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SIMON SEE
SENIOR DIRECTOR, CHIEF SOLUTION ARCHITECT AND GLOBAL HEAD NVIDIA AI TECHNOLOGY CENTRE
NVIDIA CORPORATION
SIMON SEE
SENIOR DIRECTOR, CHIEF SOLUTION ARCHITECT AND GLOBAL HEAD NVIDIA AI TECHNOLOGY CENTRE
NVIDIA CORPORATION

Professor Simon See is currently the Solution Architecture and Engineering Director, Chief Solution Architect and Global Head for NVIDIA AI Technology Center, NVIDIA Corporation.   He is also an Adjunct Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Conventry University, and Universitas Indonesia (UI).  He is also an distinguish fellow in Fudan University.  Previously Professor See is also the Chief Scientific Computing Advisor for BGI (China) and has a position in Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and King-Mong Kung University of Technology (Thailand).  Professor See is currently involved in a number of International computational,  mathematical science  projects and  national AI initiatives.   Recently Professor  Simon has been appointed as the Executive Director of the ASEAN Applied Research Centre (AARC).   His research interests are in the area of High-Performance Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computational Science,  Applied Mathematics and Simulation Methodology.    Professor See is also leading some of the AI initiatives in Asia Pacific. He is a Steering Committee member of NSCC’s flagship High Performance Computing Conference Supercomputing Asia (SCA) since March 2018. He has published over 200 papers in these areas and has won various awards in the field.

Professor See is a Fellow member of IET, Chairman of TaskForce of IEEE’s CIS Neural Networks Technical Committee, a member of SIAM, IET, AAAI, SCS, and also on the Advisory Team of AIP (AI Professional Association), International Advisory Board of Institute of Operations Research & Analytics (IORA), Advisory Team of Machine Intelligence and Data Analytics Research Centre (MIDARC), School of Computing Sciences (India) and Board of Studies, MS Tech Programs of Mahindra University, Editorial Board Member of Journal of Computational and Cognitive Engineering (JCCE), and the committee member of more than 50 conferences.

Professor See graduated from the University of Salford (UK) with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and numerical analysis in 1993.   Prior to joining NVIDIA, Professor See worked for SGI, DSO National Lab. of Singapore, IBM, International Simulation Ltd (UK), Sun Microsystems and Oracle.  He is also providing consultancy to a number of national research and supercomputing centers.

Dr Athina Kanioura
Executive Vice President,
Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer
PepsiCo
Dr Athina Kanioura
Executive Vice President,
Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer
PepsiCo

Athina Kanioura is Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at PepsiCo. PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $86 billion in net revenue in 2022, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, and SodaStream. PepsiCo’s product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

An accomplished innovator and transformation leader, Kanioura oversees PepsiCo’s end-to-end strategy to win both as a total company and in key markets, including our digitalization strategy. She also leads company-wide transformation—ensuring that our scale is leveraged as we focus on accelerating profitable growth and identifying areas of cost efficiency and optimization—in addition to overseeing Data Products, Platforms, and Talent. 

Prior to joining PepsiCo, Kanioura was the Chief Analytics Officer and Global Head of Applied Intelligence at Accenture, where she specialized in applying AI and analytics to drive business value. During her 15 years at Accenture, Kanioura grew the Applied Intelligence function from a subspecialty to a global group at the forefront of scale business transformation. She also ran Sales and Customer Analytics globally and drove the company’s offerings in customer relationship management and personalization. 

Kanioura specializes in transforming businesses with emphasis on data and technology, and brings many years of practical experience globally in industries such as telecomms, oil and gas, financial services, and consumer packaged goods, having worked with companies such as Mondelez, Unilever, P&G, Reckitt Benkiser, Phillip Morris, and Adidas.

Kanioura is a member of the Royal Statistical and Economics Society, where she contributes to shaping government policy around how data is used by bodies like the IMF. She also sits on the board of the Institute of Marketing Sciences and is a keen educator who has held lectureships at UMIST (UK), Imperial College London (UK), and the University of Sheffield (UK), where she also earned her PhD in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics.  Kanioura is based in Purchase, N.Y

DR WERNER VOGELS
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
AMAZON
DR WERNER VOGELS
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
AMAZON

DR. WERNER VOGELS, CTO, AMAZON.COM

Dr. Werner Vogels is Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company’s customer-centric technology vision.

 As one of the forces behind Amazon’s approach to cloud computing, he is passionate about helping young businesses reach global scale, and transforming enterprises into fast-moving digital organizations.

 Vogels joined Amazon in 2004 from Cornell University where he was a distributed systems researcher. He has held technology leadership positions in companies that handle the transition of academic technology into industry. Vogels holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.

On his blog, all things distributed, Werner shares insights and thought leadership content on a range of topics, such as cloud computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, as well as his annual technology predictions.

Micheline Casey
SVP and Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Siemens Energy
 
Micheline Casey
SVP and Chief Data & Analytics Officer
Siemens Energy
 
DAVID ANDRE
CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER
X, THE MOONSHOT FACTORY
   
DAVID ANDRE
CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER
X, THE MOONSHOT FACTORY
   

Dave is a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur whose work emphasizes the role of machine learning and AI, especially with respect to time-series data, search and optimization in program space, and decision making under uncertainty. He is Chief Science Officer at X and runs a team of mathematicians and machine learning experts working on early stage projects. He co-founded several companies, including Cerebellum Capital, which was an asset management company powered by an auto-ML system that discovered trading strategies. He also invested in and advised a number of startups in the data science and wearables space. He previously worked at Bodymedia, where he ran the machine learning team and several advanced development projects. Over the years, he’s helped start a number of other businesses. Personally, he’s a husband, father, snowboarder, passionate player of soccer and bridge, a puzzle nerd, a burner, and a travel-lover. He runs robot & programming clubs for his two kids to help them & friends get a deeper tech education. He got started down his path at Stanford University (1994: BS Symbolic Systems, BA Psychology) and completed his official education at UC Berkeley (2003: PhD EECS with a focus on Artificial Intelligence). He feels very lucky to have been interested in AI & ML well before it was cool.

 

Philippe Rambach
Chief AI Officer
Schneider Electric
 
Philippe Rambach
Chief AI Officer
Schneider Electric
 
Una Madigan Shortt
Group Chief Data Officer
Schneider Electric
 
Una Madigan Shortt
Group Chief Data Officer
Schneider Electric
 

Appointed in 2023, Una Shortt is currently the group Chief Data Officer and Senior Vice President of Data & Performance. Una joined Schneider Electric in 2004 and has enjoyed a dynamic career in Software & Data Engineering, Data Architecture & Governance, working with talented individuals & teams globally.

Una began her Data career during an internship in 1998, writing data quality routines in manufacturing. When she graduated with a BSc in Computer Systems in 2000, development of Enterprise Application Interfaces, Business Reporting and low-level coding in Capital Markets followed. From there she began her Schneider Electric career joining APC in 2004, with a mission to grow BI & Analytics Development, Data Engineering, Business Analysis and Project Management.

She defined the first Analytics Strategy for Schneider Electric in 2012, launched the first B.I. & Analytics Community and was a key member of the squad pioneering the original Enterprise Data Lake in the company in 2014. This followed with the introduction of a suite of BI & Analytics technologies that enabled scaled autonomy for internal stakeholders, with a reach of 60K users today.

Una’s hands-on experience, understanding the very building blocks to operationalize strategy, were the solid foundations to elevate to senior leadership roles in Schneider Electric’s Data Strategy execution, transitioning her career from pure tech to data governance in more recent years.

Una received an MBA from Heriot – Watt University (SCO). During her time there, she developed a passion for Portfolio (PMP, Scrum@Scale). Una’s driver is a passion for people, enabling together a data backed execution of strategy at Schneider Electric, through Trusted Data@Scale.

Rathi Murthy
CTO and President
Expedia Product & Technology
 
Rathi Murthy
CTO and President
Expedia Product & Technology
 

Rathi Murthy is CTO and President, Expedia Product & Technology, overseeing the company’s product, platform and AI strategy. In this role, she focuses on innovating equitable products and delivering quality experiences that meet the evolving expectations of travelers, B2B partners, and developers. Rathi was named Innovative Leader of the Year by Fast Company in 2023. 

Rathi has held senior technology leadership roles at some of the world’s leading tech companies. She most recently served as CTO for Verizon Media. Recognized as a transformative technology executive, Rathi oversaw Verizon Media’s global technology strategy, leading the company’s continued innovations in 5G while also managing the platform technology and infrastructure. 

Previously, Rathi was CTO at Gap, Inc., where she developed an end-to-end technology strategy for its broad portfolio of brands. Prior to Gap, Rathi was CIO for Enterprise Growth at American Express, where she managed end-to-end platform technology, infrastructure, and operations for its suite of prepaid products; and has held leadership positions at eBay Inc., Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, and WebMD.

Rathi has extensive technology and engineering experience and has spent most of her career building platforms and products for emerging technologies. Her expertise lies in her ability to manage engineering teams and drive change. Rathi currently sits on the board of directors for PagerDuty, and she is also an Art of Living Teacher with a passion to help spread peace in the community. 

Rathi holds a master’s in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University, California.

Roger Klose
CISO
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Roger Klose
CISO
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG

To achieve global business objectives, secure products, and protect mission-critical services, Roger defines best practices by sharing his extensive knowledge with key stakeholders and applying his advanced analytical skills.

He solves complex problems or questions for which there are no routine solutions and offers new, simple, pragmatic, forward-looking perspectives that are particularly important for cyber security issues relating to artificial intelligence.

2024 he joined HEIDELBERG as CISO to protect the business against well-known and new threats.

Before joining HEIDELBERG, he worked at Merck KGaA Germany as well as various consulting companies, where he held leading positions in the areas of cyber crisis management, OT security, cybersecurity consulting, business development, penetration testing and security architecture. 

In addition, he is active as an instructor, mentor, and coach.

For more than one and a half decade, he has been a speaker at national and international security conferences and working groups where he shares his ideas with a wide range of security experts on AI and GPT security, cloud security, general cyber-attacks, IoT security, and advanced persistent threats.

In addition to his professional activities, Roger taught the master’s program “Cloud Computing and Service Architectures” at the University of Applied Sciences Worms as an adjunct professor for 10 years.

In his spare time, he loves to create things in his workshop. He goes into maker mode when it comes to electronics, woodworking, and metalworking.

Jeannette Gorzala
Vice President
European AI Forum (EAIF)
Jeannette Gorzala
Vice President
European AI Forum (EAIF)

Jeannette Gorzala is Vice President of the European AI Forum (EAIF), representing more than 2,000 AI entrepreneurs in Europe. It is her mission is to contribute to set the agenda on how AI is approached in Europe, both in terms of policy and entrepreneurship. Currently, she is in particular actively involved as a sparring partner to European legislators in relation to the Artificial Intelligence Act. Jeannette has a background in law and international economics, is an attorney at law registered with the Vienna bar and has more than 15 years experience in the field of M&A with a focus on the technology sector. 

Kerry Sheehan
Head of AI Policy - AI Taskforce, AI Regulation
UK Government
Kerry Sheehan
Head of AI Policy - AI Taskforce, AI Regulation
UK Government

Recognised in the UK and globally for innovation leadership and the development and application of technologies, including AI, Kerry was formerly head of service development and innovation where she designed and worked on implementation of new organisational and service models (digitisation, automation, AI, upskilling and culture change).

A trained machine learning developer, and also working on the non-tech side of AI development and implementation, inckudibg deceloping actionable ethics principles, Kerry is an award-winning innovator. Kerry was a finalist for the AI-Conics AI for Implementor of the Year, a forner strategic advisor to the Alan Turing institute on the development of its latest 5 Year Strategy and is listed in the top 100 women in AI Ethics globally.

Kerry is a member of the International Data Science Foundation and the Responsible AI Institute.

Kerry is a member of the AI Advisory Group at the Confederation of British Industries, supported the British Standards Institute develop global AI Standards and provides Board-level counsel on AI to businesses, organisations, AI start-ups, including in the UK, USA and Africa.

Kerry is a passionate advocate of social mobility in AI and provides free coaching to those from under represented communities, those who need a hand up, and with upskilling.

TOM MASON 
CTO 
STABILITY AI
TOM MASON 
CTO 
STABILITY AI
Hugo Hamad
Director of Artificial Intelligence & Head of AI Factory
Decathlon Digital
Hugo Hamad
Director of Artificial Intelligence & Head of AI Factory
Decathlon Digital
DR KAI-FU LEE
FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN AND CEO
SINOVATION VENTURES
PRESIDENT
SINOVATION VENTURES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE
FOUNDING PRESIDENT
GOOGLE CHINA
AUTHOR OF 'AI 2041' AND BESTSELLING 'AI SUPERPOWERS'
DR KAI-FU LEE
FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN AND CEO
SINOVATION VENTURES
PRESIDENT
SINOVATION VENTURES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INSTITUTE
FOUNDING PRESIDENT
GOOGLE CHINA
AUTHOR OF 'AI 2041' AND BESTSELLING 'AI SUPERPOWERS'

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee has spent more than three decades at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence research, development, and investment in both the US and China. He’s the chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures, a leading venture capital firm focused on developing the next generation of Chinese high-tech companies. Previously, Dr. Lee was the president of Google China and a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Council at the World Economic Forum, he has a bachelor’s degree from Columbia and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon. Dr. Lee is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller AI Superpowers, which examines the role of the US and China in the future of artificial intelligence, as well as its impact on society. His latest book, co-authored with award-winning science-fiction writer Chen Quifan, is called AI2041: Ten Visions for Our Future. It presents a roadmap to educate and explore the opportunities and challenges presented by AI over the coming decades.

Sanchit Juneja
Director - Big Data & ML/AI
Booking.com
Sanchit Juneja
Director - Big Data & ML/AI
Booking.com

Sanchit has 16+ years of industry experience in tech and product roles across Southeast Asia, Africa, the US, and Europe with organizations such as Booking.com, Paytm, GoJek, Rocket Internet, and National Instruments. He has 11+ years of Technical Product Management experience after 5+ years as an Applications Engineer. Currently, he is Director-Data Science & Machine Learning Platform with Booking.com

Bernardo Caldas
Director of Data
Mollie
Bernardo Caldas
Director of Data
Mollie
Raul Villamarin Rodriguez
Vice President
Woxsen University
Raul Villamarin Rodriguez
Vice President
Woxsen University

Dr. Raul Villamarin Rodriguez, Vice President of Woxsen University, is a Cognitive Technologist and Adjunct Professor at Universidad del Externado, Colombia. He serves as a member of the International Advisory Board at IBS Ranepa, Russian Federation, and holds positions on the Advisory Boards of PUCPR, Johannesburg Business School, SA, Milpark Business School, South Africa, PetThinQ Inc, and SpaceBasic, Inc. Additionally, Dr. Rodriguez is a Visiting Professor at Uni. del Rosario and an Expert at UNESCO.

RAUL ESCRIBANO
Senior Vice President Innovative Products
Mastercard
RAUL ESCRIBANO
Senior Vice President Innovative Products
Mastercard

Raul Escribano is a Senior Vice President Innovative products consulting at Mastercard. He is in charge of making available to Mastercard partners globally new offerings in areas like AI, open banking and real time payments. Before taking this role Raul focused of business development of Mastercard services in South East Asia and France.

DIVYA CHANDER
NEUROSCIENTIST, FUTURIST, PHYSICIAN, CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCHER
 
DIVYA CHANDER
NEUROSCIENTIST, FUTURIST, PHYSICIAN, CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCHER
 

Divya Chander, MD, PhD is a physician, neuroscientist, futurist, and entrepreneur. She is a practicing anesthesiologist with specializations in neurosurgery, ENT, and critical care. While on the Anesthesiology Faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine, she taught the residency neuroanesthesia curriculum for 8 years. Dr. Chander is also a data scientist with expertise in neural signal processing, and has developed algorithms to automate tracking of states of consciousness. Her research interests center around mapping consciousness (using optogenetics and EEG), how consciousness will be altered by human augmentation, and how mapping consciousness in humans may enable us to recognize it in non-human, intelligent beings (both on and off-planet, e.g. through partnerships with organizations like SETI). Dr. Chander is also Chair of Neuroscience at the Singularity Group, a Silicon Valley think tank and education institution for data and technology acceleration, applications, and ethics. She serves as medical, science, and technology advisor and board member to a number of companies in the medical, space life sciences, and neurotechnology spaces. Dr. Chander is also a passionate advocate for data and biometric rights, especially neurorights and neurosovereignty. In that capacity, she has advised global organizations and governments, and serves as medical advisor to the Extended Reality Safety Initative (XRSI.org). Dr. Chander founded Lucidify, a continuous remote brain monitoring platform, for the detection of delirium and other altered state of consciousness to support brain health. While Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Geotech Center, and now, at the Stimson Center Loomis Innovation Council, she has been collaborating with industry and governments to foster good data and technology policy choices for key stakeholders around the world in the area of data trusts, data security, public health, and pandemic resilience. Finally, Dr. Chander also contributes to space life sciences and medicine. A finalist for astronaut selection and an alumnus of the International Space University, Dr. Chander has performed remote simulations of trauma rescues, anesthesia and surgery in Mars analogue settings.  

MINISTER CAMROSE
PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (MINISTER FOR AI AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY)
UK DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
MINISTER CAMROSE
PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (MINISTER FOR AI AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY)
UK DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY

AMANDEEP SINGH GILL
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL'S ENVOY ON TECHNOLOGY
UNITED NATIONS
AMANDEEP SINGH GILL
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL'S ENVOY ON TECHNOLOGY
UNITED NATIONS

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced on 10 June 2022 the appointment of Amandeep Singh Gill of India as his Envoy on Technology.  The Secretary-General wishes to extend his appreciation and gratitude to the Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs, Ms. Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, for her dedication and commitment as Acting Envoy on Technology.

Mr. Gill is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) project, based at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

A thought leader on digital technology, he brings to the position a deep knowledge of digital technologies coupled with a solid understanding of how to leverage the digital transformation responsibly and inclusively for progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Previously, he was the Executive Director and Co-Lead of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation (2018-2019).  In addition to delivering the report of the High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation, Mr. Gill helped secure high-impact international consensus recommendations on regulating Artificial Intelligence (Al) in lethal autonomous weapon systems in 2017 and 2018, the draft Al ethics recommendation of UNESCO in 2020, and a new international platform on digital health and Al.

Mr. Gill was India’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva (2016-2018).  He joined his country’s Diplomatic Service in 1992 and served in various capacities in disarmament and strategic technologies and international security affairs, with postings in Tehran and Colombo.  He was also a visiting scholar at Stanford University.

Mr. Gill holds a PhD in Nuclear Learning in Multilateral Forums from King’s College, London, a Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Electrical Communications from Panjab University, Chandigarh and an Advanced Diploma in French History and Language from Geneva University.  He is fluent in English, French, Hindi and Punjabi.

JOANN STONIER
CHIEF DATA OFFICER
MASTERCARD
JOANN STONIER
CHIEF DATA OFFICER
MASTERCARD

JoAnn C. Stonier serves as Chief Data Officer for Mastercard, leading the organization’s data innovation efforts while navigating current and future data risks. She oversees the curation, quality, governance and management of the company’s extensive data assets. JoAnn and her team design and operationalize Mastercard’s global data strategy, guiding enterprise deployment of cutting-edge data solutions, including advanced analytics and AI, and the development of enterprise data platforms. Her leadership is integral to Mastercard’s push to deepen the strategic value it can provide its merchant, banking and government customers and cardholders through its expanding data-driven products and capabilities. JoAnn previously served as the company’s Chief Information Governance & Privacy Officer, responsible for global privacy and information governance, and leading regulatory engagement for data compliance. JoAnn is a recognized and highly sought-after thought leader in emergent data and privacy issues. She has advised industry executives, governments, intergovernmental organizations and NGOs. Currently, she serves on the United Nations Expert Group on Governance and Artificial Intelligence and is Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Data Policy. JoAnn also serves as a Board Advisor for Truata, a data trust co-founded by Mastercard and IBM, on the Board of Directors and Governance Committee for Hope For The Warriors, a non-profit Veteran service organization, and on the Board of Trustees and Executive & Finance Committees for Academy of Mount St. Ursula, where she attended high school in Bronx, New York. JoAnn received her Juris Doctorate from St. John’s University and her Bachelor of Science degree from St. Francis College. She holds memberships in the Bar of the State of New York and the Bar of the State of New Jersey. She is based in Purchase, N.Y

DR RICHARD BENJAMINS
CO-FOUNDER OF THE OBSERVATORY FOR SOCIAL AND ETHICAL IMPACT OF AI, ODISEIA; HEAD OF AI FOR SOCIETY & ENVIRONMENT, CHIEF RESPONSIBLE AI OFFICER,
TELEFONICA
DR RICHARD BENJAMINS
CO-FOUNDER OF THE OBSERVATORY FOR SOCIAL AND ETHICAL IMPACT OF AI, ODISEIA; HEAD OF AI FOR SOCIETY & ENVIRONMENT, CHIEF RESPONSIBLE AI OFFICER,
TELEFONICA

Dr. Richard Benjamins is Chief Responsible AI Officer at Telefonica and founder of its “AI for Society and Environment” area, including the ethical use of AI. Before that he was the company’s Chief AI & Data Strategist. He is among the 100 most influential people in data-driven business (DataIQ 100, 2018). He is co-founder and Vice President of the Spanish observatory for ethical and social impacts of AI (OdiseIA), board member of the environmental non-profit CDP Europe. He forms part of the advisory board of the Centre for Digital Culture at the Vatican, of MIT-Sloan’s panel on Responsible AI, and is external AI expert for the AI Observatory of the European Parliament. He is also co-chair of UNESCO’s business council for their AI recommendation, and member of GSMA’s AI for Impact taskforce. He is also active in the field of AI and the Spanish language, collaborating with the Royal Spanish Academy. He was Group Chief Data Officer at AXA (Insurance), held during 10 years executive positions at Telefonica on Big Data and Analytics, and was a member of the B2G data-sharing Expert Group of the EC. He co-founded iSOCO, an early AI startup, in 1999. Furthermore, he holds a PhD in Cognitive Science, has published over 150 scientific articles, is founding editorial board member of Springer’s AI Ethics journal, and is author of the books “The myth of the algorithm” (Spanish) and “A Data-Driven Company” (English, Spanish, Turkish, Chinese), and “The algorithm and I” (Spanish). He is a frequent speaker on Artificial Intelligence events, and a strategic advisor to several start-ups and companies

JAMIE METZL
LEADING TECH EXPERT AND HEALTHCARE FUTURIST
AUTHOR OF 'HACKING DARWIN'
   
JAMIE METZL
LEADING TECH EXPERT AND HEALTHCARE FUTURIST
AUTHOR OF 'HACKING DARWIN'
   
MARC MATHIEU
SVP, AI TRANSFORMATION & VICE-CHAIR, SALESFORCE GLOBAL ADVISORY BOARD
SALESFORCE
MARC MATHIEU
SVP, AI TRANSFORMATION & VICE-CHAIR, SALESFORCE GLOBAL ADVISORY BOARD
SALESFORCE

Marc Mathieu, SVP, AI Transformation & Vice-Chair, Salesforce Global Advisory Board, is a storied Business and Marketing leader known for humanizing Fortune 500 global brands as CMO at Samsung, Unilever, Coca-Cola, and Danone. Marc is an industry visionary who partners with Salesforce’s C-suite Customers to implement successful digital first AI and emerging tech transformations.

STEVE CHIEN
JPL FELLOW, SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
NASA
   
STEVE CHIEN
JPL FELLOW, SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS
NASA
   

Dr. Steve Chien is JPL Fellow, Senior Research Scientist, and Technical Group Supervisor of the Artificial Intelligence Group and in the Mission Planning and Execution Section at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology where he leads efforts in automated planning and scheduling for space exploration.  Dr. Chien was previously Adjunct Faculty with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Southern California, and a Research Scientist at the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering and a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Computer Science of the University of California at Los Angeles. He holds a B.S. with Highest Honors in Computer Science, with minors in Mathematics and Economics, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, all from the University of Illinois.

He is a founder of the International Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space held every other year from 1997 onward and was the Chair or Co-chair  of numerous workshops.  He is former chair of the AIPS Executive Council (2000-2002), was a founding member of the ICAPS Executive Council (2002-2006), and was founding President of the ICAPS Executive Council 2002-2004. He was also a Councilor for the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (2003-2006)

Dr. Chien was a recipient of the 1995 Lew Allen Award for Excellence, JPLs highest award recognizing outstanding technical achievements by JPL personnel in the early years of their careers. In 1997, he received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for his work in research and development of planning and scheduling systems for NASA. He is the Team Lead for the ASPEN Planning System , which received Honorable Mention in the 1999 Software of the Year Competition and was a contributor to the Remote Agent System which was a co-winner in the same 1999 competition. In 2000, he received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal for service and leadership in research and deployment of planning and scheduling systems for NASA. He is the Principal Investigator for the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment which is a co-winner of the 2005 NASA Software of the Year Award. In 2007, he received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for outstanding technical accomplishments in the development of the Autonomous Sciencecraft deployed on the Earth Observing One Mission and the development of the Earth Observing Sensorweb. In 2011 He was awarded the innaugural AIAA Intelligent Systems Award, for his contributions to Spacecraft Autonomy. In 2011, he was the team co-lead for the Sensorweb Toolbox team, which was awarded Honorable mention in the 2011 NASA Software of the Year Competition. In 2015 He was awarded a JPL Magellan Award as well as the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal for his contributions to automated science scheduling for ESA’s Rosetta mission.

Dr. Chien has supported the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Defense Science Board, and Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.  In 2018, Dr. Chien was appointed to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Chien has presented invited seminars on planning, scheduling, and resource allocation as well as on spacecraft autonomy and autonomous systems. He has authored numerous publications. in these areas, and has served as a consultant to several multinational corporations in these areas. His current research interests lie in the areas of: planning and scheduling, machine learning, operations research, and decision theory.

 

LARRY HECK
PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
GEORGIA TECH
   
LARRY HECK
PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
GEORGIA TECH
   

Dr. Larry P. Heck is the co-director of the Artificial Intelligence Hub and Machine Learning Center, and Professor with a joint appointment in ECE and Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds the Rhesa S. Farmer Advanced Computing Concepts Chair and is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. From 2017-2021, he was the CEO of Viv Labs and SVP at Samsung where he led Bixby for North America. From 2014-2017, he was a Principal Scientist at Google, leading an advanced Dialogue effort in Google Research. From 2009-2014, he was the Chief Scientist of the Microsoft Speech products team and later a Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft Research. In 2009, he was a co-founder of Microsoft’s Cortana personal assistant. From 2005-2009, he was Vice President at Yahoo! responsible for Search and Advertising quality. From 1998-2005, he was with Nuance Communications and served as Vice President of R&D. He began his career as a researcher at the Stanford Research Institute (1992-1998) initially in acoustics and later in speech research with the Speech Technology and Research (STAR) Laboratory. Funded by the US government’s NSA and DARPA, his SRI Speaker Recognition team was the first to successfully create large-scale deep neural network (DNN) deep learning technology in the field of speech processing (1998 National Institute of Standards and Technology Speaker Recognition evaluation) and the first to deploy a major industrial application of deep learning. He received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1991. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, published numerous scientific papers and holds 50+ United States patents. He was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni at Georgia Tech and received the Distinguished Engineer Award from the Texas Tech University Whitacre College of Engineering.

ULF BRACKMANN
VP AND GLOBAL HEAD OF AI FUNCTIONS
SAP
ULF BRACKMANN
VP AND GLOBAL HEAD OF AI FUNCTIONS
SAP
JEAN-PAUL PAOLI
GENERATIVE AI BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION DIRECTOR 
L'ORÉAL
JEAN-PAUL PAOLI
GENERATIVE AI BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION DIRECTOR 
L'ORÉAL
ANJA KASPERSEN
DIRECTOR GLOBAL MARKETS, NEW FRONTIERS AND EMERGING SPACES
IEEE
ANJA KASPERSEN
DIRECTOR GLOBAL MARKETS, NEW FRONTIERS AND EMERGING SPACES
IEEE
VIRGINIA DIGNUM
CO-FOUNDER/BOARD MEMBER, ALLAI
PROFESSOR, ETHICAL AND SOCIAL AI
VIRGINIA DIGNUM
CO-FOUNDER/BOARD MEMBER, ALLAI
PROFESSOR, ETHICAL AND SOCIAL AI

Virginia Dignum is Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Umeå University, Sweden and associated with the TU Delft in the Netherlands. She is the director of WASP-HS, the Wallenberg Program on Humanities and Society for AI, Autonomous Systems and Software, the largest Swedish national research program on fundamental multidisciplinary research on the societal and human impact of AI. She is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and a Fellow of the European Artificial Intelligence Association (EURAI). Her current research focus is on the specification, verification and monitoring of ethical and societal principles for intelligent autonomous systems. She is committed to policy and awareness efforts towards the responsible development and use of AI, as member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, the working group on Responsible AI of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), the World Economic Forum’s Global Artificial Intelligence Council, lead for UNICEF’s guidance for AI and children, the Executive Committee of the IEEE Initiative on Ethically Aligned Design, and as founding member of ALLAI, the Dutch AI Alliance. Her book “Responsible Artificial Intelligence: developing and using AI in a responsible way” was published by Springer-Nature in 2019. She studied at the university of Lisbon and the Free University of Amsterdam and has a PHD in Artificial Intelligence from Utrecht University in 2004. In 2006 she was awarded the prestigious Veni grant by the NWO (Dutch Organization for Scientific Research). She a well-known speaker on the social and ethical impacts of Artificial Intelligence, is member of the reviewing boards for all major journals and conferences in AI and has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers.

TARUN CHOPRA
VICE PRESIDENT IBM PRODUCT MANAGEMENT, DATA AND AI
IBM
TARUN CHOPRA
VICE PRESIDENT IBM PRODUCT MANAGEMENT, DATA AND AI
IBM
PARAG PAREKH
CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER 
INGKA GROUP | IKEA 
PARAG PAREKH
CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER 
INGKA GROUP | IKEA 

Parag Parekh is the Chief Digital Officer (a role he shares with Wim Blaauw) at Ingka Group. He has the responsibility for developing digital capabilities and accelerating the digital transformation of the business. Parag joined Ingka Group as Chief Technology Officer, Group Digital, in 2021 and has more than 20 years of technology experience working for global companies.

Prior to IKEA, Parag held senior roles at Adidas with responsibilities for omnichannel transformation, ecommerce, and product engineering.  He also spent several years as Senior Program Manager and as part of the leadership program at General Electric (GE).

An engineer by trade, Parag also has a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA), Information Technology from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS). He is also a graduate of the Executive Development, Business Administration and Leadership program at Harvard Business School.

Born in India, Parag has worked in the US, UK, Asia, Spain, and Germany. He now lives in Sweden with his wife and two daughters. He enjoys running, listening to podcasts, and taking every opportunity to enjoy the outdoors with his family.

 

 

ROB FERGUSON
HEAD OF AI
MICROSOFT FOR STARTUPS
ROB FERGUSON
HEAD OF AI
MICROSOFT FOR STARTUPS
ANGELINE VAN DIJK
INSPECTOR GENERAL
DUTCH AUTHORITY FOR DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE (RDI)
ANGELINE VAN DIJK
INSPECTOR GENERAL
DUTCH AUTHORITY FOR DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE (RDI)

Angeline van Dijk is Inspector General of the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure (RDI). The RDI monitors the digital infrastructure. Ranging from digital security of equipment, cyber and telecom security to the safe use of the internet and other networks. The RDI is also working on the development of cloud and Artificial Intelligence monitoring. Currently the RDI holds the presidency of the Dutch working group Supervision on Algorithms and the European working group of Competent Authorities on AI.

