Davide Vigano

• Sensoria designs, develops and produces bio-sensing wearable garments. The vision of the company is that the Garment itself will become the next ultra-personal, mobile computer. Davide is a former Microsoft partner level executive with over 25 years of sales, marketing and extensive product management experience. As an intern he started the international localization group for MacWorks and MacOffice in 1987. More recently, he served as General Manager of the Health Solutions Group where he was in charge of marketing and product strategy for both HealthVault and the Amalga product line. He acted as Vice President of the Worldwide SMSP Medium Business division which he grew 18% YOY to over $14B. Davide also managed the Italian Marketing, Business and Enterprise operations for five years and brought it to number one in the world for contribution margin, 6th largest Microsoft subsidiary in the world by revenues.

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Lauren Foundos

Lauren Foundos, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FORTË since 2015. FORTË streams live and on-demand, cutting-edge fitness classes from well-known boutique studios worldwide directly to you. FORTË builds proprietary hardware and software that is installed into their partner studios, which enables them to seamlessly live stream classes directly to the FORTË platform or through their white-label digital service integrated directly into the brands app/website. 

Before launching her own company, FORTË, Lauren spent a decade working on Wall Street, with  the last five years in finance on the trading floor as an Institutional US Government Bond Broker at Whitaker Securities where she helped to dramatically increase UST Short Coupon and Bill desk revenues. Prior to that she worked at Deutsche Bank in Synthetic Equities and Cloudview Capital Management, a global-macro hedge fund, on their trading desk. Lauren graduated from the University of Maryland in 2006, with a BA in communications and concentration in business. She earned ACC Academic Honor Roll, and Intercollegiate Athletic Honor Roll during her time at Maryland. Lauren is a two-time all-American field hockey player, she played in the Junior Olympics, and went on to play Division I at the University of Maryland, the nation’s top ranked program. She plays the piano, violin, has two older brothers, adores her parents, and loves to ski!

Takashi Oshima

Takashi Oshima received the B. S., M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in physics from University of Tokyo, Japan in 1996, 1998 and 2001, respectively. He joined Central Research Laboratory of Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan in 2001, where he is a researcher of analog/digital circuits, MEMS sensors, AI processors and neuromorphic computing. From 2005 to 2006 he was a visiting researcher at University of California at Berkeley, USA. He served as a secretary of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Japan Chapter and also served as a Technical Program Committee member of IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC). He is currently a Technical Program Committee member of IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). He received several awards including 2003 R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine, 2010 Best Invited Paper Award of IEICE Electronics Society and ISSCC2016 Outstanding Evening Session Award. He is a member of IEEE, IEICE and Physical Society of Japan. He holds many patents in the fields of wireless transceivers, A/D converters and MEMS sensors.

Subutai Ahmad

Subutai is passionate about neuroscience, deep learning, and building intelligent systems. An accomplished technologist, he has been instrumental in driving Numenta’s research, technology and business since 2005. He previously served as VP Engineering at YesVideo where he helped grow the company from a three-person start-up to a leader in automated digital media authoring. In 1997, Subutai co-founded ePlanet Interactive which developed the IntelPlay Me2Cam, the first computer vision product developed for consumers. Subutai holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mike Davies

Mike Davies is Director of Intel’s Neuromorphic Computing Lab. Since joining Intel Labs in 2014, Mike has researched neuromorphic prototype architectures, algorithms, software, and systems. His group is responsible for Intel’s Loihi research chip. Previously, as a founding employee of Fulcrum Microsystems and its director of silicon engineering, Mike pioneered high performance asynchronous design methodologies as applied to several generations of industry-leading Ethernet switch products. He joined Intel in 2011 by Intel’s acquisition of Fulcrum.