Tech Conference at HBS

Adam Selipsky is the CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. He also leads Worldwide Sustainability for Amazon, overseeing efforts to scale and drive Amazon’s adoption of renewable energy, path to net-zero carbon emissions, and other company-wide initiatives. Having previously led AWS Marketing, Sales, and Support from its infancy, Selipsky was instrumental in launching and growing AWS from a startup into a multi-billion-dollar business. In 2016, Selipsky left to become president and CEO of data visualization pioneer Tableau Software, where he led the company through its acquisition by Salesforce in what was the third-largest software industry acquisition at the time, before returning to AWS in 2021. Selipsky is a member of the World Economic Forum Information, Technology, and Communications governors, and serves on the Harvard Business School Dean’s Advisory Board. He has an AB in government from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Fascinated by software development since his childhood in Germany, Thomas Dohmke has built a career building tools developers love and accelerating innovations that are changing software development. Currently, Thomas is Chief Executive Officer of GitHub, where he has overseen the launch of the world's first at-scale AI developer tool, GitHub Copilot. Before his time at GitHub, Thomas previously co-founded HockeyApp and led the company as CEO through its acquisition by Microsoft in 2014, and holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Glasgow, UK.

Fatima is Corporate Vice President, AI Infrastructure and Partnerships in Windows & Web Experiences (WWE). Her team is working on the Core Copilot Platform for the company as well as for 3rd party customers. She also leads the marketplace team.

Previously Fatima was COO and Chief Technical Advisor to Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott where she was responsible for helping formulate and drive technology strategy for Microsoft and running cross-company strategic incubations, initiatives and programs. This included overseeing the execution of Microsoft’s AI @ Scale efforts, as well as the OpenAI partnership. Fatima has worked at Microsoft for more than 22 years in various roles within the product and engineering organizations - building platforms and developer APIs. She also advises multiple tech startups outside Microsoft.

She has a passion for technology, for making a positive impact on the world and for building innovative products that solve real problems. She is a seasoned technology leader who has experience building and leading large, diverse, cross functional teams. She is also passionate about the role of culture and of diversity and inclusion in the technology industry and a strong advocate for more women in STEM. She is the D&I exec sponsor for her division at Microsoft and supports various industry wide diversity programs such as the LEAP Apprenticeship Program and Pakistani Women in Computing (PwiC).

Dr. Wei Li is the Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence and Analytics (AIA) at Intel, responsible for AI software and AI hardware co-design. He leads Intel’s world-wide team of engineers who make “AI Everywhere” a reality by supercharging machine performance and developer productivity.

With a passion for technology, strategy, and execution, Wei and his team have been instrumental in Intel's recent multi-billion-dollar AI revenue growth. His team improves AI performance by 10-100X through software acceleration and for a broad AI and Analytics portfolio including deep learning, statistical machine learning and big data analytics.

Wei Li received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. He has served as an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems and was on the Intel/Microsoft committee that funded the creation of parallel computing research centers at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Keith Kressin has over 25 years of leadership experience in the semiconductor industry including over 13 years at Qualcomm as the SVP/GM responsible for multiple business lines including AR/VR, PCs, and AI Accelerators for Cloud Computing. Prior to that, he spent eight years at Intel and four years at Texas Instruments. Keith has extensive expertise in product management, silicon roadmaps, strategic planning, and semiconductor technologies.

Jeff Wittich is the chief product officer at Ampere, where he helps drive sustainable computing for the Cloud, AI inferencing and edge applications. Jeff has extensive leadership experience in the semiconductor industry in roles ranging from product and process development to business strategy to marketing. Prior to joining Ampere, he worked at Intel for 15 years in a variety of positions throughout the company. Most recently, he was responsible for the Cloud Service Provider Platform business, driving global market reach, product customization, and ultimately defining the products and platforms being used across the cloud worldwide. While at Intel, Jeff also led a product development team responsible for 5 generations of Xeon processors. He received an Intel Achievement Award for his work in developing the Custom CPU program.

Jeff has an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

Jeff Wittich

Ampere Computing

Chief Product Officer

Evan Kotsovinos

Google

Vice President and General Manager of Protected Data

Evan Kotsovinos is a Vice President and General Manager at Google, where he leads strategy, product, and engineering for the lifecycle of data across Google. His strategic focus is on planet-scale solutions that protect the security and privacy of data of Google’s billions of users around the world.

Evan was previously Global Head of Infrastructure at American Express, responsible for the company’s data centers, networks, compute, storage, hybrid cloud, data infrastructure, and SRE teams. Prior to that he served as Asia CIO at Morgan Stanley, where he managed all technology services and resources in the region.

Evan began his career as a Senior Research Scientist with Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and is a recognized leader in cloud computing, having led the team that developed one of the first cloud computing systems in the early 2000s at the University of Cambridge. He holds a Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge and a Master’s in Finance from London Business School.

Ewa Duerr leads the Product Management team for Cloud Artificial Intelligence at Google, California. She owns an MBA from Harvard Business School and an executive education from Stanford and Harvard Kennedy School. She brings a multi-year experience as an entrepreneur and investor at tech start-ups as well as management consultant at Bain & Co. She provides a global perspective: worked and studied across six continents and speaks seven languages. Interestingly, Ewa comes from a musician family and used to professionally play in the orchestra as first violinist. She is a passionate marathon runner, motorcycle rider and holder of a helicopter private pilot license.

Ewa Duerr

Google Cloud AI

Head of Product Management

Emad Mostaque

Stability AI

CEO & Founder

Emad Mostaque is a British entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Stability AI. Under his leadership, Stability AI has popularized viral AI models like Stable Diffusion, fostered a community of more than 270,000 creators, developers, and researchers, and helped establish several research hubs worldwide. His open access approach to AI seeks to democratize this powerful technology and place it in the hands of everyday people rather than a few powerful corporations.

A problem solver at heart, Mostaque holds a BA and MA in mathematics and computer science from the University of Oxford. He began his career in hedge fund management before working on multiple entrepreneurial endeavors. With his keen ability to spot emerging market trends, he has built the only independent, multi-modal AI company in the world.