Yvonne Lutsch

Caroline Chan

Caroline Chan is Vice President and General Manager of the 5G Infrastructure Division at Intel Corporation Network Platform Group, responsible for driving Intel global network infrastructure strategy and deliverables for 5G. Caroline leads this organization to identify and develop use cases that incorporate IoT, innovation in wireless technologies, and deployment models like mobile edge computing, alternative spectrums that enabled new service providers and enterprise networks. Since she joined Intel in 2009, Caroline has worked closely with telecom vendors, operators and application developers, driving strategy and marketing in virtualized RAN, mini Cloud RAN and mobile edge computing. Caroline also represents Intel at industry forums. Her research interests include 5G and HetNet performance. Prior to joining Intel, Caroline was Director of Product Management at Nortel Networks where she managed a portfolio of 3G and 4G wireless infrastructure products.

Ajay Nair

Ajay is an accomplished professional with several years of experience in Hardware and Software industries.

He leads teams in Product Marketing, Product Management, Product & Corporate Strategy, M&A, Engineering and Supply chain functions.
Prior to Google, he was Director of Marketing & Product Management at Broadcom, and has held management roles at LSI Corporation and Synopsys.

Cheng Wang

CHENG WANG. Senior VP Engineering: Architecture, Software, Silicon. Originally from Shanghai, PRC. BSEECS, UC Berkeley. Cheng has led the architecture, silicon implementation and software development for eFPGA over two generations from 180nm-16nm and now neural inferencing. Two years as VLSI designer at Zoran. MSEE, EE PhD UCLA: designed 5 FPGA chips from 90nm to 40nm. 2013 Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award. 2014 ISSCC Lewis Winner Award for Outstanding Paper. Multiple patents at UCLA and Flex Logix.

Flex Logix’s NMAX platform excels at getting high hardware utilization at batch=1, which is critical for edge applications. Most of the new information is in the 2nd half of the slide deck.

NMAX delivers from 1 to 100+TOPS, as you need, at 10x lower cost and 3-5x lower power than existing solutions because we get 50-80% MAC utilization on tough models, meaning we need less silicon area, and we achieve it with 10x less DRAM bandwidth, meaning less DRAM cost and system power.

Ramya Ravichander

Bryton Shang

Bryton Shang is the founder and CEO of Aquabyte, a Silicon Valley and Norway-based venture-backed company applying machine learning and computer vision to aquaculture fish farming for biomass estimation, sea lice counting, and feed optimization and formulation. Bryton was named to the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Manufacturing & Industry.

Graduating at the top of his engineering class at Princeton University, Bryton has led several venture-backed startups. Bryton built deep learning algorithms to diagnose cancer as CTO of HistoWiz, a biotechnology firm. He also co-founded iQ License, a brand licensing platform, and Nikao Investments, an algorithmic trading firm.

Darryl Weatherspoon

Ganesh Harinath

Maria Karaivanova

Maria joined Madrona in early 2017. As part of the investment team, Maria is focused on sourcing and evaluating new investment opportunities, working with portfolio companies to explore and evaluate business strategies and developing investment themes for the firm. She is particularly interested in founders doing new things in the enterprise software, cloud security, IOT, and infrastructure arena. She serves on the board of Madrona companies including Pulse Labs and Rigado.

Maria has nearly a decade of deep technology experience, garnered through roles at some of the world’s leading technology companies, including Cloudflare, Intel and Boeing. Maria joined Madrona from the executive team member at Cloudflare, a San Francisco – based web performance and security company, where she led business development and helped build the company from 25 employees to unicorn status.

While at Cloudflare, Maria built a global ecosystem of over five thousand partners and launched strategic partnerships with Google, Rackspace and other leading cloud platforms, delivering significant revenue and distribution. Prior to Cloudflare, Maria was an investor at Intel Capital with a focus on enterprise technologies and cloud security. She was also part of the Intel-McAfee strategic engagement team helping integrate security into firmware. Before that, Maria held various positions at Boeing specializing in intellectual property management and international business development for the Chinook, Apache and F-15 programs, and unmanned aircraft. She started her career as an analyst at Citibank. Maria has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSBA in Finance with high honors from Saint Louis University.

Mohammad Rastegari

Kristina Serafim

Kristina Serafim is a Director at Verizon Ventures. Kristina joined Verizon Ventures from Verizon’s Big Data and Artificial Intelligence product team. Prior to Verizon, Kristina was a Director at Intellectual Ventures, where she led investments in machine learning, media, advertising, and gaming technologies. Kristina’s entrepreneurial experience includes co-founding and leading two software companies, from their inception to acquisition. Kristina also spent several years on the strategy and corporate development teams at IBM and at NAGRA Innovations. She received an electrical and mechanical engineering degree from Kettering University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Eric Sun

Venky Veeraraghavan