Subutai Ahmad (CTO, Numenta) and Mike Farmwald (Numenta board, Rambus founder). Numenta’s pioneering approach delivers greater than 10x improvement on performance/watt on AI/GenAI computations. Dr. Ahmad brings theory to life with his neuromorphic approach to breaking the power and performance constraints of GPUs (Thousand Brains Project). Farmwald is a successful serial entrepreneur, as a founder and co-founder of six breakthrough companies, including Rambus which has revolutionized scalable chip technology. 

Bran Ferren (Co-founder & Chief Creative Officer of Applied Minds, formerly Head of Disney Imagineering). As an artist, engineer, and scientist Ferren has over 20 years of experience casting bespoke solutions for clients from Herman Miller to government and defense, and he and his team have been one of the earliest pioneers on the AI journey. Bran has quite literally seen it all and will share the stories to back it up.

Dr. Shreekant (Ticky) Thakkar (Chief Researcher, TII; Adjunct Research Professor, Khalifa University) is the architect of ZTASPuniting UAVs, UGVs, quadrupeds, and humanoids under silicon‑to‑cloud protections and a hybrid Mesh Shield network. A former Intel Fellow and HP Fellow/VP , he helped shape landmark x86 server, desktop, and mobile platforms. As an inventor of 87 patents and author of 45 papers, Ticky is known for turning advanced research into secure, at‑scale autonomous systems that ship.