Amit Pandey is a Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) leading DFX architecture and design for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Acceleration SoCs. He has over 22 years of semiconductor industry experience in a variety of technical leadership roles. He has authored patents and many technical publications in various international conferences. He received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Corporate Vice President, General Manager, Data Center and AI Product Management, Intel Corporation

Dr. Zane A. Ball is a Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center and AI (DCAI) Product Management Group. DCAI Product Management is responsible for end-to-end stewardship of DCAI’s systems, SW, CPU, GPU, and custom product line through the entirety of the product lifecycle.  Prior to his product management role, Ball was CVP and GM of platform engineering and architecture for Intel’s data center business.  Ball has also served as Co-GM of Intel’s foundry effort as a VP in the Technology and Manufacturing group and VP of the Client Computing Group including roles as GM of the desktop client business and as GM of global customer engineering.

Ball has a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering, all earned from Rice University.  He also holds six patents in high-speed electrical design.