Jim McHugh is vice president and general manager at NVIDIA with over 25 years of experience as a marketing and business executive with startup, mid-sized, and high-profile companies. He currently leads DGX-1, the world’s first AI supercomputer in a box. Jim focuses on building a vision of organizational success and executing strategies to deliver computing solutions that benefit from GPUs in the data center. He has a deep knowledge and understanding of business drivers, market/customer dynamics, technology-centered products, and accelerated solutions. Prior to his role as VP and GM at NVIDIA, Jim held leadership positions with start-up, mid-sized and high-profile companies, including Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems and Apple

Dr. Markus Noga is Vice President of Machine Learning at SAP. His vision is to make enterprise applications intelligent. Markus leads teams building SAP Machine Learning applications and bringing SAP Machine Learning services to the SAP Cloud Platform. Markus previously served SAP as VP for New Business & Portfolio, where he drove the launch of the HANA Enterprise Cloud and the continuous renewal of SAP’s global R&D portfolio. He also previously worked as a Director in the Corporate Strategy Group. Before joining SAP, Markus was a principal with management consultancy Booz & Company, now Strategy & PWC. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of Karlsruhe, now Karlsruhe Institute of Tech­nology, where he focused on the optimization of document processing.