Gayathri Radhakrishnan
Gayathri is currently Partner at Hitachi Ventures. Prior to that, she was with Micron Ventures, actively investing in startups that apply AI to solve critical problems in the areas of Manufacturing, Healthcare and Automotive. She brings over 20 years of multi-disciplinary experience across product management, product marketing, corporate strategy, M&A and venture investments in large Fortune 500 companies such as Dell and Corning and in startups. She has also worked as an early stage investor at Earlybird Venture Capital, a premier European venture capital fund based in Germany. She has a Masters in EE from The Ohio State University and MBA from INSEAD in France. She is also a Kauffman Fellow - Class 16.
RK Anand
RK Anand is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Recogni, an artificial intelligence startup based in San Jose specializing in building multimodal GenAI inference systems for data centers.
At Recogni, RK spearheads the company’s product development and Go-To-Market strategies within the data center industry.
With an unwavering commitment to customer needs and value creation, RK and the Recogni team are striving to deliver the highest performing and most cost and energy efficient multi-modal GenAI systems to the market.
RK brings over 35 years of leadership experience in data center compute systems, networking, and silicon development. His distinguished career includes engineering roles at Sun Microsystems and serving as Executive Vice President and General Manager at Juniper Networks. As one of the earliest employees at Juniper, RK played a pivotal role in the company’s growth from a startup to generating billions of dollars in revenue.
Milind Naphade
Milind Naphade, SVP, Technology, leads the AI Foundations team at Capital One. In this capacity, Milind partners with product, tech, and business leaders to advance AI efforts, such as generative AI, at Capital One.
Prior to joining Capital One, Milind was the Chief Technology Officer of Metropolis at NVIDIA where he led the technology and innovation strategy and execution for NVIDIA’s Metropolis platform and product offerings. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Milind held executive and leadership roles at Cisco and IBM Research. As the Director of the cognitive systems organization at Cisco, he built the organization that focused on machine learning, natural language processing and AI. In his 14 years at IBM Research, Milind led several company-wide strategic AI initiatives in multimedia analytics and smarter planet solutions.