Join us for an exciting Ask Me Anything session featuring Benjamin Rockwell, the seasoned host of Computer Talk Radio. With decades of experience navigating the ever-evolving world of technology, Benjamin brings a unique blend of expertise and approachable insight to help you tackle your tech challenges. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage directly, learn from the tech nerd who makes complex topics understandable, and get your questions answered live. Register today to submit your questions and be part of this interactive tech conversation!
Research Code: TBW2088
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Benjamin Rockwell, host of Computer Talk Radio, has worked with computers professionally for decades.
He began exploring computers as a pre-teen, starting with a Commodore Vic 20, and quickly became proficient with Apple II, TRS-80s, and other early systems. His passion grew when he discovered Bulletin Board Systems, eventually launching his own BBS. In 1990, he began his professional journey as a field technician.
Though he calls himself a computer nerd, Benjamin breaks the stereotype. He’s approachable, eager to help, and deeply experienced—from field support and help desk roles to over 15 years as an Information Services Manager and consultant for hundreds of clients.
Benjamin thrives on learning and teaching. His calm, friendly demeanor puts users at ease, and he’s known for making technology work—whether it’s building systems, troubleshooting networks, or developing websites. He specializes in solving problems and making computers work for people, not the other way around.
Join us for an inspiring Global Accessibility Day Interview,
Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day with an empowering Ask Me Anything (AMA) session featuring international best-selling author and accessibility advocate Victoria Essner.
With over 30 years of professional experience in assistive technology—and more than 50 years of lived experience navigating the world with vision loss—Victoria’s journey has been one of innovation, advocacy, and empowerment.
From navigating the early challenges of digital accessibility to becoming a trusted expert, she has helped countless individuals find independence through technology.
In this heartfelt, one-hour session, she’ll share personal experiences, lessons learned, and how her passion for accessibility has shaped her work. Discover the milestones that led her to write From Tech Frustration to Freedom and why she remains committed to making tech inclusive for all!
Come be inspired—and bring your questions! Whether you’re new to accessibility or a long-time advocate, you’ll walk away with practical insights, renewed hope, and a reminder that inclusive tech is possible for all!
Research Code TBW2082
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Victoria Essner is a legally blind assistive technology coach, caregiver advocate, speaker, and international best-selling author. With over 50 years of lived experience and 30+ years of professional expertise, she empowers blind and visually impaired individuals — and the caregivers who support them — through personalized training and compassionate support. Victoria has consulted with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and government agencies on accessibility and inclusion. She hosts the Blessed Thru Blindness podcast and founded AT Made Easier, a membership designed to simplify tech and restore confidence. Her signature message: Breaking Barriers. Building Independence. One Breakthrough at a Time.
Heather Osborn was most recently Engineering Manager at Zapier, leading the Developer Enablement team focused on incident management, observability, and service catalog. With over 25 years in tech, she’s worked across systems engineering and operations, including a long tenure at Ticketmaster where she helped scale their infrastructure from a handful of gaming desktops to a global, hybrid cloud system handling massive traffic spikes.
More recently, she’s specialized in cloud-native infrastructure, with an emphasis on AWS, Kubernetes, and enabling developer autonomy through secure, maintainable systems. She’s spoken at Southern California Linux Expo three times, most recently on Turning Incidents into Insights, Not Insults.
Heather is a longtime advocate for diversity in tech—founding and mentoring in women’s groups, and often being the only woman on her team. She believes accessibility is essential to building inclusive, empowering technology for everyone.
Outside of tech, she’s a distance runner, live music fan, immersive camping nerd, proud mom, and devoted cat herder.
Dr. Doreen Galli is the Chief of Research at TBW Advisors LLC. She’s led significant and measurable changes as an executive at IBM, DPWN, Dell, ATT, and most recently Microsoft. Dr Galli was Chief Technology and Chief Privacy Officer in Azure’s MCIGET. Gartner recognized Dr. Galli as an expert in data ingestion, quality, governance, integration, management, and all forms and analytics including sensor data.
Dr. Doreen Galli is the Chief of Research at TBW Advisors LLC. She’s led significant and measurable changes as an executive at IBM, DPWN, Dell, ATT, and most recently Microsoft. Dr Galli was Chief Technology and Chief Privacy Officer in Azure’s MCIGET. Gartner recognized Dr. Galli as an expert in data ingestion, quality, governance, integration, management, and all forms and analytics including sensor data.
