Ankur is a Vice President and Google Fellow working on Google Cloud AI. He has been having the time of his life these past few years learning about and working on TPUs & GPUs, model serving, data flywheel, model customization, and improving Gemini as well as specialized models for life sciences, movies and robotics. Outside of Google, he is also on the Board / an advisor to ODC, NRG Energy, Itihasik Studios and NYC Department of Health. Before this he was Vice President responsible for Google Distributed Cloud and Google Cloud for Telecommunications Industry. He founded the team and over 4+ years grew it into a 700+ org including Engineering, Product Management, Solutions and Partnerships teams, growing GDC from an idea into a business with contracts worth multi-$B and growing Telco into a multi-$B revenue industry. Before this, Ankur was working in the tech office of the CEO on cross-Google strategic programs. He previously worked on Google’s connectivity and communication infrastructure and product and was instrumental in bringing software defined networking and disaggregation to Google’s network. He started at Google building infrastructure to reduce search latency, and was one of the first engineers and later led Google’s content delivery network as it grew exponentially to serve YouTube videos to users globally (for which he went to Los Angeles to collect Primetime Emmy Engineering Award)! Ankur holds a masters degree with double fellowship in computer science and engineering from University of Washington Seattle and a bachelors degree in the same from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi which he joined after getting All India Rank 9 in JEE. He has a few dozen patents and conference papers filed/granted/published, led Google’s participation in several industry groups as well as White House discussions on security, and Indian PMO discussions on Internet Connectivity. Outside of work, he has been to several meditation retreats, regularly practices yoga and is deeply interested in psychology, spirituality and neurosciences.