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. From Idea to Reality: How Builders Get Started by AWS

   Tue, Nov 3, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM CT

   Track Entrepreneurship

   How do you go from an idea to something real? Jason Bennett, who leads AWS Worldwide Startups and Venture Capital, sits down with Cody Coleman, co-founder and CEO of Coactive AI, for a candid, personal conversation about how builders actually get started. They will trace their own paths, where their first ideas came from, how they turned them into something real, and what they wish they had known earlier. Expect honest stories, practical advice on the skills that matter now and what builders and investors look for in early talent, and an open floor to ask Jason and Cody your own questions.