# Vision Summit 2017: Speakers

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### Keynote Speakers & Panelists

- **Albert Wenger**  
  Union Square Ventures, Partner  
  NYC, NY, U.S.

- **Brian Rifkin**  
  JW Player, Co-Founder, SVP Strategic Partnerships  
  NYC, NY, U.S.

- **Judy Robinett**  
  JRobinett Enterprises, Founder Author  
  Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.

- **Rob Spectre**  
  Brooklyn Hacker, Former Twilio VP, Developer Network  
  Brooklyn, NY, U.S.

- **Joshua Brustein**  
  Bloomberg Businessweek, Correspondent  
  NYC, NY, U.S.

- **Matt Rosen**  
  MGH/Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Director, Low-field MRI Lab  
  Boston, MA, U.S.

- **Ani Simon-Kennedy**  
  Bicephaly Pictures, Co-Founder & Director  
  Brooklyn, NY, U.S.

- **Emily Becher**  
  Samsung, Managing Director, Head of Samsung Next Start  
  NYC, NY, U.S.

- **Rohit Makharia**  
  GM Ventures, Senior Investment Manager  
  Detroit, MI, U.S.

- **Tali Dekel**  
  Google, Research Scientist  
  Cambridge, MA, U.S.

- **Gregory Charvat**  
  Humatics Corp, CTO. Author of Small and Short-Range Radar Systems  
  Guilford, CT, U.S.

- **Aaron Hertzmann**  
  Adobe Research, Principal Scientist  
  SF, CA, U.S.

- **Mohamed Saad Ibn Seddik**  
  Sea Machines, R&D Autonomy Scientist  
  Boston, MA, U.S.

- **Jenny Fielding**  
  Techstars, Managing Director  
  NYC, NY, U.S.

- **Yale Song**  
  Yahoo, Senior Research Scientist  
  NYC, NY, U.S.

- **Andrew Beck**  
  PathAI, CEO & Co-Founder  
  Boston, MA, U.S.

- **Josh Kopelman**  
  First Round Capital, Managing Partner  
  Philadelphia, PA, U.S.

- **Michael Downing**  
  Tout, Founder & CEO  
  SF, CA, U.S.

- **Ty Garibay**  
  Intel, VP Engineering, Embedded Processing  
  Austin, Texas, U.S.

- **James Philbin**  
  Zoox, Senior Director, Computer Vision  
  Palo Alto, CA, U.S.

- **Oliver Lewis**  
  Improbable, VP Corporate Development  
  London, UK

- **Brian Ballard**  
  Upskill, CEO & Founder  
  Washington D.C., U.S.

- **Nicholas Pavach**  
  VidMob, VP of Sales  
  Santa Monica, CA, U.S.

- **Eric Jensen**  
  Pushd, Aura Frames, CTO, Sold Summize > Twitter  
  NYC, NY, U.S.

- **Christoph von der Malsburg**  
  Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Senior Fellow  
  Frankfurt, Germany

- **Mikael Cho**  
  Unsplash, CEO & Co-Founder  
  Montreal, Canada

- **Blake Borgeson**  
  Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Co-Founder & CTO  
  Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.

- **Rudina Seseri**  
  Glasswing Ventures, Founder & Managing Partner  
  Boston, MA, U.S.

- **Zack Schildhorn**  
  Lux Capital, Partner  
  NYC, U.S.

- **Brian Lisi**  
  Qello, CEO  
  NY, NY, U.S.

- **Allan Steinhardt**  
  AEye, Chief Engineer  
  Pleasanton, CA, U.S.

- **Serge Belongie**  
  Cornell Tech, Professor, Computer Vision  
  NYC, NY, U.S.

- **Evan Nisselson**  
  LDV Capital, General Partner  
  NYC, U.S.

- **Charles Janac**  
  Arteris, CEO  
  Sunnyvale, CA, U.S.

- **Manju Hedge**  
  Uhnder, CEO & Co-Founder  
  Sunnyvale, CA, U.S.

- **Claudia Iannazzo**  
  AlphaPrime Ventures, Managing Partner & Co-Founder  
  NYC, NY, U.S.

- **Vic Singh**  
  ENIAC Ventures, General Partner  
  NYC, NY, U.S.

- **Adrien Treuille**  
  Carnegie Mellon University, Assistant Professor  
  SF, CA, U.S.

- **Jan Erik Solem**  
  Mapillary, Co-Founder & CEO, Sold Polar Rose > Apple  
  Malmo, Sweden

- **Joe Alicata**  
  Vox Media, CPO  
  NYC, NY, U.S.

- **Clement Farabet**  
  Nvidia, VP of AI Infrastructure, Sold MADBITS > Twitter  
  Silicon Valley, CA, U.S.

- **Tracy Chadwell**  
  1843 Capital, Founding Partner  
  NYC, NY, U.S.

- **Mia Tramz**  
  Time Inc., Managing Editor, LIFE VR  
  NYC, NY, U.S.

- **Jianxiong Xiao**  
  AutoX, Founder & CEO  
  San Jose, CA, U.S.

- **Jessi Hempel**  
  Backchannel, Head of Editorial  
  NYC, NY, U.S.

- **Jessica Peltz-Zatulove**  
  KBS Ventures, Partner  
  NYC, NY, U.S.

- **Orlando Lima**  
  Viacom/VH1, VP, Digital  
  NY, NY, U.S.

- **Vance Bjorn**  
  CertifID, CEO & Co-Founder. Sold DigitalPersona > CrossMatch  
  Silicon Valley, CA, U.S.

- **Oscar Beijbom**  
  nuTonomy, Machine Learning Lead  
  Venice, CA, U.S.

- **Jeff Schneider**  
  Uber ATG, Engineering Lead, Machine Learning  
  Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.

- **Tom Bender**  
  Dreams, Co-Founder  
  NYC, U.S.

- **Edwin Olson**  
  May Mobility, CEO, U. of Michigan, Associate Prof.  
  Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.

- **Clayton Bryon**  
  500 Shades, 500 Startups Fund, Venture Partner, Dorm Room Fund, Partner  
  SF, CA, U.S.

- **Rebecca Paoletti**  
  CakeWorks, CEO & Co-Founder  
  NYC, CA, U.S.

- **Yonatan Wexler**  
  OrCam, Executive VP, R&D  
  Israel

- **Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman**  
  Facebook, Research Scientist, U. Washington, Assist. Professor, Sold Dreambit > Facebook  
  Seattle, WA, U.S.

- **Raquel Urtasun**  
  Uber ATG, Head of Uber ATG Toronto, University of Toronto, Associate Professor in Computer Science  
  Toronto, Canada

- **Manohar Paluri**  
  Facebook, Manager, Computer Vision Group  
  Menlo Park, CA, U.S.

- **Scott English**  
  Hearst Ventures, Managing Director  
  NY, NY, U.S.

- **John Smith**  
  IBM Research, Senior Manager, Intelligent Information Systems  
  Yorktown Heights, NY, U.S.

- **Rosanna Myers**  
  Carbon Robotics, CEO & Co-Founder  
  SF, CA, U.S.

- **Andrew Zhai**  
  Pinterest, Software Engineer, Tech Lead Visual Search/Lens  
  SF, CA, U.S.

- **Nonny de la Peña**  
  Emblematic Group, CEO & Founder  
  Los Angeles, CA, U.S.

- **Taggart Matthiesen**  
  Lyft, Director of Product  
  SF, CA, U.S.

- **Erin Griffith**  
  Fortune Magazine, Senior Writer  
  NYC, NY, U.S.