
Speakers
Confirmed Speakers GAI World 2025

John Halamka MD
Mayo Clinic
President

Melissa Smith
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
CEO

Karen Stroup
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Chief Digital Officer

Barbara Widholm
State Street Bank (NYSE: STT)
VP of AI

Kausar Riaz Ahmed
Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)
Director, Generative AI

Shikhar Ghosh
Harvard Business School
Professor

Chris McKay
Maginative
CEO

Dr. Thomas Kingsley
UCLA Health (and formerly at Mayo Clinic)
Director Epidemiology AI Lab

Gaye Bok
AI and Digital Innovation Fund, Mass General Brigham
Partner

Laurent Rotival
Cambia Health Solutions
EVP and CIO

Ramesh Raskar
MIT
Professor and Director Media Lab

Parag Shah
CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG)
VP Data

Ben Kasdon
CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG)
VP Products

Veronika Durgin
Saks (NYSEL SKS)
VP Data

Anthony Hill
Adaptix Corp
CEO and Founder

Nina Grooms Lee
Alamo Group (NYSE: ALG)
Board Member

Andy Stetzler
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Enterprise AI Lead

Randy Bean
Data & AI Leadership Exchange
Senior Advisor

David Edelman
Harvard Business School
Professor

Andy Roberts
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
AI Architect

Kevin Shatzkamer
Microsoft Customer Experience, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)
CVP

Pete Blackshaw
BrandRank.AI
CEO

Kent Lucas
Non Sibi Ventures
Founding Partner

Christopher Boone
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL)
Group VP of Life Sciences

Dr. Tamara Nall
The Leading Niche
CEO

Jeffrey Rayport
Harvard Business School
Professor

Rizwan Mallal
Quantum Gears
COO

Dr. Ryan Vega
Vantiq
Chief Health Officer

Gamiel Gran
Mayfield Fund
Chief Commercial Officer

Mike Grandinetti
Harvard
Serial Tech Entrepreneur & Faculty

Vladimir Jacimovic
AlgoVerde
CEO

Tom Davenport
Babson College
Professor

Rudina Seseri
Glasswing Ventures
Managing Partner

John Werner
Imagination in Action
Founder

Adam Rappaport
GAI Insights
AI Analysts

Liz Vanzura
GAI Insights
Co-Founder

Heather Lavoie
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
EVP & CIO

Vivek Mukhatyar
Pfizer
Generative AI Medical Engagement Lead
Some Speakers from Last Year
2024 Recap
Last year, GAI World 2024 in Boston featured the foremost leaders in enterprise Generative AI. Top C-suite executives, visionary investors, and pioneering AI startup founders shared exclusive insights and strategies to advance AI investments and drive organizational innovation. Make plans to attend GAI World 2025 and transform your approach to AI with cutting-edge knowledge from the industry’s brightest minds.
Speakers and Panelists - GAI World 2024

Randy Bean
Data & AI Leadership Exchange
Senior Advisor

Jose Pedro Almeida
Intelligence Ventures
World's Top 70 Health AI and Chief AI Strategist,

Yasmina Benkhoui
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA)
Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships and Ecosystem Lead

Pete Blackshaw
BrandRank.ai
Founder & CEO

Chris Boone
Oracle
Group Vice President, Research Services, Life Sciences

Pat Condo
Seekr
CEO

Tom Davenport
Babson College
Distinguished Professor

Pankaj Dugar
AI21
SVP & GM North America

David Edelman
Harvard Business School
Senior Lecturer

Bill Fandrich
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Executive Vice President of Technology and Operations
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Usama Fayyad
Northeastern University
Executive Director, Institute for Experiential AI

Jud Welle
Goodwin
Parter at Goodwin
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Shikhar Ghosh
Harvard Business School
Professor

Dr. Sahar Hashmi
Myriad Consulting
Founder and CEO

Chip Hazard
Flybridge Capital Partners
General Partner and Co-Founder

Igor Jablokov
Pryon
CEO

Sheila Jordan
Honeywell
Chief Digital Technology Officer

Thomas Kingsley
Mayo Clinic
Professor of Medicine & Biomedical Informatics

Scott Kirsner
InnoLead
CEO, Innolead Boston Globe Columnist

Vinay Gidwaney
OneDigital
Chief Product Officer

Nina Grooms Lee
Alamo Group (NYSE: ALG)
Board Member

Matt Lewis
LLMental
Founder and CEO

Rizwan Mallal
Quantum Gears
COO

Chris McKay
Maginative
CEO

Erik Oken
MidOcean Partners
Chairman, Private Equity

Judah Phillips
Squark
CEO/Co-Founder

Mary Purk
The Wharton School, UPenn
Managing Director, AI and Analytics Research Center

Badri Raghavan
ResMed (NYSE: RMD)
VP of AI/ML

Ramesh Raskar
MIT Media Lab
Professor and Director MIT Media Lab

Toby Eduardo Redshaw
Verus Advisory
CEO

Andy Roberts
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)
Data Platform and AI Architect

Ian Robertson
American Securities
Director
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Sandeep Sacheti
Wolters Kluwer (XAMS WTKWY)
Former EVP, Customer Information Management

Rudina Seseri
Glasswing Ventures
​Founder and Managing Partner

Ted Shelton
Inflection AI
COO

Dan Slagen
Tomorrow.io
CMO

Melissa Smith
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
CEO

John Spottiswood
Jerry
Chief Operating and Data Officer

Anne Stemlar
Goodwin
Managing Director, Knowledge & Innovation Strategy

John Sviokla
GAI Insights
Co-Founder

Katie Taylor
Narratize
CEO
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Yann Stoneman
Cohere
Staff Solutions Architect

Liz Vanzura
GAI Insights
Co-founder and Partner
AdAge Marketer of Year
WSJ Women to Watch
Ad Executive: Consumer & Retail

John Werner
Imagination in Action
Founder

Mike Bloom
WEKA
AI Solutions Architect

Suzanne Livingston
IBM
Vice President Sustainability Software Engineering

Jean Olive
John Hancock
CIO

Karen Stroup
WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Chief Digital Officer

Adam Rappaport
Data#3 and GAI Insights
AI Solution Architect & Analyst

Yvonne Hao
Massachusetts
Secretary of Economic Development, Commonwealth

Kjersten Margaret Moody
Prudential Financial
Global Chief Data Officer

Ulrike Hoffmann-Burchardi
Global Equities, UBS
Chief Investment Officer

Awais Sher Bajwa
​Bank of America
Head of Data and AI Banking

Ross Gagnon
Forbes
Executive Director of Research at Forbes

Markus Flierl
Intel Cloud Services
Corporate Vice President

Jeffrey Rayport
​Harvard Business School
Professor
