Roberto Vituzzo
Executive Director
Pet Friends
Kieran Gartland
Managing Director
The Yield Lab
Jose Francisco Miranda
Sustainability Business Development Latam
dsm-firmenich
José Francisco Miranda Júnior is Brazilian, a veterinarian, specialist in Food Quality and has an MBA in Business Administration. His career began in 1993 in the food production industries, highlighting his 16-year career at Perdigão-BRF, where he was an export sales executive and later a quality executive. He is in the animal nutrition area at DSM Nutrition and Animal Health since 2013, where he develops marketing activities for animal production and is currently heading Sustell™ business development in Latam, a platform for sustainable animal production.
Stanley Oliviera
Head of Digital Agriculture
Embrapa
Marc Paradis
Vice President of Data Strategy
Northwell Holdings
Mike Shirazi
General Partner
Pursuit Ventures
John Almasan
Senior Managing Director, Head of AI & Emerging Tech
TIAA
Dr. John Almasan is an accomplished technology executive with over 20 years of experience leading global tech teams and building large-scale data, AI, and cloud platforms for prominent companies such as TIAA, McKinsey & Co., American Express, Bank of America, and Nationwide Insurance. With deep expertise in multi-cloud big data engineering, machine learning, and data science, John is a hands-on practitioner and passionate about enabling the acceleration of AI adoption.
As an adjunct professor at various universities and a member of Arizona State University's Executive Board of Advisors, John is committed to preparing the next generation to meet the future's skillset needs and demands. He focuses on employee cross-training and actively engages in teaching and mentoring students in the field.
John holds two master's degrees in Engineering and Statistics, a Doctor of Business Administration, and has over 20+ patents credited to his name. He has received several awards throughout his career for his contributions to the technology industry.