Khalil is a serial entrepreneur and partner at Pear VC, his companies cumulatively realized over $100 million in revenue and attracted over 5 million users. He was previously the co-founder and CEO of Learn Fresh, a tech company focused on K-12 education, making math learning fun by combining pro sports stats and celebrity effect. He also served as co-founder and president of Boundless and was founder and CEO of GiftCard Bank. He is a graduate of Brown University and earned his MBA and MA Ed from Stanford University as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.

James da Costa is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on investing in B2B software and financial services.

Prior to joining a16z, James was a Y Combinator-backed fintech founder. Previously, James served as an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company.

James holds an MBA from Stanford University. While at Stanford, James was a researcher in Stanford's Human Centered AI Lab, where he focused on the economic implications of AI. James is also a published author.

Alan Du is a partner at PayPal Ventures, focused on enterprise SaaS, cybersecurity, e-commerce infrastructure, and AI investments. Before joining PayPal Ventures in 2020, Alan served as the Head of Operations for Greater China at Docker. He opened Docker's first office in Asia and drove major commercial agreements with local partners. Before Docker, Alan was an early team member at the Washington D.C.-based growth equity firm Revolution and invested across Enterprise SaaS and Tech-Enabled Services. Alan holds an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Irving Hsu is a Principal at Mayfield Fund, a top venture capital firm, with a strong background in data science and engineering. He has held key roles at Slack, Instagram, and Airbnb, leading initiatives like Slack's growth funnel, Instagram's user expansion to over 1 billion MAUs, and Airbnb's machine learning projects.

As a Stanford alumnus, Irving earned an MBA as an Arjay Miller Scholar and holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science with an AI focus.

Allen Wu is the Corporate Development Director at NVIDIA, where he and his group define, analyze, and shape NVIDIA's overall growth strategy, M&A opportunities, strategic investments, integration and ensure the strategic, financial and operational targets of each transaction are fully realized. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Allen was a technology investment banker at J.P Morgan, and have worked on Commercial Due Diligence in Software Space in Altman Solon. He received his MBA at Columbia Business School and a master's degree in MS&E at Stanford University.

Angie Zhu is the Head of AI Co-innovation Labs at Microsoft. In her career she has led over 100 innovation projects which have included autonomous cars, healthcare and retail. She was the former corporate development lead at an autonomous driving unicorn.

Angie specializes in business development, strategy and tech incubation, and has overseen 100+ tech co-innovation projects with startups and Fortune 500 enterprises. She obtained her MBA from the Tsinghua & MIT joint program.

Nick is a Vice President at Unusual Ventures, focusing on early stage investments in data and computing infrastructure. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a top of his class. He went on to complete his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University, where he conducted research as a Stanford Graduate Fellow. A Silicon Valley native, Nick started his own company while still in high school and has gained extensive industry experience working with or strategically advising a number of early-stage startups over the past decade.

Doctor Gaidon is an experienced Machine Learning researcher, engineer, manager, executive, and investor. He is a partner at Calibrate Ventures, and also an Adjunct Professor of CS at Stanford University. Before joining Calibrate, he served as technical advisor and former head of ML at Toyota Research Institute (TRI).

He has great expertise in ML for Embodied Intelligence, spanning topics across Computer Vision and Robot Learning.

Joe Sha is the former CEO of Percept.AI, a YCombinator-backed AI customer support agent startup acquired by Atlassian in 2022. After the acquisition, he led Jira Conversational Help, managed a global team of over 100 people, and launched Jira Virtual Agent and related AI products. Prior to that, Joe was an early member of the Google Glass and Google Home teams. Joe holds a B.S. from Tsinghua University and an M.S. from Columbia University.