Elisenda Bou-Balust
Elisenda Bou-Balust is the co-founder and CEO of Cala AI, where she builds data infrastructure designed to provide trustworthy, explainable information for AI agents. She holds a PhD in Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in collaboration with MIT and previously co-founded Vilynx, a multimodal AI company specializing in video understanding and semantic search, which was acquired by Apple in 2020. Following the acquisition, she led applied AI and information retrieval initiatives at Apple before returning to entrepreneurship to found Cala. She was awarded the Princess of Girona Award in 2022 for her contributions to artificial intelligence.
“Organizations often bundle memory, knowledge retrieval, and system connectivity into one problem even though each requires different infrastructure. Many deployments fail because they apply lightweight search where structured models are needed, or vice versa.”
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