Speakers
Speakers GAI World 2025
Keynotes
John Halamka MD
Mayo Clinic Platform
President
Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi
UBS (NYSE: UBS)
Chief Investment Officer Americas and Global Head Equity
Shikhar Ghosh
Harvard Business School
Professor
Melissa Smith
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
CEO
Corporate Leaders
Karen Stroup
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Chief Digital Officer
Stefanos Poulis
Seekr
Chief Technology Officer & AI Officer
Barbara Widholm
State Street Bank (NYSE: STT)
VP of AI
Christopher Boone
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL)
Group VP of Life Sciences
Monica Caldas
Global Chief Information Officer
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Janett Haas
SVP, Research & Insights
Forbes
Mike Daniels
Wayfair (NYSE: W)
Senior Engineering Manager
Marty Sprinzen
Vantiq
CEO
Kausar Riaz Ahmed
Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)
Director, Generative AI Engagement Lead
Tom Godden
Amazon Web Services, Inc
Executive in Residence
Jean Olive
John Hancock
Former CIO
Vinay Gidwaney
Chief Product Officer
OneDigital
Marco Fioravanti
Nissan Motor Corporation
VP, Product & Service Planning
Andy Stetzler
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Enterprise AI Lead
Ben Kasdon
CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG)
VP Products
Heather Lavoie
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
EVP & CIO
Veronika Durgin
Saks Global
VP Data
Ron Gonzalez
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Vice President AI and Data Lake Engineering
Ankit Mangal
VP of Data and Software Engineering
Cirkul
Lori Rinderer
Nissan Motor Corporation
Sr. Planner, Market Intelligence
Cindi Howson
ThoughtSpot
Chief Data & AI Strategy Officer
Parag Shah
CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG)
VP Data
Nina Grooms Lee
Alamo Group (NYSE: ALG)
Board Member
Ming Liu
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Senior Director of Machine Learning
Jim Chilton
EVP, Chief Technology Officer
Cengage Group
Bill Fandrich
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
EVP and CIO
Healthcare and AI Innovators
Dr. Ryan Vega
Vantiq
Chief Health Officer
Neha Shah
Senior Director, Medical Affairs and Chief Patient Office Tech
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Santiago Romero-Brufau, MD, PhD
Mayo Clinic
Director of Artificial Intelligence, ENT
Dr. Thomas Kingsley
UCLA Health (and formerly at Mayo Clinic)
Director Epidemiology AI Lab
Nate McBride
CIO
​Xilio Therapeutics
Vivek Mukhatyar
Pfizer
Generative AI Medical Engagement Lead
Sameer Sule
CISO & VP, Compliance
Rhapsody
Gaye Bok
AI and Digital Innovation Fund, Mass General Brigham
Partner
Sharna Sattiraju
Director AI Products & Platform
Boston Scientific
AI and Technology Experts
Andy Roberts
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
AI Architect
Ross Gagnon
Executive Director of Research
Forbes
Kevin Shatzkamer
Microsoft Customer Experience, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)
CVP
Danielle Dean
​Sr. Director of AI and ML
SimpliSafe
Ashish Bhatia
Amazon
(NASDAQ: AMZN)
Principal Product Manager
Venkat Vedam
Head of Generative AI
Manulife
Richard Barretto
SVP, CISO
Progress Software
Ceileidh Siegel
AWS
Principal, Innovation Strategist
Investment and Advisory Leaders
Randy Bean
Data & AI Leadership Exchange
Senior Advisor
Vikram Mahidhar
Operating Partner and Board Member
Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO)
Brionna Jimerson
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Vice President
Gamiel Gran
Mayfield Fund
Chief Commercial Officer
Drake Pruitt
Operating Partner, Product and Innovation
Clearhaven Partners
Kaitlin Betancourt
Goodwin
Partner
Kleida Martiro
Glasswing Ventures
Partner
Kent Lucas
Non Sibi Ventures
Founding Partner
Bethany Withers
Goodwin
Partner; Chair, AI Practice
Ian Robertson
Director
American Securities
Sanjeev Mohan
SanjMo
Founder
Camille Little
non sibi ventures
Senior Associate
Industry Leaders
John Werner
Imagination in Action
Founder
Dmitriy Sokolovskiy
Semrush, Inc.
