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Andrew Wafaa, Arm

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Andrew is part of Arm’s Strategy & Ecosystem and Developer platforms leadership team, heading up Arm’s Open Source Office and is responsible for Arm’s relationship and engagements with software communities. With over 25 years of deep engagement with open source communities under a variety of employers, through the years he has held various positions with a variety of projects and foundations. Currently he is the Chair of the Yocto Project and sits on the Board of the PyTorch Foundation, FreeBSD Foundation, Xen Project and on the TSC/TAC/SC of PyTorch, Zephyr, UXLFoundation. He has previously served on the Board of the Rust Foundation, OpenUK and openSUSE Project. To support his work with the various communities, Andrew is often at most of the open source events that are held globally.
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Ankit Patel, NVIDIA

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Ankit Patel is a senior director at NVIDIA, leading developer engagement for SDKs, APIs, and tools. He joined NVIDIA in 2011, transitioning from GPU product manager to software product management in virtualization, ray tracing, and AI. Previously, he managed video editing and live production products at Matrox Video and Blackmagic Design. Ankit holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Concordia University and an MBA from Cornell University.
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Brian Granger, Amazon Web Services

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Brian Granger is a Senior Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services and a professor of physics and data science at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. He works at the intersection of UX design and engineering on tools for scientific computing, data science, machine learning, and data visualization. Brian is a co-founder and leader of Project Jupyter, co-founder of the Altair project for statistical visualization, and creator of the PyZMQ project for ZMQ-based message passing in Python.
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Dwarak Rajagopal, Snowflake

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Dwarak Rajagopal is a distinguished technology leader with over two decades of experience at some of the world’s most innovative companies, including Google, Meta, Uber, Apple, and AMD. As Vice President of AI Engineering at Snowflake, Dwarak oversees the AI and ML engineering organizations, helping drive innovation across Snowflake Cortex AI, Snowflake’s AI Research Team, and open source offerings. He previously served as Senior Engineering Director at Google, where he spearheaded the AI Frameworks and On-Device Machine Learning teams, driving cutting-edge advancements in AI and large language models (LLMs) to enhance efficiency across server and mobile platforms. Earlier in his career, Dwarak led Meta’s PyTorch Core Frameworks team, bridging the gap between AI research and production. His career also includes developing autonomous driving software at Uber, pioneering graphics technology at Apple, and shaping compiler innovations at AMD. -
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Fred Li, Huawei

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Fred Li, General Manager of Open Source Development at Huawei's Computing Product Line, brings over 20 years of technology and open-source experience since 2015. Serving as the platinum director of OpenStack Foundation and representing Huawei in PyTorch Foundation and LF AI & Data, he's a pivotal figure in open source. Fred initiated the openEuler community in 2019, nurturing multiple open-source communities with thousands of engineers and millions of users. With expertise in IT product development, project management, and open-source strategy, Fred is committed to global open-source advocacy.
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Joe Spisak, Meta

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Joseph Spisak is the Director of Product Management for AI at Meta. A veteran of the AI space with over 10 years experience, Joe led product teams at Meta/Facebook, Google and Amazon where he focused on open source AI, open science and building developer tools such as PyTorch to help the community scale up AI in an open and collaborative way. As the leader of product for PyTorch, he and the team built an amazing platform and community that made PyTorch the leading open source AI development framework in the industry and took it to the Linux Foundation. Joe is also an angel advisor to companies like Anthropic, Lastmile.AI (former FB), EvolutionaryScale (former FB), Udacity, Lightning.AI, and others.
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Kismat Singh, Intel

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Kismat works as VP S/W of AI Frameworks team at Intel. The team focuses on frameworks like PyTorch, TF and other inference/serving engines. Prior to Intel Kismat worked at Nvidia for 8 focusing on AI S/W frameworks/libs like TensorRT, Deep learning compiler etc.
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Luca Antiga, Lightning AI

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Luca Antiga is the CTO at Lightning AI. He is an early contributor to PyTorch core and co-authored “Deep Learning with PyTorch” (published by Manning). He started his journey as a researcher in Bioengineering, and later co-founded Orobix, a company focused on building and deploying AI in production settings.
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Lysandre Debut, Hugging Face

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Lysandre is the Head of Open Source at Hugging Face. Lysandre has been at Hugging Face since the company’s pivot to open-source, and was the first engineer to focus entirely on the open-source mission. Now leading the open-source part of the organization, Lysandre remains technically involved by being a core maintainer of the Transformers library.
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Niles Burbank, AMD

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Niles Burbank is Director of Product Management at AMD, responsible for a family of data center GPU products. Based in Markham, Canada, he has been involved in the computer hardware industry since 1995 in a range of technical and management roles. Niles shares AMD’s passion for working together with the wider community to deliver the software and hardware tools that will advance AI. He holds an MASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto.
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Raghu Ganti, IBM

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Raghu Ganti, a Distinguished Engineer at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, leads the development of tuning and training stack for LLMs on IBM’s Hybrid Cloud platform. He has extensive expertise in large scale distributed algorithms and his work on spatiotemporal data analysis has been included in 15+ IBM products.
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Shauheen Zahirazami, Google

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Shauheen Zahirazami has a PhD in control engineering and BSc in applied mathematics. He is currently leading Cloud TPU Machine Learning teams at Google who are responsible for ML Frameworks and 3P ecosystem including the PyTorch teams that develop PyTorch/XLA.
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Steve Wan, Microsoft Azure

