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Jeremiah Lowin is the Founder & CEO of Prefect, a dataflow automation company. Before starting Prefect, Jeremiah gained extensive experience in all aspects of the modern data stack as a director of risk management, machine learning researcher, and data scientist at a number of institutional investment firms. Today, he lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, DC.

Shinji Kim is the Founder & CEO of Select Star, an intelligent data discovery platform that helps you understand your data. Previously, she was the CEO of Concord Systems, an NYC-based data infrastructure startup acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2016. She led the development of Akamai’s Internet-of-Things data platform for real-time messaging, log processing, and edge computing.

Prior to Concord, Shinji was the first Product Manager hired at Yieldmo, where she led the Ad Format Lab, A/B testing, and yield optimization. Before Yieldmo, she analyzed data and built enterprise applications at Deloitte Consulting, Facebook, Sun Microsystems, and Barclays Capital.

Shinji studied Software Engineering at the University of Waterloo and General Management at Stanford GSB. She also advises early-stage startups on product strategy, customer development, and company building.

As Chief Business Development Officer, Taimur is responsible for developing emerging businesses at Redis and leading strategic business & corporate development. He is currently leading initiatives related to AI/ML.

Prior to Redis, Taimur led Worldwide Customer Success for Microsoft's Azure Data & AI. He jointly led the design, implementation, and landing of one of Microsoft's largest field transformations, which combined customer success, support engineering, and technical account management.

Before Microsoft, Taimur was the Managing Director for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Platform Technology and Applications - where he led business development from 2008 (near its inception) to 2018 when the business reached $25B in ARR. Taimur helped forge key partnerships and customers, including Airbnb, CapitalOne, Dropbox, Liberty Mutual, NASA JPL, Nasdaq, Netflix, Nintendo, Intuit, SAP, and Samsung.

Taimur grew up in three countries and lived in five states. Bellevue, WA is home for him, where he lives with his wife and three boys. Taimur enjoys cross-training, hiking, and biking. He is an avid reader of technology, business, and history. He enjoys art, music, coffee, and cooking on the weekends for his family.

Leigh-Marie Braswell is an investor at Founders Fund.

Before joining Founders Fund, she was an early engineer & the first product manager at Scale AI, where she originally built & later led product development for the LiDAR/3D annotation products, used by many autonomous vehicles, robots, and AR/VR companies as a core step in their machine learning lifecycles. She also has done software development at Blend, machine learning at Google, and quantitative trading at Jane Street.

She is originally from Alabama, graduated from MIT, and loves to play poker, run long distances, and scuba dive.

Dr. Chen-Ping Yu is the co-founder and CEO of Phiar, a company that is bringing human-like perception to every vehicle with its advanced lightweight spatial AI. Prior to founding Phiar, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, researching neuro-inspired deep learning.

Chen-Ping received his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in Computer Vision and Machine Learning and his MS from Penn State University. He was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including from the NSF, and has published more than 15 scientific publications at top computer vision, AI, and cognitive science conferences and journals.

Aarti Bagul is a machine learning engineer at Snorkel AI. Before Snorkel, she worked closely with Andrew Ng in various capacities: (1) at AI Fund helping build ML companies from scratch internally and investing in ML companies, (2) as an ML engineer at his startup Landing AI, (3) as head TA for his deep learning class CS230, and (4) as an assistant in his research lab at Stanford.

Aarti graduated with a master's in Computer Science from Stanford, where she participated in the Threshold Venture and Greylock X fellowships. Before Stanford, she got her bachelor's in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from NYU with the highest honors. During her time at NYU, she worked in David Sontag's lab on machine learning applications to clinical medicine and at Microsoft Research as a research intern for John Langford, where she contributed to Vowpal Wabbit, an open-source project.

Alberto Rizzoli is co-Founder of V7, a platform for deep learning teams to manage training data workflows and create image recognition AI. V7 is used by AI-first companies and enterprises, including Honeywell, Merck, General Electrics, and MIT.

Alberto founded his first startup at age 19 and made the MakerFaire’s 20 under 20 list. In 2015, he began working on AI with Simon Edwardson while studying under Ray Kurzweil, leading to the creation of the first engine capable of running large deep neural networks on smartphone CPUs. Later, this project became Aipoly, a startup that helped the blind identify over 3 billion objects to date using their phones.

Alberto's work on AI granted him an award and personal audience by Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Italy’s Premio Gentile for Science and Innovation. V7's underlying technology won the CES Best of Innovation in 2017 and 2018.

Jessica Cherny currently runs the data analytics team at Ironclad, a series D digital contracting startup. As part of her job, Jessica builds out the data analytics function and provides analytics and data insights to inform business decisions for the product, customer success, engineering, sales, marketing, and operations organizations. Prior to joining Ironclad, she graduated from UC Berkeley as part of the university’s first cohort of Data Science majors.

Outside of work, Jessica is passionate about data mentorship and founded Data Angels -- a Slack community of women in data that provides resources, support, job opportunities, education, and community to its members.

Julia Schottenstein is a Product Manager at dbt Labs, the maker of the popular open-source project dbt. Prior to joining dbt Labs, Julia was an investor at New Enterprise Associates, where she spent her time investing in infrastructure, developer tools, open-source, and data startups. She currently sits on the boards of Sentry and Metabase while being an active angel investor. Julia graduated from Stanford University with degrees in Computer Science and Management Science & Engineering.

Einat Orr is the CEO and Co-founder of Treeverse, the company behind lakeFS, an open-source platform that delivers resilience and manageability to object-storage-based data lakes. She received her PhD. in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University in optimization in graph theory. Einat previously led several engineering organizations, most recently as the CTO at SimilarWeb.