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Kyle Wiens is the CEO of iFixit, the free repair manual. He’s dedicated his life to defeating the second law of thermodynamics, a battle fought in the courtroom as often as in the workshop. The Right to Repair campaign has, so far, successfully legalized cell phone unlocking and tractor repair. Kyle regularly speaks on design for repair, service documentation, and the environmental impact of manufacturing. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Popular Mechanics, and the Wall Street Journal.

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky is the CEO and founder of Instrumental Inc., a manufacturing data company creating the first end-to-end optimization platform for product teams building electronic devices. Instrumental combines AI-powered defect and anomaly detection, failure analysis tools, complete issue monitoring and reporting, and production-quality in-line tests into a single end-to-end optimization platform.

Anna-Katrina holds two degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. Before founding Instrumental, she led system product design for the first-generation Apple Watch program, and contributed to several generations of iPod mechanical design.

Jeff Lutz has shipped over one billion consumer electronics devices globally in more than 150 countries worldwide. He currently is the Founder & CEO of Launch i/o, Inc. There, Jeff and his team are partnering w/Fortune 10 tech companies on supply chain design, Design For X, and totally rethinking product cost structure.

He was most recently Corporate Vice President, of Supply Chain, Head of New Products, & Chief Quality Officer at Motorola Mobility. During his 20+ year career at Motorola, Google, and Lenovo he delivered several groundbreaking firsts in the mobile industry such as the RAZR phone, the first Droid mobile phone, and the first android tablet & wearable devices.

At Build Better Jeff will talk about the real cost of misalignments in the supply chain and what practitioners can do to fix it.

Caitlin Kalinowski leads VR Hardware at Facebook and is passionate about empowering women in tech. She is a recognized leader in virtual reality and product design. In her current role, Caitlin is responsible for the product design and engineering of Oculus’s award-winning VR devices including Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S. Before working at Oculus, she was a technical lead at Apple on the Mac Pro and MacBook Air lines, and was part of the original unibody Macbook Pro team. Caitlin received her BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Caitlin is also on the strategic board of Lesbians Who Tech & Allies, the largest LGBTQ technical organization in the world, serving 30,000 members.

Cathy Ma is the Head of Audience Development for Thomas, North America’s number one industrial sourcing and marketing platform. She is a former Wikipedia sociologist and an international growth leader with 15+ years of experience developing audience strategies across global organizations, such as Moody’s Analytics, Interbrand, and Yahoo! Her recent research on COVID-19’s impacts on manufacturing was cited in Design News, EE Times, and McKinsey’s industry analysis.

Simon Kozlov is a Machine Learning engineer at Instrumental. Simon has been involved with all AI capabilities at Instrumental, currently leading the Machine Learning team to deliver the next generation of AI-driven tools.

Simon holds a masters degree in Physics from Novosibirsk State University – one of the highest rated engineering schools in Russia. He also teach a Deep Learning course at State Novosibirsk University. Simon previously work at the Machine Learning team at Dropbox.

Andrew is the CEO and Co-founder of Arch, helping manufacturers and industrial leaders digitize and operate more sustainably. Andrew has over 15 scientific papers in the fields of semiconductor electronics and renewable energy and holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science from Stanford where he accomplished a world record in silicon photoanode efficiency. He helped build StartX, one of the top startup accelerators in the world, leading the hardware program and helping scores of early IoT companies go to market. He is passionate about working with Arch’s customers and each member of the team to together build a more connected and sustainable Earth.

Christophe Begue leads the solution strategy and business development for IBM in the Electronics and High-Tech Industry. He focuses on creating and scaling vertical solutions for specific industries on top of emerging horizontal technologies like Blockchain, AI, ML, IoT… His main interest has always been in supply chain management and manufacturing, both through the development of new software solutions and in the context of global consulting projects. Prior to joining IBM he managed supply chain consulting projects at Philips Center for Manufacturing Technology.

With 20 years of experience building practical, effective solutions, Remi now plays a key role in heading Maya HTT’s industrial IoT and AI solutions strategy and innovation. He is a sought-after guest speaker with dozens of successful industrial AI/ML/simulation projects to his credit. From his achievement as a young short-track speed skating champion to his instrumental contributions to the structural design and analysis of five spacecraft currently in orbit, when it comes to “mission-critical”, Remi is an asset to all our Maya HTT clients.

Piyush Modi is responsible for Global Business Development/Strategy for Industrial Sector at NVIDIA. He is actively engaged with major industrial companies and related research labs to conceive and realize Industrial AI enabled solutions. He is focused on developing business and ecosystem around real time deep learning training/inferencing platforms, architecture and related algorithms for the Industrial use cases spanning inspection, predictive maintenance, video analytics, logistics, automation and Conversational AI.

Prior to NVIDIA, at Sentient.ai as a VP of engineering, he led a team to build the industry’s first distributed AI (Deep Learning and Evolutionary Algorithms) platform to serve the model building pipeline needs for E-Commerce, Financial and Industrial verticals to harness dark compute cycles from 1000s of GPUs available globally.

Previously, over 20+ years of his career he has held CTO, Sr. VP, and Head of Research Lab positions at companies including GE Global Research, BT, Ribbit, IP Unity, and AT&T Bell Labs, to deliver major industry forming outcomes leveraging Speech Recognition, VOIP, IoT, and Deep Learning technologies.

Piyush holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Speech Recognition) from Rutgers, New Jersey, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee, and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India.