Ali Arsanjani, PhD ^{Top-Executive}

Dr. Ali Arsanjani is the Director of Applied AI Engineering at Google Cloud, and Head of the Global AI Center of Excellence, leads GenAI strategic co-innovation, thought leadership & alliances.

Previously he led all GenAI initiatives in the Google Partner Ecosystem, developing strategic co-innovation assets & partnerships in the fields of Generative AI, Data/Analytics & Predictive AI/ML. His team specializes in co-innovation with ISV and GSI partners as they run, integrate and build on GCP across the ML Lifecycle. Ali also works closely with product management to shape the direction of Google's AI and analytics offerings from a cloud perspective.

Ali is an Adjunct Prof at San Jose State University & the University of California, San Diego, and advises students in the Masters in Data program and the Data Science Institute, respectively.

Prev, Ali was the Head of Machine Learning & Worldwide TechLeader for AWS AI / ML specialist solution architecture. As Chief Principal AI/ML, he developed tech strategy, led the Tech Sector for Saas, ISVs, and the internet (AWS's largest customers). He led research, product and eng teams responsible for prototyping cutting-edge AI devices.

Ali was founder of AI startup Deep Context, which provides clients with actionable data on contextually relevant customer engagement.
As VP of AI / ML at 8x8, a cloud communications company, Ali was responsible for defining the strategy, research direction, product management, and implementation of AI and ML products in the telecommunications sector, with a focus on unified communications as a service and contact center as a service products.

From 1998 to 2018, Ali worked at IBM as CTO of Analytics & ML and a Distinguished Engineer, leading a team of 6,000 practitioners worldwide in the development of bespoke ML and analytics solutions. He was responsible for leading in SOA, BPM, RPA, analytics, AI/ML systems and solutions. Ali was recognized as the "father of service-oriented architecture" within IBM and held the title of Master Inventor, leading the Global Invention Disclosure Team and the Core Management Group for the IBM Academy of Technology.

Ali's expertise includes NLP, LLMs, deep learning ensemble models, anomaly and outlier detection and training, customer segmentation and analysis for churn and upselling, and voice, video, and text analysis for conversational virtual assistant implementations. He has also served as a chair for standard bodies such as The Open Group, co-leading the development of standards for SOA Ref Arch, maturity model, and cloud computing arch.