Sydney Williams is Vice President of Global Brand Marketing at ServiceNow, where she oversees the company's global marketing and communications across creative, content, media, and events. An award-winning marketing leader with over two decades of experience, she has shaped the brand voices of iconic organizations including General Electric, The Walt Disney Company, and JPMorgan Chase, and now steers ServiceNow's push to put AI to work for people.
Michael Gilson is the CEO of Conversica, the San Francisco-based conversational AI company behind over 1.5 billion automated customer conversations. Appointed in April 2025, he has repositioned Conversica as 'The Conversation Company,' expanding its AI agent platform from sales automation into automotive data intelligence, sports and entertainment ticketing, and enterprise customer lifecycle management. A Princeton graduate with a background spanning enterprise SaaS, media technology at Telestream, and data analytics at Wiser Solutions, Gilson brings operator instincts to a company that pioneered AI-to-human conversation at scale.
Melissa Gordon is the CEO of Rasa, the enterprise conversational AI platform powering two of the world's three largest banks and downloaded over 50 million times by developers. A two-time NCAA Division I All-American pole vaulter at Stanford and a near-decade Oracle veteran, she joined Rasa in February 2022 and has since led the company through a strategic pivot to generative AI, launching CALM (Conversational AI with Language Models) and raising a $30M Series C in February 2024 co-led by StepStone Group and PayPal Ventures.
Nichole Garcia is Co-Founder and President of OrthoFX, the doctor-delivered clear aligner startup she built with two former Invisalign executives. With a BS in Biochemistry from UCLA, an MBA from Pepperdine, and a diploma from Oxford, she spent two decades running global divisions at Philips Oral Care and Align Technology before co-founding OrthoFX in 2017. The company raised $17M total - including a $13M Series A led by SignalFire in 2020 - to commercialize a proprietary FXTetra polymer that delivers 50% faster treatment, paired with an AI-powered remote monitoring platform called FXOnTrack.
Ryan Hanley is the Founder and CEO of Equilibrium Energy, the company building PowerOS - an agentic AI platform purpose-built for the power industry. A civil engineer turned energy executive, Hanley spent nearly two decades inside the machine of grid transformation at PG&E, SolarCity, Tesla, and Shell before founding Equilibrium in 2021. With $100M+ raised and NRG Energy as a production customer, he is making a direct bet that AI can unify the fragmented data and systems that hold the power grid back.
Abacus.AI is a San Francisco-based AI research company building an end-to-end platform that lets professionals and enterprises automate work with generative AI, agents, and applied machine learning. Its consumer-facing super assistant ChatLLM bundles access to leading frontier models, while its enterprise platform powers forecasting, personalization, and custom AI workflows.
Bonsai Robotics is a San Jose-based agricultural autonomy company that builds vision-first AI systems for off-road farm equipment. Founded in 2022 by veterans of Blue River Technology and John Deere, the company's Intelligence Platform combines embedded autonomy software with retrofittable hardware kits to let existing and new farm machinery operate with minimal human input - even in GPS-denied fields, at night, and in heavy dust. With $28.5M raised and its July 2025 acquisition of farm-ng, Bonsai is expanding from specialty-crop orchards into bedded-crop row farming and modular electric robot platforms.
Brain Co. is a San Francisco-based enterprise AI company that deploys production-ready AI applications for the world's most complex, regulated industries - from government and healthcare to hospitality, energy, and supply chain. Founded by a constellation of Silicon Valley heavyweights including Elad Gil and Dan Ashton, and backed by an elite roster of investors including Patrick Collison, Reid Hoffman, and Andrej Karpathy, Brain Co. raised a $30M Series A in September 2025. Its core technology converts dense regulatory documents into executable rules engines that make AI decisions auditable and compliant - so that governments can permit faster, hospitals can care better, and supply chains can run leaner.
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.
