Speakers - Chicago AI Week

Trusted Voices in Responsible AI

Real leaders. Real use cases. Real Responsible AI impact

Head of AI Engineering, Oracle ; Senior Fellow AI2030

Giorgio Natili

Shanthi Gudavalli - Senior Executive Director At JPMorgan

Shanthi Gudavalli

Deputy Global Practice Leader, AI Research Lab – Aon Solutions Research.

Jesus Gonzalez

Managing Director AI and Data, Accenture

Sandeep Maira

Nokia Bell Labs Fellow currently working as CTO, AI Research Lab – Bell Labs Solutions Research.

Anne Lee

Principal Data Scientist, Autonomous Vehicles, NVIDIA

Jessica Yeats

Executive Director, AI 2030

Xiaochen Zhang

Vice President, Deputy General Counsel - Platforms, Responsible AI, Emerging Technology, Intuit

Liza Levitt

Partner, Pierson Ferdinand LLP

Veronica Canton

Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI

Swetha Sekhar

Senior Vice President for Economic Opportunity, Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago

Regina Heyward

Managing Director, Enterprise AI Transformation, Innovaccer

Smriti Kirubanandan

Chief Global Policy Officer, Rapid7

Sabeen Malik

VP, Global (Western Hemisphere), The AI Collective

Mary Grygleski

Co-Chair, Chicago AI Council

Marisa Mann

Managing Partner, Gartner

Meltem Singh

Abel Bliss Professor and Director, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Nancy Amato

SVP, Deep Tech, P33

Meera Raja

Co-Chair, Chicago AI Council, AI 2030

Lisa Wong

President and CEO, Chicago Innovation

Luke Tanen

Head of AI, ValidMind

Kristof Horompoly

Professor, Director, The University of New South Wales UNSW, National Facility for Human Robot Interaction Research (NFHRI)

Mari Velonaki

Managing Director-North America Enterprise Finance, Risk, AI & Analytics Leader Accenture

Joe Peedikayil

VP, Head of Applied AI at Frontier Internet

Jyoti Ponnapalli

Deputy Director, Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity, State of Illinois

Kristi Dula-Ferguson

Chief Legal Officer, The Judge Group

Amy Feldman

SVP Head of Enterprise Automation, Oaktree Capital Management

Hyunzoo Chai

Director, Quantum Algorithm Centers, IBM

Hanhee Paik

Data Science Consultant, CGI

Eshaa Gogia

Chief Data Officer, Department of Innovation & Technology, State of Illinois

Flo Wright

Director, Data Science Research - Capital One Financial

Arjun Ravi Kannan

Worldwide Public Sector Strategy Lead, AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, AWS

Adam Robert Sutherland

Vice President - Head of Corporate Digital Solutions Northwestern Mutual

Archana Lamoureux

Executive Advisor, SAP

Tahera-Zamanzada

First Deputy Corporation Counsel and Head of Privacy & AI, City of Chicago

Aja Carr Favors

Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Adrienne Kline

Director, Data Product & AI Enablement, Walmart

Amit Shivpuja

Sr. Director Application Development, Capital One

Anitha Yeddula

Executive Director, Convergence: Tech Policy Institute

Arry YU

Founder, Lab Z

Arthur Zards

CEO, 1871

Betsy Ziegler

Co-CEO of FF AI-Robotics, Head of Global User Ecosystem, and Global Partner, Faraday Future

Chris (Xiangzhe) Chen

SVP, Head of WM Analytics, NTRS

Dhruv Baronia

Division Chair, DeVoe School of Business, Technology, & Leadership, Indiana Wesleyan University; Former Deputy CDO, US Department of Defense

Clark Cully

Head of Siemens Healthineers Global AI COE, Siemens-Healthineers

Daniel Zikovitz

Co-Founder/CEO, Quoin.ai

Ted Souder

Responsible AI Lead, Amazon Web Services

Diya Wynn

President and Chief Executive Officer, Executives’ Club of Chicago

Dorri McWhorter

Sr. Director, Data Science AI Innovation Lab, HCSC

Caitlin Malone

Alderman of Chicago’s 36th Ward, City of Chicago

Gilbert Villegas

Co-Founder & CEO, Forge and Fortress Corporation

Erwin Cruz

Partner, Plug and Play Ventures

Amit Patel

General Manager, Microsoft

Andy Ruberg

Chief of Staff, State of Illinois

Dean Alonis

Director of Product Management, Analytics, Morningstar

Anusha Dwivedula

Trade Program Manager, Innovation & Industrial Policy Embassy of Canada in Washington

Kaitlyn Pritchard

Women in AI and NYC Partnerships Lead, AI 2030

Marie Roker-Jones

CTO/CIO, AIva Health Tech

Nancy Maher

Consul and Trade Commissioner, Consulate General of Canada in Chicago.

Cory Olishansky

Executive Director and CEO, Discovery Partners Institute / UIUC

Gene E. Robinson

CEO, Chicago Quantum Exchange

Kate Waimey Timmerman

CEO, Illinois Quantum & Microelectronics Park

Harley Johnson

CEO and Founder, Gray Matter Analytics

Sheila Talton

Associate Professor, Northwestern University

Jakub Szefer

Head of Partnership, AI 2030

Ben Christensen

Data Scientist, AT&T

Farbod Tavakkoli

CTO, Found AI

Sean O'Brien

Executive in Residence - Governance, Risk & Emerging Technology, Northwestern University

Donna Haddad

Head of Strategy, AI 2030

Anastasia "Tracy" Raissis

Professor & Director, DePaul AI Institute

Bamshad Mobasher

President, College of DuPage

Muddassir Siddiqi

Sr Director, Global Talent Management, Microsoft

Shweta Srivastava

Head of AI 2030 Institute, AI 2030

Tonya Amankwatia

Founder, Lofty Ventures

Chris Deutsch

Deputy Director, Office of Employment & Training, Illinois DCEO

Julio Rodriguez

Chief Commercial Officer, Pacific Peering

Josh Richards

Partner, K&L Gates

John Bender

Managing Director, Insurance, Microsoft

Caspar de Wijkerslooth

VP of AI ParetoHealth

Vidur Nayyar

Vice President, National AI Strategy & Product Development Lead, CGI

Mike Hyzy

Vice President, Field Engagement and Marketing, Oracle NetSuite

Ranga Bodla

Executive Vice President, Head of Strategy and AI Transformation, Launch Consulting Group

Nick Polachek

Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, SolasAI

Nick Schmidt

Of Counsel, e-Discovery Analysis & Technology, K&L Gates

Alicia Hawley

SVP, Digital Asset & AI Technology, Northern Trus

Arijit Das

Principal, The McGregor Group

Kristen Shedd

Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Manling Li

Vice President, Economic Development, World Business Chicago

Rebecca Motley

CEO, KNOWIDEA

Yatharth Sejpal

Co-Founder, SpaceBot

David Turner

Chief Revenue Officer, AiPRL Assist

Evan Kubicek

Director of AI, Lionbridge

Suzanne Tucker

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Supply Change Capital

Shayna Harris

Associate Director, Public First

Eamonn Ives