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Robert Stephens

Managing Director, Financial Services

FTI Consulting

Bob Stephens is a Managing Director within FTI Consulting’s Global Insurance and Financial Services practices. Mr. Stephens has 25 years of global industry experience driving initiatives in areas such as: risk, compliance, strategy, operational transformation, capital markets, financial reporting and related emerging technologies.

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Robert Stephens

Managing Director, Financial Services

FTI Consulting

Robert Stephens

Managing Director, Financial Services
FTI Consulting

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Stephens was Co-Head of FS Advisory at Grant Thornton (GT) where he worked in building and executing strategies to strengthen brand, expand offerings, and advance relationships. He was also instrumental in the formulation of Mobius, GT’s specialist co-creation hub operating at the forefront of accelerating business transformation in areas such as ESG through co-creative, design thinking methods with clients.

Mr. Stephens began his career in Investment Banking on Wall Street.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Efficient multimodal inference on AR devices

On Device ML

Vision

NLP and Speech

Software Engineering

Hardware and Systems Engineering

Author:

Vikas Chandra

Director, AI Research

Meta Reality Labs

Vikas Chandra is Director of AI Research at Facebook where he leads the On-device AI research focusing on AR and VR products. Prior to Facebook, he was Director of Applied Machine Learning at Arm Inc. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He held the positions of Visiting Scholar (2011 – 2014) and Visiting Faculty (2016 - 2017) in the EE department at Stanford University. He has authored 70+ research publications and is an inventor on 40+ US and international patents. Dr. Chandra received the ACM-SIGDA Technical Leadership Award in 2009 and was invited to the 2017 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering. He is a senior member of IEEE.

Vikas Chandra

Director, AI Research
Meta Reality Labs

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Vishnu Ram

VP of Data Science and Engineering

Credit Karma

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Vishnu Ram

VP of Data Science and Engineering

Credit Karma

Vishnu Ram

VP of Data Science and Engineering
Credit Karma

As VP of Data Science and Engineering at Credit Karma, Vishnu has been instrumental in building and scaling Credit Karma’s machine learning infrastructure, powering personalized recommendations at scale, in pursuit of helping its 120 million members make financial progress. Having been with Credit Karma for nearly eight years, Vishnu has led development strategy and implementation of the company’s deep-learning based system comprised of an internally built machine learning platform that helps the Credit Karma transform and manage data at scale. His team runs 35 billion model predictions a day and is tasked with building sophisticated models to boost platform innovation in order to deliver an optimized product experience for Credit Karma’s 120 million members. Prior to joining Credit Karma, Vishnu held CTO roles at Nykaa and Games24x7.

Supriya Gupta

GM, Recommendations

Credit Karma

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Supriya Gupta

GM, Recommendations

Credit Karma

Supriya Gupta

GM, Recommendations
Credit Karma

As Credit Karma’s head of Recommendations, Supriya is charged with personalizing the Credit Karma app experience for the company’s more than 120 million members. When she joined the team more than three years ago, Supriya oversaw the transformation of the company’s recommendations engine into a dynamic and personalized deep-learning based system that leverages data and machine learning to deliver tailored recommendations and offers to our members. This means members are served financial products, tools and recommendations at the right time, and that best adhere to their financial goals and ambitions. Under Supriya’s leadership, Credit Karma’s recommendations system has significantly grown and transformed over the years, and her team is doing more than 35 billion model predictions each day. Today, her business unit partners with nearly every team at Credit Karma and drives a significant portion of revenue for the business. Prior to joining Credit Karma, Supriya worked in product at Facebook, where she led product strategy and development for a number of ads products. Supriya holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and a M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Marshall Choy

SVP, Product

SambaNova Systems

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Marshall Choy

SVP, Product

SambaNova Systems

Marshall Choy

SVP, Product
SambaNova Systems

Marshall Choy is Senior Vice President of Product at SambaNova Systems and is responsible for product management and go-to-market operations. Marshall has extensive experience leading global organizations to bring breakthrough products to market, establish new market presences, and grow new and existing lines of business. Marshall was previously Vice President of Product Management at Oracle until 2018. He was responsible for the portfolio and strategy for Oracle Systems products and solutions. He led teams that delivered comprehensive end-to-end hardware and software solutions and product management operations. Prior to joining Oracle in 2010 when it acquired Sun Microsystems, he served as Director of Engineered Solutions at Sun. During his 11 years there, Marshall held various positions in development, information technology, and marketing.