People in AI

Stated that tens of millions of consumers are using Alexa+ with engagement growing on every dimension, with people having two to three times more conversations than before.

Discussed deploying Claude to all 2,000 employees and relying on MCP access instead of health scores for measuring customer outcomes.

Daniel Vogel

Executive

Chief Operating Officer at Epic Games

Provided testimony on Claude Sonnet 5.5 performance in system design audit and code handling for gameplay architecture.

CEO of News/Media Alliance trade group representing 2,200+ US publishers, criticizing Google's market power and refusal to follow industry norms.

Dannie Herzberg

Executive

President at Baseten

Dannie Herzberg announced Baseten's partnership with OpenAI to serve open models via Codex and the Responses API.

Stated EY's commitment to building a 'tech-led, human-powered world' through $100M in bonuses for workers with human skills.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Expert who commented that OpenAI's proposed safety monitoring requirements could create regulatory advantages for large companies over competitors.

Daryn Dodson

Executive

Director at Ben & Jerry's

Long-standing director whose term will expire on 31 December under new term limit policy

Western Digital executive presenting data on hard drive demand projections and cost comparisons with SSDs

Dave Lewis

Executive

Global Advisory CISO at 1Password

Author of "The Open Secret Of AI And Sensitive Data Exposure" in 1Password

Dave Maltz

Executive

Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Azure Networking at Microsoft

Microsoft networking expert praising Cisco's P200 chip and its applicability to Azure infrastructure.

Built GO Public tool using Astra for Law to help companies prepare for IPOs.

Former Microsoft engineering executive who emailed staff about availability issues post-outage.

Lumen CTO discussing the company's exploration of Cisco 8223 technology for enhancing network performance.

Author of "Context Management and MCP" in Sentry

Discussed 1Password crossing $500M ARR milestone and the company's new platform for deploying personal AI agents, with autonomous AI agent usage up 500% year-over-year.

Stated the funding will help commercialize Quicktome and develop next generation clinical applications for brain-mapping technology.

Reported that Sandisk's data-center revenue jumped 61% sequentially driven by AI infrastructure demand; announced 8-for-1 stock split.

Heacock took over his family's struggling filter manufacturing business in Alabama and grew it into a $260 million company using AI to handle scheduling, forecasting, and error rates.

Stated that Europe should not be counted out in humanoid robotics competition despite US and China leadership.

Defended the company against allegations that its lidar technology poses national security risks and rejected concerns about Chinese government access to data.

Reported that state-backed groups are using AI to improve social engineering attacks and secure interviews with Fortune 500 companies.

Interviewed about Aurora's plan to deploy 30,000 autonomous trucks on the road by end of 2030.

David Mytton

Executive

Founder and CEO at Arcjet

Founder of developer security provider Arcjet warned that vibe-coded applications in production will lead to catastrophic problems without proper review.

CIO analyzing the AI market bubble and Nvidia's stock performance relative to earnings growth.

Co-authored paper on reasoning failures in large language models and epistemic state representation for AI systems.

CEO of Yelp who revealed the company built internal AI tools for real-time coaching of sales reps and managers during calls.

Announced $15 million in combined funding from Simons Foundation, Anthropic, and OpenAI to help mathematicians navigate AI adoption.

Salesforce executive discussing how AI model routers will expand beyond cost control to include trust, compliance, and governance.

David Wurtz

Executive

VP of Product at Shopify

VP of Product at Shopify discussing how Gemini's native audio capabilities empower merchants through their Sidekick AI agent.

Commented on Phase 3 findings for intismeran in combination with KEYTRUDA as adjuvant therapy.

Author of "How AI powered automated counting is brewing a better experience at Starbucks" in Starbucks Coffee

CEO stated agentic AI enables shift from manually approving missions to continuously assessing conditions in real time for autonomous operations.

Author of "Sora 2 Might Be the Craziest AI Tool We've Ever Seen" in OpenAI

Former head of Watson Health who promoted the AI system's clinical capabilities despite internal evidence of significant performance limitations.

Analyst quoted assessing that data-sharing requirements pose competitive risk to Google but will take time to impact

Senior Partner at McKinsey responsible for QuantumBlack solutions, noting clients are building knowledge agents similar to Lilli based on McKinsey's template.

DeepMind CEO stated the company hopes to use Gemini for Science to solve all disease through reimagining drug discovery.

Denis Yarats

Executive

Cofounder & CTO at Perplexity

Perplexity co-founder who responded to security researcher's claims, clarifying that extracted credentials were temporary session tokens not master keys.

