AI Conf Connect 2026
The Future of Intelligence

Tahnee Perry is a seasoned AI Advisor, Educator, and Speaker. Her work bridges the gap between technical AI capabilities and business execution, with a strong focus on mapping the buyer journey for the AI-native era.

Stevie Rhim is the Co-Founder & President of Mach-AI (USA). He specializes in designing and building production-grade decision intelligence platforms that scale to enterprise operations.

Diane Demetre is an internationally recognised keynote speaker and high-energy activator, known as the creator of Activate WOW. With four decades across entrepreneurship, executive leadership, and entertainment, she blends stagecraft, psychology, and strategic leadership to transform conferences into immersive, high-impact experiences. Diane was named Most Empowering Leadership and Mindset Speaker in 2024 and 2025, and Best Corporate Conference Experience Provider in 2025.

Kanika recently graduated from MIT and is building a startup in spatial computing aimed at enabling AI systems to understand, reason about, and navigate the physical world. Prior to this, she worked with the Government of India to advance technology adoption and investments, establishing a $600M government-backed enterprise.

Ram is an AI & LLM Engineer and technical team lead specializing in production-scale AI architectures. He currently collaborates with top AI labs to generate high-quality training datasets for next-generation models, engineering pipelines that combine the scale of legacy models with the precision of expert human-in-the-loop validation. His broader work focuses on optimizing AI systems through specialized SLMs and advanced context infrastructure.

Laura Willis supports organisations to create healthier, more intentional digital and AI habits. With her Digital Harmony framework, he helps leaders reduce overwhelm, improve collaboration and build culture.

Kiran Bobba has over 20 years of IT experience with several Fortune 500's and an entrepreneurial background. Having built and led numerous Data Science and AI/ML capabilities, he is currently architecting Agentic systems with XAI. He previously served as the CTO of DigitalRoof 4.0 and is a Doctoral candidate in AI/ML.

Sai Ashrith Gavini is a Software Developer Engineer at Amazon, passionate about building scalable web solutions and AI-driven experiences. He actively contributes to the developer community by sharing learnings and best practices.

Vineeth Kalluru is a Senior Solutions Architect at NVIDIA, specializing in training and deploying Small Language Models (SLMs) that outperform frontier models in enterprise-specific performance benchmarks. He brings deep expertise in tokenomics-driven model optimization for production deployments.