Anthony J. Annunziata
Open Source AI at IBM and AI Alliance
Technology leader with a strong track record of bringing emerging technologies in AI, accelerated science and quantum computing out of the lab and into the world. PhD physicist with deep experience leading teams across research, software engineering, design, product management, sales, ecosystem partnerships and open source. I am energized by leading teams with bold missions and the potential for large impact.
Rebecca Weiss
Executive Director, MLCommons
Rebecca Weiss is the Executive Director of MLCommons, as well as a distinguished data scientist and computational social scientist known for innovative large-scale data analysis of online behavior. Previously, she was the head of Research and Innovation at Mozilla, where she created the privacy-preserving Rally user data donation platform, and also founded and led the Firefox Data Science organization.
Jose M. Plehn, PH.D.
Founder & CEO @ BrightQuery
Jose is the Founder and CEO of BrightQuery (BQ): The Factual AI Company, where he also leads BQ’s open data efforts through opendata.org. With over a decade of academic and commercial collaboration with U.S. statistical agencies like the IRS, NCSES, Census Bureau, BLS, and SBA, Jose brings deep expertise in economic and financial data.
Greg Lindahl
CTO at Common Crawl Foundation
Greg Lindahl is an astrophysicist and technologist who has advised Common Crawl since 2012. He was previously the Founder and CTO of Blekko, an internet search engine. Before joining Common Crawl full-time in 2023, Greg was a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, working at the Center for Astrophysics - Harvard & Smithsonian. He has also contributed to the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. Greg is an experienced entrepreneur who has founded three successful startups.
Christopher Nguyen
CEO & Co-Founder of Aitomatic
Dr. Christopher Nguyen is CEO and co-founder of Aitomatic, a Silicon Valley leader in Industrial GenAI. As President and CEO of Arimo-Panasonic, he spearheaded Panasonic’s global Industrial AI initiatives. At Google, as its first Engineering Director, he launched Google Apps/Gmail and scaled AI-backed systems for millions worldwide, earning the Google Founders Award.
Yann LeCun
Chief Science Advisor
Yann LeCun is Executive Chairman of AMI Labs, the AI world-model startup he co-founded after leaving Meta, and Silver Professor at NYU's Courant Institute. A 2018 Turing Award recipient and pioneer of convolutional neural networks, he serves as Chief Science Advisor to the AI Alliance.
Open Source AI at IBM and AI Alliance
Anthony J. Annunziata
Technology leader with a strong track record of bringing emerging technologies in AI, accelerated science and quantum computing out of the lab and into the world. PhD physicist with deep experience leading teams across research, software engineering, design, product management, sales, ecosystem partnerships and open source. I am energized by leading teams with bold missions and the potential for large impact.
Executive Director, MLCommons
Rebecca Weiss
Rebecca Weiss is the Executive Director of MLCommons, as well as a distinguished data scientist and computational social scientist known for innovative large-scale data analysis of online behavior. Previously, she was the head of Research and Innovation at Mozilla, where she created the privacy-preserving Rally user data donation platform, and also founded and led the Firefox Data Science organization.
Founder & CEO @ BrightQuery
Jose M. Plehn, PH.D.
Jose is the Founder and CEO of BrightQuery (BQ): The Factual AI Company, where he also leads BQ’s open data efforts through opendata.org. With over a decade of academic and commercial collaboration with U.S. statistical agencies like the IRS, NCSES, Census Bureau, BLS, and SBA, Jose brings deep expertise in economic and financial data.
CTO at Common Crawl Foundation
Greg Lindahl
Greg Lindahl is an astrophysicist and technologist who has advised Common Crawl since 2012. He was previously the Founder and CTO of Blekko, an internet search engine. Before joining Common Crawl full-time in 2023, Greg was a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, working at the Center for Astrophysics - Harvard & Smithsonian. He has also contributed to the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. Greg is an experienced entrepreneur who has founded three successful startups.
CEO & Co-Founder of Aitomatic
Christopher Nguyen
Dr. Christopher Nguyen is CEO and co-founder of Aitomatic, a Silicon Valley leader in Industrial GenAI. As President and CEO of Arimo-Panasonic, he spearheaded Panasonic’s global Industrial AI initiatives. At Google, as its first Engineering Director, he launched Google Apps/Gmail and scaled AI-backed systems for millions worldwide, earning the Google Founders Award.
Chief Science Advisor
Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun is Executive Chairman of AMI Labs, the AI world-model startup he co-founded after leaving Meta, and Silver Professor at NYU's Courant Institute. A 2018 Turing Award recipient and pioneer of convolutional neural networks, he serves as Chief Science Advisor to the AI Alliance.