Denise Ho

Executive

Senior Director, Product Management at Google

Authored announcement of new real-time NFL and fantasy football features in Google Search.

Alibaba executive discussing plans to leverage Cisco Silicon One P200 for their eCore architecture and data center networks.

Dennis Dick

Executive

Chief Market Strategist at Stock Trader Network

Chief market strategist arguing software stocks are massively oversold and AI disruption timeline is years away.

Stated that JPMorgan is deploying AI agents that can run autonomously for hours, with private banking seeing a 20% increase in gross sales from AI tools.

Dubbed the Google antitrust judgment 'far milder than feared' and noted Google retains Chrome and its Apple deal.

YMCA SA leader discussing how Claude AI is becoming embedded infrastructure for turning operational data into insights and reducing content production time.

Explained improvements to long context quality and memory management in Opus 4.5 and stated that context windows alone are not sufficient.

Quoted describing the partnership between PayPal and Perplexity, discussing early access to Comet browser for customers

CEO of Nous Research discussing how RTX Spark enables Hermes Agent to run locally and securely.

Author of "YouTube Introduces a Suite of New AI Features" in YouTube

VP at Chinese chipmaker Biren discussing optical interconnect technology for linking thousands of AI chips and future supernode architectures.

Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Digital Officer at Lilly explaining how combining science and technology enables scale in treatment delivery.

Author of "Announcing Rnj-1: Building Instruments of Intelligence" in Essential AI

Made a personal investment in Island and spoke about AI agents breaking security assumptions.

Quoted explaining how stablecoins solve scaling challenges for agentic systems

Discovered that managers needed training on how to conduct effective employee check-ins through role-playing exercises

Chair of ATI board of trustees, former Amazon UK boss, named in government letter demanding leadership changes.

Medical affairs expert who joined Enveda from LEO Pharma to support clinical development of AI-discovered medicines.

CEO of Contextual AI quoted discussing how foundation model performance is plateauing and agentic RAG forms a central pillar of the context layer

President and CEO of Canadensys Aerospace discussing the rover's broader strategy of moving humanity off Earth and the logical first step of lunar exploration.

NHS National Clinical Director for Stroke and study co-author discussing how AI imaging enables faster clinical decision-making and improved patient outcomes.

NIHR director for research discussing young people's lack of awareness about participating in health research.

Dr. Andrew Jackson commented on the UAE's approach to AI through OpenAI for Countries partnership, emphasizing openness and shared progress.

ICPC Global Executive Director commenting on Gemini's gold-medal achievement and its significance for academic standards.

Led Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure expansion into France and other regions as part of $52.7 billion global cloud network investment.

Collaborating with Amazon on Health AI to enable seamless transitions between primary and specialty care for patients.

Partnering with Amazon on Health AI to help patients navigate their health journey while staying connected to care teams.

Apple's VP of Health quoted discussing hopes to notify hypertension patients and FDA clearance

Dustin Blank

Executive

Head of Partnerships at ElevenLabs

Leads partnerships at ElevenLabs for creator and media deals; bylined the Odyssey audiobook release.

Co-founded creative agency representing Noxa and fighting to protect rights to Tung Tung Tung Sahur character.

Made statement about Whoop's new features including live video consultations with health professionals and AI coaching.

Former head of audio at Stability AI who quit in November claiming that generative AI models trained on copyrighted works cannot be considered fair use.

Stated collective bargaining is one of the best tools to manage the transition to AI-powered workplace.

Author of "Some Countries Are Swimming in AI, While Others Barely Touch It" in Anthropic

Announced Gong's Mission Big Dipper and Revenue Harness, emphasizing the need for governed AI agents with revenue context.

CFO described early-warning maintenance deployed catching anomalies, discussed cost reductions, and spoke about AI's role in finance operations and enterprise workflows.

Presented Anthropic's GTM stack at SaaStr AI Annual 2026, walking through how they use AI to orchestrate their sales tools.

Eli Collins

Executive

VP, Product at Google DeepMind

Announced the partnership between Google DeepMind and A24 for AI filmmaker tools development.

Discussed how Model Hardware Standard was built for science and enterprise benefits in CNBC interview.

Stated Netflix's approach to AI focuses on empowering storytellers rather than replacing them, commenting on the InterPositive acquisition.

CFO providing additional commentary on marketing intensity and investment allocation for 2025

Former CISO at United Airlines and Docusign who serves as COO of Glow, the AI-native endpoint security startup.

