Alexander Ratner is the co-founder and CEO of Snorkel AI, the company he spun out of Stanford's AI lab in 2019 after building the Snorkel open-source project during his PhD. A Harvard physics graduate turned Stanford computer scientist, Ratner pioneered the field of data-centric AI and weak supervision - the idea that better data, not just better models, is the key unlock for enterprise AI. Under his leadership, Snorkel AI reached a $1.3 billion valuation in 2025 following a $100 million Series D, with $148M in annual revenue and customers including some of the world's largest enterprises and LLM developers.
Ana Visneski is a crisis communications expert, founder of Merewif LLC, former Coast Guard officer, and senior AWS leader who pioneered social media programs in the U.S. military, led disaster response during COVID-19 and major hurricanes, advised Wizards of the Coast through the 2023 OGL crisis, and now runs a boutique firm helping tech and gaming companies navigate chaos. She holds two simultaneous UW master's degrees, published a book called 'F*ck It, Watch This,' teaches crisis communications at the University of Washington, and describes herself as someone who says 'That looks impossible, I want to try it.'