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Stacy Rivkin

SVP, Commercial Strategy
H1

Stacy Rivkin

SVP, Commercial Strategy
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Stacy Rivkin

SVP, Commercial Strategy
H1
 

Lauren Brittany Beach

Assistant Professor
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Lauren Brittany Beach

Assistant Professor
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Lauren Brittany Beach

Assistant Professor
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
 

Benjamin Young

Board Member
SGM Alliance

Benjamin Young

Board Member
SGM Alliance

Benjamin Young

Board Member
SGM Alliance
 

David Glick

Senior Vice President, Enterprise Business Services
Walmart

David Glick serves as the senior vice president of Walmart’s Enterprise Business Services. He leads enterprise systems, including People Technology Modernization, Finance Tech, Associate Digital Experience (ADE) and Shared Services, that enable Walmart to spend smartly, act digitally and build trust with associates and shareholders. 

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David Glick

Senior Vice President, Enterprise Business Services
Walmart

David Glick

Senior Vice President, Enterprise Business Services
Walmart

David Glick serves as the senior vice president of Walmart’s Enterprise Business Services. He leads enterprise systems, including People Technology Modernization, Finance Tech, Associate Digital Experience (ADE) and Shared Services, that enable Walmart to spend smartly, act digitally and build trust with associates and shareholders. 

Before joining Walmart, David served as the chief technology officer for Flexe, a logistics and supply chain technology provider. There, he was responsible for building the foundational technology that allows for an open logistics network to optimize the delivery of goods. Prior to that, he was vice president of fulfillment and logistics tech for Amazon, where he was responsible for all the technology inside the walls of Amazon’s fulfillment centers, as well as the founding tech vice president of Amazon Logistics. 

David has over 20 years of experience in enterprise tech, product development, system architecture and logistics and fulfillment tech. 

 

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of South Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

 

Ram Velaga

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Core Switching Group
Broadcom

Ram Velaga is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Core Switching Group at  Broadcom, responsible for the company’s extensive Ethernet switch portfolio serving broad markets including the service provider, data center and enterprise segments. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2012, he served in a variety of product management roles at Cisco Systems, including Vice President of Product Management for the Data Center Technology Group. Mr. Velaga earned an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University and an M.B.A. from Cornell University. Mr.

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Ram Velaga

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Core Switching Group
Broadcom

Ram Velaga

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Core Switching Group
Broadcom

Ram Velaga is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Core Switching Group at  Broadcom, responsible for the company’s extensive Ethernet switch portfolio serving broad markets including the service provider, data center and enterprise segments. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2012, he served in a variety of product management roles at Cisco Systems, including Vice President of Product Management for the Data Center Technology Group. Mr. Velaga earned an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University and an M.B.A. from Cornell University. Mr. Velaga holds patents in communications and virtual infrastructure.

 

Sid Sheth

CEO & Co-Founder
D Matrix

Sid Sheth is the co-founder and CEO of d-Matrix, the company changing the trajectory of commercially viable generative AI by introducing an entirely new computing paradigm designed from the ground-up for AI inference in modern datacenters.

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Sid Sheth

CEO & Co-Founder
D Matrix

Sid Sheth

CEO & Co-Founder
D Matrix

Sid Sheth is the co-founder and CEO of d-Matrix, the company changing the trajectory of commercially viable generative AI by introducing an entirely new computing paradigm designed from the ground-up for AI inference in modern datacenters.

Sid spent over two decades as a business and technical leader transforming startups into industry leaders and creating new categories of technology, taking them from innovations to commercialization. Before founding d-Matrix, Sid served as senior vice president & general manager for the Networking Business Unit at Inphi Corporation where he incubated and grew the group into a $1B+ business by focusing the business on the cloud and enterprise data center segment. Prior to Inphi, Sid was at NetLogic Microsystems (now Broadcom) and Intel where he ran marketing and worked in R&D for networking chips and processors.

Sid earned his MSEE from Purdue University, where he serves on the Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Board. He is a regularly featured speaker at industry tradeshows and conferences, is a published author at ISSCC and holds multiple patents.

