Jennifer Myers
Jennifer Myers is a Senior Director of Engineering at Intel. She leads teams optimizing Deep Learning frameworks for Intel CPUs, as well as the teams developing the nGraph Deep Learning compiler. nGraph is an Open Source project aiming to optimize both training and inference across a wide variety of frameworks, topologies and backends (CPU, GPU, FPGA, DL accelerators). Jennifer joined Intel as part of the Nervana Systems acquisition in 2016. Prior to this, she had a 20+ year career in technical leadership positions across a variety of startups and Sun Microsystems, innovating in search and ads systems and relevance, email, secure network storage, video compression and streaming and network security. She was introduced to Deep Learning in a graduate course on Parallel and Distributed Processing her freshman year at Carnegie Mellon University, and holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Neuroscience, where her thesis was in neural network modeling of human arm movement.
Casimir Wierzynski
Casimir Wierzynski is Senior Director, Office of the CTO, in the Artificial Intelligence Product Group at Intel Corporation. He leads research efforts to identify, synthesize, and incubate emerging technologies that will enable the next generation of AI systems.
Before joining Intel in 2017, Cas led research teams in neuromorphic computing, learning and AI planning, and autonomous robotics at Qualcomm. Prior to Qualcomm, Cas was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, where he traded fixed income andcredit derivatives.
Cas received his BS and MS in electrical engineering at MIT, completing his master’s thesis at AT&T Bell Labs, and a BA in mathematics at Cambridge University as a British Marshall Scholar. Driven by his passion for AI and the brain, Cas left finance to receive his PhD at Caltech in Computation andNeural Systems, where he used large-scale neural recordings to study the relationship between memory consolidation and sleep. At Caltech he received a NDSEG Fellowship, a Beckman Fellowship, a Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship, andthe Ferguson Prize for the best doctoral thesis in biology.
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Alejandro Vicente
Alejandro Vicente is currently the SVP, Head of Global M&A at Coty Inc. where he also serves as Chairman of Younique since February 2017. Prior to joining Coty in September 2016, he was Global Head of Consumer Goods Industry at JPMorgan where he worked for 17 years including 8 years as Managing Director and where he worked on more than 40 Consumer Goods transactions across M&A, DCM and ECM in EMEA and globally worth $100bn+. He started his career at Procter & Gamble where he worked for 4 years including in the European Headquarters. He speaks fluently English, Spanish and French.