AWS Generative AI Worldwide Foundations Lead who developed the technical deep dive course

Leads UK Board and CEO Practice; provides analysis on CEO turnover trends and organizational strategy.

Emmett Shear

Executive

Executive

Referenced by Sam Altman as having articulated a vision of wanting a thoughtful, challenging, but respectful senior coworker in AI systems.

Eric Early testified at Nevada Transportation Authority hearing about Tesla's robotaxi deployment plans, stating Tesla aims to deploy 2,500 robotaxis within a year rather than the approved 5,000 ceiling.

Noted that AI spend across Ramp's customer base grew 13x in 12 months and highlighted the tension between efficiency and token consumption revenue.

AI2 Robotics CEO claiming $2.93B valuation and commercial robot deployments beating US competitors.

Author of "Study Finds Memory Works Differently Age Google" in Columbia University

Quoted discussing AirPods Max 2 features powered by H2 chip with AI capabilities like Live Translation and Adaptive Audio.

Quoted praising Muse as a capable utility-minded agent that makes managing business operations through Notion feel effortless.

Explained that off-the-shelf legal AI cannot knit together complex transaction execution and serves only common denominators.

Quoted explaining how x402 and AP2 enable agent-to-agent payments with stablecoins

Senior partner leading development of Lilli, McKinsey's proprietary AI platform trained on over 100 years of firm IP.

Erin O'Shea is HHMI President overseeing the bold effort to use transparent fish and AI to solve the brain-behavior question.

Discussed how token costs are integrated into ROI calculations and restructuring around AI at his company.

Co-authored announcement of Agent Executor and discussed distributed agent deployment infrastructure.

General Manager of DoorDash Tasks who leads the new program paying Dashers for data collection that trains AI and robots.

Ethan Sutin

Executive

Head of AI at Bee

Speaker at AIE Security track on AI security.

Evan Kotsovinos

Executive

Google

Co-author of the Google Blog article about CodeMender

Stated Europe must 'kick-start' robotics development to close gap with China; predicted humanoids will be indistinguishable from humans within five years.

UniX AI CEO discussing global expansion into Singapore and India, IPO timing, and impact of US chip export restrictions.

Fernando Alvarez

Executive

Chief Strategy and Development Officer at Capgemini

Chief strategy and development officer at Capgemini discussing the complexity of scaling Frontier technology and the need for collaborative approach.

Spoke at Code w/ Claude SF 2026 about how agentic coding changed engineering processes and team structures.

Technology leader advising CIOs on preparing for higher AI subscription fees and usage-based pricing models.

Florian Douetteau

Executive

Co-founder and CEO at Dataiku

CEO of Dataiku noting that access restrictions to Anthropic models have prompted enterprises to adopt router-based approaches for model flexibility.

Francessca Vasquez

Executive

Vice President of Frontier AI Engineering and Services at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Announced AWS's $1B Forward Deployed Engineering organization embedding engineers in customer teams.

Quoted on AI skills opening new doors and the importance of combining technical expertise with human strengths like collaboration and leadership.

Urged companies to build security into AI strategy from day one, warning about shadow AI and agents accessing forgotten data sources.

Executive at Avery Dennison announcing $75M investment in Wiliot and expansion of Physical AI and BLE technology.

Adobe's Lead Independent Director appointed to chair the special committee directing the CEO succession process.

COO discussing the gap between enterprise recognition of agentic AI risk and actual security budget allocation.

Reddit CISO discussing AI and machine learning in security operations on Dark Reading podcast.

Author of "From Tools to Teammates: Navigating the New Human-AI Relationship" in Upwork

Described Workday's Agent Passport system for vetting agents and the challenge of determining liability for agent misbehavior.

Gabriel Aul

Executive

Metaverse Leader at Meta

Co-wrote memo stating the Phoenix release delay would provide breathing room to get details right and deliver a polished experience.

Stated that DuckDuckGo is positioning itself as alternative to Google's AI-heavy search, allowing users to opt out of AI features.

Gadi Ben-Zvi

Executive

AI Platform and Products Lead at Eli Lilly and Company

Left fintech startup after acquisition to lead AI platform and products at Eli Lilly, applying AI to drug discovery.

Gareth Jones at Quora's Poe platform commented that Opus 4.6 with dynamic filtering achieved highest accuracy on internal evals.

Gareth Oystryk

Executive

Senior Director of Marketing at Microsoft

Discussed the new Microsoft 365 Premium subscription that bundles Copilot Pro and Office for $19.99 per month.

