AI EXPO & DEMO HALL

As the Head of Data Science at Scouts Consulting Group, Ken spends his workdays improving the performance of athletes and teams by analyzing the data collected on them. He also dabbles in entrepreneurship and content creation, best known for his YouTube channel where he helps over 80,000 people navigate the data science landscape. More recently, Ken is focused on project-based learning through Kaggle. He hopes to share the processes that data scientists take when approaching Kaggle competitions and new datasets. He started the #66DaysOfData challenge to help people create the habit of learning and working on projects every day.

Michael Bronstein is the DeepMind Professor of AI at the University of Oxford and Head of Graph Learning Research at Twitter. He was previously a professor at Imperial College London and held visiting appointments at Stanford, MIT, and Harvard, and has also been affiliated with three Institutes for Advanced Study (at TUM as a Rudolf Diesel Fellow (2017-2019), at Harvard as a Radcliffe fellow (2017-2018), and at Princeton as a short-time scholar (2020)). Michael received his PhD from the Technion in 2007. He is the recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal, five ERC grants, two Google Faculty Research Awards, and two Amazon AWS ML Research Awards. He is a Member of the Academia Europaea, Fellow of IEEE, IAPR, BCS, and ELLIS, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and World Economic Forum Young Scientist. In addition to his academic career, Michael is a serial entrepreneur and founder of multiple startup companies, including Novafora, Invision (acquired by Intel in 2012), Videocites, and Fabula AI (acquired by Twitter in 2019).

Luis Vargas is a Partner Technical Advisor to the CTO of Microsoft. Responsible for Microsoft’s AI at Scale initiative coordinating efforts across infrastructure, systems software, models, and products. He bootstrapped the productization of Automated ML and Reinforcement Learning in the Azure AI Platform, worked on the launch of Azure Database Services, and lead the high-availability area for SQL Server. Luis has a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University.

Allan’s background covers a broad technology stack in infrastructure and cloud, working across a variety of roles in large enterprises before moving into Data Science and ML in recent years. His last role was working on time series forecasting at a fintech scale-up before joining Weights and Biases as the first member of the Customer Success team in EMEA.

Doris Zhong is a Product Manager in Azure AI Platform organization at Microsoft, and she is focusing on the area of machine learning in hybrid cloud. She loves to communicate with customer to get deep insights, and help solve the real problem. In her early career, she worked on building Microsoft internal GPU training platform, that managed tens of thousands of GPUs, and served thousands of users.

Akram Dweikat is a computer engineer and entrepreneur, specialized in machine learning & AI. He has been recognized by the UK Government as an Exceptional Talent in computer engineering, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Akram is currently the Engineering Manager for Deliveroo’s Network Economics (ML) team. Also, he is a global data science ambassador for Z by HP. He has been appointed as an AI Expert by the World Economic Forum, serving on their Global Future Council on Artificial Intelligence for Humanity. In his spare time, Akram helps build agricultural gardens for income and food security in his native Palestine. Earlier in his career, Akram helped establish the entrepreneurial community in Nablus and was one of eight youth selected to meet US President Barack Obama on his official visit to Palestine.

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Gilad has over 15 years of experience in product management and a solid R&D background. He combines analytical skills and technical innovation with Data Science market experience. Gilad’s passion is to define a product vision and turn it into reality. As Director of Product Management at Iguazio, Gilad manages both the Enterprise MLOps Platform product as well as MLRun, Iguazio’s open source MLOps orchestration framework. Prior to joining Iguazio, Gilad managed several different products at NICE-Actimize, a leading vendor of financial crime prevention solutions, including coverage of machine-learning based solutions, formation of a marketplace and addressing customer needs across different domains. Gilad holds a B.A in Computer Science, M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering and MBA from Tel-Aviv University.

I am a senior Pre-sales engineer responsible for Neo4j’s Graph Data Science product across EMEA and APAC. I am also a Machine Learning practitioner – TensorFlow Developer certified – with a deep interest in Graph Neural Networks and pursuing a PhD in this field (part-time), you can check out some of my work on Medium: https://kristof-neys-58246.medium.com/
Delivering value to clients as a trusted advisor is what excites me, and I have a 15y+ proven track record in this area.

Jake is currently working as a Senior Product Marketing Manager over ML Lifecycle products at Cloudera. Before joining Cloudera, Jake worked as a Data Scientist and then as a Data Science and Analytics Solution Architect at ExxonMobil. Additionally, he worked as a Senior Data Scientist at FarmersEdge. Before starting his professional career, Jake obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degree from Brigham Young University. When he isn’t working, Jake enjoys skiing, golfing, and spending time with his family in the mountains.

Akram Dweikat is a computer engineer and entrepreneur, specialized in machine learning & AI. He has been recognized by the UK Government as an Exceptional Talent in computer engineering, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Akram is currently the Engineering Manager for Deliveroo’s Network Economics (ML) team. Also, he is a global data science ambassador for Z by HP. He has been appointed as an AI Expert by the World Economic Forum, serving on their Global Future Council on Artificial Intelligence for Humanity. In his spare time, Akram helps build agricultural gardens for income and food security in his native Palestine. Earlier in his career, Akram helped establish the entrepreneurial community in Nablus and was one of eight youth selected to meet US President Barack Obama on his official visit to Palestine.

