Aseem Datar

The Leaf Logistics platform connects shippers, providers, and partners to deliver the future transportation market. The Leaf platform allows all participants to gain network efficiencies and unlock a forward view of tomorrow's transportation market. Today, Leaf technologies like the Leaf Adapt continuous optimization solution and Leaf Flex committed contracts allow users to engage in the network and build their most resilient transportation plan.

Building intelligent apps that leverage AI is still way too hard, even for advanced developers. Our mission is to make this as easy as creating a modern web page. Spice AI provides the fastest, easiest, and smartest way to access and leverage web3 data. Designed for applications and machine learning, we remove the complexity of building and operating massive data infrastructure – enabling teams to create the next generation of data and AI-driven apps. The next generation of AI-driven applications will have a profoundly positive impact on the way we all live. Spice AI is enabling and accelerating their creation. From health and longevity to security for all, Spice-powered apps will enrich the lives of everyone, everywhere. If that resonates with you, join us!

OctoML is on a mission to deliver affordable AI compute services for those who want control over the business they are building. Our OctoAI compute platform enables developers to run, tune, and scale models that power AI applications. OctoAI makes models work for you, not the other way around. Developers get easy access to efficient AI infrastructure so they can run the models they choose, tune them for their specific use case, and scale from dev to production seamlessly. With the fastest foundation models on the market (including Llama-2, Stable Diffusion, and SDXL), integrated customization solutions, and world-class ML systems under the hood, developers can focus on building apps that wow their customers without becoming AI infrastructure experts. Backed by leading venture capital firms, the company is headquartered in Seattle, WA. OctoML is founded and led by the creators Apache TVM, an open-source ML stack for model performance and portability. 

Modern enterprises have to manage exponentially-growing exabyte-scale data stores comprised mostly of unstructured data. Someone (often IT) has the difficult job of staying on top of managing these data stores, which becomes more difficult to do as enterprise datasets expand from the data center to the edge and cloud. And while scale and complexity are rising, budgets and staff are not. Existing solutions suffer from two crucial shortcomings: Complexity and platform lock-in. Legacy solutions are excruciatingly complex to deploy and manage. And nearly every solution restricts users to running in only the data center and on expensive, inflexible proprietary hardware platforms. Qumulo is the simple way to manage exabyte-scale data anywhere — edge, core, or cloud — on the platform of your choice. In a world with trillions of files and objects comprising 100+ zettabytes worldwide, companies need a solution that combines the ability to work anywhere with simplicity. This is precisely what Qumulo was founded to accomplish.

Pulumi’s mission is to democratize the cloud for every engineer. Its open-source infrastructure as code tool enables engineers to write infrastructure code in programming languages they already know and love, and deploy infrastructure on any cloud. With the Pulumi Platform, engineers can write and ship infrastructure code faster, leverage AI to boost productivity, do more with less through infrastructure automation, and search resources across any cloud.

Tigera provides Calico, a unified network security and observability platform to prevent, detect and mitigate security breaches in Kubernetes clusters. We are also the creator and maintainer of Calico Open Source, the most widely adopted container networking and security solution. Calico software powers more than 100M containers across 8M+ nodes in 166 countries, and is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions.

Amperity is the customer data platform that helps brands build the unified first-party customer data foundation they need to grow revenue, reduce costs, save time, and stay compliant. Our unparalleled solution creates accurate, reliable profiles by stitching together every type of rich customer data across disparate sources using patented AI and Machine Learning methods. Teams including Marketing, IT, and Analytics can easily use these profiles to drive business value – boosting acquisition and retention, discovering historical and predictive insights, creating high-value segments, fueling tools that deliver personalized customer experiences, meeting privacy and compliance standards, and adapting to future evolutions of the tech stack. Amperity’s unique combination of complete profiles, streamlined access, advanced insights, and surprising speed creates the customer data confidence brands need to power meaningful experiences and accelerate growth. More than 400 brands worldwide rely on Amperity to turn data into business value, including Alaska Airlines, DICK’S Sporting Goods, Endeavour Drinks, Planet Fitness, Seattle Sounders FC, Under Armour and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts.

Eclypsium establishes trust in every endpoint, server and network appliance in enterprise infrastructure (IT, cloud, data centers, network) by identifying, verifying and fortifying 3rd-party software, firmware and hardware in every device. Eclypsium’s platform continuously monitors firmware, hardware and software within each critical asset for threats, backdoors, implants and vulnerabilities, and mitigates supply chain risks throughout the asset lifecycle. Powered by world-class research team, Eclypsium was named as Gartner Cool Vendor, and a winner of Fast Company’s most innovative security companies, CNBC Upstart 100, Cyber Defense Magazine’s Most Innovative Supply Chain Security, and CRN’s Stellar Startups awards.

Heidrick & Struggles is the premier provider of executive search, corporate culture and leadership consulting services. We work for more than 70% of Fortune 1000 companies in virtually every sector and industry around the world. For all of the services we offer, we employ data-driven methodologies honed through decades of relationships and engagements with the worlds largest organizations. Our expertise enables our clients to find the worlds best leaders, create diverse and inclusive cultures, and transform their teams to achieve the highest levels of profitability and performance. Heidrick & Struggles experts operate from principal business centers in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. For more information about Heidrick & Struggles, please visit www.heidrick.com.

The Northwest Robotic Alliances mission is to foster robotics and automation growth and innovation in the Northwest through six key initiatives: stimulating local economic development, bridging robotics communities, accelerating new robotics technologies, incubating regional talent pools, connecting investors with new ventures, and influencing public policy.

The Leaf Logistics platform connects shippers, providers, and partners to deliver the future transportation market. The Leaf platform allows all participants to gain network efficiencies and unlock a forward view of tomorrow's transportation market. Today, Leaf technologies like the Leaf Adapt continuous optimization solution and Leaf Flex committed contracts allow users to engage in the network and build their most resilient transportation plan.

Building intelligent apps that leverage AI is still way too hard, even for advanced developers. Our mission is to make this as easy as creating a modern web page. Spice AI provides the fastest, easiest, and smartest way to access and leverage web3 data. Designed for applications and machine learning, we remove the complexity of building and operating massive data infrastructure – enabling teams to create the next generation of data and AI-driven apps. The next generation of AI-driven applications will have a profoundly positive impact on the way we all live. Spice AI is enabling and accelerating their creation. From health and longevity to security for all, Spice-powered apps will enrich the lives of everyone, everywhere. If that resonates with you, join us!

OctoML is on a mission to deliver affordable AI compute services for those who want control over the business they are building. Our OctoAI compute platform enables developers to run, tune, and scale models that power AI applications. OctoAI makes models work for you, not the other way around. Developers get easy access to efficient AI infrastructure so they can run the models they choose, tune them for their specific use case, and scale from dev to production seamlessly. With the fastest foundation models on the market (including Llama-2, Stable Diffusion, and SDXL), integrated customization solutions, and world-class ML systems under the hood, developers can focus on building apps that wow their customers without becoming AI infrastructure experts. Backed by leading venture capital firms, the company is headquartered in Seattle, WA. OctoML is founded and led by the creators Apache TVM, an open-source ML stack for model performance and portability.