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Author:

Mike Bursell

Executive Director
Confidential Computing Consortium
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Mike Bursell

Executive Director
Confidential Computing Consortium
Moderator

Author:

David McIntyre

Director, Product Planning: Samsung & Board Member: SNIA
SNIA
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David McIntyre

Director, Product Planning: Samsung & Board Member: SNIA
SNIA

Author:

Preet Virk

Co-Founder & COO
Celestial AI
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Preet Virk

Co-Founder & COO
Celestial AI

Author:

Jorn Smeets

Managing Director, North America
PhotonDelta

Jorn Smeets is Managing Director – North America for PhotonDelta. Based in Silicon Valley, his mission is to accelerate the photonic chip industry by building collaborations between North America and the PhotonDelta ecosystem. Prior to his role in the USA, Jorn was Chief Marketing Officer and Board Member of PhotonDelta, where he was closely involved with the organisational strategy and overall business operations. Jorn has a background in business management, with extensive international working experience throughout various industries in China, Singapore, France, Italy, and the Netherlands.

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Jorn Smeets

Managing Director, North America
PhotonDelta

Jorn Smeets is Managing Director – North America for PhotonDelta. Based in Silicon Valley, his mission is to accelerate the photonic chip industry by building collaborations between North America and the PhotonDelta ecosystem. Prior to his role in the USA, Jorn was Chief Marketing Officer and Board Member of PhotonDelta, where he was closely involved with the organisational strategy and overall business operations. Jorn has a background in business management, with extensive international working experience throughout various industries in China, Singapore, France, Italy, and the Netherlands.

Author:

Katharine Schmidtke

Co-Founder
Eribel Systems

Dr. Katharine Schmidtke is co-founder of Eribel Systems and Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  She previously directed sourcing for Meta’s custom AI accelerators and next generation optical interconnect technology. She has over 25 years of experience in the Opto-Electronics industry including strategic roles at; Finisar Corporation, JDSU Uniphase, and New Focus. Katharine received a Ph.D. in non-linear optics from University of Southampton and completed post-doctoral research at Stanford University.

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Katharine Schmidtke

Co-Founder
Eribel Systems

Dr. Katharine Schmidtke is co-founder of Eribel Systems and Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  She previously directed sourcing for Meta’s custom AI accelerators and next generation optical interconnect technology. She has over 25 years of experience in the Opto-Electronics industry including strategic roles at; Finisar Corporation, JDSU Uniphase, and New Focus. Katharine received a Ph.D. in non-linear optics from University of Southampton and completed post-doctoral research at Stanford University.

 

Mark Wade

CEO and Co-Founder
Ayar Labs

Mark is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Ayar Labs. His prior roles at Ayar Labs include Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering. He is recognized as a pioneer in photonics technologies and, before founding the company, led the team that designed the optics in the world's first processor to communicate using light. He and his co-founders invented breakthrough technology at MIT and UC Berkeley from 2010-2015, which led to the formation of Ayar Labs. He holds a PhD from the University of Colorado.

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Mark Wade

CEO and Co-Founder
Ayar Labs

Mark Wade

CEO and Co-Founder
Ayar Labs

Mark is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Ayar Labs. His prior roles at Ayar Labs include Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering. He is recognized as a pioneer in photonics technologies and, before founding the company, led the team that designed the optics in the world's first processor to communicate using light. He and his co-founders invented breakthrough technology at MIT and UC Berkeley from 2010-2015, which led to the formation of Ayar Labs. He holds a PhD from the University of Colorado.

In today’s AI infrastructure, traditional copper and pluggable optics are ineffective in scaling package-level compute advancements to the system rack and row levels, leading to low efficiency, high power consumption, and high costs. New technologies are needed to support growing model sizes and complexity. Ayar Labs' in-package optical I/O solution enables peak platform performance by providing efficient, low-cost scaling at the rack and row levels. It also offers extended accelerator memory to optimize the balance between memory and compute. In this presentation, Mark Wade will show application-level improvements in performance and TCO metrics, such as productivity, profitability, and interactivity, using optical I/O-based scale-up fabrics for inference and training.

Author:

Mark Wade

CEO and Co-Founder
Ayar Labs

Mark is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Ayar Labs. His prior roles at Ayar Labs include Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering. He is recognized as a pioneer in photonics technologies and, before founding the company, led the team that designed the optics in the world's first processor to communicate using light. He and his co-founders invented breakthrough technology at MIT and UC Berkeley from 2010-2015, which led to the formation of Ayar Labs. He holds a PhD from the University of Colorado.

