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Vivek Mahajan is a global business leader as well as an innovation and technology executive with extensive experience working in number of global leading corporations including Tandem Computers, General Electric, Siebel Systems, Oracle and IBM.

He joined Fujitsu in July 2021 as the Global Chief Technology Officer. His mission is to establish Fujitsu as a leading global technology company known for innovative technology leadership. Before joining Fujitsu, he worked at IBM Corporation as the Global General Manager for Technology Support and Services, as well as the Chief Revenue Officer for IBM Cloud in addition to previous roles leading Global services, Software product division, and Sales and Marketing.

After graduating from Master’s program in electrical engineering and an MBA in Finance/Accounting, he started his career in Silicon Valley as an information technology specialist.

Vivek　has　lived　and　worked　globally　including　in United States, Australia, Singapore, Japan and India and is fluent in English, Japanese and Hindi.

Stephen F. Smith is a Research Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, where he heads the Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory. Smith’s research focuses broadly on the theory and practice of next-generation technologies for automated planning, scheduling, and control of large multi-actor systems. He pioneered the development and use of constraint-based search and optimization models for solving planning and scheduling problems and has successfully fielded AI-based planning and scheduling systems in a range of application domains.

Smith’s current work in this area focuses on making smart traffic signals smarter through integration with real-time traveler-to-infrastructure communication, and on using these advances as a basis for establishing more sustainable transportation infrastructure funding models. Smith has published over 300 technical papers in the areas of automated planning and scheduling, search-based optimization, multiagent systems and machine learning, and he has received numerous research and best paper awards. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), has served on the AAAI Executive Council since 2014, and recently became AAAI President Elect.

George Smoot is an American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006, together with John C. Mather, for the discovery of the black body form and the anisotropy of cosmic microwave background radiation. His studies demonstrated the existence of irregularities in the early Universe shortly after the Big Bang, and these led to the subsequent formation of galaxies.

George Smoot led a team of scientists in NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) experiment, which aimed to measure fluctuations in cosmic microwave background radiation. The COBE experiment confirmed the existence of these fluctuations and provided solid evidence to support the Big Bang theory.

He is Professor Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley and Director of the Centre for Fundamental Physics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), as well as the president of the Centre for Cosmological Physics at the Astroparticle and Cosmology Laboratory of the University of Paris. Since 2020 he has been a DIPC associate.

Dr. Michael Hesse is the Director of the Science Directorate at NASA’s Ames Research Center, a position in the Senior Executive Service. In this role, he is leading a staff of about 500 government and contract employees, and postdoctoral fellows engaged in Earth science, planetary and astrophysical research, and space biological research. His responsibilities include provision of an entrepreneurial vision, scientific leadership, the management of organizational resources, management and development of budget and financial resources, internal and external partnerships, and overall implementation of NASA priorities. He represents the organization to senior leadership of government and nongovernmental organizations inside the U.S. and internationally.

He leads the Directorate in its responses to Announcements of Opportunity from NASA Headquarters and elsewhere and he oversees the conception, construction, and delivery of flight hardware to airborne assets, satellite, and rover projects, as well as the leadership of such projects. Under his supervision, his organization conducts world-class research through the analyses of the data from these experiments, the comparison of these data set with computer simulations and theoretical models, and the publication of results in the scientific literature. He leads an extensive outreach effort, and provides continuing education of visiting students, of postdoctoral fellows, and of scientific staff.

Aude Oliva, PhD is the director of strategic industry engagement in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the MIT director in the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, leading collaborations with industry to translate natural and artificial intelligence research into tools for the wider world. She is also a senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), where she heads the Computational Perception and Cognition group.

Oliva has received an NSF Career Award in computational neuroscience, a Guggenheim fellowship in computer science and a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship in cognitive neuroscience. She has served as an expert to the NSF Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering on the topic of human and artificial intelligence. She is currently a member of the scientific advisory board for the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Her research is cross-disciplinary, spanning human perception and cognition, computer vision and cognitive neuroscience, and focuses on research questions at the intersection of all three domains. She earned a MS and PhD in cognitive science from the Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France.

Eric Paulos is the founder and director of the Hybrid Ecologies Lab, a Professor in Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department at UC Berkeley, Director of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, Director of the CITRIS Invention Lab, a Co-Director of the Swarm Lab, and faculty within the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM).

Eric developed some of the first internet telepresence robots in the early 1990s, one of the first smartwatch haptic messaging devices in 2002, coined the term "Urban Computing" in 2004, created the first citizen science air quality sensors integrated into mobile phones in 2007, and created "counterfuntional design" and "unmaking" as major research themes within HCI and Design.

