Responsible AI Conference - Devfest Silicon Valley

Join us at DevFest Silicon Valley, one of the largest developer conferences in North America, for a full day dedicated to Responsible AI! This exciting event will bring together a thriving community of developers, AI researchers, tech professionals, and enthusiasts from across the Bay Area and beyond.

​Detailed Agenda:

​Contribution-Based Registration:

​This year, we are making registration contribution-based. In order to participate, we ask that you contribute to the AI community by sharing your work and insights. Whether you're a developer, researcher, or enthusiast, here are a few ways you can contribute:

​Share Your Work: Tell us about the AI projects you're building or the challenges you're solving.
​Technology Stack: Let us know which tools, platforms, or technologies have been most useful in your AI journey.
​Published Research or Open Source Contributions: Highlight any research papers or open-source projects you’ve contributed to.
​Articles or Insights: Share any articles, blog posts, or thought pieces you’ve written related to AI or technology.

​By submitting, you agree that we may review and publish your entries to the community. This is a chance to showcase your work, inspire others, and build connections within the AI field.

Agenda

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Speakers

Francis Ma - Google (Sr. Director of Product, Firebase)

Aparna Dhinakaran - Arize AI (Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer)

Aparna Dhinakaran is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Arize AI, a pioneer, and early leader in machine learning (ML) observability. A frequent speaker at top conferences and thought leader in the space, Dhinakaran was recently named to the Forbes 30 Under 30. Before Arize, Dhinakaran was an ML engineer and leader at Uber, Apple, and TubeMogul (acquired by Adobe). During her time at …

Uttam Tripathi - Qualcomm (Vice President, Developer Relations)

Uttam has been working on Developer Products and Developer Relations for over a decade. He currently works as Vice President, Developer Relations @ Qualcomm. In his earlier role Uttam led Global Programs for Dev Community Ecosystem at Google. In his other roles Uttam led Launchpad (startup Accelerator) at Google and was Country Head DevRel for India and Southeast Asia. Uttam holds Bachelors an…

Jay Rodge - NVIDIA (Senior Developer Advocate - Large Language Models)

Jay Rodge is a developer advocate for large language models (LLMs), where he demonstrates how developers can leverage GPU acceleration in their LLM workflows, using community models like Gemma, tools and frameworks that are widely used by the developer community.

Nyah Macklin - Neo4j (Developer Evangelist)

Nyah Macklin is a Developer Evangelist at Neo4j. Nyah cares deeply about the ethical use of data, data privacy & security, and ethical artificial intelligence. Nyah has a non-traditional background, with a degree in African & Afro-American Studies and a career in civil service and community organizing. This background gave them the expertise to decipher the ways systems within tech per…

Krishna Chytanya (KC) Ayyagari - Google (GenAI Field Solutions Architect)

KC Ayyagari is a GenAI Field Solutions Architect at Google, specializing in Generative AI and cloud solutions. He has extensive experience working with enterprise sales teams, developing large-scale startup programs, and designing technical solutions for major corporations and governments. KC has mentored startups worldwide, including for the United Nations, and is a frequent speaker at techno…

Parul Gupta - Meta (Production Engineer)

Parul is a senior Production Engineer at Meta, where she works within the Python Foundation team. Previously, she worked with interactive computing, contributed to accelerating the ML authoring space and gathered extensive experience in machine learning (ML) prototyping tools and techniques. She is also one of the early contributors of Fairlearn, an open-source Python library to improve fairne…

Hannes Hapke - Digits (Principal Machine Learning Engineer)

Hannes Hapke is a principal machine learning engineer at Digits, where he develops innovative ways to use machine learning to boost productivity for business owners and accountants. Prior to joining Digits, Hannes solved machine learning infrastructure problems in various industries including healthcare, retail, recruiting, and renewable energies.
Hannes actively contributes to TensorFlo…

Rabimba Karanjai - Rice University (Graduate Researcher)

Rabimba Karanjai is a full-time graduate researcher, part-time hacker, and FOSS enthusiast. He works with I2C lab at University of Houston and Habenaro lab at Rice University as part of his PhD. He has previously worked with Mozilla Research Mixed Reality team and IBM Research Systems group. He is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technology and Machine Learning, Google Champions Innovator in C…

Hemanth HM - PayPal (GDE, Sr. Staff Software Engineering Manager)

AI enthusiast.
Computer polyglot, FOSS philospher! 🤓Loves The WEB && CLI.Ambidextrous, native Bangalorean!Currently living in CA.Blog's about programming.FOSS on GitHub.Authored 300+ node modules with 22M downloads a month!Google Developer Expert for Web && Payments.TC39 delegate, working on JavaScript feature pr…

Ashley Oldacre

Vikram Tiwari - Assembled (Lead Machine Learning Engineer & ML GDE)

Vikram wrestles with prompts and models to make them coherent. He is a Cloud and Machine Learning Google Developer Expert

Jigyasa Grover - Bordo AI (Data Scientist | ML Engineer | GDE | WTM Ambassador)

Jigyasa is a 10-time award winner in Artificial Intelligence. Open Source and the co-author of the book 'Sculpting Data For ML', Jigyasa Grover is a powerhouse brimming with passion to make a dent in this world of technology and bridge the gaps. She has 5+ years of ML engineering & Data Science experience in deploying large‐scale systems for monetization on social networking and e‐co…

Daniel Goncharov - Stanford (AI Research Engineer)

Deepa Subramanian

Deepa is a self taught Software Engineer. She is passionate and curious about web technologies and PWA's. She enjoys building applications using Angular and React and now exploring the Flutter platform too! She volunteers as an ambassador at Women Techmakers, and speaks at various tech events. She organizes events at Google Developer Group San Jose.