PETR KADLEC
CHIEF DATA SCIENTIST
ARAMCO
PETR KADLEC
CHIEF DATA SCIENTIST
ARAMCO
MEERI HAATAJA
CEO AND CO-FOUNDER
SAIDOT
MEERI HAATAJA
CEO AND CO-FOUNDER
SAIDOT

Meeri Haataja is the CEO and Co-Founder of Saidot, a start-up with a mission for enabling responsible AI ecosystems.

Saidot is a technology company developing a platform for systematic AI governance, transparency and communication. Meeri was the chair of the ethics working group in Finland’s national AI program that submitted its final report in March 2019. In this role, she initiated a national AI ethics challenge and engaged more than 70 organizations to commit to the ethical use of AI and define ethics principles. Meeri is also the Chair of IEEE’s initiative for the creation of AI ethics certificates in the ECPAIS program (Ethics Certification Program for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems). Meeri has been an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University since 2019. During the academic year 2021-2022, her focus will be on projects related to operationalizing AI transparency, as well as the integration of AI ethics, corporate social responsibility and ESG.

Before starting her own company, Meeri led AI strategy and GDPR implementation in OP Financial Group, the largest financial services company in Finland. Meeri has a long background in analytics and AI consulting with Accenture Analytics. During her Accenture years, she has been working in driving data and analytics strategies and large AI implementation programs in media, telecommunications, high-tech and retail industries. Meeri started her career as a data scientist in telecommunications after completing her M.Sc.(Econ.) in Helsinki School of Economics. Meeri is an active advocate of responsible and human-centric AI. She’s an experienced public speaker regularly speaking in international conferences and AI opportunities and AI ethics seminars.

 

Jeannette Gorzala
Vice President
European AI Forum (EAIF)
Jeannette Gorzala
Vice President
European AI Forum (EAIF)

Jeannette Gorzala is Vice President of the European AI Forum (EAIF), representing more than 2,000 AI entrepreneurs in Europe. It is her mission is to contribute to set the agenda on how AI is approached in Europe, both in terms of policy and entrepreneurship. Currently, she is in particular actively involved as a sparring partner to European legislators in relation to the Artificial Intelligence Act. Jeannette has a background in law and international economics, is an attorney at law registered with the Vienna bar and has more than 15 years experience in the field of M&A with a focus on the technology sector. 

JULIAN JAMISON
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL , & SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
OXFORD'S GLOBAL PRIORITIES INSTITUTE
JULIAN JAMISON
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL , & SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
OXFORD'S GLOBAL PRIORITIES INSTITUTE
JANA NOVOHRADSKÁ
GENDER RAPPORTEUR
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
JANA NOVOHRADSKÁ
GENDER RAPPORTEUR
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
MARTIN RIEDMILLER
CONTROL TEAM LEAD
GOOGLE DEEPMIND
MARTIN RIEDMILLER
CONTROL TEAM LEAD
GOOGLE DEEPMIND

I’m a research scientist and former professor for machine learning and now a team lead at DeepMind. My core scientific interest are intelligent machines, that are able to autonomously learn new things from scratch. I’m in particular interested in neural networks – a sort of mathematical model of the brain – and their ability to store and generalize information. This fascination goes back to my master thesis about supervised learning algorithms (‘Rprop’, 1992).

I have always been working at the boundary of new machine learning methods and their application to novel challenges: neural forecasting systems for financial trading  and sales rate prediction (‘George’, 1994; ‘Bild-Zeitung’, 1998 – 2008), self-learning agents that control self-driving cars (at Stanford, 2006) or reading thoughts and even controlling brain activity (‘BrainLinks BrainTools’, 2011 – 2019). Brainstormers, our robotic soccer team, was a 5 times winner of the RoboCup World Championship and one of the first teams to use reinforcement learning (RL) as their core method (1998 – 2008). The data-efficient reinforcement learning algorithms Neural Fitted Q Iteration (NFQ, 2005; NFQCA, 2011) and Deep Fitted Q (DFQ, 2010) laid the ground for many methods in current Artificial Intelligence (AI) research.

I have followed my interests in various roles: as a game programmer and author for the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum (1981-1986), a computer science professor at the universities of Dortmund, Osnabrück and Freiburg (2002-2015), a Co-Founder of one of the first startups in modern AI (Cognit – Lab for learning machines, 2010-2015). In 2015, I joined DeepMind as a research scientist and team lead of the Controls Team.

 

FERNANDO LUCINI
GLOBAL DATA SCIENCE & MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEERING LEAD
ACCENTURE
FERNANDO LUCINI
GLOBAL DATA SCIENCE & MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEERING LEAD
ACCENTURE

Fernando Lucini is the Global Lead for Data Science Accenture . Based in London, Fernando is a passionate and experienced senior leader with extensive experience in Artificial Intelligence software and business solutions. Having spent 20+ years in the enterprise software industry creating technologies to automate and understand Text, Speech, and Video data. Integrating these technologies into business solutions for Fortune 100 companies including Financial Services, High Tech, Pharma, and many others. Also leading Government, Defense, Regulators, and other public sectors entities.

NIALL FIRTH
EXECUTIVE EDITOR, NEWSROOM
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
NIALL FIRTH
EXECUTIVE EDITOR, NEWSROOM
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
ULRIKA BIESERT   
GLOBAL PEOPLE AND CULTURE MANAGER 
INGKA GROUP | IKEA 
ULRIKA BIESERT   
GLOBAL PEOPLE AND CULTURE MANAGER 
INGKA GROUP | IKEA 

At the heart every successful business are people, their skills, dreams and ambitions, to make things better. At IKEA we strive to create a better everyday life for the many people – a vision that has guided us for the past 79 years and has made us what we are today: a unique, meaningful and trusted brand globally.

Ulrika Biesèrt, IKEA Retail (Ingka Group People & Culture manager), is a member of the Ingka Group Management team. Key to her role, which is the equivalent of CHRO, is ensuring that we are always guided by our purpose and values, keeping customers and co-workers at the heart of what we do so that both business and people grow together.

From an early age, she has been intrigued by human behaviour. This early interest led to her study of psychology, social sciences and economics in university.  After spending six years working as a family counsellor, she realised she would be better suited to a more commercially driven environment. IKEA was exactly the right step in combining her business interests and acumen, with a deep-seated ambition to influence and broaden the people agenda.

She has been with IKEA since 1997, with several HR assignments over many years across all its core businesses.  She is a fierce advocate for diversity and inclusion, and a champion of continuous learning. With over 20 years of leadership experience, she takes pride in her ability to develop individuals and teams to benefit both people and business.

 

MICHAEL SANDERS
VP OF CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY
ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
 
MICHAEL SANDERS
VP OF CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY
ACTIVISION BLIZZARD
 
AKASH BAIPAI 
VICE PRESIDENT - ALL STRATEGIC SURVELLIANCE
CITI
AKASH BAIPAI 
VICE PRESIDENT - ALL STRATEGIC SURVELLIANCE
CITI
DR. PATRICE LATINNE
PARTNER, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, DATA & ANALYTICS
EY
DR. PATRICE LATINNE
PARTNER, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, DATA & ANALYTICS
EY

Patrice leads the Data & Analytics practice for Financial Services in Belgium.

He has gained over 20 years of advisory experience in financial services and other industries in the field of enterprise data management, business analytics, data science, artificial intelligence and robotics.

He holds a PhD in Applied Sciences, Machine Learning at the Artificial Intelligence Institute of the Polytechnical School of ULB (IRIDIA) and a Master of Applied Sciences in Electro-Mechanics Engineering from the University of Brussels (ULB). He’s also a teacher of Artificial Intelligence for Financial Markets, Innovation and Strategy at Solvay School of Management and Economics and EMEIA AI leader for Financial Services.

CELESTE KIDD
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
CELESTE KIDD
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Celeste Kidd is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where her lab investigates learning and belief formation. The Kidd Lab is one of few in the world that combine technologically sophisticated behavioral experiments with computational models in order to broadly understand knowledge acquisition. Kidd was also named as one of TIME Magazines 2017 Persons of the Year as one of the “Silence Breakers” for her advocacy for better protections for students against sexual misconduct.

ARNAUD WIEHE
AUTHOR OF: THE BOOK ON CYBERSECURITY
MANAGING DIRECTOR IT INFOSEC
FEDEX
ARNAUD WIEHE
AUTHOR OF: THE BOOK ON CYBERSECURITY
MANAGING DIRECTOR IT INFOSEC
FEDEX

Arnaud Wiehe is an author, speaker, consultant, and thought leader in cybersecurity. He has worked in leadership and cybersecurity roles for major global companies, including as a CISO for multiple years.

He holds several prestigious cybersecurity certifications, including:

  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
  • Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
  • Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
  • Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)

 Throughout his career, Arnaud has demonstrated a strong focus on cybersecurity best practices and keeping current with emerging trends, technologies, and innovation. He is a graduate of the Singularity University and a member of the Association of Professional Futurists. He is widely respected by his peers as an expert in cybersecurity and IT governance.

 

 

Throughout his career, Arnaud has demonstrated a strong focus on cybersecurity best practices and keeping current with emerging trends, technologies, and innovation. He is a graduate of the Singularity University and a member of the Association of Professional Futurists. He is widely respected by his peers as an expert in cybersecurity and IT governance.

 

GONÇALO CRUZ
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
PLATFORME
GONÇALO CRUZ
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
PLATFORME

Industrial Engineer, business Designer, avid Entrepreneur, Gonçalo Cruz co-founded PlatformE – the fashion industry platform for MTO (made-to-order) and mass customization – that powers mass digital experiences for some of the biggest fashion houses at LVMH, Kering and independent groups.

Passionate about Tech (namely for web, commerce, retail) and Virtual (3D, AR, VR). Sits in the Advisory Board of MyDidimo and MOXY.

Has always worked in multicultural and multilingual environments, having full proficiency in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Communicates also in Italian and French. Interested primarily in learning with people and help them achieve what was previously unachievable. Always looking for deep literature, beautiful songs and breathtaking landscapes.

BRENNAN SPIEGEL
DIRECTOR OF HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
CEDARS-SINAI
BRENNAN SPIEGEL
DIRECTOR OF HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
CEDARS-SINAI
MARGI SHETH
R&D DATA POLICY DIRECTOR | AI GOVERNANCE LEAD
ASTRAZENECA
MARGI SHETH
R&D DATA POLICY DIRECTOR | AI GOVERNANCE LEAD
ASTRAZENECA

Margi is a Director of Data & AI Policy at AstraZeneca. She has led the company’s efforts to build principles and implement governance on the ethical use of AI, particularly in pharmaceutical R&D. She enables the responsible use and re-use of data & AI inside AZ and with our scientific partners, toward improving drug development efforts. Margi is actively involved in industry-wide partnerships in the field and regularly contributes to developing AI legislations on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry.

Margi spent several years prior in academia and the US National Institutes of health, working in biomedical research programmes. After successfully managing genomic research and clinical trials, Margi now enables researchers to maximise the value of their data & AI resources to accelerate biomedical research.

JOVANA KARANOVIĆ
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ROTTERDAM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
ERASMUS UNIVERSITY
JOVANA KARANOVIĆ
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ROTTERDAM SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
ERASMUS UNIVERSITY

Jovana Karanovic is an Assistant Professor at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and the Founder of Reshaping Work Foundation. She is a leading expert in the platform economy and digital innovations, having published in renowned business journals like MIT Sloan Management Review and Journal of Management Studies. Reshaping Work’s conferences stand out for their unique multistakeholder approach, bringing together companies, academics, policy makers, unions, and other relevant stakeholders to engage in meaningful discussions about the future of work in the digital era. These events, held globally, feature leading experts and present cutting-edge research insights to drive positive change. Furthermore, Jovana has been recognized by the media outlet Silicon Canals as one of Amsterdam’s most powerful female ecosystem builders. Jovana is a frequent speaker at academic and industry events. Her notable appearance includes TEDx Amsterdam, where she spoke about ‘The Side of the Platform Economy You Haven’t Seen’.

CHANUKI ILLUSHKA SERESINHE
HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE
ZOOPLA
CHANUKI ILLUSHKA SERESINHE
HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE
ZOOPLA
AIDAN O'SULLIVAN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
UCL
TURING FELLOW AND CO-FOUNDER AND CTO
CARBON RE
AIDAN O'SULLIVAN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
UCL
TURING FELLOW AND CO-FOUNDER AND CTO
CARBON RE

Aidan O’Sullivan is Associate Professor in Energy and Artificial Intelligence at UCL Energy Institute. He is also CTO and Co-Founder of Carbon Re a climate tech start-up using AI to decarbonise the manufacture of energy intensive materials such as cement and steel.

Aidan holds a Bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University College Cork, Ireland and a PhD from the department of Mathematics in Imperial College London. Prior to joining UCL he worked as a machine learning researcher in the Civil Engineering Department of MIT. He is the UK’s representative to the European Energy Research Alliance for the joint programme on digitalisation and programme chair for the AI and Climate initiative at the UNESCO International Research Centre on AI, (IRCAI) and a Turing Fellow.

Aidan was recently awarded a Turing Fellowship from the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s leading centre for AI and data science research. In media his work has been featured in Forbes, Times and the world Economic forum and he has authored articles for World Energy Magazine.

 

ABHA DOGRA
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCT OFFICER
CAE
ABHA DOGRA
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCT OFFICER
CAE
HUUB JANSSEN
CHAIR OF DUTCH AND OF EUROPEAN WORKING GROUP OF COMPETENT AUTHORITIES ON AI
DUTCH AUTHORITY ON DIGITAL INFASTRUCTURE
   
HUUB JANSSEN
CHAIR OF DUTCH AND OF EUROPEAN WORKING GROUP OF COMPETENT AUTHORITIES ON AI
DUTCH AUTHORITY ON DIGITAL INFASTRUCTURE
   
WALTER PASQUARELLI
GENERATIVE AI & DATA POLICY EXPERT
 
WALTER PASQUARELLI
GENERATIVE AI & DATA POLICY EXPERT
 

Walter Pasquarelli is an internationally recognised advisor, speaker, and filmmaker, expert on AI strategy, generative AI, data governance, and immersive technologies.

Leading advisory and editorial programmes at The Economist Group, Walter has operated at the forefront of technological innovation, shaping policy and business perception of emerging technologies. His works were widely published and received mentions by The Economist, Forbes, Der Tagesspiel, El Tiempo, the European Parliament, NATO, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, the UAE Minister of State for AI among others.

Walter specialises in strategic planning and has a history of anticipating and engaging with crucial shifts in the responsible use of AI, data governance, AI policy, ethical and regulatory frameworks, and macroeconomic tech trends. He led the development of the first globally focused “AI Index”, benchmarking countries’ readiness to uptake emerging technologies across key industries and markets.

Widely known as a consultant, speaker and research manager, Walter has managed advisory and editorial programmes totalling over $2 million USD. He has served as an advisor to Google, Meta, Microsoft, as well as presidencies and government departments in the UK, the US, Canada, the European Commission, the UAE, Colombia, India, Thailand, and Serbia.

An experienced moderator and speaker he presented, among others, IBM’s Data Dividend series, where he was lead moderator for workshops and roundtables across the world, involving C-suite executives from Fortune 100 companies and government leaders.

Walter received the first prize of the Prospect Public Policy Award by the University of Cambridge, and has been an AI Policy Fellow at the University of Bath.

JOS DIRKX
FOUNDER, BEENOVA AI,
BEST -SELLING AUTHOR,
WEF TECH PIONEER
JOS DIRKX
FOUNDER, BEENOVA AI,
BEST -SELLING AUTHOR,
WEF TECH PIONEER
VICTOR BOTEV
CTO & CO-FOUNDER
IRIS.ai
VICTOR BOTEV
CTO & CO-FOUNDER
IRIS.ai

Victor is the CTO and Co-Founder of Iris.ai. As the head of both the research and development team at Iris.ai, Victor has had to put his unique experience from a combination of AI research, software development, and technology leadership skills to the ultimate test in building and operating an international startup with a very ambitious vision and goal. Under his leadership, Iris.ai has become a world leader with the award-winning AI engine for scientific text understanding. The algorithms for text similarity, tabular data extraction, domain-specific entity representation learning and entity disambiguation and linking measure up to the best in the world. Before founding Iris.ai, Victor worked as a Research Engineer in Artificial Intelligence at Chalmers University of Technology after finishing his second Master’s Degree at the same place, in Computer Systems and Networks Engineering. He also has broad experience in corporate software development.

LAETITIA CAILLETEAU
DATA & AI EUROPE LEAD AND GLOBAL LEAD FOR CONVERSATIONAL AI
ACCENTURE
LAETITIA CAILLETEAU
DATA & AI EUROPE LEAD AND GLOBAL LEAD FOR CONVERSATIONAL AI
ACCENTURE

Laetitia Cailleteau, Managing Director for Accenture, is leading Accenture’s Data&AI business in Europe and the Conversational AI domain globally – driving innovation, sales and delivery across the globe for multiple industries and clients . She has more than 25 years’ experience in the consulting industry, authored several academic publications and hold patents in the Conversational AI domain. Laetitia founded Accenture’s Innovation Studio in London, a space where her team co-create with clients to realise the potential of artificial intelligence, augmented reality, IoT, using user-centred approaches. She was a reserve member of the Artificial Intelligence High Level Group at the European Commission. She is one of Accenture’s thought leaders on Responsible AI and is a frequent speaker at international conferences. She is also a board member of OASIS Open Foundation in Europe, a non profit organization promoting open source standards and interoperability globally.

 

EIRIK NORMAN HANSEN
FOUNDER, FUTURIST, AUTHOR & ENTREPRENEUR
EIRIK NORMAN HANSEN
FOUNDER, FUTURIST, AUTHOR & ENTREPRENEUR

Beyond the obvious! 

Eirik Norman Hansen is an unshakeable technology optimist that gives energetic and engaging lectures about how technology affects organizations, society, and people. 

In Eirik’s opinion the future is amazing, but there lies a great responsibility on us. His lectures are inspirational, provoking and humorous. He is well known for being able to convey a clear and understandable message, even on intricate and complicated topics.  «A lecture should be both entertaining and inspiring, but you should learn something at the same time» Eirik says. He has an undeniable love for robots, artificial intelligence and digital ecosystems, and in his opinion those things will be fundamental factors for most establishments in the future.

Eirik is a graduate in economics and has worked with digitization for over 20 years. His quest is to research topics concerning what technology means to us, and how we can utilize it in the best way possible. He has lead and been a part of some of Norway and the Nordic countries’ biggest tech companies, and today he runs his own company where his main focus is what the future will bring, and what we have to do to succeed in the future. He is on multiple boards in Norwegian companies, and he has also co-written the book “Når juss møter AI” (When law meets AI), that was published in the summer of 2019.Now and then, Eirik shows up on TV and radio to talk about the newest technology and its consequences. He also has his own podcast called “30 minutes into the future” where he is accompanied by guests to discuss the near future.

Eirik has become one of the most sought out lecturers in Norway during the last few years and has on multiple occasions been named “Best speaker”. He is also a talented and much used conference host and moderator, and he uses humor and engagement as his main ingredients during his performances. Eirik is an experienced lecturer, and he has given several hundred lectures during the last 5 years.

 

DR KOBI LEINS (GAICD)
VISITING SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, DEPARTMENT OF WAR STUDIES
KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
DR KOBI LEINS (GAICD)
VISITING SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, DEPARTMENT OF WAR STUDIES
KING'S COLLEGE LONDON

Dr Kobi Leins (GAICD) is a global expert in AI, international law and governance. Leins provides strategic advice on selection, implementation and operation of technologies to drive business edge; creates systems for organisational and delegation of ownership for complex systems and data; and uses international benchmarking to analyse opportunities and risks in face of rapidly changing legal and governance landscapes and data literacy and public sentiment.

Leins is an Honorary Senior Fellow of King’s College, London; Advisory Board Member of the Carnegie AI and Equality Initiative; Member of Standards Australia as a technical expert on the International Standards Organisation’s work on AI Standards; Affiliate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society; and former Non-Resident Fellow of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.

Leins is the author of New War Technologies and International Law: The Legal Limits to Weaponising Nanomaterials, Cambridge University Press (2022). Further publications by Leins and reading on this topic can be found at kobileins.com.

 

Sanchit Juneja
Director - Big Data & ML/AI
Booking.com
Sanchit Juneja
Director - Big Data & ML/AI
Booking.com

Sanchit has 16+ years of industry experience in tech and product roles across Southeast Asia, Africa, the US, and Europe with organizations such as Booking.com, Paytm, GoJek, Rocket Internet, and National Instruments. He has 11+ years of Technical Product Management experience after 5+ years as an Applications Engineer. Currently, he is Director-Data Science & Machine Learning Platform with Booking.com

NICOLAS MEIER
MANAGING DIRECTOR, DIRECT INVESTMENTS
TEMASEK
NICOLAS MEIER
MANAGING DIRECTOR, DIRECT INVESTMENTS
TEMASEK
CHOY YONG CONG
VP AND HEAD OF EUROPE
SINGAPORE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD
CHOY YONG CONG
VP AND HEAD OF EUROPE
SINGAPORE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD
DR PHILIP ABDELMALIK
UNIT HEAD, INTELLIGENCE INNOVATION AND INTEGRATION
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION HUB FOR PANDEMIC AND EPIDEMIC INTELLIGENCE
DR PHILIP ABDELMALIK
UNIT HEAD, INTELLIGENCE INNOVATION AND INTEGRATION
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION HUB FOR PANDEMIC AND EPIDEMIC INTELLIGENCE

Philip is an epidemiologist and public health informatician leading the Intelligence Innovation and Integration unit at the World Health Organization’s Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin. The unit works to build and strengthen public health intelligence capacity around the world through cross-disciplinary projects and initiatives. Prior to joining WHO in 2017, Philip worked at the Public Health Agency of Canada (2004-2017) and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health / University of Toronto (1999-2003). Philip’s work has almost always been in the context of emergency preparedness and response activities…. including trying to raise two young (mostly) adorable children with his wife from down under. Philip holds a PhD in Public Health Informatics awarded jointly by the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter in the UK, as well as a Master of Health Science (MHSc) in Epidemiology and Community Health and an Honours BSc with a specialization in Human Biology, both from the University of Toronto, Canada.

KLINTON BICKNELL
HEAD OF AI
DUOLINGO
KLINTON BICKNELL
HEAD OF AI
DUOLINGO
ANTE IVANCIC
HEAD OF AI STRATEGY
RABOBANK
ANTE IVANCIC
HEAD OF AI STRATEGY
RABOBANK

Ante Ivancic is the Head of AI Strategy at Rabobank (Wholesale & Rural Innovation), with expertise in AI in finance, AI governance, and large-scale consumer behavior inference. In his current capacity, he is responsible for defining the key strategic focus points for Rabobank’s Innovation department to optimally serve the global client portfolio with AI-driven solutions. His tenure at Konzum (Agrokor) — the largest privately-owned FMCG company in south-eastern Europe at the time — was marked by his work in targeted marketing, consumer behavior, and analytics. During his academic pursuit as a PhD researcher sponsored by Unilever, Friesland Campina, and Royal DSM, he specialized in recommendation systems for tailored consumer insights. Before spearheading Rabobank’s AI strategy, he served as an Innovation Manager within the financial markets sector, driving advanced AI initiatives on the trading floor across a wide range of asset classes. Drawing from both hands-on industry experience and rigorous academic research, he brings a balanced and insightful perspective to the AI finance domain

DIEDERIK VEELO
FOUNDER
VOCODA.AI
DIEDERIK VEELO
FOUNDER
VOCODA.AI

Diederik Veelo is the Head of Innovation at creative production studio Ambassadors and founded the Ambassadors Innovation Lab in 2011. At the Lab, he launched Cube, a creative production platform that streamlines how brands and agencies like Booking.com, VodafoneZiggo, N26, and TBWA\NEBOKO manage and create content. Diederik also developed Vocoda.ai, a voice synthesis studio that can create realistic AI-powered voices for advertising.

PAUL SLUIMERS
MANAGING DIRECTOR
REVEL.AI
PAUL SLUIMERS
MANAGING DIRECTOR
REVEL.AI

Paul Sluimers is Founder & Managing Director at Revel.ai – a creative AI studio & digital talent agency, which creates high-end visuals for the entertainment and media industry. Focusing on film, series, and commercials, he has worked on productions with HBO and AppleTV and leads the Revel.ai team known for their award-winning work such as ‘G-Star RAW – Wear your Denim Till the End’, and ‘The Dutch National Police – Cold Case’.

TIM OTTENS
SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST
POST NL
TIM OTTENS
SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST
POST NL

Tim Ottens is a senior data scientist specializing in generative AI with a passion for and expertise in NLP. He created the world’s first AI-generated official postage stamp. With a focus on practical, tailored solutions, Tim leverages state-of-the-art AI technologies to analyze data and develop intelligent systems and models.

KHAGESH BATRA
HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE
THE ADECCO GROUP
KHAGESH BATRA
HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE
THE ADECCO GROUP

Khagesh is an accomplished Data Science leader with over 8 years of experience across various industries. Currently, he serves as the Head of Data Science at The Adecco Group, a world-leading HR Services company. Khagesh has experience in using structured & unstructured data to drive insightful decisions. He has developed and led the development of various AI-powered solutions for a variety of business challenges. Khagesh also has helped and led Global Cloud & Digital transformation initiatives. 

SAKO ARTS 
CTO AND CO-FOUNDER
FRUITPUNCH AI
 
SAKO ARTS 
CTO AND CO-FOUNDER
FRUITPUNCH AI
 
Sarah Porter
CEO & Founder, Inspired Minds!
UN Advisor, LAWS
Sarah Porter
CEO & Founder, Inspired Minds!
UN Advisor, LAWS

Sarah Porter has launched 21 b2b and b2c technology products in 11 countries since 1996 and has a renowned reputation for taking ideas from concept to market with subsequent significant growth globally.

Emerging tech / AI / Medtech / Singularity / Existentialism is where her core experience lies and she has over 20 years of commercial experience.

As a board executive for i2i Events Group (parent company The Guardian Media Group / Apax – Ascential – previously Top Right Group) with the specific remit to rapidly grow the business whilst leveraging operational costs and prepare pre IPO. She sat on the i2i mergers and acquisitions committee identifying, analysing and approaching target businesses and accelerated growth by 22% within 12 months.

Achievements include the launch and acquisition of Money2020 – a leading fintech product. This included negotiation, 3 stage due diligence, its subsequent integration, and the long term geo-adaption into a global portfolio worth over $40m. The launch of World Retail Congress in 10 countries, the re-launch of the Cannes Lions festival.

Sarah is a regular keynote speaker on start-ups, business and women/equality related issues and is an ambassador for the Royal Marsden where she champions the use of AI tech in oncology advances.

PANKAJ KUMAR MISHRA
HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE
HOSPITALITY DIGITAL (METRO GROUP)
PANKAJ KUMAR MISHRA
HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE
HOSPITALITY DIGITAL (METRO GROUP)

I am currently working as Head of Data Science at Hospitality Digital (A Metro Company), Duesseldorf, Germany. I have a PhD in Physics from Hamburg University, Germany. I bring several years of experience working with Schaeffler and Fujikura Technology in different data science and AI roles. In my journey from Data Scientist to leadership, I focused mainly on creating business impact by leveraging the potential of Data Science and AI.  

SREESHA BELAKVAADI
HEAD OF ENGINEERING - DATA ANALYTICS & AI
BRITISH TELECOM
SREESHA BELAKVAADI
HEAD OF ENGINEERING - DATA ANALYTICS & AI
BRITISH TELECOM

Sreesha Belakvaadi (Sree) comes from a diverse 25+ years of IT experience – spanning across IT Strategy, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Data Center Operations, Cloud Migration and Engineering excellence.  Sree’s innovation and transformation practices – specifically in areas of DevOps, Microservices Architecture and DataOps – led to a 30% savings in TCO and increased profitability by up to 45% for key enterprises.  With a master’s in Cybersecurity from MIT and a certified AI-ML from IISc, Sree loves the space of problem-solving and disruptive innovation, making IT systems self-reliant, thin and simple.  Sree currently helms as Head of Engineering (Data & AI) with British Telecom, continually improving automation footprint, process re-engineering and business optimization.

MATTHEW BLAKEMORE
AI STRATEGIST - CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
MATTHEW BLAKEMORE
AI STRATEGIST - CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

Matthew Blakemore, an award-winning entrepreneur and established figure in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, has a diverse career spanning over a decade. He has made significant strides in product ideation, delivery, and commercialisation across multiple sectors, such as transport, music, fashion, video conferencing, and corporate rewards. Most recently, Matthew was leading innovative product development at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) as Head of Product, where he also invented a patented multi-territory video classification solution. He represented the BBFC in the British Standards Institute (BSI) and International Standards Organisation (ISO) AI committees, primarily contributing to the AI Data Lifecycle Standard 8183. Beyond his professional roles, Matthew holds influential positions in the Swedish and Norwegian-British Chambers of Commerce.

JONATHAN BERTE
FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN
ROBOVISION
JONATHAN BERTE
FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN
ROBOVISION

Jonathan is the founder and driving force behind Robovision, a leading AI solution provider with their deep learning platform, RVAI. With expertise in applied physics and image processing, he is renowned for developing tailored solutions for machine vision and robotics. Jonathan’s philosophy of building applications the “hard way” has elevated Robovision’s software, making it powerful and user-friendly across diverse markets.

Beyond Robovision, he is a respected guest lecturer at prestigious institutions including the London School of Economics, Vlerick Business School, and Ghent University. Jonathan also shares his insights on AI and related topics through a biweekly column in De Tijd, Belgium’s top financial newspaper. As a regular speaker at events like Tedx, he continues to inspire and educate audiences on the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, machine vision, and robotics.

MANEESH KUMAR VERMA
CO-FOUNDER
SPACEFLUENCERS
 
MANEESH KUMAR VERMA
CO-FOUNDER
SPACEFLUENCERS
 
ANDREAS HAUSER
CEO DIGITAL SERVICE
TÜV SÜD
   
ANDREAS HAUSER
CEO DIGITAL SERVICE
TÜV SÜD
   

Dr Andreas Hauser has Degrees in Shipbuilding and Computer Engineering, and a PhD in Applied Mathematics. As Co-founder and CEO, he is leading Digital Service in Singapore, a key unit in TÜV SÜD´s digitalisation strategy to build and scale new businesses in the area of Industry 4.0, AI quality, and Smart Inspection.

With our approach towards the quality of AI, grounded in international, current and upcoming standards and regulations, we help organisations manage the quality of AI effectively to utilise the full potential of AI while meeting ethical standards and complying with regulations.

 

CHRISTIAN MARTINEZ
FINANCE ANALYTICS MANAGER
KRAFT HEINZ
CHRISTIAN MARTINEZ
FINANCE ANALYTICS MANAGER
KRAFT HEINZ

Christian has 7+ years of experience in Financial planning and analysis (FP&A), Finance Automation, Management Accounting, Controllership and Supply Chain Finance within Australia and The Netherlands.