 

Author:

Michael Bahr

Head of Infrastructure, Data Center & Networking
DRW Holdings

Mike Bahr joined DRW Holdings in 2013 and has built co-locations and stand-alone data centers for trading firms all over the world. Mike is also in charge of all MEP designs for all company offices globally. Mike also is co-founder of a start-up, Co-Low.com, a true subscription based colocation/data center finder for all IT needs. Mike lives in Crown Point, IN with his wife Colleen and his four children.

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Michael Bahr

Head of Infrastructure, Data Center & Networking
DRW Holdings

Mike Bahr joined DRW Holdings in 2013 and has built co-locations and stand-alone data centers for trading firms all over the world. Mike is also in charge of all MEP designs for all company offices globally. Mike also is co-founder of a start-up, Co-Low.com, a true subscription based colocation/data center finder for all IT needs. Mike lives in Crown Point, IN with his wife Colleen and his four children.

Author:

Dagi Berhane

Senior Director, Global Data Center Architecture & Engineering
Salesforce

Dagi provides architecture/design, engineering and construction leadership / expertise to internal and external resources for the delivery of IT capacity for greenfield, brownfield, retrofit and lease delivery projects globally.

His deliverables include data center site selection, managing efforts of land technical due diligence, engineering/designing/constructing the building shell/core, power, cooling, telecom, and controls infrastructure, environmental and building permitting all to align with Salesforce’s IT capacity roadmap for critical infrastructure builds, M&A, migration, optimization, decommissioning and leases.

 

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Dagi Berhane

Senior Director, Global Data Center Architecture & Engineering
Salesforce

Dagi provides architecture/design, engineering and construction leadership / expertise to internal and external resources for the delivery of IT capacity for greenfield, brownfield, retrofit and lease delivery projects globally.

His deliverables include data center site selection, managing efforts of land technical due diligence, engineering/designing/constructing the building shell/core, power, cooling, telecom, and controls infrastructure, environmental and building permitting all to align with Salesforce’s IT capacity roadmap for critical infrastructure builds, M&A, migration, optimization, decommissioning and leases.

 

Author:

Kishore Atreya

Senior Director Cloud Platforms Marketing
Marvell
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Kishore Atreya

Senior Director Cloud Platforms Marketing
Marvell
Autonomy
On-Device ML
Robotics
Industrial Edge
Panelists

Author:

Assaf Gad

Chief Strategy Officer & GM
Intuition Robotics

Assaf Gad is the Chief Strategy Officer and General Manager at Intuition Robotics, focusing on bridging the gap between technology and real-world challenges, particularly for vulnerable populations. A seasoned product leader, Gad's career is driven by a passion for creating innovative user experiences using cutting-edge technology, creative problem-solving, and business insight.

With extensive experience in both hardware and software product development, Gad has led teams from ideation to market, emphasizing meaningful technology. He uses storytelling to connect technology with people, highlighting the interplay between user experience, innovation, and consumer brands.

Gad has a history of pioneering new user experiences. At N-trig, he introduced digital writing technologies that led to its acquisition by Microsoft for the Surface portfolio. At PointGrab, he integrated computer vision solutions into devices by Samsung, TCL, and Lenovo. Prior to Intuition Robotics, he led marketing and strategic partnerships at Audioburst and mentors startups at Techstars Barclays Accelerator in Tel Aviv. He also held leadership roles at Powermat Technologies, modu Mobile, and Telmap Ltd (acquired by Intel). Gad holds a BSc. in Computer Science from The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.

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Assaf Gad

Chief Strategy Officer & GM
Intuition Robotics

Assaf Gad is the Chief Strategy Officer and General Manager at Intuition Robotics, focusing on bridging the gap between technology and real-world challenges, particularly for vulnerable populations. A seasoned product leader, Gad's career is driven by a passion for creating innovative user experiences using cutting-edge technology, creative problem-solving, and business insight.

With extensive experience in both hardware and software product development, Gad has led teams from ideation to market, emphasizing meaningful technology. He uses storytelling to connect technology with people, highlighting the interplay between user experience, innovation, and consumer brands.

