Jo Kristian Bergum is currently the CEO of Hornet, a company building advanced retrieval engines designed for AI agents. Based in Trondheim, Norway, Bergum is recognized for his expertise in search technology, previously contributing notable work to projects like Vespa and writing on topics such as semantic search, ranking models, and large-scale vector databases.

Hamel is a machine learning engineer with over 20 years of experience. He has worked with innovative companies such as Airbnb and GitHub, which included early LLM research used by OpenAI, for code understanding. He has also led and contributed to numerous popular open-source machine-learning tools. Hamel is currently an independent consultant helping companies build AI products.