Join us on Earth Day for an insightful panel featuring the CEOs of Enerdrape, Storj.io, DigitalBedrock.com, and GraphEnergyTech.com. This event will explore cutting-edge innovations in renewable energy, data storage, and digital preservation. Enerdrape will showcase their pioneering geothermal panels, while Storj.io will discuss decentralized cloud storage solutions. DigitalBedrock.com will highlight advancements in digital preservation, and GraphEnergyTech.com will present their latest in sustainable energy technologies. This panel is tailored for CIOs and CTOs and other technical executives seeking to drive sustainability and innovation within their technical organizations. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights and network with industry leaders.
Research Code TBW2072
Margaux Peltier is an engineer and science entrepreneur with a MSc. in Civil Engineering from EPFL Lausanne. During her master thesis, she developed a strong interest in renewable geo-energy systems, recognizing the untapped potential of shallow geothermal energy and the need for innovation in this domain. She co-founded Enerdrape, where she serves as CEO, defining and overseeing the startup’s vision and strategy. Before founding Enerdrape, she worked as an engineer on several R&D projects related to BIPV-T and solar-power houses in Canada, and as an HVAC engineer in Geneva. Margaux also worked on various international projects as an engineering consultant in energy geostructures.
Colby is the Chief Executive Officer at Storj, a seasoned cloud tech executive leading growth initiatives to usher in a new era of cloud computing. Before Storj, he co-founded and served as CEO of CrowdStorage, the world’s largest distributed cloud storage platform, acquired by Storj. He scaled CrowdStorage to serve over 1,000 customers, including Western Digital and Vivint, and managed strategic partnerships for Vivint Smart Home, the leading smart home services provider in North America. Colby is a member of the Fast Company Impact Council and Forbes Technology Leadership Council.
Linda Tadic is the Founder/CEO of Digital Bedrock, a managed digital preservation service. With over 35 years of experience, she has held positions at HBO, the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, ARTstor, and Pacific Film Archive. Linda consults and lectures on digital asset management, audiovisual and digital preservation, metadata, and the environmental impact of digital preservation. She received the 2021 SMPTE James A. Lindner Archival Technology Medal for her leadership, research, and work in digital asset management, audiovisual and digital preservation, copyright, metadata, and environmental impact. Linda has taught as an Adjunct Professor at UCLA’s Department of Information Studies and NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program.
Thomas Baumeler is the CEO and founder of GraphEnergyTech, a startup pioneering highly conductive carbon-based (graphene) electrodes for renewable energy applications. He holds a PhD in chemistry from EPFL, where he conducted groundbreaking research on perovskite solar cells under Prof. Michael Graetzel at the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, earning the 2023 EPFL Doctorate Award. Driven by a passion for sustainability, Thomas founded GraphEnergyTech to develop cost-effective, high-performance alternatives to metal electrodes, with applications in solar energy, energy storage, and printed electronics.
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Join us for “Public is Private – Confidential Computing in the Cloud,” featuring Mike Bursell from the Confidential Computing Consortium and Manu Fontaine, founder of Hushmesh. This event will delve into the transformative potential of confidential computing for cloud environments. Aimed at CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, solution architects, and technical product managers, the discussion will cover how confidential computing enhances data security and privacy, even during processing. Learn about real-world applications, challenges, and future trends in this critical technology. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insights from industry leaders and explore how to leverage confidential computing for your organization’s success.
Research Code TBW2071
Moderator: Dr. Doreen Galli, TBW Advisors
Doreen Galli
Chief of ResearchTBW Advisors LLC
Dr. Doreen Galli is the Chief of Research at TBW Advisors LLC. She’s led significant and measurable changes as an executive at IBM, DPWN, Dell, ATT, and most recently Microsoft. Dr Galli was Chief Technology and Chief Privacy Officer in Azure’s MCIGET. Gartner recognized Dr. Galli as an expert in data ingestion, quality, governance, integration, management, and all forms and analytics including sensor data.