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Mark Wade

CEO and Co-Founder
Ayar Labs

Mark is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Ayar Labs. His prior roles at Ayar Labs include Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering. He is recognized as a pioneer in photonics technologies and, before founding the company, led the team that designed the optics in the world's first processor to communicate using light. He and his co-founders invented breakthrough technology at MIT and UC Berkeley from 2010-2015, which led to the formation of Ayar Labs. He holds a PhD from the University of Colorado.

Author:

Preet Virk

Co-Founder & COO
Celestial AI
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Preet Virk

Co-Founder & COO
Celestial AI

Author:

Zaid Kahn

VP, Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering
Microsoft

Zaid is currently a VP in Microsoft’s Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering organization where he leads systems engineering and hardware development for Azure including AI systems and infrastructure. Zaid is part of the technical leadership team across Microsoft that sets AI hardware strategy for training and inference. Zaid's teams are also responsible for software and hardware engineering efforts developing specialized compute systems, FPGA network products and ASIC hardware accelerators.

 

Prior to Microsoft Zaid was head of infrastructure at LinkedIn where he was responsible for all aspects of architecture and engineering for Datacenters, Networking, Compute, Storage and Hardware. Zaid also led several software development teams focusing on building and managing infrastructure as code. This included zero touch provisioning, software-defined networking, network operating systems (SONiC, OpenSwitch), self-healing networks, backbone controller, software defined storage and distributed host-based firewalls. The network teams Zaid led built the global network for LinkedIn, including POP's, peering for edge services, IPv6 implementation, DWDM infrastructure and datacenter network fabric. The hardware and datacenter engineering teams Zaid led were responsible for water cooling to the racks, optical fiber infrastructure and open hardware development which was contributed to the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP).

 

Zaid holds several patents in networking and is a sought-after keynote speaker at top tier conferences and events. Zaid is currently the chairperson for the OCP Foundation Board. He is also currently on the EECS External Advisory Board (EAB) at UC Berkeley and a board member of Internet Ecosystem Innovation Committee (IEIC), a global internet think tank promoting internet diversity. Zaid has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Physics from the University of the South Pacific.

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Zaid Kahn

VP, Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering
Microsoft

Zaid is currently a VP in Microsoft’s Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering organization where he leads systems engineering and hardware development for Azure including AI systems and infrastructure. Zaid is part of the technical leadership team across Microsoft that sets AI hardware strategy for training and inference. Zaid's teams are also responsible for software and hardware engineering efforts developing specialized compute systems, FPGA network products and ASIC hardware accelerators.

 

Prior to Microsoft Zaid was head of infrastructure at LinkedIn where he was responsible for all aspects of architecture and engineering for Datacenters, Networking, Compute, Storage and Hardware. Zaid also led several software development teams focusing on building and managing infrastructure as code. This included zero touch provisioning, software-defined networking, network operating systems (SONiC, OpenSwitch), self-healing networks, backbone controller, software defined storage and distributed host-based firewalls. The network teams Zaid led built the global network for LinkedIn, including POP's, peering for edge services, IPv6 implementation, DWDM infrastructure and datacenter network fabric. The hardware and datacenter engineering teams Zaid led were responsible for water cooling to the racks, optical fiber infrastructure and open hardware development which was contributed to the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP).

 

Zaid holds several patents in networking and is a sought-after keynote speaker at top tier conferences and events. Zaid is currently the chairperson for the OCP Foundation Board. He is also currently on the EECS External Advisory Board (EAB) at UC Berkeley and a board member of Internet Ecosystem Innovation Committee (IEIC), a global internet think tank promoting internet diversity. Zaid has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Physics from the University of the South Pacific.

SK Telecom and Singtel partner to develop next-generation telco technology and solutions

Submitted by Priya Khosla on July 8, 2024 - 5:54am
AI Hardware
Singtel and SK Telecom announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on building next-generation telecommunications networks that will drive innovation, improve network performance and security and deliver enhanced customer experiences over the next two years.

HONOR Unveils Industry's First AI Defocus Eye Protection and AI Deepfake Detection

Submitted by Priya Khosla on July 5, 2024 - 6:28am
AI Hardware
Global technology brand HONOR revealed two industry-leading on-device AI innovations created to empower individuals and introduce a new level of user safety. The brand also reiterated its focus on human-centric on-device AI and its belief in the potential for AI-enabled hardware to empower users by delivering tailored services while protecting user privacy.