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Suman Kanuganti
Personal AI, Co-Founder & CEO
Speaker Bio
Suman Kanuganti is a San Francisco-based AI entrepreneur who has been pioneering practical AI applications for over a decade. As Co-Founder and CEO of Personal AI since 2020, he has worked with large telco and retail partners globally, innovating how enterprises deploy AI at scale, including internal productivity use cases, new products, and serving the large SMB market. Personal AI is NVIDIA's top independent software vendor (ISV) for telco, championing Personal Language Models (PLMs) that deliver 10-30x better cost efficiency than traditional large language models.
Prior to Personal AI, Suman founded Aira in 2015, building it into a $50M revenue AI-powered accessibility company that transformed lives for people who are blind or have low vision. This groundbreaking work earned him recognition on the Forbes 40 Under 40 list and Smithsonian's Top Innovators to Watch, with The New York Times calling the technology a "godsend."
Before his entrepreneurial journey, Suman developed deep technical expertise through engineering and leadership roles at Intuit, Qualcomm, Wonderware, and Caterpillar, bringing critical systems architecture and robotics experience to his ventures.
A sought-after thought leader who was "a decade early to AI," Suman regularly shares insights at premier events including TechCrunch Disrupt, Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit, CES, and SXSW. He continues to drive the future of enterprise AI through precision, scalable unit economics, and distributed infrastructure.