NNP AI
Summit

Joined Amazon in 2005 to build DynamoDB and now leads AWS's Agentic AI organisation, overseeing SageMaker, Bedrock, and Amazon Q. He holds over 250 patents and has served on the US National AI Advisory Committee.

Co-founded Databricks and leads the company's growth into a leading data and AI platform used by thousands of enterprises globally. Also an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley, where he helped originate the Apache Spark project.

Directs the IRIS lab at Stanford, pioneering research in meta-learning and robot learning so AI agents can adapt to new tasks from minimal experience. Co-founder of Physical Intelligence and recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.

MacArthur Fellow and Stanford HAI professor whose research focuses on commonsense reasoning in AI and building smaller, more efficient language models. Named to TIME100 Most Influential People in AI in both 2023 and 2025.

Serial entrepreneur and digital strategist behind BTechnology GmbH, nominated Startup of the Year. Igor helps companies accelerate their digital transformation through product strategy, growth marketing, and AI-driven user experiences.

Renowned for creating AIBO and founding the RoboCup robotics competition, Kitano leads the Nobel Turing Challenge — a grand initiative to develop autonomous AI systems capable of making Nobel-level scientific discoveries.

Former EVP of Microsoft and COO of Baidu, now leading MiraclePlus, China's most prominent AI-focused startup incubator. Widely regarded as one of the most influential figures shaping China's AI entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Leads machine learning research at NVIDIA and is a Bren Professor of Computing at Caltech. Her work on tensor methods and scientific AI has won multiple best paper awards, and she is a Fellow of the IEEE and SIAM.