Gad has a history of pioneering new user experiences. At N-trig, he introduced digital writing technologies that led to its acquisition by Microsoft for the Surface portfolio. At PointGrab, he integrated computer vision solutions into devices by Samsung, TCL, and Lenovo. Prior to Intuition Robotics, he led marketing and strategic partnerships at Audioburst and mentors startups at Techstars Barclays Accelerator in Tel Aviv. He also held leadership roles at Powermat Technologies, modu Mobile, and Telmap Ltd (acquired by Intel). Gad holds a BSc. in Computer Science from The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.

As AI adoption accelerates, securing sensitive data during inference has become a critical challenge, particularly in regulated and privacy-sensitive environments. Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables computation on encrypted data without ever exposing the underlying information, making it a breakthrough for secure, private LLM deployments. This session explores how FHE can be practically applied to scale large language models (LLMs) while maintaining strict data confidentiality. Dr. Walden "Wally" Rhines will cover recent advancements, performance innovations, and real-world use cases demonstrating how FHE unlocks scalable, privacy-preserving AI.

Data Privacy & Governance

Author:

Dr. Walden “Wally” Rhines

Board of Directors
Cornami

WALDEN C. RHINES is President & CEO of Cornami. He is also CEO Emeritus of Mentor, a Siemens business, focusing on external communications and customer relations. He was previously CEO of Mentor Graphics for 23 years and Chairman of the Board for 17 years. During his tenure at Mentor, revenue nearly quadrupled and market value of the company increased 10X.

Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Dr. Rhines was Executive Vice President, Semiconductor Group, responsible for TI’s worldwide semiconductor business. During his 21 years at TI, he was President of the Data Systems Group and held numerous other semiconductor executive management positions.

Dr. Rhines has served on the boards of Cirrus Logic, QORVO, TriQuint Semiconductor, Global Logic and as Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (five two-year terms) and is currently a director. He is also a board member of the Semiconductor Research Corporation and First Growth Children & Family Charities. He is a Lifetime Fellow of the IEEE and has served on the Board of Trustees of Lewis and Clark College, the National Advisory Board of the University of Michigan and Industrial Committees advising Stanford University and the University of Florida.

Dr. Rhines holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science and PhD in materials science and engineering from Stanford University, a master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and Honorary Doctor of Technology degrees from the University of Florida and Nottingham Trent University.

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Dr. Walden “Wally” Rhines

Board of Directors
Cornami

WALDEN C. RHINES is President & CEO of Cornami. He is also CEO Emeritus of Mentor, a Siemens business, focusing on external communications and customer relations. He was previously CEO of Mentor Graphics for 23 years and Chairman of the Board for 17 years. During his tenure at Mentor, revenue nearly quadrupled and market value of the company increased 10X.

Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Dr. Rhines was Executive Vice President, Semiconductor Group, responsible for TI’s worldwide semiconductor business. During his 21 years at TI, he was President of the Data Systems Group and held numerous other semiconductor executive management positions.

Dr. Rhines has served on the boards of Cirrus Logic, QORVO, TriQuint Semiconductor, Global Logic and as Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (five two-year terms) and is currently a director. He is also a board member of the Semiconductor Research Corporation and First Growth Children & Family Charities. He is a Lifetime Fellow of the IEEE and has served on the Board of Trustees of Lewis and Clark College, the National Advisory Board of the University of Michigan and Industrial Committees advising Stanford University and the University of Florida.

Dr. Rhines holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science and PhD in materials science and engineering from Stanford University, a master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and Honorary Doctor of Technology degrees from the University of Florida and Nottingham Trent University.

As the adoption of generative and agentic AI accelerates, the challenges for memory as a key enabler of AI/ML processing architectures continue to grow. Balancing the demands for ever greater bandwidth and capacity with the needs of power efficiency, thermal management and increased reliability is increasingly difficult. Continued advances in high performance HBM and GDDR memories, and mainstream DDR and LPDDR memories, remains a strategic industry imperative. In addition, a suite of new technologies including multiplexed modules (MRDIMM), CXL and processing in memory are needed to meet upcoming AI requirements. In this panel, we’ll discuss the evolution of memory technologies and the challenges the industry faces on the road ahead for future AI chips and systems.

 

Memory

Author:

Steven Woo

Fellow and Distinguished Inventor
Rambus

I was drawn to Rambus to focus on cutting edge computing technologies. Throughout my 15+ year career, I’ve helped invent, create and develop means of driving and extending performance in both hardware and software solutions. At Rambus, we are solving challenges that are completely new to the industry and occur as a response to deployments that are highly sophisticated and advanced.

