
Gilad Shainer is Senior Vice President of Networking at NVIDIA, where he leads the strategy, marketing, and ecosystem development for the company's networking portfolio — including InfiniBand, Ethernet, DPUs, and interconnect technologies that power more than half the world's top 500 supercomputers. A Technion-trained electrical engineer who graduated Cum Laude at both B.Sc. and M.Sc. levels, Shainer spent nearly two decades at Mellanox Technologies before joining NVIDIA via the $6.9 billion acquisition in 2020. He founded the HPC-AI Advisory Council in 2008, which now spans 400+ organizations globally, co-founded the ISC Student Cluster Competition, holds two R&D 100 Awards (2015 and 2019), and has authored or co-authored dozens of papers across IEEE, ACM, and Springer venues. At a moment when AI factories are rewriting the rules of data center design, Shainer is the person making sure the wires — and the protocols running through them — are ready.
The San Francisco Compute Company (SF Compute) runs a real-time marketplace for AI compute. It buys and operates large-scale, vetted GPU clusters - primarily Nvidia H100s wired with 3.2Tb/s InfiniBand - and sells them on flexible contracts, from a single hour to multiple years, that buyers can also resell. By turning long-term GPU capacity into a liquid spot market with transparent pricing, SF Compute lets startups, researchers, and enterprises buy exactly the compute they need without the multi-year commitments that dominate the industry, while pointing toward a future of cash-settled GPU futures.
Proficium is a Union City, California optical connectivity company that designs, manufactures, and tests the cables and transceivers that move data inside hyperscale and AI data centers. Founded in 2003 by Dan Miranda, it supplies OEM-compatible optical transceivers (400G, 800G, and 1.6Tb/s), DAC/ACC/AOC copper and optical cables, fiber assemblies, and InfiniBand interconnects validated against gear from Arista, Cisco, NVIDIA, and Juniper. An early mover in AI/ML cluster networking since 2019, the company was acquired by private equity firm Mill Point Capital in 2024 to scale with surging data center demand.
Sampson Han is Vice President of AI and Data Center Marketing at NVIDIA, the Santa Clara-based technology powerhouse behind the GPU revolution driving modern artificial intelligence. Operating at the intersection of cutting-edge silicon and the enterprise market, Han oversees marketing strategy for NVIDIA's data center and AI product portfolio - the very infrastructure powering the global AI buildout. He works within one of the most influential technology companies in history, helping define how hyperscalers, enterprises, and sovereign AI initiatives understand and adopt NVIDIA's data center solutions.