People in AI

Jason Ronald

Executive

Vice President of Next Generation, Xbox at Xbox

VP at Xbox describing expanded support for Xbox on RTX Spark devices.

Jason Salzetti described Deloitte's library of over 1,000 pre-built agents and their partnership with Google Cloud on Gemini Enterprise.

CEO of CarGurus who shared that their AI-powered search tool CG Discover resulted in 3.5x traffic growth and users spending 4.4x more time on the site.

Jasper Götting

Executive

Director of AI at SecureBio

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Overseeing integration of Manus AI startup after Meta's acquisition.

Bell Cyber CTO partnering with Cohere's North to bring government-grade security to agentic AI for Canadian businesses and governments.

Led Penske Media (owner of Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety) in suing Google over AI summaries using journalism without consent.

Samsung executive chairman discussing the company's AI factory partnership with NVIDIA and manufacturing transformation.

Yagnik leads large parts of Google AI and signed the Lethal Autonomous Weapons Pledge in 2018 but did not oppose the military contract.

Said the Oxford scheme is setting a new standard for how AI can enrich higher education by making ChatGPT Edu available to everyone.

Hardware executive arguing legacy infrastructure drives up AI development costs and predicting new revenue-generating services.

Chief executive of ATI; complaint alleges inadequate board oversight of senior leadership departures under her tenure.

Former Google and Stripe executive who scaled Vercel's go-to-market with AI agents, achieving 93% support case automation and 32x ROI on lead agent.

Advocated for consistent, fact-based thought leadership built on trust, transparency and education rather than selling.

CEO of MSI describing RTX Spark as compelling platform for compact, efficient PCs with AI acceleration.

Former US ambassador to Australia told the parliamentary committee that Anthropic wants to train its AI in Australia but that the country's copyright regime needs to change.

Led development of Personal CFO product powered by Plaid, enabling AI agents to provide personalized financial guidance.

President discussed Project Kilby data center power agreement with Microsoft and Chevron's strategy for behind-the-meter power to support AI data centers.

Reported Shopify's Q1 2026 results showing 34% revenue growth and discussed the company's ability to maintain flat headcount through AI-driven productivity.

Announced Prefect's acquisition of Dagster and described the combined company's ambition to move toward agentic orchestration.

Discussed Morgan Stanley's vision for AI as efficiency-enhancing layer across company applications.

Former Massachusetts commissioner of education, predicted AI could kickstart education revolution but sees lack of urgency.

Former Apple COO who recently retired; design team now reports to Tim Cook following his departure.

Recommends sorting AI agents by who triggers the work and who chooses the steps, then setting limits on permissions and controls.

Author of "How Googlers Use AI at Work" in Google

Announced NVIDIA's $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face and commitment to open-source AI.

Author of "Firefox Adds Perplexity as Search Option" in Mozilla

Legal expert discussing whether Neon's one-sided call recording complies with wiretap laws

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

Jennifer Kutz

Executive

Communications & Public Affairs at Google

Google spokesperson discussing company's AI headline replacement experiment in search results.

Gave talk on how AI changes design processes by reducing cost of implementation mistakes.

Chairman of Hyundai who owns about 23% of Boston Dynamics.

Jeremy Allaire

Executive

Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO at Circle

Circle CEO who described recent AI releases as representing an inflection point and one of the most profound changes in technology landscape.

Canadian astronaut who will orbit the Moon on the Artemis II mission, demonstrating Canada's continued space leadership.

Jeremy Stoppelman

Executive

CEO at Yelp

Discussed Google's anticompetitive practices in local search and filed antitrust complaints against Google.

Co-founder of political nonprofit helping Democrats adopt AI; cautioned AI should find new channels rather than rescue abused ones.

Co-authored BCG study on AI ROI showing only 5% of companies achieve AI value at scale.

Head of Content and Publisher Partnerships at Perplexity, quoted on attribution and accuracy in AI-powered discovery.

Weave head of security expressing concern about AI exploitation capabilities and long-term threat escalation.

HR solutions provider executive noted companies need to reintroduce human oversight when AI outputs are inconsistent or inaccurate.