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Steve Wan leads AI at Scale business development at Microsoft, aiming to empower developers to efficiently train and deploy machine learning models at unmatched scale on Azure. A pivotal aspect of this strategy involves enabling and innovating on PyTorch.
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Matt White, Executive Director

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Matt White (he/him) is the Executive Director of the PyTorch Foundation and GM of AI at the Linux Foundation. Matt is a distinguished expert in artificial intelligence and business, renowned for successfully deploying large-scale AI platforms across the telecom, gaming, media, and entertainment industries. With over two decades of experience, Matt has consistently demonstrated his ability to stay ahead of the curve in technological innovation, spearheading advancements in AI applications in diverse domains.
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Nancy Rausch, Senior Program Manager for Data Science

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Nancy Rausch (she/her) is a Senior Program Manager at the Linux Foundation, specializing in open-source AI. She has extensive experience in AI technology, particularly in renewable energy and healthcare analytics research. Nancy has a track record of leadership, having managed high-performing teams at companies like SAS Institute and IBM. Additionally, she serves on the advisory board of the NSF-funded non-profit LASER Institute, which focuses on AI learning analytics in STEM education. Nancy holds a Master of Science in Data Analytics from Capella University, a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Duke University, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University.
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Jennifer Bly, Director of Marketing and Communications

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Jennifer Bly (she/her) is Director of Marketing and Communications at the Linux Foundation where she leads marketing and communications for open source projects like the PyTorch Foundation, High Performance Software Foundation, OpenSSF, and Ultra Ethernet Consortium. She develops marketing strategies that encompass integrated campaigns with an emphasis on public relations, communications, social media engagement, content development, brand storytelling and more. Jennifer has a knack for making complex technical issues easy to understand in ways that motivate people to pay attention and take action. Before joining the Linux Foundation she was the External Relations Manager at the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), where she led the outreach team to increase the organization’s visibility in the internet community and develop strategic relationships that build customer growth and engagement. Jennifer earned her MA in Mass Communication from the University of Florida and Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). Within PRSA she is active on the Executive Committee of the Technology Section. She is passionate about creating a better internet and enjoys getting the word out about people doing great work in the open source community.
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Deb Giles, Event Director, LF Projects

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Deb Giles (she/her) is the Event Director for the Linux Foundation’s Collaborative Projects, where she oversees global events, including the PyTorch Conference. With over 15 years of experience in producing conferences, corporate meetings, and trade shows, Deb has worked across a wide range of industries including tech, gaming, and construction. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Azusa Pacific University. Based in Nashville, TN, Deb enjoys traveling, hiking, and spending time with her dog, Shadow, in her free time.
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Jessica Gonzalez, Release Engineer / LFX Community Architect

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Jessica Gonzalez (she/her) is a senior-level Release Engineer with 15 years of experience in designing and automating Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment processes. Jessica is part of the Release Engineering (RE) team at the Linux Foundation (LF). For the past 7 years, she has worked closely with Open Source Organizations including Hyperledger, ONAP, Dent, and Magma.
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Chris Abraham, Web Engineering Manager

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Chris (he/him) is a PMP-certified technology leader with a consistent record leading high-performing software teams. He has managed projects for clients such as Samsung and MetLife in addition to distributed blockchain development teams like the Aragon DAC. Chris has been developing mobile and web applications for over 20 years and has been working with the Linux Foundation since May 2018. He holds a Systems Design Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo.
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Thanh Ha, Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

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Thanh Ha is a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer at The Linux Foundation, working on the PyTorch CI infrastructure. A seasoned DevOps professional with over 15 years experience, Thanh excels in Infrastructure Optimization: Enhancing the backbone of software development for scalability and performance, Automation Mastery: Streamlining CI/CD pipelines to accelerate development cycles and ensure consistency, and Quality Assurance: Innovating QA and testing processes to deliver robust, high-quality software. With a passion for merging hands-on technical expertise with industry best practices, Thanh collaborates closely with development teams, driving technological advancements and mentoring emerging talent in the DevOps field.
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Regina Nkenchor, Program Manager

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Regina Nkenchor (she/her) is a Program Manager at the Linux Foundation, where she oversees high-impact projects, including PyTorch, the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP), and RISE. With over a decade of experience in the technology industry, Regina has successfully led digital transformation initiatives across sectors such as tax, finance, education, retail, and open source ecosystems.
- Prior to joining the Linux Foundation, Regina served as a Software Engineer and as an Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Ambassador at IKEA. She holds a Master’s degree in Informatics from Halmstad University, Sweden, and a Professional Diploma in Software Engineering from NIIT in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
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- Outside of work, Regina enjoys traveling and connecting with new people. Her goal is to empower developers and communities to thrive while fostering a healthier, more inclusive open source ecosystem for everyone.
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Bazil Sterling, Communications and Marketing Associate

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Bazil Sterling (he/him) is a Communications and Marketing Associate at The Linux Foundation, where he drives marketing and communications efforts for key open source initiatives, including the PyTorch Foundation, LF Decentralized Trust, and DENT. With a background in journalism, public relations, marketing, and advertising, Bazil is a storyteller who crafts compelling narratives that elevate open source communities. He is particularly passionate about supporting projects advancing sustainability and open collaboration.
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