Mike Bursell is the Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium, having been involved since its foundation in 2019, and Co- chair of the OpenSSF’s Global Cyber Policy working group. He is one of the co-founders of the open source Enarx project and was CEO and co- founder of the start-up Profian. He has previously served on the Governing Boards of the CCC and the Bytecode Alliance and currently holds advisory board roles with various start-ups. Previous companies include Red Hat, Intel and Citrix, with roles in security, virtualisation and networking. He regularly speaks at industry events in Europe, North America and APAC and has a YouTube channel dedicated to cybersecurity education. Professional interests include: Confidential Computing, Cyber Policy, the EU Cybersecurity Resilience Act (CRA), Linux, trust, open source software and community, security, decentralised and distributed systems, Web3, blockchain. Mike has an MA from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the Open University, and is author of “Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud”, published by Wiley. He holds over 100 patents and previously served on the Red Hat patent review committee.
Speaker Profile
Manu Fontaine
CEOHushmesh Inc
Manu Fontaine is the Founder and CEO of Hushmesh, a dual-use Public Benefit cybersecurity startup in the Washington DC area. The company believes that people need safe code and authentic data, just like they need clean water and stable electricity. To deliver this, Hushmesh leverages Confidential Computing to develop and operate “the Mesh”: a global information space, like the Web, but with universal zero trust and global information security built in. Secured by the Universal Name System (UNS) and the Universal Certificate Authority (UCA), the Mesh provides global assurance of provenance, integrity, authenticity, reputation, confidentiality, and privacy for all information within it, at internet scale. Hushmesh is a NATO DIANA Innovator startup.
Dr. Roy Fune
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Join us for an inspiring Founders Panel, where visionary entrepreneurs and business owners share their journeys, insights, and secrets to success. Discover the stories behind the startups, learn from their challenges, and get inspired to take your own venture to the next level. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with industry leaders and fellow innovators!
Research Code TBW2061
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Moderator: Dr. Doreen Galli, TBW Advisors
Julia Jakimenko
Julia Jakimenko is the founder of Cyberette, a cybersecurity startup dedicated to preventing fraud and disinformation through advanced AI-driven solutions for detecting altered media—images, videos, audio, and text. With over 9 years of experience in technology and 5 years in banking security, Julia has demonstrated expertise in building and scaling teams, delivering end-to-end products, and driving innovation in emerging fields. She is deeply committed to advancing AI as a critical tool in strengthening digital security and combating the growing threats of digital manipulation. Julia also founded a Women in Tech community with over 800 members and has received multiple awards for her leadership and contributions to diversity and inclusion in technology.
Sadie Groom
An entrepreneur since an early age, Sadie founded Bubble, a global PR, marketing and events company in 1999 and is still very much the driving force. Sadie not only looks after the business side of Bubble and client strategy but also heavily promotes the role of women in the industries she works in. In 2017 she founded the Rise – Women in Broadcast group which is now a global group offering mentoring and training across all job roles, Strive To Rise an accreditation program for companies, and Rise Up, a program of school workshops delivered throughout the UK to inspire children throughout their primary and secondary education. Sadie has been awarded the Women in Business Champion of Change and IABM Shining Star for her work on gender diversity. Sadie is also on the board of the DPP and Buckinghamshire New University. In 2020 Sadie founded Marketing Leaders Circle, a global network for marketers in the media and entertainment industry. In July 2022 this business was expanded into The Circle Society, welcoming the following job functions across sales, HR, finance, operations and leadership.
Laura Keaton
Laura incorporated Keaton Consulting in 1997 to work as a free-lance consultant in software test automation. (Had she known that her company was going to scale and thrive for over 25 years, she would have worked a bit harder on a more compelling name.) With her background in Mechanical Engineering, she has focused her career on adding value and making customers successful through the use of analytics and engineering principles. She has been actively leading Keaton Consulting, a service delivery provider and consultancy in Business Value Realization, Governance Risk and Compliance, IT Automation and Software Quality Assurance. The company is comprised of management consultants, PSO, Tier III Support, and R&D resources with extensive experience delivering over 1,000 engagements across many industry verticals and technology stacks.
Margaux Peltie
Margaux Peltier is an engineer and science entrepreneur, holding a MSc. in Civil Engineering from EPFL Lausanne. During master thesis, she developed a strong interest in renewable geo-energy systems and testimonies the untapped potential of shallow geothermal energy and need for innovation in this domain. She co-founded Enerdrape, where as CEO she defines and oversees the startup vision and strategy. Prior to founding Enerdrape, she worked as engineer on several R&D projects on BIPV-T and solar-power houses (Canada) as well as HVAC engineer in Geneva. Margaux also worked on several international projects, as engineer consultant in the domain of energy geostructures.