Jiahao Cai

Executive

Tech Lead of the first public coding agent at Google

Co-author of the article announcing Jules Tools CLI for Google

Quoted expressing excitement about partnering with Google on protocol-setting for agentic commerce

Authored announcement of new agentic capabilities in Google Workspace allowing cross-app task orchestration.

Described coordinated multi-channel thought leadership activation anchored around core research reports.

Explained on earnings call that IBM earns $3 in software revenue for every $1 of mainframe hardware sold.

Discussed the gap between AI activity and measurable return on investment, noting most Fortune 500 companies track usage but few measure board-level impact.

Executive Director of the Linux Foundation discussing the formation of AAIF and its role in open governance of agentic AI projects.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

ESPN head commenting on the app's future evolution with regular enhancements

Discussed Microsoft's research findings on AI agent adoption and security risks in UK organizations.

CEO of IP law firm quoted praising Stilta's ability to analyze 10x more patents for commercialization risk assessment.

CEO of Johnson Controls who is working with Armada to rapidly deliver secure modular data centers at scale for AI infrastructure.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Joaquin Quiñonero Candela

Executive

Head of Preparedness at OpenAI

Took over OpenAI's Preparedness team in July 2026 but stepped down after three weeks to become an intern focused on healthcare AI applications.

Explained Stack Internal's metadata layer and knowledge graph capabilities for AI agent integration.

Constellation Energy's CEO who announced a 20-year nuclear power purchase agreement with Amazon supporting $3 billion in infrastructure upgrades.

Joe Inzerillo commented on Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents integration with Salesforce, describing how it enables enterprise agents with security and governance controls.

Joe Landon

Executive

President at Rendezvous Robotics

President of modular spacecraft systems company partnering with Starcloud on self-assembling systems for orbital data centers.

OpenAI executive who announced ChatGPT Mil integration into Pentagon's GenAI.mil platform for government workers.

Leads Yum! Brands' partnership with NVIDIA to accelerate AI development for restaurants globally, discussing vision for AI-powered technology capabilities.

Referenced in "ElevenLabs Launches a Sustained Funding Program to Strengthen the Open-Source Foundations of Its Aud" in ElevenLabs

Discussed Cisco's network survey showing AI agents operating in production and the implications of autonomous agents for enterprise infrastructure.

Commented on how OpenAI's work makes legal AI capabilities available while preserving accuracy and confidentiality.

Noted the mortgage market's sensitivity to rate changes after 30-year rates rose to 6.24%.

NASA official who acknowledged mission cut short but praised crew professionalism.

8x8 operations leader who manages Claude AI adoption across 1,800 employees, reports $5 million in annual cost savings from tool consolidation, and discusses token usage monitoring and cost management.

Outlined innovations for FIFA World Cup 2026 including semi-automated offside technology and Football AI Pro, a generative AI knowledge assistant.

Discussed AI agents in physical operations, explaining how Samsara uses fleet data and AI to prevent equipment breakdowns in real-world logistics.

Appointed CFO of ELB Learning with 25+ years of experience in finance and operations at Fortune companies

Joked at internal meeting that AI infrastructure expansion has taken Amazon's free cash flow negative.

John Giamatteo told CNBC that robotics is one of BlackBerry's fastest-growing segments within QNX, positioning the company for physical AI.

Covering real-world AI deployments and scaling lessons for enterprise deployment.

John Hering

Executive

Adviser to Elon Musk at xAI

One of Elon Musk's closest advisers involved in managing xAI; executives raised concerns about how he and Birchall were operating the company on Musk's behalf.

KPMG chief digital officer who led the firm's AI strategy and discussed the TaxBot development at Forrester conference

John Parks, CEO of Flexdrive, discussed how autonomous fleet management is more labor-intensive than traditional rental business.

Rogers stated that MSCI adopted AIUC-1 because existing AI governance frameworks do not answer whether agents actually do what policy says.

Stated ByteDance respects intellectual property rights and believes responsible AI innovation includes protections for rightsholders in the MPA agreement.

Sahagian explained how Koa helps their Digital agents understand complexity and reason across information and policies for member interactions.

Built an agreement analyzer with Astra for Law that incorporates firm's negotiating playbooks.

Google attorney arguing against AI bundling restrictions in federal court hearing

Apple CEO from 1983-1993 who commented that Jony Ive is brilliant and cannot be underestimated in his AI hardware ambitions.