Previously, Eric held the Cooper-Siegel Associate Professor Chair in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University where he was faculty within the Human-Computer Interaction Institute with courtesy faculty appointment in the Robotics Institute. Prior to CMU, Eric was a Senior Research Scientist at Intel Research. Eric received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. Eric is also the founder and director of the Experimental Interaction Unit and a frequent collaborator with Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories.

Antoni Rosinol is the CEO and Co-Founder of Stack AI, a Y Combinator (W23) and Google-backed company enabling Enterprises to build and deploy AI-powered applications. He earned his PhD in Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems at MIT, holds a Masters of Science in Robotics from ETH Zurich, and a Bachelor of Science from EPFL, Switzerland, and was a visiting scholar at NTU, Singapore.

Antoni's contributions in Computer Vision and Robotics have earned him several honorable mentions for Best Paper Awards, with his research being featured in Science News and MIT News. He is also a LaCaixa and Rafael del Pino fellow, and has been awarded the Zeno Karl Schindler and the Bakala scholarship. His career also includes tenures at GoPro and NASA.

Originally from Barcelona, Spain, Antoni has lived in the US, Switzerland, Mexico and Singapore. He also speaks English, French, Spanish, and Catalan.

Durga Kota is the Chief Technology Officer for the Americas region and is responsible for leading the strategies to translate Fujitsu technology innovation into differentiated and industry-ready solutions for the region's customers.

Throughout his 24-year career, Durga has held customer-facing, consultative solution-selling and technology leadership roles. His collaborative spirit and deep technical expertise enable him to build trust, work in true partnership with customers, and provide solution leadership that leverages advanced technologies to solve even the most complex challenges.

Durga holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi, and a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India. Durga resides in the San Diego area with his family and likes to spend his free time trekking on one of the many trails in the area, or volunteering for the local food bank.

Indradeep is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Fujitsu Research of America, Sunnyvale. He heads Fujitsu’s research efforts in North America and leads a team of researchers doing cutting edge research in AI, Quantum computing, and Convergence technologies. He has been working in industrial R&D for over 25 years in various areas of hardware and software analysis, quality assurance, and optimization.

Indradeep received the Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.

Daiki Masumoto is a Fellow and the Head of Converging Technologies Laboratory at Fujitsu Research, Fujitsu Limited. He is leading the initiative to create converging technologies which is one of the five key technologies of Fujitsu. He has held prominent leadership roles throughout his career, including Neural Networks, Media Processing, R&D Strategy & Planning, and Applied Research. Along with his roles, he has held various positions including Senior Vice President & CFO at Fujitsu Research of America, Inc. and Corporate Executive Officer at Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.

Hiro Kobashi is the head of Artificial Intelligence Division at Fujitsu Research of America where he leads a team of researchers both in the United States and Japan working on AutoML (Automation for Machine Learning) to realize sustainable and efficient AI creation. He joined Fujitsu in 2003 and has worked at Fujitsu research organizations both in Japan and United Kingdom. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and distributed systems.

Xavier Boix is the director of research of the Self-Improving Machine Learning group at Fujitsu Research, where he leads projects aimed at developing AI systems capable of recursively self-improving their own algorithms without human supervision. Prior to joining Fujitsu, he was a research scientist at MIT, where he pioneered techniques aiming to explain the generalization capabilities of deep learning models.

Xavier earned his PhD in machine learning from ETH Zurich in 2014 and continued honing his expertise in AI and neuroscience as a postdoc at MIT's Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines. Xavier's goal is to create AI that can recursively and safely improve itself while remaining aligned with human values.

Ted Okada is the head of the Technology Strategy Unit, where he has been leading strategic new business planning, collaborating with startups rooted in our core technologies, and developing a vision for the future of technology. Since joining the company in 1991, he has been involved in the development of local government systems in Japan, working not only to provide back-office business applications but also to create new businesses utilizing Fujitsu technologies. Through these efforts, he is committed to enhancing Fujitsu Technology's global presence.

After graduating from Osaka University with a degree in communications engineering in 1996, Tetsuya joined a major Japanese IT company. After R&D in optical communications business for world-wide markets, he worked as an engineer and architect in business for Japan, US and European telecommunication carriers. Since 2015, he has been seconded to the company's Silicon Valley office to promote the digital transformation (DX) of his organization and business. A major contribution to the company's global business expansion.

Tetsuya joined Fujitsu Limited in January 2020. After working in the Digital Solution Services Division, he assumed his current design position in April 2020. His appointment as head of a design organization after not having worked in design attracted considerable attention both inside and outside the company. Currently, he is involved in business and organizational transformation using design, as well as projects to solve social issues through open ecosystems.