OpenStages roster · 37 speakers · 4 rooms
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37 speakers

Edward Huang
Partner @ Llama Ventures
“The AI Infrastructure Investment Insight”

Narendar Shankar
Co-founder @ hosted.ai
“GPU cloud utilization and Neocloud economics”

Nilesh Shah
VP @ hosted.ai
“GPU cloud utilization and Neocloud economics”

Samantha Clarke
VP @ VDURA
“The Efficient Data Stack: From Training to Inference—or Is It GPU Utilization?”

Vanessa Lu
Head of Marketing @ Infron AI
“Product Demo: Building the Intelligent Inference Layer for AI Applications”

Biwei Huang
Founder @ Aether AI & Assistant Professor @ UC San Diego
“Causal World Models for the Next AI Paradigm”

Homer Wang
Head of Product @ TinyFish
“Every AI Needs Some Web”

Dr. Yuexing Hao
Researcher @ Microsoft, Postdoc @ MIT & Founder of MatrAIx AI
“MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents”

Dr. Xiaomin Li
Senior Research Scientist @ Microsoft · Founder of MatrAIx
“MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents”

Felix Meng
CEO @ XTrace
“Beyond README.md: Teaching AI Agents from the Mistakes They Actually Make”

Yash More
Member of Technical Staff @ Cohere
“Inside Modern RL Infrastructure”

Angelina You
Co-Founder @ Modo (StartX F25)
“Methods to Evaluate Workflow ROI and Project Monetization”

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

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

Rebecca Biju
AI Infra Engineer @ Together AI
AI infrastructure engineer at Together AI, working the systems that keep large-scale inference and training reliable.

Sachin Keswani
Senior PM @ Nutanix
Senior Product Manager at Nutanix, focused on enterprise infrastructure for AI workloads.

Chinat Yu
AI Researcher @ Stanford University
AI researcher at Stanford and MentorMates — moderated the AI Infra Signal infrastructure panel.

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.

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

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.

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.

Yvonne Zheng
Co-founder @ NxLead
Co-founder of NxLead. Moderated GTM Series No. 2 on channels, budgets, and pricing for AI products.
Michael Ruescher
Founder @ BitterClip
“BitterClip — understanding and editing long-form video”
Nasa Dadkoush
Founder @ Visually
“Visually — the Lovable for explainer videos”
Tongping Liu
Founder @ Teyon.ai
“Teyon.ai — the reliability layer for GPU training”
Yeon Kim
Founder @ ZETIC
“ZETIC — launch your own AI models on-device”
Yunfan Ye
Founder @ Rome
“Rome — a personal agent OS”
Hao Xue
Founder @ Kidooo AI
“Kidooo AI — video intelligence for child development”
Jennifer Ma
Founder @ FocusAlpha
“FocusAlpha — trusted company intelligence for your AI”
Alam Khan
Founder @ Klaris
“Klaris — an AI-native insurance agency”
Jorge Alcantara
Founder @ Zentrik
“Zentrik — carry the customer reason into production”
Abhishek Devanga
Founder @ Manufex
“Manufex — procurement AI from CAD to your door”

Lillian Ma
Head of Global Partnerships @ GMI Cloud
“Partnership-led acquisition”

Artin Bogdanov
Co-founder @ SUN (a16z speedrun SR006)
“Founder-led sales at the earliest stage”

Weida Tan
Co-founder @ Press Club
“PR and media as a GTM channel”

Danni Chen
Head of Product & GTM @ GEN
“What changes at enterprise scale”
Lika Li
OpenStages
Hosted and moderated Beyond Founder-Led Sales, the closed-door GTM panel OpenStages ran in San Francisco.
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