Kent Draper
Chief Commercial Officer
Iris Energy
Brandon Clark
Director, Life Science & Healthcare
HSBC Innovation Banking
Morgan Tackett
Vice President Product
CAQH
Morgan Tackett is Vice President Product at CAQH. Over the last nine years, he has worked to build the portfolio of member and provider data solutions that CAQH offers to the industry. Prior to joining CAQH, Morgan spent 18 years at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, where he led teams in Member Service Operations, EDI Services, and Network Management. Morgan holds an MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Zihan Wang
Global BD Manager, Manufacturing & Industrials
NVIDIA
Zihan is a Global Industry Business Development (IBD) Manager in the Manufacturing and Industrials vertical at NVIDIA. He works with ecosystem partners and customers to see and realize the value of AI and HPC along the value chain.
Zihan started his career as a mechanical engineer at U.S. Dept. of Energy Argonne National Laboratory, where he worked with automakers on advanced powertrain system R&D. He has gradually transitioned to roles that combine business and technology. Prior to NVIDIA, Zihan worked for Ernst & Young as a management consultant. He advised F500 technology and manufacturing clients in P&L improvement and M&A activities.
Anlu Xing
Senior Data Scientist
Meta
Anlu Xing is a Senior Research Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer at Meta, working on LLM applications for business product (GenAI for Monetization)
and leading projects on the company's top priority product -- Short-form video (reels) recommendation, ranking and creator relevance.
Paresh Dave
Senior Writer
WIRED
Paresh Dave is a senior writer for WIRED, covering the inner workings of big tech companies. He writes about how apps and gadgets are built and about their impacts, while giving voice to the stories of the underappreciated and disadvantaged. He was previously a reporter for Reuters and the Los Angeles Times, and an investigative reporting fellow at the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. His work has tackled topics as varied as esports, Olympics baseball, and diversity and ethics in the tech industry. His team reporting on Snapchat’s IPO was recognized by the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. He is a lifelong Californian.
Jose Luis Garcia de Castro
Farmer
Poultree
Michael Kavanagh
Farm Manager & Co-Founder
The Green Farm Collective
Patrick Barker
Farmer
Lodge Farm
Tom Curtis
Founding Partner
3Keel