THE PEOPLE BUILDING IT
Operators, founders, investors, and researchers shipping intelligent automation across the real economy
SPEAKERS
Josh Pherigo
Principal Researcher, Market Insights team, Silicon Valley Bank
Steve Kean
President & CEO,
Greater Houston Partnership
Aman Verjee
Founder / General Partner at
Practical Venture Capital
Mark Egan
Founder, Energy Evolution Advisors & Infield Clean Energy
Sunil Garg
Founder & CEO, dataVediK
TiE Houston Board Member, Angel Investor
Montgomery Goforth
Chief Technologist, NASA Johnson Space Center
Stephanie Anderson
Senior Flight Engineer / Product Owner, Intuitive Machines
Prof. David Alexander
Director and Head of
Rice Space Institute
D. C. Manjunath
Consul General,
Consulate General of India
Kathrine Langjord
Commercial Counselor,
Innovation Norway
Dr. Johannes Habel
Professor, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston
Dr. Anshumali Shrivastav
Professor, AI and Computational Engineering, Rice University
Dr. Sanjiv Kumar
VP Talent Management, BioMarin Pharma
Dr. Eric Storch
Professor,
Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Kristin Kostick-Quenet
Bioethicist,
Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Michelle Patriquin
Assistant Dean,
UTHealth Houston
Dr. Catherine Horn
Dean,
UH College of Education
Woody Rickerson
Chief Operating Officer,
ERCOT
Dr. Jakub Tolar
President, CEO, and Executive Dean at Baylor College of Medicine
Fenil Shah
Founder and CEO of FacilityOps AI
Dr. Atul Varadhachary
Managing Partner at Fannin
Ayesha Mayhugh
TiE Leader/Moderator, CEO & Co-founder, Everything AI Foundation
Dr. Juliet Breeze
Chief Executive Officer at Next Level Medical, LLC
Rani Tiwari
Fractional AI Leader & Board Advisor | CEO/CRO Partner to PE-Backed Tech & AI Ventures
Dr. Sanjoy Paul
Associate VP Technology Incubation and Commercialization, Executive Director Rice Nexus
Vivek Dixit
President & CEO of CXO Advisory Services
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Abhishek Srivastava
Co-Founder, President at Teknobuilt
Oleg Lysiak
Cofounder, Growth at
Beezi AI
Vipul Kashyap
Founder & CEO at
MedHive.AI
Jigesh Vora
Founding Partner at
JiDi Ventures
Eric C. Botts
Director, Global Cyber Security Program at University of St. Thomas (TX), Director, Center for International Studies
Somesh Singh
President - TiE Houston