Speakers
Confirmed Speakers GAI World 2025
John Halamka MD
Mayo Clinic
President
Melissa Smith
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
CEO
Karen Stroup
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Chief Digital Officer
Barbara Widholm
State Street Bank (NYSE: STT)
VP of AI
Kausar Riaz Ahmed
Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)
Director, Generative AI
Shikhar Ghosh
Harvard Business School
Professor
Chris McKay
Maginative
CEO
Dr. Thomas Kingsley
UCLA Health (and formerly at Mayo Clinic)
Director Epidemiology AI Lab
Gaye Bok
AI and Digital Innovation Fund, Mass General Brigham
Partner
Ramesh Raskar
MIT
Professor and Director Media Lab
Parag Shah
CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG)
VP Data
Ben Kasdon
CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG)
VP Products
Veronika Durgin
Saks (NYSEL SKS)
VP Data
Anthony Hill
Adaptix Corp
CEO and Founder
Nina Grooms Lee
Alamo Group (NYSE: ALG)
Board Member
Andy Stetzler
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Enterprise AI Lead
Randy Bean
Data & AI Leadership Exchange
Senior Advisor
David Edelman
Harvard Business School
Professor
Andy Roberts
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
AI Architect
Kevin Shatzkamer
Microsoft Customer Experience, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)
CVP
Pete Blackshaw
BrandRank.AI
CEO
Kent Lucas
Non Sibi Ventures
Founding Partner
Christopher Boone
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL)
Group VP of Life Sciences
Dr. Tamara Nall
The Leading Niche
CEO
Jeffrey Rayport
Harvard Business School
Professor
Rizwan Mallal
Quantum Gears
COO
Dr. Ryan Vega
Vantiq
Chief Health Officer
Gamiel Gran
Mayfield Fund
Chief Commercial Officer
Mike Grandinetti
Harvard
Serial Tech Entrepreneur & Faculty
Vladimir Jacimovic
AlgoVerde
CEO
Tom Davenport
Babson College
Professor
Rudina Seseri
Glasswing Ventures
Managing Partner
John Werner
Imagination in Action
Founder
Adam Rappaport
GAI Insights
AI Analysts
Liz Vanzura
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
Heather Lavoie
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
EVP & CIO
Vivek Mukhatyar
Pfizer
Generative AI Medical Engagement Lead
Some Speakers from Last Year
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.
Speakers and Panelists - GAI World 2024
Randy Bean
Data & AI Leadership Exchange
Senior Advisor
Jose Pedro Almeida
Intelligence Ventures
World's Top 70 Health AI and Chief AI Strategist,
Yasmina Benkhoui
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA)
Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships and Ecosystem Lead
Pete Blackshaw
BrandRank.ai
Founder & CEO
Chris Boone
Oracle
Group Vice President, Research Services, Life Sciences
Pat Condo
Seekr
CEO
Tom Davenport
Babson College
Distinguished Professor
Pankaj Dugar
AI21
SVP & GM North America
David Edelman
Harvard Business School
Senior Lecturer
Bill Fandrich
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Executive Vice President of Technology and Operations
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Usama Fayyad
Northeastern University
Executive Director, Institute for Experiential AI
Jud Welle
Goodwin
Parter at Goodwin
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Shikhar Ghosh
Harvard Business School
Professor
Dr. Sahar Hashmi
Myriad Consulting
Founder and CEO
Chip Hazard
Flybridge Capital Partners
General Partner and Co-Founder
Igor Jablokov
Pryon
CEO
Sheila Jordan
Honeywell
Chief Digital Technology Officer
Thomas Kingsley
Mayo Clinic
Professor of Medicine & Biomedical Informatics
Scott Kirsner
InnoLead
CEO, Innolead Boston Globe Columnist
Vinay Gidwaney
OneDigital
Chief Product Officer
Nina Grooms Lee
Alamo Group (NYSE: ALG)
Board Member
Matt Lewis
LLMental
Founder and CEO
Rizwan Mallal
Quantum Gears
COO
Chris McKay
Maginative
CEO
Erik Oken
MidOcean Partners
Chairman, Private Equity
Judah Phillips
Squark
CEO/Co-Founder
Mary Purk
The Wharton School, UPenn
Managing Director, AI and Analytics Research Center
Badri Raghavan
ResMed (NYSE: RMD)
VP of AI/ML
Ramesh Raskar
MIT Media Lab
Professor and Director MIT Media Lab
Toby Eduardo Redshaw
Verus Advisory
CEO
Andy Roberts
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)
Data Platform and AI Architect
Ian Robertson
American Securities
Director
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Sandeep Sacheti
Wolters Kluwer (XAMS WTKWY)
Former EVP, Customer Information Management
Rudina Seseri
Glasswing Ventures
​Founder and Managing Partner
Ted Shelton
Inflection AI
COO
Dan Slagen
Tomorrow.io
CMO
Melissa Smith
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
CEO
John Spottiswood
Jerry
Chief Operating and Data Officer
Anne Stemlar
Goodwin
Managing Director, Knowledge & Innovation Strategy
John Sviokla
GAI Insights
Co-Founder
Katie Taylor
Narratize
CEO
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Yann Stoneman
Cohere
Staff Solutions Architect
Liz Vanzura
GAI Insights
Co-founder and Partner
AdAge Marketer of Year
WSJ Women to Watch
Ad Executive: Consumer & Retail
John Werner
Imagination in Action
Founder
Mike Bloom
WEKA
AI Solutions Architect
Suzanne Livingston
IBM
Vice President Sustainability Software Engineering
Jean Olive
John Hancock
CIO
Karen Stroup
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Chief Digital Officer
Adam Rappaport
Data#3 and GAI Insights
AI Solution Architect & Analyst
Yvonne Hao
Massachusetts
Secretary of Economic Development, Commonwealth
Kjersten Margaret Moody
Prudential Financial
Global Chief Data Officer
Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi
Global Equities, UBS
Chief Investment Officer
Awais Sher Bajwa
​Bank of America
Head of Data and AI Banking
Ross Gagnon
Forbes
Executive Director of Research at Forbes
Markus Flierl
Intel Cloud Services
Corporate Vice President
Jeffrey Rayport
​Harvard Business School
Professor
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Dan Elton
Mass General Brigham AI
Data Scientist
Sri Elaprolu
Director
Generative AI Innovation Center at Amazon Web Services
