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Mark Chiappetta
Mark Chiappetta is the president and CEO of Oxipital AI, a Bedford, Massachusetts company that builds AI-driven machine vision for factory lines that pick, count, and inspect food. He is an electrical engineer who spent 30-plus years in robotics, including a run as a corporate VP at iRobot and eight years growing Soft Robotics from an early gripper startup. In 2024 he took the top job at Soft Robotics, then engineered the pivot that spun the company's 3D vision and AI software into Oxipital AI while the gripper hardware business was sold off. His pitch is that food processors will not rip out human lines for robots overnight, so Oxipital sells the eyes and brains first and the hands later.
Sandra Serkes
Sandra 'Sandy' Serkes is the co-founder, president and CEO of Valora Technologies, a Massachusetts software company that has spent more than 25 years teaching machines to read, sort and tag the mountains of documents that organizations forget they own. An MIT and Harvard Business School graduate, she built Valora's PowerHouse and BlackCat platforms into autoclassification tools used by legal, compliance, government and corporate teams to find sensitive information, retire 'dark data' and get ready for AI. She is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a frequent industry speaker, and a 2006 'Woman to Watch.'