lynnCEO of Fireworks AI, which raised $1.5B to build a specialized intelligence platform co-optimizing training and inference for enterprise vertical models, advocating 'value maxing' over token maxing.
travis kalanickFormer Uber CEO now building Pronto, an 'industrial AI' company that raised $1.7B to deploy full-stack autonomy across mining, food production, and transportation by retrofitting existing heavy machinery.
max hodakMax Hodak is the founder of Science, a brain-computer interface company developing the Prima retinal prosthesis (restoring form vision in clinical trials), bio-hybrid neural interfaces, and portable perfusion technology. He co-founded Neuralink in 2016 after an email from Sam Altman connected him with Elon Musk. Previously founded Transcriptic, a robotic cloud laboratory. Holds a biomedical engineering degree and has worked on primate BCI research since 2008.
verl patelFounding engineer at Ramp who built and leads the applied AI team; launched Ramp Router after three years of internal use across 70,000 customers to optimize model selection and token spend.