Appointed as new chief marketing officer as part of the management transition.

States that executives who think AI won't disrupt their business are 'naive' and discusses AT&T's role in infrastructure for the AI generation.

Stephenson defends Vantage's community engagement efforts around the data center facility, acknowledging they could have done more proactive outreach.

General Manager at Apollo Home who used Rilla's AI conversation intelligence to scale coaching from 2-3 technicians to 12, a 4-6x increase in coaching capacity.

Questioned design of studies on autonomous AI in medicine and called for more regulation before adoption in clinical settings.

John Zissimos

Executive

Chief Brand and Creative Officer at Salesforce

Discussed MrBeast collaboration, creative chaos of production in 27 days, and role of Slack in coordinating 500-person crew.

Owner of B2B SEO agency Growth Plays who uses Claude skill files to ensure client guidelines are followed in content work.

Stated that companies should have introduced AI in more thoughtful and slower manner rather than rushing adoption.

Reported a 15% decrease in compaction events with Opus 4.6's 1M context, allowing agents to maintain fidelity when loading large PDFs and datasets.

Canonical VP of engineering announced Ubuntu will introduce AI features as opt-in previews but confirmed no global AI kill switch is planned; users can remove AI Snaps individually.

Discussed the collaboration between ServiceNow and NVIDIA on Project Arc, emphasizing governance and security in enterprise AI.

Added that the expansion of GPU capacity at Narvik helps ensure European customers have access to scalable capacity for next-generation AI workloads.

Author of "Reve Launches AI-Powered Platform for Precise Image Creation" in Reve

Discussed company's overseas expansion with 18% of sales from 65+ countries and geopolitical challenges affecting international operations.

Director of Google's AI Futures Fund discussing Replit's demonstration of AI agent capabilities and Gemini integration.

Testing GPT-5.5 and stated the model 'can basically do what your most advanced app security engineer can do.'

Returned to Earth after 245 days on the ISS conducting scientific investigations including bioprinted tissues and remote robot command experiments.

Quoted on using Google's AI voice agents to help customers reach solutions 4x faster than traditional phone menus.

Jordan Burgess

Executive

CPO at Anthropic

CPO of Humanloop, joining Anthropic in acquisition

Described Amazon Quick Suite as an agentic AI experience that acts as a teammate to help with work tasks.

Stated that big goals require big cash and noted increased uncertainty for investors due to Tesla's strategy shift to AI.

Quoted discussing how Cypher AI's platform enables biotech companies to grow differently with AI-native infrastructure.

CEO of peer-to-peer texting platform raising ethical concerns about generative AI in political messaging.

Global eCommerce General Manager at Mr. Beast quoted on using Chord to help team move faster with data.

McKibben stated that Harvey views security and trust as a continuous commitment, reflected in their AIUC-1 certification.

Called Perplexity's bid unsolicited and not funded, commenting on the offer's credibility.

Commented on Microsoft's microfluidic cooling technology enabling more power-dense AI chip designs.

Jules Urbach

Executive

Founder and CEO at OTOY

CEO discussing OTOY's work with Nvidia to bring Octane with Render Network support to RTX Spark.

Led a consortium project using AI for defense and national security, stating AI will be used to understand strategic moves and improve decision-making.

Technology executive and author of 'Chief Impact Officer'; discusses spotting AI washing, performative transformations, and metrics to distinguish sustainable AI value creation.

AP executive explaining the company's pivot toward visual journalism and AI revenue sources, offering buyouts to 120+ journalists.

Commented on how French companies' security service choices are changing due to AI threats and stricter regulations shifting the cybersecurity landscape.

Commented on DLSS 5 helping push visual fidelity forward in Resident Evil.

Co-CEO cited as pointing to agentic AI demand as driver for Samsung's massive chip production expansion.

Led SoftBank's announcement of the SB Neo joint venture to develop AI cloud services in the United States.

Discussed internal data showing non-engineers driving token consumption more than engineers at Accenture.

Former Disney executive involved in discussions about YouTube's likeness detection technology with studios.

Justin Spelhaug

Executive

President of Microsoft Elevate at Microsoft

Microsoft representative explaining company's $12.5M funding for AFT Academy and belief AI can reduce administrative burdens.

