Vinesh Sukumar
Head of AI Product Management
Qualcomm
Vinesh Sukumar currently serves as Senior Director – Head of AI/ML product management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc (QTI). In this role, he leads AI product definition, strategy and solution deployment across multiple business units.
•He has about 20 years of industry experience spread across research, engineering and application deployment. He currently holds a doctorate degree specializing in imaging and vision systems while also completing a business degree focused on strategy and marketing. He is a regular speaker in many AI industry forums and has authored several journal papers and two technical books.
Alan Rosa
CISO & SVP Technology
CVS Health
Alan Rosa is the SVP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Infrastructure and Operations at CVS Health . The 3,500 colleagues and contractors in his organization are responsible for delivering services and experiences related to Digital Workplace, Contact Center, Infrastructure, Cloud and Technical Operations across all CVS lines of business. In addition, Alan is the appointed CISO for the company responsible for health and integrity of the Cybersecurity program, GRC/Risk initiatives and Privacy Engineering.
Prior to joining CVS Health, Alan was the CISO and head of IT for Twitter where he was responsible for the Security program as well as all aspects of the Information Technology organization. Alan has over 25 years of experience driving the development and evolution of enterprises technologies and teams for large multinational brands while building products and services that protect assets while avoiding risks. He has held global leadership roles for companies such as Disney, MSG, General Electric and Quest Diagnostics.
An award winning technology leader, Alan was named to the Top 100 of HITEC (Hispanic IT Executive Council), and the ComputerWorld Premier 100. Alan has served on various technical advisory boards and counsels including those for Dell, EMC, Cisco and VMware.
Alan holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Florida, and Masters degrees from Columbia University and Seton Hall. He also attended the Rutgers University College of Law. In addition he holds technical designations in the areas of Security, Networking, and Privacy. He is a veteran of the US Navy having proudly served in the Submarine service.
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Ram Velaga
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Core Switching Group
Broadcom
Ram Velaga is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Core Switching Group at Broadcom, responsible for the company’s extensive Ethernet switch portfolio serving broad markets including the service provider, data center and enterprise segments. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2012, he served in a variety of product management roles at Cisco Systems, including Vice President of Product Management for the Data Center Technology Group. Mr. Velaga earned an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Penn State University and an M.B.A. from Cornell University. Mr. Velaga holds patents in communications and virtual infrastructure.
RK Anand
Co-Founder and CPO
RECOGNI
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.