Conference Speaker in Topics such as: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Finance, Finance Transformation, Data Analytics in FP&A and Finance, Practical Applications of Data Science, and more!

Won Rising Star in Digital Finance EMEA 2023 and EMEA Data Democratizer in 2022, Named 30 in the Accounting and Finance industry in Australia in 2021; Finalist in the Young Leaders in Finance Awards 2018 ; love to travel (been on 70+ countries and lived in 6).

JESUS LUNA GARCIA
CYBERSECURITY GOVERNANCE – CLOUD AND AI
ROBERT BOSCH
JESUS LUNA GARCIA
CYBERSECURITY GOVERNANCE – CLOUD AND AI
ROBERT BOSCH

Dr. Jesus Luna has worked since 1995 in the field of cybersecurity, both in America and Europe. He holds a PhD degree in Computer Architecture from the ”Technical University of Catalonia” (Spain), and has co-authored more than 50 cybersecurity-related publications including scientific papers, standards, and a patent. He previously worked as research director for the Cloud Security Alliance EMEA (U.K.), and currently for Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany) on topics related to security governance for cloud and Artificial Intelligence. In 2020, he was nominated by ENISA as one of the 20 experts to develop the new European cybersecurity certification scheme for cloud services. Furthermore, Dr. Luna is the technical manager of the EU-funded MEDINA project on automated certification.

ALDO DE RUBERTIS
EXECUTIVE PARTNER - AI, ANALYTICS, AUTOMATION LEADER FOR NORTHERN, CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
IBM
ALDO DE RUBERTIS
EXECUTIVE PARTNER - AI, ANALYTICS, AUTOMATION LEADER FOR NORTHERN, CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
IBM
LEIF ELGAARD
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
BUSINESSMANN & BM TECHX
LEIF ELGAARD
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
BUSINESSMANN & BM TECHX

He has a background in bioinformatics and biochemistry and has been in the industry of digital product development that transforms established industries for more than 15 years.  Leif has developed several custom vision solutions that utilize revolutionary technologies likes Spatial aware AI, embedded AI, synthetic data, and AR technologies within the pharmaceutical industry.

PATRICIA THAINE
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
PRIVATE AI
PATRICIA THAINE
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
PRIVATE AI

Patricia Thaine is the Co-Founder & CEO of Private AI, a Series A Microsoft & BDC backed startup. She is a Computer Science PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto (on leave) and a Vector Institute alumna. Her R&D work is focused on privacy-preserving NLP, with a focus on applied cryptography and re-identification risk. Patricia is a recipient of the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, the RBC Graduate Fellowship, and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. She has 10 years of research and software development experience, including at the McGill Language Development Lab, the University of Toronto’s Computational Linguistics Lab and Department of Linguistics, and the Public Health Agency of Canada.

DAVID KOHNSTAMM 
CO-FOUNDER & CEO 
LEAFCLOUD
DAVID KOHNSTAMM 
CO-FOUNDER & CEO 
LEAFCLOUD
GIOVANNI LEONI
HEAD OF BUSINESS STRATEGY & DEVELOPMENT
CREDO AI
GIOVANNI LEONI
HEAD OF BUSINESS STRATEGY & DEVELOPMENT
CREDO AI

Giovanni Leoni is the Head of Business Strategy & Development at Credo AI, one of the global leaders within operationalizing Responsible AI across all industries. Up until recently he was Global Head of Algorithm and AI Ethics at Inter IKEA Group, responsible for developing, implementing, and leading the operationalization of responsible analytics across the Inter IKEA Group, encompassing all algorithmic processes, including administrative processes, operational processes, analytics and AI. He is an active contributor to the global AI ethics community, engaging in legislative industry consultations and various forums and bodies, among them being on the Board of Directors for Ethical Artificial Intelligence Governance Group. For more than 20 years he has been active across multiple sectors, private and public, driving development of user experience, sustainable change management, and clarity in impacting factors for better business and wrapping everything in numbers and decision-models. He has worked in diverse areas, including public sector processes, sales, procurement of services, digital platforms and physical products, supply chain, automatization and business analytics.

ISABEL PRAÇA
COORDINATOR PROFESSOR, INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING
POLYTECHNIC OF PORTO, (ISEP)
ISABEL PRAÇA
COORDINATOR PROFESSOR, INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING
POLYTECHNIC OF PORTO, (ISEP)

Coordinator Professor at the Institute of Engineering – Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP), Advisor of ISEP Presidency for R&D, Director of the Master on Informatics of ISEP, and Senior Researcher at GECAD (leading the research activities on cybersecurity) – PhD and a Post-Doc in Industrial Informatics. She coordinates several international projects (H2020, HORIZON, ITEA and Celtic) with the focus on artificial intelligence (AI) for enhanced cyber security, and on the security of AI, for critical infrastructures protection (Airports, Health, Industry, Telecommunications).  She has published over 150 papers, more than 30 in international journals and books. She participates in several EC expert groups, such as European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) working groups on the Security of AI and on the Cybersecurity Skills framework, Community for European Research and Innovation for Security (CERIS), and ISEP representative at European Cybersecurity Organization (ECSO). She participates in the technical and scientific committees of several conferences and is an active member of IEEE.

GUILLAUME HERVÉ
CEO & CO-FOUNDER
ZETANE
GUILLAUME HERVÉ
CEO & CO-FOUNDER
ZETANE
JONATHAN MAGOON
CPO & CO-FOUNDER
ZETANE
JONATHAN MAGOON
CPO & CO-FOUNDER
ZETANE
ANUPAM DATTA
CO-FOUNDER, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF SCIENTIST
TRUERA
ANUPAM DATTA
CO-FOUNDER, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF SCIENTIST
TRUERA

Anupam Datta is Co-Founder, President and Chief Scientist at TruEra, which provides software to test, debug, and monitor ML models across the full MLOps lifecycle. As a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University for over a decade, he led groundbreaking research in the areas of AI explainability, testing and monitoring, as well as privacy and data protection. Anupam obtained PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University.

FILIPPO DELLA CASA
HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE
LEITHÀ - UNIPOL GROUP
FILIPPO DELLA CASA
HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE
LEITHÀ - UNIPOL GROUP

After graduating in Physics and attending a Master Programme on Computational Finance, Filippo joined the Allianz Group in 2006, starting as a quant in the Investment Department, with a focus on scenario generation, pricing and portfolio optimization. End 2009 he started his career as a freelance and founded mid-2012 Toymodels®, a start-up dealing with mathematical models for capital markets. He joined Unipol in 2013 Q4, in charge of the setup of the Data Science skills within the Group. The initial team evolved beginning 2017 to Leithà®, a NewCo of the Unipol Group working as a Tech&Data solutions factory. Filippo is heading the Data Science team.

DAVID FERNANDEZ
DATA GOVERNANCE MANAGER
JUST EAT TAKEAWAY
DAVID FERNANDEZ
DATA GOVERNANCE MANAGER
JUST EAT TAKEAWAY

David Fernandez is the Data and Analytics Governance Manager at Just Eat Takeaway, bringing over a decade of cross-industry experience. In this role, he is primarily focused on developing a robust data governance framework from the ground up. With a background in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London, he specializes in data governance and data quality. Half Spanish, half American, David integrates a global perspective into his data-driven strategy.

 

ANA ILIEVSKA
FORMER POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND LECTURER
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND THOUGHT
BONN UNIVERSITY
ANA ILIEVSKA
FORMER POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW AND LECTURER
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND THOUGHT
BONN UNIVERSITY

Dr. Ana Ilievska is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at Stanford University as well as Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bonn on the joint Bonn-Cambridge project “Desirable Digitalisation: Rethinking AI for Just and Sustainable Futures,” funded by the Stiftung Mercator. Her research and current book project focus on literary narratives about technology, exploring how humanistic notions of thinking, education, and moral judgment can facilitate collaborative efforts between industry and academia on topics in Artificial Intelligence. A Fulbright alumna, besides her extensive publication record in the fields of Italian, Lusophone, and Comparative Literature, Dr. Ilievska actively contributes to the discourse on Artificial Intelligence and the Public Humanities.

JEAN-MARC BONNEFOUS
CO-FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR
BONSEYES
JEAN-MARC BONNEFOUS
CO-FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR
BONSEYES

Jean-Marc Bonnefous is an experienced entrepreneur, senior technology executive as well as investor. He is the co-founder and director of the Bonseyes AI association, who develops since 2019 an ecosystem towards AI at the edge and is participating as a coordinator of a partner to a number of EU projects. He founded and managed investment management firm Tellurian Capital in 2007, focused on the commodity and technology sectors, active in deep tech investing. He is also advisor to a number of technology start-ups. Before founding Tellurian in 2006, Mr. Bonnefous was an investment banker in New York and London for 12 years. 

Jean-Marc is also a visiting professor for finance and blockchain at the Master in Finance at the IE Business School in Madrid. Jean-Marc holds a degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (SciencesPo) as well as masters from the University of Paris-Pantheon Assas and the University of Paris-Dauphine.

SEVERIN TRÖSCH
DATA SCIENCE EXPERT
WÜEST PARTNER GROUP
SEVERIN TRÖSCH
DATA SCIENCE EXPERT
WÜEST PARTNER GROUP

Severin Trösch is Data Science Expert and technical leader of several AI projects in the Wüest Partner Group – involving machine learning and deep learning applications in various fields. His background is in physiological research and he has been a lecturer in statistics and research methods for many years.

JACQUELINE SCHWEIZER
GIS AND DATA SCIENTIST
WÜEST PARTNER GROUP
JACQUELINE SCHWEIZER
GIS AND DATA SCIENTIST
WÜEST PARTNER GROUP

Jacqueline Schweizer is a GIS and Data Scientist that has driven the development of models and applications in the Wüest Partner Group for the past 11years. Her background is in geography and statistics. She leads the sustainability team in the data and analytics division and is a member of the board of directors.

BERNHARD GADEMANN
PRESIDENT
INSTITUT AUF DEM ROSENBERG
BERNHARD GADEMANN
PRESIDENT
INSTITUT AUF DEM ROSENBERG
KIRILL SKALETSKIY
SENIOR DATA QUALITY ANALYST
JUST EAT TAKEAWAY
KIRILL SKALETSKIY
SENIOR DATA QUALITY ANALYST
JUST EAT TAKEAWAY

Kirill Skaletskiy is a data professional with a diverse background in the field, having worked as a Data Analyst, BI Developer, and Data Engineer. Currently serving as a Senior Data Quality Analyst at Just Eat Takeaway, Kirill brings 5+ years of expertise across retail, e-commerce, and food delivery sectors. He excels in optimizing data processes, ensuring data quality, and driving actionable insights for informed decision-making.

ANNELORE VERHAGEN
ECONOMIST
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
ANNELORE VERHAGEN
ECONOMIST
ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneloreverhagen/ 

Annelore Verhagen is an economist at the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS). She is the lead economist on various projects centred around the ethical considerations associated with using artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace. Annelore holds a PhD in Economics from Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

JONATHAN SALEM BASKIN
ETHICS EVANGELIST
SPIRITUAL TELEGRAPH
JONATHAN SALEM BASKIN
ETHICS EVANGELIST
SPIRITUAL TELEGRAPH

Jonathan has spent the past 20 years leading a global PR consultancy working closely with large multinationals leading the way on AI, autonomous cars, smart cities, and technology innovation. He has written 9 books and hundreds of essays for top business and technology publications on the intersections between technology, brands, and culture, and has over 40 years of experience as a communicator and public speaker. He created the applied ethics of CyberConsequentialism to provide a practical way to build ethics into AI designs and applications, thereby filling the gap between regulatory compliance and responsible AI efforts. He is now dedicated to evangelizing the opportunities for increasing the benefits of AI while decreasing its risks.

APRIL POWERS
IT POLICY AND COMPLIANCE ADMINISTRATOR
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
APRIL POWERS
IT POLICY AND COMPLIANCE ADMINISTRATOR
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL

April Powers graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor’s in Computer Programming in 2012, earned her master’s in Info Assurance and Security in 2015, recently completed a Graduate Certificate from Harvard University in Marketing Management Digital Strategy and founded White Mountain Data Solutions in New Hampshire. With 13+ years of experience in IT, her focus has been on mitigating security structure after a data breach, access management, data governance, AI framework, contract negotiation, developing and performing risk management for large organizations. She evaluates and oversees the adoption of automated information systems to accommodate special and complex agency needs

FERENC KUKUCSKA
BIGDATA & AI ARCHITECT
OPEN TELEKOM CLOUD
FERENC KUKUCSKA
BIGDATA & AI ARCHITECT
OPEN TELEKOM CLOUD

I’ve been working in the Bigdata and AI squad for 3 and a half years now as an Architect, and have been in the AI industry since 2017. In these past 6 years, I worked on many interesting AI projects such as recommendation systems, intelligent search engines, chatbots, smart cameras but in the last couple of years I’m focusing much more on devops projects built with technologies like Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, Hashicorp Vault.

 

 

 

HECTOR LOPEZ ROMERO
BIGDATA & AI SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER
OPEN TELEKOM CLOUD
HECTOR LOPEZ ROMERO
BIGDATA & AI SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER
OPEN TELEKOM CLOUD

Since 2017 in T-Systems International with 8 years’ experience as senior Multi-Cloud solution architect and joined in 2020 the Open Telekom Cloud product management team with the aim to keep Open Telekom Cloud as Deutsche Telekom’s leading European public cloud solution. Most of my activities are related to increase quality, develop revenue strategies, train sales, define service vision, be responsible for the Roadmap and increase the visibility of Databases, BigData and AI services. Among other things, I am responsible for the full AI strategy at Open Telekom Cloud.

ASTERIS APOSTOLIDIS
TECHNICAL INNOVATION LEAD
KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES
ASTERIS APOSTOLIDIS
TECHNICAL INNOVATION LEAD
KLM ROYAL DUTCH AIRLINES

Asteris has worked for airlines, academic institutes and aircraft manufacturers in four different countries, having dealt with the technical and strategic problematics of operational efficiency, as well as simulation methods for processes, systems and assets. He is an all-rounder when it comes to the application of AI in the aviation sector, a theme that he also investigates from a technical perspective in his academic career. He is currently appointed as a Lead for Technical Innovation at KLM Royal Dutch Airline, among various expert group appointments.

PROF. DR. PETER WERKHOVEN
PROFESSOR, UTRECHT UNIVERSITY & CHIEF SCIENTIST
TNO
PROF. DR. PETER WERKHOVEN
PROFESSOR, UTRECHT UNIVERSITY & CHIEF SCIENTIST
TNO

Prof. Dr. Peter Werkhoven holds the positions of Chief Scientist at TNO and Professor of Multimodal Interaction in Virtual Environments at Utrecht University. Peter is at the forefront of AI advancements within TNO. In a notable recent publication, he elaborates on the Socio-Technical Feedback Loop, which establishes a vital connection between democratic decision-making, legal considerations, design methodologies, and the operation of AI systems. This framework ensures the development and regulation of AI systems that are reliable and under human control.

PROF. DR. CATHOLIJN JONKER
PROFESSOR OF EXPLAINABLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, LEIDEN UNIVERSITY & PROFESSOR OF INTERACTIVE INTELLIGENCE
DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
PROF. DR. CATHOLIJN JONKER
PROFESSOR OF EXPLAINABLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, LEIDEN UNIVERSITY & PROFESSOR OF INTERACTIVE INTELLIGENCE
DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Prof. Dr. Catholijn Jonker serves as the Vice-Coordinator of the Hybrid Intelligence Centre. She holds the positions of Professor of Artificial Intelligence at both TU Delft and Leiden University. Additionally, she is the Principal Investigator of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions and the AiTech program at TU Delft. AiTech focuses on interdisciplinary research related to the awareness, concepts, design, and engineering of autonomous technology with a strong emphasis on ensuring meaningful human control. Catholijn’s research publications cover various areas, including AI, the pursuit of meaningful human control, value identification, argument mining, and negotiation support systems.

ALEXANDER SCHOLTES
DEPUTY MAYOR
THE CITY OF AMSTERDAM
ALEXANDER SCHOLTES
DEPUTY MAYOR
THE CITY OF AMSTERDAM
LAURENCE BROOKS
PROFESOR OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, UK
LAURENCE BROOKS
PROFESOR OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, UK

Laurence Brooks is the Professor of Information Systems in the top-rated Information School, University of Sheffield, UK, a research fellow for the Institute for Global Sustainable Development (IGSD) there and is the visiting Professor of Technology and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University, UK.

He is a PI and work package leader on the H2020 ‘TechEthos’ project (www.techethos.eu), focusing on the ethics of emerging technologies. He was a Co-I on the successful H2020 ‘SHERPA’ project (www.project-sherpa.eu), which focussed on the ethics of smart information systems, such as Artificial Intelligence.

He currently acts as acting ethics advisor on two EU-funded projects (SMIDGE and Sharespace) and advises the European Commission as an ethics expert.

His main research interest lies in the interaction and integration of society/organisations and information systems (IS).

He was one of the expert reviewers for the “Ethics By Design and Ethics of Use Approaches for Artificial Intelligence” (2021) document, commissioned by the European Commission (DG Research and Innovation).

 

IRINA MIRKINA
AI LEAD
UNICEF
IRINA MIRKINA
AI LEAD
UNICEF

Irina Mirkina is an AI strategist and a leading expert on responsible AI. Working for increasing global awareness of both risks and benefits of artificial intelligence, Dr Mirkina is currently the AI Lead for the Office of Innovation at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Having built a successful career in academia and the private sector, she joined UNICEF to advance the ethical development and use of AI systems that respect children’s rights and save children’s lives. She is currently serving as a co-chair of Community of Practice on AI for the Digital Public Goods Alliance, a co-organizer of the UN Generative AI Practice Group, a member of the UN Intra-Agency Working Group on AI, the NIST Generative AI Public Working Group, and the USAID Equitable AI Community of Practice, and an expert for the European Commission Research Executive Agency. She is included in the open directory of Women in AI Ethics™.

 

 

CRAIG CIVIL
DIRECTOR OF DATA SCIENCE AND AI
BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
CRAIG CIVIL
DIRECTOR OF DATA SCIENCE AND AI
BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
GERALD KIERCE
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
TRUSTIBLE
GERALD KIERCE
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
TRUSTIBLE
DR MARTIN SCHAFFER
GLOBAL HEAD OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
SGS
DR MARTIN SCHAFFER
GLOBAL HEAD OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
SGS

Dr. Martin Schaffer is Global Head of Emerging Technologies at SGS, the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. Together with his team, he explores emerging technology trends, such as AI, Cybersecurity, Distributed Ledger, Extended Reality, Quantum Computing, Web3, and Metaverse, and assesses their impact on SGS businesses by identifying both threats and opportunities. Martin also pioneered the Cybersecurity Services for SGS, establishing several cyberlabs across the SGS group. Martin’s 20+ years of experience spans emerging technology research & innovation, international team building, company development, and P&L management, but also hands on experience as cryptographer, firmware engineer and security architect in the semiconductor industry.

He is a regular speaker at international conferences, actively participates in industry associations, such as TIC Council, ECSO or Eurosmart. He was member of ENISA’s Advisory Group and since June 2020 is member of the European Commission’s Stakeholder Cybersecurity Certification Group. Martin holds a PhD-degree in IT-security and cryptography from University of Klagenfurt in Austria.

 

WALID LASSOUED
SENIOR DIRECTOR, DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS
TALABAT (DELIVERY HERO)
WALID LASSOUED
SENIOR DIRECTOR, DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS
TALABAT (DELIVERY HERO)

Walid Lassoued is an accomplished data science leader, with extensive experience in the tech industry. He has worked in Silicon Valley, Europe, and the Middle East, holding senior positions at several renowned companies, including talabat and Meta/Facebook. He is passionate about developing and scaling data organizations through innovation, recruiting high-end talent, and implementing data and AI strategies.

Currently, as the Senior Director of Data Science and Analytics at talabat, Walid heads a team of 60+ data scientists and analysts, overseeing all product and business-facing areas of the company.

DR TOMISLAV NAD
LEAD INNOVATION TECHNOLOGIST
SGS
DR TOMISLAV NAD
LEAD INNOVATION TECHNOLOGIST
SGS

Dr. Tomislav Nad is Lead Innovation Technologist at SGS. He is exploring the potential and impact of emerging technologies with a focus on the security and trustworthiness of these technologies. His current main topic is the trustworthiness of AI systems, how to establish trust and how to assess such systems. He is working in the field of cybersecurity for over 15 years as researcher, engineer, consultant, evaluator, speaker and lecturer; and helped to build various successful products and services.  Tomislav holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics and a PhD degree in Cryptography from Graz University of Technology.

VICTOR PEREBOOM
CO-FOUNDER & CTO
UBIOPS
VICTOR PEREBOOM
CO-FOUNDER & CTO
UBIOPS

Victor is co-founder and CTO of UbiOps. He studied Aerospace Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. 

While in high school, he started his first company, which he sold at the age of 20. 

During his studies, he developed a large interest in Data Science and Machine Learning. 

In 2014, Victor spent half a year in the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem doing research on the use of data analytics in the healthcare sector.

 

ANOUK DUTRÉE
PRODUCT OWNER
UBIOPS
ANOUK DUTRÉE
PRODUCT OWNER
UBIOPS

Anouk is a Product Owner at UbiOps passionate about solving complex problems using her multidisciplinary background of Nanobiology, Computer Science, and Game Development. 

She is focused on a strong product vision and happy users. 

Anouk is also an active writer in the Towards Data Science community, and co-host of the Dataloog podcast.

BEN FALK
GLOBAL CTO OFFICE
EY
BEN FALK
GLOBAL CTO OFFICE
EY

Ben Falk is a Director in EY’s Global Chief Technology Office, helping to develop the firms’ strategy on AI. Ben has a background in Finance and Technology, having spent about a decade working as an economist, analyst, and strategist for banks and large hedge funds including Millennium, before moving over to the technology sector leading a team of knowledge engineers at an AI FinTech startup. Ben has also consulted for large family investment offices, advised major law firms on class action data protection litigation, and launched one of the world’s first consumer data protection services to coincide with the implementation of the GDPR. He graduated 1st in his class at the London School of Economics, with a Master’s in Economics and History, after completing 2 undergraduate degrees simultaneously; a BA with a double major in Economics and Political Science and a BSc with a major in Business and a minor in Law.

ALESSANDRO CONFLITTI
HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE
RADICALBIT
ALESSANDRO CONFLITTI
HEAD OF DATA SCIENCE
RADICALBIT

Speaker: Alessandro Conflitti

Head of Data Science @ Radicalbit

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandroconflitti

 

Head of Data Science at Radicalbit, Alessandro Conflitti has a Ph.D. in Mathematics and he was an Academic Researcher at Universities in Austria and Portugal for about 10 years: during this time he published 26 scientific publications in international journals, was a referee for international journals and conferences, and was a member of the organizing committee for two scientific conferences. Since 2015 he has been working full time in Data Science for private IT companies.

MEINHERT KAMPHUIS
TECHNICAL EXPERT, AI
DUTCH AUTHORITY ON DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE
MEINHERT KAMPHUIS
TECHNICAL EXPERT, AI
DUTCH AUTHORITY ON DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE
DR TERRY L. JANSSEN
QMI FOUNDER, QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY, AI / MACHINE LEARNING & ENGINEERING
THE QUANTUM SCIENCE ORGANIZATION
DR TERRY L. JANSSEN
QMI FOUNDER, QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY, AI / MACHINE LEARNING & ENGINEERING
THE QUANTUM SCIENCE ORGANIZATION

Dr. Terry L. Janssen is an information technologist focused on information systems, AI machine learning, and quantum information science (quantum mechanics on quantum hardware). He has consulted in and/or advanced information technology for most of the DOD/IC agencies. He began his career as Principal System Engineer at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), which evolved into leading the AI and machine learning team at CSC. Five years later he was recruited as Sr. Scientist for the Decision Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory, where he worked on advanced information technology for six years (ANL is the nation’s leader in quantum physics, computing, communications, and quantum material science; it is a DOE laboratory that is managed by the University of Chicago). U. Chicago patented his work, with him as sole inventor. The U.S. Patent was used by U. Chicago to initiate Expert Decision System, Inc., a company for R&D for DOD/IC, for over five years. In 2003 he joined Lockheed Martin as Principal Systems Engineer and Chief Scientist for Knowledge Management, as related to AI machine learning. Dr. Janssen conducted R&D using machine reasoning (formal logic) on ontology for data integration and inference. He and co-authors (Dr. Barry Smith et al) were perhaps the first to suggest that ontology is the key to knowledge integration for the Intelligence Community in papers/chapters they published around 2010 [e.g., ref].  Dr. Janssen demonstrated the concepts in a prototype software system, which has been adopted by others. He and Dr. Barry Smith initiated the Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense and Security during the same time-period, an international symposium hosted by George Mason University over the span of 10 years. A classified subgroup hosts meetings at TS/SCI. Dr. Janssen later developed a software prototype, DiscoveryAid™, in his company Janssen LLC, to facilitate the full lifecycle of AI machine learning and applications for augmenting humans. Dr. Janssen is a fluent coder (computer programming) and has done extensive software engineering and rapid prototyping of innovative systems over his long career; he has developed a large library of reusable (plug-and-play) software modules (Janssen LLC). In 2009 Lockheed Martin asked him to be the lead for their Cyber Offense contract at the U.S. European Command. After two years, in 2011, he was recruited by SAIC to be Chief Scientist for Cybersecurity (primary IC customer in Columbia, MD). In 2014 he accepted a lead role in cybersecurity design, architecture and authorization at NJVC, which included work on the FEMA security operations center (SOC). FEMA licensed and used the product, SecurityDART™, that Dr. Janssen had previously developed at his company Janssen.LLC. Dr. Janssen was a consultant to DISA, NGA, NRO and several other DOD/IC agencies. For the last three years Dr. Janssen has been Data Scientist (AI machine learning) for Invictus International Consulting. He has been providing AI machine learning, engineering and quantum technology support within a DOD/IC agency for the past three years. He has a Certificate in Quantum Computing from the University of Maryland, a. Ph.D., Information Technology, from the Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason University, and M.S., Computer Science, from Boston University.

YOUSRA AOUDI
QUANTITATIVE ANALYST, VP
BNY MELLON
YOUSRA AOUDI
QUANTITATIVE ANALYST, VP
BNY MELLON

With a strong background in quantitative finance, trading, and data-driven strategy development, Yousra Aoudi currently serves as a Quantitative Analyst, VP at BNY, where she contributes to the iFlow product. A self-learner with a solid academic foundation in engineering, research and finance, coupled with professional certifications in machine learning, deep learning and NLP, she has successfully leveraged her skills in AI to excel in finance and different ventures. In addition to her corporate role, Yousra Aoudi actively contributes to the AI community, sharing her expertise through a platform where she publishes projects and articles related to AI and quantitative research.

AAYUSH MUDGAL
SENIOR MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER
PINTEREST
AAYUSH MUDGAL
SENIOR MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER
PINTEREST
BISWA SENGUPTA
MANAGING DIRECTOR, AI PRODUCTS AND CLOUD PLATFORM
J.P. MORGAN
BISWA SENGUPTA
MANAGING DIRECTOR, AI PRODUCTS AND CLOUD PLATFORM
J.P. MORGAN

Dr. Biswa Sengupta holds the position of Managing Director for the AI Products and Cloud Platform in the Corporate & Investment Bank at J.P. Morgan, where he oversees the development of AI products and the management of the associated cloud infrastructure. His education includes a PhD in dynamical systems/optimization/energy efficiency from the University of Cambridge, as well as further training in Bayesian machine learning and differential geometry from University College London. Biswa is a distinguished senior technical executive with extensive experience leading various ventures across the artificial intelligence landscape, from start-ups to global corporations such as AXA XL, Huawei, Zebra, and J.P. Morgan. He has demonstrated a hands-on approach to team leadership, and his expertise in incubating commercially viable products utilizing advanced technologies such as computer vision, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and robotics is highly regarded.

LAZAROS POLYMENAKOS
PARTNER, EMEIA AI LEADER
EY
LAZAROS POLYMENAKOS
PARTNER, EMEIA AI LEADER
EY

Dr. Lazaros Polymenakos (Ph.D. MIT ’95) is a Partner for Ernst & Young Technical Consulting and the EMEIA Consulting Artificial Intelligence Leader. He works on AI projects in NLP, Vision, and Dialog for EY clients at EMEIA and globally, and for the development of innovative EY new solutions/assets. The focus of his research is on deep learning, advanced machine learning, speech, NLP, dialog, and knowledge representation. Throughout his career, he has defined, driven, and attracted funding for research and development initiatives, managed large and geographically dispersed teams, and successfully delivered research innovation and solution implementation projects. Before joining EY, he held Senior Research manager positions at Amazon Alexa AI for Alexa Dialog, and at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center for Implicit Learning Dialog and for Cognitive Dialog Systems, developing in both positions state-of-the-art solutions using Deep Learning and Generative AI architectures.

ANTON MCGONNELL
HEAD OF SW PRODUCTS
SAMBANOVA
ANTON MCGONNELL
HEAD OF SW PRODUCTS
SAMBANOVA
RACHAEL MULDOON
BARRISTER
MAITLAND
RACHAEL MULDOON
BARRISTER
MAITLAND
LÚÍ SMYTH
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT, GENERATIVE & AI TOOLING
SHUTTERSTOCK
LÚÍ SMYTH
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT, GENERATIVE & AI TOOLING
SHUTTERSTOCK
DR. AMIR KRIFA
AI LEADER FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES
EY
DR. AMIR KRIFA
AI LEADER FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES
EY

Amir is a Computer Scientist with 16 years applied ML experience ranging from early PhD work to startups, big corporates and management consulting, working in Media, Telecom, Retail and Manufacturing. Now he is the AI Lead within FSO in Belgium, helping companies across EMEIA to translate AI enablers into sustainable competitive advantages. His current industry focus is in Financial Services (Banking, Insurance and Capital Markets).

GUNAY KAZIMZADE
SENIOR CONSULTANT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
MERCEDES-BENZ CONSULTING
GUNAY KAZIMZADE
SENIOR CONSULTANT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
MERCEDES-BENZ CONSULTING

Gunay Kazimzade is a PhD. Researcher on Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Berlin and Senior Consultant at Mercedes-Benz Consulting. She is a TEDx speaker, Google scholar, AI Newcomer in Germany, and a Presidential award winner in Azerbaijan, highlighted as a speaker in more than 100 events in 20+ countries. She has founded two social enterprises focusing on the education of underrepresented communities in AI and Data Science Fields. In the past two years, she also served as an Executive Consultant to advise governmental agencies on AI adoption in public service delivery.

EVA VAN DER DIJS
TEAM MANAGER
FORZE HYDROGEN RACING
EVA VAN DER DIJS
TEAM MANAGER
FORZE HYDROGEN RACING
THOMAS LIDY
SENIOR DIRECTOR, AI & DATA SCIENCE
UTOPIA MUSIC
THOMAS LIDY
SENIOR DIRECTOR, AI & DATA SCIENCE
UTOPIA MUSIC

Thomas Lidy is the Senior Director of AI & Data Science at Utopia Music, a music-fintech company closing the data gap in music industry by innovative AI solutions. Utopia provides music monitoring, tagging, search, recommendation, metric tracking and predictive analytics solutions, which are all AI based and accelerating music revenues and payouts.

