Join us on June 07 for CIE-SF 46th Annual Conference at Synopsys Facility
Last year, CIE held the in-person annual conference and had great success. This year, we cordially invite you to join us at our 46th Annual Conference. It’s a great opportunity to meet the executives, industrial talents, and friends at our conference in person. We hope to see all of you there!
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Session I
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Brandon Wang is the Vice President of Technology Strategy at Office of the CEO at Synopsys. Brandon oversees corporate level technology roadmaps and strategies for growth, including global strategic and ecosystem partnerships, and M&A/investments for new horizons. He also heads the Chief Innovation Office, championing organic innovations and worldwide academic and research partnerships. . |
| Brandon Wang
Vice President Technology Strategy Office of the CEO Synopsys |
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Session II
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Dr. Qingyun Wu is the co-creator and co-founder of AG2 (formerly AutoGen), a leading open-source AI agent framework with a monthly downloads of over 700k and a vibrant community of over 20k AI agent developers. Qingyun is also an Assistant Professor at the College of Information Science and Technology at Penn State University. Qingyun got her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 2020. Qingyun received the 2019 SIGIR Best Paper Award, and ICLR 2024 LLM agent workshop Best Paper Award. |
| Qingyun Wu
Co-founder of AG2 (formerly AutoGen) |
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Session III
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Ivan Linn is CEO of Generative AI music platform Wavv, the creator of the world's first large music language model: Musica. He is known for his work in the music production of video games in the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series. He is also the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Assassin's Creed Symphony World Tour, winning a Grammy in 2023. Linn is a member of the National Arts and Sciences Recording Academy and ASCAP. |
| Ivan Linn
Founder and CEO |
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Alexander Wong is the Head of Music Engineering at Wavv, where he plays a pivotal role in leading the development and integration of music-related technologies within the company’s AI-driven platform. An award-winning composer and music producer with a diverse portfolio, Alex has composed for film, television, and multimedia projects across Asia and North America. |
| Alexander H. Wong
Head of Music Engineering |
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Session IV
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Mr. Shiah has devoted his career to redefining and democratizing the software development paradigm through innovations that include abstraction and platform-agnostic, no-code model-driven composability. This advancement significantly reduces complexity and bridges the gap between business and IT. It enables the development of a real-time, adaptive, and resilient business system that effectively manages unpredictable exceptions and AI's dynamic, non-deterministic nature without requiring code changes. Since 2003, Mr. Shiah has led the way in low-code/no-code innovation demonstrating how composable architecture can democratize application development, empowering everyone to innovate. |
| Jesse Shiah
CEO & Co-Founder |
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Session V
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Amit Sangani is the Director of Partner Engineering, AI at Meta. Amit has been with Meta for 10+ years and manages developer-facing engineering teams working on AI platforms such as Llama and PyTorch. Amit and his team’s mission is to democratize AI and increase the adoption of these platforms by making it easier for developers to integrate them into their products and spur innovation and increased productivity. |
| Amit Sangani
Director |
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Frank Wang is a Principal Research Engineer at Salesforce AI Research, where he is responsible for overall design and architecture of incubation products focused on GenAI models, agents, and apps. In his previous role, he led the engineering team for the Atlas project (now known as Agentforce reasoning engine and RAG system), which was well received by customers like Disney, Kaiser Permanente, and RBC and is now in production use by numerous clients. |
| Frank Wang
Principal Research Engineer |
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Patrick Lu is the Lead Architect for Data and AI/ML at Trend Micro, where he shapes the strategic direction of enterprise-wide AI and data initiatives. With over two decades of experience in cybersecurity, data mesh, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning, Patrick has led the transformation of emerging technologies into real-world products and solutions that strengthen cyber defense for global customers. Patrick’s current work centers on large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI systems. He spearheaded the creation of Trend Micro’s cybersecurity-specialized LLMs and open-sourced them via HuggingFace to foster innovation within the AI security community. |
| Patrick Lu
Lead Architect for Data and AI/ML |
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Shawn Flynn is the founder of Silicon Valley Highpoint Capital (SVH Capital), where he and his team uses AI to help in the steps of the transaction process. He began his career in Beijing, China, founding, scaling, and successfully exiting a company before returning to the U.S. to work with fast‑growing Silicon Valley startups to established overseas public companies. He specializes in mergers & acquisitions, raising growth capital, and secondaries. |
| Shawn Flynn
Founder |
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Session VI
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Tim Xiong, Senior Director at Plug and Play and the right-hand man of CEO, focuses on early-stage investment focusing on artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley. Tim is a seasoned business leader with a proven track record of success across top global companies, including Amazon AWS, Microsoft, and IBM. He has held executive roles in corporate investment, business innovation, and startup ecosystem development. He serves as a member of the Open Innovation Advisory Board at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and is a leading advisor at the UC Berkeley Skydeck Accelerator. In addition, Tim is a board member on the Investment Committee of Hong Kong Tong Ze Group, further showcasing his strategic influence in international investment and innovation. |
| Tim Xiong
Plug and Play |
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Bernard Harguindeguy- Bernard is the founder and father for Google Chrome and currently is leading his venture capital EVF in AI investments, particularly in AI cybersecurity. He has so far invested in 20+ AI startups. Bernard is a seasoned entrepreneur with a track record of successful ventures in the technology sector. In 2018, he sold his company, Elastic Beam, to Ping Identity, a leading cybersecurity firm. He became the CTO there. Ping Identity subsequently went public on the NYSE in September 2019 and was later taken private by Thoma Bravo in October 2022, in a transaction valued at $2.8 billion. |
| Bernard Harguindeguy
Google Chrome, |
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