Rob Magno is a Sales Engineer/Solution Architect at Run:AI based in New Jersey. He has been working in the Docker and Kubernetes space for the past five years. He enjoys tackling the diverse customer challenges that come with orchestrating AI/ML workloads through Kubernetes.

Andy has 20+ years experience in customer success, consulting, training & coaching for martech, edtech and AI businesses. Commercially focussed & high achiever in client retention, expansion & satisfaction metrics. Builder & leader of high performing CS teams, mentor and advisor on strategic growth tactics. Customer experience first attitude to products, services and interactions. Creative & entrepreneurial with a passion for serving others. Driven to deliver for customers, stakeholders and execs with a consistent focus on providing value.

Ulrik Stig Hansen is the co-founder and CEO of Encord, a London-based computer vision training data platform. The company’s platform is used by businesses to make unstructured data readable by machines. Its tools include data annotation, evaluation, and management of training data.

Lee is the General Secretary for the AI Infrastructure Alliance. Based out of the UK, he is responsible for crafting and nurturing relationships with companies to build a canonical stack for AI and ML. When not shuttling his 3 children around, he can most often be found cycling, running and swimming around England’s South Coast.

Pulkit is an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT. His lab is a part of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), is affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and involved with NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions ( IAIFI ).

He completed Ph.D. at UC Berkeley; undergraduate studies from IIT Kanpur. Co-founded SafelyYou Inc. that builds fall prevention technology.

Romain is one of Appen’s Senior Manager’s, overseeing and supporting their European client-base with Appen’s breadth of Data for the AI Lifecycle services (data sourcing, annotation/labelling, and model evaluation). Romain came from the localization industry and noted firsthand the advancements and impacts of ML/AI via Machine Translation/Transcription, ASR and TTS offerings. Therefore, he saw a transition into the world of AI/ML as the next logical step. Passionate about ethically sourced, high-quality labelled data, which powers Machine Learning/AI programmes for good.

Dimitris is a Machine Learning engineer at Mindtech, implementing AI powered computer vision, trained on synthetic data created by their Chameleon platform. Dimitris has held a passion for AI since experiencing the fundamental breakthroughs of the early 2010’s in deep learning as an undergraduate. To pursue this interest, he undertook postgraduate studies in computer vision at Oregon State University. Aware of the limitations of real datasets he became very interested in the potential of replicating real modalities abundantly in a controlled and ethically considerate environment and joined Mindtech to substantiate the use of synthetic data by the next generation of AI.

Glen Ford is VP of Product at iMerit — a leading AI data solutions company — where he leads the product management and design teams. Glen holds more than two decades of product development experience across the technology sector. A Graduate of Texas A&M University—Commerce, Glen began his career as a consultant where he handled full-stack web programming and architecture for clients including Time Warner and AIM Funds. Over the years, he has held senior and director-level product management roles at several companies including Demand Media, WP Engine and Humanify. Most recently, Glen spent four years at Alegion — an ML-powered data annotation platform — where he helped the company grow from eight full-time employees to more than 100 in a challenging, emerging market.

Kyriakos is a Data Scientist and works across a broad set of industries contributing to large scale digital transformation projects for the world’s largest organizations. He specializes in data visualization, predictive modelling and model management.

With his academic background in Mathematics and Operational Research, Applied Statistics and Financial Risk, his day-to-day includes helping clients make better business decisions through Data Management, Business Intelligence, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence solutions.

Terry is the Director of AI for Advancing Analytics and Microsoft Artificial Intelligence MVP with a focus on all things AI and Data Science. Terry has a passion for applying traditional Software Engineering techniques to Data, to improve the way teams deliver Machine Learning projects. Terry is the host of the popular podcasts Data Science in Production and Totally Skewed, and organises the Global AI Bootcamp London event.

Aoife Cahill is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) expert and a director of AI research at Dataminr, the leading real-time information discovery platform. Since joining in 2021, Aoife has led a team of data scientists focused on the efficient iterative process of developing and evaluating AI technology that supports the expansion of Dataminr’s internal and external products.

Prior to Dataminr, Aoife led a team of research scientists and engineers working on high-stakes NLP applications in the educational domain at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). The NLP teams at ETS are known leaders in the field of developing and deploying robust, well-documented, scalable NLP prototypes that maintain fairness across user groups.

Aoife holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics from Dublin City University, Ireland, and has also spent time conducting NLP research in Germany, Norway and in the U.S. As an active member of the computational linguistics research community, her research has been published in top-tier journals including Computational Linguistics and the Journal of Research on Language and Computation, as well as conference proceedings at the annual conference for the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

Oryan is a ֿLead Software Engineer with a passion for Machine Learning and DevOps, with 7 years of experience developing services for production and development environments and leading teams.