
ValleyML AI Expo 2020 Conference Series
(Global & Virtual)
Agenda
We’ve put together a schedule of great events for this 9-week, online series. Each week will focus on a particular topic in one of three areas in AI.
AI HARDWARE EXPO
AI ROBOTICS EXPO
AI ENTERPRISE EXPO
Sep 21- Sep 24
AI Hardware Accelerators

Sep 21, 2020
3-6 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)

Sep 22, 2020
3-6 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)
Speaker Title and Company
Topic
Track
Data Analytics and Machine & Deep Learning Product Manager, Dell EMC
HPC Ready Architecture for AI and Analytics
AI Hardware Expo | AI Hardware Accelerators | Sep 21, 2020, 3:00 PM | Keynote Talk
Founder and Chief Architect. Advanced Technologies, Cerebras
Cerebras - Architecture of the Machines that Guide our Search for AI
AI Hardware Expo | AI Hardware Accelerators | Sep 21, 2020, 4:00 PM | Keynote Talk
Director Machine Learning Systems, Groq
The Groq Tensor Streaming Processor (TSP) and the Value of Deterministic Instruction Execution
AI Hardware Expo | AI Hardware Accelerators | Sep 21, 2020, 5:00 PM | Keynote Talk
CEO and Co-Founder, Rain Neuromorphics
End-to-End fully Analog, a quantum leap in AI Training efficiency, and an end to GPU Accelerators?
AI Hardware Expo | AI Hardware Accelerators | Sep 22, 2020, 3:00 PM | Keynote Talk
Co-founder, CTO and President, zGlue Inc.
ODSA/OCP - Open Accelerator Architecture Project
AI Hardware Expo | AI Hardware Accelerators | Sep 22, 2020, 4:00 PM | Keynote Talk
Sep 28- Oct 1
Robots in a Human World

Sep 28, 2020
3-5 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)

Sep 30, 2020
3-5 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)
Speaker Title and Company
Topic
Track
Director Systems and Safety Engineering, Aurora
Robots in a Human World
Sr. Robotics Research Scientist and Machine Learning Manager, iRobot
Robots in a Human World
Senior Scientist, Autonomous Systems, NASA Ames
Robots in a Human World
Deputy Director, Robotics Alliance Innovation Lab, Nissan, Silicon Valley
Robots in a Human World
CTO and Co-Founder, RoboKind
Robots in a Human World
CTO and Co-Founder, RoboKind
Meet the Robots
Assistant Professor, Stanford University
A Human-Centered Perspective on Collaboration with Robots
AI Robotics Expo | Robots in a Human World | Sep 30, 2020, 4:00 PM | Keynote Talk
Oct 5- Oct 8
Enterprise AI –Practical AI by Industry

Oct 5, 2020
3-5 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)

Oct 6, 2020
3-5 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)

Oct 7, 2020
3-5 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)

Oct 8, 2020
8-10 am Pacific Time USA (4:00 PM, UK time)
Speaker Title and Company
Topic
Track
Vice President Engineering, Hayden AI
Smart Cities
Senior Research Scientist, Discovery Partners Institute, University of Illinois
Smart Cities
CEO, HumanFuture
Smart Cities
Vice President, Liquidity Services, BNY Mellon
Implementing AI Models Across International Trading Systems
AI Enterprise Expo | Practical AI by Industry | Oct 6, 2020, 3:00 PM | Keynote Talk
President & Founder, Relitix
Improving enterprise performance by predicting and measuring staff behavior
AI Enterprise Expo | Practical AI by Industry | Oct 6, 2020, 4:00 PM | Keynote Talk
CTO, Data Analytics and AI Elite Team, Industrial Manufacturing, IBM
Collaborating and orchestrating the development of AI models for Supply Chain
AI Enterprise Expo | Practical AI by Industry | Oct 7, 2020, 3:00 PM | Keynote Talk
Data Science & AI Specialist, , IBM
Collaborating and orchestrating the development of AI models for Supply Chain
AI Enterprise Expo | Practical AI by Industry | Oct 7, 2020, 3:00 PM | Keynote Talk
Vice President Engineering, Hayden AI
Reinventing the future of safe and smart cities
AI Engineer, Graphcore
The IPU: A new hardware architecture for AI powered drug discovery
Oct 12- Oct 15
AI Hardware At The Edge

Oct 12, 2020
3-6 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)

Oct 13, 2020
3-6 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)
Speaker Title and Company
Topic
Track
Principal Member Technical Staff, Data-driven and Neural Computing group, Sandia National Laboratories
Preparing for the Next Generation of Brain-Inspired AI
AI Hardware Expo | AI Hardware at the Edge | Oct 12, 2020 3:00PM | Keynote Talk
Assistant Professor, Drexel University
Compiler for Neuromorphic Computing
AI Hardware Expo | AI Hardware at the Edge | Oct 12, 2020 4:00PM | Keynote Talk
AI / Computer Vision Executive Analyst, Omdia
Where are all the Sub 1W chipsets, needed for AI at the Edge ?
Principal Member Technical Staff, Data-driven and Neural Computing group, Sandia National Laboratories
Where are all the Sub 1W chipsets, needed for AI at the Edge ?
Assistant Professor, Drexel University
Where are all the Sub 1W chipsets, needed for AI at the Edge ?
Director, AI Marketing, Edge IoT Group, Intel
Deploying Visual Intelligence at the edge
AI Hardware Expo | AI Hardware at the Edge | Oct 13, 2020 3:00PM | Keynote Talk
Head of Advanced Technologies and SoC Lab, CEA-LETI
Choosing the right combination of technology, design and tools is key for successful Edge AI solutions
AI Hardware Expo | AI Hardware at the Edge | Oct 13, 2020 4:00PM | Keynote Talk
Oct 19- Oct 22
AI Robotic Systems