This webinar will feature a panel of engineers that have deployed generative AI and their solution is in customers’ hands. You will be able to take away insights on the selection of technology, the process of realizing a solution, pitfalls, nightmares and what the panelists would do differently next time.
Research Code 2036.
Industry Whispers (SM): Generative AI & Deep Learning in Production – Lessons Learned
Friday, May 24, 2024 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM(UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
This webinar will feature a panel of engineers that have deployed deep learning and generative AI and their solution is in customers’ hands. You will be able to take away insights on the selection of technology, the process of realizing a solution, pitfalls, nightmares and what the panelists would do differently next time.
Can’t attend? Register and submit your question anyway, the answer will be on our YouTube channel.
Research Code: 2045
Dr. Doreen Galli has 6 degrees including a Waterloo CS Ph.D. in SIMD data storage and 8 patent held by IBM with 2 more pending at Microsoft. She has led significant and measurable changes at IBM, DPWN, Dell, ATT and most recently Microsoft where she was the platform architect for Azure and CTO in Azure’s MCIGET. She was trained as an analyst by Gartner where she was recognized as an expert in all things data from ingestion, quality, governance, integration, management and all forms and analytics including sensor data.
An All-American Athlete Collegiate Runner, Dr. Galli enhanced her formal education with process improvement certifications of Black Belt, Lean Six Sigma, and Pull Thinking, along with Technology and Network Transformation Certifications from AT&T. She is a Top 25 Women on the Web recipient and a published author with over 200 articles. Her first book, “Distributed Operation Systems” was published by Prentice Hall in English and Chinese. Her second book, “Galli’s Keys to Success: Optimize your College Career” is available via online bookstores. Dr. Galli has been an invited speaker at such distinguished venues as Forbes Executive Summit, CIO Summit, CIO Academy, Grace Hopper, Network+ Interop Las Vegas, Gartner’s Catalyst as well as The Internet Security Conference.
Omer Segal is the Head of AI at Pixellot, overseeing the AI group responsible for researching and developing automated sports production and automatic game highlights generation for Pixellot AI-automated sports camera systems. He has extensive leadership experience as CTO and R&D Director at companies in homeland security, mapping, and sports technology, where he oversaw the development of innovative AI applications. Omer’s project portfolio includes creating land vehicle and aerial mapping and navigation systems, AR applications for archaeological reconstructions, and athletes’ video analysis applications.
Omer holds a BSc and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, specializing in the application of advanced technologies such as deep learning, computer vision, and signal processing.
With 20 years of experience as a Character Technical Director, I bring expertise in motion capture and avatar creation for diverse productions. Originally focusing on rigging for films, commercials, and games, I transitioned to real-time motion capture and game engine rigging over the past five years. Integrating AI into motion capture and avatar systems has been a recent passion, alongside a commitment to exploring new technologies and their synergies. From rigging for TV shows like “The Flash” to contributing to 3D Bitmoji development and virtual concert setups, my journey reflects a dedication to innovation and collaboration in the ever-evolving landscape of AI and entertainment technology.
Heather Osborn was most recently Senior Director of DevOps at Cerebral, an online mental health care company which filled a much needed gap in access to this critical service.
She has worked in technology as a systems and operations engineer and manager for over 25 years. Much of her career was spent working with on premises systems at Ticketmaster, where she helped grow the online presence from a handful of Windows gaming desktops set up as web servers to a global system, a mix of on premises and cloud-based systems that experienced unbelievable surges in traffic whenever a popular event went on sale.
Her more recent career path has been entirely cloud-based, with a focus on AWS and Kubernetes. The goal is to lead teams to creating maintainable, secure infrastructure to enable developer autonomy and rapid iteration.
She will be speaking at Southern California Linux Expo for the second time this coming Saturday with a presentation entitled: Organic Isn’t Always Good for You, which is a discussion of the methodology employed in bringing an organization to a more mature stable infrastructure rather than something that grew organically over time.
She has been actively involved in women’s groups at her companies, including being a charter member of Minority Genders in Tech at Cerebral. She’s also served multiple years as a mentor of young women and girls who are interested in exploring technology. She is drawn to this cause because she’s often been the only woman on a team.
She is also an avid distance runner, technology evangelist, live music aficionado, immersive camping enthusiast, dedicated mother, and cat mom.
