Stefania Avanzini
Stefania is impact-driven and passionate about collective transformations. As Director of One Planet Business for Biodvisersity, she is working to scale the adoption of regenerative agriculture globally through the organization’s cross-sectoral membership that spans the agricultural value chain from production to distribution. Prior to her work at OP2B, Stefania worked for Danone’s investment fund for social business, and for Ashoka – the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs. Stefania believes in the power of business to transform agricultural systems in a way that is beneficial for people, climate, and nature.
Anthony Wood
Anthony has held a number of a design and verification roles working on CPUs, GPUs and IPUs at Infineon, Xmos, Imagination and Graphcore. At Imagination he was head of verification for the high-end GPU cores. At Graphcore his responsibilities include leveraging formal verification techniques throughout the silicon team; reducing delivery timescales through Continuous Delivery; and working to ensure verification disciplines are adopted for DFT. He strives to find ways of improving the productivity of silicon engineers and of course he agonises about potential verification holes.
Manish Pandey
Manish Pandey is Vice President R&D and Fellow at Synopsys, and an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He completed his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a B. Tech. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He currently leads the R&D teams for formal and static technologies, and machine learning at Synopsys. He previously led the development of several static and formal verification technologies at Verplex and Cadence which are in widespread use in the industry. Manish has been the recipient of the IEEE Transaction in CAD Outstanding Young author award and holds over two dozen patents and refereed publications.
Jian Zhang
Sriraman Chari
Phil Brown
Phil leads Graphcore’s efforts to build large scale AI/ML processing capability using Graphcore unique Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) and IPU-Fabric and Streaming Memory technology. Previously he has held a number of different roles at Graphcore including Director of Applications, leading development of Graphcore’s flagship AL/ML models, and Director of Field Engineering, which acts as the focal point for technical engagements with our customers. Prior to joining Graphcore, Phil worked for Cray Inc. in a number of roles, including leading their engagement with the weather forecasting and climate research customers worldwide and as a technical architect. Phil holds a PhD in Computational Chemistry from the University of Bristol.
Sébastien Burgess
Seb Burgess is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect focused on solution implementation and project management.
Mr. Burgess is a Senior Principal Solutions Architect focused on solution implementation and project management and a subject matter expert on physical risk screening exercises for capital-intensive infrastructure operators and EMEA-based financial services clients.
Prior to joining Jupiter, Mr. Burgess worked at Urbint, a utility field risk management company where he led product roll-outs and adoption strategies for a number of major US-based utilities. Mr. Burgess also worked at Carto, a spatial analysis and location intelligence company.
Mr. Burgess started his career in Mexico City as an environmental planner where he also founded his own cartography and data visualization company.
Mr. Burgess has a B.S. in Conservation and Natural Resources Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
Philipp Schmid
