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Author:

Christina V. McDonough

Principal
Fish & Richardson P.C.

Christina McDonough helps clients with patent prosecution, portfolio management, reexamination, counseling, and due diligence for clients ranging from small start-ups to large companies and academic institutions. She co-leads the firm’s standard essential patent (SEP) practice. 

Christina has particular expertise in the areas of artificial intelligence, digital therapeutics, bioinformatics and medical systems (e.g., telehealth, medical registries, readmission reductions, modeling and predictive analysis of biological data, genetic codes, and immunotherapy response), computational fluid dynamics (e.g., simulation of acoustic and fluid flow properties), complex data processing (e.g., big data and complex events), and financial algorithms (e.g., predictive modeling and forecasting of real-time security trades).

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Christina V. McDonough

Principal
Fish & Richardson P.C.

Christina McDonough helps clients with patent prosecution, portfolio management, reexamination, counseling, and due diligence for clients ranging from small start-ups to large companies and academic institutions. She co-leads the firm’s standard essential patent (SEP) practice. 

Christina has particular expertise in the areas of artificial intelligence, digital therapeutics, bioinformatics and medical systems (e.g., telehealth, medical registries, readmission reductions, modeling and predictive analysis of biological data, genetic codes, and immunotherapy response), computational fluid dynamics (e.g., simulation of acoustic and fluid flow properties), complex data processing (e.g., big data and complex events), and financial algorithms (e.g., predictive modeling and forecasting of real-time security trades).

Author:

Crystal Culhane Ph.D.

Principal
Fish & Richardson P.C.

Crystal Culhane, Ph.D., applies her extensive academic background in organic chemistry to help life sciences organization protect their products and innovations through U.S. and foreign patent prosecution, client counseling, due diligence, patentability and freedom to operate opinions, patent opinions, and post-grant proceedings.

Known as a responsive communicator with a strong depth of knowledge, Crystal works with clients ranging from universities to start-ups and growing companies to multinational organizations to prepare intellectual property strategies that suit their business goals.

In recent years, Crystal has worked with a number of pharmaceutical clients in high-impact patent prosecution. Her clients include a large pharmaceutical company for which she has helped develop and manage a portfolio of several hundred patent families and another which in 2021 received its first-ever FDA approval for a new drug that treats a rare liver disease.

Crystal earned her doctorate in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, where her research focused on the design, synthesis, and evaluation of novel optical and radioactive small molecule prostate cancer imaging agents. She has significant experience in various scientific disciplines, including synthetic organic chemistry, radiochemistry, biology, radiobiology, and small animal imaging.

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Crystal Culhane Ph.D.

Principal
Fish & Richardson P.C.

Crystal Culhane, Ph.D., applies her extensive academic background in organic chemistry to help life sciences organization protect their products and innovations through U.S. and foreign patent prosecution, client counseling, due diligence, patentability and freedom to operate opinions, patent opinions, and post-grant proceedings.

Known as a responsive communicator with a strong depth of knowledge, Crystal works with clients ranging from universities to start-ups and growing companies to multinational organizations to prepare intellectual property strategies that suit their business goals.

In recent years, Crystal has worked with a number of pharmaceutical clients in high-impact patent prosecution. Her clients include a large pharmaceutical company for which she has helped develop and manage a portfolio of several hundred patent families and another which in 2021 received its first-ever FDA approval for a new drug that treats a rare liver disease.

Crystal earned her doctorate in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, where her research focused on the design, synthesis, and evaluation of novel optical and radioactive small molecule prostate cancer imaging agents. She has significant experience in various scientific disciplines, including synthetic organic chemistry, radiochemistry, biology, radiobiology, and small animal imaging.

 

Jeremy Hill

VP, Payer Solutions
Optum

Jeremy Hill

VP, Payer Solutions
Optum

Jeremy Hill

VP, Payer Solutions
Optum

Join us for a demo showcasing the power of Google Cloud TPU by walking through the complete lifecycle of a model, from post-training to inference at massive scale.

We’ll show you how to post-train a model using new RL capabilities in MaxText and Tunix, then take that same model and serve it on TPU seamlessly with the new JAX backend in vLLM.

Learn about how to rightsize a workload for TPU for both training and inference, optimizing for performance-per-dollar from beginning to end.

Author:

Brittany Rockwell

Product Manager
Google Cloud

Brittany Rockwell is a Product Manager for AI Inference at Google Cloud, where she leads the development of the TPU backend in vLLM, the most popular OSS library for language model inference. She currently lives in Seattle, WA.

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Brittany Rockwell

Product Manager
Google Cloud

Brittany Rockwell is a Product Manager for AI Inference at Google Cloud, where she leads the development of the TPU backend in vLLM, the most popular OSS library for language model inference. She currently lives in Seattle, WA.

Author:

Kyle Meggs

Product Manager
Google Cloud

Kyle Meggs is a Product Manager for JAX on Google Cloud. He enjoys helping customers train LLMs with MaxText and  diffusion models with MaxDiffusion on the latest TPUs and GPUs.