Ziyuan(Zac) is the Chief Scientist at Birch.AI, where he spearheads the research and development of LLM and ASR models to automate healthcare call-center workflows. He is responsible for selecting and designing ML models, data processing, production system architecture, and deployment. With over 10 years of experience in speech recognition and natural language processing systems, Ziyuan has a proven track record of delivering production-ready systems for tasks such as classification, named entity recognition, and real-time transcription. Ziyuan holds a bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University Beijing and a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University where he worked at the Center for Language and Speech Processing on projects that led to the creation of many open-source NLP and ASR toolkits
Money 20/20 USA 2024 was held at the Venetian and boasted over 10,000 attendees from over 90 countries with 80% of attendees coming from the USA. The over 400 speakers and 300 exhibits were captured by TBW Advisors with over 340 minutes of video captured and posted. As the place where money does business, the event brings together the ecosystem of money spanning banks payments tech startups, and capital market. AI everywhere, cross bank collaboration and cross geography collaboration along with fighting fraud were the key themes throughout.
Highlights
AI everywhere with particular focus on fight fraud along with cross bank and cross-border collaboration was discussed throughout the keynotes and the exhibits.
Cautions
As with all new AI technology use cases, it is critical to verify the quality of the data used in training the models and identify any inherent biases. The desire is to increase accessibility of the fintech market as opposed to further facilitating biases and disenfranchisement.
After more than 340 minutes of taping, 29 videos, a few hundred shorts forthcoming, and over 50 fact checks, our coverage of the Money 20/20 USA 2024 closes. Money 20/20 USA had over 10,000 attendees, 400 speakers, and 300 exhibits full of vendors from around the world*. Nonetheless, there were no lines at registration to pick up one’s badge. An exciting note was shared during the press briefing that 47% of speakers were women in 2024 up from 11% in 2023. The conference provided a full breakfast for all attendees as well as some smaller stations with continental breakfast. If that wasn’t enough food, have no fear a full lunch was also available to all attendees right in the exhibit hall as well. Speakers graced one of 6 stages with a fan favorite being the Sentient stage featuring Money 20/20’s custom sentient robot, Aiana-live.
No matter where in the world one resides, your life is impacted by fintech. Some experience significant inconveniences such as sending digital money to relatives across the globe only for those relatives to receive physical money. Cross border payments maintaining digital banking convenience was one of the examples shared in the distinguished panel on creating a new language for cross-border payments. This panel featured Ryan Zagone from Wise who presented his company’s solution. Other panelists included leaders from TBD – a block company, Bankaya and Vansary. A key to achieving customer desired functionality is continual modernization of payment platforms beyond migrating to the cloud. This panel included leaders from Wise, Bank of America, Deloitte, and Amazon. A session on Navigating the journey to the cloud featured leaders from Featurespace, AWS and T-Sys. The focus of this session was the need for collaboration amongst partners for the benefit of the customers. One part of the ecosystem cannot go to the cloud if critical components they depend on remain on premise. The migration journey is never truly completed. To ensure your product has solid APIs to easily integrate with the rest of the market, APImatic shared their product on the expo floor. APIMatic increases adoption by leveraging automation to ensure you complete the journey to usable APIs.
One key ingredient every business requires is customers! The panel, “Small is the next big thing” emphasized the sheer magnitude of opportunity by serving small businesses which make up 44% of the US GDP. This panel featured leaders from Co-created, Penelope, and SMB Franchise Advisors. The emphasis was to encourage the creation of a one-stop shop, a single pane solution for all one’s financial needs for the SMB space. One method to extend the reach to additional customers includes embedded payments and private capital to expand the consumer credit space. A panel on this topic featured leaders from Jeffries, Milken Institute, Citi and Pagaya. The session emphasized the need for new risk rating models for those not currently served by the sector. In this regard, an AI risk decision engine for financial services by Bordo.ai was displayed in the expo hall.
Once you have your customers, you want them to have an amazing experience. To facilitate a unified view of all customer activities on your platform, Mixpanel was one of the vendors on hand demonstrating their capabilities. This product along with the talk on hyper-personalization in the age of AI reminded us of our coverage of the Adobe Summit. If this is a passion area be sure to review this research as well as enjoy its related playlist.