Garvan Doyle

Executive

Head of Forward Deployed Engineering, Americas at Anthropic

Described Ode as Anthropic's partner for helping mid-size companies move from experimenting with AI to building it into operations.

Gary Cohn

Executive

Vice Chairman at IBM

Wrote the foreword of IBM's CEO study on AI-first operating models and organizational restructuring.

Author of "Adobe Introduces Sneaks" in Adobe

Quoted discussing Meta's integration of Spectrum-X Ethernet switches and AI infrastructure plans

Former Salesforce executive hired as Fireworks president in April to build sales team and scale the company.

George Osborne leads OpenAI's 'OpenAI for Countries' initiative focused on expanding AI access globally.

Director at Pre-Met calling on government to invest in UK manufacturing and address skills gaps in the sector.

Girish Balakrishnan

Executive

Senior Director of Creative Innovation at Netflix

Netflix executive outlining use of AI to create soccer fans and establish shots for fight scenes in films.

Said the lowest rung on employment ladder has been pulled away by AI when discussing customer service work now done by AI.

Made comments about human-made entertainment becoming 'intangible cultural heritage' amid AI adoption in Chinese entertainment.

Commented on the Cloudflare outage, explaining the systemic impact when major cloud platforms experience issues.

Discussed Udemy's use of Gong's Revenue Harness for scaling consistency and insights across GTM teams.

CEO describing Blackmagic Design's work with Nvidia to bring video production tools to RTX Spark laptops.

Greg Janowiak

Executive

Information Security Officer

Noted that Claude Security understands business logic and enables fast fixes.

Discussed GuideGeek's AI-powered tourism bots and their multilingual capabilities for World Cup cities.

Teradyne CEO calling out physical AI applications as driver of robotics and test equipment revenue growth.

Discussed need to change risk frameworks to enable AI agents to transact rather than block them.

Gui Seiz is bylined as a co-author of Figma's announcement about Claude Code UI import capability.

CFO of MDA Space discussing financing for acquisitions of CLS and Blue Canyon Technologies.

Author of "The era of "AI as text" is over. Execution is the new interface." in GitHub Blog

Hannah Elsakr

Executive

Vice President of Generative AI New Business Ventures at Adobe

Discussed Adobe's AI Foundry service for building custom generative AI models for enterprises.

Technology executive who explained Bank of America's AI vetting process focused on practical customer needs and discussed the bank's Erica virtual assistants.

Harrison Shih

Executive

Leader of drone delivery program at DoorDash

Leading DoorDash Air drone delivery program and FAA Part 135 certification achievement.

Harry Shum

Executive

Executive Vice President of Microsoft AI and Research Group at Microsoft

Co-authored Microsoft's approach to AI principles and responsible AI frameworks.

Harsha Nori

Executive

Lead of Health AI team at Microsoft AI

Harsha Nori co-authored the announcement of Copilot Health, Microsoft's AI system for personalized health insights.

Unveiled Huawei's LogicFolding design technology that stacks 2D circuits into 3D structures to achieve 1.4-nanometer equivalent performance by 2031.

He Zhengyu

Executive

Chief Technology Officer at Ant Group

Stated that LingGuang is bringing every user their own personal AI developer for coding and app creation.

Amazon spokesperson denying FTC claims, stating customers love Prime and cancellation is clear and simple.

Commented on Mercor's security breach response and the company's commitment to privacy and security for customers and contractors.

Canva's Head of Data Science discussed how OpenAI and Snowflake have enabled rapid deployment of visual AI tools for users.

Responded to research showing Gemini models could be jailbroken with poetry by stating Google DeepMind employs a multi-layered, systematic approach to AI safety spanning the entire development and deployment lifecycle.

Quoted on Nous Research's use of Agent Substrate for deploying multi-tenant agents in customer infrastructure.

Creator of Dark Souls whose design philosophy has been challenged by FromSoftware's subsequent entries.

Quoted on preparing people for AI-driven changes and the exponential rise in skills demands and job requirements.

Hiroya Masuoka

Executive

CEO at Highlanders Inc.

Described Mitsubishi partnership as significant step toward mass production of domestically developed humanoid robots with decades of manufacturing expertise.

Holly Longdale

Executive

WoW Executive Producer at Blizzard

WoW Executive Producer discussing the future of World of Warcraft during the January 29 State of Azeroth stream

Announced Amazon's $100M investment in Indiana robotics manufacturing facility creating 300 jobs.

Described the rise of generative AI as a tectonic shift in jobs, stating AI agents will cause realignment of which jobs are needed.

