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Join us on April 27 for CIE-SF 45th Annual Conference at Santa Clara Convention Center

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Last year, CIE held the in-person annual conference (recordings) and had great success. This year, we cordially invite you to join us at our 45th 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! 

To refresh your memory, please check out 2023 CIE-SF 44th Annual Conference Recordings below.

Afternoon technical program: link 

Dinner banquet: link

Official website: www.cie-sf.org

Dinner banquet (5:30 to 9:30 PM)

(Invitation only)  

This delightful banquet features Keynote Speech, Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, Student scholarship Awards, and more. It consists of special guests, corporate leaders, long-term partners in community, academic/universities, and old/new friends in the CIE network.

We are honored to have Dr. Vamsi Boppana, senior Vice President, Artificial Intelligence at AMD to be our keynote Speaker in the evening. Vamsi Boppana is responsible for the AI strategy across AMD, including driving our AI roadmap across client, edge, and cloud; execution of the AIE IP and product roadmap; as well as growing our AI software capability including the unified AI software stack, AI models and use cases.

Keynote Speaker: 

Dr. Vamsi Boppana

Senior Vice President, Artificial Intelligence  AMD

 

Dr. Vamsi Boppana is the senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at AMD.

Vamsi Boppana is responsible for the AI strategy across AMD, including driving our AI roadmap across client, edge, and cloud; execution of the AIE IP and product roadmap; as well as growing our AI software capability including the unified AI software stack, AI models and use cases.

Until 2022, Boppana led the Central Products Group (CPG) for four years at Xilinx and AMD. CPG was a global organization of over 2,500 silicon, software, IP, and marketing professionals who designed, supported, and marketed adaptive, AI and embedded products for customers. Before leading CPG, Boppana was instrumental in product leadership and built a high-performing global organization of talented and enthusiastic people at Xilinx.

Boppana earned a Bachelor of Technology degree with honors in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a Master of Science and a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The author and co-author of over 40 technical papers, he has received six patents for his designs. 

Boppana’s passion is to build groundbreaking AI technologies that meet customer demands across client, edge, and cloud applications. Caring deeply about the benefits of the technology he creates, Boppana aspires to improve lives through the products he builds. 


2024 Annual Conference afternoon technical sessions
(1 to 5 PM, free admission)

(Open to the public, registration required, click HERE)

The theme of the 45th Annual Conference is "Rethinking Boundaries -  Artificial Intelligence & Creativity". As usual, we will have a keynote speech and ceremony for Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in the dinner banquet. Besides, the afternoon section is Technical Forum. Our esteemed speakers from the leading industries and academia will talk about Interdisciplinary technologies empowering the connectivity between both business and humans.

  • Session I Perspective on Deep Learning Framework, A Personal Reflection
    Invited Speech: Dr. Triston Cao - Nvidia

  • Session II Is AI a Tool or Creature? - Perspectives from AI Practitioners
    Moderator - Christie Wang

  • Session III Humanity and Technology: Bringing AI to Oscar
    Interview: Mr. Ben Tsiang (蔣顯斌)

  • Session IV SuperMicro and SuperFarm
    Invited Speech: Representative from SuperMicro

  • Session V AI and Humans - [Always] - In - The - Loop
    Invited Speech: Erik Manuevo - VP of Chegg

  • Session VI Hewlett Packard Enterprise STEM Discovery Program
    How does AI Work in Everyday Life for High School Students and Adults?


Session I

Perspective on Deep Learning Framework, A Personal Reflection

Triston Cao currently leads NVIDIA's Graph Neural Network (GNN) deep learning framework teams, overseeing initiatives aimed at advancing open-source GNN projects like Deep Graph Library, PyTorch Geometrics, and GraphStorm. His primary focus is empowering researchers and enterprise clients to harness the capabilities of NVIDIA GPU systems for graph neural network applications. Prior to this role, Triston managed various framework teams at NVIDIA, including those dedicated to Caffe, TensorFlow, and MXNet. Before joining NVIDIA, he held positions at Cadence Design Systems as a Senior Software Engineering Manager and Senior Software Engineer, where he played a pivotal role in developing EDA software for signal integrity and power integrity simulations. Triston Cao holds a PhD degree in Computational Electromagnetics from the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Triston Cao

Sr. Engineering Manager
Graph Neural Network in NVIDIA

Session II

Is AI a Tool or Creature? - Perspectives from AI Practitioners

As the General Manager of TCL Research America, Dr. Haohong Wang oversees TCL’s streaming  services and  research and development activities in North America. TCL, a global leader in consumer electronics and display technology with over 120,000 employees worldwide, holds the 2nd position globally in the TV and display business and the 4th position in the US mobile phone business. 

Dr. Wang is a distinguished industry leader and recognized scholar, having received several prestigious awards, including the IEEE MMTC Distinguished Service Award, the APSIPA Industrial Distinguished Leader Award, and the Red-dot Winner Award. He is also a co-author of five books and holds the distinction of being the inventor of over 160 granted patents. Before joining TCL, Dr. Wang held pivotal technical and management roles at renowned companies such as AT&T, Catapult, Qualcomm, Marvell, and Cisco. He earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, USA.

Dr. Haohong Wang

General Manager
TCL Research America

Former Director of Artificial Intelligence Technology at WeChat. Possesses over 13 years of experience in internet and AI research and development. Focuses on AI innovation and holds multiple international AI-related patents.Deep understanding of integrating AI with social platforms, actively involved in the development of AI features like Video Accounts, Intelligent Voice, and Video Music Recommendations on WeChat, earning high praise from Billions users. 

