OpenStages roster · 37 speakers · 4 rooms

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37 speakers

Edward Huang

Partner @ Llama Ventures

“The AI Infrastructure Investment Insight”

AI Infra Signal

Narendar Shankar

Co-founder @ hosted.ai

“GPU cloud utilization and Neocloud economics”

AI Infra Signal

Nilesh Shah

VP @ hosted.ai

“GPU cloud utilization and Neocloud economics”

AI Infra Signal

Samantha Clarke

VP @ VDURA

“The Efficient Data Stack: From Training to Inference—or Is It GPU Utilization?”

AI Infra Signal

Vanessa Lu

Head of Marketing @ Infron AI

“Product Demo: Building the Intelligent Inference Layer for AI Applications”

AI Infra Signal

Biwei Huang

Founder @ Aether AI & Assistant Professor @ UC San Diego

“Causal World Models for the Next AI Paradigm”

AI Infra Signal

Homer Wang

Head of Product @ TinyFish

“Every AI Needs Some Web”

AI Infra Signal

Dr. Yuexing Hao

Researcher @ Microsoft, Postdoc @ MIT & Founder of MatrAIx AI

“MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents”

AI Infra Signal

Dr. Xiaomin Li

Senior Research Scientist @ Microsoft · Founder of MatrAIx

“MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents”

AI Infra Signal

Felix Meng

CEO @ XTrace

“Beyond README.md: Teaching AI Agents from the Mistakes They Actually Make”

AI Infra Signal

Yash More

Member of Technical Staff @ Cohere

“Inside Modern RL Infrastructure”

AI Infra Signal

Angelina You

Co-Founder @ Modo (StartX F25)

“Methods to Evaluate Workflow ROI and Project Monetization”

AI Infra Signal

Vandon Duong

Principal @ DCVC

Principal at DCVC, investing at the intersection of deep tech and AI infrastructure.

AI Infra Signal

Yihua Cheng

CTO @ Tensormesh

CTO and cofounder of Tensormesh, building systems for the AI infrastructure layer.

AI Infra Signal

Rebecca Biju

AI Infra Engineer @ Together AI

AI infrastructure engineer at Together AI, working the systems that keep large-scale inference and training reliable.

AI Infra Signal

Sachin Keswani

Senior PM @ Nutanix

Senior Product Manager at Nutanix, focused on enterprise infrastructure for AI workloads.

AI Infra Signal

Chinat Yu

AI Researcher @ Stanford University

AI researcher at Stanford and MentorMates — moderated the AI Infra Signal infrastructure panel.

ModeratorAI Infra Signal

Jo Zhang

Founding Member, Product & GTM @ ComfyUI

Founding member leading product and GTM at ComfyUI — 4M+ users and ~100K GitHub stars — on turning an open-source community into an enterprise funnel.

Scaling Beyond the Founder

Eric Lay

CEO @ Virio

CEO of Virio, which runs B2B content and LinkedIn distribution — on choosing channels by product type rather than preference.

Scaling Beyond the Founder

Adam Cai

CEO & Co-Founder @ Numix

CEO and co-founder of Numix, an AI tax agent for finance. Cohosted GTM Series No. 2 with OpenStages.

Scaling Beyond the Founder

Mayur Sethi

CRO @ Fractional

CRO at Fractional, providing B2B GTM leadership — on pricing, budget splits, and systematizing a pitch only once it survives a live call.

Scaling Beyond the Founder

Yvonne Zheng

Co-founder @ NxLead

Co-founder of NxLead. Moderated GTM Series No. 2 on channels, budgets, and pricing for AI products.

ModeratorScaling Beyond the Founder

Michael Ruescher

Founder @ BitterClip

“BitterClip — understanding and editing long-form video”

AI Tech Salon Night

Nasa Dadkoush

Founder @ Visually

“Visually — the Lovable for explainer videos”

AI Tech Salon Night

Tongping Liu

Founder @ Teyon.ai

“Teyon.ai — the reliability layer for GPU training”

AI Tech Salon Night

Yeon Kim

Founder @ ZETIC

“ZETIC — launch your own AI models on-device”

AI Tech Salon Night

Yunfan Ye

Founder @ Rome

“Rome — a personal agent OS”

AI Tech Salon Night

Hao Xue

Founder @ Kidooo AI

“Kidooo AI — video intelligence for child development”

AI Tech Salon Night

Jennifer Ma

Founder @ FocusAlpha

“FocusAlpha — trusted company intelligence for your AI”

AI Tech Salon Night

Alam Khan

Founder @ Klaris

“Klaris — an AI-native insurance agency”

AI Tech Salon Night

Jorge Alcantara

Founder @ Zentrik

“Zentrik — carry the customer reason into production”

AI Tech Salon Night

Abhishek Devanga

Founder @ Manufex

“Manufex — procurement AI from CAD to your door”

AI Tech Salon Night

Lillian Ma

Head of Global Partnerships @ GMI Cloud

“Partnership-led acquisition”

Beyond Founder-Led Sales

Artin Bogdanov

Co-founder @ SUN (a16z speedrun SR006)

“Founder-led sales at the earliest stage”

Beyond Founder-Led Sales

Weida Tan

Co-founder @ Press Club

“PR and media as a GTM channel”

Beyond Founder-Led Sales

Danni Chen

Head of Product & GTM @ GEN

“What changes at enterprise scale”

Beyond Founder-Led Sales

Lika Li

OpenStages

Hosted and moderated Beyond Founder-Led Sales, the closed-door GTM panel OpenStages ran in San Francisco.

ModeratorBeyond Founder-Led Sales

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