
Charlie Barton

Nuala Summerfield

Amanda Boag

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky
Anna-Katrina Shedletsky is the CEO and founder of Instrumental, a manufacturing data company that uses machine learning to find anomalies on consumer electronics assembly lines. She has two degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, and went on to work as a Product Design Engineer at Apple. During her six years there, she designed mechanical components for three iPods and led system product design for the Apple Watch Series 1. After spending over 300 days in China finding and fixing issues on manufacturing lines, she started Instrumental to build an intelligent quality system to modernize manufacturing. Instrumental customers range from startups to Fortune 500s and span consumer electronics, apparel and more.

Thibault de Assi
Thibault de Assi is the General Manager and Global Head of Industrial Computing at Siemens Digital Industries, the world leader in electrification, automation, and digitalization. In his current role, he is responsible for delivering profitable growth, expanding market share, and bringing innovation to a well-established business including high-performance and embedded computing hardware and software solutions. Driven by a customer-first orientation, Thibault leads his team to deliver world-class reliability, accelerating customer innovation and speed-to-market.
Prior to his current role, Thibault was the GM and Global Head of Digitalization and Automation in the Factory Automation Business Unit of Siemens, where he built and led a global department with expertise in software, collaborative development with customers, and in Artificial Intelligence. Thibault has earned multiple master’s degrees in engineering in Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, and Image Treatment and CAD Design. He also holds an MBA from IMD Business School in Lausanne. He believes that AI will improve well-being, reduce inequities, and help individuals to better achieve their goals in core ethical values.

Alissa Sasso

Selcuk Kopru
Selcuk Kopru is Head of ML & NLP at eBay and is an experienced AI leader with proven expertise in creating and deploying cutting edge NLP and AI technologies and systems. He is experienced in developing scalable Machine Learning solutions to solve big data problems that involve text and multimodal data. He is also skilled in Python, Java, C++, Machine Translation and Pattern Recognition. Selcuk is also a strong research professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in NLP in Computer Science from Middle East Technical University.