Recognized as a top expert by the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI).

Chen Bo

Aiwave CEO/Founder

Rebecca is the CEO and co-founder of Kyros.ai, which uses Machine Learning and AI to provide a one-stop College Prep solution guiding middle/high school students on the journey to College.

Prior to that, Rebecca was a founding member of Google’s Cloud, where she spent 6+ years building the partner ecosystem and spearheaded the launching strategies for various Big Data and AI products. Rebecca was also the Co-founder & COO at Xcalar Inc which developed next-gen Big Data and AI technologies for Fortune 500 customers. 

Rebecca holds a MASc and MBA degree from The University of British Columbia.

Rebecca Ye

Kyros.ai  CEO, co-founder

Alex Yang is a distinguished entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Brix, a company renowned for its innovative approach to crowdsourcing and cross-border project management. With a Bachelor's degree in Informatics from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Alex has a solid foundation in both the theoretical and practical aspects of information science. His academic journey was marked by a keen interest in open-source communities, where he contributed significantly through research and development.

Alex's commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship was recognized in 2017 when he won the silver award at a national college students' entrepreneurship competition hosted by the Ministry of Education

Brix Labs has revolutionized remote hiring, supporting over 50 companies and 1,000 engineers worldwide, and achieved a monumental valuation of a hundred million USD, marked by a 240% ARR growth and 400% NDR.

Alex Yang 

Brix Labs, CEO and Founder

Christie Wang is the Partner at Valere Venture, focusing on medtech and healthcare investments. She also co-founded an orthopedics surgical robot company providing total clinical solutions for neuro and spine surgeons. Prior, Christie co-founded and was President of AdcuraSpine, which developed innovative spinal interbody implants, and is in full US commercialization and acquisition discussions. Prior, Christie was Managing Director for Jiangsu Innovation Research Center (North America), a cross border investment fund focusing mainly on IOT and medical innovation. Prior, she worked for Hewlett Packard Legal/Corporate in corporate governance, investment and intellectual property.

Christie graduated from Juris Doctor (J.D.) program from Northwestern University School of Law, and Kellogg Business School. She invested and serves as advisor/board member of a number of technology and healthcare companies. She also serves on the Board of Chinese Institute of Engineers USA, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (CIE/USA-SF). She served as mentor for Stanford University Technology Innovation. Christie was awarded the Most Outstanding Overseas Youth Chinese by the State Council of PRC in 2015 and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Seattle. She is an amateur singer and trilingual show host.
Christie Wang

Moderator

Session V

AI and Humans - [Always] - In - The - Loop

Erik Manuevo is the Vice President of Content & Operations at Chegg, Inc. where he is responsible for expert operations (including Machine Learning Operations and AI Quality Operations) at a global scale. Mr. Manuevo is a business and operations executive with experience leading large-scale, global, multi-disciplinary teams towards growth, performance, profitability, agility, transformation and operational excellence. Company experiences include Salesforce, Adobe, Cisco, Upwork, and Chegg.

Erik Manuevo

VP of Content & Operations
Chegg, Inc.

Session VI

How does AI work in everyday life for High School Students and Adults?

Elisa Paik
Customer Education Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Elisa Paik has spent more than a decade in education including teaching at the college level, and is currently a Customer Education Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). She is also a member of the HPE Global Asian Network leadership team, where she advocates for advancement, equity and inclusion of the AANHPI community.

Jason Pitts
Software Engineering Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Jason Pitts is a Software Engineering Manager, HPE 10 years of industry experience in Software Engineering with a focus in Enterprise Storage. He currently work on a team to deliver security and compliance for an upcoming cloud storage application STEM.


45rd CIE/USA-SF ANNUAL CONFERENCE  PROGRAM

Saturday, April 27, 2024

Santa Clara Convention Center


April 27, 2024

12:30 PM

Registration and Exhibition 

01:00 PM

Opening Remarks

01:05 PM

Afternoon Technical Session: Empower Connectivity Through Technology Fusion

Session I
 

Perspective on Deep Learning Framework, A Personal Reflection

Session II
 

Is AI a Tool or Creature? - Perspectives from AI Practitioners

Session III

Humanity and Technology: Bringing AI to Oscar

 Session IV

SuperMicro and SuperFarm

 Session V

AI and Humans - [Always] - In - The - Loop

 Session VI

How AI Works in Everyday Life?

05:00 PM

Break and Networking

05:30 PM

Dinner Banquet Registration

06:00 PM

Dinner Banquet

06:45 PM

Entertainment Performance

07:05 PM

CIE/USA-SF President Speech

07:15 PM

CIE/USA-SF New President Speech

07:20 PM

Keynote Speech

 

08:00 PM

Entrepreneur of the Year Awards

 

Silicon Valley Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Awardee: 

 

Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in Entrepreneurship Award

Awardee: 

09:00 PM

High School Student Scholarship Awards

09:20 PM

Closing Remarks



Event Venue: Santa Clara Convention Center

Santa Clara Convention Center is located in the heart of Silicon Valley. It is surrounded by hi-tech companies, and also right next to SF 49er’s Levi’s Stadium and California’s Great America.


     

SANTA CLARA CONVENTION CENTER - Mission City Ballroom (22,400 sq. ft)

5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054


LOCATION

EVENT

Multifunction

Networking / Exhibition

M1-M2

Afternoon Technical Conference

M3

Multi-purpose room

B3-B5

Dinner Banquet


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