Fanatics Commerce CPO who described challenges with large product catalog and partnership with OpenAI on Shop the Look recommendations.

Quoted on AI skills shifting from optional to essential and IBM's commitment to equipping workforce through IBM SkillsBuild and goal to skill 30 million people by 2030.

GEMA legal adviser who stated the organization hopes to negotiate with OpenAI on compensating rights holders after winning the copyright case.

Author of "Apple announced the new iPhone 17e at $599" in Apple

Apple VP of Worldwide iPhone Product Marketing quoted on iPhone 17e value proposition and durability features

Announced Wayve's collaboration with Stellantis and NVIDIA to deploy autonomous vehicles across France.

Leading IBM's partnership with Scuderia Ferrari to enhance the Ferrari fan app with AI-generated race summaries, games, predictions, and AI companion.

Kamyl Bazbaz

Executive

Chief Communications and Policy Officer at DuckDuckGo

Stated that DuckDuckGo's AI features are popular despite the company's AI-skeptical positioning, emphasizing user choice.

Karan Batta

Executive

Senior Vice President at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Announced Oracle will deploy 50,000 AMD GPUs and stated customers will adopt AMD especially in the inferencing space.

Comments on AI's role in compressing regulatory bottlenecks while maintaining safety standards.

Commented on China's push into humanoid robotics development being driven by demographic pressures and global competition.

Verizon representative who confirmed the software issue and provided statement about engineers working to resolve it.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Highlighted Attentive's use of Gong for capturing and sharing customer insights through AI-powered intelligence.

Chief AI officer commenting that low-cost model access carries hidden costs despite appeal to budget-constrained developers.

Senior Partner at McKinsey stating the firm is not reducing headcount despite AI agents replacing some tasks, but shifting employees to higher-value work.

HBS project director for Foundry bootcamp who initially envisioned AI component as chatbot before pivoting to avatars.

Kathleen Chaykowski

Executive

Spokesperson at OpenAI

OpenAI spokesperson who provided comment about the routing error that caused ChatGPT and Codex outage.

Leading Lionsgate's multifaceted AI strategy as the studio deepens its collaboration with Runway.

Discussed how Salesforce combines probabilistic AI models with deterministic systems to prevent biased decisions and maintain human oversight of AI agents.

Harvey COO describing company's selective but aggressive M&A strategy focused on technical talent in legal tech.

Chief Growth & Strategy Officer at Shipt announced the launch of Ask Shipt, an AI shopping assistant.

Announced collaboration with Amazon Ads and OpenAI for ChatGPT Ads, with Delta Vacations among the first testers.

OpenAI official quoted on the CDAO Pentagon contract and framework for defense solutions.

Lucid executive commenting on the partnership's progress toward commercial launch in Houston.

CEO of Opendoor who stated the company replaced a $500K legacy email system with a single Claude skill, demonstrating AI cost savings.

Stated Macmillan uses Gemini for business operations but takes cautious approach to AI in publishing.

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

CRO quoted on advertising shifting toward moments of intent rather than reach.

Moras explained SpaceX AI's decision to certify with AIUC-1, noting it is the only standard that keeps up with their pace.

Predicted first truly AI-orchestrated integrated 360 activation at Super Bowl with AI as connective tissue across channels.

Amazon executive who announced the company's commitment to investing in carbon-free energy through a long-term nuclear power agreement with Constellation.

Apple finance chief explained the company uses a 'hybrid' capital investment model combining operating expenses through partners with proprietary chip infrastructure.

Co-author of Google Cloud blog announcing Agent Compute Engine and agent governance capabilities.

Chief Science Data Officer at NASA discussing how foundation models embed NASA's scientific expertise into AI for heliophysics research.

Shares insights on how top organizations make strategic infrastructure choices for the AI era.

Discussed how NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and OpenUSD can support Houdini workflows for procedural 3D creation.

Kim Maida

Executive

Founding GTM Engineer and Head of Developer Relations at Keycard

Speaker at AIE Security track on AI security.

Kimberly Samra

Executive

Spokesperson at Google

Google spokesperson explaining Big Sleep's human-in-the-loop verification process

Commented on the availability of Mistral Document AI with OCR 4 in Microsoft Foundry as a partnership milestone.

