Bryan Bischof is the Head of AI at Theory Ventures and formerly led AI at Hex where he led the team of engineers building Magic—the data science and analytics copilot. Bryan has worked all over the data stack leading teams in analytics, machine learning engineering, data platform engineering, and AI engineering. He started the data team at Blue Bottle Coffee, led several projects at Stitch Fix, and built the data teams at Weights and Biases. Bryan previously co-authored the book Building Production Recommendation Systems with O’Reilly, and teaches Data Science and Analytics in the graduate school at Rutgers. His Ph.D. is in pure mathematics.

Charles Zedlewski is the Chief Product Officer at Together AI, where he helps shape the company’s product vision for its open-source AI cloud platform. He’s an experienced product and operating leader who previously helped scale category-defining companies like Cloudera and Temporal, and has also held product roles at OpenAI and Facebook AI Research.

Tuomas Rintamaki is a Research Scientist at NVIDIA, where he develops the Nemotron family of open multimodal foundation models across image, video, audio, and text - most recently Nemotron 3 Nano Omni. His work spans the full model development cycle: pretraining, post-training, data curation and synthesis, evaluation, inference optimization, and training infrastructure.