Allen Tsai is an Austin-based serial entrepreneur and engineer who spent roughly two decades shipping connected consumer electronics for Sony, Microsoft Xbox, Panasonic, Sonos, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments before turning his attention to water. After a month spent building water wells in a Nepali village, he founded Pani, the maker of the Pani Source - a tech-enabled water personalization system often described as the 'Keurig for water.' The device filters, remineralizes and customizes tap water with compostable pods, paired with an app that tracks quality and usage. Pani is Tsai's sixth startup.
Dr. Christopher Cuong T. Nguyen is CEO and Co-Founder of Aitomatic, a Silicon Valley-based Industrial AI company advancing what he calls 'Knowledge-First AI' - the conviction that decades of human domain expertise must be encoded alongside data, not replaced by it. A Stanford PhD and UC Berkeley summa cum laude graduate, his four-decade arc runs from building Intel's first flash memory transistors to launching Google Apps as founding Engineering Director, co-founding HKUST's Computer Engineering program, and helping connect Vietnam to the internet. Today he leads Aitomatic in deploying Small Specialist Agents for semiconductor, energy, and manufacturing industries, and sits on the Steering Committee of The AI Alliance.