Mihai Maruseac - Google (Staff Software Engineer)

Prashanth Josyula - Salesforce (Principal Member of Technical Staff)

Prashanth is a leading expert in AI and Machine Learning, dedicated to advancing these transformative technologies with a fearless approach to experimentation and a relentless pursuit of knowledge. As a Principal Member of Technical Staff (PMTS) at Salesforce, he brings over 16 years of diverse experience in the IT industry, constantly pushing the boundaries of technological innovation.

Karanbir Singh - Salesforce (Senior Software Engineer)

I’m an accomplished software engineer and leader with over seven years of experience working in AI, distributed systems, and microservices, particularly in the fintech and automotive industries. Throughout my career, I’ve successfully led and mentored teams, contributed to significant product improvements, and played a key role in developing machine learning models and infrastructure.
I’…

Shrestha Basu Mallick - Google (Group Product Manager)

Shrestha Basu Mallick is Group Product Manager and Product Lead for Gemini API and AI Studio at Google Cloud. Prior to this, Shrestha led product development for AI assistance across all Google coding surfaces. Shrestha’s first role in Alphabet was at X, the Moonshot Factory, as Head of Product for a materials discovery platform that has since graduated to become its own startup, Sandbox AQ. P…

Ivan Nardini - Google Cloud (Developer Relations Engineer, AI/ML - Engineering)

Ivan Nardini is a customer engineer specialized in AI/ML and MLOps and passionate about developer advocacy. He started his career in data science in a marketing consulting company after studies conducted at the Luigi Bocconi University of Milan and GSE of Barcelona. He then joined SAS Institute and he supported customers in implementing model governance. Working closely with data science teams…

Pooja Jain - Google (Customer Engineer)

Adam Chan - Weaviate (Developer Growth Engineer)

Dwiref Oza - Voxel51 (Computer Vision Engineer)

Dwiref is a Computer Vision Engineer at Voxel51, the company behind the popular open-source visual AI sandbox - FiftyOne. His day job is playing around with all kinds of data and models in the FiftyOne sandbox, which informs his team's support to enterprise customers of the platform. Dwiref draws on his multifaceted experience working on AI-assisted medical diagnosis, applications for Smart Ci…

Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Ricardo Baeza-Yates is Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University since 2021. He is also a part-time Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and at Universidad de Chile in Santiago. Before he was the CTO of NTENT, a semantic search technology company based in California and prior to these roles, he was VP of Research at Yahoo Labs, based in …

Bernardino Romera Paredes

Geetha Anne - Temporal Technologies (Staff Solutions Architect)

Geetha is a Solutions Architect in the big data management and durable execution space with experience in executing solutions for business problems on cloud and on-premises. She loved distributed computing during her undergrad days and has followed my interest ever since. She provides technical guidance, design advice, and thought leadership to key enterprise customers and partners, helping tr…

Nikita Desale

Hi, I’m Nikita Desale, a motivated Cloud Engineer with 3+ years of experience working with Google Cloud services (GCP). I hold multiple certifications, including GCP Associate Cloud Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect, and Professional Security Engineer, which have empowered me to design secure, efficient, and scalable cloud solutions.

Daniel Galpin - Google (DevRel Engineer for Android)

Caren Chang - Google (DevRel Engineer for Android)

Laura Haaber Ihle - Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University, Harvard University (Research Scientist - AI Ethicist)

Laura Haaber Ihle is a research scientist - AI ethicist at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University and an associate researcher in the department of philosophy at Harvard University. She received her doctorate in philosophy, economy, and political science in 2020 from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Italy, and has worked as an associate researcher at AI Ethics L…

Angad Nadkarni - Spindle AI (Founding Engineer)

Vasyl Rakivnenko

Vasyl Rakivnenko is a Stanford GSB alum '23, Forbes-featured entrepreneur with a successful exit, AI expert building AI solutions since 2020, angel investor in several tech startups, he combines practical experience with research on responsible AI conducted alongside Stanford Institute of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and some of the top Stanford faculty. Guest speaker at Stanfo…

Hosted By

Sakshi Gupta, GDG Organizer

Mrunank Pawar, Community Manager

Passionate technologist interested in Product Management and AI, AR, and software development. MS in Computer Science candidate at Santa Clara University. Founder of Club TechBrewers, organizing workshops for 1900+ members. Recognized as a Top 50 Hacker by MLH in 2023. Actively involved in hackathons, creating impactful projects. Seeking collaborative opportunities in innovative tech projects.

Prachi Sethi, Team Member

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