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Sundar Pichai

Sundar is the CEO of Alphabet and Google and serves on Alphabet’s Board of Directors. Under his leadership, Google has been focused on developing products and services, powered by the latest advances in AI, that offer help in moments big and small.

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Demis Hassabis

Demis Hassabis is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, one of the world’s leading AI research groups. DeepMind has produced landmark research breakthroughs such as AlphaGo, the first program to beat the world champion at the game of Go, and AlphaFold, which was heralded as a solution to the 50-year grand challenge of protein folding.

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James Manyika

James is a senior vice president at Google. He focuses on technology and society, including areas ranging from AI to the future of work and the digital economy, computing infrastructure, sustainability, and other areas that have the potential for broad impact on society. Prior to Google, he spent over 25 years at McKinsey & Company, including serving on its board, and is now senior partner emeritus and chair emeritus of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI).

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Ruth Porat

As President and Chief Investment Officer, Ruth is responsible for the company’s corporate investments and investment vehicles, including GV and CapG, the Other Bets investment portfolio, Real Estate and Workplace Services, and other company infrastructure. She was previously SVP and CFO of Alphabet and Google.

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Kent Walker

Kent is the President of Global Affairs at Google and Alphabet, where he works at the intersection of technology, policy and legal issues. He joined Google in 2006, and currently oversees the company’s engagement with governments around the world, content policies, and philanthropic efforts.

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Rick Osterloh

Rick Osterloh leads Platforms & Devices, a group of products and services that bring the best of Google’s innovation in AI, software and hardware to users, partners, and developers. This includes the overall Android platform, Google Play, Chrome browser, ChromeOS, Google One, Google Photos, the Pixel portfolio, Nest, Fitbit and more. He works closely with partners across the ecosystem, and oversees multiple Google products that serve more than a billion users each.

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Urs Hölzle

Urs joined Google in 1999 as the first vice president of engineering. Now, he oversee Google’s technical infrastructure, including making that infrastructure available to developers around the world through Google Cloud.

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Vint Cerf, Ph.D.

Vinton G. Cerf, Ph.D., is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He contributes to global policy development and continued spread of the Internet. Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served in executive positions at MCI, the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and on the faculty of Stanford University.

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