
Speakers
Speakers GAI World 2025
Keynotes

John Halamka MD
Mayo Clinic Platform
President

Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi
UBS (NYSE: UBS)
Chief Investment Officer Americas and Global Head Equity

Shikhar Ghosh
Harvard Business School
Professor

Melissa Smith
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
CEO
Corporate Leaders

Karen Stroup
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Chief Digital Officer

Heather Lavoie
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
EVP & CIO

Christopher Boone
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL)
Group VP of Life Sciences

Monica Caldas
Global Chief Information Officer
Liberty Mutual Insurance

Janett Haas
SVP, Research & Insights
Forbes

Ben Kasdon
CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG)
VP Products

Parag Shah
CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG)
VP Data

Jean Olive
John Hancock
Former CIO

Vinay Gidwaney
Chief Product Officer
OneDigital

Susanne Seitinger
Director of AI/ML Product Marketing
AWS

Barbara Widholm
State Street Bank (NYSE: STT)
VP of AI

Veronika Durgin
Saks Global
VP Data

Ron Gonzalez
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Vice President AI and Data Lake Engineering

Ankit Mangal
VP of Data and Software Engineering
Cirkul

Kausar Riaz Ahmed
Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)
Director, Generative AI Engagement Lead

Nina Grooms Lee
Alamo Group (NYSE: ALG)
Board Member

Ming Liu
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Senior Director of Machine Learning

Jim Chilton
EVP, Chief Technology Officer
Cengage Group
Healthcare and AI Innovators

Dr. Ryan Vega
Vantiq
Chief Health Officer

Neha Shah
Senior Director, Medical Affairs and Chief Patient Office Tech
Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Thomas Kingsley
UCLA Health (and formerly at Mayo Clinic)
Director Epidemiology AI Lab

Nate McBride
CIO
​Xilio Therapeutics

Vivek Mukhatyar
Pfizer
Generative AI Medical Engagement Lead

Sameer Sule
CISO & VP, Compliance
Rhapsody

Gaye Bok
AI and Digital Innovation Fund, Mass General Brigham
Partner

Sharna Sattiraju
Director AI Products & Platform
Boston Scientific
AI and Technology Experts

Andy Roberts
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
AI Architect

Ross Gagnon
Executive Director of Research
Forbes

Kevin Shatzkamer
Microsoft Customer Experience, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)
CVP

Danielle Dean
​Sr. Director of AI and ML
SimpliSafe

Ashish Bhatia
Amazon
(NASDAQ: AMZN)
Principal Product Manager

Venkat Vedam
Head of Generative AI
Manulife

Richard Barretto
SVP, CISO
Progress Software
Investment and Advisory Leaders

Randy Bean
Data & AI Leadership Exchange
Senior Advisor

Ian Robertson
Director
American Securities

Sanjeev Mohan
SanjMo
Founder

Gamiel Gran
Mayfield Fund
Chief Commercial Officer

Vikram Mahidhar
Operating Partner and Board Member
Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO)

Brionna Jimerson
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Vice President

Andy Stetzler
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Enterprise AI Lead

Drake Pruitt
Operating Partner, Product and Innovation
Clearhaven Partners

Rudina Seseri
Glasswing Ventures
Managing Partner

Kent Lucas
Non Sibi Ventures
Founding Partner
Industry Leaders

John Werner
Imagination in Action
Founder

Liz Vanzura
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
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Rizwan Mallal
Quantum Gears
COO

Dan Slagen
Tomorrow.io
CMO

Dr. Tamara Nall
The Leading Niche
CEO

Adam Rappaport
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
Academics and Researchers

David Edelman
Harvard Business School
Executive Advisor and Fellow

Mike Grandinetti
Harvard
Serial Tech Entrepreneur & Faculty

Jeffrey Rayport
Harvard Business School
Professor

Chris Pease
Research Collaborator with Project NANDA at MIT, Founder
​MIT, AgentiCorp

Ramesh Raskar
MIT
Professor and Director Media Lab

Tom Davenport
Babson College
Professor
Entrepreneurs

Pete Blackshaw
BrandRank.AI
CEO

Vladimir Jacimovic
AlgoVerde
CEO

Chris McKay
Maginative
CEO

Anthony Hill
Adaptix Corp
CEO and Founder
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2024 Recap
Last year, GAI World 2024 in Boston featured the foremost leaders in enterprise Generative AI. Top C-suite executives, visionary investors, and pioneering AI startup founders shared exclusive insights and strategies to advance AI investments and drive organizational innovation. Make plans to attend GAI World 2025 and transform your approach to AI with cutting-edge knowledge from the industry’s brightest minds.
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