Kees Hertogh is Vice President of Public Sector & Healthcare Marketing at Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington. A Netherlands-born executive who joined Microsoft via the 2002 Navision acquisition, he has spent over two decades at the company rising from product management on Microsoft Dynamics AX through to VP-level leadership over the global marketing strategy for Microsoft's healthcare, life sciences, education, and government verticals. He is the primary public face of Microsoft Dragon Copilot - the AI clinical workflow assistant reaching 100,000+ clinicians - and a prolific industry blogger and conference speaker on responsible AI in healthcare.
Mala Anand is Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer at Microsoft, leading the Customer Experience & Success division. A 25-year technology veteran who immigrated from Mumbai at 17 on a Rotary Youth Exchange Scholarship, she has shaped enterprise software at Cisco, SAP, and Microsoft, driving AI-powered transformations that measurably improve how customers get support. She is also executive sponsor of Women at Microsoft and an independent board director at Agilent Technologies.
Krishna Gade is the co-founder and CEO of Fiddler AI, a Palo Alto-based enterprise AI observability and control platform that has raised over $112 million in funding. Before founding Fiddler in 2018, he built data infrastructure at scale at Microsoft/Bing, Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook - where he led the team that created the industry's first large-scale AI explainability feature, 'Why am I seeing this?' in News Feed. Fiddler AI sits at the intersection of AI transparency, model monitoring, and governance, serving Fortune 500 companies, the US Navy, and organizations that need to trust the decisions their AI systems make.
Sri Satish Ambati is the CEO and Co-founder of H2O.ai, the company behind the world's most widely used open-source machine learning platform. Since founding H2O.ai in 2012 with a mission to 'democratize AI for anyone, anywhere,' he has built it into a $1.7B enterprise AI platform serving over 20,000 organizations including more than half the Fortune 500. A serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded Platfora (acquired by Workday), Sri bridges academic neuroscience research - via sabbaticals at Stanford and UC Berkeley - with industrial-scale AI deployment. Under his leadership H2O.ai has advanced from AutoML pioneer to generative AI powerhouse, with h2oGPTe ranked #1 on the GAIA leaderboard and the company recognized as a Visionary in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Cloud AI Developer Services.
Radha Ramaswami Basu is the founder and CEO of iMerit Technology, a leading AI data annotation and services company that employs over 7,400 people worldwide - 52% of whom are women, and 80% from underserved communities. With 40+ years in tech spanning Hewlett-Packard (where she built the India software center into a $1.2B operation), Support.com (which she took public on NASDAQ), and now iMerit, she sits at the intersection of AI infrastructure and social impact. She co-founded the Anudip Foundation in 2005, which trained 120,000+ youth from low-income households - and it was those same graduates who became iMerit's first annotators. Today iMerit powers AI pipelines for autonomous vehicles, healthcare imaging, and generative AI at scale.
Will Lansing is the CEO of FICO, the analytics software company that invented the credit score - a number that quietly governs whether Americans can buy homes, cars, or start businesses. Since taking the helm in January 2012, he has transformed FICO from a $620M revenue business into a nearly $2B enterprise, steering it through the AI revolution while insisting that credit decisions must remain explainable and transparent. A lawyer by training, a McKinsey veteran by discipline, and an endurance athlete by temperament, Lansing has spent 30+ years running companies across internet media, direct marketing, and private equity before landing at the company whose three-digit score most Americans know by heart.
Grace Chang is the Taiwanese-American founder and CEO of Kintsugi, the Berkeley-based startup that built AI capable of detecting clinical depression and anxiety from just 20 seconds of free-form speech. A five-time entrepreneur with roots in signal processing and consumer tech, she raised $28 million, launched Japan's default mental health screener, and built the world's largest annotated voice dataset for mental health machine learning - before making all of Kintsugi's research and technology open source in early 2026 after FDA regulatory hurdles made the venture-backed model unsustainable.
Doug Aley is the CEO of Paravision, a San Francisco-based AI company building the world's most accurate facial recognition and identity AI technology. A Stanford and Harvard Business School alumnus, Aley co-founded his first company at 19, scaled Zulily from $100M to $700M in sales pre-IPO, and eventually landed at Paravision where he has guided the company to back-to-back #1 global rankings on NIST's Face Recognition Vendor Tests. Under his leadership, Paravision has raised $47M in funding, established itself as the only US company in the top 10 globally for facial recognition accuracy, and built a portfolio of AI tools spanning liveness detection, deepfake detection, and biometric authentication used in government, travel, border security, and enterprise applications worldwide.
COO of Stratyfy, adjunct faculty at Northeastern University, and one of the most credible voices in the fight against algorithmic discrimination in financial services. Born in Istanbul, educated in engineering and business, Deniz has spent decades bridging the gap between AI technology and human consequences — building interpretable, bias-mitigating AI systems used by 20+ lenders through the Underwriting for Racial Justice programme. She is a serial board member, community convener, and published author who believes fairness and performance are not opposites but the same equation solved correctly.