Keynote: COde for good

Renee Yao leads global healthcare AI startups at NVIDIA. Previously she worked as a senior product manager and product marketing manager for AI Systems at NVIDIA. She graduated from Haas School of Business at the UC Berkeley, with a focus in economics and IT. She is passionate about women in tech and started the “NVIDIA AI Projects” initiative to solve NVIDIA internal problems using AI. Renee was named one of the top 50 B2B product marketers to watch in 2016. In her free time, she enjoys competitive ballroom dancing, golfing, reading, and archery.

panelists

Priya Abani is the CEO of AliveCor. AliveCor is a healthcare tech & AI company, and is recognized as the leader in FDA-cleared consumer electrocardiogram technology. Priya is an established executive and most recently served as the General Manager at Alexa Voice Service (AVS) in Amazon, where she was responsible for leading product, engineering, technical enablement and developer experience teams. Priya started her career with Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science, and her first job was to write architectural validation tools for the Intel Pentium product family. Since completing her MBA, Priya has held several leadership roles creating global scale for new digital platform technologies. Priya enjoys traveling and painting, and her role as a Girl Scouts leader for a middle school troop in Palo Alto.

Subhashree Radhakrishnan is a Deep Learning Software Engineer in the Intelligent Video Analytics Team (Metropolis AI) at NVIDIA. She earned her Masters Degree from Virginia Tech with specialization in AI and Computer vision. At NVIDIA, she works on developing models for Smart City  applications on edge devices that will make our surroundings smart and safe. Her research focus was on visual understanding in videos and intersection of image and language domain during her Masters. She is particularly interested in leveraging AI for social good and is a strong advocate of Women in Tech. She likes public speaking and is current secretary at the toastmasters.

Ambika Pajjuri is a product management leader at Amazon AWS that builds a new category of products and services that enable customers to learn AI and Machine Learning in a hands-on manner. Prior to this, she worked on Amazon Echo. 
Ambika enjoys the use of technology to solve problems and to build innovative products. Her love for technology and learning began with her foray into engineering - she has an MS in EE from Columbia University and she taught herself CS while working. She's now learning AI and ML while enabling developers to learn as well
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