PANEL 1: AI APPLICATION DEVELOPERS’ PERSPECTIVE
Chris Alvares, VP AI & Technology, PMG
Chris is responsible for inventing and leading PMG’s proprietary marketing intelligence & automation platform, Alli, to help brands drive better performance and perpetually innovate their digital marketing. As PMG’s first hire, Chris has spent the past decade developing technology solutions that help brands such as Apple, Nike, Sephora, Omni Hotels & Resorts, and NRG democratize their data, drive advertising and media performance, and perpetually innovate in a rapidly evolving landscape shaped by digital, ecommerce and new consumer behaviors as well as AI-driven advances. His contributions have been critical in building PMG from startup to industry leader, and he oversees a growing team of 100+ engineers, developers and product experts, and a technology that powers $4 billion in media spend and $50 billion in e-commerce revenue globally. In 2022, Business Insider named Chris among its Rising Stars of Adtech.

Nanda Lella, CTO, Koddi
Nanda has over 20 years of experience, having recently served as Director of Engineering at Meta. He was responsible for leading the team launching and building Meta’s privacy and regulation framework and tools across their Ads business. Prior to this, Nanda served as a senior engineering leader at Amazon where he was responsible for the product vision, roadmap, team strategy, and overall execution of Amazon Live, as well as building their video ads delivery platform. At Koddi, Nanda is responsible for the product strategy, roadmap, and execution across the product, engineering, and data science teams.

Shelly Jairath, AI Product Leader, Salesforce
Shelly Jairath is a product and strategy leader with deep experience in B2B SaaS and enterprise AI. She’s passionate about harnessing AI for good, solving real-world business problems, and championing women at the forefront of AI and tech

Tony DiGiorgio, Chief Architect / VP, Technology Enablement, symplr
As a visionary executive with over 30 years of experience, Tony has spent 20 of those years in leadership roles, transforming organizations through strategic innovation, technological advancement, and operational excellence. He specializes in strategic M&A integration, enterprise-wide digital transformation, and architecting market-disrupting solutions. Tony Combines deep technical expertise with business acumen to develop and execute corporate strategies that drive sustainable growth and competitive advantage

PANEL 2: AI VENDORS’ / INFRA PROVIDERS’ PERSPECTIVE
Chase Romano, Principal AI/ML Architect, Snowflake
Chase Romano is a Principal AI/ML Architect at Snowflake, dedicated to helping customers deploy powerful AI/ML solutions on the Snowflake platform. Drawing on a diverse career that includes building Snowflake infrastructures as a Solutions Architect, specialized AI/ML implementations on the Solution Innovation team, and prior roles as a high school computer science and math teacher, Data Scientist (telecoms/energy), and graduate Data Science professor, Chase uniquely bridges the gap between AI/ML theory and real-world enterprise applications.

Jason Ogden, Head of Business Engineering Applied R&D, Meta
Jason leads Meta’s Business Engineering, Industry Innovation team, driving AI adoption and innovation across the company. His team spearheaded Meta’s involvement in the WFA Cross Media Measurement initiative and developed FlowOS, an internal AI workflow platform powering diverse applications such as Creative Shop AI (featured at Cannes Lions), multimodal creative analysis, lift study analysis, and code generation—including the Python port of Robyn MMM. Jason regularly conducts workshops to help Meta’s clients apply AI in practical, impactful ways. With deep technical expertise and a collaborative approach, he bridges cutting-edge AI innovation with industry partnerships to advance AI-driven measurement and productivity.

Nikunj Bajaj, CEO / Co-founder, TrueFoundry
Nikunj Bajaj is the Co-founder & CEO of TrueFoundry, a Series A AI infrastructure platform backed by Intel Capital and Sequoia that helps large enterprises move GenAI from experiment to production. Before TrueFoundry, Nikunj led machine learning initiatives at Meta and Reflektion, and earlier co-founded an AI recruiting startup EntHire (now acquired). He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, India and UC Berkeley.

Host and Moderator
Christopher Davis, AI & Software Engineering Senior Principal, PMG
Chris Davis, Senior Principal Engineer at PMG, was the company’s employee # 2 and the original creator of many apps that now constitute Alli - PMG’s marketing operating system. He currently builds and maintains the core tooling and infrastructure powering Alli, as well as is responsible for the overall platform architecture and engineering governance

Evan Wooten, AI & Software Engineering Director, PMG
Evan Wooten, leader in AdTech, is transforming how enterprise brands leverage technology to drive exceptional business outcomes. Based in Texas, Evan has over a decade of experience innovating for global brands like Apple, Nike, and Ralph Lauren. At PMG, he leads the evolution of the Alli marketing operating system, a proprietary technology that manages billions of dollars in annual media spending and delivers actionable insights to the world’s most iconic brands.