SVP, Cyber Resilience
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Rizwan Mallal
Quantum Gears
COO
Ramesh Razdan
Chief Information Officer
Bain & Company
Dr. Tamara Nall
The Leading Niche
CEO
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Cole Swain
Tomorrow.io
SVP, Strategy / Partnerships
Academics and Researchers
David Edelman
Harvard Business School
Executive Advisor and Fellow
Mike Grandinetti
Harvard Business School
Executive Fellow
Jeffrey Rayport
Harvard Business School
Professor
Chris Pease
​MIT, AgentiCorp
​Research Collaborator with Project NANDA at MIT, Founder
Ramesh Raskar
Professor, MIT
Director Project Nanda
Tom Davenport
Babson College
Professor
Entrepreneurs
Pete Blackshaw
BrandRank.AI
CEO
Vladimir Jacimovic
AlgoVerde
CEO
Chris McKay
Maginative
CEO
Anthony Hill
Adaptix Corp
CEO and Founder
Startups
Mo Aidrus
Co-founder & CEO
Ekai
Abhishek Mehta
Co-founder and CTO
Tresata
​Puneet Suri
Co-Founder & COO
Tresle AI
Artem Lukoianov
Volunteer
Sundai Club
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Ajay Joshi
CEO and Co-founder
Cipher Sonic Labs
GAI Insights
Luda Kopeikina
GAI Insights
Analyst/Daily AI News
Ankaj Mohindroo
GAI Insights
Head of AI Research
John Sviokla
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
Liz Vanzura
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
Paul Baier
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
Tim Andrews
GAI Insights
Senior AI Analyst
Adam Rappaport
GAI Insights
Co-Founder and AI Analyst
Some Speakers from Last Year
2024 Recap
Last year, GAI World 2024 in Boston featured the foremost leaders in enterprise Generative AI. Top C-suite executives, visionary investors, and pioneering AI startup founders shared exclusive insights and strategies to advance AI investments and drive organizational innovation. Make plans to attend GAI World 2025 and transform your approach to AI with cutting-edge knowledge from the industry’s brightest minds.
Speakers and Panelists - GAI World 2024
Randy Bean
Data & AI Leadership Exchange
Senior Advisor
Jose Pedro Almeida
Intelligence Ventures
World's Top 70 Health AI and Chief AI Strategist,
Yasmina Benkhoui
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA)
Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships and Ecosystem Lead
Pete Blackshaw
BrandRank.ai
Founder & CEO
Chris Boone
Oracle
Group Vice President, Research Services, Life Sciences
Pat Condo
Seekr
CEO
Tom Davenport
Babson College
Distinguished Professor
Pankaj Dugar
AI21
SVP & GM North America
David Edelman
Harvard Business School
Senior Lecturer
Bill Fandrich
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Executive Vice President of Technology and Operations
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Usama Fayyad
Northeastern University
Executive Director, Institute for Experiential AI
Jud Welle
Goodwin
Parter at Goodwin
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Shikhar Ghosh
Harvard Business School
Professor
Dr. Sahar Hashmi
Myriad Consulting
Founder and CEO
Chip Hazard
Flybridge Capital Partners
General Partner and Co-Founder
Igor Jablokov
Pryon
CEO
Sheila Jordan
Honeywell
Chief Digital Technology Officer
Thomas Kingsley
Mayo Clinic
Professor of Medicine & Biomedical Informatics
Scott Kirsner
InnoLead
CEO, Innolead Boston Globe Columnist
Vinay Gidwaney
OneDigital
Chief Product Officer
Nina Grooms Lee
Alamo Group (NYSE: ALG)
Board Member
Matt Lewis
LLMental
Founder and CEO
Rizwan Mallal
Quantum Gears
COO
Chris McKay
Maginative
CEO
Erik Oken
MidOcean Partners
Chairman, Private Equity
Judah Phillips
Squark
CEO/Co-Founder
Mary Purk
The Wharton School, UPenn
Managing Director, AI and Analytics Research Center
Badri Raghavan
ResMed (NYSE: RMD)
VP of AI/ML
Ramesh Raskar
Professor, MIT
Director Project Nanda
Toby Eduardo Redshaw
Verus Advisory
CEO
Andy Roberts
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)
Data Platform and AI Architect
Ian Robertson
American Securities
Director
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Sandeep Sacheti
Wolters Kluwer (XAMS WTKWY)
Former EVP, Customer Information Management
Rudina Seseri
Glasswing Ventures
Founder and Managing Partner
Ted Shelton
Inflection AI
COO
Dan Slagen
Tomorrow.io
CMO
Melissa Smith
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
CEO
John Spottiswood
Jerry
Chief Operating and Data Officer
Anne Stemlar
Goodwin
Managing Director, Knowledge & Innovation Strategy
John Sviokla
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
Katie Taylor
Narratize
CEO
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Yann Stoneman
Cohere
Staff Solutions Architect
Liz Vanzura
GAI Insights
Co-founder and Partner
AdAge Marketer of Year
WSJ Women to Watch
Ad Executive: Consumer & Retail
John Werner
Imagination in Action
Founder
Mike Bloom
WEKA
AI Solutions Architect
Suzanne Livingston
IBM
Vice President Sustainability Software Engineering
Jean Olive
John Hancock
CIO
Karen Stroup
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Chief Digital Officer
Adam Rappaport
Research Analyst & Tech Wizard
Co-Founder
Yvonne Hao
Massachusetts
Secretary of Economic Development, Commonwealth
Kjersten Margaret Moody
Prudential Financial
Global Chief Data Officer
Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi
Global Equities, UBS
Chief Investment Officer
Awais Sher Bajwa
Bank of America
Head of Data and AI Banking
Ross Gagnon
Forbes
Executive Director of Research at Forbes
Markus Flierl
Intel Cloud Services
Corporate Vice President
Jeffrey Rayport
Harvard Business School
Professor
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Dan Elton
Mass General Brigham AI
Data Scientist
Sri Elaprolu
Director
Generative AI Innovation Center at Amazon Web Services
