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Scale TransformX
Driving AI from Experimentation to Reality
Join Scale AI for our two-day, virtual conference. We’re bringing together a community of leaders, visionaries, practitioners, and researchers across industries as we explore the shift from research to reality within AI and Machine Learning.
Speakers
Alexandr Wang
CEO & Founder @ Scale AI
Fei-Fei Li
Sequoia Professor of Computer Science @ Stanford University
Eric Schmidt
Co-Founder, Schmidt Futures; Former CEO & Chairman, Google @ Schmidt Futures
Andrew Ng
Founder @ DeepLearning.AI, Founder and CEO of Landing AI
Daphne Koller
CEO & Founder @ insitro
Jeff Wilke
Chairman and co-founder @ Re:Build Manufacturing and Retired CEO @ Amazon's Worldwide Consumer
Bret Taylor
President and COO @ Salesforce
Kevin Scott
Chief Technology Officer @ Microsoft, EVP Technology & Research @ Microsoft, Former SVP of Engineering & Operations @ LinkedIn
Raquel Urtasun
Founder and CEO @ Waabi
Soumith Chintala
Creator of PyTorch, AI Researcher @ Facebook AI Research (FAIR)
Dmitri Dolgov
co-CEO @ Waymo
Jeff Weiner
Executive Chairman @ LinkedIn and Founding Partner @ Next Play Ventures
Kay Firth-Butterfield
Head of Artificial Intelligence and a member of the Executive Committee, @ World Economic Forum
Austin Russell
Founder and CEO @ Luminar
Jesse Levinson
Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer @ Zoox
Jiajun Zhu
CEO and co-founder @ Nuro
Catherine Williams
Global Head of iQ @ Qualtrics
Ilya Sutskever
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist @ Open AI
R. Martin Chavez
Partner & Vice Chairman @ Sixth Street Partners and Formerly, CIO @ Goldman Sachs
Michael Kratsios
Managing Director, 4th CTO, United States @ Scale AI
Richard Socher
CEO @ you.com
Ya Xu
VP of Engineering, Head of Data Science @ LinkedIn
Hussein Mehanna
Head of AI @ Cruise
Jean-Denis Greze
Chief Technology Officer @ Plaid
Beena Ammanath
Executive Director @ Deloitte AI Institute & Founder @ Humans For AI
Dragomir Anguelov
Distinguished Scientist and Head of Research @ Waymo
Oleg Avdeëv
Co-founder @ Outerbounds
Stephen Balaban
Co-founder and CEO @ Lambda
Gonen Barkan
Radar Development Manager @ General Motors
Justin Basilico
Director, ML & Recommendations Engineering @ Netflix
Greg Bowen
SVP, Digital Experience @ Dell Technologies
Elliot Branson
Director of Machine Learning and Engineering @ Scale AI
Demetrios Brinkmann
Community Coordinator @ MLOps Community
Aylin Caliskan
Assistant Professor in the Information School @ University of Washington
Nika Carlson
Chief of Staff to the CTO @ Scale AI
David Carmona
General Manager, Artificial Intelligence & Innovation @ Microsoft Corporation
Ethan Choi
Partner @ Accel
Drew Conway
Head of Data Science @ Two Sigma Private Investments
Clement Delangue
Co-Founder & CEO @ Hugging Face
Deepna Devkar
Vice President, Machine Learning & Data Platform @ CNN
Vilas Dhar
President and Trustee @ Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Jag Duggal
Chief Product Officer @ Nubank
Steven Escaravage
Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Business @ Booz Allen Hamilton
Nima Ghamsari
Co-founder and Head @ Blend
Dave Glick
CTO @ FLEXE
Jack Guo
Head of Autonomy Platform @ Nuro
Siva Gurumurthy
SVP Engineering @ KeepTruckin
David Ha
Research Scientist @ Google Brain
Michael “Rabbi” Harasimowicz
Director, AI Innovations @ Lockheed Martin AI Center
Anu Hariharan
Partner @ Y Combinator's Continuity Fund
Dr. Chris Hazard
Co-founder and CTO @ Diveplane
Chu-Cheng Hsieh
Chief Data Officer @ Etsy
Chun Jiang
Head of Product @ Unfolded.ai
Russell Kaplan
Director of Engineering @ Scale AI
Akshat Kaul
Head of Data & Machine Learning @ Redfin
Aerin Kim
Engineering Manager @ Scale AI
Selcuk Kopru
Head of ML and NLP @ eBay
Cassie Kozyrkov
Chief Decision Scientist @ Google Cloud
Dr. Ganapathy Krishnan
Vice President, Engineering @ Flipkart
Caroline Lair
Founder @ The Good AI
Dr. Danny Lange
Senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning @ Unity Technologies
Dr. Jonathan Laserson
Head of AI Research @ Datagen Technologies
Daniel Levine
Partner @ Accel
Dr. Yanbing Li
Senior Vice President of Software @ Aurora
Mark MacCarthy
Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Center for Technology Innovation @ Brookings and Adjunct Professor @ Georgetown University
Adrian Macneil
Co-founder and CEO @ Foxglove
Caryn Marooney
General Partner @ Coatue
Rachael Martin
NGA Lead for Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Augmentation (AAA) @ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Jim Miller
Chief Technology Officer @ Wayfair
Jason Murray
Co-founder and CEO @ Shipium
Aatish Nayak
Head of Catalog @ Scale AI
Safiya Noble
Associate Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies @ University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Sammy Omari
VP Engineering, Head of Autonomy @ Motional
Lieutenant General Kirk S. Pierce
Commander @ Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region - 1st Air Force (Air Forces Northern), Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla.
