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Venkat Rangapuram and the Art of Making AI Leave the Laboratory
He turned a corporate carve-out into Centific, raised $60 million to take its AI data foundry worldwide, then handed over the chief executive's chair. His enduring argument is refreshingly earthbound: intelligent systems become useful only when data, context, and human judgment survive contact with reality.
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.