Co-authored announcement of Gemini API service tier updates.

Stated that some open models can deliver around 90% of the performance of leading proprietary models while giving companies more control.

Partnered with Google DeepMind to build fine-tuned models for design prototyping.

Co-CEO of Aleph Alpha who will become Chief Operating Officer of the merged Cohere entity and previously founded fable+ and worked at Accenture.

Torch CEO quoted on acquisition and vision to integrate technology with ChatGPT's health user base

Described Meta's AI-first organizational approach using basketball fast-break analogy, advocated for rapid prototyping and testing with AI tools.

Imran Khan

Executive

Program Director, Psychosocial Evaluations of AI at Center for Humane Technology

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Quoted expressing support for Agent Payments Protocol as a common rulebook for payments security and interoperability

Senior Game Director discussing the future of World of Warcraft during the January 29 State of Azeroth stream

Irina Ghose

Executive

Business Lead at Anthropic

Former Microsoft India managing director appointed by Anthropic in January to lead its business in India.

Co-authored announcement of Figma Make's new capabilities including direct editing, annotations, and PR creation for working on local code.

Isaac Evans

Executive

Founder, CEO at Semgrep

Trialed Mythos and said it 'exceeded expectations' with uncanny exploit generation abilities.

Author of "NVIDIA's Push on Physical AI" in NVIDIA Blog

Token Security CEO discussing AI agents outpacing identity systems and need for intent-based security models.

Nissan CEO highlighting how AI cut vehicle development time from 55 months to 26 months for the new Skyline.

Avoca's Strategy & Operations lead who interviewed Rescue Air founders about PE, AI, and the role of AI tools in increasing company valuation.

Chief of staff at The Midas Project who criticized OpenAI's justification for the subpoenas.

30-year-old barrister's clerk with Huntington's disease gene who participated in the trial and expressed hope about the breakthrough.

Jacob Bank

Executive

VP of Product at Google Chrome

Relay founder and CEO announced the startup's shutdown and revealed he is joining Google as VP of Product for Google Chrome to lead product and developer relations teams.

Told students in opening remarks that launching the university involved trekking through 'rough terrain' and building a 'rough-hewn yet sturdy and serviceable outpost of real education.'

Head of threat intelligence at Anthropic discussing the automation level of the Chinese-backed attacks using Claude

Board member of Nscale contributing to strategic oversight.

Told industry representatives in February meeting that CMS hoped its work would be a sales engine for health apps.

Chief Digital and Information Officer explaining PwC's policy on ChatGPT use and internal safeguards

Jade Copet

Executive

Research Engineering Manager at Meta FAIR CodeGen Team

Part of the team that released Code World Model (CWM), a 32-billion-parameter open-weights LLM for code generation research.

Quoted on Adobe for Slack integration enabling creative tools through AI-powered Slackbot.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Jake Jones

Executive

Communications Director at Epic Games

Provided statement about Epic's AI-accelerated development approach for the Disney game project.

James Bednar is VP of product and innovation at TTEC, a customer service outsourcing company, discussing how companies are managing inbound AI agent calls.

Li announced the launch of HONOR's Robot Phone, a smartphone with a motorized gimbal for autonomous cinematic shots.

CEO and co-founder of ThredUp who said AI-generated product images on 100K pages had significant impact on new customer satisfaction.

Led security firm Elisity through acquisition by IonQ, to remain in charge post-deal.

Discussed unified analytics and measurement models for translating multiple signals into cohesive thought leadership ROI view.

Microsoft ANZ President announcing and explaining the details of the A$25 billion commitment to Australia for digital infrastructure and AI capacity.

Janie Gu

Executive

head of product at Scale AI

Announced Seal Showdown and explained how it differs from other benchmarks by using feedback from users across 100+ countries and 70 languages.

Advocated for integrating thought leadership as platform connecting brand strategy, buyer intelligence, and channel execution.

One of Elon Musk's closest advisers involved in managing xAI; multiple executives clashed with him and departed over concerns about company management and financial projections.

CEO of DeepL, announced acquisition of Mixhalo and opening of Bay Area office to expand U.S. operations.

Provided exclusive access to Beacon AI data covering 80M+ organizations and 650M+ employees.

Spoke about FedEx's logistics intelligence strategy and the importance of closing gaps between visibility and actionable insights for supply chain management.

Noted new opportunity for companies to bridge 2-3 years until utility grid connection using Caterpillar equipment.

Led the development and iteration of the TechForce Agent, improving customer satisfaction from 76% to 90% over 18 months.