Beren Millidge is a cofounder and the chief scientist at Zyphra, an AI lab based in Palo Alto. Prior to Zyphra, he was a research lead at Conjecture and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in Computational Neuroscience and Machine Learning from the University of Edinburgh. At Zyphra, Beren leads technical teams pretraining language, vision, and audio models. In academia, his research focused on understanding the mechanisms of deep credit assignment in the brain.

Diana Azzam, PhD is a cancer researcher and Scientific Director of the Center for Advancing Personalized Cancer Treatments at Florida International University. Her lab uses functional precision medicine and AI to develop individualized treatment plans for patients who have exhausted standard care--testing each patient’s own cancer cells to find treatments that work best for them. Her work bridges research and clinical care, bringing hope to cancer patients through personalized medicine.