Brad Porter
CTO @ Scale AI and Formerly, VP of Robotics and Distinguished Engineer @ Amazon
Vishnu Rachakonda
Machine Learning Engineer @ OneHot Labs
Jaclyn Rice Nelson
Co-founder @ Tribe AI
Daniela Rus
Director, Computer Science and AI Laboratory (CSAIL) @ MIT
Marc Segura
Group Senior Vice President Managing Director Consumer Segments & Service Robotics @ ABB
Rear Admiral Lorin Selby
Chief of Naval Research @ Office of Naval Research
Minesh Shah
COO @ Stitch Fix
Dean Shu
Chief of Staff @ Scale AI
Karen Silverman
CEO and Founder @ The Cantellus Group
Navrina Singh
Founder and CEO @ Credo AI
Kady Srinivasan
SVP of Global Marketing @ Klaviyo
Oskar Stål
VP, Personalization @ Spotify
Mac Thornberry
U.S. House of Representatives, 1995 - 2021, Chairman @ Committee on Armed Services, 2015 - 2019
Melisa Tokmak
GM, Document AI @ Scale AI
Fred Turner
Chief Executive Officer and co-founder @ Curative
Ville Tuulos
Co-founder and CEO @ Outerbounds
Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee, Ph.D.
Director, The Center for Technology Innovation (CTI) & Senior Fellow, Governance Studies @ The Brookings Institute
Mark Valentine
Head of Federal @ Scale AI and Formerly, General Manager, National Security @ Microsoft
Anitha Vijayakumar
TensorFlow TPM @ Google Brain
Alessya Visnjic
CEO and Co-founder @ WhyLabs
Jerry Yang
Co-Founder @ Yahoo!
Agenda
Oct 6
Oct 7
Main Stage
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
3:00 PM
3:05 PM
Opening / Closing
Opening Remarks With Alex Wang, CEO & Founder of Scale AI
3:05 PM
4:00 PM
Fireside Chat
What's Next for AI Systems & Language Models With Ilya Sutskever of OpenAI
4:00 PM
4:30 PM
Keynote
From Seeing to Doing: Understanding & Interacting With The Real World With Fei-Fei Li
4:30 PM
5:30 PM
Fireside Chat
Data-Driven AI for Autonomous Vehicles With Dmitri Dolgov of Waymo
5:31 PM
6:15 PM
Fireside Chat
Jeff Wilke on Accelerating AI Adoption: From Ops to Customer Experience
6:15 PM
6:45 PM
Keynote
The Data-Centric AI Approach With Andrew Ng
6:45 PM
7:30 PM
Fireside Chat
The Challenges of Full-Stack AV Development With Jesse Levinson of Zoox
7:30 PM
7:53 PM
Keynote
Are Transformers Becoming the Most Impactful Tech of the Decade?
7:30 PM
7:56 PM
Breakout Session
Rethinking The Framework for Data With Chu-Cheng Hsieh of Etsy
7:30 PM
7:57 PM
Breakout Session
A Machine Learning Infrastructure Playbook with Lambda
7:30 PM
7:59 PM
Breakout Session
How to Build an Effective AI Strategy for Business
7:30 PM
9:15 PM
Sponsor Highlight
Networking & Expo Break
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7:53 PM
8:45 PM
Panel Discussion
Panel: Tools to Accelerate ML Development & Rate of Innovation
7:56 PM
8:43 PM
Panel Discussion
Panel: Building a Resilient MLOps Strategy Through Dataset Management
7:59 PM
8:49 PM
Panel Discussion
Panel: Race to Better Customer Experience: Value of Data and ML in Fintech
8:00 PM
8:30 PM
Breakout Session
How Scale Uses ML to Improve Label Quality & Labeler Productivity
8:43 PM
9:16 PM
Breakout Session
Trends in Recommendation & Personalization at Netflix
8:45 PM
9:13 PM
Breakout Session
Building Better Reinforcement Learning With World Models & Self-Attention Methods
8:49 PM
9:14 PM
Breakout Session
Building Similarity into an AI-Driven Marketplace with Dr. Selcuk Kopru of eBay
9:13 PM
10:03 PM
Fireside Chat
Democratizing & Accelerating the Future of AI With Kevin Scott
10:03 PM
10:33 PM
Keynote
An AI-First Approach to Enable Self-Driving at Scale with Raquel Urtasun of Waabi
10:33 PM
11:17 PM
Fireside Chat
Autonomous Delivery: Overcoming the Technical Challenges with Jiajun Zhu of Nuro
11:17 PM
11:54 PM
Fireside Chat
Advances in AI Robotics With Marc Segura of ABB
11:54 PM
12:30 AM+1
Fireside Chat
Enterprise AI Strategy: Bret Taylor on Lessons Learned at Salesforce
12:30 AM+1
1:01 AM+1
Keynote
Transforming Drug Discovery Using Machine Learning