Thomas has been active in the field of music tech & AI since 2004, initially as a researcher and PhD candidate at Vienna University of Technology. He worked with renowned institutions such as IRCAM and UPF MTG, before founding music intelligence startup Spectralmind in 2008, which created the first AI-based music discovery solution for the iPad as well as B2B solutions for music search & licensing.

In 2015, Thomas joined Musimap as the Head of AI. Together with a team of musicologists and data scientists, he created an emotion-aware music AI that understands emotional patterns both in the music and people’s listening behavior.  Since Musimap was acquired by Utopia Music, Thomas leads the AI & Data Science team at Utopia Music, responsible for all AI-based products.

Thomas is also a member of the DDEX consortium on music metadata and the creator and co-host of the successful Vienna Deep Learning Meetup. He co-organized AI Summit Vienna 2017 and has published more than 40 publications in the field of music & AI.

 

JERRY EDLING
EDITOR AND WRITER
KNX
JERRY EDLING
EDITOR AND WRITER
KNX

Jerry Edling is an award-winning editor and writer for KNX, the only all-news radio station in Los Angeles. He earned a Master of Public Diplomacy degree from the University of Southern California, and he has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and five Writers Guild of America Awards for his work in television and radio respectively. He is a former editor in chief of Public Diplomacy Magazine and has written for numerous publications, including Policy Options and the book Aftershocks and Opportunities: Scenarios for a Post-Pandemic Future. He has spoken to the World Future Society, the National Space Society and the Berlin International Freedom of Expression Forum.

PRAKHAR MEHROTRA
CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LEAD
ACCENTURE SONG NL
PRAKHAR MEHROTRA
CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY LEAD
ACCENTURE SONG NL

Prakhar is a creative technologist and all-round problem solver. He loves getting his hands dirty with new tech, first breaking it apart to see how it works, putting it back together in unexpected ways and then thinking about the impact it can have in our daily lives.

CECILIA LASCIALFARI
ITALIAN REPRESENTATIVE FOR ARTIVIVE, EXPERT GENERALIST, CREATIVE STRATEGIST TECHNOLOGIST, FOUNDER
AREA6DOF
CECILIA LASCIALFARI
ITALIAN REPRESENTATIVE FOR ARTIVIVE, EXPERT GENERALIST, CREATIVE STRATEGIST TECHNOLOGIST, FOUNDER
AREA6DOF
JANET SAWARI
CEO
TAIR LABS
FOUNDER
THE AI REVIEW
JANET SAWARI
CEO
TAIR LABS
FOUNDER
THE AI REVIEW

Janet is the CEO and founder of TAIR Labs; an AI Research and Innovation Lab based in South Africa, and the founder of The AI Review, a media and technology platform. She is the MD of Simodisa, sits on the Women in ICT board, is a Harambean, an Inspiring 50 2022 honoree, and an AI contributor for The Yuan AI tech platform. Janet is the visionary behind the X-VSN Illuminate platform, transforming business CCTV footage into intelligent insights. This is TAIR Labs’ latest product called X-VSN, pronounced ‘X-Vision’. Her vision is to enable businesses across industries to succeed quickly and efficiently with the power of computer vision. Her venture plans to explore innovations that can drive efficiency in the industrial and manufacturing sector. Miss Sawari advocates for STEM education access, pan- African innovation, and leveraging AI to develop a new wave of industrialization on the African Continent. Her ambitions for social impact and gender inclusivity and diversity for youth in tech are evident through her efforts to produce a technical documentary about AI in Africa. With an MBA in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship from Shanghai Jiaotong, a master’s from the University of Liverpool, and a bachelor’s from Zhejiang University of Science and Technology Janet’s appetite for driving innovation is unwavering and her vision for the continent clear.

THIJS SUIJTEN
CO-FOUNDER
HACK THE PLANET
     
THIJS SUIJTEN
CO-FOUNDER
HACK THE PLANET
     

Thijs is a software engineer with over 20 years of experience. At Hack The Planet he is using technology to make a positive change in the world. Taking on ecological and humanitarian challenges like wildlife poaching.

LISA BROUWER
INVESTOR
CURIOSITY VC
LISA BROUWER
INVESTOR
CURIOSITY VC

Lisa is an ex-BCG venture builder with 5+ years of experience in growth and go to market strategy. She has launched and scaled B2B and B2C businesses worldwide and currently works at Curiosity, an early stage venture capital fund investing in ambitious founders who are building the next generation of responsible AI software.

JASPER MASEMANN
PARTNER
CHERRY VENTURES
JASPER MASEMANN
PARTNER
CHERRY VENTURES

Jasper is Cherry’s partner leading B2B software and AI coverage. Prior to Cherry, he established HV Capital’s Berlin office and B2B software team, where he backed over a dozen companies, including Verbit. At Cherry, in addition to investment work, he dives into product-market-fit, finding the right go-to-market model, fundraising, and expanding into new markets.  Before joining HV, he bootstrapped greatcontent.com, an online platform selling creative texts in 18 languages to clients around the globe. After years as a solo founder and CEO, Jasper sold the platform to a publishing group. Recently, Jasper has launched a podcast with Lutz Finger of Cornell University and Marpai, Inc breaking down both the developments in AI and how AI is an operational asset for founders. He also has collaborated with BCG X on their “Tech Is Cooling Off. B2B SaaS Is Not” report. 

 

MACIEJ MAZUR
PRINCIPAL ML ENGINEER
CANONICAL
MACIEJ MAZUR
PRINCIPAL ML ENGINEER
CANONICAL
ANDREEA MUNTEANU
PRODUCT MANAGER
CANONICAL
ANDREEA MUNTEANU
PRODUCT MANAGER
CANONICAL
ANKA GAJENTAAN
HEAD OF TRANSFORMATION
RANDSTAD
ANKA GAJENTAAN
HEAD OF TRANSFORMATION
RANDSTAD
PHELIM BRADLEY
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
PROLIFIC
PHELIM BRADLEY
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
PROLIFIC
CHRIS PREUSS
PRINCIPAL DATA SCIENTIST
CALVIN RISK
CHRIS PREUSS
PRINCIPAL DATA SCIENTIST
CALVIN RISK

Chris Preuss is a data scientist specializing in finance and risk management. Currently, he serves as the Principal Data Scientist at Calvin Risk, where he employs his expertise in AI Model Risk Management. Chris holds a MSc in Finance from IE Business School.

STEPH WRIGHT
HEAD
SCOTTISH AI ALLIANCE
STEPH WRIGHT
HEAD
SCOTTISH AI ALLIANCE

Steph Wright has a diverse background ranging from astrophysics to genomics in academia and film & TV to dance in the arts and the third sector. A project and programme management professional with extensive experience in the data and AI space, she loves to develop and build collaborations across organisations to help people with their data/AI journey. Steph led on Data Lab’s efforts in support of the Scottish Government in developing Scotland’s AI Strategy and she’s now leading on the delivery of the strategy’s vision for Scotland to be a leader in the development and use of trustworthy, ethical and inclusive AI. She is also Co-Founder of Diverse AI, a not-for-profit working to support and grow diversity in AI.

HANS PETTER DALEN
SALES EXECUTIVE AI GOVERNANCE FOR EMEA
IBM
HANS PETTER DALEN
SALES EXECUTIVE AI GOVERNANCE FOR EMEA
IBM

HP is leading IBM’s AI Governance business in EMEA, providing clarity on how to implement and use AI responsibly. He has previously been leading IBM’s collaboration business as well as IBM’s business intelligence business in EMEA. With 23 years in IBM, HP has both broad and specialist knowledge in the transformational journey to become data driven and AI trustworthy.

ANN-ELISE DELBECQ
DATA AND AI LEADER NORTHERN, CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
IBM
ANN-ELISE DELBECQ
DATA AND AI LEADER NORTHERN, CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
IBM

Ann-Elise is currently leading Data and AI Business Unit for Large Clients in the Northern, Central and Eastern Europe market. Previously she led the Data science and AI Elite team at IBM EMEA. She is focused on Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for IBM enabling clients to successfully apply Data Science and deploy governed, scalable, and resilient AI into business processes. Ann-Elise has wide industry experience, in sectors ranging from Telco to Finance. Ann-Elise holds a Master in Business Engineering and an advanced Master in Financial Economics (MS) from KU Leuven, Belgium, where she delivered a final dissertation on machine learning in the space of Fraud Detection

DASHA DÍAZ
FOUNDER & CEO
ITRAINSEC
DASHA DÍAZ
FOUNDER & CEO
ITRAINSEC

For over a decade, Dasha Diaz, founder and CEO of itrainsec has been organising top-class IT security conferences and training for leading cybersecurity professionals around the world. Her unparalleled experience has enabled her to build a network with the best and brightest experts and trainers the industry has to offer. Before founding itrainsec, she spent nearly 12 years at one of the world’s top cybersecurity companies, Kaspersky, where she began her career as a PR manager, then joined the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) as Senior Research Communications manager.

MARCO MORALES
TEAM MEMBER
SPACEFLUENCERS
 
MARCO MORALES
TEAM MEMBER
SPACEFLUENCERS
 
BART SCHOENMAKERS
SENIOR MANAGER DATA & AI VALUE STRATEGY
ACCENTURE
BART SCHOENMAKERS
SENIOR MANAGER DATA & AI VALUE STRATEGY
ACCENTURE

Bart is Senior Manager in the Data & AI practice of Accenture Strategy & Consulting. He has built his career in data, analytics and artificial intelligence in High-tech, MedTech, and products industries and is currently focusing on innovating with his clients using generative AI. 

MANE LAMBEENS
SENIOR TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER
SENNDER
MANE LAMBEENS
SENIOR TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER
SENNDER
BERNADETTE WESDORP
DIRECTOR
EY
BERNADETTE WESDORP
DIRECTOR
EY
VÉRONIQUE VAN VLASSELAER
ANALYTICS AND AI LEAD FOR SOUTH WEST AND EAST EUROPE
SAS
VÉRONIQUE VAN VLASSELAER
ANALYTICS AND AI LEAD FOR SOUTH WEST AND EAST EUROPE
SAS
MARY-JO DIEPEVEEN
CONTENT DEVELOPER DATA SCIENCE & AI
MICROSOFT
MARY-JO DIEPEVEEN
CONTENT DEVELOPER DATA SCIENCE & AI
MICROSOFT
JOLINE JAMMAERS
SENIOR SYSTEM ENGINEER
SAS
JOLINE JAMMAERS
SENIOR SYSTEM ENGINEER
SAS
GABRIELLE DAVELAAR
SENIOR AI SPECIALIST GLOBAL BLACK BELT
MICROSOFT
GABRIELLE DAVELAAR
SENIOR AI SPECIALIST GLOBAL BLACK BELT
MICROSOFT
KAAT TASTENHOYE
SYSTEM ENGINEER
SAS
KAAT TASTENHOYE
SYSTEM ENGINEER
SAS
HENDRIK REMIGEREAU
FOUNDING DIRECTOR
MERANTIX AI CAMPUS
HENDRIK REMIGEREAU
FOUNDING DIRECTOR
MERANTIX AI CAMPUS
PETER KLEUVER
DATA VISUALIZATION SPECIALIST
SAS
PETER KLEUVER
DATA VISUALIZATION SPECIALIST
SAS
PAULA KANT
HEAD, INVESTMENT PROMOTION
INVEST HONG KONG
PAULA KANT
HEAD, INVESTMENT PROMOTION
INVEST HONG KONG
GREGORY RALL
DEPUTY HEAD OF BUSINESS AND TALENT ATTRACTION / INVESTMENT PROMOTION (INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY)
INVEST HONG KONG
GREGORY RALL
DEPUTY HEAD OF BUSINESS AND TALENT ATTRACTION / INVESTMENT PROMOTION (INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY)
INVEST HONG KONG
CHANTAL GUAY
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
STANDARDS COUNCIL OF CANADA
CHANTAL GUAY
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
STANDARDS COUNCIL OF CANADA

Chantal Guay is the CEO of the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), where she oversees the promotion of standards and accreditation in Canada and abroad. Chantal is the first woman to both lead SCC and represent Canada on the International Organization for Standardization Council. She also holds many leadership positions in the international standardization community.

 

Prior to SCC, Chantal was CEO of Engineers Canada, where she led the engineering profession’s adoption of the 30 by 30 strategy, which aims to raise the percentage of newly licenced engineers who are women to 30 per cent by the year 2030. Chantal was honoured with a fellowship from the Canadian Academy of Engineering in recognition for this work. She’s also very active in the international community, holding many positions such as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Pacific Area Standards Congress. She brings a strong understanding of the importance and value of standardization, quality, and systems management in the private and public sectors.

 

NEIL MUSK
GROUP DIRECTOR FOR KNOWLEDGE SOLUTIONS
BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
NEIL MUSK
GROUP DIRECTOR FOR KNOWLEDGE SOLUTIONS
BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
SILVIO DULINSKY
DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION
SILVIO DULINSKY
DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDIZATION
GREGORY VERLINDEN
ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT ANALYTICS & AI
COGNIZANT
GREGORY VERLINDEN
ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT ANALYTICS & AI
COGNIZANT
MICHAEL BALINT
SR MANAGER, PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE
NVIDIA
MICHAEL BALINT
SR MANAGER, PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE
NVIDIA

Michael Balint is a Senior Manager of Product Architecture at NVIDIA focused on scheduling and management of NVIDIA GPU clusters, including the DGX SuperPOD, a benchmark-breaking supercomputer infrastructure. Prior to working at NVIDIA, Michael was a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, where he brought his technical expertise to projects like VP Biden’s Cancer Moonshot and Code.gov. A graduate of both Cornell and Johns Hopkins University, he has had the good fortune of applying software engineering and data science to many interesting problems throughout his career, including: optimization of air traffic flows for the FAA, NLP summarization of consumer reviews, and repurposing geospatial anomaly detection to discover abnormal skin lesions

DR. FADI SALEM
DIRECTOR OF POLICY RESEARCH DEPARTMENT
MBR SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
DR. FADI SALEM
DIRECTOR OF POLICY RESEARCH DEPARTMENT
MBR SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT
DAVY VAN DE SANDE
PHD CANDIDATE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE BIJ
ERASMUS MC
DAVY VAN DE SANDE
PHD CANDIDATE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE BIJ
ERASMUS MC
RENS FEENSTRA
PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION CONSULTANT
SAS
RENS FEENSTRA
PRINCIPAL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION CONSULTANT
SAS
AURELIA COSTACHE
EMEIA INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION LEADER
EY
AURELIA COSTACHE
EMEIA INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION LEADER
EY
BHUVAN PAWAR
DIGITAL INNOVATION LEADER
ASAHI EUROPE & INTERNATIONAL
BHUVAN PAWAR
DIGITAL INNOVATION LEADER
ASAHI EUROPE & INTERNATIONAL
GERALDINE PERCIVAL
GROUP HEAD OF TALENT & DEVELOPMENT
ASAHI EUROPE & INTERNATIONAL
GERALDINE PERCIVAL
GROUP HEAD OF TALENT & DEVELOPMENT
ASAHI EUROPE & INTERNATIONAL
CATELIJNE MULLER
PRESIDENT
ALLAI
CATELIJNE MULLER
PRESIDENT
ALLAI
DAVID CUCKOW
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, DIGITAL
BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
DAVID CUCKOW
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, DIGITAL
BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
STEFAN BADŽA
DIRECTOR OF TEAM FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS, OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER
GOVERNMENT OF SERBIA
STEFAN BADŽA
DIRECTOR OF TEAM FOR SPECIAL PROJECTS, OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER
GOVERNMENT OF SERBIA
CINZIA MISSIROLI
DIRECTOR OF STANDARDIZATION
CEN/CENELEC
CINZIA MISSIROLI
DIRECTOR OF STANDARDIZATION
CEN/CENELEC
DAN BYLES
CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER
UNIFAI TECHNOLOGY
DAN BYLES
CHIEF COMMERCIAL OFFICER
UNIFAI TECHNOLOGY

Dan is the Chief Commercial Officer at award winning AI SME, UnifAI Technology. A leading figure in the technology sector, Dan also chairs the British Standards Institution (BSI) Standards Policy & Strategy Committee, and their Digital Strategic Advisory Group. A former Member of Parliament heavily involved in sustainability and technology policy, Dan is a highly effective and experienced speaker and communicator.

PHILIP DAWSON
HEAD OF AI POLICY
ARMILLA ASSURANCE
PHILIP DAWSON
HEAD OF AI POLICY
ARMILLA ASSURANCE
JAEL LOPEZ
PRODUCT LEAD
KICKSTART AI
JAEL LOPEZ
PRODUCT LEAD
KICKSTART AI

Jael, the Product Lead at Kickstart AI, is driven by a passion for defining and developing products that improve society. With a foundation in computer science and engineering, she specialized in cybersecurity, data science, and user experience design. Concurrently, she also serves as a teacher, inspiring individuals to pursue rewarding careers in tech.

MIKE BECK
GLOBAL CHIEF INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICER
DARKTRACE
MIKE BECK
GLOBAL CHIEF INFORMATION SECURITY OFFICER
DARKTRACE

Mike Beck is Global CISO at Darktrace. He has spent 18 years working in technology, security and risk operations, starting his career as a software engineer on GCHQ’s technologist programme, and progressing to support military operations. He has conducted intelligence analysis and assessment in operational theatres across the world, becoming a senior intelligence officer. In 2010, Mike merged his intelligence and technology experience to run cyber defensive operations for UK government, including working on the implementation of the national cyber security strategy and protecting the London 2012 Olympic Games. Joining Darktrace at its early stages in 2014, Mike developed the cyber analyst operation that supports thousands of Darktrace customers with 24/7 support and since 2020 oversees Darktrace’s internal security program as Global CISO.

MARK THIRLWELL
MANAGING DIRECTOR, AI REGULATORY SERVICES
BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
MARK THIRLWELL
MANAGING DIRECTOR, AI REGULATORY SERVICES
BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION

Mark has over 18 years’ experience working for Accenture, PwC and, most recently, The Berkeley Partnership. During this time Mark has shaped and led the definition and delivery of transformational strategies across a range of industries. He is increasingly focussed on how cutting-edge digital innovation can be used to address society’s most pressing issues, including climate change. Mark joined BSI in an interim capacity in April 2022, before being appointed as the permanent Managing Director of the AI Regulatory Services team in March 2023.

Passionate about taking an organisation’s most complicated strategic issues, defining a solution, and making it a reality, Mark is highly collaborative whilst taking accountability for achieving measurable outcomes.

 

JULIA VAN HUIZEN
PRACTICE LEAD AGRICULTURE & FOOD
ADC
JULIA VAN HUIZEN
PRACTICE LEAD AGRICULTURE & FOOD
ADC

Julia van Huizen is an innovative strategist in AI Governance within the Agriculture & Food industry. She has a distinguished background in climate-related risks and sustainability finance, at the intersection of (regulatory) governance and technology, at esteemed institutions such as the Bank of England, the Dutch Central Bank, European Commission, and ING. As lead of the Agriculture & Food practice at the Data & AI Consultancy ADC, Julia has played an integral role in shaping ADC’s approach how to guide organisation’s transformation towards revolutionising agriculture, blending cutting-edge technology with a data-driven and digitalisation-focused strategy, all supported by robust AI Governance frameworks. ADC offers a range of services within this sector, including Sustainable Agriculture Solutions, Supply Chain and Impact Transparency, and developing strategies for Regulatory Compliance and Reporting. Julia’s commitment to aligning agriculture with sustainability goals, utilising advanced technologies, and adeptly navigating complex regulatory landscapes positions ADC as a trusted partner for organisations seeking to maximise the potential of data and AI while upholding the highest standards of AI Governance.

CASPER RUTJES
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
ADC
CASPER RUTJES
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
ADC

Dr. Casper Rutjes is Chief Technology Officer (CTO)of ADC, a consultancy dedicated to the responsible implementation and adoption of data and AI, driven by the mission to create a real impact to companies that matter for society, through close collaboration with clients and partners. In his role, Casper spearheads ADC’s distinctive integrated approach, overseeing everything from developing data strategies and executing complex data & AI engineering to conducting in-depth data analysis and designing optimal user experiences. He guides teams within ADC’s diverse collective of over 150 professionals spanning three countries – the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden, all of whom possess expertise across a spectrum of industries, including public and society, agriculture and food, healthcare and life sciences, and financial services. Casper makes sure ADC places AI Governance at the core of responsible and effective AI deployment for clients, ensuring the ethical and compliant use of data and AI technologies. This perspective establishes ADC as a dependable partner for organisations dedicated to fostering positive and sustainable impact.

RIK VAN DER WOERDT
CO-FOUNDER AND CEO
AMSTERDAM DATA COLLECTIVE
RIK VAN DER WOERDT
CO-FOUNDER AND CEO
AMSTERDAM DATA COLLECTIVE
MALEK BEN SALEM
MANAGING DIRECTOR, EMERGING TECH SECURITY
ACCENTURE
MALEK BEN SALEM
MANAGING DIRECTOR, EMERGING TECH SECURITY
ACCENTURE

Dr. Malek Ben Salem is a Managing Director at Accenture Security, focused on security for emerging technologies, including AI, Web3 and the Metaverse. In this role, she develops business with strategic customers, creates intellectual property, publishes thought leadership, and builds innovative AI and security technologies helping organizations reduce their risk and proactively adhere to digital ethics principles in order to earn clients’ trust—going beyond a compliance-driven security approach.

In her previous role, Malek led security R&D for Accenture in North America. Malek is a technology thought leader, innovator, and ex-DARPA PI with over 25 patents and 27 peer-reviewed publications. She holds a PhD and a MSc in Computer Science from Columbia University, New York, a Dipl.-Ing. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Hanover, GERMANY, and a certificate in Technology Strategy from the MIT Sloan School of Business.

ULIANA KRAINSKA
AI SYNTHETIC DATA CONSULTANT
SYNTHO
ULIANA KRAINSKA
AI SYNTHETIC DATA CONSULTANT
SYNTHO

AI Synthetic Data Consultant at Syntho, the startup that is disrupting the tech industry with software for AI-generated synthetic data. Uliana is helping enterprise clients unlock privacy-sensitive data, make smarter data decisions and faster data access, so that organizations can realize data-driven innovation.  Syntho won the prestigious Philips Innovation Award, won the SAS global hackathon in healthcare and life science, and has been recognized as a Generative AI startup to watch by NVIDIA.

JEAN PHILIPPE M.L. SCHEPENS VAN THIEL
FOUNDER & CEO
AXONJAY
JEAN PHILIPPE M.L. SCHEPENS VAN THIEL
FOUNDER & CEO
AXONJAY

Passionate ornithologist, creating synergies between nature and data science technology. On a mission to disrupt the world with sustainable human/environment approaches and energy of collective consciousness/open hearts. With his multi-cultured & science-based & entrepreneurial business background, Jean-Philippe is a trendsetter in a post-pandemic company era who focuses on unlocking the tribe’s potential and finding solutions where there is no clear path.  Creator of magic moments together with customers!

 

DR NICOLAI BALDIN
CEO & FOUNDER
SYNTHESIZED
 
DR NICOLAI BALDIN
CEO & FOUNDER
SYNTHESIZED
 

Dr Nicolai Baldin is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Synthesized. Synthesized provides high-quality data for machine learning and application development. it solves the problem of replacing expensive sensitive production data from dev environments with right-sized synthetically generated data. Nicolai is responsible for the direction and global strategy of Synthesized. He holds a PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning from the University of Cambridge where he won the prestigious Smith-Knight award and is a Forbes Technology Council member.

DAVID STEIN
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
DECI AI
DAVID STEIN
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
DECI AI

David is a seasoned sales and business development executive with more than 10 years’ experience in the hi-tech space and special focus on AI. Deci AI’s Director of Strategic Partnerships. His role is to lead Deci’s partner Go to Market execution by partnering with leading technology and solution providers such as Microsoft, NVIDIA, Dell and more, as well as building Deci’s global reseller network. Before joining Deci, David led Run:ai’s North American Partnership activity. This resulted in Run’s first wins in North America, closing Fortune 100 companies via resellers, building a pipeline from nothing to over 10 million USD, and the Run:ai & NVIDIA DGX Bundle.

ROBBY HORNIG
SALES DIRECTOR DACH & CEE
WEIGHTS & BIASES
ROBBY HORNIG
SALES DIRECTOR DACH & CEE
WEIGHTS & BIASES

Robby is the Sales Director at Weights & Biases, responsible for the DACH & CEE regions. For over 15 years, Robby has been involved in the field of complex software solutions. After spending some time in Business Intelligence, he discovered his passion for Machine Learning and AI while building the sales department for the Berlin-based startup, i2x. Since October 2022, he has been on board with Weights & Biases, with the mission of providing the best tools to Machine Learning Engineers. He resides in Berlin with his wife.

AMANDA LAWSON
RESEARCH & POLICY ANALYST
RESPONSIBLE AI INSTITUTE
AMANDA LAWSON
RESEARCH & POLICY ANALYST
RESPONSIBLE AI INSTITUTE

Amanda Lawson is a renowned policy expert, researcher, and dynamic speaker dedicated to responsible AI and equitable tech policy. As a Policy Analyst at the Responsible AI Institute (RAI Institute), she has developed cutting-edge AI governance frameworks and comprehensive risk policies for clients like AWS, Mastercard, and IBM. Amanda collaborates with influential organizations such as the OECD, UN, and ISO, shaping industry-wide best practices through groundbreaking research.

Amanda’s thought leadership has been showcased at conferences such as Reuters MOMENTUM, Austin AI Summit, AI and Big Data Expo, and International Data Engineering and Science Association, where she emphasizes responsible AI standards and governance.

Prior to the RAI Institute, Amanda worked in criminal justice policy at the Vera Institute of Justice, galvanizing her passion for algorithmic justice. In 2016, Amanda founded a non-profit dedicated to advocating for indigent people affected by state and local criminal justice policy. Her leadership led to the successful passage of several common-sense policies improving the lives of thousands each year.

Amanda’s multidimensional perspective stems from her educational background, including her B.A. in Public Policy from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and recent certifications in AI compliance, leadership, and digital marketing from Google, the Project Management Institute, and more.

Amanda Lawson’s unwavering dedication and influential contributions make her a sought-after speaker and consultant in the policy and tech AI community. Her work drives positive change and fosters equity in the growing field of responsible AI today.

MIKE SHIRAZI
FOUNDING GENERAL PARTNER
PURSUIT VENTURES
MIKE SHIRAZI
FOUNDING GENERAL PARTNER
PURSUIT VENTURES
ALEXANDRA VAN HUFFELEN
MINISTER OF DIGITALIZATION
THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
ALEXANDRA VAN HUFFELEN
MINISTER OF DIGITALIZATION
THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
ROGER KLOSE
GLOBAL HEAD OF OT CYBER SECURITY
MERCK KGAA
ROGER KLOSE
GLOBAL HEAD OF OT CYBER SECURITY
MERCK KGAA

To achieve global business goals, secure products, and protect mission-critical services, Roger defines best practices by sharing his deep knowledge with key stakeholders and applying his advanced analytical skills. He also solves complex problems or issues for which there are no routine solutions and provides new forward-looking perspectives. On many projects with challenging risks, resource requirements, and privacy issues, he acts as an advisor and mentor within the team and beyond to help align all the disciplines. Prior to joining Merck KGaA, he worked in various consulting firms and held leading positions in cybersecurity consulting, business development, penetration testing and security architecture. In addition, he is active as an instructor, mentor and coach. For more than a decade, he has been a speaker at national and international security conferences and working groups where he shares his ideas with a wide range of security experts on AI and GPT security, cloud security, cyber attacks, IoT security, and advanced persistent threats. In addition to his professional career, Roger taught the master’s program “Cloud Computing and Service Architectures” as an adjunct professor at Worms University of Applied Sciences for 10 years.

INMA PEREZ RUIZ
REGULATORY LEAD, AI NOTIFIED BODY
BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
INMA PEREZ RUIZ
REGULATORY LEAD, AI NOTIFIED BODY
BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
ALBERTO ÁLVAREZ-MARTÍN
AI TECHNICAL SPECIALIST
BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
ALBERTO ÁLVAREZ-MARTÍN
AI TECHNICAL SPECIALIST
BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
ALEX TAZZA
AI TECHNICAL TEAM MANAGER
BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
ALEX TAZZA
AI TECHNICAL TEAM MANAGER
BRITISH STANDARDS INSTITUTION
HILARY RICHTERS
DIRECTOR AND LEAD DIGITAL ETHICS
DELOITTE
HILARY RICHTERS
DIRECTOR AND LEAD DIGITAL ETHICS
DELOITTE
PEPIJN VAN DER LAAN
DIRECTOR AI & DATA, BUSINESS LEAD AI
DELOITTE
PEPIJN VAN DER LAAN
DIRECTOR AI & DATA, BUSINESS LEAD AI
DELOITTE
KUTLU KAZANCI
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
CREATIVE DESTRUCTION LAB (SAID BUSINESS SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)
KUTLU KAZANCI
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
CREATIVE DESTRUCTION LAB (SAID BUSINESS SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)

Kutlu is the head of ventures for Creative Destruction Lab at University of Oxford, overseeing the scouting, selection, support and alumni relations across AI, fintech, climate, health and space programmes. Before joining the CDL programme, Kutlu launched and ran startup programs in UK and EMEA, including UKBasecamp, SUCool, Founder Institute, Galata Business Angels, Endeavor Turkey as well as cofounding an enterprise innovation software company, WeDecide. Previous to that, he worked as a banker in New York and Jakarta and holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering with distinction from Stanford University. He is also an investor in ~100 startups across North America and EMEA

SERGEY TYAN
CO-FOUNDER & CPO
SIRIUS
SERGEY TYAN
CO-FOUNDER & CPO
SIRIUS
MATTHIJS ALDERLIEFSTE
CEO & CO-FOUNDER
MOKIN
MATTHIJS ALDERLIEFSTE
CEO & CO-FOUNDER
MOKIN
NANDA PIERSMA 
Scientific Director HvA Centre of Expertise Applied Artificial Intelligence
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
   
NANDA PIERSMA 
Scientific Director HvA Centre of Expertise Applied Artificial Intelligence
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
   
LAURENS SAMSON
TECHLEAD - COMPUTER VISION TEAM
CITY OF AMSTERDAM
LAURENS SAMSON
TECHLEAD - COMPUTER VISION TEAM
CITY OF AMSTERDAM

Laurens is the Tech Lead of the Computer Vision Team for the City of Amsterdam. As a background, Laurens obtained a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam, where he was able to publish his thesis at one of the biggest computer vision conferences (ICCV). After that, he worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Research & Development for autonomous driving at TomTom. For the City of Amsterdam, Laurens started in the AI team, where he built prototypes for blurring algorithms and garbage detection. Thereafter, he co-founded the Computer Vision Team, which aims to create valuable machine learning solutions to detect relevant objects in the public space in an ethical manner. These solutions will contribute to the goals of the municipality to improve the livability, cleanliness and safety of the city.

INGO STORK
CEO & CO-FOUNDER
PRECITASTE
INGO STORK
CEO & CO-FOUNDER
PRECITASTE
RABAH KHALEK
MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCHER
GISKARD
RABAH KHALEK
MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCHER
GISKARD
SOUHEIL HANOUNE
CTO / CSO
XXII
SOUHEIL HANOUNE
CTO / CSO
XXII

PETER NORVIG
Pioneer in AI, Author of best-selling textbook, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Distinguished Education Fellow
Google and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
 
PETER NORVIG
Pioneer in AI, Author of best-selling textbook, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Distinguished Education Fellow
Google and Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
 

 

Peter Norvig is a Distinguished Education Fellow at Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute and a researcher at Google Inc; previously he directed Google’s core search algorithms group and Google’s Research group.

