
Kyoon Andrew Kim
SVP Head of Marketing & Finance
Plumbline Life Sciences Inc.
• Standard Chartered Bank, Korea Investment Holdings Co. Ltd.
• Franklin Templeton Investment, Macquarie-IMM Investment
• Abbott Lab, Bristol Myers & Squibb
• Baldwin-Wallace University, MBA
• Ph.D. ABD. / Business Administration, Sejong University

Thomas Andersen
VP, AI and Machine Learning
Synopsys
Dr. Andersen heads the artificial intelligence and machine learning design group at Synopsys, where he focuses on developing new technologies in the AI and ML space to automate the future of chip design. He has more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and EDA industry. Dr. Andersen started his career at IBM’s TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, followed by managing synthesis/place-and-route engineering at Magma Design Automation and Synopsys. He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Stuttgart and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany.

Sarah Guo
Founder
Conviction
Sarah Guo is the founder at Conviction, an AI-native venture capital firm founded in 2022. Prior, she was a General Partner at Greylock. Along with her partners, they have been early investors in the most important companies of tomorrow, including Baseten, Clay, Cognition, Figma, Harvey, HeyGen, Listen Labs, Mistral, Rippling, Sierra and Thinking Machines. Sarah is from Wisconsin, has four degrees from University of Pennsylvania, and lives in the Bay Area with her husband and three kids. She co-hosts the popular AI podcast "No Priors" with Elad Gil.




