Dave Driggers
Dave Driggers is the Chief Executive and Technical Officer and founder of Cirrascale Cloud Services. Mr. Driggers establishes and drives the vision and mission of the company while providing guidance for the development and implementation of the company’s specialized cloud-based, bare-metal server and accelerator partner for artificial intelligence development, training and inference solutions. As the previous founder of Racksaver, Verari Systems, and Cirrascale Corporation, he has an extensive background in hardware development serving various HPC and Artificial Intelligence vertical markets.
Miranda Gardiner
Miranda Gardiner is the Executive Director of iMasons Climate Accord (ICA) -- a groundbreaking non-profit, focused on emissions reductions and sustainability in data centers. Under her visionary guidance, it has emerged as the premier, collaborative arena for digital infrastructure’s commitment to achieving ambitious climate goals by uniting the largest and most influential companies (such as Google, Meta, AWS, and Microsoft) in driving transformative initiatives.
Miranda has grown the ICA to a robust network of member companies with a combined market cap of over $8T, with 30+% of them represented on the various technical committees to ensure a “by the members, for the members” approach. Centered around Power, Equipment, and Materials, ICA has published a Maturity Model and case studies to address critical topics.
She has presented at Climate Week NYC and Datacloud Global Congress, and contributed to publications like PERE’s 2024 Data Centers Report.
In 2020, she received LEED Fellow status from USGBC, and in 2025, was recognized in Data Centre Magazine's inaugural “Top 100 Women in Data Centers”.
Don McCasland
Don leads the Cloud Developer Relations team for AI Infrastructure at Google Cloud. A 20-year veteran in Developer Operations, he is focused on empowering the global developer community to build and scale the next generation of AI applications on Google's cutting-edge platforms.
Don McCasland
Don leads the Cloud Developer Relations team for AI Infrastructure at Google Cloud. A 20-year veteran in Developer Operations, he is focused on empowering the global developer community to build and scale the next generation of AI applications on Google's cutting-edge platforms.
Maxim Khomiakov
Maxim Khomiakov, PhD, is a Senior AI Engineer at Normal Computing, building reliable, high‑performance AI software for automating chip verification and design. He previously developed and deployed production-scale machine learning models within Apple Maps. Before that, he led data science efforts at Otovo and co‑founded Sunmapper (acquired by Otovo). Maxim holds a PhD in Machine Learning from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
Aditi Purandare
Aditi is an investor at Hitachi Ventures, covering the entire digital stack from the infrastructure layer to the application layer. A computer engineer by training and a Fulbright alum, she has previously worked in applying AI and data science to various verticals.
