Virtual Fireside & AMA with Henry Tan (Rufus, xGoogle Brain, Microsoft Research)

​Excited to host my brilliant friend for a virtual fireside and AMA.

​Henry Tan is a principal engineer driving planet-scale search innovation at Amazon Rufus, where he pioneers the integration of Generative AI into global search systems.

​Previously at Google Brain, Henry played a key role in building the foundation of modern AI infrastructure — from co-leading the Text Embedding API that powered Google’s LLM era to being a founding engineer behind Google Cloud Video Intelligence (unveiled at #GoogleNext17 by Fei-Fei Li).

​Earlier in his career, he helped incubate Microsoft’s distributed deep learning platform (Project Adam) and Bing’s BigIndex. As a startup co-founder, Henry grew an AI venture from inception to a multi-million-dollar valuation with venture backing.

​Henry holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Technology, Sydney, and Masters at MIT and Oxford.

​Passionate about innovation, Henry invests, coaches, and builds new ventures at the intersection of AI, business, and impact.

About the host:

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​👋 Ken Morimoto is a veteran startup & tech operator (ex-Amazon, Scale, NewEdge, Bigband, Cobalt), active angel, community builder, and currently Director at Innodata. He’s active in the Seattle, NYC, and Bay Area tech communities and actively hosts AI Leaders & Builders meetups since 2020.