Rohit Israni
Director, Strategic Business Development AI Programs, Intel

Rohit Israni is the director of strategic business development for AI programs in the Developer Relations Division at Intel, where he leads a global team responsible for bringing Intel’s AI initiatives via the Intel AI Academy and Intel AI Builders to universities and independent software vendors (ISVs) worldwide. He’s also the vice chair of US TAG of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) steering committee on AI (JTC 1/SC 42). Rohit has 20 years of multifaceted experience in engineering, new product innovation, strategy, finance, and business development in both large and small companies. He’s strategized and executed a wide variety of transactions including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, LBOs, fundraising (both debt and equity), investments, partnerships, and alliances. Previously, he developed industry-leading pattern recognition algorithms at imaging technology (M&A Teledyne DALSA) and in the Advanced Technology Group at KLA-Tencor. He holds two patents in machine learning and image processing. Rohit earned his master’s degree in engineering with a specialization in robotics and AI from Tulane University and his master’s degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University.