 

He was head of NASA Ames’s Computational Sciences Division, where he was NASA’s senior computer scientist and a recipient of NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has taught at the University of Southern California, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006.

 

He was co-teacher of an Artificial Intelligence class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online classes. His publications include the books Data Science in Context (to appear in 2022), Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (the leading textbook in the field), Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. He is also the author of the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and the world’s longest palindromic sentence. He is a fellow of the AAAI, ACM, California Academy of Science and American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

VANDI VERMA
Chief Engineer of Robotic Operations - Mars 2020, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
NASA
VANDI VERMA
Chief Engineer of Robotic Operations - Mars 2020, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
NASA

Vandi Verma, Chief Engineer of Robotic Operations – Mars 2020, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA (USA)

 

Vandi Verma is the Chief Engineer for Robotic Operations for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, and the Assistant Section Manager for Mobility and Robotics Systems at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She specializes in space robotics, autonomous robots and robotic operations. She has worked on a number of Space Robotics and Artificial Intelligence research and technology development tasks and has designed, developed, and operated rovers on Mars, the Arctic, Antarctica, and the Atacama Desert.

 

She has been working at NASA since graduating with a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. She works on new capabilities from early design, through development, testing and launch, to landing and surface operations. Since 2008 she has been driving rovers on Mars (Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance) and operating the robotic arm and sampling system as a Rover Planner. She enjoys coding and has written flight software that runs onboard Curiosity and Perseverance, and simulation software used in operations.

JOE DEPA
EUROPE AI LEAD | GLOBAL LEAD FOR DATA-LED TRANSFORMATION | SENIOR MANAGING DIRECTOR
ACCENTURE
 
JOE DEPA
EUROPE AI LEAD | GLOBAL LEAD FOR DATA-LED TRANSFORMATION | SENIOR MANAGING DIRECTOR
ACCENTURE
 

Creating, scaling, transforming companies with data.
As the Global Lead of Data-led Transformation for Accenture, and our lead for our Applied Intelligence business in Europe, Joe helps Fortune 500 clients cross industry leverage data to bring new products and services to market, fuel employee and consumer experiences, drive operational efficiency, and ultimately help improve the way we work and live. In addition, Joe has served as the interim Chief Data and AI Officer for a Fortune 100 company where we are rapidly transforming the organization by creating new
businesses and products, driving operational efficiencies, and changing ways of working to drive growth and innovation. Joe leads our Europe AI Team with a talented team of data scientists, business consultants, cloud engineers, and AI strategists. Committed to recruiting, developing and retaining diverse talent, this high performing team has been recognized for its contribution to driving innovation and positive change at our clients. More importantly, by creating an inclusive culture of servant leadership, Joe is focused on fostering growth among the people with whom he works.

JOELLE PINEAU
Co-Managing Director | Meta AI Research
Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science | McGill University
   
JOELLE PINEAU
Co-Managing Director | Meta AI Research
Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar, School of Computer Science | McGill University
   
MICHAEL KAGAN
CTO 
NVIDIA
     
MICHAEL KAGAN
CTO 
NVIDIA
     
COLIN MURDOCH 
 Director of Applied AI and Chief Business Officer
DeepMind 
 
COLIN MURDOCH 
 Director of Applied AI and Chief Business Officer
DeepMind 
 
KOSTIANTYN KOSHELENKO
DEPUTY MINISTER OF SOCIAL POLICY FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE
 
KOSTIANTYN KOSHELENKO
DEPUTY MINISTER OF SOCIAL POLICY FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE
 
MICHAEL SPRANGER
COO
Sony AI
 
MICHAEL SPRANGER
COO
Sony AI
 

Michael Spranger is the COO of Sony AI Inc., Sony’s strategic research and development organization established April 2020. Sony AI’s mission is to “unleash human imagination and creativity with AI.” Michael is a roboticist by training with extensive research experience in different areas of AI including Natural Language Processing, robotics, and foundations of Artificial Intelligence. Concurrent to Sony AI, Michael also holds a Senior Researcher position at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., and is actively contributing to Sony’s overall AI ethics strategy.

MICKY ADRIAANSENS
Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Government of the Netherlands
MICKY ADRIAANSENS
Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Government of the Netherlands
CATHY COBEY
Global Trusted AI Leader
EY
CATHY COBEY
Global Trusted AI Leader
EY

Cathy is EY’s Global Trusted AI Leader and Canadian Technology Risk Leader. In these roles, she helps corporate executives and Directors understand and manage business risks related to technology in the Transformative Age, including the ethical and control implications of artificial intelligence.

Cathy leverages her unique background as a CPA, technology risk practioner and involvement with the EY Climate Change & Sustainability practice to consider the full spectrum of technological and societal implications of technology transformation. 

She currently serves on technical advisory committees with the Responsible AI Institute, CIO Strategy Council, CPA Canada and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers to develop industry and regulatory standards for emerging technology.

PROFESSOR FRANCESCA ROSSI 
President | AAAI
Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader | IBM 
 
PROFESSOR FRANCESCA ROSSI 
President | AAAI
Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader | IBM 
 

Francesca Rossi is an IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader.She is based at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Lab, New York, USA, where she leads AI research projects.

 

Before joining IBM, she has been a professor of computer science at the University of Padova, Italy, for 20 years.

Her research interest span various areas of AI, from constraints to preferences, from graphical models to social choice, to neuro-symbolic AI.

She co-chairs the IBM AI Ethics board and she participates in many global multi-stakeholder initiatives on AI ethics, such as the Global Partnership on AI, of which both US and France are members.

 

She is the president of AAAI, the world-wide association of AI researchers.

LAURENCE VAN DER SANDE
Managing Director, Digital Technologies
Accenture
LAURENCE VAN DER SANDE
Managing Director, Digital Technologies
Accenture
Man

As the Applied Intelligence Lead for Accenture the Netherlands, Laurence supports large organizations with shaping and executing their journey towards becoming a Data Driven Enterprise. Bringing value to client operations and customer service through end-to-end Data & Analytics Services: from value definition and strategy to capabilities and deployment at scale. 

Laurence leads our Netherlands Applied Intelligence practice with a talented team of data scientists, business consultants, cloud engineers, and AI strategists. 

Laurence is passionate about people and data. From all colleagues in the Applied Intelligence practice to client excecutives, to all the people involved in the data supply chains: from data production to data consumption. Creating new insights, aspirations and innovations and connecting people through data.

aging Director, Digital Technologies

 

MARK SURMAN
President and Chief Executive
Mozilla Foundation 
MARK SURMAN
President and Chief Executive
Mozilla Foundation 
KERSTI KALJULAID
Former President (2016-2021) 
Estonia
 
KERSTI KALJULAID
Former President (2016-2021) 
Estonia
 

Kersti Kaljulaid 

 

  • President of Estonia 2016-2021
  • United Nations Secretary-General’s Global Advocate for Every Woman Every Child since 2021
  • Mother of four and grandmother of four
  • Speaks Estonian, English, French, Russian, Finnish
  • Born in 1969 in Estonia

 

Kersti Kaljulaid served as the President of the Republic of Estonia from 2016-2021. During her time in office, she made her presence felt in both her homeland and the international arena.

 

Previously she had been serving as a Member of the European Court of Auditors, advising Prime Minister Mart Laar and holding diferent top level positions in energy, investment banking and telecom sector. Genetic engineer and economist by education, she has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the Estonian Genome Center and the Council Chair of the University of Tartu from 2012 to 2016.

 

In summer 2021, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed President Kaljulaid to the position of Global Advocate for the ‘Every Woman Every Child’ strategy on the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents around the world for the next two years. She was also the first Estonian to be featured in the Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.

 

Kersti Kaljulaid has become a sought-after speaker at high-level forums on digital, security and foreign-policy topics and more broadly for analysing and interpreting societal and economic change.

 

President Kaljulaid is a vocal advocate of human rights, rule of law, freedom of speech and democracy. One of the principles in the in office of president has been the one she set out upon her inauguration: “I am never silent when our security is in question, when our freedoms are at stake or when those weaker than us are treated unjustly.

 

IAN MCGILCHRIST
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World 
Author
IAN MCGILCHRIST
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World 
Author

Dr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. 

 

He has been a Research Fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch.  He has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of publications on topics in literature, philosophy, medicine and psychiatry.  He is the author of a number of books, but is best-known for The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale 2009),  In November 2021 his two-volume work The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World was published by Perspectiva Press. 

WEI LI 
VP/GM, AI and Analytics 
Intel
 
WEI LI 
VP/GM, AI and Analytics 
Intel
 

Wei Li is VP/GM of AI and Analytics (AIA) at Intel. He is an AI software executive, who started his career as a computer scientist for supercomputers. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and taught Advanced Compiling Techniques at Stanford University. He is passionate about product strategy, technology and execution. Together with his world-wide team of engineering magicians, Wei has been instrumental in Intel’s multi-billion dollar AI revenue growth. His team consistently set goals to win and deliver, winning 5 Intel Achievement Awards.

 

With the  vision of AI Everywhere enabled by an open AI software ecosystem.  He is leading the Data+AI software effort for both performance and productivity. Most recently, his team improved AI performance by 10-100X through software acceleration, and enabled customers such as MasterCard, Burger King, AWS, Google among many others. He is responsible for a broad AI and Analytics including deep learning, statistical machine learning and big data analytics, e.g. optimizing mainstream AI software such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, MXNet, PaddlePaddle, TVM, XGBoost, Scikit-learn, DGL, Numpy, SciPy, Pandas, Modin, numba, Python, SPARK as well as developing Intel oneAPI performance libraries and productivity tools such as oneDNN, oneDNN Graph, oneCCL, oneDAL, BigDL, Intel Neural Compressor (INC) and AI Analytics toolkit. His team is also responsible for AI hardware co-design on CPU and GPU as well as heterogenous and distributed computing.

 

He served as an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, and was on the Intel/Microsoft committee that funded the creation of parallel computing research centers at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/wei-li-sf/

PROFESSOR  ANIL SETH
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
University of Sussex
PROFESSOR  ANIL SETH
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
University of Sussex

Neuroscientist Anil Seth is interested in understanding the biological basis of conscious experience, a topic he considers one of the greatest challenges for 21st century science. His groundbreaking research provides fascinating insight into what this means for storytelling. His 2017 TED talk has been viewed over 5 million times.

Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and Codirector of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. He seeks to understand the biological basis of consciousness by bringing together research across neuroscience, mathematics, AI, computer science, psychology, philosophy and psychiatry. Key to his work is exploring the relationship between perception and hallucination, and how this applies to the experience of being a “self.” Seth is also Editor in Chief of the academic journal Neuroscience of Consciousness, a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow. He was the 2017 President of the British Science Association (Psychology Section).

JACK MCCAULEY
Co-Founder
Oculus
Professor and Innovator in Residence, Jabobs Institute for Design
UC Berkeley
 
JACK MCCAULEY
Co-Founder
Oculus
Professor and Innovator in Residence, Jabobs Institute for Design
UC Berkeley
 

Jack McCauley an Innovator in Residence at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley, Professor at UC Berkeley, Co-Founder of Oculus, an American engineer, hardware designer, inventor, video game developer and philanthropist. Jack is best known for designing the guitars and drums for the Guitar Hero video game series, and as a co-founder and former chief engineer at Oculus VR. At Oculus, Jack designed and built the Oculus DK1 and DK2 virtual reality headsets. Oculus was acquired by Facebook for $2 Billion.  McCauley holds numerous U.S. patents for inventions in software, audio effects, virtual reality, motion control, computer peripherals, and video game hardware and controllers. Jack was awarded a full scholarship to attend University of California, Berkeley where he earned as BSc., EECS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1986.  Jack has authored numerous research papers in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and mathematical modeling of AI-based systems and is currently pursuing new projects at his private R&D facility and hardware incubator in Livermore, California.

MICHEL VAN LEEUWEN
Director of Artificial Intelligence
Ministry of Justice and Security - Government of the Netherlands
MICHEL VAN LEEUWEN
Director of Artificial Intelligence
Ministry of Justice and Security - Government of the Netherlands
Sarah Porter
CEO & Founder, Inspired Minds!
UN Advisor, LAWS
Sarah Porter
CEO & Founder, Inspired Minds!
UN Advisor, LAWS

Sarah Porter has launched 21 b2b and b2c technology products in 11 countries since 1996 and has a renowned reputation for taking ideas from concept to market with subsequent significant growth globally.

Emerging tech / AI / Medtech / Singularity / Existentialism is where her core experience lies and she has over 20 years of commercial experience.

As a board executive for i2i Events Group (parent company The Guardian Media Group / Apax – Ascential – previously Top Right Group) with the specific remit to rapidly grow the business whilst leveraging operational costs and prepare pre IPO. She sat on the i2i mergers and acquisitions committee identifying, analysing and approaching target businesses and accelerated growth by 22% within 12 months.

Achievements include the launch and acquisition of Money2020 – a leading fintech product. This included negotiation, 3 stage due diligence, its subsequent integration, and the long term geo-adaption into a global portfolio worth over $40m. The launch of World Retail Congress in 10 countries, the re-launch of the Cannes Lions festival.

Sarah is a regular keynote speaker on start-ups, business and women/equality related issues and is an ambassador for the Royal Marsden where she champions the use of AI tech in oncology advances.

ORLANDO MACHADO
Chief Data Officer and Vice President
The LEGO Group
         
ORLANDO MACHADO
Chief Data Officer and Vice President
The LEGO Group
         
SAFIYA UMOJA NOBLE 
Professor | UCLA
Co-Founder and Co-Director | UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry
SAFIYA UMOJA NOBLE 
Professor | UCLA
Co-Founder and Co-Director | UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry

Dr. Safiya U. Noble is an internet studies scholar and Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she serves as the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She holds affiliations in the School of Education & Information Studies, and is a Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she is a Commissioner on the Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance (OxCAIGG). In 2021, she was recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow (also known as the “Genius Award”) for her ground-breaking work on algorithmic discrimination, which prompted her founding of a non-profit, Equity Engine, to accelerate investment in companies, education, and networks driven by women of color. She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, entitled Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), which has been widely-reviewed in scholarly and popular publications. She is the recipient of a Hellman Fellowship and the UCLA Early Career Award. In 2022, she was recognized as the inaugural NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award recipient.

 

Her academic research focuses on the internet and its impact on society. Her work is both sociological and interdisciplinary, marking the ways that digital media intersects with issues of race, gender, culture, power, and technology. She is regularly sought out for her expertise on issues of algorithmic discrimination and technology bias by national and international press including The Guardian, the BBC, CNN International, USA Today, Wired, Time, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, The New York Times, and a host of network news and podcasts. Her popular writing includes critiques on the loss of public goods to Big Tech companies, as featured in Noema magazine.

 

Safiya is the co-editor of two edited volumes: The Intersectional Internet: Race, Sex, Culture and Class Online and Emotions, Technology & Design. She is a member of several academic journal and advisory boards, and holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A. in Sociology from California State University, Fresno where she was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award for 2018. In 2020, she was awarded the Distinguished Alumna Award from the iSchool Alumni Association, and is also the inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Award winner from the Illinois Alumni Association at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

Dr. Noble is a board member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, serving those vulnerable to online harassment. She was recently appointed as a board member for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, America’s Black think tank.

RINA JOOSTEN
Co Founder
Seedlink Tech
RINA JOOSTEN
Co Founder
Seedlink Tech
Co Founder

Rina is co-founder of Seedlink Tech, a tech scale-up developing artificial intelligence for better and faster matching of candidates to jobs. Rina is driven by the vision to leverage cutting edge technology to remove human bias from the decision making process. She got appointed in the Taskforce for A.I. in the Netherlands and recently presented a national A.I. strategy and action plan. Prior to Seedlink, Rina founded HR Consultancy International Top Talent in both China and Europe and she held various management positions at DSM. Rina is a regular speaker and writer on A.I., innovation, human capital and China, where she lived for the past seven years. She councils a think tank of the European Commission on A.I. policies and serves as a mentor for start-ups. In Shanghai, she delivered a TedxTalk on ‘How AI changes the way we find careers’ at TedxShanghaiWomen and got featured on her work at the BBC and Tegenlicht (‘Holland Gets Talent’). Rina holds an Msc and MA degree from Groningen University. She is married and has four kids.

MIGUEL MARTIN ACOSTA 
Chief Engineer - Unmanned Aerial Systems
Airbus
       
MIGUEL MARTIN ACOSTA 
Chief Engineer - Unmanned Aerial Systems
Airbus
       

Miguel Martín Acosta is UAS Chief Engineer at Airbus, where he leads AI-driven NextGen Autonomous Drones able to flight in urban environment. He formerly worked as Lead Data Scientist in his role of Head of Health Management and Predictive Analytics at Airbus. Prior to joining Airbus, he worked as developer for control systems and computer vision.

 

He holds a degree in electronic engineering, a master in robotics and PhD candidature in AI and teaches AI in different university programs, as MSc in Intelligent Avionics from University of Malaga and MSc in Unmanned Aerial System from Polytechnic University of Madrid.

DAME WENDY HALL
Regius Professor in Computer Science
University of Southampton
 
DAME WENDY HALL
Regius Professor in Computer Science
University of Southampton
 

Dame Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng is Regius Professor of Computer Science, Associate Vice President (International Engagement), and is an Executive Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton.

One of the first computer scientists to undertake serious research in multimedia and hypermedia, she has been at its forefront ever since. The influence of her work has been significant in many areas including digital libraries, the development of the Semantic Web, and the emerging research discipline of Web Science.

She is well known for her development of the Microcosm hypermedia system in the mid- 1980s, which was a forerunner to the World Wide Web.

In addition to playing a prominent role in the development of her subject, she also helps shape science and engineering policy and education. Through her leadership roles on national and international bodies, she has shattered many glass ceilings, readily deploying her position on numerous national and international bodies to promote the role of women in SET and acting as an important role model for others.

With Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt she co-founded the Web Science Research Initiative in 2006 and is the Managing Director of the Web Science Trust, which has a global mission to support the development of research, education and thought leadership in Web Science.

She became a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2009 UK New Year’s Honours list and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Many of Wendy’s previous roles include: President of the ACM, President of BCS, Senior Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, was a founding member of the European Research Council and Chair of the European Commission’s ISTAG, was a member of the Global Commission on Internet Governance, and was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on the Digital Economy.

Dame Wendy was co-Chair of the UK government’s Artificial Intelligence Review, which was published in October 2017, is the UK government’s first Skills Champion for AI and is a member of the newly formed AI Council.

In May 2020, she was appointed Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute and joined the BT Technology Advisory board in January 2021.

BLAISE AGUERA Y ARCAS
VP Fellow
Google Research 
 
BLAISE AGUERA Y ARCAS
VP Fellow
Google Research 
 

Blaise Agüera y Arcas is a VP and Fellow at Google Research, where he leads an organization working on both basic research and new products in AI. His focus is on augmentative, privacy-first, and collectively beneficial applications, including on-device ML for Android phones, wearables, and the Internet of Things.

 

One of the team’s technical contributions is Federated Learning, an approach to training neural networks in a distributed setting that avoids sharing user data. Blaise also founded the Artists and Machine Intelligence program, and has been an active participant in cross-disciplinary dialogs about AI and ethics, fairness and bias, policy, and risk. Until 2014 he was a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft. Outside the tech world, Blaise has worked on computational humanities projects including the digital reconstruction of Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii’s color photography at the Library of Congress, and the use of computer vision techniques to shed new light on Gutenberg’s printing technology. Blaise has given TED talks on Sead­ragon and Pho­to­synth (2007, 2012), Bing Maps (2010), and machine creativity (2016), and gave a keynote at NeurIPS on social intelligence (2019). In 2008, he was awarded MIT’s TR35 prize. In 2018 and 2019 he taught the course “Intelligent Machinery, Identity, and Ethics” at the University of Washington, placing computing and AI in a broader historical and philosophical context.

FLEURETTE POIESZ
BUISNESS LEAD HUB GROWTH
PICNIC TECHNOLOGIES
 
FLEURETTE POIESZ
BUISNESS LEAD HUB GROWTH
PICNIC TECHNOLOGIES
 

Fleurette Poiesz started her career 8 years ago working on the international expansion of tech start-up Magnet.me where she first discovered her love for technology. Since then she has successfully expanded and grown business units & companies ranging from Microsoft to Plain Concepts and enjoys managing high performance teams through growth and innovation. 

Fleurette thrives in high-paced environments and brings order in the chaos while maintaining a strategic vision. She recently started a new adventure as Business Lead at Dutch unicorn Picnic Technologies and is an active board member of the Women In Tech Netherlands organization who takes a proactive style to leadership. Through positive energy and encouragement she helps tells the tales of women in technology from all over the world both on stage or through podcasting with the main goal of getting more women in tech.

LIEKE LAMB
CEO
FUTURE EXPERTISE CENTER
 
LIEKE LAMB
CEO
FUTURE EXPERTISE CENTER
 

Lieke Lamb is CEO of the Future Expertise Center.

Being an Innovation Ambassador and Trend Strategist she has been closely following technological, social and economic trends for over 20 years. As an advisor of companies, governmental organizations, Start-Ups and NGO’s she is a leading Trend Analist and Keynote Speaker on topics as Leadership, Digital Transformation, Technology, Diversity & Inclusion, and the Educational System. Regularly on Dutch TV as expert, presenter and interviewer. Member of the Board of Women in Tech NL . Guest teacher at Nyenrode University (Strategic Leadership Program) and owner of the Dutch broadcast channel Trendwatcher.TV.

CRISTINA GARCIA ALBELA
PROJECT ENGINEER - CFD ANALYSIS 
MECAL HIGH-TECH/SYSTEMS
   
CRISTINA GARCIA ALBELA
PROJECT ENGINEER - CFD ANALYSIS 
MECAL HIGH-TECH/SYSTEMS
   

Cristina Garcia Albela started her professional career 2 years ago in the Netherlands as Project Engineer and CFD Analyst at Mecal High-Tech Systems, working inside the challenging and fast growing lithograph/semiconductors industry. She got her Mechanical Engineer degree from UPM (Madrid), followed by a Erasmus Mundus Master in Computational Mechanics (UPC, Barcelona and ECN, Nantes) with which she specialized in Numerical methods and Fluid dynamics. 

She defines herself as troubleshooting, intuitive, determinant and certainly not afraid to face new challenges. She is an empathetic and tolerant person, open to help people to find their best. As a young woman in tech, she has the objective to feel empowered and embrace technology industry, with especial interest in the new generations that are to come. That’s why she joined Women in Tech NL, where she is involved in organizing different events and workshops.

GRACE GALDOS ARENAS
SENIOR SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT
SAP
 
GRACE GALDOS ARENAS
SENIOR SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT
SAP
 
RALF HERBRICH
Professor
Hasso-Plattner Institute
 
RALF HERBRICH
Professor
Hasso-Plattner Institute
 

Ralf Herbrich leads the group on Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability at the Hasso-Plattner Institute in Potsdam since May 2022. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, Builder Platform & Artificial Intelligence at Zalando (2020 – 2022),  Managing Director of the Amazon Development Center in Germany with its locations in Berlin, Dresden, Aachen and Tübingen and was Director of Machine Learning at Amazon in Berlin from (2013 – 2020). Prior to these roles at Amazon, he led Facebook’s Unified Ranking and Allocation team in 2011. From 2000 to 2011, he served as Director of Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Lab UK and worked for nine years at Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge, UK.

Ralf has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and holds over 50 patents. He holds a PhD in Statistics from Technical University of Berlin and obtained his Diploma in Computer Science from the same institution. His research interests include Bayesian inference and decision making, natural language processing, computer vision, learning theory, robotics, distributed systems and programming languages. Ralf is one of the inventors of the Drivatars™ system in the Forza Motorsport series as well as the TrueSkill™ ranking and matchmaking system in Xbox Live.

    CHRISTOPHER BISHOP
TECHNICAL FELLOW AND DIRECTOR
MICROSOFT RESEARCH AI4SCIENCE
   
    CHRISTOPHER BISHOP
TECHNICAL FELLOW AND DIRECTOR
MICROSOFT RESEARCH AI4SCIENCE
   

Christopher Bishop is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and Laboratory Director of the Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge, UK.

 

 

He is also Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. In 2004, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, in 2007 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and in 2017 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

 

 

At Microsoft Research, Chris oversees a world-leading portfolio of industrial research and development, with a strong focus on machine learning and AI, and creating breakthrough technologies in cloud infrastructure, security, workplace productivity, computational biology, and healthcare.

 

 

Chris obtained a BA in Physics from Oxford, and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Edinburgh, with a thesis on quantum field theory. After his PhD he joined the Theoretical Physics Division of Culham Laboratory where he conducted research into the physics of magnetically confined fusion plasmas. During this time he developed an interest in machine learning, and became Head of the Applied Neurocomputing Centre at AEA Technology. He was subsequently elected to a Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Aston University, where he set up and led the Neural Computing Research Group.

 

 

Chris is the author of two highly cited and widely adopted machine learning text books: Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (1995) and Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (2006). He has also worked on a broad range of applications of machine learning in domains ranging from computer vision to healthcare. Chris is a keen advocate of public engagement in science, and in 2008 he delivered the prestigious Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, established in 1825 by Michael Faraday, and broadcast on national television.

 

 

Chris is a member of the UK AI Council. He was also recently appointed to the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology.

HINA DIXIT 
Head of AI + Metaverse Investments
Samsung Next
   
HINA DIXIT 
Head of AI + Metaverse Investments
Samsung Next
   
DAVOOD SHAMSI 
AI/ML Leader
PHD AT STANFORD
   
DAVOOD SHAMSI 
AI/ML Leader
PHD AT STANFORD
   

Davood Shamsi is a Senior Engineering Manager in Apple specialized in Optimization, AI and ML. He has led many projects that require in-depth interaction of real-world data, optimization and machine learning. Previously, he worked at advertising.com and developed various large scaling algorithms for ad optimization in digital advertising.  He received his PhD from Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering, and his Master’s degree from Rice University in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

PHIL BLUNSOM
CHIEF SCIENTIST 
COHERE
   
PHIL BLUNSOM
CHIEF SCIENTIST 
COHERE
   
JULIEN MOLEZ
GROUP INNOVATION DATA AND AI LEADER
SOCIETE GENERALE
   
JULIEN MOLEZ
GROUP INNOVATION DATA AND AI LEADER
SOCIETE GENERALE
   
ROSANNA LOCKWOOD 
International News Anchor 
 
ROSANNA LOCKWOOD 
International News Anchor 
 
SUE BLACK OBE
PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVANGELIST
DURHAM UNIVERSITY
 
SUE BLACK OBE
PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVANGELIST
DURHAM UNIVERSITY
 

A multi award winning Computer Scientist, Technology Evangelist and Digital Skills Expert, Professor Sue Black was awarded an OBE for “services to technology” in the 2016 Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. She is Professor of Computer Science and Technology Evangelist in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University, a UK government advisor, thought leader, Trustee at Comic Relief, social entrepreneur, writer and public speaker.

Sue set up the UK’s first online network for women in tech BCSWomen in 1998 and led the campaign to save Bletchley Park, home of the WW2 codebreakers. Sue’s first book Saving Bletchley Park details the social media campaign she led to save Bletchley Park from 2008-2011. Sue has championed women in tech for over two decades, founding the #techmums social enterprise in 2013 and the pioneering TechUPWomen retraining underserved women into tech careers in 2019.

Passionate about technology as an enabler Sue didn’t have a traditional start to her career. She left home and school at 16, married at 20 and had 3 children by the age of 23. A single parent at 25 she went to university, gained a degree in computing then a PhD in software engineering. Sue now has 4 children and 6 grandchildren.

GRADY BOOCH
Chief Scientist for Software Engineering & Fellow
IBM Research
GRADY BOOCH
Chief Scientist for Software Engineering & Fellow
IBM Research

Grady Booch is Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM Research where he leads IBM’s research and development on embodied cognition. Having originated the term and the practice of object-oriented design, he is best known for his work in advancing the fields of software engineering and software architecture. A co-author of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a founding member of the Agile Alliance, and a founding member of the Hillside Group, Grady has published six books and several hundred technical articles, including an ongoing column for IEEE Software and IEEE Spectrum. Grady is also a trustee for the Computer History Museum. He is an IBM Fellow, an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, has been awarded the Lovelace Medal and given the Turing Lecture for the BCS, and was named an IEEE Computer Pioneer for his work in software architecture.

Grady has served as an architect or architectural mentor for a multitude of complex software-intensive systems across many domains around the world, including finance, transportation, defense, commerce, productivity, government, medical, gaming, animation, software development, artificial intelligence, and many others.

Grady is currently developing a major transmedia documentary for public broadcast on the intersection of computing and the human experience: Computing.

MENT VAN DER PLAS
DIRECTOR OF BIG DATA & ADVANCED ANALYTICS
ASML
 
MENT VAN DER PLAS
DIRECTOR OF BIG DATA & ADVANCED ANALYTICS
ASML
 

As head of the IT Big Data & Analytics (BDA) department, Ment is responsible for delivering a portfolio of analytics solutions for his business partners to support them in a variety of business challenges. The department’s vision is to unlock the value of data for everyone within the organization. This is achieved through in one hand partnering closely with the business consumers to enable new insights and support fact-based decisions, and on the other through integrating data to provide faster access to high quality, secure and consumable data products. The information hunger within the organization has grown significantly over the last years, requiring a scalable organization with a strong partner network. In an SAFe/Agile setup, more then 65 DevOps teams execute the vision of the department on a day to day basis.

Specialities
Data Strategy | Data & Analytics | Analytics services | Cloud & Infrastructure | Agile Leadership

DIEDERICK EDEL
PRODUCT OWNER - DATA & ANALYTICS INNOVATION LAB
ASML
 
DIEDERICK EDEL
PRODUCT OWNER - DATA & ANALYTICS INNOVATION LAB
ASML
 

As the Lead of the Big Data & Analytics (BDA) Innovation Lab at ASML IT, Diederick is responsible for taking new and innovative ideas from ideation to product. The Innovation Lab’s vision is to be the driver and enabler of applying advanced analytics within ASML processes. Diederick leads three teams which consists of a mixture of highly skilled data scientists, innovation consultants, data engineers and cloud engineers. Diederick has been responsible for creating the innovation lab from scratch to the embedding of the teams in the larger department.Diederick has an almost endless interest for everything Data & AI related, and a special interest in the change process how to get these technologies embedded in a large enterprise. As an advisor to the IT BDA Management Team Diederick turns his knowledge on Data & AI also to a strategic level, ensuring that those technologies not only impact the few in the Innovation Lab but also the organization at large.

