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Kelvin Lwin
Kelvin Lwin is an AI architect and educator who came to the United States from Burma at twelve and turned a monk's charge to fix education into a life's work. After nearly a decade at UC Berkeley and seven years building the computer science curriculum at UC Merced, he designed courses at NVIDIA's Deep Learning Institute that reached more than 100,000 developers worldwide. He now serves as a Field CTO and AI leader at Centific, the enterprise AI and data-foundry company that closed a $60M Series A, where he focuses on responsible, human-in-the-loop AI and the idea that teaching machines when not to act matters as much as teaching them how.
Cecily Mak
Cecily Mak is a co-founding general partner of Wisdom Ventures, a San Francisco-based fund backing technology and companies that support mindfulness, human connection, and well-being. A former lawyer and Silicon Valley operator (Rhapsody, Flipboard, ConsenSys, Blockdaemon), she is also the founder of the ClearLife community and author of Undimmed: The Eight Awarenesses for Freedom from Unwanted Habits (Flatiron Books, January 2026).
Vishal Sikka
Vishal Sikka is the founder and CEO of Vianai Systems, an enterprise AI company he started in 2019. A Stanford-trained computer scientist, he previously created SAP HANA as SAP's first-ever CTO and led Infosys as its first non-founder CEO. He sits on the boards of Oracle and BMW Group, advises Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute, and has championed the idea that AI should amplify - not replace - human creativity.
Laura Nolan
Laura Nolan is a Principal Engineer at Stanza Systems, a veteran Site Reliability Engineer, and one of tech's most credible voices on autonomous weapons ethics. After five years at Google - where she contributed to the seminal O'Reilly SRE book and resigned over Project Maven - and seven years at Slack as Senior Staff Engineer, she brings deep technical authority to both the reliability engineering world and the global debate over killer robots. Based in rural Ireland, she speaks at SREcon, QCon, and TED stages alike, writes the Responsible Computing newsletter on Substack, and holds seats on the USENIX Board and the SREcon Steering Committee.