About Event
Rene Haas, CEO of Arm, and Young Sohn, founder of Walden Catalyst Ventures, joined Playground Global venture partner Sasha Ostojic in a fireside chat -- following opening remarks by our general partner Peter Barrett -- at the @Playground: Next-Gen Compute event. We were delighted to welcome our speakers along with the industry leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, and engineers who packed the house at our headquarters in Palo Alto!
Speakers
Marissa Chanlatte de Ramirez
Investor, Playground
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Benjamin Kim
Partner, Playground
Rahul Meka
Investor, Playground
Yuan Yu
Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure
Sree Ganesan
VP Product, d-Matrix
Mike Lafferty
CEO, Snowcap Compute
Chris Anderson
VP, xLight
Chris Eiben
CEO & Co-Founder, GigaCrop
Sella Brosh
CEO, NVision
Prof. Terry Rudolph
Chief Architect and Co-Founder, PsiQuantum
Sasha Ostojic
Venture Partner, Playground
Mark Wade
CEO and Founder, Ayar Labs
Anna Herr
Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder, Snowcap
Raphael Townshend
CEO and Founder, Atomic AI
Ahmed Zaeem
Chief of Staff, Atomic AI
Gary Agnew
CEO, Ideon Technologies
Nicholas Kelez
CEO and CTO, xLight
Dr. Laura Taylor-Kale, PhD
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy, U.S. Department of Defense
Matthew Goldman
Partner, J2 Ventures
Jacqueline Tame
Operating Partner, Playground Global
Matthew MacGregor
Head of Strategic Growth at Anduril, Former F-35 Deputy PM
Ben Kim
Partner, Playground Global
Jory Bell
General Partner, Playground Global
Pat Gelsinger
General Partner, Playground Global
Rene Haas
CEO of ARM
Young Sohn
Founding Managing Partner at Walden Catalyst
Professor Jennifer Dionne
CZI Biohub, Investigator Deputy Director of Q-NEXT, and Co-Founder of Pumpkinseed
Michael Robinson
CTO, Quantum Leap Technologies
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Mark Johnson
Founder & CEO, TechNext Solutions
Ashley Montanaro
CEO and Co-Founder, Phasecraft
Pete Shadbolt
Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder, PsiQuantum
Peter Barrett
General Partner, Playground Global
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Bruce Leak
General Manager, Playground
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Mark Johnson
Founder & CEO, TechNext Solutions
Michael Robinson
CTO, Quantum Leap Technologies
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Bruce Leak
General Manager, Playground