Specialties
Product Management | Data & AI |Turning strategy into action | High-performing Teams | Organizational Design | IT Expert

MAARTEN BRANTJES
TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY & ADVISORY CONSULTANT
ACCENTURE
 
MAARTEN BRANTJES
TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY & ADVISORY CONSULTANT
ACCENTURE
 
RAY SHIRKHODAI
Executive Director and Chief Information Officer
Pacific Disaster Center
RAY SHIRKHODAI
Executive Director and Chief Information Officer
Pacific Disaster Center


Ray Shirkhodai is responsible for PDC’s strategic development, market and partnership expansion, and all aspects of the enterprise operation. Serving in information management and senior leadership roles since 1991, Ray first joined PDC in 2002 as the Chief Information Officer before his selection for Executive Director in 2007. During his tenure at PDC, Ray architected PDC’s flagship DisasterAWARE® risk intelligence platform and mobile applications, developed and oversaw strategies for PDC’s expansion into the global hazard and risk reduction markets, and increased the Center’s competitive project revenues, augmenting PDC’s base research and operating budgets. Ray has led the Center’s support of major international disaster relief operations. He has served as a chief technology advisor to regional and national disaster management offices around the world. Ray has written for numerous United Nations publications on analytical software design for risk reduction. He has been an invited keynote speaker, lecturer and participant at many international events focused on technologies for risk reduction and resilience. Ray is on the advisory board of the University of Hawaii Maui College Applied Business and Information Technology (ABIT) program. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from George Mason University followed by graduate studies in Artificial Intelligence at George Mason University.

BILLY PERRIGO
Staff Writer 
TIME
 
BILLY PERRIGO
Staff Writer 
TIME
 
PROF. DR. WOLFRAM BURGARD
Founding Chair of the Department of Engineering and Professor for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
University of Technology Nuremberg  
 
PROF. DR. WOLFRAM BURGARD
Founding Chair of the Department of Engineering and Professor for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
University of Technology Nuremberg  
 
THOMAS WEBER
Chief Product Owner
Huawei Technologies
   
THOMAS WEBER
Chief Product Owner
Huawei Technologies
   

The speaker Thomas Weber is Chief Product Owner for the West European Region at Huawei Technologies. He is responsible for planning new services for the Public Cloud platforms of Huawei, incorporating customer requirements, and coordinating with the R&D side of Huawei to provide these new services. He also provides technical support for large companies, e.g. to integrate existing systems, infrastructure and business processes and to enable the introduction of public, private and hybrid cloud architectures. Topics that he is taking care of especially are BigData and AI, Quantum Computing and high performance computing.

BEVERLY RIDER
TONOMUS & CEO, PORTFOLIO T
a TONOMUS COMPANY
 
BEVERLY RIDER
TONOMUS & CEO, PORTFOLIO T
a TONOMUS COMPANY
 

Beverly currently serves as CEO of Portfolio T, Tonomus’ Venture Studio & Fund. Beverly leads a team of top-tier entrepreneurs and C-suite executives in developing Silicon Valley-modelled ventures and disruptive, sustainable solutions to power the world’s first ecosystem of cognitive technologies. She is also focused on attracting investment and fostering long-term optimization.

 

As CMO of Tonomus since 2021, she is tasked with building and managing a world-class commercial organization comprising: sales and channels; ventures; solutions; delivery; communications, events, and product and field marketing. Her work enables the successful development and execution of Tonomus’ programs, which require the establishment of global partnerships to provide scale for NEOM’s growth.

 

Beverly’s deep experience and insights come from serving in the C-suite at Fortune 10 and Global 100 companies, including Hitachi Limited (Japan), General Electric (US) and Ericsson (Sweden). She was also CEO at C-level Consulting, an executive for CenturyLink/Qwest/US West, and an attorney.

Beverly has degrees in marketing, finance, law and taxation. She graduated JD Cum Laude from the Seattle University School of Law and attended the University of Washington LLM Program.

RADHIKA DIRKS
CEO & Founder
XLabs 
 
RADHIKA DIRKS
CEO & Founder
XLabs 
 
DANNY LANGE
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF AI
UNITY SOFTWARE
   
DANNY LANGE
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF AI
UNITY SOFTWARE
   

Dr. Danny Lange is Senior VP of AI and Machine Learning at Unity. As SVP of AI and Machine Learning, Danny leads Unity’s efforts around AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Machine Learning. He joined from Uber, where he was Head of Machine Learning. At Uber, Danny led the efforts to build the world’s most versatile Machine Learning platform to support Uber’s hyper growth. Previously, Danny was General Manager of Amazon Machine Learning — an AWS product that offers Machine Learning as a Cloud Service. Before that, he was Principal Development Manager at Microsoft where he led a product team focused on large-scale Machine Learning for Big Data. Danny spent eight years on Speech Recognition Systems, first as CTO of General Magic, Inc., then through his work on General Motors OnStar Virtual Advisor, one of the largest deployments of an intelligent personal assistant until Siri. Danny started his career as a Computer Scientist at IBM Research.

 

Danny holds MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Technical University of Denmark. He is a member of ACM and IEEE Computer Society and has several patents to his credit.

JAMIE SUSSKIND
The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
Author
       
JAMIE SUSSKIND
The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
Author
       
YARIN GAL 
Associate Professor of Machine Learning and Head of the Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning Group (OATML)
University of Oxford Computer Science Department 
YARIN GAL 
Associate Professor of Machine Learning and Head of the Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning Group (OATML)
University of Oxford Computer Science Department 
SOHEL AZIZ
MANAGING DIRECTOR - FRANCE & BENELUX
ACCENTURE SONG
   
SOHEL AZIZ
MANAGING DIRECTOR - FRANCE & BENELUX
ACCENTURE SONG
   

Sohel is a Managing Director with Accenture Song. He leads the Accenture Song business for France and BeNeLux.

Sohel Aziz has over 29 years of experience in delivering strategies and solutions for businesses that leverage digital technologies to achieve sustainable competitive advantage.  He has extensive experience in digital strategy advisory and technology-enabled marketing transformation programs.  He has worked with clients on leveraging AR, VR, XR as well as AI to create meaningful business impacting customer experiences. The Metaverse is a natural extension of those efforts. Today, Sohel and his team are helping clients with strategic business rationale for investment in the Metaverse and other Web 3 topics.

CRAIG O'SHANNESSY
Founder
Brain Game Tennis  
 
CRAIG O'SHANNESSY
Founder
Brain Game Tennis  
 
ALEX KANTROWITZ
Host of the Big Technology Podcast, Writer of Big Technology
Author of Always Day One
ALEX KANTROWITZ
Host of the Big Technology Podcast, Writer of Big Technology
Author of Always Day One

Alex is the founder of Big Technology, an independent publication that covers the inner workings of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. His email newsletter goes out to thousands of Silicon Valley decision-makers each week.

Alex’s first book, Always Day One, debuted in 2020. The book is a reported deep dive on the tech giants’ work cultures, featuring more than 130 interviews with insiders from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to front line workers. Inc. named Always Day One a Business Book You Have to Read in 2020.

Prior to founding Big Technology, Alex was a Senior Technology Reporter at BuzzFeed News. In 2019, he won a Mirror Award as part of a BuzzFeed team recognized for reporting on “Social Media in the Crosshairs.” Before BuzzFeed, Alex was a staff reporter at Advertising Age. He began his career buying ads and selling ad-tech software in New York.

Alex lives in San Francisco. He is a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

 

JOELLE VAN DAMME
SENIOR MANAGER DATA SCIENCE & AI
EY
JOELLE VAN DAMME
SENIOR MANAGER DATA SCIENCE & AI
EY
BLANCA ESCRIBANO CANAS
DIGITAL LAW PARTNER
EY LAW
BLANCA ESCRIBANO CANAS
DIGITAL LAW PARTNER
EY LAW
ARVID KOK
SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST AND LEAD DATA SCIENCE & AI TECHNOLOGY
NATO COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION (NCI) AGENCY
   
ARVID KOK
SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST AND LEAD DATA SCIENCE & AI TECHNOLOGY
NATO COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION (NCI) AGENCY
   

Arvid Kok, Senior Data Scientist and Lead Data Science & AI Technology, at the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency. After a 15 year career in industry as solution architect, data scientist and consultant in Big Data, Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Arvid joined NATO as one of the first Data Scientists in the NCI Agency. He participates in shaping Data Science & AI in NATO, its vision and roadmap. As Lead Data Science & AI Technology, he works with the team, academia and industry to adapt most promising and innovative technologies to real NATO use cases, resulting in several published scientific articles.

PROFESSOR JEROEN VAN DEN HOVEN
Professor of Ethics and Technology 
Delft University of Technology
PROFESSOR JEROEN VAN DEN HOVEN
Professor of Ethics and Technology 
Delft University of Technology

Jeroen van den Hoven is university professor and full professor of Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology and editor in chief of Ethics and Information Technology. He is currently the scientific director of the Delft Design for Values Institute. He was the founding scientific director of 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology (2007-2013). In 2009, he won the World Technology Award for Ethics as well as the IFIP prize for ICT and Society for his work in Ethics and ICT. Jeroen van den Hoven was founder, and until 2016 Programme Chair, of the program of the Dutch Research Council on Responsible Innovation. He published Designing in Ethics (Van den Hoven, Miller & Pogge eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Evil Online (Cocking & Van den Hoven, Blackwell, 2018) He is a permanent member of the European Group on Ethics (EGE) to the European Commission. In 2017 he was knighted in the Order of the Lion of The Netherlands.

GEORGIOS PASSALIS
MANAGING DIRECTOR, CUSTOMER ANALYTICS EUROPE LEAD
ACCENTURE APPLIED INTELLIGENCE
GEORGIOS PASSALIS
MANAGING DIRECTOR, CUSTOMER ANALYTICS EUROPE LEAD
ACCENTURE APPLIED INTELLIGENCE

Georgios Passalis is a Managing Director at Accenture Applied Intelligence, leading Customer, Marketing & Sales Analytics across Europe. He is the head of Accenture’s Advanced Analytics Innovation Center located at Athens, Greece. He has been with Accenture for 11+ years helping Accenture’s global clients formulate, adopt and execute enterprise solutions combining Machine Learning, AI and Big Data. Georgios holds a PhD in Machine Learning from University of Athens, a MSc in Computer Science from University of Houston and a BSc in Computer Science from University of Athens. He has multiple publications in the Machine Learning domain on acclaimed journals and conferences.

IOANA PUSCAS
Tech & Security Researcher AI
UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) 
IOANA PUSCAS
Tech & Security Researcher AI
UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) 

Ioana Puscas is a Researcher on artificial intelligence with UNIDIR’s Security & Technology Programme. Her work covers various aspects of AI and autonomy, including ongoing multilateral processes.

Before joining UNIDIR, Ioana was Senior Research Officer at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), working on emerging technologies.

She holds master’s degrees from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) and from Central European University. She speaks English, French, Romanian and basic Russian.

Ioana’s areas of expertise include artificial intelligence, machine learning, military human enhancement, emerging technologies and technological convergence.

KUTLU KAZANCI
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
CREATIVE DESTRUCTION LAB (SAID BUSINESS SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)
 
KUTLU KAZANCI
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
CREATIVE DESTRUCTION LAB (SAID BUSINESS SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)
 
MICK VLEESHOUWER
AI CLOUD SOLUTION ARCHITECT
MICROSOFT
MICK VLEESHOUWER
AI CLOUD SOLUTION ARCHITECT
MICROSOFT
HARMKE ALKEMADE
AI CLOUD SOLUTION ARCHITECT
MICROSOFT
 
HARMKE ALKEMADE
AI CLOUD SOLUTION ARCHITECT
MICROSOFT
 
JIM THOMASON
VP OF IMAGERY PRODUCTS
PLANET
 
JIM THOMASON
VP OF IMAGERY PRODUCTS
PLANET
 
ANDREAS KREMER
PARTNER
MCKINSEY & COMPANY
CEO
RISK DYNAMICS
 
ANDREAS KREMER
PARTNER
MCKINSEY & COMPANY
CEO
RISK DYNAMICS
 
JAY ALAMMAR
ENGINEERING FELLOW, NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
COHERE
 
JAY ALAMMAR
ENGINEERING FELLOW, NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
COHERE
 
SOPHIA SAVVIDES
LEADER - DIGITAL VENTURES FOR SUSTAINABILITY
CARGILL
 
SOPHIA SAVVIDES
LEADER - DIGITAL VENTURES FOR SUSTAINABILITY
CARGILL
 
MARIJN MARKUS 
AI Lead - Managing Data Scientist
Capgemini 
 
MARIJN MARKUS 
AI Lead - Managing Data Scientist
Capgemini 
 

As a data scientist, Marijn has been leading Capgemini’s AI efforts for 5 years. Marijn believes in improving people’s lives through data – be it for governments, NGO’s, refugees or farmers worldwide.

 

He enjoys finding outside-of-the-box solutions to existing problems, to distinguish science from fiction. Additionally, Marijn is a frequent speaker at events on the cutting edge of AI, data and social science.

FOLKERT STRAUS
CHIEF ENGINEER
BRUNEL SOLAR TEAM (HP)
 
FOLKERT STRAUS
CHIEF ENGINEER
BRUNEL SOLAR TEAM (HP)
 
ALINDA DERSJANT
TECHNICAL MANAGER
BRUNEL SOLAR TEAM (HP)
 
ALINDA DERSJANT
TECHNICAL MANAGER
BRUNEL SOLAR TEAM (HP)
 
ANGLE BUSH
FOUNDER
BLACK WOMEN IN A.I
 
ANGLE BUSH
FOUNDER
BLACK WOMEN IN A.I
 
SEEMA PREM
CEO & C0-Founder 
FIA Global 
SEEMA PREM
CEO & C0-Founder 
FIA Global 

Seema, co-founded FIA in 2012. She was influenced by her childhood spent in some of the most inaccessible terrains in India, with a desire to work towards reducing the inequities she witnessed. FIA is focused on using technology to drive inclusion – economic, digital & financial – of the un(der) served and economically weaker sections. 

 

At FIA, Seema is responsible for innovation in financial products and services so as to cater to the needs of the un(der) served. She also leads FIA’s expansion globally. Prior to FIA, Seema has managed transformation programs in IT, Mobility and Operations, in the US, Europe & India.

 

Seema has done a Sloan Fellows MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and prior to it an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur and a BTech in Electronics & Communications from Kerala University. 

 

Seema is also a UN-NITI Aayog Women Transforming India awardee. In addition to FIA, Seema’s interests include affordable healthcare and sustainable waste management solutions for every household.

KATE DEVLIN 
Reader in Artificial Intelligence & Society
King's College London
 
KATE DEVLIN 
Reader in Artificial Intelligence & Society
King's College London
 

Dr Kate Devlin is Reader in Artificial Intelligence & Society, King’s College London. Her research investigates how people interact with and react to technologies, both past and future. Kate is the author of the critically acclaimed Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots (Bloomsbury, 2018), which examines the ethical and social implications of technology and intimacy. She is Advocacy and Engagement director for the UKRI Trusted Autonomous Systems Hub – a collaborative platform to enable the development of socially beneficial robotics and artificial intelligence systems that are both trustworthy in principle and trusted in practice.

MARISSA ZHOU
DIRECTOR OF SECURITY AI
ACCENTURE
     
MARISSA ZHOU
DIRECTOR OF SECURITY AI
ACCENTURE
     
ASGHAR GHORBANI
LEAD DATA SCIENTIST
H20.AI
 
ASGHAR GHORBANI
LEAD DATA SCIENTIST
H20.AI
 
REBECCA FINLAY
CEO
PARTNERSHIP ON AI (PAI)
   
REBECCA FINLAY
CEO
PARTNERSHIP ON AI (PAI)
   
DAAN VAN ES
PRODUCT OWNER ML ENGINEERING
ROYAL HASKONINGDHV DIGITAL
 
DAAN VAN ES
PRODUCT OWNER ML ENGINEERING
ROYAL HASKONINGDHV DIGITAL
 
VERITY COYLE 
Senior Advisor 
Amnesty International 
     
VERITY COYLE 
Senior Advisor 
Amnesty International 
     
FRANS VAN BRUGGEN
Policy Officer FinTech & Artificial Intelligence
Dutch Central Bank
       
FRANS VAN BRUGGEN
Policy Officer FinTech & Artificial Intelligence
Dutch Central Bank
       

Frans is responsible for the regulation and supervision of AI in the financial industry. Before working at DNB he was responsible for the regulation of AI in the Dutch Healthcare industry. Frans is also a Phd candidate, where he is researching the role of public values in the effectiveness and  legitimacy of regulatory agencies.

ALLISON COHEN
Applied AI Projects Lead + AI for Humanity
Mila - Quebec AI Institute
ALLISON COHEN
Applied AI Projects Lead + AI for Humanity
Mila - Quebec AI Institute
GINA ROMERO
CEO
Connected Women
GINA ROMERO
CEO
Connected Women

Gina Romero is the co-founder and CEO of Connected Women, a social impact tech startup that matches talented Filipino women with meaningful remote work opportunities. She’s an unconventional entrepreneur, community builder, and technology advocate.

 

Gina is an unconventional entrepreneur and community builder. She was a founding member of The Athena Network (UK) women’s business network in 2005 and went on to be the Operations Director in 2008.


In 2011, after relocating to Singapore with her family, Gina launched The Athena Network Singapore.


As part of her mission to better equip women entrepreneurs and professionals with the technology skills to scale their businesses and careers, Gina launched Connected Women (Singapore) in 2013 and the Connected Women Magazine in 2014.

In 2016 she set her heart on helping Filipino women and moved to the Philippines. In 2017 she co-founded Connected Women Jobs, a social impact tech startup that matches talented Filipino women with meaningful remote work opportunities.

Connected Women runs a number of initiatives that provide technology skills training and online job matching and aims to impact 100,000 women in the Philippines. They have received global recognition in the categories of inclusive innovation (Asia/USA), the future of work (UK), and e-employment (Switzerland).

In October 2020, Gina was awarded as a Finalist of the prestigious “Asia CEO Awards’ in the Shero of the Year category.

PAMELA GUPTA
AI CYBERSECURITY CHAIR
IEEE STANDARDS ASSOCIATION
   
PAMELA GUPTA
AI CYBERSECURITY CHAIR
IEEE STANDARDS ASSOCIATION
   
GARY FOWLER 
CEO & Founder
GSD Venture Studios
GARY FOWLER 
CEO & Founder
GSD Venture Studios

 

PATRICK MAES
Managing Director - Global Head Bank User Solutions
Credit Suisse
 
PATRICK MAES
Managing Director - Global Head Bank User Solutions
Credit Suisse
 
ROHIT KUMBHAR
AI Solutions Lead - Europe
Accenture
 
ROHIT KUMBHAR
AI Solutions Lead - Europe
Accenture
 

Rohit, based out of Amsterdam, works with clients in Europe to deliver business value & digital transformation through pre-configured AI solutions from Accenture. He comes with a strong background in AI & Intelligent Automation Consulting & Implementation across industries & geographies.

HAMID EL BOUAZZAOUYI
APPLIED INTELLIGENCE NL GO-TO-MARKET LEAD
ACCENTURE
HAMID EL BOUAZZAOUYI
APPLIED INTELLIGENCE NL GO-TO-MARKET LEAD
ACCENTURE

As the Senior Manager, Applied Intelligence within Accenture Hamid helps organizations in the journey of Data Led Transformation touching from Cloud to Augmented Insights. He is responsible for the A.I Go to Market strategy. Hamid brings a myriad of cross-industry experience and is passionate about data, digital innovation and people.

LINDA BERNARDI
Founder and CEO  
XdMind
 
LINDA BERNARDI
Founder and CEO  
XdMind
 
GAVIN STARKS 
CEO
Icebreaker One
GAVIN STARKS 
CEO
Icebreaker One

Hello,

Data is now a fundamental part of our economy, society and environment—we live in a data-enabled world. We also face vast societal challenges where data can work harder to help us make better decisions.

I’ve spent 20 years helping to make our data infrastructure useful to everyone: creating and leading businesses, bringing together the web, finance, policy, data, science, the environment, art and media. This has led to the creation of dozens of companies, the employment of 100’s of people, and £100Ms in measurable impact (including $137M in four years at the ODI) and helping to create $multi-billion markets* through the development of regulated markets such as the Open Banking Standard.

Working together, we have tackled complex challenges ranging from climate change to government transparency; digital supply-chains to open banking. My ambition is to create positive impact@web-scale on issues that require the coordination of multidisciplinary teams across private, public and third sectors. Harnessing the power of people and machines (‘collective intelligence’), our current Dgen Constellation projects include the internationalisation of Open Finance and making data work harder to deliver net-zero via IcebreakerOne.org (which launched at Davos in 2020 and delivered over $5M in grant-funded innovation in its first year of operation).

If you are interested in receiving ideas and notes of events, please subscribe to my personal newsletter.

Best,
Gavin

PROFESSOR ANNA SCAIFE
Professor of Radio Astronomy
University of Manchester
 
PROFESSOR ANNA SCAIFE
Professor of Radio Astronomy
University of Manchester
 

Anna Scaife (PhD Cantab) is Professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on the use of artificial intelligence for discovery in data-intensive astrophysics and in 2019 she was appointed as one of the five inaugural AI Fellows of the UK’s Alan Turing Institute. She has previously led a number of projects in technical radio astronomy development and scientific computing as part of the Square Kilometre Array project, including the design of the computing and storage for a European SKA Regional Data Centre.

 

In addition to her scientific work, Anna runs two training programs that provide bursaries for students from Southern Africa and Latin America to pursue graduate degrees in the UK focusing on big data and data intensive science. In 2014, Anna was honoured by the World Economic Forum as one of thirty scientists under the age of 40 selected for their contributions to advancing the frontiers of science, engineering or technology in areas of high societal impact. In 2017 she was awarded the Blaauw Chair in Astrophysics (prize chair) at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands for excellence in research, broad knowledge of astronomy and an outstanding international status in astronomy. In 2019, Anna received the Jackson-Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, awarded for outstanding invention, improvement, or development of astronomical instrumentation or techniques.

PROFESSOR SHIRLEY HO
FOUNDER & CSO
PARALLAXIS TECHNOLOGIES
GROUP LEADER
COSMOLOGY X DATA SCIENCE
CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS
FLATIRON INSTITUTE
 
PROFESSOR SHIRLEY HO
FOUNDER & CSO
PARALLAXIS TECHNOLOGIES
GROUP LEADER
COSMOLOGY X DATA SCIENCE
CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS
FLATIRON INSTITUTE
 
JOUKJE KEUNING
Director of Infra 2025, Representative
Vitens, Smart Water Networks Forum (SWAN)
JOUKJE KEUNING
Director of Infra 2025, Representative
Vitens, Smart Water Networks Forum (SWAN)

Joukje Keuning  is Director of Infra 2025 within Vitens. She is a civil engineer and has done lots of different jobs at drinking water companies: from process engineer, to project manager, to manager of the central control room, to business change manager and now program manager for the digitalization of the purifying and distribution process within Vitens. 

The Infra 2025 program is designed to scale smart grid solutions across Vitens. Innovation typically starts with just a good idea, beyond that this program is based on an approved business case. So we scale digital solutions to improve the process of water purification and distribution based on clearly articulated benefits that outweigh the costs of the operation.

PIETER JEEKEL 
Chairman
Dutch AI Coalition: Wellbeing + Healthcare
     
PIETER JEEKEL 
Chairman
Dutch AI Coalition: Wellbeing + Healthcare
     
RYAN RA ONG
Program Manager - Customer Assistant
Google - Virtual Assistants
   
RYAN RA ONG
Program Manager - Customer Assistant
Google - Virtual Assistants
   

Ryan is a strategic innovator with a global outlook and currently works on conversational assistants at Google’s headquarters. Prior to Google, Ryan lived in 10 countries with a range of international working experience with Airbnb in London, a tech startup in Silicon Valley, a hospitality group in Vietnam and a marketing consultancy in China.

SEONG HO LEE
DATA SCIENCE CONSULTANT
ACCENTURE
 
SEONG HO LEE
DATA SCIENCE CONSULTANT
ACCENTURE
 
MARLOES POMP
International Partnerships
Netherlands AI Coalition & Steering Committee European AI Forum
MARLOES POMP
International Partnerships
Netherlands AI Coalition & Steering Committee European AI Forum

Marloes Pomp is the Initiator and Program Officer for the blockchain and AI projects within the Dutch Government, including projects in the field of digital identities, logistics, healthcare, finance and food. She is also responsible for the international strategy and partnerships of the Dutch Blockchain Coalition  and the National AI Coalition. Both coalitions are a jointly developed partnership by government, industry and knowledge institutions. Together they have a leading role and joint responsibility for the success of the solving societal challenges and making a major contribution to new economic activities.

 

She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the European AI Forum, a

platform where entrepreneurs and policymakers get together to jointly determine the path forward for European AI innovation. 

 

Marloes her professional interests focus on tech-innovation within governments. Prior to the blockchain and AI activities, Marloes Pomp worked in several roles like project leader and researcher at governmental organizations, including the ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations and the city of Amsterdam. In addition, she serves as an advisory member for the SIDN Fund, the Dutch Court, The Blockchain and the Society Board of the University of Amsterdam (VU)

EFSTRATIOS TSOUGENIS
DIRECTOR OF RESPONSIBLE AI & TECH RISK CoE
PRUDENTIAL PLC
 
EFSTRATIOS TSOUGENIS
DIRECTOR OF RESPONSIBLE AI & TECH RISK CoE
PRUDENTIAL PLC
 
ALAN NAFIIEV
CEO & FOUNDER
RECEPTORAI
 
ALAN NAFIIEV
CEO & FOUNDER
RECEPTORAI
 
ANASTASIA LIT
INVESTOR RELATIONS
DEEP KNOWLEDGE GROUP
   
ANASTASIA LIT
INVESTOR RELATIONS
DEEP KNOWLEDGE GROUP
   
EAMONN CAREY
Investor
Tera Ventures
 
EAMONN CAREY
Investor
Tera Ventures
 
MARIA MORAIS
STRATEGY DIRECTOR - CONSUMER INDUSTRIES EMEA
SAP
CHAIR
CIRCKLO
   
MARIA MORAIS
STRATEGY DIRECTOR - CONSUMER INDUSTRIES EMEA
SAP
CHAIR
CIRCKLO
   

Maria Morais is an Innovative, results-oriented leader with a 15+ years successful track record in complex business transformation initiatives in consumer industries. Maria is the SAP consumer industries director for EMEA N, leading early adoption campaigns for industry cloud solutions. 

 

Maria is also de chair of Circklo, the leading trusted advisor for hundreds of digital native start ups looking to fundraise pre seed, seed and series A rounds.

PAUL O'CALLAGHAM
Founder + CEO
BlueTech Research + Brave Blue World Foundation
 
PAUL O'CALLAGHAM
Founder + CEO
BlueTech Research + Brave Blue World Foundation
 
CACO BAIBICH
CTO
Kando
CACO BAIBICH
CTO
Kando
LINDA LEOPOLD
Head of Responsible AI & Data
H&M
 
LINDA LEOPOLD
Head of Responsible AI & Data
H&M
 

Linda Leopold is Head of Responsible AI & Data at global fashion retailer H&M Group, where she leads the company’s work on sustainable and ethical artificial intelligence and data. She joined the AI department at H&M Group in 2018, after many years in the media industry. She is a former Editor-in-Chief at the critically acclaimed fashion and culture magazine Bon, and the author of two non-fiction books. She has been a columnist for Scandinavia’s biggest financial newspaper and has worked as an innovation strategist at the intersection of fashion and tech. Her passion lies in merging fashion and culture with science and technology. 

KIM PARNELL
Head of Partner Relations
The Knowledge Society (TKS)
KIM PARNELL
Head of Partner Relations
The Knowledge Society (TKS)
BAS OTTE
GENERAL MANAGER - TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO, DATA, PROCESS & SYSTEMS
SHELL
   
BAS OTTE
GENERAL MANAGER - TECHNOLOGY PORTFOLIO, DATA, PROCESS & SYSTEMS
SHELL
   
MAXIME LENORMAND
GEOSPATIAL DATA SCIENCE
OVERSTORY
 
MAXIME LENORMAND
GEOSPATIAL DATA SCIENCE
OVERSTORY
 
KAIT CREAMER
STORYTELLER
OVERSTORY
 
KAIT CREAMER
STORYTELLER
OVERSTORY
 
TOBY WALSH 
Professor of AI
UNSW Sydney
       
TOBY WALSH 
Professor of AI
UNSW Sydney
       

Toby Walsh is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of AI at UNSW and CSIRO Data61, and adjunct professor at QUT. He is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives, having spoken at the UN, and to heads of state, parliamentary bodies, company boards and many other bodies on this topic. He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science, and was named on the international “Who’s Who in AI” list of influencers. He has authored three books on AI for a general audience, the most recent entitled “Machines Behaving Badly: the morality of AI”.

LAUREN RAZAVI 
Global Natives: The New Frontiers of Work, Travel, and Innovation
Author
     
LAUREN RAZAVI 
Global Natives: The New Frontiers of Work, Travel, and Innovation
Author
     
AMNA HABIBA
Founder
BloomED Foundation
AMNA HABIBA
Founder
BloomED Foundation
CATHERINE BRESLIN
Founder
Kingfisher Labs
CATHERINE BRESLIN
Founder
Kingfisher Labs

Catherine is a machine learning scientist and consultant based in Cambridge UK, and founder of Kingfisher Labs consulting. 

 

Since completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2008, she has built commercial and academic experience of automatic speech recognition, natural language understanding and human-computer dialogue systems. 

 

Catherine has previously worked at Cambridge University, Toshiba Research, Amazon Alexa, and Cobalt Speech. 

 

She is excited by the application of research to real-world problems involving speech and language at scale. 

NAEEM KOMEILIPOOR
FOUNDER AND CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
AAVAA
 
NAEEM KOMEILIPOOR
FOUNDER AND CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
AAVAA
 
ALEXANDRE LAVALLEE
CEO
SELAS STUDIO
 
ALEXANDRE LAVALLEE
CEO
SELAS STUDIO
 
ALEXANDER KAUNAS
CTO
POMPOM
 
ALEXANDER KAUNAS
CTO
POMPOM
 
MARK STOEVELAR
CTO Innovation Team
City of Amsterdam
 
MARK STOEVELAR
CTO Innovation Team
City of Amsterdam
 
BUSTER FRANKEN
CEO
FruitPunchAI
 
BUSTER FRANKEN
CEO
FruitPunchAI
 

Buster is the founder of FruitPunch AI, the global community teaching and applying AI for Good through real-world challenges with partners like the European Space Agency and the wildlife rangers of South Africa (1,500 AI engineers and growing).

 

Buster has an academic background in brain computer interfacing at Eindhoven University of Technology where he helped to build the AI Research Institute (EAISI) and now works full time at FruitPunch AI after attracting VC funding.

