OpenStages roster · 56 speakers · 6 rooms
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56 speakers
Arjun Chintapalli
Co-founder @ rtrvr.ai
“Engineering Free Agents: Code Mode, Cache-Maxxing, and Continual Learning”
Chen-Ping Yu
Co-founder & CEO @ Atmanity
“Agents You Can Talk To: Real-Time Human Models on a Single GPU”
Cheryl Yang
Co-founder @ HiRey AI
“Beyond the Feed: Personal Agents and the Future of Human Connection”
Dan Ndombe
Staff Developer Success Advocate @ Docker
“Give the Agent Its Own Machine”
George Trushevskiy
Founding GTM @ Keenable
“Giving your agents the live web”
Jorge Alcantara
Co-founder & CEO @ Zentrik
“Build what your customers want to pay for”
Marcin Michalak
CTO & Founder @ AgentX
“AgentX Trace & Eval”
Michael Mayernick
Founder & CEO @ Structure
“The Company as Source Code: typed, compiled, checked, and run by agents”
Raj Rao
Co-founder @ LayerLens
“Evaluating Salesforce Agents with Simulated Environments and Synthetic Data”
Raphael Kalandadze
Co-founder & CTO @ Wandero AI
“Be the Decision Maker, Not the Manager”
Sean Shadmand
Founder @ Grum
“Catching Design Drift in Agent-Written UI”
Brett Liu
Investment Lead @ Sixty Degree Capital
Investment lead at Sixty Degree Capital, backing AI companies founded by university researchers and professors and hosting researcher-founder office hours. He advises the nonprofit AItonomy and led its Annual Summit, supports university AI commercialization as an ARC Program Ambassador, and serves as Berkeley SESE’s VC liaison. Previously, he co-founded and exited a deeptech startup and worked in corporate development and engineering consulting.
Benny Liao
Partner @ Alpha Intelligence Capital
Partner at AIC (Alpha Intelligence Capital), leading early-stage AI investments in AI infrastructure, middleware and applications, primarily from pre-seed to Series A. AIC is a global investment firm with approximately $600 million in assets under management and teams in Paris, Singapore and the United States; its advisory team includes Yann LeCun. Portfolio companies include Higgsfield (first-check investor with board representation), AMI Labs (world models) and Modular (acquired by Qualcomm for $4 billion).
Sparsh Agarwal
Director of Product Management @ Salesforce
Leads product management for enterprise AI-agent governance at Salesforce/MuleSoft, focusing on secure agent-to-tool access and API/MCP policy. His earlier work spans Microsoft cloud platforms and technical collaborations published with AWS, and he has served as a CES Innovation Awards judge. Participating in an individual professional capacity.
Patrick Blumenthal
VC @ Draper Associates
Works in venture capital at Draper Associates, the early-stage firm behind 60+ unicorns including SpaceX, Tesla and Coinbase. He is also doing a part-time Master’s in Entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge and co-founded BridgeFellows, which brings Oxbridge’s best founders to Silicon Valley. Before VC, he worked across several startups and helped build an accelerator from scratch. He backs founders building things most people think are too early, too weird, or totally impossible.
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.
Jay Ma
Co-founder @ Final Round AI & Hellyeah AI
“Paid ads — shaping your next ad experiment”
Kathy Wang
Co-founder @ Press Club
“Press — telling a story that gets attention”
Bei Zhang
Product Growth & Marketing @ Shanda Group
“Cold outreach — reaching customers and starting conversations”
Ethan Dursht
Growth @ Unify
“Workshop — Build a Growth Experiment Engine with AI”
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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