Mazin Gilbert is the Executive Director of the Agentic AI Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation. An IEEE Fellow with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and a Wharton MBA, Mazin brings 25+ years of experience driving AI innovation from research to global-scale deployment. His career spans senior leadership at Google as Director of Engineering for Google Distributed Cloud AI/ML, and at AT&T as VP of Network Analytics and Automation.

Mazin has built production-grade GenAI, machine learning, and agentic AI platforms at scale. He co-founded open-source landmarks including ONAP, Akraino, and Acumos, and helped found the LF Networking, LF Edge, and LF AI. He has served on the boards of the Open Network Foundation, NSF MLWINS, and the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley.

Mazin holds 260+ U.S. patents, has authored 100+ research papers, and became an IEEE Fellow in 2012 for pioneering contributions to speech processing.

Manik Surtani is CTO and co-founder of the Agentic AI Foundation, where he is responsible for the foundation’s technical output — the reference architecture, standards and protocols, and the work of its technical working groups — and partners with the Technical Committee and project maintainers to shape which projects join the foundation. Prior to AAIF, Surtani was Head of Open Source and VP of Cloud Infrastructure at Block, and earlier a Staff Engineer at Red Hat. He is the creator of Infinispan, the distributed in-memory data grid, and represented Block in the collaboration with Google that produced gRPC. He is also a public speaker, investor, startup mentor – and outside of work, a rock climber, mountaineer, and wannabe surfer.

Angie Jones is the VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation where she guides how agentic systems are designed, implemented, and adopted across the global developer ecosystem.

An award-winning educator and international keynote speaker, Angie shares her extensive knowledge with software companies and conference audiences worldwide.

As a Master Inventor, Angie is recognized for her innovative, out-of-the-box thinking, which has led to 27 patented inventions in virtual worlds, collaboration software, social networking, smarter planet initiatives, and software development processes.