Deepu Talla serves as Vice President of Robotics and Edge AI at NVIDIA, where he leads the deployment of AI technology in autonomous machines and intelligent devices, including humanoids, industrial robots, autonomous mobile robots, intelligent video analytics, and factory automation. Over the past decade, he has helped shape NVIDIA’s physical AI and robotics platforms, such as NVIDIA Isaac, NVIDIA Metropolis, and NVIDIA Jetson.

Howard Neal retired from Schlumberger Ltd. after a 23-year career in which he served in several leadership positions.  He was Vice President of Engineering at the Schlumberger Austin Systems Center and was responsible for developing hardware and software solutions for oilfield data acquisition and interpretation systems.  He also served as Vice President of Marketing at the Wireline, Testing, and Anadrill Division of Schlumberger, located in New York.

Stephen T. Kush is a founder and CEO of Catalysis Inc., a global consulting firm specializing in applying health care date to clinical research..  Steve has BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (UT) and over 40 years of engineering, manufacturing and management experience in the US, Japan, and Europe. The list of organizations that he has worked for includes Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Texas Instruments, Sperry Flight Systems and Schlumberger.

David Jarmon is an entrepreneur and technology executive whose career spans multiple startups in custom chip design and technology licensing. After earning his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, David began his career at a chip design automation startup founded by a UT ECE instructor, setting the stage for decades of work at a half-dozen startups operating at the intersection of engineering problem solving and customer-driven innovation.

Teresa is a distinguished leader in the field of telecommunications and data analytics, currently serving as a Senior Delivery Manager at Ciena Corporation. A proud alumna of The University of Texas at Austin, she earned her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with highest honors in 1981 before completing a Master’s degree at Caltech in 1983.

Jim is a Special Advisor and Managing Director of Riverstone Holdings LLC, which he and two colleagues formed in 2000. Riverstone is a private equity firm that has invested $40 billion in energy entities in 180 companies in 11 countries. He has served on the Boards of Directors of several public entities.

Jim began his career in 1968 at Bell Labs working on advanced ballistic missile defense systems and other DoD programs. He was part of a team that was technical advisor to the 1972 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT 1).