TwelveLabs is a San Francisco-based AI company building video-native multimodal foundation models that give machines the ability to see, hear, and understand video the way humans do. Its flagship models - Marengo for embedding and retrieval and Pegasus for video-to-text generation - power enterprise applications in media, government, sports, and security, enabling precise semantic search, summarization, and insight extraction from video at scale. With 30,000+ developers on its platform and backing from NVIDIA, Databricks, Snowflake, and In-Q-Tel, TwelveLabs is becoming the standard infrastructure layer for video intelligence.
Irana Wasti is the CEO of Thought Industries, the AI-powered customer learning and engagement platform trusted by 99 of the Fortune 100. A product leader who scaled GoDaddy's EMEA business past $500M and helped take BILL to $1B in annual revenue, she now leads Thought Industries through its transformation into an agentic AI intelligence platform that connects learning, customer behavior, and business outcomes. With a CS degree from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School, she has spent 20+ years at the intersection of technology, product, and growth.
Ahmed Reza is the Founder and CEO of Yobi, an AI workforce platform that deploys synthetic agents to handle calls, texts, and social DMs for small businesses 24/7. A Milken Scholar at Cornell University who wrote image-processing software for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, Reza went from child actor in Bangladesh to homeless student to serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. His previous ventures include Call Sumo (call tracking analytics) and Dental Web Now (AI dental marketing, acquired by NPI). Yobi raised a $2.37M seed round in 2023, reached $2.4M ARR by late 2025, and in 2026 partnered with Microsoft to develop a private foundation model for predictive behavioral intelligence.
Jerry Qian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Reacher, an AI-powered creator marketing platform headquartered in San Francisco. After stints at Meta and NASA and graduating from UC Berkeley, Qian co-founded Reacher in 2024 with Bora Mutluoglu to automate influencer discovery, outreach, and campaign management for brands on TikTok Shop, Instagram, YouTube Shopping, and Amazon. The company is a Y Combinator S25 alum, holds the #1 spot on the TikTok Shop App Store, serves 1,000+ brands including Under Armour and Logitech, and has crossed seven figures in ARR.
Tristan Zajonc is the cofounder and CEO of Continual, a San Francisco-based AI agent platform enabling enterprises to automate complex workflows. A Harvard-trained public policy PhD turned serial AI entrepreneur, he previously founded Sense.io (acquired by Cloudera in 2016) and served as Cloudera's CTO for Machine Learning before pivoting back to founding. With over 15 years building machine learning infrastructure across academia and industry, Zajonc has been quietly shaping how enterprises operationalize AI - from SQL-driven ML pipelines to LLM-powered agents - long before it became fashionable.
Bindu Reddy is the CEO and co-founder of Abacus.AI, the company behind what it calls the world's first AI Super Assistant for enterprises and professionals. She previously served as Head of Product for Google Apps (where she helped shepherd Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides into existence), founded Post Intelligence (a deep-learning social media analytics company acquired by Uber in 2017), and ran AI Verticals at AWS where she launched Amazon Personalize and Amazon Forecast. Backed by Eric Schmidt, Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures, Tiger Global, and Coatue, Abacus.AI has raised over $90M and grown to 210 employees serving Fortune 500 companies across retail, finance, healthcare, and manufacturing.
Mark Lee, MD, PhD is the CEO and Co-Founder of N-Power Medicine, a Redwood City-based company reinventing how oncology clinical trials reach patients. A medical oncologist and scientist trained at Stanford and Harvard, Lee has spent his career at the frontier of personalized medicine - from developing Oncotype DX diagnostics at Genomic Health, to helping build early cancer detection at GRAIL, to leading personalized healthcare at Genentech/Roche. In 2021, he co-founded N-Power Medicine to embed research infrastructure directly into community oncology clinics, combining AI, embedded staff, and real-time registries to dramatically expand clinical trial access. After raising a $72M Series B led by Merck's Global Health Innovation Fund, N-Power acquired Syapse in late 2024 to build the largest community-based prospective clinical research network in oncology.