Bridget Williams is Chief of Staff to the CEO at Squint, a San Francisco-based AI and augmented reality platform transforming how manufacturers digitize operational knowledge. Before joining Squint, she served in the Biden White House as Deputy Director of Presidential Scheduling, and held roles in political organizing and government scheduling. A University of Delaware graduate, she bridges the worlds of government operations and tech startups, bringing the precision of presidential logistics to one of industrial AI's fastest-growing companies.
Jared O'Leary is the Co-Founder and CEO of SirenOpt, a deep-tech startup commercializing PlasmaSens - a manufacturing intelligence platform that uses cold atmospheric plasma and AI to perform real-time, non-destructive materials characterization. A Stanford Chemical Engineering graduate with a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, O'Leary spun SirenOpt out of his doctoral research with advisor Professor Ali Mesbah in 2022. The platform can generate 213,000 data points per measurement in milliseconds without destroying the sample, targeting battery manufacturing, aerospace, semiconductors, and other advanced manufacturing sectors. SirenOpt has raised $16.1M total, including a $6.5M strategic round led by Hitachi Ventures and JLR's InMotion Ventures in 2025, plus a $2.4M California Energy Commission BRIDGE grant for battery electrode applications.