Speakers
Ashley Pilipiszyn, Founder/CEO, Startup
Ashley is an applied scientist-turned-entrepreneur, deep tech angel investor, and certified pilot. She’s an expert authority on AI applications -- as an early employee and the first Technical Director to the CTO, she led OpenAI’s early research and commercial product releases including MuseNet, Jukebox, Rubik’s Cube, GPT-3, Codex, CLIP, and DALL-E. She also created OpenAI’s developer ecosystem program where she helped launch a variety of partner applications and mentor startups powered by GPT-3. Previously, she oversaw the design, development, and launch of DOE-funded Grid Resilience & Intelligence Platform (GRIP) at SLAC National Accelerator Lab. GRIP leveraged AI to anticipate, absorb, and recover from grid events such as wildfires, ice storms, or cyberattacks. As a startup Founder/CEO, she is on a mission to help advance U.S. technological capabilities and Forge the Next Industrial Era™.