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Connor T. Jerzak works as a faculty member in Government at The University of Texas at Austin, where he also helps lead the AI & Global Development Lab. Earlier, he completed a doctorate in government at Harvard University, then a postdoctoral stint at Linköping University in Sweden. His recent projects pair satellite imagery and machine learning with causal inference to map poverty and wealth acr

David Duncan is a Software Architect at Gamma Grove Trading, Inc., based in Austin, Texas. He is a former employee of Amazon Web Services and Red Hat and a contributor to open source operating systems. He is building Conduit, an AI-powered office management tool for small plumbing businesses, and he publishes open source code on GitHub.

John Wantz is the founder of TARX, a private AI runtime built by Tarxan Inc. in Austin, Texas. John has worked in technology for roughly twenty years, and before TARX he published an independent design that joins Palantir Foundry with local-first AI. Today his work centers on AI software that runs on the user's own machine instead of in the cloud.

Building security tools, browser automation, and tools for AI coding agents.

Amer Arab is the founder and product manager of Clearlist, an AI service that lists and sells household items for people, handling buyer questions and pickup times for them. He is a product manager with more than 12 years of experience building zero-to-one products across SaaS and marketplaces. Amer also publishes open-source AI tools, including vibe-check, which guides beginners from an idea to a

Hanuman Chittem is the Founder and CEO of Wikiworks Technologies in Austin, which builds workforce management software and ERP services for large enterprises. The company's work covers UKG and Boomi integrations, workforce analytics and AI tools that help leaders control labor costs, stay compliant and see vendor performance. Hanuman is focused on AI agents that schedule crews for labor-intensive

Toyeshh Medikonda is a Quantitative Developer and a Turing Scholars computer science student at the University of Texas at Austin, focused on making AI useful in tech, finance and the trades. Before UT Austin, Toyeshh was a research intern at the University of Texas at Dallas. Toyeshh builds Onote, a macOS app that transcribes lectures locally into Obsidian notes, and Democracy, which turns securi

Alejandro Mancilla is a Principal Solutions Architect at MongoDB in Austin, where he works on data and AI architecture for customers of the company's NoSQL database. He has more than 20 years of experience in software consulting and development, and he has given talks and shared presentations on data analysis with MongoDB. Alejandro now builds AI agent and RAG demos, including a supply chain agent

Kavita Jadhav is Founder and Technical Director of K11 Software Solutions in Austin, a small consultancy that builds software, AI systems and AI-powered test automation for engineering teams. She has more than 12 years of experience in software testing and quality engineering, including work as a senior SDET and test architect. Kavita focuses on testing and red-teaming large language models and on

I architect AI-integrated systems for real environments with real constraints, and I teach organizations at every level how to adopt them responsibly. At Austin Public Health, I built the AI strategy from the ground up and delivered multiple agent-based solutions for transcription, policy review, research and analysis, and ML pipelines within a compliant, security-first infrastructure, including a

Nevo Elmalem is the co-founder and CTO of Sensi AI, which builds an agentic operating system for senior care. Its AI agents help home care agencies with communication, scheduling, and operations. Nevo started the company in 2019 with Romi Gubes and Alon Brener, and has described its early work as using AI and audio to understand caregiving environments and improve daily care for older adults. He i

Neev Gupta studies computer science and economics at UT Austin and works on growth at Base44, the AI app builder. He is also a software engineer with Convergent, UT Austin's student builder community, and has previously worked at State Farm, H-E-B and Zonda.

Samaresh Kumar Singh is a Principal Engineer at HP Inc. in Austin, where he works on the Technology Innovation team on HP's edge computing and AI strategy. HP makes PCs, printers and related technology for consumers and businesses. Samaresh has been at HP since 2015 and has worked on projects including HP AI Studio and HP Z Boost. He is a Docker Captain, a Google Developer Expert in AI and an NVID

Nathan Walker is the founder and CEO of Ravenhelm, an Austin company building infrastructure for accountable, trustworthy AI agent systems. He previously served as VP of AI Presales and Solution Architecture at Quant, and over his career he has built a global presales organization and led enterprise AI deployments in regulated settings. Nathan's open-source work includes agentfoundry, an agent dev

Greg Fitzgerald is the CEO of Artificial By Design, Inc., an Austin company building a compatibility layer that lets AI workloads run on the best available compute without rewriting the application. Greg co-founded Sevco Security, chairs CyberForce Security, and earlier led go-to-market work as founding CMO at Cylance and as an executive at Fortinet, Sourcefire, TippingPoint, BMC Software and Jave

Michael Maltsev is the founder and CEO of RigER, an Austin-based company that makes job management software for oilfield service and equipment rental companies, covering field tickets, job scheduling and rental fleet management. Before building oilfield software, Michael was CFO at an oilfield rental company. He studied at MIT Sloan School of Management and has led RigER since 2012, serving custom

Bob Drobish is the co-founder and CEO of Recon InfoSec, an Austin-based managed detection and response company. It helps organizations of all sizes improve their security, including through outsourced cybersecurity partnerships for small and medium businesses. Before Recon, Bob was CEO of True Games Interactive and Application Cartography, served as senior vice president of operations at K2 Networ

Nick Sullivan is an Austin-based AI architect and the founder of Carmenta Collective, where he builds heart-centered AI tools and infrastructure for AI-native software development. A self-taught programmer with 25 years in software, Nick has served as a CTO and was often the first technologist at a company, and he created AICodeBot, an early terminal coding assistant. He now builds open-source Cla

Drew Scheifele is co-founder and CEO of SaltyCloud, an Austin-based public benefit corporation whose Isora GRC platform helps security teams in higher education and the public sector run risk assessments, manage vendors and track compliance. Drew co-founded the company in 2018. Isora GRC began inside UT Austin's Information Security Office, and the company went through Techstars in 2020. He serves

Before that, Tom was a founding SDR leader at Apollo.io. He is now building Artemis GTM agents for Claude Code and Codex, along with an open GTM revenue audit checklist.

Joe McVeen is founder and CEO of GrowthMastery.ai, an Austin-based AI-native venture growth firm that pairs AI with experienced operators to help founders and portfolio leaders build repeatable growth and connected operations. Joe has spent eleven years engineering conversion for founder-led companies and is also co-founder and chief operations officer of New Earth Development, a real estate compa

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