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Yann LeCun is VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Silver Professor at NYU affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences & the Center for Data Science.

He was the Founding Director of FAIR and the NYU Center for Data Science. Yann received an Engineering Diploma from ESIEE (Paris) and a PhD from Sorbonne Université.

After a postdoc in Toronto he joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1988, and AT&T Labs in 1996 as Head of Image Processing Research. He joined NYU as a professor in 2003 and Meta/Facebook in 2013.

He is the recipient of the 2018 ACM Turing Award (with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio) for "conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing", a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the French Académie des Sciences.

With a rich background in technology entrepreneurship spanning over a decade, Victor co-founded Synthesia in 2017. 

A true pioneer in the field, Victor marries technical expertise, academic knowledge, and entrepreneurial spirit to redefine the possibilities of AI. 

His commitment to ethical and responsible AI innovation is at the heart of his contributions.

Up until May 2023, Sol was the Chief Analytics Officer at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

She has eight patents issued, 21 filed, and received "CAO of the Year 2021," "50 Most Powerful Women in Tech", "#4 in Top 20 CDOs" award, "2020 & 2021 list of Global Data Power Women", and" Top 100 Innovators in Data & Analytics".

She is now a Data & AI Strategic Advisor at a Stealth Mode startup.

eBay’s Chief AI Officer Mekel-Bobrov is developing an AI-first culture at the e-commerce marketplace.

He launched its Office of Responsible AI to define best practices for AI across the company.

eBay’s AI tools make it easier to list products, enable 3D imaging, improve buyer’s search results through natural language search, and include AI-generated content for product categories like electronics and motor parts.

Katie is Senior Director of Machine Learning Engineering at GSK. She leads several teams of machine learning engineers across the US and Europe that are focused on building novel machine learning capabilities for target identification and target validation, with a focus on RNA therapeutics.

The work supports the pre-clinical portfolio across a wide range of disease areas and modalities, and aims to identify the most efficacious and tractable point of intervention for treating disease.

Prior to joining GSK, Katie was the technical lead for the Artificial Intelligence team in Early Clinical Development at Genentech, where her work primarily focused on developing machine learning methods for biomarker identification and prediction of clinical outcomes in early phase clinical trials.

Achintya K. (Achin) Bhowmik, Ph.D., is the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Starkey. Responsible for the company’s technology strategy, global research, product development, engineering, and program management organizations, he leads Starkey’s efforts to transform hearing aids into multifunctional health and communication devices with advanced sensors and artificial intelligence technologies.

Prior to joining Starkey, Dr. Bhowmik served as Vice President and General Manager of the Perceptual Computing Group at Intel Corporation. There, he was responsible for the R&D, engineering, operations, and businesses in the areas of 3D sensing and interactive computing, computer vision and artificial intelligence, autonomous robots and drones, and immersive virtual and merged reality devices.

Dr. Bhowmik is an adjunct professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. He serves on the board of advisors for the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership at the University of California, Berkeley, industry advisory board for the Institute for Engineering in Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, and board of trustees for the National Captioning Institute.