Past 100+ Speakers - New Speakers Coming Soon
The Optimized AI Conference (previously the Southern Data Science Conference) has had an amazing, world-class lineup of speakers since 2015. We were traditionally a single-track conference focused purely on technical content . This year we aim to double or triple the number of high-caliber speakers, so you can expect even more actionable content across more domains.
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DL
Deep Learning
AIS
AI Startups
AG
Agents
LR
LLMs + RAG
DP
Data Processing
AIL
AI Leadership
MM
Multimodality
MLO
ML/LLM Ops
VC
Venture Capital
AIC
AI Consulting
CO
Career Optimization
IO
Inference Optimization
Voltron Data
DP
AIL
AIS
Chip Huyen
VP of Data Science & OSS | Oreilly Author
AIL
LR
AG
François Chollet
Software Engineer | Creator of Keras
Lightning AI
DL
Sebastian Raschka, PhD
Staff Research Engineer
Google DeepMind
LR
MM
CO
Paige Bailey
Gen AI Developer Relations Lead
Microsoft
AIL
CO
AIS
Aishwarya Srinivasan
Sr. AI Advisor
Meta
DL
LR
VC
Joseph Spisak
Product Director & Head of Generative AI Open Source
Shopify
IO
MM
LR
Mike Tamir, PhD
Distinguished ML Scientist
Microsoft
AG
DL
Laura Edell
Chief Data Scientist, AI Markets and Innovation
Capital Group
DL
Joel Grus
Director and VP, AI/ML and Emerging Technologies
AIS
LR
VC
Hamza Farooq
Founder | Sr. Research Science Manager
Hugging Face
LR
DL
AIS
Julien Simon
Chief Evangelist
Voltron Data
AIS
DP
VC
Josh Patterson
CEO
Ex-NVIDIA
MLO
Bojan Tunguz, PhD
Sr. Systems Software Engineer
NVIDIA
IO
CO
LR
Mark Moyou, PhD
Sr. Data Scientist/Solutions Architect
Data Science Dojo
LR
AG
AIC
Raja Iqbal
Founder and CEO
ex-Redis
AIS
LR
AG
Sam Partee
Principal AI Engineer
AIL
Vijay Reddy
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
MLO
Liangjie Hong
Director of Engineering
Microsoft
CO
MLO
Alicia Frame, PhD
Principal Product Manager - Azure OpenAI
Aperture
VC
AIS
Garnet S. Heraman
Managing Partner
Instacart
DL
MLO
Thomas Dohmke
Director of Machine Learning
Spotify
MLO
Mike Seid
Engineering Lead - ML Platform
John Snow Labs
AIC
LR
DL
David Talby
CTO
Meta
DL
LR
Suraj Subramanian
Machine Learning Engineer
SearchKernel | Packt
DL
Trey Grainger
Founder | Author
AIC
LR
Trey Grainger
Product Lead, Google AI Studio
Motional
DL
MM
Sarfaraz Hussein, PhD
Sr. ML Scientist/Engineer
Weights and Biases
DL
Kiran Nisar
ML Engineer
Quora
DL
LR
Anyi Wang
Engineering Manager
DL
LR
Aayush Mudgal
Staff Machine Learning Engineer @ Pinterest
Google Cloud
IO
DL
Sanjay Agravat
Staff Software Engineer, CTO Office
Modular
DL
Chris Lattner
CEO
University of Washington
AIL
MLO
Vani Mandava
Head of Engineering
Etsy
LR
DL
CO
Murium Iqbal
Staff Applied Scientist
NVIDIA
DL
LR
CO
Benika Hall, PhD
Sr. Solutions Architect
Martingale Insights
AIC
AIL
Alex Vayner
Managing Partner
Wavicle Data Solutions
AIC
CO
Beverly Wright, PhD CAP
VP Data Science & AI/CAIO
Salesforce
AG
DL
CO
Reshma Lal Jagadheesh
Senior Manager, Artificial Intelligence
Seldon
MLO
IO
Joshua Goldstein
Solutions Engineer
Tubi
AIL
CO
DL
Jaya Kawale
VP of Engineering
Neo4j
RL
MLO
Katie (Porter) Roberts
Data Science Solutions Architect
Meta
AIL
MLO
Braden Hancock
Director of AI
Kennesaw State University
AIL
AIC
Bill Franks
Director, Center for Data Science & Analytics
AIC
LR
Rosie Min
AI Consultant
AIL
DL
Sujatha Sundararaman
Head of Search, Understanding and Voice, YTM at Google
Tako
AIS
CO
Dennis Ramdass
Founding Engineer
The Home Depot
DL
MLO
Xiquan Cui
Sr. Manager Machine Learning
Apple
DL
MLO
Ashim Datta
Sr. Machine Learning Manager
Weaviate
AIS
AIC
CO
Marcus Eagan
Advisor
The Home Depot
AIL
MLO
Aditya Sthanunathan
Director of Product Management
Innovatics
AIC
AIS
DL
Mo Medwani, PhD
CEO & Founder
Robinhood
DP
MLO
Aaron Richter
Data Engineer
MLO
DL
Divyashree Sreepathihalli
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer
Pinecone
LR
AG
Roie Schwaber-Cohen
Staff Developer Advocate
Spotify
DL
MLO
Surya Kanoria
Machine Learning Engineer
MLO
IO
Shilpa Kancharla
Machine Learning Engineer
Georgia State University
AIC
CO
Ugur Kursuncu
Assistant Professor
VMWare
DL
MLO
Marcelle Bonterre
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer
Axios HQ
AIL
MLO
Stephane Pinel
Sr. Director of AI