Libby Horne

Senior Vice President, US Fertility & HIVEndocrinology

EMD Serono, Inc

Ahmad Danesh

Associate Vice President, Product Management

Astera Labs

Ahmad Danesh is a strategic marketing and product management director with 15+ years’ experience in semiconductor, software, storage, server and data center industries. He is focused on driving product strategy for new market segments by translating data center bottlenecks into profitable and competitive hardware and software product roadmaps using Compute Express Link™ technology.

Ahmad serves as Sr. Director of Product Management at Astera Labs and has been an active member of the CXL™ Consortium's Marketing Work Group since inception in 2019.

Marcel van Duin

PhD, Chief Scientific Officer

Organon

Sandra Milligan

M.D., Head of Research & Development

Organon

Shira Center

General Manager, Newsroom Initiatives

Boston Globe Media

Mehdi Esmail

Cofounder and Chief Product Officer

ValidMind

Mehdi Esmail is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Validmind, a VC-backed startup focused on simplifying Model Risk Management for Financial Services. He has over a decade of experience in data, analytics, and risk management for the Financial Services industry, having served as both an operator working with the Chief Data Officer at American Express, and as a consultant for Fortune 100 Financial Services companies. 

Bahar Malavan Naryndji

Senior Human Rights Compliance Specialist