Linux Foundation AI Executive Forum
Confirmed Attendees as of February 19, 2026
- Eli Aleyner • VP of Product Strategy & Alliances • Docker
- Ed Anuff • CPO, IBM Data • IBM
- Teppei Asaba • Senior Director • Fujitsu
- Jono Bacon • Founder and CEO • Stateshift
- Dan Baker • Co-Founder • MLOps Community
- Roger Barga • Senior Vice President • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Daniela Barbosa • Executive Director • Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust
- Andy Berman • CEO • Runlayer
- Federico Bongiovanni • Senior Engineering Manager • Google Cloud
- Chang She • CEO / Cofounder • LanceDB
- Bryan Che • Chief Strategy Officer • Huawei
- George Chellapa • Product Manager, Technology Licensing • NVIDIA
- Stephen Chin • VP, Developer Relations • Neo4j
- Sy Choudhury • Director AI Partnerships • Meta
- Gabriele Columbro • Executive Director • FINOS
- Chetan Conikee • Founder / CEO • Modiqo Inc.
- Kevin Crosby • Senior Director of Open Source Funding • GitHub
- Matthew Crawford • Director of IP and AI Compliance • Arm
- Cornelia Davis • Developer Advocate • Temporal
- Cara Delia • Manager, AI Community Infrastructure • Red Hat
- Den Delimarsky • Member of Technical Staff • Anthropic
- Chris DiBona • Vice President, Open Ecosystems • Microsoft
- Lee Ditiangkin • Senior Director • NVIDiA
- Manish Dixit • SVP, GM of Product Engineering • Linux Foundation
- Michael Dolan • SVP and GM of Projects • The Linux Foundation
- James Everingham • CEO • Guild.ai
- Noriaki Fukuyasu • VP of Japan Operations • The Linux Foundation
- Mark Fussell • CEO • Diagrid Inc
- Prabha Ganapathy • Head of Gen AI Strategic Initiatives • Amazon
- Jeremy Garcia • VP, Technical Community and Open Source • Datadog
- Amanda Grady • VP & GM, AI Platform Security • ServiceNow
- Baris Gultekin • VP of AI • Snowflake
- Arun Gupta • Vice President, Developer Experience • JetBrains
- Chetan Gupta • GM, Advanced AI Innovation Center, Center for Digital Services, Research & Development Group • Hitachi America, Ltd.
- Uday Gupta • Distinguished Technologist • Infosys Ltd
- Zachary Hanif • Distinguished Architect, VP, AI/ML and Data • Twilio
- Will Held • Member of Technical Staff • Marin / OpenAthena
- Benjamin Hindman • Founder • reboot.dev
- Dirk Hohndel • Head of Open Source • Verizon
- Sonya Huang • Venture investor • Sequoia Capital
- Taqi Jaffri • VP of Product • UiPath
- Saurabh Kumar • Open Source Leader/Senior Staff Engineer • Samsung Research America
- Hiroyuki Kumazaki • Senior Expert • Hitachi Ltd.
- Atul Kshirsagar • Software Principal Architect • Salesforce
- April Kyle Nassi • Manager, Open Source Programs Office • Google
- Rita Kozlov • VP Developer Platform & AI • Cloudflare
- Anni Lai • Head of Open Source Operations & Marketing • Futurewei
- Idit Levine • Founder and CEO • Solo.io
- Ian Livingstone • CEO & Co-Founder • Keycard
- Ben Lorica • Principal • Gradient Flow
- Anirban Majumdar • Head of the Office of the CTO • SAP
- Linzy McCartney • Attorney • Anthropic
- Kieran McDermott • Vice President of Product, Design, & Marketing Operations • Linux Foundation
- Shawn Michels • VP, Product Management, Cloud • Akamai
- Adam Miller • Distinguished Engineer • Red Hat
- Hart Montgomery • CTO, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust, ED, Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance • Linux Foundation
- Joe Moura • CEO & Founder • CrewAI
- Jessica Murillo • VP, Infrastructure and Tech Lifecycle Services • IBM
- Killian Murphy • VP, Engineering • Guild.ai
- Yuichi Nakamura • Head of OSPO • Hitachi,Ltd.
- Allan Naim • Director of Product Management • Google Cloud
- David Nalley • Director, Developer Experience • AWS
- Robert Nishihara • Co-founder • Anyscale
- Peter Norvig • Research Fellow • Stanford and Google
- Vijoy Pandey • SVP/GM • Outshift by Cisco
- Rus Pandey • Chairman • Jupyter Foundation
- Vijay Parthasarathy • MD, Head of AI Technologies • JP Morgan Chase
- Ankit Patel • Developer Engagement • NVIDIA
- DJ Patil • General Partner • GreatPoint Ventures
- Mark Paulsen • Head, Open-Source Program Office • TD Bank
- Brant Peterson • Head of Enterprise Product NAMS • Worldpay
- Kshetrajna Raghavan • Principal Engineer, ML • Shopify
- Sam Ramji • CEO • Sailplane
- Philip Rathle • CTO • Neo4j
- Phil Robb • Head of Ericsson Software Technology • Ericsson Software Technology
- Nithya Ruff • Chair, Linux Foundation Board, Technology Executive • Amazon
- Alex Salazar • CEO • Arcade.dev
- Cornelia Scheitz • Senior Director, Platform Excellence • Autodesk
- Clyde Seepersad • General Manager, Training • The Linux Foundation
- Adam Seligman • Chief Technology Officer • Workato
- Sesh Seshagiri • Senior Director, Program Management • Qualcomm
- Addo Smajic • CEO • Source, Inc.
- Joe Spisak • Product Director • Meta Inc.
- JR Storment • Executive Director • FinOps Foundation
- Manik Surtani • Head of Open Source • Block Inc
- Rao Surapaneni • VP & GM • Google Cloud
- Igor Tarasenko • Senior Director, Product Engineering and Architecture • Equinix
- Mike Thompson • Director – Cloud Product • AMD
- Simon Tiu • Principal • Vertex Ventures
- Andrew Wafaa • Sr. Director Software Communities • ARM
- Pete Warden • CEO • Moonshine AI
- Chi Wang • Research Scientist • Google DeepMind
- David Wang • Head of Product and Product Marketing • Tetrate
- Tao Zhang • Member of Technical Staff • Dell Technologies
- Sharon Zhou • Corporate Vice President of AI • Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.