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THE PEOPLE BUILDING IT

Operators, founders, investors, and researchers shipping intelligent automation across the real economy

SPEAKERS

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Dr. Feby Abraham

Founder and CEO,

Entelix

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Prof. David Alexander

Director and Head,

Rice Space Institute

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Stephanie Anderson

Senior Flight Engineer / Product Owner, Intuitive Machines

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Edmond Bastiampillai

Senior Investment Officer, Consulate General of Canada, Houston

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Eric C. Botts

Director, Global Cybersecurity Program, University of St. Thomas

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Dr. Juliet Breeze

Founder and CEO, Next Level Medical / Next Level Urgent Care

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Vivek Dixit

President and CEO, CXO Advisory Services

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Mark Egan

Founder, Energy Evolution Advisors & Infield Clean Energy

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Sunil Garg

Founder and CEO,

dataVediK

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Joe Gatto

Managing Partner,

MarchWire Capital, LLC

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Montgomery Goforth

Chief Technologist, NASA Johnson Space Center

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Benjamin Glenn

Founder,

A Matter of Innovation

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Dr. Johannes Habel

Professor, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston

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Dr. Catherine Horn

Dean, UH College of Education, University of Houston

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Vipul Kashyap

CEO and co-founder, MedHive.AI

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Steve Kean

President & CEO,

Greater Houston Partnership

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Dr. Kristin Kostick-Quenet

Bioethicist,

Baylor College of Medicine

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Dr. Sanjiv Kumar

Global Head of Talent Management, BioMarin Pharmaceutical

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Kathrine Langjord

Commercial Counselor,

Innovation Norway, Houston

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Oleg Lysiak

Co-Founder, Growth,

Beezi AI

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D. C. Manjunath

Consul General of India,

Houston

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Dr. Michelle Patriquin

Assistant Dean,

UTHealth Houston

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Stephanie Murphy

CEO and Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, 

Aegis Aerospace Inc.

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Ayesha Mayhugh

Founder & CEO, StartupMinds Collective &
Co-founder, Everything AI Foundation

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Will Neder

Co-Founder & CEO,

Mirror Agent Labs

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Dr. Sanjoy Paul

Associate VP, Technology Incubation and Commercialization, and Executive Director, Rice Nexus

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Josh Pherigo

Principal Researcher, Market Insights, Silicon Valley Bank

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Eric C. Peterson, PhD

Director Innovation and Strategy, Success dv/dt

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Alexander Rozenfeld

Managing Director and Founder,

Climate Impact Capital

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Rajesh Satewar

Director, Digital Transformation, Murphy Oil

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Fenil Shah

Founder and CEO,

FacilityOps Robotics

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Dr. Anshumali Shrivastava

Professor, AI and Computational Engineering, Rice University

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Somesh Singh

President - TiE Houston

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Abhishek Srivastava

Co-founder and President, Teknobuilt

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Dr. Eric Storch

Professor,

Baylor College of Medicine

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Dr. Jakub Tolar

President, CEO, and Executive Dean, Baylor College of Medicine

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Dr. Atul Varadhachary

Managing Partner,

Fannin

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Aman Verjee

Founder & General Partner, Practical Venture Capital

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Jigesh Vora

Founding Partner,

JiDi Ventures

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More voices coming soon.
This is only part of the lineup.
Watch this space for new announcements.

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