Aamir Shakir
Founder - Mixedbread
Aamir is the Founder & CEO of Mixedbread, a company on a mission to unlock the full potential of AI by ensuring it has access to the right information. Since the release of BERT, he's been at the forefront of representation learning and retrieval, tackling the critical challenge of how AI systems effectively understand and utilize complex, unstructured data. At Mixedbread, Aamir leads the development of building the world's best foundational retrieval models that replace outdated, complex data pipelines, empowering organizations to finally make their data AI-ready and drive real business outcomes.