Expanding on the hyper-personalization to serve customers, a fireside chat featured Fortune reporter Luisa Beltran interviewing PayPal’s Frank Keller. Titled, AI + Trust, the question of when too personalization becomes a creepy user experience was discussed. The one where you have a conversation on the phone then suddenly your computer has an advertisement for such a product. Part of the challenge with the trust question arises because the bad guys are organized, collaborate, and share information but the good guys do not. As discussed in the session “Fighting Fraud in an AI First World’, until the good teams collaborate, the issue will remain. This exciting panel featured leaders from Google, Mostly AI, BNY and Swift. This point was also emphasized in How AI Innovation Influences Trust and Safety panel. This panel featured leaders from JP Morgan, Walmart, Trulioo, and OpenAI. A key takeaway included that AI plus humans is creating new capabilities to try to counterbalance the aggressive progressive of the fraudsters leveraging AI in a coordinated fashion.
Trust is a two-way street. For financial institutions attempting to establish trust with their customers, they may wish to leverage Inscribe.AI. This platform reviews all documents turned in by customers for signs of fraud leveraging generative AI. Maintaining compliance can also assist with maintaining trust. A highly automated intelligent solution for achieving compliance that is traceable, explainable, and auditable by Trisotech was on exhibit. As anyone who has played with early consumer editions of generative AI knows, true value of generative AI is not just the answer but understanding the why behind the generated answer. If, however, your organization is interested in leveraging behavioural AI to prevent fraud, Futurespace may be one of the products for your organization to evaluate.
Nothing loses a customer’s trust like compromising their privacy and their data. Sometimes, no matter the steps taken, a company accidently leaves a backdoor open or misconfigures their environment compromising customer trust. Have no fear, Packetlabs and their white hats are here to offer their services. Remember: it is always better to hire white hats to find your security issues instead of finding out on the front page of the news.
Finally, one of the more critical aspects of trust according to SEC Chair, Glen Gensler is the whistleblower program. This was one of the many topics discussed in this fireside chat.
We had a flashback to our coverage at Identiverse, as one might expect at any conference in a highly regulated space. The expo hall had some identity solutions on display. A true global identity solution can be difficult to find but Shufti shared their solution. Available across 240 countries validating over 10,000 document types with outcomes in over 150 languages, Shufti is based out of London.
Another identity problem arises in Fintech around the use of credit cards. Is the person using the card really the person we issued the card to? Prove shared their solution that enables you to prove it is really you with only one small line added to the magnetic strip. Prove interestingly leverages the technology within smartphones today to enable the credit card to be a key. With a tap of your credit card to the phone, the phone can let the company know if it is really the card holder holding the official card making the charge.
While very little of the conference did not involve AI, a key concern within Fintech involves using public models with their highly regulated data. Glean shared their product that consumes all your internal data to create a customer LLM for your organization. If your emphasis is one producing customer facing content from your own data, then Writer that leverages generative AI over your own data may be something to explore.
One of the more creative talks on Generative AI was titled, “Killer GENAI Cake”. Emphasizing the parallels to how baking powder created new use cases for baking, GENAI will expedite fintech and related user experiences to the next level. Featuring leaders from Microsoft, iGenius, Growfin and Citizens. Questions addressed by this panel included what use cases could materialize in 2025 and beyond?
Next year’s Money 20/20 USA will be once again held at the Sands Convention Center on October 26-29, 2025.
*When vendors’ names are shared as examples in this document, it is to provide a concrete example of what was on display at the conference, not an evaluation or recommendation. Evaluation and recommendation of these vendors are beyond the scope of this specific research document. Other examples products in the same category may have also been on display.
IC24, InfoComm 2024, spanned 7 days and welcomed 36,967 registered visitors from 125 countries. It is the premier event for AV professionals (71%) and their customers (29%). Held at Las Vegas Convention Center West and Central Halls in Las Vegas from June 8-14, IC24 had 833 exhibitors. Transparent Micro LED, Kinetic LED and LEDs in all shapes and sizes could be seen along with a highly interactive video boards in the 407,000 net square feet of exhibition space. After over 400 minutes of recording and 9 Vegas Loop rides, and some 35 factchecks, our coverage of IC24 ends.
One cannot help but notice you are at a true AV conference when attendees stand to geek out over the huge sign in the West Hall discussing how it is or how they would create such an item. Something we had not witnessed prior. IC24 is the premier event for AV professionals (71%) and IT professionals dealing with AV (29%). The 36,967 registered visitors from 125 countries had no significant wait time while registering as registration rarely had a line at all.
