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Compute | New York // DCD>Debate: NVIncible - Can the current chip monopoly be challenged?

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Joshua Lloyd-Braiden

Portfolio Lead - Compute, Storage & Networking, DCD

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Joshua Lloyd-Braiden

Portfolio Lead - Compute, Storage & Networking, DCD

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Darrick Horton

Founder & CEO, Tensorwave

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Darrick Horton

Founder & CEO, Tensorwave

Darrick Horton is the Founder and CEO of TensorWave, a leading AI compute and cloud solutions company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a serial entrepreneur, Darrick has successfully founded and led several technology startups, focusing on data center, cloud infrastructure, and semiconductor technology. His career also includes experience on Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works team, where he worked on nuclear fusion. Prior to that, he contributed to several research projects including NASA-funded plasma physics research as well as astrophysics research with the LIGO project.

Beyond his professional achievements, Darrick has served as the President of Engineers Without Borders, where he dedicated his efforts to supporting the development of disadvantaged communities worldwide.

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Zaid Kahn

Independent Thought Leader, Hardware and Data Center Engineering

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Zaid Kahn

Independent Thought Leader, Hardware and Data Center Engineering

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Nilesh Shah

Strategic Advisor

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Nilesh Shah

Strategic Advisor

Nilesh drives Business Development at ZeroPoint Technologies. He advises several companies in the Semiconductor, Data Center AI and Memory space. He contributes regularly to standards bodies like SNIA, OCP, JEDEC, RISC-V, CXL Consortium. He is regularly invited to speak at Conferences, and has led multiple panels and featured in Analyst/ Press interviews.

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Alan Bumgarner

Director of AI Technology, Solidigm

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Alan Bumgarner

Director of AI Technology, Solidigm

Alan Bumgarner began his career at Intel Corporation in Folsom, CA more than 20 years ago. Since then, his roles included front line technical support, remote server management of multiple Intel datacenters, product/channel/technical marketing, field sales, and strategic product planning and management.  These roles took him from California, to New Jersey, Texas, and Oregon, and finally back to Folsom, CA. Alan currently holds a position as Director of AI Technology for Storage Products in Solidigm’s Datacenter Products Group.  He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Systems from the University of Phoenix.  In his free time he likes to ski/bike/hike, work on cars and enjoys cooking.

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Mark Castleman

Mark Castleman

Managing Director, Intel AI Cloud, Intel Corp

As both enterprises and hyperscalers move away from training and move towards inference, could the chip landscape undergo a seismic shift? Could any disruptors emerge to reduce the chip monopoly?

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