, Chief AI Officer; former CTO at Cisco
In 2005 Bob sold his startup to Cisco Systems for $450 mln and became a CTO/VP at Cisco, where he served till 2014 when he left the company to co-found Mist. Mist was acquired by Juniper in 2019 for $405 mln and Bob became their Chief AI Officer and CTO Enterprise. He leads Juniper's AI-driven enterprise business unit that develops self-learning wireless networks using artificial intelligence and Juniper's cloud-native AIOps platform.
Moderator:
Vlad Pavlov, PMG, Senior Director - AI and Software Engineering
Vlad leads several distributed teams that develop PMG Alli, an AI-powered suite of cloud tools for digital marketers. Last year, Alli enabled ad delivery to over 1 billion consumers in 80+ countries for some of the world’s most iconic brands, including Apple, Nike, and McDonald’s. Before joining PMG, Vlad spent over 20+ years in software companies from startups to Microsoft & Intel, where he led major projects in Martech, Healthcare, and Telecom.
Agenda
5:30 - 6:00 PM
Check-in and Networking6:00 - 6:15 PM
Welcome Remarks6:15 - 7:00 PM
Small Group Discussions: Identifying Common Challenges7:00 - 7:45 PM
Fireside Chat with Guest Speakers: The Future of the Tech Industry in an AI-first, Post-software World7:45 - 8:30 PM
Small Group Brainstorming: Tackling Individual Challenges8:30 - 9:15 PM
Networking
Previous Event
This is our second event of its kind. The inaugural event in June attracted over 50 VPs and Directors from major companies such as Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Visa, along with CxOs and VPs from emerging tech companies.
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Partners and Sponsors
PMG is the creator of Alli, an AI-powered suite of cloud-based tools for digital marketers. Last year, PMG Alli enabled ad delivery to over 1 billion consumers in 85+ countries for some of the world’s most iconic brands, including Apple, Nike, and McDonald’s. Established in Texas in 2010, PMG was profitable from day one and has grown with no outside investment to 1000+ employees globally. The company is defined by its people-centered culture and is the #1 company in Fortune's Best Workplaces in Texas and Best Workplaces in Advertising & Marketing rankings.
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