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Kyle Meggs

Product Manager
Google Cloud

Kyle Meggs is a Product Manager for JAX on Google Cloud. He enjoys helping customers train LLMs with MaxText and  diffusion models with MaxDiffusion on the latest TPUs and GPUs.

The transition to direct liquid cooling introduces challenges from unavoidable leaks, risking catastrophic hardware failure, costly downtime, and data loss– until now. actnano is AI's Missing Layer: the last line of defense for these mission critical assets. Our next-generation coating is the first truly proactive protection strategy for data infrastructure. Witness our live demonstration where an actnano-coated graphics card operates flawlessly while subjected to a simulated leak of conductive coolant. This technology engineers catastrophic failures into simple maintenance events, making hardware truly liquid-proof. See firsthand how to de-risk investments and unlock a new era of resilience, sustainability, and uptime.

Author:

Ken Aduddell

Senior Director
actnano

Ken Aduddell is a thought leader in data infrastructure with over 20 years of experience in the electronics industry. A trusted partner to executives at hyperscalers, his work has focused on the core challenges of data center resilience, including power and coolant systems. An established contributor to the Open Compute Project on the data center resilience chain, Ken offers deep insight into de-risking the inevitable transition to direct liquid cooling and protecting the mission-critical assets that power the AI era. Previously at Rockwell Automation, Ken now leads actnano's initiative to protect critical hardware with this breakthrough coating technology.

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Ken Aduddell

Senior Director
actnano

Ken Aduddell is a thought leader in data infrastructure with over 20 years of experience in the electronics industry. A trusted partner to executives at hyperscalers, his work has focused on the core challenges of data center resilience, including power and coolant systems. An established contributor to the Open Compute Project on the data center resilience chain, Ken offers deep insight into de-risking the inevitable transition to direct liquid cooling and protecting the mission-critical assets that power the AI era. Previously at Rockwell Automation, Ken now leads actnano's initiative to protect critical hardware with this breakthrough coating technology.

MCC Dallas Approval Letter

CGI’s payment integrity solutions have consistently driven millions in payment integrity program savings annually for its clients, proving accuracy and efficiency can coexist at scale. This session reveals the practical steps behind these results and how you can replicate them.

Key Takeaways:

  • How people, processes, data, and technology can optimize a payment integrity program
  • Creating a realistic future state, including journey mapping
  • Tactics to speed up resolution times without sacrificing quality
  • Collaboration models that build trust between payers and providers

Author:

Karen Ballard

Director of Consulting Services
CGI

Karen Ballard is Director of Consulting Services, CGI, where she is responsible for managing the CGI ProperPay payment integrity platform. With a nearly 20-year career in the health payer space, Karen possesses a deep knowledge of claims processing, product management, payment integrity, and the Blue payer dynamic. Prior to joining CGI, Karen held a variety of positions in claims operations, BlueCard, and payment integrity during her 17-year tenure with Elevance Health (Anthem).

Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University. She co-founded and previously co-facilitated the Blue PI Committee, comprised of payment integrity leaders from all 33 Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans and partnered with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association to drive change in the payment integrity space.

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Karen Ballard

Director of Consulting Services
CGI

Karen Ballard is Director of Consulting Services, CGI, where she is responsible for managing the CGI ProperPay payment integrity platform. With a nearly 20-year career in the health payer space, Karen possesses a deep knowledge of claims processing, product management, payment integrity, and the Blue payer dynamic. Prior to joining CGI, Karen held a variety of positions in claims operations, BlueCard, and payment integrity during her 17-year tenure with Elevance Health (Anthem).

Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University. She co-founded and previously co-facilitated the Blue PI Committee, comprised of payment integrity leaders from all 33 Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans and partnered with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association to drive change in the payment integrity space.

Author:

David Ott

Director Consulting Payment Integrity
CGI

David Ott has over 28 years of experience in the healthcare and financial services industries. David has provided leadership and direction to department leaders and teams that support a variety of functions, including business development, payment integrity, claims processing, global project management and quality practices.

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David Ott

Director Consulting Payment Integrity
CGI

David Ott has over 28 years of experience in the healthcare and financial services industries. David has provided leadership and direction to department leaders and teams that support a variety of functions, including business development, payment integrity, claims processing, global project management and quality practices.

 

Mohamed Kassem

CTO
Chipfoundry

Mohamed is dedicated to making custom silicon design more accessible and collaborative for innovators across the globe. With two decades of experience spanning mixed-signal leadership at Texas Instruments and groundbreaking work in custom chip creation, Mohamed’s journey includes launching ChipFoundry and NativeChips.ai to lower the barriers for hardware startups, engineers, and researchers.

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Mohamed Kassem

CTO
Chipfoundry

Mohamed Kassem

CTO
Chipfoundry

Mohamed is dedicated to making custom silicon design more accessible and collaborative for innovators across the globe. With two decades of experience spanning mixed-signal leadership at Texas Instruments and groundbreaking work in custom chip creation, Mohamed’s journey includes launching ChipFoundry and NativeChips.ai to lower the barriers for hardware startups, engineers, and researchers. His efforts are focused on enabling new ideas in silicon for AI, IoT, and next-generation technologies, supporting an open and vibrant hardware community that’s redefining the future of semiconductor innovation