1:01 AM+1
1:03 AM+1
Opening / Closing
Closing Remarks - Day 1
1:03 AM+1
2:00 AM+1
Networking
Networking + Virtual Expo
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3:00 PM
3:01 PM
Opening / Closing
Opening Remarks With Alex Wang, CEO & Founder of Scale AI (Day 2)
3:01 PM
4:01 PM
Fireside Chat
A Global Perspective on AI With Eric Schmidt
4:01 PM
4:54 PM
Fireside Chat
The Impact of AI in Financial Services & Beyond With R. Martin Chavez
4:54 PM
5:39 PM
Keynote
ML at Waymo: Building a Scalable Autonomous Driving Stack
5:39 PM
6:09 PM
Keynote
Creating Personalized Listening Experiences with Spotify
6:02 PM
6:42 PM
Fireside Chat
Developing Realistic Approaches to Deploying ML in Federal Environments
6:10 PM
6:49 PM
Fireside Chat
Designing for Autonomous Vehicles at Scale with Hussein Mehanna of Cruise
6:45 PM
7:25 PM
Fireside Chat
Building a Framework to Accelerate the Adoption of AI for National Security
6:49 PM
7:31 PM
Fireside Chat
Building the Next Generation of NLP Applications With Richard Socher
7:30 PM
7:32 PM
Sponsor Highlight
Networking + Virtual Expo
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7:30 PM
7:58 PM
Breakout Session
The Governance of Artificial Intelligence
7:30 PM
8:00 PM
Breakout Session
AI and Humanity: Opportunities and Perils with Daniela Rus of MIT CSAIL
7:30 PM
8:01 PM
Breakout Session
How to Use Privacy to Prevent Adverse Customer Outcomes
7:32 PM
8:03 PM
Keynote
Growing With Open Source: From Torch to PyTorch With Soumith Chintala
7:58 PM
8:44 PM
Panel Discussion
Panel: Digital Transformation with Responsible AI
8:00 PM
8:47 PM
Panel Discussion
Panel: Why Do Businesses Fail at Machine Learning?
8:01 PM
8:47 PM
Panel Discussion
Panel: The State of AI in eCommerce
8:03 PM
8:44 PM
Breakout Session
Panel: Managing Compute With MLOps to Handle Growing Datasets & Model Sizes
8:44 PM
9:08 PM
Breakout Session
A Responsible Approach to Creating Global Economic Opportunities With AI
8:44 PM
9:11 PM
Keynote
AI + Synthetic Data = Smarter Robots
8:47 PM
9:17 PM
Breakout Session
Embedding Synthetic Assets to Train AI Models
8:47 PM
9:18 PM
Breakout Session
Driving Competitive Edge with Responsible AI Innovation
9:08 PM
9:54 PM
Panel Discussion
Panel: The State of AI for National Security Mission Applications
9:11 PM
10:01 PM
Panel Discussion
Panel: Enhancing Online Commerce with AI
9:17 PM
10:03 PM
Panel Discussion
Panel: Implications of AI Bias
9:18 PM
10:00 PM
Panel Discussion
Panel: The VC Landscape for AI Startups & Advice for Founders
9:54 PM
10:20 PM
Fireside Chat
Fostering an AI Innovation Ecosystem for National Security
10:01 PM
10:54 PM
Fireside Chat
Fighting Against COVID-19: How Can AI Help Build & Scale an Effective Pandemic Response?
10:20 PM
10:55 PM
Fireside Chat
Accelerating Social Good With AI: How Can Philanthropy, Private Sector & Government Collaborate?
10:54 PM
11:37 PM
Fireside Chat
The Future of Data-Driven Innovation in AI With Jerry Yang
10:55 PM
11:47 PM
Fireside Chat
Operationalizing AI for National Security With Lt. Gen. Kirk S. Pierce
11:37 PM
12:31 AM+1
Fireside Chat
The Future of AV Sensors: Enabling the Autonomous Vehicles of Tomorrow With Austin Russell of Luminar
11:47 PM
12:12 AM+1
Keynote
The Implications of AI Bias & Approaches to Operationalize Fairness
12:31 AM+1
1:11 AM+1
Fireside Chat
Purpose-Driven Leadership in the Age of AI With Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn
1:11 AM+1
1:13 AM+1
Opening / Closing
Closing Remarks - Day 2
1:15 AM+1
2:00 AM+1
Networking
Networking + Virtual Expo
If you need to take a break from sessions, head over to the speed networking area to connect via 1:1 video calls with thousands of fellow practitioners, researchers, and business leaders across industries. Explore our virtual expo to connect with conference partners and learn about new solutions.
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