Mike Conover is the CEO and co-founder of Brightwave, the AI research assistant that generates insightful, trustworthy financial analysis on any subject. A pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, Mike established and led open source LLM engineering at Databricks where he created Dolly, the language model that showed the world how easy it is to build LLMs that can talk and reason.

Mike has built AI systems & products for more than fifteen years, including tours of duty at Workday as Director of Financials Machine Learning, SkipFlag (acquired by Workday), and LinkedIn. He has a Ph.D. in complexity science from Indiana University, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Hacker News, MIT Technology Review and on NPR.