Event Speakers
VARUN NAKRA
Vice President, Deutsche Bank
SURAJ RAJDEV
Head of Data, Measurement, & Analytics - Home & Consumer Services, Google
SUNAYNA TUTEJA
Chief Innovation Officer for the Federal Reserve System
SHANTHI GUDAVALLI
Senior Executive Director, JP Morgan Chase
SEYHUN HEPDOGAN
Director of Analytics Fifth Third Bank
SANJAY PATEL
Principal Technical Manager, IBM
SALAH GOSS
Senior Vice President, Mastercard
NOELLE RUSSELL
Chief AI Officer, AI Leadership Institute
NICHOLAS SCHMIDT
Chief Technology and Innovation Officer of SolasAI
NATE SAVONA
Partner, Oliver Wyman
MIGUEL DIAZ
Head of the Toronto Innovation Hub Centre, Bank of International Settlements
MEGHNA SINHA
Vice President AI Center, Verizon
MARGARET RILEY
Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve Financial Services
KYLE HAUPTMAN
NCUA Vice Chairman
KRISTI DULA
Deputy Director, Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity, State of Illinois
KIRK FREUND CHARTIER
Chief Strategy Officer, Enova International
KEVIN TUPPER
Principal Solution Architect AI Evangelist, Microsoft
KEITH SONDERLING
Commissioner, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
KATHLEEN WRYNN
Executive Director, Global Technology Strategy, J.P. Morgan
KATHERINE KIRKPATRICK
Chief Legal Officer, Cboe Digital
JIMMY YANG
Chief Risk Analytics and Infrastructure Officer, CIBC
JESSICA YEATS
Principal Data Scientist, NVIDIA
JACOB HAMPLE
Head of U.S. Government Affairs, Filecoin Foundation
GABRIELLA KUSZ
COO, TCS
ETHAN BUENO DE MESQUITA
Dean and Sydney Stein Professor, University of Chicago
Donald High
Chief Data Scientist, Internal Revenue Service
DIYA WYNN
Responsible AI Lead, AWS
DINIS GUARDA
Founder and CEO ztudium ASAD HUSSAIN Senior Director, EY-Parthenon AARY YU Head of Strategy, Global Blockchain Business Council
DENISE TURLEY
Vice President of Corporate Systems at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
DAMU WINSTON
Global Head, Web3 Innovation, Amazon
CHRIS TYRRELL
Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, Corporate Counsel, Ondo Finance
CHIRAG DHULL
Head of Product and Technical Marketing, Chainlink Labs
CHAD THOMPSON
Chief People Officer, LanzaTech
CATHY R COBEY
Global Responsible AI Co-Lead, Ernst & Young LLP
BETSY ZIEGLER
CEO, 1871
ASAD HUSSAIN
Senior Director, EY-Parthenon
Arry Yu
Head of Strategy, Global Blockchain Business Council
ARJUN RAVI KANNAN
Director, Data Science Research at Discover Financial Services
ANDREW CZUPEK
Senior Vice President | Digital Assets and Financial Markets, North America, Northern Trust
AMY GUTERMAN
Senior Director of Innovation, Philanthropy Salesforce Accelerator
ALDERMAN GILBERT VILLEGAS
Chairman of the Committee on Economic, Capital, and Technology Development, City of Chicago
AGUS SUDJIANTO
Former EVP, Wells Fargo
Event Agenda
Registration & Networking Breakfast
● Check-in & Badge Collection ● Breakfast & Networking with Investors, Founders, and AI Leaders
Opening Remark
AI 2030: Trustworthy, Safe and Sustainable AI for All
XIAOCHEN ZHANG
Executive Director, AI 2030
Keynote Fireside Chat (30 min)
The Future of AI Investing: Navigating the Next Trillion-Dollar Opportunity
Steve Goldberg, Partner, DYDX Capital
AI Unicorn Showcase (45 min)
Scaling AI Responsibly: Insights from Unicorn Founders & Leading Investors
Wendy (Koh) Gonzalez, CEO, Sama
Networking Break & Investor Connections
Ryan Chou
Session 3: Staying Competitive in the AI Era (45 min)
Adapting to AI Disruption: Winning Strategies for Companies & Investors
Garnet S. Heraman
Session 4: AI Startup Pitch Session (30 min)
Early-Stage AI Innovations · Moderator: Keith Koo, VP, US Capital
Lawrence Lo
Roger Luo
David Mandel
Suraj Kumar
VIP Lunch & Investor Roundtables
● Roundtable discussions on AI for FinTech, Climate, Deep Tech & Web3
Cathryn Chen
Session 5: The AI-Enabled Industrial Revolution (45 min)
Automation & AI at Work: Building and Investing in the Next Industrial Revolution
Paulina Szyzdek
Dong-Su Kim
Shashank Dixit
Session 6: The AI-Enabled Future of Finance (45 min)
FinTech & AI: Investing in the Intelligent Financial Ecosystem
Carey Ransom
Logan Allin
Session 7: The Future of Decentralized Intelligence (45 min)
AI + Web3 – The Next Frontier for Investors
Barbara Bickham
Networking Break & Investor Introductions
Ray Wu
Session 8: AI Startup Pitch Session (30 min)
The Next Generation of AI Innovators
Lawrence Lo
Roger Luo
David Mandel
Suraj Kumar
Session 9: Closing Keynote (45 min)
The Future of AI Investments & Responsible Innovation
Cathryn Chen
AI 2030 Closing Remarks (15 min)
Final Thoughts & The Road Ahead AI 2030 Leadership Team
Andy Tang
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