Christopher Stephens

Chris Stephens is the Global Technology Leader for Robotics and Industrial AI at NVIDIA. Chris came to NVIDIA from Groq where he served as Field CTO and VP of Field Engineering, building Groq’s global Inference business from zero to millions of developers around the world. For over 25 years Chris has lead Data, Analytics, and AI teams as Chief Data Officer at large firms like GEICO, Zendesk, and American Eagle Outfitters and leading the Data Science practice at Pivotal. He serves on the Faculty at Carnegie Mellon teaching Data and AI in Pittsburgh where he lives with his wife and 5 children.