While CES has a large collection of LED screens, CES is consumer while IC24 is industrial! Thus the AV technology is beyond what one would see in a residential setting such as Samsung’s massive The Wall exhibit that transports you around the world or their transparent MicroLED display. The common theme wasn’t just different but more energy efficient while maintaining brightness such as the exhibit by Nanolumens. For Sony it is about every aspect of sustainability even down to the amount of ink used on the box. Shape is no longer a restriction as can be seen at Pixelflex exhibit. Straight out of Hollywood GCL shared their LED 7680 refresh rate technology as well as their Extended reality screen as used in many Hollywood films.
*When vendors’ names are shared as examples in this document, it is to provide a concrete example of what was on display at the conference, not an evaluation or recommendation. Evaluation and recommendation of these vendors are beyond the scope of this specific research document. Other examples products in the same category may have also been on display.
As one would expect, there is also a lot of AV tech. Blackmagic Design, a favorite of many at NABSHOW shared their latest release, BlackMagic Replay, a new way of creating live action replays. This is sure to save a lot of AV engineers a lot of time. For those attempting to synchronize many devices connected across cables, a main stage in central hall had a demo on leveraging PTP to synchronize time. We received a full tour of the Belkin booth and saw all their offerings from basic power supply, family/team charging cabinets to secure switches. In the Trailblazer zone we came across HighSecLabs who shared their products specialized to secure AV peripherals.
This webinar will feature a panel of engineers that have deployed deep learning and generative AI and their solution is in customers’ hands. You will be able to take away insights on the selection of technology, the process of realizing a solution, pitfalls, nightmares and what the panelists would do differently next time.
Can’t attend? Register and submit your question anyway, the answer will be on our YouTube channel.
Research Code: 2045
Omer Segal is the Head of AI at Pixellot, overseeing the AI group responsible for researching and developing automated sports production and automatic game highlights generation for Pixellot AI-automated sports camera systems. He has extensive leadership experience as CTO and R&D Director at companies in homeland security, mapping, and sports technology, where he oversaw the development of innovative AI applications. Omer’s project portfolio includes creating land vehicle and aerial mapping and navigation systems, AR applications for archaeological reconstructions, and athletes’ video analysis applications.
Omer holds a BSc and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, specializing in the application of advanced technologies such as deep learning, computer vision and signal processing.
With 20 years of experience as a Character Technical Director, JC Leon bring expertise in motion capture and avatar creation for diverse productions. Originally focusing on rigging for films, commercials, and games, I transitioned to real-time motion capture and game engine rigging over the past five years. Integrating AI into motion capture and avatar systems has been a recent passion, alongside a commitment to exploring new technologies and their synergies. From rigging for TV shows like “The Flash” to contributing to 3D Bitmoji development and virtual concert setups, my journey reflects a dedication to innovation and collaboration in the ever-evolving landscape of AI and entertainment technology.
Ziyuan(Zac) is the Chief Scientist at Birch.AI, where he spearheads the research and development of LLM and ASR models to automate healthcare call-center workflows. He is responsible for selecting and designing ML models, data processing, production system architecture, and deployment. With over 10 years of experience in speech recognition and natural language processing systems, Ziyuan has a proven track record of delivering production-ready systems for tasks such as classification, named entity recognition, and real-time transcription. Ziyuan holds a bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University Beijing and a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University where he worked at the Center for Language and Speech Processing on projects that led to the creation of many open-source NLP and ASR toolkits
Register early to submit your questions for this exciting AMA (Ask me Anything) with Katya Lainé who founded the advanced conversational and Voice GEN AI product known as Talkr.AI
Katya Lainé is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of TALKR.ai and world-renowned for her expertise in Conversational AI. Katya has spent over a decade reshaping the way organizations handle customer interactions, playing a pivotal role in modernizing call centers by replacing traditional Interactive Voice Response Systems with Intelligent Voice Conversational AI Assistants. Katya is also a respected expert at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) contributing to cutting-edge AI research and international cooperation. Beyond her GPAI role, Katya serves on the board of Numeum, where she is President of its AI Commission, championing ethical practices and advancing the adoption of AI technologies. Katya co-founded OpenLLM-France, further exemplifying her dedication to advancing technology and ethical standards in AI. Additionally, she is a Co-founder and Vice President of Le Voice Lab, underscoring her commitment to shaping the future of voice technology in Europe. She holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA), in addition to a Master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski.
