Shruthi Rao is the co-founder of Vendia, a San Francisco multi-cloud distributed data platform that helps enterprises share and reconcile data in real time across companies, clouds, and tech stacks. Before Vendia she founded the blockchain practice at AWS, launching Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon Quantum Ledger Database, and led business development for the AWS serverless portfolio including Lambda and API Gateway. She set up what she describes as India's first crypto mining operation in 2011 and has advised the Ethereum Project, Ripple, MOBI, the Linux Foundation, and the World Economic Forum.

Tim Wagner is the co-founder and CEO of Vendia, and the inventor of AWS Lambda - the service that launched the global serverless computing movement. With a PhD from UC Berkeley and stints at AWS (as GM of Lambda, API Gateway, and Serverless App Repository) and Coinbase (as VP Engineering), Wagner brings a rare double expertise in serverless infrastructure and blockchain. At Vendia, he has combined both disciplines to build a platform that enables secure, real-time data sharing across companies, clouds, and ecosystems - positioning it as the operating layer for the AI data era.