COCO ANTONISSEN
ADVISOR SATELLITE APPLICATIONS
NETHERLANDS SPACE OFFICE (NSO)
COCO ANTONISSEN
ADVISOR SATELLITE APPLICATIONS
NETHERLANDS SPACE OFFICE (NSO)
RED BOUMGHAR
CEO & FOUNDER
PARAMENTRY.AI
 
RED BOUMGHAR
CEO & FOUNDER
PARAMENTRY.AI
 
CHIARA MOENTER
CO-FOUNDER
SDG 18: SPACE FOR ALL
     
CHIARA MOENTER
CO-FOUNDER
SDG 18: SPACE FOR ALL
     
GABRIELLA OBISPA
LEAD-TECHNOLOGIES | POLITICS DIVISION
SPACEFLUENCERS
 
GABRIELLA OBISPA
LEAD-TECHNOLOGIES | POLITICS DIVISION
SPACEFLUENCERS
 
CHANTAL SITARAM
CO-LEAD TECHNOLOGIES | POLITICS DIVISION
SPACEFLUENCERS
 
CHANTAL SITARAM
CO-LEAD TECHNOLOGIES | POLITICS DIVISION
SPACEFLUENCERS
 
SAVIER ATYA
CO-FOUNDER
SPACEFLUENCERS
 
SAVIER ATYA
CO-FOUNDER
SPACEFLUENCERS
 
LOURD WASTEEN
STUDENT
TU DELFT
     
LOURD WASTEEN
STUDENT
TU DELFT
     
JORRIT VELZEBOER
FOUNDER & CTO
YOM
   
JORRIT VELZEBOER
FOUNDER & CTO
YOM
   
XANDER SIMMS
FOUNDER & CEO
DIGITAL STORYTELLERS INC
 
XANDER SIMMS
FOUNDER & CEO
DIGITAL STORYTELLERS INC
 
MARCO MORALES
TEAM MEMBER
SPACEFLUENCERS
 
MARCO MORALES
TEAM MEMBER
SPACEFLUENCERS
 
SAKO ARTS 
CTO AND CO-FOUNDER
FRUITPUNCH AI
 
SAKO ARTS 
CTO AND CO-FOUNDER
FRUITPUNCH AI
 
AIK VAN EEMEREN
Head of Public Tech, CTO Office
City of Amsterdam
AIK VAN EEMEREN
Head of Public Tech, CTO Office
City of Amsterdam
PASCAL WIGGERS
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF RESPONSIBLE AI
HOGESCHOOL VAN AMSTERDAM
 
PASCAL WIGGERS
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF RESPONSIBLE AI
HOGESCHOOL VAN AMSTERDAM
 
EFSTRATIOS GAVVES
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM
SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR
QUVA DEEP VISION LAB
 
EFSTRATIOS GAVVES
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM
SCIENTIFIC DIRECTOR
QUVA DEEP VISION LAB
 
BERNA KESKINDEMIR
LEGAL ADVISOR
ECNL
 
BERNA KESKINDEMIR
LEGAL ADVISOR
ECNL
 

Berna (she/her) is a Legal Advisor at ECNL specialized in human rights, civic freedoms and community engagement and empowerment strategies. She works at the different intersections of ECNL’s work on civic space, technology and counter terrorism. More specifically, she focusses on the impact of counter terrorism and/or technology related legislation and policies on civil society and coordinates ECNL’s capacity building activities for (non-digital) civil society groups. Before joining ECNL, she worked as a network coordinator of the Human Rights NGO platform in the Netherlands (Breed Mensenrechten Overleg – BMO) focusing on (global) civic space trends. She has also worked as a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam teaching ethics and philosophy of law, human rights, and politics.

JILL TOH
CO-FOUNDER
THE RACISM AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER
 
JILL TOH
CO-FOUNDER
THE RACISM AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER
 

Jill Toh is co-founder and secretary of the Racism and Technology Center, a non-profit organisation based in Amsterdam. She is also a PhD researcher at the Institute for Information Law (University of Amsterdam), and her interdisciplinary research looks at data governance and algorithmic management in the platform economy. In particular, it explores the constitutive and transformative potential of the law to construct worker power towards social justice ends.

DIMITRIS MICHAILIDIS
RESEARCHER
CIVIC AI
 
DIMITRIS MICHAILIDIS
RESEARCHER
CIVIC AI
 

Mobility Project

In the mobility project, we aim to develop machine learning algorithms that extract mobility patterns, measure mobility poverty, and recommend flows to eliminate it.

About him:

Dimitris obtained his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and his master’s degree in Data Science at the University of Amsterdam. Prior to joining the Civic-AI lab, he has worked as a software engineer, a web developer, and a data analyst. His research interests include tackling social inequalities, facilitating public service, and promoting data literacy.

MERELDA WU
CO-FOUNDER AND CEO
MELIO AI
 
MERELDA WU
CO-FOUNDER AND CEO
MELIO AI
 
PATRICK VAN OSTA
Chief Commercial Officer
Predictive Layer
PATRICK VAN OSTA
Chief Commercial Officer
Predictive Layer

After an initial career in derivatives trading in Brussels and London, Patrick did a professional reboot into IT, IT project Management and ultimately sales of complex B2B SaaS software solutions, with companies such as BirchStreet Systems, Ivalua Inc, Ivalua SAS and Zycus Infotech. In each of these roles, his main deliverable has been sales growth and sales team growth. Today, Patrick brings his experience to Predictive Layer as Chief Commercial Officer, working closely with the founders to execute the corporate strategy. Patrick is based in the Netherlands and, in his spare time, enjoys travel, gastronomy, photography and music, together with his wife.

JEAN-PHILIPPE M.L. SCHEPENS 
CEO and Founder
AxonJay.ai
       
JEAN-PHILIPPE M.L. SCHEPENS 
CEO and Founder
AxonJay.ai
       
PATRICK ST-AMANT
FOUNDER & CEO
ZETANE SYSTEMS INC
 
PATRICK ST-AMANT
FOUNDER & CEO
ZETANE SYSTEMS INC
 

Patrick St-Amant is the CTO and cofounder of Zetane. He is the inventor of Zetane’s technology and leads the development of Zetane Protector (ML model robustness testing and evaluation) and Zetane Insight Engine (model introspection 3D engine). He has successfully led over 15 end-to-end ML projects with industrial clients and partners in the fields of defense, aerospace, construction, energy, 3D simulation and manufacturing. Over the last five years, he met with over 200 leaders and data scientists in the field of AI and ML. Before Zetane, he was a passionate mathematics professor that supervised over 100 student projects which each led to novel mathematical discoveries. He did PhD studies in mathematics (category theory) at the University of Ottawa (2007). He was invited to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2006 & 2007) where he presented his work on a new universal mathematical language. He has a MSc degree in computer science and mathematics (UQAM) and holds the patent “Scalable Transform Processing Unit for Heterogeneous Data”.

MELISSA WIJNGAARDEN
CO - FOUNDER
IMPACTBYTES
 
MELISSA WIJNGAARDEN
CO - FOUNDER
IMPACTBYTES
 
HERMAN KIENHUIS
CO - FOUNDER, MANAGING PARTNER
CURIOSITY VC
HERMAN KIENHUIS
CO - FOUNDER, MANAGING PARTNER
CURIOSITY VC
NANDA PIERSMA 
Scientific Director HvA Centre of Expertise Applied Artificial Intelligence
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
   
NANDA PIERSMA 
Scientific Director HvA Centre of Expertise Applied Artificial Intelligence
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
   
LAYLA LI 
CEO
KOSA AI
   
LAYLA LI 
CEO
KOSA AI
   
FLORENS GREBNER
CO - FOUNDER
NEUROCAT
   
FLORENS GREBNER
CO - FOUNDER
NEUROCAT
   

Florens Greßner, is a Mathematician with the focus on Statistics and Optimization. After diving  into the abstracts of academic Mathematics he realized that real world applications, such as Machine Learning, suffer from the absence of profound mathematical understanding and a structured approach towards optimizing respective quality parameters.

 

At the age of 22 he co-founded neurocat to concentrate his efforts to pave the way for a safe and innovative future, by consulting the industry in risk assessment, robustness, and interpretability of AI systems. For 5 years he gained experience in AI Quality Consulting and the development of respective Test Methods and Strategies in several domains such as Automated Driving, Unmanned Aircraft, Chatbots, Voice Assistants and Virtual Sensors.

PIETER LUITJENS
CO - FOUNDER & CTO
PRIVATE AI
   
PIETER LUITJENS
CO - FOUNDER & CTO
PRIVATE AI
   

Pieter Luitjens has a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Western Australia as well as a Masters from the University of Toronto. He worked on software for Mercedes-Benz and developed the first deep learning algorithms for traffic sign recognition deployed in cars made by one of the most prestigious car manufacturers in the world. He has over 10 years of engineering experience with code deployed in multi-billion dollar industrial projects. Pieter specializes in ML edge deployment & model optimization for resource-constrained environments.

IZABELA ZRAZINSKA
SENIOR EU PROJECT MANAGER & AI CLUSTER TEAM LEADER
FUNDINGBOX
 
IZABELA ZRAZINSKA
SENIOR EU PROJECT MANAGER & AI CLUSTER TEAM LEADER
FUNDINGBOX
 

She has more than 7 years of experience in project management and cascade funding calls in EU projects focused on supporting the deep tech ecosystem in verticals such as AI, IoT, Robotics, Industry 4.0 and Digitization. Currently responsible for coordinating a team of Project Managers involved in AI-related projects.

THOMAS WILCZEK
PROJECT MANAGER OF I - NERGY
FUNDINGBOX
 
THOMAS WILCZEK
PROJECT MANAGER OF I - NERGY
FUNDINGBOX
 

Project Manager at FundingBox since 2018 managing cascade funding, tech transfer programmes and community building activities in H2020 projects. Currently with particular focus on Artificial intelligence (I-NERGY) and NGI (eSSIF-Lab) domains. Thomas is a Project Manager and Business Developer with extensive international experience having previously in his career co-founded a tech startup in the creative industries and worked with SaaS and digital content startups, marketing agencies, brands and media.

URSZULA SOBEK
PROJECT MANAGER OF STAIRWAI
FUNDINGBOX
 
URSZULA SOBEK
PROJECT MANAGER OF STAIRWAI
FUNDINGBOX
 

Project Manager at Fundingbox, since 2007 she has been involved in innovation, IT and R&D projects on the national and international levels. She has 4 years of experience in managing the cascade funding calls in EU projects with a particular focus on the Artificial intelligence domain ( AI4EU, StairwAI and ELISE ).

KIM VIGILIA
VP STRATEGY
HUMANISING AUTONOMY
 
KIM VIGILIA
VP STRATEGY
HUMANISING AUTONOMY
 

 

Kim is a strategic leader with a passion for technology and its impact on the world. With roots in advertising, communications and behavioural psychology, Kim has cultivated a career in global marketing, product development, experiential design and business strategy. 

Prior to joining Humanising Autonomy, Kim co-founded a conference firm aimed at incubating nascent industries and built the events and experiences team and strategy at WIRED UK.

WOUTER KROESE
CO-FOUNDER 
PACMED
   
WOUTER KROESE
CO-FOUNDER 
PACMED
   

Wouter Kroese studied both medicine and logic, and founded Pacmed after participating in the Dutch National ThinkTank together with Willem Herter and Hidde Hovenkamp. 

Wouter is responsible for all medical matters at Pacmed, ranging from long term strategy to setting up medical partnerships. 

Pacmed develops and implements AI based clinical decision support systems to help doctors have their patients leave the ICU healthy and in time and to reduce the pressure on hospital personnel and capacity. 

Pacmed has recently successfully launched the first version of their product Pacmed Critical that supports safe and timely discharge from the ICU in the Amsterdam UMC and is currently implementing and improving their software in a large collaboration in the Santeon group.

JESSICA VAN DER HOEK
MEDICAL OFFICER
ELLOGON.ai
 
JESSICA VAN DER HOEK
MEDICAL OFFICER
ELLOGON.ai
 
CARL PRATT
Founder and Director 
FuturePlanet 
 
CARL PRATT
Founder and Director 
FuturePlanet 
 
SHARON O'DEA 
Founder
Lithos Partners
       
SHARON O'DEA 
Founder
Lithos Partners
       

Sharon O’Dea, Founder, Lithos Partners Sharon O’Dea is an experienced digital strategist, advising complex organizations on digital workplace technologies and the future of work.

 

A regular writer and speaker on the role of digital in a changing world of work, Sharon is co-author of two books and host of Fujitsu’s Future of Work podcast series. She was was a founding member of the CIPR’s AI in PR panel, looking at the impact of artificial intelligence on the communications profession.

 

Organisations Sharon has collaborated with include HSBC, Credit Suisse, Allen & Overy, Standard Chartered Bank, Shell, DSM, Barnardo’s, the Houses of Parliament, UK Research and Innovation and the Department for International Trade.

ANANT SHARMA
CEO 
Matter of Form
 
ANANT SHARMA
CEO 
Matter of Form
 
HAJO VAN BEIJMA
Founder 
Atilax
     
HAJO VAN BEIJMA
Founder 
Atilax
     

Founder at Meerkat, an AI driven recruitment platform. Meerkat is a Machine Learning platform that learns from your previous successful and unsuccessful matches. The Machine Learning model is developed using the BERT Language model which is a transformers based learning technique for natural language processing.Hajo is an entrepreneur who operates as an international leader in the field of technology and human behavior. Hajo combines commercial focus with user centered design principles growing projects and organizations from basic ideas to internationally scaled-up successful enterprises. Hajo’s passion and purpose is building creative teams around new tech driven ideas with the goal of influencing people’s lives. Hajo is a member of the World Economic Forum group of Young Global Leaders since 2014 and has been trained at Harvard, Oxford, Singularity University, Insead, and THNK. Hajo is the co-author of many publications on the use of mobile technologies in emerging markets and received a UN leadership award from the deputy Secretary General in 2014 for his work. Hajo is also involved as a shareholder and advisor for SingularityU in the Benelux region.

TUDOR MILHAILESCU
CO-FOUNDER
SPEECHIFAI INC
   
TUDOR MILHAILESCU
CO-FOUNDER
SPEECHIFAI INC
   
VALENTIN KASSARNIG
CO-FOUNDER & CTO
SPEECHIFAI INC
 
VALENTIN KASSARNIG
CO-FOUNDER & CTO
SPEECHIFAI INC
 
VAIKKUNTH MUGUNTHAN
CEO AND CO - FOUNDER
DYNAMOFL
 
VAIKKUNTH MUGUNTHAN
CEO AND CO - FOUNDER
DYNAMOFL
 

Vaikkunth Mugunthan is the CEO and Co-Founder of DynamoFL. He spearheads the AI/ML research team at DynamoFL and focuses on training personalized and privacy-preserving ML models using federated learning and differential privacy. Vaikkunth received his SM and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

LEANDRO DUARTE
Technical Product Owner
Grupo Primavera
LEANDRO DUARTE
Technical Product Owner
Grupo Primavera
ADRIANA EUFROSINA BORA
Project Lead - AIMS (AI against Modern Slavery)
Queensland University of Technology
   
ADRIANA EUFROSINA BORA
Project Lead - AIMS (AI against Modern Slavery)
Queensland University of Technology
   

Adriana Bora is a PhD Candidate in the School of Mathematical Sciences at the Queensland University of Technology, and the Project Lead of Project AIMS (AI against Modern Slavery) developed now at Mila, AI for Humanity.

Adriana is listed as one of the 20 Rising Stars in AI Ethics 2022 and won the UNESCO International Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI)’s AI Award 2021 for her efforts to develop AI solutions to combat modern slavery, contributing to SDG 8, Target 8.7.

Her research focuses on applying machine learning in analysing and benchmarking the businesses’ reports published following the Modern Slavery Acts from the UK and Australia.

 

Throughout her membership and involvement in Code 8.7, DataJam, Traffick Analysis Hub and the MIT Computational Law Report Task Force on Modern Slavery, she has been working and connecting an interdisciplinary, global community, collaborating in the fight against modern slavery with technological-driven solutions.

 

Adriana is also the Queensland Community Lead of Women in AI (WAI) Australia, working towards increasing female representation and participation in AI.

 

Adriana holds a Master’s Degree in International Public Management from Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA). She has also studied at the University of Hong Kong and holds a diploma in International Relations and Advanced Quantitative Methods from the University of Essex.

CLAUDIA PINHAO
UX/UI DESIGNER
CITY OF AMSTERDAM
 
CLAUDIA PINHAO
UX/UI DESIGNER
CITY OF AMSTERDAM
 
SEBASTIAN BRUHN
DIGITALISATION CONSULTANT
CITY OF COPENHAGEN
SEBASTIAN BRUHN
DIGITALISATION CONSULTANT
CITY OF COPENHAGEN
IVA GORNISHKA
AI SPECIALIST
CITY OF AMSTERDAM
 
IVA GORNISHKA
AI SPECIALIST
CITY OF AMSTERDAM
 
KAISA SIBELIUS
PROJECT COORDINATOR
FORUM VIRIUM HELSINKI/AI4CITIES PCP PROJECT
 
KAISA SIBELIUS
PROJECT COORDINATOR
FORUM VIRIUM HELSINKI/AI4CITIES PCP PROJECT
 
DAAN BLOEMBERGEN
AI Researcher
City of Amsterdam
DAAN BLOEMBERGEN
AI Researcher
City of Amsterdam

Daan is a scientific researcher in AI by training and is now working for the City of Amsterdam. He has a Ph.D. from Maastricht University and moved to Amsterdam after a short time in the UK.

MARNIX VAN DEN BROEK
HEAD OF PRODUCT
BUNDLES AND BATCHES
 
MARNIX VAN DEN BROEK
HEAD OF PRODUCT
BUNDLES AND BATCHES
 

As part of the founding team of Bundles and Batches, Marnix works on the missing fundamental of analytical data processing: software that binds data to the context needed to understand and process it. Context-bound data in combination with context-bound transformations unlocks the type of large-scale collaborations we know and love from software engineering, but that are still missing from analytical data processing. Previously, Marnix was co-founder of Cubonacci, a code-first MLOps startup and Maneros, a data science engineering consultancy, focusing on operationalising data science and advanced analytics.

LAURENS SAMSON
TECHLEAD - COMPUTER VISION TEAM
CITY OF AMSTERDAM
LAURENS SAMSON
TECHLEAD - COMPUTER VISION TEAM
CITY OF AMSTERDAM

Laurens is the Tech Lead of the Computer Vision Team for the City of Amsterdam. As a background, Laurens obtained a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam, where he was able to publish his thesis at one of the biggest computer vision conferences (ICCV). After that, he worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Research & Development for autonomous driving at TomTom. For the City of Amsterdam, Laurens started in the AI team, where he built prototypes for blurring algorithms and garbage detection. Thereafter, he co-founded the Computer Vision Team, which aims to create valuable machine learning solutions to detect relevant objects in the public space in an ethical manner. These solutions will contribute to the goals of the municipality to improve the livability, cleanliness and safety of the city.

JOSEFINE HINTZ
PHD CANDIDATE
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY BERLIN
 
JOSEFINE HINTZ
PHD CANDIDATE
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY BERLIN
 
GUIDO HOBEIJN 
Teamlead Computer Vision team 
City of Amsterdam
 
GUIDO HOBEIJN 
Teamlead Computer Vision team 
City of Amsterdam
 

Guido is co-founder and Teamlead of the Computer Vision team within the Municipality of Amsterdam. Guido has a Master of Science degree in both Business Studies – specialization Strategy and organizational development- and Sociology – specialization comparative organization and labour studies – at the University of Amsterdam. He is an experienced organizational (AI) team manager and organizational developer. His most important motivation is to make a difference in the lives of citizens and organizations. As an organizational leader he helps organizations create high performance teams and fun places to work. As an organizational developer he focuses on centralizing the needs of the customer in order to develop valuable solutions through AI.

GRIGORI PARFJONOV
URBAN MOBILITY EXPERT
TALLINN TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT
 
GRIGORI PARFJONOV
URBAN MOBILITY EXPERT
TALLINN TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT
 
BART DE VISSER
Product Owner Data Collection 
City of Amsterdam
 
BART DE VISSER
Product Owner Data Collection 
City of Amsterdam
 

Bart is a Product Owner and Legal Advisor for the municipality of Amsterdam. He was involved in the development of several predictive machine learning models. As part of his work, he created an AI framework that focuses on the ethical, legal and governance parts of AI. Together with a dedicated team, he also worked on a method to detect bias and how to mitigate this to acceptable levels.
Currently he is part of the Computer Vision Team. This team creates solutions for the municipality by detecting relevant objects in the public space. By combining these detection with other data, public servants can use this information to keep the city livable, safe and clean more effectively. Next to the legal aspects on this project, he is responsible for the gathering of the necessary data from the public space. His focus is to organize this in a more compliant, ethical and acceptable way.

MICHAEL RADVANY 
CEO & Founder 
Spectrum Intelligence
   
MICHAEL RADVANY 
CEO & Founder 
Spectrum Intelligence
   

Michael Radvany is a high-energy leader with vast experience across mega-corporations within the technology sector.

 

Leading delivery and business development of multi-million-euro projects, Michael has achieved tremendously impactful results. Due to personal motivation related to his daughter, he decided to dedicate his corporate expertise towards an inclusive, ethic AI.

 

His initiative aims to combine the technology and social domains by providing thousands from the Autistic Spectrum community what they need most: pride, self-confidence, appreciation, and inclusivity. With this goal, Michael founded Spectrum Intelligence, an entity that combines strong technological (AI domain, data annotation services), social and economic impact The autistic spectrum contributors can excel in this domain, matching one to one the activities requirements. Michael is fully convinced that the most successful companies, organizations and economies are the ones that combine technology and economy with the social impact. Michael is a true leader in the path towards an inclusive society and inclusive economy.

LEO DE PENNING
MANAGING DIRECTOR
NOOMI AI
 
LEO DE PENNING
MANAGING DIRECTOR
NOOMI AI
 
ANUPAM DATTA
CO-FOUNDER, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF SCIENTIST
TRUERA
ANUPAM DATTA
CO-FOUNDER, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF SCIENTIST
TRUERA

Anupam Datta is Co-Founder, President and Chief Scientist at TruEra, which provides software to test, debug, and monitor ML models across the full MLOps lifecycle. As a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University for over a decade, he led groundbreaking research in the areas of AI explainability, testing and monitoring, as well as privacy and data protection. Anupam obtained PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University.

YANN LECUN
Director AI Research and Silver Professor
Facebook & New York University
YANN LECUN
Director AI Research and Silver Professor
Facebook & New York University
YOSHUA BENGIO
Professor of Computer Science and Operations Research
University of Montreal
YOSHUA BENGIO
Professor of Computer Science and Operations Research
University of Montreal

Yoshua Bengio is Full Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, head of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA), CIFAR Program co-director of the CIFAR program on Learning in Machines and Brains,  Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms. His main research ambition is to understand principles of learning that yield intelligence. He supervises a large group of graduate students and post-docs. His research is widely cited (over 80000 citations found by Google Scholar in September 2017, with an H-index of 101).

Yoshua Bengio is currently action editor for the Journal of Machine Learning Research, associate editor for the Neural Computation journal, editor for Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning, and has been associate editor for the Machine Learning Journal and the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.

CASSIE KOZYRKOV
Chief Decision Scientist
Google
CASSIE KOZYRKOV
Chief Decision Scientist
Google
Chief Decision Scientist

 

As Chief Decision Scientist at Google Cloud, Cassie Kozyrkov advises leadership teams on the decision process, AI strategy, and building data-driven organizations. She works to democratize statistical thinking and machine learning so that everyone – Google, its customers, the world! – can harness the beauty and power of data. She is the force behind bringing the practice of Decision Intelligence to Google and she has personally trained over 15,000 Googlers in machine learning, statistics, and data-driven decision-making.

Before her current role, she served in Googles Office of the CTO as Chief Data Scientist. Prior to joining Google, Cassie worked as a data scientist and consultant. She holds degrees in mathematical statistics, economics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. When she’s not working, you’re most likely to find Cassie at the theatre, in an art museum, exploring the world, or curled up with a good novel.

REDIET ABEBE
Junior Fellow  Harvard Society of Fellows
Co-Founder Black in AI
 
REDIET ABEBE
Junior Fellow  Harvard Society of Fellows
Co-Founder Black in AI
 

Rediet Abebe is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University, where she was advised by Jon Kleinberg, as well as an M.S. in applied mathematics from Harvard University, an M.A. in mathematics from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. in mathematics from Harvard College. Her research is broadly in the fields of artificial intelligence and algorithms, with a focus on discrete algorithms, optimization, network and computational science, and their applications to equity and social good concerns. As part of this research agenda, she co-founded and co-organizes Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG), a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary research initiative working to improve access to opportunity for historically underserved and disadvantaged communities. This initiative has participants from over 100 institutions in 20 countries and has been supported by organizations including Schmidt Futures, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Abebe’s work has informed policy and practice at various organizations including the National Institute of Health and the Ethiopian Ministry of Education. Throughout 2019, she served on the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director Working Group on AI, whose recommendations were unanimously approved by the General Director’s advisory committee. Abebe was recently named one of 35 Innovators Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review. She has also been honored by ELLE as a woman transforming technology and the 2019 Bloomberg 50 list as a “one to watch.” She has recently presented her research in venues including the National Academy of Sciences, the United Nations, and the Museum of Modern Art. In 2017, Abebe co-founded Black in AI, a non-profit organization tackling representation and inclusion issues in the field. Her research is deeply influenced by her upbringing in her hometown of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 

 

STUART RUSSELL
Professor of Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
STUART RUSSELL
Professor of Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

Stuart Russell is a pioneer in the understanding and uses of artificial intelligence (AI), its long-term future, and its relation to humanity. He also is a leading authority on robotics and bioinformatics.

Stuart Russell is the author or coauthor of three books on knowledge, reasoning, and machine learning, including the standard textbook on artificial intelligence. Stuart Russell is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC-Berkeley and Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery at UC-San Francisco.

Artificial intelligence. AI is a machine’s ability to perceive its environment and use that information to maximise its chance at succeeding at some goal. All of the technologies behind artificial intelligence are evolving at exponential rates and are just now beginning to rocket up the curve. Soon artificially intelligent machines will be doing things we can barely conceive, in virtually every area of human business, life, and culture. Few people understand this future better than Stuart Russell, who wrote the standard textbook on AI (with coauthor Peter Norvig), now in its third edition.

Robotics. Stuart Russell is also a leading researcher in the practical applications of machine intelligence. If AI is the brain of the machine of the future, the robot is its body. Robots are taking over more and more functions that once required a human actor, with far-reaching consequences — and opportunities — for people, businesses, and society as a whole. He has focused recently on the threat of autonomous weaponry.

Biological information. As an Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery, Stuart has been researching computational physiology, with a current focus on Intensive Care Unit monitoring systems. He is a leader in the development of technologies that make sense of biological data and that apply this information in ways that advance human health.

Credentials. In addition to the positions already mentioned, Stuart Russell holds the SmithZadeh Chair in Engineering at UC-Berkeley and is Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Council on AI and Robotics. He is the recipient of many awards and held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris from 2012 to 2014. He is a researcher at a number of research centers, including the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR), the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), and the Synthetic Biology Institute (SBI). He is the founder and Vice-President of Bayesian Logic, Inc., a data analysis start-up under contract with the UN to build a new Nuclear Test Ban Treaty global monitoring system.

JOSEPH SIROSH
Corporate Vice President and CTO AI
Microsoft
JOSEPH SIROSH
Corporate Vice President and CTO AI
Microsoft

Dr. Joseph Sirosh is the CTO for Microsoft AI. Prior to this role, he has served as a Corporate Vice President of the AI and Data Platform at Microsoft responsible for Databases, Big Data, Machine Learning Cognitive Services, Bot Services and Information Management, and as the Vice President of the Global Inventory Platform at Amazon where he also spent nearly 9 years in various roles including building internal Machine Learning platforms. Prior to Amazon he was the VP of R&D at Fair Isaac Corporation. He holds a PhD in Neural Networks from the University of Texas at Austin and a BTech from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.

DR. HUI XIONG
Chief Scientist and Head of Business Intelligence Lab and Talent Intelligence Center
Baidu
DR. HUI XIONG
Chief Scientist and Head of Business Intelligence Lab and Talent Intelligence Center
Baidu

Hui Xiong is a Professor at Rutgers University, and is currently on leave and serving as head of Business Intelligence Lab and Talent Intelligence Center at Baidu Inc. His research interests include data mining, mobile computing, and their applications in business. He has authored over 200 research articles, and co-edited or coauthored 4 books including the widely used Encyclopedia of GIS, which has been recognized as the Top 10 Most Popular Computer Science Book authored by Chinese scholars at Springer. Dr. Xiong has served as chair/co-chair for many international conferences in data mining, including a Program Co-Chair (2013) and a General Co-Chair (2015) for the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), and a Program Co-Chair of the Research Track (2018) and the Industry Track (2012) for the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). Dr. Xiong’s research has generated substantive impact beyond academia. He is an ACM distinguished scientist and has been honored by the 2018 Ram Charan Management Practice Award as the Grand Prix winner from the Harvard Business Review, the 2017 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award, and the ICDM-2011 Best Research Paper Award.

KAY FIRTH BUTTERFIELD
Head of AI & Machine Learning
World Economic Forum
KAY FIRTH BUTTERFIELD
Head of AI & Machine Learning
World Economic Forum
XIAN-SHENG HUA
Vice President/Distinguished Engineer
Alibaba
XIAN-SHENG HUA
Vice President/Distinguished Engineer
Alibaba
ZHANG TONG
Executive Director of AI Lab
Tencent
ZHANG TONG
Executive Director of AI Lab
Tencent
LADY NICOLA MENDELSOHN
Vice-President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Facebook
LADY NICOLA MENDELSOHN
Vice-President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Facebook

Nicola Mendelsohn is currently the Vice President for Europe, Middle East, and Africa for Facebook. A role she has held since 2013. She is also a non-executive of Diageo, serves on the UK government’s Digital Economy Council, the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board, and is co-president of the charity Norwood.

 

In 2019, Nicola founded and launched the Follicular Lymphoma Foundation, a charity focused solely on raising funds to help the thousands of people living with Follicular Lymphoma to live well and get well.


Prior to joining Facebook Nicola worked in advertising for over 20 years working at BBH, Grey and Karmarama. Prior roles include: first female President of the IPA (the advertising industry trade body), Trustee of The White Ribbon Alliance, Chairman of Women’s Aid Development Board and President of the Women in Advertising and Communications London club (WACL). She was also a Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and Co-Chair of the UK Governments Creative Industries Council. In 2015 she was awarded a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the creative industries in the UK. Her greatest joy in life comes from her husband Jon and her four children Gabi, Danny, Sam and Zac.

MEREDITH WHITTAKER
Co-Founder
AI Now Institute
MEREDITH WHITTAKER
Co-Founder
AI Now Institute

Meredith Whittaker is the Minderoo Research Professor at New York University and the founder of Google’s Open Research group.

Her research and advocacy focus on the social implications of artificial intelligence and the tech industry responsible for it, with a particular emphasis on power and the political economy driving the commercialization of computational technology. Prior to NYU, she worked at Google for over a decade, where she led product and engineering teams, founded Google’s Open Research Group, and co-founded M-Lab, a globally distributed network measurement platform that now provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance. She also worked extensively on issues of privacy and security, helping provide funding, strategy, and support for efforts dedicated to providing privacy from governments and large tech corporations. As a long-time tech worker, she also helped lead labor organizing at Google. She was one of the core organizers pushing back against Google’s military contracts, the company’s insufficient response to concerns about AI and its harms, and was a central organizer of the Google Walkout. She continues to work in solidarity with organizers in tech, driven by the belief that worker power and collective action are necessary to ensure meaningful tech accountability, especially in the context of concentrated industrial power. She has advised the White House, the FCC, the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organizations on artificial intelligence, internet policy, measurement, privacy, and security.

