Patsnap
Website: https://www.patsnap.com/
Patsnap enables IP and R&D teams to make faster, more informed decisions through advanced AI-powered intelligence. As the global leader in innovation intelligence since 2007, Patsnap provides comprehensive insights that enhance productivity and reduce inefficiencies. Patsnap's domain-specific large language model, trained on extensive proprietary innovation data, integrates with its suite of AI agents to deliver actionable intelligence that increases IP productivity by 75% and reduces R&D waste by 25%. The platform supports seamless collaboration across the complete innovation lifecycle, from patent analysis to competitive intelligence. More than 15,000 companies worldwide, including NASA, PayPal, Sanofi, Dow Chemical, and Wilson Sonsini, trust Patsnap to advance their innovation capabilities through AI.
Fish & Richardson
Website: https://www.fr.com/industries/life-sciences/
Fish & Richardson has represented pioneering life science innovators from our earliest days. We work closely with life sciences companies to help them achieve their strategic IP goals through acquisition, partnering, licensing, financing, and enforcement. We do this by bringing a unique holistic approach to our clients’ IP matters, fostered by the collaboration between our patent prosecution, litigation, and regulatory practices. We have helped our clients build valuable patent portfolios worth billions of dollars, score big victories at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), and win bet-the-company cases in court. When life sciences clients come to Fish to build an IP strategy, they know that we will leave no stone unturned when crafting creative and comprehensive solutions to maximize the value of their IP.
Jeremy Hill
VP, Payer Solutions
Optum
Join us for a demo showcasing the power of Google Cloud TPU by walking through the complete lifecycle of a model, from post-training to inference at massive scale.
We’ll show you how to post-train a model using new RL capabilities in MaxText and Tunix, then take that same model and serve it on TPU seamlessly with the new JAX backend in vLLM.
Learn about how to rightsize a workload for TPU for both training and inference, optimizing for performance-per-dollar from beginning to end.
Brittany Rockwell
Product Manager
Google Cloud
Brittany Rockwell is a Product Manager for AI Inference at Google Cloud, where she leads the development of the TPU backend in vLLM, the most popular OSS library for language model inference. She currently lives in Seattle, WA.
Kyle Meggs
Product Manager
Google Cloud
Kyle Meggs is a Product Manager for JAX on Google Cloud. He enjoys helping customers train LLMs with MaxText and diffusion models with MaxDiffusion on the latest TPUs and GPUs.
Google Cloud provides leading infrastructure, platform capabilities, and industry solutions. We deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology to help companies operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs, giving customers a foundation for the future. Customers in more than 150 countries use Google Cloud as their trusted partner to solve their most critical business problems.
The transition to direct liquid cooling introduces challenges from unavoidable leaks, risking catastrophic hardware failure, costly downtime, and data loss– until now. actnano is AI's Missing Layer: the last line of defense for these mission critical assets. Our next-generation coating is the first truly proactive protection strategy for data infrastructure. Witness our live demonstration where an actnano-coated graphics card operates flawlessly while subjected to a simulated leak of conductive coolant. This technology engineers catastrophic failures into simple maintenance events, making hardware truly liquid-proof. See firsthand how to de-risk investments and unlock a new era of resilience, sustainability, and uptime.
Ken Aduddell
Senior Director
actnano
Ken Aduddell is a thought leader in data infrastructure with over 20 years of experience in the electronics industry. A trusted partner to executives at hyperscalers, his work has focused on the core challenges of data center resilience, including power and coolant systems. An established contributor to the Open Compute Project on the data center resilience chain, Ken offers deep insight into de-risking the inevitable transition to direct liquid cooling and protecting the mission-critical assets that power the AI era. Previously at Rockwell Automation, Ken now leads actnano's initiative to protect critical hardware with this breakthrough coating technology.
Actnano
Website: https://actnano.com/
actnano: AI’s Missing Layer
actnano is a global leader in surface protection for electronics. Over a decade ago, we redefined the industry by solving the biggest challenges with traditional coatings for the world's most demanding applications, including automotive. Today, our foundational battle-hardened, PFAS-free technology protects critical electronics in over 20 million vehicles produced annually. Now, we are bringing this same innovative DNA to address the greatest reliability risk in the AI data center: liquid cooling leaks. Our new line of purpose-designed coatings provides the essential protection to ensure the uptime, data integrity, and performance of the mission-critical AI systems that will define tomorrow.
We’re not just protecting electronics - we’re protecting the future of AI. Learn more at www.actnano.com
CGI’s payment integrity solutions have consistently driven millions in payment integrity program savings annually for its clients, proving accuracy and efficiency can coexist at scale. This session reveals the practical steps behind these results and how you can replicate them.
Key Takeaways:
- How people, processes, data, and technology can optimize a payment integrity program
- Creating a realistic future state, including journey mapping
- Tactics to speed up resolution times without sacrificing quality
- Collaboration models that build trust between payers and providers
Karen Ballard
Director of Consulting Services
CGI
Karen Ballard is Director of Consulting Services, CGI, where she is responsible for managing the CGI ProperPay payment integrity platform. With a nearly 20-year career in the health payer space, Karen possesses a deep knowledge of claims processing, product management, payment integrity, and the Blue payer dynamic. Prior to joining CGI, Karen held a variety of positions in claims operations, BlueCard, and payment integrity during her 17-year tenure with Elevance Health (Anthem).
Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University. She co-founded and previously co-facilitated the Blue PI Committee, comprised of payment integrity leaders from all 33 Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans and partnered with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association to drive change in the payment integrity space.
David Ott
Director Consulting Payment Integrity
CGI
David Ott has over 28 years of experience in the healthcare and financial services industries. David has provided leadership and direction to department leaders and teams that support a variety of functions, including business development, payment integrity, claims processing, global project management and quality practices.
CGI
Website: https://www.cgi.com/us/en-us
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. We are insights-driven and outcomes-based to help accelerate returns on your investments. Across hundreds of locations worldwide, we provide comprehensive, scalable and sustainable IT and business consulting services that are informed globally and delivered locally.