Agentic Infrastructure Stack Summit

Jeff leads T-Mobile's IT organization, overseeing enterprise-wide technology strategy and the implementation of AI at scale across products, workflows, and customer experiences (including managing AI-driven customer care, voice models, and agent orchestration).

Ben leads technology and AI strategy at Box, helping enterprises securely unlock insights from unstructured data. His career spans engineering, product leadership, and startup innovation. He co-founded Subspace (acquired by Box) and was an early employee at BigFix (acquired by IBM), serving as Chief Architect of Mobile Security. He holds a degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Sudhanshu Bist is Vice President of Platform Infrastructure Engineering at Upwork, where he leads the organization behind the company's cloud, AI, and data platforms. His teams operate the platform foundations that Upwork runs on, from cloud and Kubernetes through software delivery and reliability to the inference and agent infrastructure behind its production AI, and govern what that infrastructure costs to run. With eighteen years in enterprise infrastructure, he has spent the last decade rebuilding Upwork's infrastructure as the company moved from web scale traffic to production AI. Sudhanshu joined Upwork in 2015 and has led its infrastructure through successive stages, including the migration from on premises data centers to the cloud and the identity and compliance work behind the company's transition to public company operating standards.

As Senior Vice President of Engineering, for the Customer Experience Orchestration business at Adobe Anjul leads the Customer Experience Orchestration engineering organization, which is focused on powering digital businesses in both B2B and B2C. Anjul brings over thirty years of experience in enterprise software development, with a focus on data, databases, analytics, and SaaS. She has launched technology ventures within mature companies and has a distinguished record of growing ideas into global organizations with significant revenue streams.

Vijoy Pandey is SVP and GM of Outshift by Cisco, the company's internal incubation engine dedicated to delivering “what’s next and new” in emerging technologies. He leads work on the Internet of Cognition, AGNTCY, and Cisco's quantum networking stack, alongside Cisco Research, open source, and developer network (DevNet). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UC Davis and holds 80+ patents across cloud computing, AI/ML, and distributed systems, built over engineering leadership roles at Google, IBM, Nortel Networks, Blade Network Technologies, and several startups.

Micah Hill-Smith is Co-Founder and CEO of Artificial Analysis, the leading AI benchmarking company. Artificial Analysis tests the world’s AI models - measuring what they can do, how fast, and at what cost. Its results are regularly featured in model launches from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA and more, and cited in publications from The Wall Street Journal to The Economist.

Valentin (Val) Bercovici is WEKA's Chief AI Officer. He has extensive experience in the data infrastructure industry, having previously been the Chief Technology Officer at NetApp/SolidFire, where he drove innovation in cloud storage and data management solutions. Val co-authored the Windows Shadowcopy snapshots and has made significant contributions to the storage standards community. As Co-chair of the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Solid State Storage Initiative, Val helped to establish the first NAND Flash SSD storage standards. Additionally, Val served as the Chair of the SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI), where he led the development of the international S3 standard CDMI (ISO 17826). He was also a founding member of the Kubernetes Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Governing Board, helping to shape the global direction of container orchestration. Val holds patents in AI agent smart contracts, streaming data integrity, and augmented reality (AR) for data center maintenance. His work continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible at the intersection of AI, cloud, and emerging technologies.

Anand Lakshmanan is Vice President, Cloud Solutions at Acxiom, part of Omnicom. He's a technology leader with more than two decades of experience helping enterprises through complex cloud, data and AI transformations. He works where modern data strategy, identity and agentic AI meet, designing the governed data foundations that intelligent agents need to deliver real business value. Anand has deep experience across AWS, GCP, Snowflake and Databricks. He has led large global teams that deliver modern data platforms, privacy-safe data collaboration, reusable accelerators and high-impact AI solutions for some of the world's most recognizable brands. He works comfortably with CXO leadership and partners closely with the major cloud providers. He's known for building open, interoperable architectures with governance built in from the start, not added later.

Uday Kiran Medisetty is a Distinguished Engineer at Uber, where he leads initiatives for engineering productivity (agentic coding, AI debugging, code reviews, and large-scale refactoring). He also co-leads the company-wide engineering community shaping Uber's architecture, culture, and standards.

Reynold D'Sa is Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering organization, where he leads the development and delivery of the hardware infrastructure behind the Microsoft Cloud. His teams co-design across silicon, systems, networking and datacenter infrastructure, applying what Microsoft learns from operating AI workloads at global scale to the design of future AI factories. That work spans the demands of agentic workloads, power and cooling, quality, reliability and sustainability, and the use of AI itself to accelerate how hardware gets designed and built.