As an inventor, I find myself approaching a challenge like a room filled with 100,000 pieces of a puzzle where it is my job to figure out how they all go together – without knowing what it is supposed to look like in the end. For me, the job of finishing the puzzle is as enjoyable as the actual process of coming up with a new, innovative solution.

For example, RDRAM®, our first mainstream memory architecture, implemented in hundreds of millions of consumer, computing and networking products from leading electronics companies including Cisco, Dell, Hitachi, HP, Intel, etc. We did a lot of novel things that required inventiveness – we pushed the envelope and created state of the art performance without making actual changes to the infrastructure.

I’m excited about the new opportunities as computing is becoming more and more pervasive in our everyday lives. With a world full of data, my job and my fellow inventors’ job will be to stay curious, maintain an inquisitive approach and create solutions that are technologically superior and that seamlessly intertwine with our daily lives.

After an inspiring work day at Rambus, I enjoy spending time with my family, being outdoors, swimming, and reading.

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • M.S. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • Master of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
  • B.S. Engineering, Harvey Mudd College

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Steven Woo

Fellow and Distinguished Inventor
Rambus

I was drawn to Rambus to focus on cutting edge computing technologies. Throughout my 15+ year career, I’ve helped invent, create and develop means of driving and extending performance in both hardware and software solutions. At Rambus, we are solving challenges that are completely new to the industry and occur as a response to deployments that are highly sophisticated and advanced.

As an inventor, I find myself approaching a challenge like a room filled with 100,000 pieces of a puzzle where it is my job to figure out how they all go together – without knowing what it is supposed to look like in the end. For me, the job of finishing the puzzle is as enjoyable as the actual process of coming up with a new, innovative solution.

For example, RDRAM®, our first mainstream memory architecture, implemented in hundreds of millions of consumer, computing and networking products from leading electronics companies including Cisco, Dell, Hitachi, HP, Intel, etc. We did a lot of novel things that required inventiveness – we pushed the envelope and created state of the art performance without making actual changes to the infrastructure.

I’m excited about the new opportunities as computing is becoming more and more pervasive in our everyday lives. With a world full of data, my job and my fellow inventors’ job will be to stay curious, maintain an inquisitive approach and create solutions that are technologically superior and that seamlessly intertwine with our daily lives.

After an inspiring work day at Rambus, I enjoy spending time with my family, being outdoors, swimming, and reading.

Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • M.S. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • Master of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
  • B.S. Engineering, Harvey Mudd College

Author:

Taeksang Song

CVP
Samsung Electronics

Taeksang is a Corporate VP at Samsung Electronics where he is leading a team dedicated to pioneering cutting-edge technologies including CAMM, MRDIMM, CXL memory expander, fabric attached memory solution and processing near memory to meet the evolving demands of next-generation data-centric AI architecture. He has 20 years' professional experience in memory and sub-system architecture, interconnect protocols, system-on-chip design and collaborating with CSPs to enable heterogeneous computing infrastructure. Prior to joining Samsung Electronics, he worked at Rambus Inc., Micron Technology and SK hynix in lead architect roles for the emerging memory controllers and systems. 

Taeksang received his Ph.D. degree from KAIST, South Korea, in 2006. Dr. Song has authored and co-authored over 20 technical papers and holds over 50 U.S. patents.

 

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Taeksang Song

CVP
Samsung Electronics

Taeksang is a Corporate VP at Samsung Electronics where he is leading a team dedicated to pioneering cutting-edge technologies including CAMM, MRDIMM, CXL memory expander, fabric attached memory solution and processing near memory to meet the evolving demands of next-generation data-centric AI architecture. He has 20 years' professional experience in memory and sub-system architecture, interconnect protocols, system-on-chip design and collaborating with CSPs to enable heterogeneous computing infrastructure. Prior to joining Samsung Electronics, he worked at Rambus Inc., Micron Technology and SK hynix in lead architect roles for the emerging memory controllers and systems. 

Taeksang received his Ph.D. degree from KAIST, South Korea, in 2006. Dr. Song has authored and co-authored over 20 technical papers and holds over 50 U.S. patents.