Oct 19, 2020
3-5 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)

Oct 20, 2020
8-10 am Pacific Time USA (4:00 PM, UK time)

Oct 21, 2020
8-10 am Pacific Time USA (4:00 PM, UK time)
Speaker Title and Company
Topic
Track
AI Robotic Solutions in the Real World: Challenges and Paths Forward
AI Robotics Expo | AI Robotic Systems | Oct 19, 2020, 3:00 PM | Keynote Speaker
Prof UC Berkeley, Founder/President/Chief Scientist covariant.ai, Founder Gradescope
Cloud-connected robotics intelligence platform for ad hoc drone networks
AI Robotics Expo | AI Robotic Systems | Oct 19, 2020, 4:00 PM | Keynote Speaker
Co-founder and CTO, Soar Robotics
Multisensory Farmbots: turning data into action with weed-electrocution and slug elimination
CTO & Head of Robot Awesomeness, Small Robot Company
How to implement AI for real-time vision processing on the Edge
AI Robotics Expo | AI Robotic Systems | Oct 20, 2020, 9:00 AM | Keynote Talk
Data Scientist Computer Vision, Video Analytics and Deep Learning, NVIDIA
The Safety of Autonomous Robots
CTO, FORT Robotics
The Safety of Autonomous Robots
Global Head of Predictive Modeling and Analytics, UL LLC
The Safety of Autonomous Robots
Principal Engineer, Moog
The Safety of Autonomous Robots
Associate Professor, University of Louisville
Challenges of Real-World Deployment of AI in an Unmonitored Environment
AI Robotics Expo | AI Robotic Systems | Oct 21, 2020, 9:30 AM | Keynote Talk
Sr. Robotics Research Scientist and Machine Learning Manager, iRobot
Oct 26- Oct 29
Enterprise Process Automation

Oct 26, 2020
3-5 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)

Oct 27, 2020
3-5 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)

Oct 28, 2020
3-5 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)

Oct 29, 2020
8-10 am Pacific Time USA (4:00 PM, UK time)
Speaker Title and Company
Topic
Track
Product Management Leader, ServiceNow
Data in AI
Chief Information Officer, Data 360
Data in AI
Senior Director, Data Science & AI Research, Procter & Gamble
Data in AI
Vice President Product Management, Netreo
Using AI and ML to Tame IT Complexity
Sr. Global Director, Western Digital
AI in the Design of Industrial Processes and Manufacturing Systems
AI Enterprise Expo | Enterprise Process Automation | Oct 27, 2020, 4:00 PM | Keynote Talk
Regional Director of AI & IoT, Western Digital
AI in the Design of Industrial Processes and Manufacturing Systems
AI Enterprise Expo | Enterprise Process Automation | Oct 27, 2020, 4:00 PM | Keynote Talk
Cofounder and CEO, UpCodes
Automating Architectural Design and Regulatory Compliance Using AI
CEO, ViAR&E Corporation, Graduate Student
Farming Solutions
Professor, Yamagata University
Farming Solutions
Graduate Student, UGAS, Iwate University
Farming Solutions
UDS Business Development Manager AI/Analytics, Dell Technologies
Architecture considerations when scaling from proof-of concept to AI in analytics
Nov 2- Nov 5
Future of AI Hardware

Nov 2, 2020
3-6 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)

Nov 3, 2020
10am -1pm Pacific Time USA (6:00 PM, UK time)

Nov 4, 2020
3-6 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)
Speaker Title and Company
Topic
Track
Chief Scientist, Senior Vice President of Research, NVIDIA
Accelerating Intelligence
AI Hardware Expo | Future of AI Hardware | Nov 2, 2020, 3:00 PM | Keynote Talk
CTO, PixelDisplay
Rethinking the GPU, the Case for AI/Compute at Visual Edge in the SmartPixels Era
AI Hardware Expo | Future of AI Hardware | Nov 2, 2020, 4:00 PM | Keynote Talk
Department Manager, HITACHI
A new computing architecture, a CMOS annealing machine, to solve combinatorial optimization problems
AI Hardware Expo | Future of AI Hardware | Nov 2, 2020, 5:00 PM | Keynote Talk
Past President IEEE CASS, IEEE Fellow
Analog Circuits for AI
AI Hardware Expo | Future of AI Hardware | Nov 3, 2020, 10:00 AM | Keynote Talk
CEO, Cadence
AI and Data-centric Industry Trends
AI Hardware Expo | Future of AI Hardware | Nov 3, 2020, 11:00 AM | Keynote Talk
Investor, Khosla Ventures
VC Panel AMA
Partner, Lux Capital
VC Panel AMA
CEO, BabbleLabs, Inc.
VC Panel AMA
Data Scientist - Industrial IoT, Western Digital
HDD as an IoT device – Embedded TinyML to enforce policy coordination in storage devices
AI Hardware Expo | Future of AI Hardware | Nov 4, 2020, 3:00 PM | Keynote Talk
Nov 9- Nov 12
AI Robotics Engineering Design

Nov 9, 2020
3-5 pm Pacific Time USA (11:00 PM, UK time)

Nov 10, 2020
8-9 am Pacific Time USA (4:00 PM, UK time)
Speaker Title and Company
Topic
Track
Co-Founder, Small Robot Company
The inspiration of robotic forms
Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
The inspiration of robotic forms
PhD student, Carnegie Mellon University
The inspiration of robotic forms
Co-Founder, Small Robot Company
On the farm with Tom and Dick