Cody Coleman

Biography

Dr. Cody Coleman is the Founder and CEO of Coactive AI, an AI infrastructure company helping enterprises search, understand, and activate large-scale content libraries using multimodal AI. In addition to his work at Coactive, he serves on the CTA Board of Industry Leaders and the CTA AI Council. He is also a co-creator of DAWNBench and MLPerf, and a founding member of MLCommons. Cody earned his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he worked closely with Matei Zaharia and Fei-Fei Li, and received his MEng and BS in EECS from MIT. His personal story is featured in the books Grit and Situated by Angela Duckworth.

Sessions

1. When Good Design Becomes a Business Presented by AWS

   Tue, Nov 3, 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM CT

   Track Entrepreneurship

   There's a moment in every company's growth when the product stops being the whole strategy, and leadership has to build a business bigger than it. Jason Bennett, who leads the AWS Worldwide Startups and Venture Capital organization, moderates a conversation with two executives who've led that shift: scaling a product customers love into a company built to last. The panel digs into the product bets that create real defensibility, why the strongest leaders get specific about the problem they solve and expand across an industry instead of building one-off features for every new customer, and how to hold the line when growth tempts the organization to chase every direction instead of doubling down on what works.