We will have a panel of speakers from high tech companies from the Bay Area who can speak to how AI & ML is being used to change the world.
Shilpa Kolhatkar - Nvidia
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Shilpa Kolhatkar works at NVIDIA and a frequent speaker on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Shilpa has a unique profile that spans product and solution engineering, business operations and business development. Shilpa has a B.S in Computer Science, and an M.B.A. from SJSU. She loves to teach, and in her spare time is a yoga instructor. Before joining Nvidia, Shilpa worked at Cisco where she drove the growth of Cisco’s IoT solutions across major verticals such as Manufacturing, Energy, Transportation and Public Sector.
Alaka Konda - Kaiser Permanente
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Alaka Konda is a Chief Architect with the Analytics Advanced Technology team at Kaiser Permanente. She is responsible for defining solution architectures for Data Integration, Analytics, Big Data (including AI & ML) and Data Warehousing domains. Alaka has over 15 years of software development expertise. Alaka holds a Bachelors degree in Sciences and a MBA. Before joining Kaiser Permanente, Alaka worked with financial companies such as JP Morgan and Washington Mutual.
Vinita Sinha - Kaiser Permanente​
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Vinita Sinha is a Principal Solutions Consultant for Kaiser Permanente’s Multi-tenant Data Platform using Big Data Technologies with focus on Data Management, Data Governance, Security and Use Case support for Analytics and Modeling. Vinita has over 15 years of software development expertise and has held roles such as Architect and Lead Software Engineer in Silicon Valley companies. Vinita holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from BITS Ranchi (India).
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Sankar Venkataraman - KLA+
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Sankar Venkataraman works at KLA+ (Formerly KLA-Tencor) as the Head of Algorithms in eBeam with a focus on Computer Vision and Machine Learning based solutions. Sankar has a M.S in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee and has worked on solving image analysis challenges on various platforms ranging from microscopes, medical devices to multi-spectral sensors over the last 15 years. Sankar spent 4 years with a medical imaging start-up in Hawaii working on assisted diagnosis tools for cervical cancer before joining KLA+. In his spare time, Sankar nurtures his passion for cooking, tennis and talking all things ‘Tennessee football’.
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Chetana Bhaskar- KLA+
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Chetana is a Director of S/W Development KLA+.
Chetana works on foundational SW architecture, distributed computing infrastructure and application layers to enable cutting edge image processing, machine learning and computer vision algorithms that power KLA+s Inspection machines. Her work spans several disciplines from physics, high performance computing as well as complex data science oriented applications that require significant AI level automation.
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