GeekWire - The GeekWire Summit | Speakers revealed

The GeekWire Summit, speakers revealed!

• Ted Chiang, the award-winning science-fiction writer who was just named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI. His novella, “Story of Your Life,” was adapted into the 2016 motion picture, Arrival. 
• Charlotte Yarkoni, Microsoft President, Commerce + Ecosystems for Cloud + AI, who works closely with startups and large companies adopting AI technologies.
• Redfin CTO Bridget Frey, who is on the front lines of AI, leading software and engineering teams at the Seattle-based real estate brokerage and technology company.
• Eric Heisserer, a screenwriter, producer, director, and showrunner known for films including Arrival and BIRD BOX, and the YA fantasy series Shadow & Bone.
• GitHub Chief Product Officer Inbal Shani, who has led engineering and product teams at Amazon and Microsoft, with extensive experience in AI and large language models.
• Diego Oppenheimer, managing partner at AI-focused venture fund Factory, former Algorithmia CEO, a serial entrepreneur, product developer and investor.
• Juliette Powell, entrepreneur, technologist, strategist, and author of the new book, “The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology.”
• David Shim, co-founder and CEO of Read AI, a Seattle startup focused on artificial intelligence for meetings; the former CEO of Foursquare; and founder and former CEO of Placed, which was acquired by Snapchat in 2017.
• Byron Boots, who leads autonomous vehicle startup Overland AI and serves as the Amazon professor of Machine Learning at the University of Washington. 
• AI veteran Keith McCall, founder and CEO at Pollen Systems, which is developing AI technologies to help feed the world; and CEO at Everyvine, which is using AI to create more available and accessible wines.