Austin Beaulier
Photogrammetry Artist and 3D Specialist, USA

 

Austin Beaulier is a VFX and AI innovator making visuals for film, television, videogames, and advertising. His expertise in visual effects can be seen in projects like THE MANDALORIAN, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, FOR ALL MANKIND, Jordan Peele's NOPE and Donald Glover’s MR. AND MRS. SMITH. 

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At Snap he built AR advertising workflows for Nike, Ralph Lauren, and Kenneth Cole. As an AI Developer, he designed prompts and multimodal pipelines, developed testing systems for video generation, and led quality assurance for branded content.

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Currently a VFX Supervisor, Austin’s work includes A KIDNAPPING by Karl Gajdusek (Stranger Things), and DR. SQUATCH campaign with Sydney Sweeney. 

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Austin’s tutorials on AI and 3D workflows have garnered over 4 million views on social media, and he has been published in Make Magazine on using 3D scanning for cultural preservation. An artist first, he champions the philosophy that AI is a tool for transformation, not generation.

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Chetan Gupta
Hitachi America, USA

 

​Chetan Gupta is a distinguished professional in Industrial AI, recognized for his contributions both within Hitachi and in the broader industry. As the GM of Hitachi's Advanced AI Research Center in Japan, leader of the Industrial AI Lab in North America, and head of the Global AI CoE, he steers groundbreaking work in AI technologies and solutions that are crucial for industrial, enterprise, and societal applications. Chetan has close to 200 papers and patents and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics and M.S. in Mathematical Computer Science and Chemical Engineering. He has won numerous awards internally and externally and his leadership is also evident in his contributions to key projects and educational initiatives within the field.​

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Mario Schlener
Evolver, USA

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Mario is a passionate disruptor with a proven track record building applied research expert teams to disrupt existing business models by innovating for 25 years in mathematical engineering models/systems in capital markets and probabilistic economic-, investment- risk- models and building AIOps technology platforms.

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In his current role Mario is Co-Founder – Head of Applied Research and Risk Systems at Evolver.ai. He has developed several of Evolver’s patents implemented in “ARIA” - Evolver’s Intelligence System e.g. “BASIS” i.e. Business Abstraction & Symbolic Interaction Method that structures deep business domain knowledge into a new inferential paradigm where human expertise can be scaled at the speed of business and “3-LoIM” i.e. 3 Line of Machine Intelligence Method an always-on assurance system that ties money (VaR) to math (conformal/CVaR) to governance (budgets & logs) and actually gates model behavior at runtime without assuming “ground truth” as a single point rather the system learns and reports uncertainty; training optimizes distribution + tail risk, and runtime provides coverage guarantees and gated decisions. Geometry shaping reduces spec-gaming; independent Line-2/3 controls keep drift and failures visible and correctable.

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Before co-founding Evolver Mario was a Senior Partner leading Risk Consulting for EY Canada and acted as Global Resp AI and Global Financial Services Risk Transformation Solution Co-Lead. In this capacity, he oversaw initiatives such as Risk Technology Modernization, ModelOps, AI Risk, and ESG Risk Additionally, he had the privilege of being the Global Product Lead of EY’s AI Confidence Index Agent, with a specific focus on Responsible AI practices. Prior to EY, Mario served as an Expert Testimonial Quant at Navigant Capital for Lehman Close Out Valuations and led restructuring efforts for Bad Banks' Structured Credit Portfolios. Earlier in his career, he spent a decade at Erste Group, focusing on Fixed Income Product Structuring and Corporate Finance. In addition to his professional roles, he has served as an External Lecturer at the Financial and Actuarial Mathematics Institute at Vienna University of Technology and is an active deep tech angel investor. 

 

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