Abhishek Choudhary is the Co-Founder and CTO of TrueFoundry, a Series A-backed AI infrastructure platform that helps enterprises deploy, manage, and govern machine learning models at scale. A former Senior Staff Engineer at Meta — where he worked on infrastructure serving over a billion users — he left to build the platform he wished had existed at Facebook: one that brings Meta-level AI automation to every enterprise. An IIT Kharagpur alumnus, he co-founded TrueFoundry in 2021 alongside batchmates Nikunj Bajaj and Anuraag Gupta, and has since grown it to serve clients like NVIDIA, Siemens Healthineers, and ResMed, raising $21.3M in total funding.
Krishna Gade is the co-founder and CEO of Fiddler AI, a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI observability and control platform that has raised over $112 million in funding. Before founding Fiddler in 2018, he built data infrastructure at scale at Microsoft/Bing, Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook - where he led the team that created the industry's first large-scale AI explainability feature, 'Why am I seeing this?' in News Feed. Fiddler AI sits at the intersection of AI transparency, model monitoring, and governance, serving Fortune 500 companies, the US Navy, and organizations that need to trust the decisions their AI systems make.
Mwalimu Karisa is an executive at Kong Inc., the San Francisco-based API connectivity company behind the Kong Gateway and Konnect platform. Originally from Kilifi County on Kenya's coast, Karisa's path ran through an exchange program in Iowa and onto the front lines of global API and AI infrastructure. Kong serves enterprises managing critical API traffic across cloud, hybrid, and on-premise environments, with over $424 million raised and a $2 billion valuation. Before entering the technology sector, Karisa was publicly recognized for community development work in his home village, raising funds for clean water access and healthcare infrastructure in coastal Kenya.
Raghuveer Kancherla is the Co-Founder of Sprinto, a fast-growing compliance automation platform that helps SaaS companies earn security certifications like SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA faster and with far less manual effort. A mechanical engineer by training from IIT Madras turned software entrepreneur, Raghuveer previously co-founded and served as CTO of RecruiterBox - a bootstrapped applicant tracking system that grew to 2,500+ customers before being acquired. At Sprinto, he and co-founder Girish Redekar have built a platform trusted by 3,000+ companies across 75 countries, raised $31.5M in funding including a $20M Series B led by Accel in 2024, and grown the team from 6 to 300+ employees. An emerging thought leader on AI governance, Raghuveer is known for his conviction that 'a growing market trumps having a better product' and his systems-first approach to both engineering and team management.
Sprinto is a compliance and trust automation platform that helps cloud-first companies achieve and maintain certifications like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR without drowning in spreadsheets. It connects to 300+ business systems, continuously monitors controls, and orchestrates audits end-to-end - turning what used to be a six-month consulting project into a continuous, mostly-automated background process.
Sean D. Murray is the CEO of Productiv, the AI Portfolio Governance platform that gives enterprise IT teams real-time visibility over every SaaS and AI application running in their organization - including the ones nobody approved. A 20-year revenue and sales leadership veteran, Murray spent years building go-to-market engines at CEB (now Gartner), Xactly Corp, SalesLoft, and Greenhouse Software before stepping into the CEO seat at Productiv in April 2024. He now leads a 160-person company backed by IVP, Accel, and Norwest - on a mission to turn shadow AI from an enterprise liability into a managed capability.
Varun Talwar is the co-founder and CTO of Tetrate, the enterprise service mesh company built on Istio and Envoy. Before Tetrate, he was the founding product manager for both gRPC and Istio at Google — two open-source projects now embedded in the plumbing of the modern internet. He helped stream Felix Baumgartner's 2012 space jump to 8% of all internet traffic, then spent a decade building the connectivity layer that would make that kind of scale routine. Today Tetrate has raised $52.5M and is redefining how AI agents talk to each other securely in production.
Domino Data Lab makes an enterprise AI and MLOps platform that helps large, regulated companies build, deploy, monitor, and govern data science and machine learning models across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Founded in 2013 by three former Bridgewater Associates technologists, Domino is used by more than 20% of the Fortune 100, including Allstate, Bristol Myers Squibb, Bayer, Lockheed Martin, and Dell.
Gabriel Bayomi Tinoco Kalejaiye is a Brazilian-born engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Openlayer, a San Francisco-based AI governance and observability platform. After earning his MS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and working as a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple - where he contributed to both Siri and the secretive Vision Pro project - he left with two colleagues to solve the problem that haunted every AI team: models that look great in testing but fail in the real world. Openlayer provides enterprises with evaluation, monitoring, and compliance tooling across the full AI lifecycle, from prototype to production. The company raised a $14.5M Series A in May 2025, grew nearly 5x in 2024, and is now a recognized vendor in Gartner's 2026 Market Guide for AI Evaluation and Observability Platforms.
Gwendolyn Carpenter is the Head of Artificial Intelligence Division at the European Investment Bank (EIB), where she defines and executes the Group's AI strategy, builds its enterprise AI platform, and leads EU AI Act compliance efforts. A veteran European policy practitioner, she has shaped digital innovation agendas across smart cities, social innovation research, and cybercrime policy - most recently turning her expertise toward the frontier challenge of governing AI inside one of the world's largest development finance institutions.
Dean Ball is a leading AI policy scholar, writer, and former White House advisor who shaped America's AI strategy from the inside. As Senior Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation, co-host of the AI Summer podcast, and author of the widely-read Hyperdimensional newsletter, he makes the case for market-driven, light-touch governance of frontier AI - arguing that private governance mechanisms, not government mandates, are the right framework for the most transformative technology of our time.