[Last updated: 2026-01]
Ben Lorica serves as co-chair for several leading industry conferences: the AI Conference, the AI Agent Conference, the Applied AI Summit, while also serving as the Strategic Content Chair for AI at the Linux Foundation. You can follow him on Linkedin, Mastodon, Reddit, Bluesky, YouTube, or TikTok.
He previously served on the McKinsey Technology Council and the Defense Science Board’s Task Force for Generative AI.
Companies Ben advises:
- Databricks
- Anyscale
- LanceDB
- Luminos
- Modiqo
- Visual Layer
- Meaning
- Bauplan
- Purgo AI
- Matroid
- Graphistry
- Yakit
Companies Ben has invested in:
He was previously an advisor to Determined AI, Faculty, Lattice Data, Metaphor Data, Luminos.Law, Anodot, Alluxio, Pathmind, DeepScale, Unify, AimStack and The Center for Data Intensive Science + Open Commons Consortium (University of Chicago). Ben also chaired several prestigious technology events, including the including the Strata Data Conference, the O’Reilly AI Conference, and TensorFlow World.