Recent TVR Speakers
Cal Al-Dhubaib
Principal Technologist | Rubrik Cal Al-Dhubaib is a data scientist and entrepreneur who founded and scaled Pandata, an AI design and development firm focused on responsible AI for heavily regulated industries like healthcare, energy, and financial services, until its acquisition by Further in 2024. That experience led him to develop Trust Engineering for AI, a framework that shifts the focus from controls alone to rebalancing human-AI interaction to reduce risk.His insights carry weight because they come from the unglamorous middle ground of AI work—not the model itself, but everything around it: orchestration, observability, and the human judgment that decides whether an AI system can actually be trusted in production.
William Fowler
AI Solution Architect | Intel William Fowler is an AI Solution Architect at Intel, where he works on cloud and AI infrastructure solutions—building on a role as Cloud Solution Architect before that. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly 15 years at American Airlines, rising from infrastructure engineer to Senior Principal Architect leading cloud and engineering platform work for one of the largest airline operations in the country.His perspective carries weight because it spans both sides of the AI infrastructure conversation—he's built and scaled infrastructure inside a massive enterprise, and now works at the chip and platform level helping other enterprises get AI-ready.
Christopher Kruegel
Professor | UC Santa Barbara - Chief Scientist | Cisco Security Christopher Kruegel is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara and Chief Scientist in Cisco's Security Business Group. Before that, he co-founded Lastline, holding roles from CEO to Chief Product Officer to Chief Scientist, until the company was acquired by VMware and later Broadcom.That blend of researcher and operator is why he's a natural fit for The Velocity Room: he's spent his career studying how attackers actually think.
Sundari Parekh
VP, AI Security, Strategy & Architecture | TrendAI Sundari Parekh is a cybersecurity executive with more than 25 years leading enterprise security strategy and risk management for organizations including Activision Blizzard King, CDW, and Allstream. Her work spans reducing enterprise vulnerabilities by the millions, building centralized risk functions from scratch, and standing up Business Information Security Offices that drive cybersecurity strategy across entire enterprises.What sets her apart for TVR's community: she's led AI governance and security strategy for Fortune 500 clients, turning complex AI security architecture into board-level business decisions—exactly the translation layer between technical risk and executive action that AI infrastructure teams need right now.
Matt Rein
Lead Sales Engineer | Dynatrace Matt Rein is a Lead Solutions Engineer at Dynatrace, with prior stops as Lead Sales Engineer at Ionic and Director of Software Development at ManageAmerica. He's also taught web development as an instructor at Nucamp Coding Bootcamp for the past several years. That range—developer, engineer, educator—means he can move between the code, the architecture, and the business case, and he's spent years explaining complex technical concepts to audiences in a way that clicks.
Tony Thomson
CTO & Co-Founder | Middle Ground Tony Thomson is the co-founder and CTO of Middle Ground, the first AI-powered workspace built for public consultation teams—the planners, consultants, and government staff who run engagement processes for infrastructure projects, policy decisions, and resource permitting - he's building AI tools for exactly the kind of complex, real-world coordination problems TVR's audience cares about.