Jeff White
Jeff is the Industry CTO of Dell Technologies of the Automotive sector, specifically in the area of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles and overall Edge Technology strategy lead. Jeff is responsible for leading the team that is developing the overall Dell Technologies technology strategy development, architectural direction and product requirements for the Intelligent Connected Vehicle platform.
He also is the Chairman of the Dell Automotive Design Authority Council responsible for the technical solution design. In his role as Edge Technology Lead he is driving the development of a Dell Technology wide Edge platform including the physical edge systems, heterogenous compute, memory/storage, environment, security, data management, control plane stack and automation/orchestration.
Previously, Jeff has held senior roles at an early stage artificial intelligence/machine reasoning based process automation technology provider and Elefante Group a stratospheric wireless communications platform as CTO. He also held senior positions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent where he led technology initiatives, solutions development, business development and services delivery.
Earlier in his career White served in leadership roles at BellSouth and Cingular Wireless (now AT&T). At Cingular, he led the National Transport Infrastructure Engineering with responsibility for national transport, VoIP & IMS engineering. At BellSouth (now AT&T) he led the Broadband Internet Operations & Support organization which included broadband access tier two technical support, customer networking equipment business, broadband OSS & end-to-end process.
White holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Southern Polytechnic University. He also served as Chairman of the Tech Titans Technology Association of North Texas representing over 300 Technology companies in the greater North Texas community. He also served on the North Texas Regional committee of the Texas Emerging Technology fund under Governor Rick Perry.
Gayathri Radhakrishnan
Gayathri is currently Partner at Hitachi Ventures. Prior to that, she was with Micron Ventures, actively investing in startups that apply AI to solve critical problems in the areas of Manufacturing, Healthcare and Automotive. She brings over 20 years of multi-disciplinary experience across product management, product marketing, corporate strategy, M&A and venture investments in large Fortune 500 companies such as Dell and Corning and in startups. She has also worked as an early stage investor at Earlybird Venture Capital, a premier European venture capital fund based in Germany. She has a Masters in EE from The Ohio State University and MBA from INSEAD in France. She is also a Kauffman Fellow - Class 16.
Roberto Mijat
Roberto leads product marketing and strategy at Blaize. He is an AI technology and product leader with an engineering background and over 20 years of experience in developing and taking to market advanced semiconductor hardware and software solutions.
Roberto spent over 15 years at Arm, holding several senior product and business leadership positions and leading multiple global product teams. He was a member of the company’s Product Line Board and Steering board for AI on CPU. He created and architected the Compute Libraries framework, a key component of Arm’s AI software stack, deployed in billions of devices today. Roberto established the Arm GPU Compute ecosystem from scratch and led collaborations with dozens of industry leaders, including Facebook, Google, Huawei, MediaTek, and Samsung.
At Graphcore, Roberto led the launch of the Bow IPU AI accelerator, promoted the standardization of FP8, and led collaborations with storage partners.
Roberto is an advisor at Silicon Catalyst and a Mentor at London Business School. He holds a first degree in Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing and an Executive MBA from London Business School.
