Mark Heaps

Mark Heaps is the Chief Technology Evangelist at Groq® where he leads a diverse team focused on innovative and creative AI solutions with demo applications enabled by the Groq LPU™ Inference Engine. Mark is a longtime technology evangelist who has worked with Adobe, Google, Apple, and others on various projects ranging from digital imaging to AI systems used in some of the most popular applications today. He is passionate about democratizing AI in service of advancing human agency and loves exploring how the next generation of technology end-users will interact with conversational AI. Mark is also a die-hard foodie obsessed with finding the world's best pizza – so far a hole-in-the-wall joint in Croatia (is there any other kind?) is in the lead.