Julian Chu
Vanessa Kuykendall
In her 25+ year history in beauty retail, Vanessa Kuykendall has led teams and driven revenue in brick & mortar, E-Commerce, and now Amazon. A founding partner at Market Defense, Vanessa leads Client Delivery where her team protects brand equity and drives profitable growth in the Amazon Marketplace. They provide a full suite of services including Account Management, Brand Protection, Logistics & Operations, Advertising, and Creative for beauty brands like Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare, this Works and Beauty Bakerie; the average YoY increase in their portfolio was 75% over 2021. Her past roles include Sales, Merchandising and Marketing at MAC Cosmetics, Tiffany & Co., The Body Shop, Estee Lauder, Walgreens and Beauty.com, the first prestige beauty retailer to sponsor NY Fashion week shows.
Denae Rocha
Rebecca Hobbs
At Stylus, the expert source of trends and insights, Rebecca tracks disruptive shifts within the retail and brand comms landscape in order to define the future direction of store concepts, online engagement and technology. Particularly fascinated by the attitudinal shifts underpinning changes in brand culture, she previously spent three years as senior fashion reporter at industry title Retail Week, where she gained extensive experience of the retail sector, providing thought-leadership on topical issues and appearing on national news programmes as an industry expert.
Philip Siveter
Philip Siveter is the CEO for Nokia UK&I. He joined Nokia in 2017 bringing 20 years of leadership experience in telecoms and ICT to the role. Philip is executing a strategy to drive Nokia’s world class portfolio forward and is also responsible for Nokia’s partners and alliances in the UK&I.
Previously Philip has worked for Ciena, where he set up a Public Sector business, and before that BT where he held numerous leadership roles. Philip has strong experience of Public Sector & Enterprise markets, working with customers and partners in delivering critical services. He has also held sales and operation positions at Sirocom, Nortel & Energis.
Philip has been an advisor for the Beyond Boyle foundation and Social Enterprise for Berkshire and is a keen advocate of the social enterprise model.
V. K. Cody Bumgardner
V. K. Cody Bumgardner, PhD is Division Chief of Pathology Informatics in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. In addition, Dr. Bumgardner serves as Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine and by joint appointment College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Bumgardner serves as the Director of the Institute for Biomedical Informatics (IBI) Innovation Core. Over the past twenty years he has held leadership roles in the areas of cyber infrastructure architecture, software development, telecommunication, research computing, and healthcare.
Dr. Bumgardner’s holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky. He completed his academic training under Professor Victor Marek, with the dissertation titled “Contributions to Edge Computing”. His work focuses on the applied use of edge-cloud computing, confidential cloud computing, and clinical-grade privacy-preserving AI in healthcare.
Tushar Kant
Tushar Kant has more than 20 years Industry Experience across Silicon Valley & Wall Street at Amazon Web Services, VMware, Facebook, Intel Corp., Sun Microsystems, Bank of America Securities and GE Capital. He has worked in diverse fields spanning across Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Semiconductors, Security etc in a wide range of roles, including Product Management, Engineering, Investment Banking and Venture Capital.
Tushar has BS in Electrical Engineering (IIT-India), MS in Computer Science (USA) and MBA (NYU Stern School of Business) where he was designated Stern Scholar and was a Member of Beta Gamma Sigma. He has publications in Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Algorithms and Bankruptcy & Reorganization. He is Co-founder of Global IIT Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Forum and has spoken as guest speaker & in competitive events at MIT (USA), IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur.
Tom Rondeau
Dr. Tom Rondeau joined DARPA as a program manager in May 2016. His research interests include adaptive and reconfigurable radios, improving the development cycle for new signal-processing techniques, and creating general purpose electromagnetic systems.
Prior to joining DARPA, Dr. Rondeau was the maintainer and lead developer of the GNU Radio project and a consultant on signal processing and wireless communications. He worked as a visiting researcher with the University of Pennsylvania and as an Adjunct with the IDA Center for Communications Research in Princeton, NJ.
Dr. Rondeau holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech and won the 2007 Outstanding Dissertation Award in math, science, and engineering from the Council of Graduate Schools for his work in artificial intelligence in wireless communications.