Anthony J. Annunziata
Open Source AI at IBM and AI Alliance
Technology leader with a strong track record of bringing emerging technologies in AI, accelerated science and quantum computing out of the lab and into the world. PhD physicist with deep experience leading teams across research, software engineering, design, product management, sales, ecosystem partnerships and open source. I am energized by leading teams with bold missions and the potential for large impact.
Christopher Nguyen
CEO & Co-Founder of Aitomatic
Dr. Christopher Nguyen is CEO and co-founder of Aitomatic, a Silicon Valley leader in Industrial GenAI. As President and CEO of Arimo-Panasonic, he spearheaded Panasonic’s global Industrial AI initiatives. At Google, as its first Engineering Director, he launched Google Apps/Gmail and scaled AI-backed systems for millions worldwide, earning the Google Founders Award.
Jose M. Plehn, PH.D.
Founder & CEO @ BrightQuery
Jose is the Founder and CEO of BrightQuery (BQ): The Factual AI Company, where he also leads BQ’s open data efforts through opendata.org. With over a decade of academic and commercial collaboration with U.S. statistical agencies like the IRS, NCSES, Census Bureau, BLS, and SBA, Jose brings deep expertise in economic and financial data.
Open Source AI at IBM and AI Alliance
Anthony J. Annunziata
Technology leader with a strong track record of bringing emerging technologies in AI, accelerated science and quantum computing out of the lab and into the world. PhD physicist with deep experience leading teams across research, software engineering, design, product management, sales, ecosystem partnerships and open source. I am energized by leading teams with bold missions and the potential for large impact.
CEO & Co-Founder of Aitomatic
Christopher Nguyen
Dr. Christopher Nguyen is CEO and co-founder of Aitomatic, a Silicon Valley leader in Industrial GenAI. As President and CEO of Arimo-Panasonic, he spearheaded Panasonic’s global Industrial AI initiatives. At Google, as its first Engineering Director, he launched Google Apps/Gmail and scaled AI-backed systems for millions worldwide, earning the Google Founders Award.
Founder & CEO @ BrightQuery
Jose M. Plehn, PH.D.
Jose is the Founder and CEO of BrightQuery (BQ): The Factual AI Company, where he also leads BQ’s open data efforts through opendata.org. With over a decade of academic and commercial collaboration with U.S. statistical agencies like the IRS, NCSES, Census Bureau, BLS, and SBA, Jose brings deep expertise in economic and financial data.
Kaushik Bhatta
Partner, AI Alliance Director of Ecosystems
Kaushik leads ecosystem development at the AI Alliance, building and maintaining the partnerships among the 200 member organizations, working groups, and external open source communities that move the alliance's four program pillars forward.
Dr. Agata Ferretti
AI Alliance Lead for Europe
Agata leads the AI Alliance's work in Europe, coordinating with European member organizations, regional working groups, and EU policy and standards bodies on open source AI.
Santanna Hayes
AI Alliance Marketing Lead
Santanna leads marketing and communications for the AI Alliance; telling the story of open source AI, the alliance's 200 member organizations, and the working groups building, advocating, and educating in the open.
Dean Wampler, PH.D.
IBM Head of Technology for the AI Alliance
Dean is the AI Alliance's Head of Technology, guiding the technical direction of working groups and the open source artifacts — foundation models, agents, evaluation, safety tooling — the alliance ships through the Open Agent Hub and Open Data & Model Foundry pillars.
Partner, AI Alliance Director of Ecosystems
Kaushik Bhatta
Kaushik leads ecosystem development at the AI Alliance, building and maintaining the partnerships among the 200 member organizations, working groups, and external open source communities that move the alliance's four program pillars forward.
AI Alliance Lead for Europe
Dr. Agata Ferretti
Agata leads the AI Alliance's work in Europe, coordinating with European member organizations, regional working groups, and EU policy and standards bodies on open source AI.
AI Alliance Marketing Lead
Santanna Hayes
Santanna leads marketing and communications for the AI Alliance; telling the story of open source AI, the alliance's 200 member organizations, and the working groups building, advocating, and educating in the open.
IBM Head of Technology for the AI Alliance
Dean Wampler, PH.D.
Dean is the AI Alliance's Head of Technology, guiding the technical direction of working groups and the open source artifacts — foundation models, agents, evaluation, safety tooling — the alliance ships through the Open Agent Hub and Open Data & Model Foundry pillars.