HumanX US 2027

Jeetu Patel is Cisco’s President and Chief Product Officer. He combines a bold vision, steeped in product design and development expertise, operational rigor, and innate market understanding to create high growth businesses. He is relentlessly focused on building world class products that solve Cisco customers’ biggest problems—bringing the power of the Cisco portfolio together to connect and protect every aspect of their organization in the era of AI.

Robin is co-founder and CEO of Black Forest Labs, a frontier AI research lab dedicated to advancing generative models for images and videos. Before founding Black Forest Labs, he was a research director at Stability AI and pursued his PhD at LMU Munich. Robin's academic journey began with a Master degree in physics at the University of Heidelberg (2013-2020). His research has centered around making generative models more efficient, contributing to the development of widely adopted models such as VQGAN, Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion and Flux. He is a proponent of open-source models.

Saral Jain is SVP of Engineering & Chief Information Officer at Snap Inc., where he leads all engineering efforts for Snapchat, including building products that reach our global community of almost a billion Snapchat users. His team builds our product experiences, multi-cloud infrastructure, machine learning and generative AI platforms - that lay the foundation for technical excellence at Snap. His organization spans engineering, research, product, program management, and operations, with teams distributed across the globe.

Linda Tong is CEO of Webflow, the agentic web marketing platform for building and scaling through digital experiences. She leads the company as AI reshapes how brands grow online, and previously held senior executive roles at Cisco, NFL, and Google.

Steve invests at the intersection of design, technology, and business: at the sweet spot where a product meets a real user need, is built atop a unique insight or technological breakthrough, and has the potential to be a massive business. He is drawn to founders with two predilections: First, having spent the initial five years of his career designing products at IDEO, Steve gravitates towards product-first founders, who understand how to build technology that delights and improves the lives of its users. Second, he is drawn to founders who want to solve consequential problems.

Nancy Brown, a General Partner at Oak HC/FT, joined the firm in 2014 and focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities in healthcare. Nancy currently serves on the Boards of Firefly Health, Groups Recover Together, InterWell Health, Maven and Unite US. Nancy is also actively involved with Noom, TurningPoint Healthcare Solutions and Wayspring. Prior investments include Limeade (ASX: LME), OncoHealth (acquired by Arsenal Capital Partners) and OODA Health (acquired by Cedar). Prior to joining Oak HC/FT, Nancy was Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for McKesson Corporation Technology Solutions. Previously, Nancy was Chief Growth Officer at MedVentive, which was acquired by McKesson in 2012. Before joining MedVentive, she served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development as well as Senior Vice President of Clinical Service of athenahealth. Prior to joining athenahealth in 2004, she was a Senior Vice President at McKesson Corporation, focused on marketing and strategic planning. She joined McKesson in 1999 when it acquired a company she co-founded, Abaton.com, a provider of internet-based clinical solutions for the ambulatory market. Earlier, she spent eight years at Harvard Community Health Plan where she held several senior management roles.

Deepak Pathak is CEO & Co-Founder of Skild AI and Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. He is developing a general-purpose brain for robotics with a long-term goal of AGI grounded in the physical world, and is known for pioneering contributions to AI, including self-supervised learning, artificial curiosity, and sim2real adaptation for robot learning. Deepak has received several prestigious honors, including MIT TR 35under35, Sloan Fellow, Okawa Fellow, IIT Kanpur Young Alumnus Award, and multiple Best Paper Awards.

Howie is the CEO of Airtable, which he co-founded in 2013 with the vision of creating a faster and more intuitive way to build useful applications. Since launch, Airtable has gained a groundswell of adoption across a range of customers from small businesses to the world’s largest enterprises with over 500,000 organizations creating over 50 million applications to run their operations. Now counting over half of the Fortune 500 as paid customers Airtable has scaled up to power mission-critical enterprise use cases and has become the fastest and most intuitive way to accelerate operations with AI

Asheem Chandna is a Partner at VC firm Greylock Partners, where he is focused on helping entrepreneurs initiate and build enterprise companies from zero to beyond IPO. He has been an investor in over twenty technology companies, including four public companies and numerous that have been acquired in strong M&A outcomes. He was a founding investor in Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.85B), and others. His current investments include 7AI, Abnormal AI, Axiamatic, Bedrock Data, Censys, Kodem, Netic, Obsidian, Tenzai, and several companies in stealth.

Pegah Ebrahimi is an advisor to or investor in many category defining startups, including Snyk, Canva, Guild, Applyboard, PsiQuantum and DataRobot. Founders want to work with Pegah because of her world class go-to-market expertise, which she developed during her tenure as COO of Morgan Stanley’s Technology Investment Banking, COO of Cisco’s multi-billion dollar Collaboration business, and the youngest global CIO of Morgan Stanley Bank.

Amanda is a passionate, positive spiritual warrior to empower women and girls. Amanda is a category-creating 3x Entrepreneur. Most notable Founder & former CEO of 6sense, now CEO & Founder of 1mind. 1mind is an end-to-end GTM solution taking on tasks (and replacing human workers) on everything from top-of-funnel qualification, sales, training, customer success to technical support. 1mind is a photo-real face voice and proactive real-time brain that can join a Zoom, give a pitch, lead a sales call, and give a custom demo, all in real-time across virtually any channel. 1mind gives buyers immediate answers to all their questions in real-time, anytime, across any channel. Gone are the days of scheduling meetings and shuffling around the sales team to get answers. 1mind aims to make buying joyful for every customer and profitable for every business.

Charles Carmakal is the Chief Technology Officer of Mandiant Consulting, the security consulting organization of Google Cloud. He oversees a team of incident responders, analysts, and security consultants that have helped thousands of organizations respond to complex security breaches orchestrated by foreign governments and organized criminals. Charles led the teams that discovered and responded to some of the most impactful security events, including the SolarWinds supply chain attack and the Colonial Pipeline cyber disruption.