Discussed the underrepresentation of Gen Z in medical trials and its health implications.

Guest on Animalz podcast discussing how enterprise content marketing is changing with AI; previously led content at Sprinklr, Whatfix, and Freshworks.

Announced Schaeffler's partnership and investment in NEURA Robotics for humanoid robotics technology.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Providing fuel cells for data centers needing on-site power for AI infrastructure.

Kris Marszalek

Executive

CEO at Crypto.com

Announced a 12% workforce reduction while integrating enterprise-wide AI, stating companies that don't make this pivot immediately will fail.

Analyst noted incomplete AI strategy as biggest overhang on Apple shares

Published Microsoft's Bing Blog post on clearer preferences for training and grounding on October 30, 2026.

Announced Cloudflare's relaunched startups program with up to $350k in credits and faster review process.

AP revenue executive highlighting 200% growth in revenue from technology companies and new AI-related business partnerships.

Vandalia Health SVP praising electrophysiology team's achievement as first hospital to perform AI-assisted heart ablation procedure.

Krystian Kolondra

Executive

EVP Browsers at Opera

Announced Opera Neon, an AI-centric browser with agentic features for creating apps through AI prompts.

Leads Legal AI efforts at Blackstone; stated Norm offers premium legal services with fundamentally different operating model.

Kush Desai

Executive

Deputy Press Secretary at White House

White House deputy press secretary commented that the partnership is a major milestone for American high-tech manufacturing.

Kwang Mo Koo signed a memorandum of understanding with NVIDIA for developing humanoid robots and AI infrastructure, stating goals to accelerate AI adoption across industries.

Announced Claude Enterprise spend controls for managing autonomous agents and tracking model usage.

Co-founder of Simile; leads go-to-market strategy for the synthetic population simulation platform.

Lan Guan

Executive

Chief AI and Data Officer at Accenture

Said OpenAI's Frontier Alliances serve as an example of how product, consulting, and strategy companies should come together to accelerate AI deployment.

VP of Data Centers leading the Poolside Infrastructure Company for Project Horizon development.

Formerly head of legal for Uber's autonomous mobility and delivery business; hired as general counsel at Bedrock Robotics.

Harvard president emeritus serving on University of Austin's Board of Advisors.

Tesla VP who stated Optimus production was ahead of schedule

Served as interim CEO for the past two years; replaced by Enzor-DeMeo in the management transition.

Synthesia executive discussing the company's move to King's Cross for proximity to investors and ability to hire international talent remotely.

Laura Lindeman

Executive

GitHub Staff at GitHub

Author of the article about developer expertise in the AI era

Analyst claiming Apple is one to two years behind competitors in AI

Meta's VP for Europe who joined AMI Labs as COO to manage operations.

NIST Director responsible for AI Risk Management Framework publication

Lawrence Kim stated that Yum! Brands is integrating AI as a core piece of their digital strategy and expanding Voice AI capabilities across their brands.

Senior technical program manager at Microsoft Digital managing Network Outage Insights Agent for communications and monitoring.

Stated that Pinterest is building AI experiences and infrastructure to tap into user signals in more useful and relevant ways.

Tested Anthropic's Mythos AI model and stated it was a 'game-changer' for cybersecurity capabilities.

World champion Go player who was defeated by AlphaGo in 2016, marking a major milestone in AI capabilities.

Appointed as leader of Intel's Foundry division, reporting directly to CEO Lip Bu-Tan.

Co-founder and COO of Taalas, former AMD and Tenstorrent employee.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Delivered announcement of Alibaba Cloud's expansion into new regions in Turkey, Finland, Netherlands, and other locations.

Vice President at iQIYI discussing how the AI Film Studio preserves actor performances while allowing flexible post-production adjustments.

Lilian Rincon

Executive

Senior Director of Product Management at Google

Co-author of the article announcing AI Mode updates to Google Search

Lindsay McCallum Rémy

Executive

Spokesperson at OpenAI

Confirmed that a leaked OpenAI advertisement featuring hardware was 'totally fake'.

Former LinkedIn and Airbnb data scientist hired as Seattle's first-ever AI officer to develop citywide AI strategy and ethical standards.