Ron Perez is an Intel Fellow and Chief Security Architect in the Office of the CTO at Intel. He is responsible for overall Intel security architecture and cross-business unit security technology roadmap alignment, with a focus on Confidential Computing and platform security for the disaggregated, heterogeneous, and distributed data center. He leads a team of senior technology leaders driving Intel's foundational security technologies for server platforms and roots-of-trust, hierarchical memory subsystems, supply chain and life cycle integrity, and trusted execution environments in collaboration with Intel Labs and world-wide strategy, planning, engineering, design, and validation teams. An industry veteran, Ron joined Intel in 2017 with a breadth of experience spanning security, semiconductors, and cloud computing. Most recently, he was Vice President of Security Research at Visa Inc., and has held roles as Fellow and Chief Technology Officer in the Cryptography Research Division of Rambus Inc., Senior Fellow and head of security architecture at Advanced Micro Devices Inc., and earlier in his career, as a senior manager and senior technical staff member at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center.

Carole-Jean Wu is currently a Research Scientist and Manager at Facebook AI Research. Her research lies in the domain of computer architecture. Her work has included designing energy- and memory-efficient systems, building and optimizing systems for machine learning execution at-scale. She is passionate about pathfinding and tackling system challenges to enable efficient, responsible AI execution. Carole-Jean chairs the MLPerf Recommendation Benchmark Advisory Board, co-chaired MLPerf Inference, and serves on the MLCommons Board as a Director. Carole-Jean is a tenured Associate Professor at ASU. She receives her M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton and B.Sc. from Cornell. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Distinction of Honorable Mention of the CRA Anita Borg Early Career Award, the IEEE Young Engineer of the Year Award, the Science Foundation Arizona Bisgrove Early Career Scholarship, and the Intel PhD Fellowship, among a number of IEEE Micro Top Picks, IEEE Best Paper Awards.