Zaid Kahn is CEO and Co-Founder at Neuron Factory. Zaid was formerly Vice President in Microsoft's Azure division where he led a team focusing on advanced architecture and engineering efforts for Microsoft’s AI infrastructure, as well as designing and building AI training systems for key strategic partners like OpenAI.

Zaid was part of the technical leadership team across Microsoft that set AI hardware strategy for training and inference. Prior to Microsoft, Zaid was head of the infrastructure at LinkedIn where he was responsible for all aspects of architecture and engineering for datacenters, networking, hardware design and software development for managing infrastructure as code.

Prior to LinkedIn Zaid was involved in a few early stage start ups including the founding engineering team at WebEx that was later acquired by Cisco.

Zaid contributed to major efforts in Open Hardware through Open Compute Platform (OCP) where he served as Chair of the board. 

Zaid holds several patents in networking and is currently an external advisory board member for UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.

Zaid has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Physics from the University of the South Pacific.   He lives in San Francisco bay area with his wife and two sons.

Salil Pandit is CTO and Co-Founder at Neuron Factory. Salil was formerly the CPTO at PrimaryBid, a UK-based Series C fintech focused on delivering retail inclusion in the capital markets. He led the Product, Engineering, Operations, Data, and Security teams overseeing 300+ deals across the US, UK, EU, and Middle East.

Prior to PrimaryBid, Salil spent nearly a decade at Alphabet across Waymo, YouTube, and Google Glass. During his tenure at Waymo, he was part of the core team to launch Waymo One, the transportation as a service product - now widely available. He focused heavily on delivering a world class experience for both riders and the operations team supporting them.

Prior to Waymo, he was on the founding team of YouTubeTV and an early engineer on Google Glass.

Salil has a Computer Science degree from CalPoly Pomona and holds 20+ patents.

He grew up all over the world and currently resides in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.

Tom De Raedt is Chief Commercial Officer of Neuron Factory. He previously founded EscherCloud, one of Europe’s first AI infrastructure companies, and Great-Grey Investments, a prominent real estate development firm. He also founded the Silver Falcon project in Amsterdam, a 100 MW data center campus designed for high-density use.

Prior to founding his real estate and AI ventures, Tom worked at Barclays Capital for eight years in the structured solutions team.

Tom has a breadth of experience in the construction industry spanning from datacenters, commercial and smart cities. Tom brings his expertise and passion to help global companies become more operationally efficient with a particular focus on construction, fast-moving consumer goods, energy and finance industries.Tom holds a master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Ghent and an Applied Economics degree from the University of Antwerp.

He lives in Antwerp with his wife and two daughters.

Bogdan Arsintescu is a knowledge graph and graph systems expert who thrives in greenfield innovation projects. He recently started a structured data project in the AI Knowledge team that is part of Microsoft CoreAI. In Microsoft Fabric he focused on ontology and graph systems, building scale-out graph systems for analytics and operational workloads (a project he incubated and spearheaded while originally at LinkedIn) as an architect and previously as a Partner Director of Engineering. Prior to this, he was a Director of Engineering who led the team that built and operated LIquid, a scale-out, low-latency, high-throughput and availability operational graph database system for LinkedIn, one of the largest real-time operational graphs. In the early 2010s, Bogdan worked in the Google Knowledge Graph team where he led the Pregel-based high-performance compute graph processing system and was a co-author of PathQuery, the Google KG query language. At Google Research, he studied agentic intent in semantic space and temporal data. Prior to Google, his research and early career were in semantic data for semiconductor design.

Filip is Chairman of the Board at Cordeel Group, and is a visionary leader in the construction industry. As the former CEO of Cordeel Group, Filip was instrumental in transforming the company into one of Belgium’s largest construction groups and a major European player. Today, Cordeel Group is recognized as a company that not only builds, but also innovates – bringing sustainability and speed together. With his proven track record in pioneering new materials, systems, and processes, Filip brings a powerful combination of vision and leadership to Neuron Factory.

Joseph Smarr is currently a Principal Engineer at Shopify. His previous roles include Chief Technology Officer at Triller, Principal Engineer at Google (Natural Language Understanding for Google Assistant, founding team for Google Photos, founding technical lead of Google+), and Chief Technology Officer at Plaxo, where he led their initiative to open up the social web. He has served on the Board of Directors of the OpenID Foundation and OpenSocial Foundation. Joseph has a BS and MS from Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence (Symbolic Systems, ‘02 and ‘03).

Sean Bondar serves as Senior Vice President within AECOM’s global Digital Infrastructure team, bringing over two decades of expertise as an accomplished account executive in hyperscale data center clients and integrated capital project/program delivery worldwide. With a comprehensive background in managing large-scale public and private sector infrastructure, Sean has delivered and operated critical tech sector assets across the owner and service provider roles responsible for comprehensive architecture, engineering, construction (AEC), and facilities management (FM) functions. His holistic perspective, honed through collaborations and partnerships with leading global teams and owners, encompasses data center campus delivery, master planning, site selection, land development, power, water, fiber, supply chain logistics, and mission-critical facility operations. With a passion to see AI move the industry into the future, Sean’s strategic insights and proven leadership make him a distinguished voice in the global AEC and data center industry.