Heike Wollgast

WIPO

Gianluca Vassallo

Case Handler, DG Competition

European Commission

Gabriele Mohsler

VP Patent Development

Ericsson

Emily Bottle

Leadership Committee

ChIPs

Christopher Sharp

Partner

Pinsent Masons

Carsten Richter

Head of IP

Euroimmun

Beat Weibel

Chief IP Counsel

Siemens

Brandon Shelton

Senior Director, Advanced Analytics Lab

L.A. Care

Brandon Shelton is the Senior Director of the Advanced Analytics Lab at L.A. Care, the country's largest public-option health plan, where he leads teams of Data Scientists and Data Analysts to support the health plan's various enterprise domains with machine learning solutions, program impact assessments, and business intelligence deliverables. The team's contributions towards Payment Integrity savings consistently exceeds $20M per year.

Varun Badrinath Krishna

Senior Principal AI Solutions Engineer

SambanNova Systems

Varun is a Senior Principal AI Solutions Engineer at SambaNova Systems. He is currently investigating the benefits of fine-tuning embedding & decoder LLMs in retrieval augmented generation (RAG). Previously, he led the deployment of AI/ML applications across CRM, e-commerce, healthcare, finance, energy, manufacturing, fraud detection, and cyber security at Fortune 500 enterprises. He has worked at C3.ai, Cisco, IBM Research, ABB, and research institutes in Singapore. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Anton McGonnell

Head of SW Products

SambaNova

Anton McGonnell is SambaNova’s Head of SW Products and leads the team defining their

cutting-edge full-stack chips-to-model platform. Prior to SambaNova, Anton played a pivotal

role in shaping the development and implementation of advanced machine learning

technologies at UIPath. Anton received his Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Queens

University in Belfast and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is a native of County

Tyrone, Ireland and currently resides in Palo Alto, CA.