 

TIMNIT GEBRU
Research Scientist & CoLead Ethical Artificial Intelligence
Former Google
   
TIMNIT GEBRU
Research Scientist & CoLead Ethical Artificial Intelligence
Former Google
   

Timnit is currently a research scientist at Google in the ethical AI team. Prior to that Timnit did a postdoc at Microsoft Research, New York City in the FATE (Fairness Transparency Accountability and Ethics in AI) group, where she studied algorithmic bias and the ethical implications underlying any data mining project (see this New York Times article for an example of my work). She received her PhD from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, studying computer vision under Fei-Fei Li. Timnit’s thesis pertains to data mining large scale publicly available images to gain sociological insight, and working on computer vision problems that arise as a result. The Economist, The New York Times and others have covered part of this work. Some of the computer vision areas Timnit is interested in include fine-grained image recognition, scalable annotation of images, and domain adaptation. Prior to joining Fei-Fei’s lab she worked at Apple designing circuits and signal processing algorithms for various Apple products including the first iPad. Timnit also spent an obligatory year as an entrepreneur (as all Stanford undergrads seem to do). Her research was supported by the NSF foundation GRFP fellowship and the Stanford DARE fellowship

GRADY BOOCH
Chief Scientist for Software Engineering & Fellow
IBM Research
GRADY BOOCH
Chief Scientist for Software Engineering & Fellow
IBM Research

Grady Booch is Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM Research where he leads IBM’s research and development on embodied cognition. Having originated the term and the practice of object-oriented design, he is best known for his work in advancing the fields of software engineering and software architecture. A co-author of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a founding member of the Agile Alliance, and a founding member of the Hillside Group, Grady has published six books and several hundred technical articles, including an ongoing column for IEEE Software and IEEE Spectrum. Grady is also a trustee for the Computer History Museum. He is an IBM Fellow, an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, has been awarded the Lovelace Medal and given the Turing Lecture for the BCS, and was named an IEEE Computer Pioneer for his work in software architecture.

Grady has served as an architect or architectural mentor for a multitude of complex software-intensive systems across many domains around the world, including finance, transportation, defense, commerce, productivity, government, medical, gaming, animation, software development, artificial intelligence, and many others.

Grady is currently developing a major transmedia documentary for public broadcast on the intersection of computing and the human experience: Computing.

HUI CHENG
Head of JDX Silicon Valley Research Center
JD.COM
HUI CHENG
Head of JDX Silicon Valley Research Center
JD.COM
Head of JDX Silicon Valley Research Center

Dr. Hui Cheng is the Head of JD.com’s JD-X Silicon Valley Research Center and the Head of JD.com Silicon Valley Innovation Center, where he leads teams working on technologies that will revolutionize E-commerce and Logistics. JD-X is developing autonomous ground delivery vehicles, delivery drones and warehouse robotic systems, all powered by artificial intelligence, advanced robotics and computer vision. Dr. Cheng also serves on the board of directors of a high-flying AI and robotics startup company.

Prior to JD, Dr. Cheng was Senior Research Manager of Amazon Go where the new grab-and-go shopping experience was first developed. He was also the Program Director and head of the Cognitive and Adaptive Vision System Group at SRI International where he led more than 30 client-sponsored R&D programs in many areas including social medial analysis, video understanding, cloud-based Big Data analysis, AR/VR, mobile authentication, mobile activity understanding, media forensic, etc.

Dr. Cheng received his Ph.D degree from Purdue University. He has more than 60 publications and holds more than 30 patents.

Dr. PATRICIA FLORISSI
 VP & Global CTO 
Dell EMC
Dr. PATRICIA FLORISSI
 VP & Global CTO 
Dell EMC
ROB HIGH
VP, IBM & CTO
IBM Watson
ROB HIGH
VP, IBM & CTO
IBM Watson
RUSLAN SALAKHUTDINOV
Director of AI Research | Apple
Associate Professor in Machine Learning | Carnegie Mellon University
RUSLAN SALAKHUTDINOV
Director of AI Research | Apple
Associate Professor in Machine Learning | Carnegie Mellon University
HILARY MASON
Co-Founder Hidden Door
Data Scientist in Residence | Accel Partners
HILARY MASON
Co-Founder Hidden Door
Data Scientist in Residence | Accel Partners
GAYLE SHEPPARD
Vice President, New Technology Group and General Manager
Saffron AI Group, Intel
GAYLE SHEPPARD
Vice President, New Technology Group and General Manager
Saffron AI Group, Intel
MARC CARREL-BILLIARD
Global Senior Managing Director, Accenture Labs
Accenture
MARC CARREL-BILLIARD
Global Senior Managing Director, Accenture Labs
Accenture
Global Senior Managing Director, Accenture Labs

Marc Carrel-Billiard is the Global Senior Managing Director of Accenture Labs, the company’s dedicated R&D organization. In his role, he also directs Accenture’s annual Technology Vision research, which looks at the future of enterprise technology.

Marc has been with Accenture for nearly 20 years and has worked across all the five industries we serve. Before taking on leadership of Technology R&D, Marc was the global lead for Emerging Technology in Accenture. He has held several global leadership roles within Accenture’s technology group, including within Application Portfolio Optimization and SOA/Integration Architecture. He has worked across several cutting-edge areas of IT including voice recognition, knowledge-based systems and neural networks.

Marc is one of a select group of Accenture certified Master Technology Architects, and is also a Solution Architect and Select Quality Assurance director. He has broad software engineering and delivery experience, particularly in areas such as component and object-oriented technologies.

Before joining Accenture in 1998, Marc was part of IBM Global Services where he published several articles and books on C++ and Java programming with Prentice Hall. Marc currently is based in Accenture’s Labs in Sophia Antipolis, France. He lives in Vence, France with his wife and his passions include photography and hiking.

ZOUBIN GHAHRAMANI
Chief Scientist, Uber
Professor, University of Cambridge
ZOUBIN GHAHRAMANI
Chief Scientist, Uber
Professor, University of Cambridge
JAAN TALLINN
Co-Founder
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
JAAN TALLINN
Co-Founder
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

Jaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa. He founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk with Huw Price and Martin Rees. He is also a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute and philanthropically supports other existential risk research organizations. He is also a partner at Ambient Sound Investments (asi.ee), an active angel investor, and has served on the Estonian President’s Academic Advisory Board.

He has given a number of high-profile talks highlighting the potential risk from advances in artificial intelligence.

RAQUEL URTASUN
Chief Scientist
Uber
RAQUEL URTASUN
Chief Scientist
Uber
Chief Scientist
HON. SILVIO SCHEMBRI
Junior Minister for Financial Services, Digital Economy & Innovation
Parliament of Malta
HON. SILVIO SCHEMBRI
Junior Minister for Financial Services, Digital Economy & Innovation
Parliament of Malta

Silvio Schembri is an elected Maltese politician and academic currently serving as a Junior Minister for Financial Services, Digital Economy & Innovation within the Maltese Government. Hon. Schembri was born in Luqa, the second child among four siblings. His father John Schembri has occupied the office of Mayor of Luqa since 2001. Silvio is an experienced lecturer in Economics with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. He is skilled in political communications, negotiations, sustainable development, political science, and analytical skills. He has a Master of Arts and a Bachelors Degree of Honours focused in Economics from the University of Malta.

CÉDRIC O
Secretary of State for Digital Transition and Electronic Communications
France
CÉDRIC O
Secretary of State for Digital Transition and Electronic Communications
France

Cédric O was born on December 18th, 1982 in l’Arbresle and graduated from HEC Paris in 2006. He is a founding member of En Marche! political movement and has served on its Executive Board since its establishment. In May 2017, he joined both the Office of the President and the Office of the Prime Minister, as an advisor for State’s holdings and the digital economy.

On March 31st, 2019, he was appointed Minister of State for Digital Affairs. His three priorities are the support and development of the digital economy in France, regulatory policies and the promotion of digital inclusion.

On July 26th, 2020, as part of Prime Minister Jean Castex’s Government, he was appointed Minister of State for the Digital Transition and Electronic Communications, in addition to his former responsibilities. He is now in charge of the digital economy, regulatory policies and all types of telecommunications, from infrastructure to daily use by the French people.

DR. LARRY HECK
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Tech
DR. LARRY HECK
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Tech
NEELIE KROES
Former Vice President
European Commission
NEELIE KROES
Former Vice President
European Commission
Former Vice President

Neelie Kroes has served as a Director since May 2016. Ms. Kroes is the former Vice President of the European Commission, European Commissioner for Competition and European Commission for Digital Agenda. Ms. Kroes served as Commissioner for Competition from 2004 to 2010 and as Vice President and Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society from 2010 to 2014. Prior to joining the European Commission, Ms. Kroes served in the Dutch House of Representatives and as State Secretary and Cabinet Minister.

She is currently a member of the Global Policy Advisory Board of Uber Technologies, Inc. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and a member of the Finance Committee of Rijksmuseum Fonds (Amsterdam). Ms. Kroes previously served on the boards of Lucent Netherlands, AB Volvo and McDonald’s Netherlands and was the chairperson of Nyenrode University. Ms. Kroes received her M.S. in Economics from Erasmus University.

MONA KEIJZER
State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Government of The Netherlands
MONA KEIJZER
State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Government of The Netherlands

Mona Keijzer began her career in January 1991 as a legal policy officer serving the municipality of Waterland. From 1993 to 1994 she was a management trainee at Leiden University. She then held legal positions at the Gelderland Environment Inspectorate and the municipality of Almere.

In 1998 Ms Keijzer became a member of the municipal executive and deputy mayor of the municipality of Waterland. In 2006 she began working as a lawyer and certified mediator at the law firm Abma Schreurs Advocaten en Notarissen in Purmerend. In 2007 she became a member of the Purmerend municipal executive.

In 2012 Ms Keijzer became a member of parliament for the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA), with policy responsibility for chronic care for older and disabled people, and later became spokesperson for hospital care and asylum, migration and integration policy.

On 26 October 2017 Mona Keijzer was appointed State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy in the third Rutte government.
Party political positions and outside activities

Ms Keijzer was a member of the CDA strategic council (which in 2012 presented proposals to take the party in a new direction over the next 10 to 15 years), served on the general board of the North Holland CDA, and chaired the national CDA party committee for the 2010 municipal elections. She was also deputy chair of the committee for the 2002 municipal elections. From 1994 to 1998 she was a member of the Waterland municipal council for the CDA, spending the last two years as leader of the CDA group.

Other roles she has held include secretary of the board of the Wethoudersvereniging (the association of members of municipal executives), member of the general board of the Hoogheemraadschap Uitwaterende Sluizen (a water authority) and chair and member of the supervisory board of the Stichting CPOW (a group of Christian primary schools).

AIMEE VAN WYNSBERGHE
Assistant Professor and High-Level Expert Group on AI
TU Delft and European Commission
AIMEE VAN WYNSBERGHE
Assistant Professor and High-Level Expert Group on AI
TU Delft and European Commission
Assistant Professor and High-Level Expert Group on AI

Co-Director at Foundation for Responsible Robotics & Co-Founder of ALLAI Netherlands

Aimee has been named one of the Netherlands top 400 influential women under 38 by VIVA, was named one of the 25 ‘women in robotics you need to know about’, and is the 2018 winner of the L’oreal/UNESCO ‘Women in Science’. She is author of the book Healthcare Robots: Ethics, Design, and Implementation and has been awarded an NWO personal research grant to study how we can responsibly design service robots. She has been interviewed by BBC, Quartz, Financial Times, and other International news media on the topic of ethics and robots, and is invited to speak at International conferences and summits.

STEFANIA GIANNINI
Assistant Director-General for Education
UNESCO
STEFANIA GIANNINI
Assistant Director-General for Education
UNESCO

Ms Stefania Giannini was appointed UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education in May 2018, becoming the top UN official in the field. In this position, she provides strategic vision and leadership for UNESCO in coordinating and monitoring the implementation of the Education 2030 Agenda, encapsulated in Sustainable Development Goal 4.

With an academic background in the Humanities, Ms Giannini has served as Rector of the University for Foreigners of Perugia (2004 – 2012), being one of the first and youngest women to hold this position in Italy. As Senator of the Republic of Italy (2013 – 2018) and Minister of Education, Universities and Research (2014 – 2016), she developed and implemented a structural reform of the Italian education system, centred on social inclusion and cultural awareness. She has also been closely involved in an advisory capacity with the European Commissioner for Research and Innovation.

Dr. PETER LEE
Corporate Vice President, Research and Incubations
Microsoft
Dr. PETER LEE
Corporate Vice President, Research and Incubations
Microsoft

Dr. Peter Lee is Corporate Vice President, Research and Incubations, at Microsoft. He leads Microsoft Research across its eight laboratories around the world. He also oversees several incubation teams for new research-powered lines of business, the largest of which today is Microsoft’s growing healthcare and life sciences effort. Dr. Lee has extensive experience in managing fundamental research to commercial impact in a range of areas, spanning artificial intelligence, to quantum computing, to biotechnology, and more. Before joining Microsoft in 2010, he was at DARPA, where he established a new technology office that created operational capabilities in machine learning, data science, and computational social science. From 1987 to 2005 he was a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and from 2005 to 2008 the Head of the university’s computer science department. Today, in addition to his management responsibilities, Dr. Lee speaks and writes widely on technology trends and policies. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, and the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. In public service, Dr. Lee was a commissioner on President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity and led several studies for both PCAST and the National Academies on the impact of federal research investments on economic growth. He has testified before both the US House Science and Technology Committee and the US Senate Commerce Committee.

JIANG TAO
VP Strategy & Business Development Intelligent Computing BU
Huawei
JIANG TAO
VP Strategy & Business Development Intelligent Computing BU
Huawei
VP Strategy & Business Development Intelligent Computing BU

Jiang Tao is the vice president of Huawei Intelligent Computing BU, responsible for the strategy & business development.
Over 18 years of experience in ICT industry. Currently responsible for the strategy and business development of intelligent computing products and solutions, including AI module, inference/training board, edge computing equipment, mobile vehicle computing platform, x86 Server, ARM server, AI server etc.
Prior to Huawei, Jiang Tao acquired a master degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

EMILY ORTON
Co-Founder
Darktrace
EMILY ORTON
Co-Founder
Darktrace
Dr. RUMMAN CHOWDHURY
Director of ML Ethics, Transparency & Accountability
Twitter
Dr. RUMMAN CHOWDHURY
Director of ML Ethics, Transparency & Accountability
Twitter

Dr. Rumman Chowdhury’s passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity. She is a pioneer in the field of applied algorithmic ethics, creating cutting-edge enterprise technical solutions for ethical, explainable and transparent AI since 2017.

She is currently the Director of the META (ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability) team at Twitter as well as GP of a venture capital fund, Parity Responsible Innovation Fund, that invests in early-stage responsible technology startups. She was previously CEO and founder of Parity AI, an enterprise algorithmic audit platform company and formerly served as Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence.  

Rumman has been featured in international media, including the the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, NPR, MIT Sloan Magazine, MIT Technology Review, BBC, Axios, Cheddar TV, CRN, The Verge, Fast Company, Quartz, Corrierre Della Serra, Optio, Australian Broadcasting Channel and Nikkei Business Times. She has been recognized as one of BBC’s 100 Women, Bay Area’s top 40 under 40, and honoured to be inducted to the British Royal Society of the Arts (RSA). She has also been named by Forbes as one of Five Who are Shaping AI. 

As service to the field and the larger community, she serves on the board of Oxford University’s Commission on AI and Governance, the University of Virginia’s Data Science Program, and Patterns, a data science journal by the publishers of Cell. 

Dr. Chowdhury holds two undergraduate degrees from MIT, a master’s degree in Quantitative Methods of the Social Sciences from Columbia University, and a doctorate in political science from the University of California, San Diego. You can follow her on Twitter @ruhowdh

JOANNA BRYSON
Associate Professor
University of Bath
JOANNA BRYSON
Associate Professor
University of Bath
PROF GARY MARCUS
Founder & CEO
Robust.AI
PROF GARY MARCUS
Founder & CEO
Robust.AI

Gary Marcus, scientist, bestselling author, and entrepreneur, was CEO and Founder of the machine-learning startup Geometric Intelligence, recently acquired by Uber, and is known for his provocative and bold claims in artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Trained by Steven Pinker, he received his PhD at MIT at age 23. His professional research, published in leading journals such as Science, Nature, Cognition, and Artificial Intelligence, has focused on the foundations of cognition in humans, animals and machines, spanning fields from developmental psychology to neuroscience to genetics to artificial intelligence. A special interest has been on the challenge of endowing machines with common sense.

He is also well-known for his writing for the general public, including frequent essays and op-eds for The New Yorker and The New York Times. His books include The Algebraic Mind, The Birth of the Mind, Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind, The New York Times Bestseller, Guitar Zero and The Future of the Brain: Essays By The World’s Leading Neuroscientists.

In a 2012 essay for The New Yorker, he was perhaps the first person to publicly criticize deep learning, drawing on arguments he developed in his 2001 technical book The Algebraic Mind. More recently, in a 2018 arXiv article, Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal, he asked whether deep learning might be “approaching a wall.” The challenges he laid out there were covered everywhere from The
New York Times to Wired to The Financial Times and Wall Street Journal.

In another provocative 2012 essay, Moral Machines, Marcus was the first to adapt “trolley problems” to driverless cars, anticipating much recent research on the ethics of AI. His next book, REBOOT: Getting to AI We Can Trust, to be published by Pantheon in Fall 2019, co-authored with Ernie Davis, calls for a fundamental rethinking of current approaches to artificial intelligence.

BING SONG
Vice President | Berggruen Institute
Director | The Berggruen Institute China Center
BING SONG
Vice President | Berggruen Institute
Director | The Berggruen Institute China Center

Vice President, Berggruen Institute; Director, Berggruen Institute China Centre

Berggruen Institute provides a platform for top thinkers and opinion leaders from China and West to exchange ideas on the global challenges of our day. The institute’s areas of inquiry include the ethics artificial intelligence and the transformations of global governance. As a senior member of the Berggruen Institute, Ms. Song is responsible for the overall strategy and programmatic and institutional development of the China Center.

Prior to joining the Berggruen Institute, Ms. Song served in a senior country leadership position for Goldman Sachs’ China business. Earlier in her career, she did legal and public policy research in Singapore and China and published works on Chinese administrative law and competition law.

MIKHAIL PARAKHIN
CTO
Yandex
MIKHAIL PARAKHIN
CTO
Yandex

Mikhail Parakhin has been leading teams in AI innovation for some of the world’s top tech companies for over a decade. After several years at Microsoft leading the Bing Multimedia team, Mikhail brought his machine learning expertise to Yandex, one of Europe’s largest tech companies that builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning.  As CTO of Yandex, Mikhail leads all technical teams globally for the company.  

Under his leadership, Yandex introduced the Machine Intelligence and Research (MIR) Division, which functions as a centralized, cross-functional unit to accelerate innovation and unify Yandex’s core machine learning technologies: MatrixNet (proprietary ML platform) and its development, CatBoost (best in class GBDT implementation), DaNet (DNN framework), computer vision, speech, and translation.  Yandex has also recently launched it’s intelligent assistant, Alice, and tested its driverless vehicle on the snowy roads of Moscow among other innovation milestones set to shape the future.

Mikhail brings his unique background in machine learning and coding plus specializations in Search, Image processing and Handwriting/Speech recognition algorithms to not only advance Yandex’s technologies and products but the global tech ecosystem.  Mikhail holds a Master’s in Physics from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute.

ITAMAR FRIEDMAN
Director of Machine Vision
Alibaba
ITAMAR FRIEDMAN
Director of Machine Vision
Alibaba

Itamar holds MSc and BSc (summa cum laude) in Computer Vision and Machine Learning from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). His research interests include efficient video and image analysis, with focus on automated deep learning. Prior to Alibaba, Itamar was a serial entrepreneur, founding startups in the field of robotics, visual recognition and web development. He was a mentor in Microsoft Accelerator TLV, and he mentors Israeli leading AI startups in the fields of medical and drones. He holds several patents, and his research outcomes have been integrated into various products in Alibaba Group.

PROFESSOR MAX WELLING
Distinguished Scientist | Microsoft Research
Research Chair, Machine Learn | University of Amsterdam
PROFESSOR MAX WELLING
Distinguished Scientist | Microsoft Research
Research Chair, Machine Learn | University of Amsterdam
TONY JEBARA
Director of Machine Learning
Netflix
TONY JEBARA
Director of Machine Learning
Netflix
ROYA MAHBOOB 
CEO
Digital Citizen Fund
ROYA MAHBOOB 
CEO
Digital Citizen Fund
Dr. KIM COBB
Georgia Power Chair and Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. KIM COBB
Georgia Power Chair and Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology

Kim Cobb, Ph.D. is the ADVANCE professor and Georgia Power faculty scholar in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech. Her research uses corals and cave stalagmites to probe the mechanisms of past, present, and future climate change.

Cobb received her B.A. from Yale University in 1996 and her Ph.D. in oceanography from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in 2002. She spent two years at Caltech in the Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences before joining the faculty at Georgia Tech in 2004. Cobb has sailed on oceanographic cruises to the deep tropics and led caving expeditions to the rainforests of Borneo in support of her research.

She has received numerous awards for her research, most notably a NSF CAREER Award in 2007 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2008. Cobb is an editor for Geophysical Research Letters, sits on the international CLIVAR Pacific Panel, and serves on the advisory council for the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Leshner Institute for Public Engagement.

As a mother to four, she is a strong advocate for women in science. Cobb is also devoted to the clear and frequent communication of climate change to the public through speaking engagements and social media.

Dr. FARHANA SULTANA
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment
Syracuse University
Dr. FARHANA SULTANA
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment
Syracuse University

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, where I have taught since 2008. I am also the Research Director for Environmental Collaboration and Conflicts in the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) at the Maxwell School. At Syracuse University, I am a faculty affiliate/associate across several programs and departments, such as Women’s and Gender Studies Department, International Relations Program, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration (CEPA), South Asia Center, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Tolley Humanities Faculty, Democratizing Knowledge Collective, and Asian/Asian-American Studies.

Prior to joining Syracuse University, I was a faculty member in the Department of Geography at King’s College London and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. Before becoming an academic, I was a Programme Officer at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for a $26M large environment-development program in Bangladesh. I obtained my M.A. and Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Minnesota, where I was a John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow and International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Fellow. I obtained my A.B. (Cum Laude) in Geosciences and Environmental Studies from Princeton University.

As an internationally-recognized interdisciplinary scholar, I am broadly interested in nature-society relationships, political ecology, critical development studies, feminist theories, urban studies, climate change, water governance, social justice, human rights, citizenship, and South Asia. My work is informed by not only my background and training in the natural sciences, social sciences, and policy experience, but also from having lived and worked on three continents, being a post-colonial subject and scholar, and having a lifelong commitment to critical praxis and social justice. I am the recipient of the 2019 Glenda Laws award from the American Association of Geographers.

SASHA COSTANZA-CHOCK
Author, Design Justice & Senior Research Fellow
Algorithmic Justice League
SASHA COSTANZA-CHOCK
Author, Design Justice & Senior Research Fellow
Algorithmic Justice League

Sasha Costanza-Chock (pronouns: they/them or she/her) is a scholar, activist, and media-maker, and currently Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT. They are a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Faculty Affiliate with the MIT Open Documentary Lab and the MIT Center for Civic Media, and creator of the MIT Codesign Studio (codesign.mit.edu). Their work focuses on social movements, transformative media organizing, and design justice. Sasha’s first book, Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement, was published by the MIT Press in 2014. They are a board member of Allied Media Projects (AMP); AMP convenes the annual Allied Media Conference and cultivates media strategies for a more just, creative and collaborative world (alliedmedia.org).

R.J. PITTMAN
SVP and Chief Product Officer
eBay
R.J. PITTMAN
SVP and Chief Product Officer
eBay
Prof. MMANTSETSA MAROPE
Executive Director | World Heritage Group
Honorary President | Indian Ocean Comparative and International Education Societies
Prof. MMANTSETSA MAROPE
Executive Director | World Heritage Group
Honorary President | Indian Ocean Comparative and International Education Societies

Professor Mmantsetsa Marope is the Executive Director of the World Heritage Group and Honorary President of the Indian Ocean Comparative and International Education Societies. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Chicago, a Masters degree in Education from Pennsylvania State University, and a BA from the University of Botswana and Swaziland. Her professional career includes: 11 years university professorship; 10 years at the World Bank; and 10 years in the United Nations. Her extensive experience includes: advisory and consultancy services to governments, regional economic communities, regional research networks, ministries of education, bilateral and multilateral agencies; management of  international research capacity development networks and global inter-agency groups on diverse themes on global education and on early childhood care and development; membership in boards of diverse intellectual and technical groups; editor in chief of one of the world’s most prestigious journal of education: PROSPECTS;  as well as founder and editor in chief of one of the most prestigious education and learning magazines: IBE INFOCUS

In recent years, she gained eminence as a global thought leader on futures education and learning; the future of education and work; and future competences all global citizens require to thrive in rapidly changing 21st century work and life contexts. She is an avid advocate for advancing the engagement of the public and private sectors, especially in technology and the sciences, in shaping the future of education and learning, and in shaping the future through education and learning. She continues to lead global intellectual dialogue on ensuring that education and learning systems attain and sustain: credible scientific underpinnings; future development-relevance; agility to adapt; equitable quality; resource efficiency; technology-savvy; and sustainability. She strongly holds that these parameters of education and learning systems are an inescapable foundation for broad-based and future-forward human resources development, and for the long-term human capital accumulation required to assure every global citizen holistic development, equity of opportunities, and ultimately, fulfillment. 

Professor Marope calls for stronger private sector and foundation engagement in the transformation of education and learning systems into life-long-learning systems in their own right before they can be counted on to develop effective life-long-learners with agility to adapt and the resultant resilience for unpredictable futures. She holds that such transformation demands: 21st century education and learning systems to have capacity for better use of science, emerging technologies to address persisting challenges, and of big data to guide and even predict their futures; rigorous systemic diagnostics; research; foresight; and constant self-renewal. The transformation also demands normative and operational tools; financial, technical and political capital; as well as enabling institutional landscapes that currently do not exist. 

Professor Marope works relentlessly to develop normative and operational tools as well to garner the political, financial and technical capital required to attain and sustain future-forward education and learning systems. In future, she seeks to intensify engagement with the private sector, and foundations in convening and mobilizing global talent and intellectual pool; as well as the political, technical, technological, moral, ethical, and financial capital required to create institutions that can enable future transformation of education and learning systems, as well as the world of work that can genuinely serve all. 

Throughout her career, Professor Marope has built extensive experience at all levels and types of education, learning, and training systems. She is also highly experienced in the knowledge creation, brokerage and management required to underpin system transformation. Her publications cover a wide range of areas including: global norms and standard setting tools; system diagnostic tools; system prototypes; all sub-sectors of education, learning, and training systems; future global competences; education and development; capacity development; and award winning Setswana novels.

RODOLPHE GELIN
EVP Chief Scientific Officer
SoftBank Robotics
RODOLPHE GELIN
EVP Chief Scientific Officer
SoftBank Robotics

Mr. Rodolphe Gelin is Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at SoftBank Robotics Europe. Prior to SoftBank Robotics, Rodolphe was at CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission) for over 20 years as the head of robotics, virtual reality and cognitics program. He joined SoftBank Robotics in 2008 to lead the Romeo project. This French collaborative project (2009-2017), united over 12 partners, and aimed at developing a tall humanoid robot to assist elderly people. Rodolphe Gelin has been invited to talk and present at numerous scientific, general public and industrial events. He is the author of five books about Virtual Reality and Robotics.

PROFESSOR DAME WENDY HALL
Regius Professor of Computer Science, Director
Web Science Institute, University of Southampton
PROFESSOR DAME WENDY HALL
Regius Professor of Computer Science, Director
Web Science Institute, University of Southampton

Dame Wendy Hall, DBE, FRS, FREng is Regius Professor of Computer Science, Associate Vice President (International), and is the Executive Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton. Dame Wendy was co-Chair of the UK government’s AI Review, which was published in October 2017, and has recently been announced by the UK government as the first Skills Champion for AI in the UK.

With Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt she co-founded the Web Science Research Initiative in 2006 and is the Managing Director of the Web Science Trust, which has a global mission to support the development of research, education and thought leadership in Web Science.

She became a Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2009 UK New Year’s Honours list, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

She has previously been President of the ACM, Senior Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology, was a founding member of the European Research Council and Chair of the European Commission’s ISTAG 2010-2012, was a member of the Global Commission on Internet Governance, and until June 2018, was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on the Digital Economy.

 

OMAR SULTAN AL OLAMA
Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications
United Arab Emirates
OMAR SULTAN AL OLAMA
Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications
United Arab Emirates

His Excellency Omar bin Sultan Al Olama has been appointed as Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications since July 2020.

Al Olama has joined the Federal Government in 2017 as Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, where he was responsible for enhancing the government performance by investing the latest technologies and tools of artificial intelligence and applying them in various sectors.
 
Al Olama is currently the Managing Director of the World Government Summit in the Prime Minister’s Office at the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs. Al Olama has been working as the Deputy Director of the Future Department at the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs. Al Olama contributed to the preparation of the UAE Centennial 2071 strategy and the UAE 4th Industrial Revolution Strategy.
 
His Excellency Omar bin Sultan Al Olama holds a Diploma in Project Management and Excellence from the American University of Sharjah and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the American University of Dubai.

CHRISTOPHER FABIAN
Co-Director, Co-Founder - Innovation Unit
UNICEF
CHRISTOPHER FABIAN
Co-Director, Co-Founder - Innovation Unit
UNICEF
GILAD LOTAN
VP – Head of Data Science
BuzzFeed
GILAD LOTAN
VP – Head of Data Science
BuzzFeed

Gilad is the Head of Data Science at BuzzFeed where he leads a team that’s tasked with building state of the art analytics and data products to support entertainment, news, business and tech. Previously Gilad led Data Science at betaworks, and built data products at Microsoft. Gilad’s work has been covered across a wide range of academic journals and publications, most recently focused on propaganda and bias within algorithmic ranking systems.

JAY BELLISSIMO
General Manager, Cognitive Process Transformation
IBM
JAY BELLISSIMO
General Manager, Cognitive Process Transformation
IBM

Jay Bellissimo is the Global Managing Partner of IBM Services Cognitive Process Transformation Growth Platform, leading the service lines of Cognitive Process Re-engineering, Cognitive Process Services, and Cognitive Business Decision Support. The Practices he oversees include Watson AI & Data Platform, Advance Analytics, Blockchain, Watson Internet of Things, Watson Health, Talent & Engagement, Process Automation, among others. His primary mission is to fuel growth by deploying competitive market offerings and building a diverse and differentiated talent pool and to continue to amaze and delight our customers.

Previously, he was the General Manager and Chief Revenue Officer of the Watson & Cloud Platform.  He was responsible for the go-to-market strategy across IBM’s core cognitive and cloud-based technologies, including large transformation engagements, ecosystem/channels, business partners, and major client engagements.   Jay’s mission was to ensure that both Watson & Cloud Platform offerings resonate with customers and the overall market as they significantly grew market share.

 Jay has held multiple executive positons, such as General Manager, IBM Cognitive & Watson Solutions, leading the customer engagement and product strategy for IBM’s portfolio of cognitive-based solution technologies across 18 industries; General Manager, Customer Experience for IBM Watson, initiating the first wave of cognitive computing commercialization in key industries – healthcare, public sector, financial services – adopted by 36 countries in 5 different languages; Leader of IBM’s Global SAP Consulting Business, managing the strategy, sales, client relationships, and operations; Leader IBM’s Global and North America Business Services Communications sector, which included the Media and Entertainment, Telco, and Energy/Utilities industries; and lastly Leader of IBM’s Global Business Services in Latin America based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Jay joined IBM in 1991 from PwC, holding numerous industry management and practice leadership positions, including industry leadership roles in Chemicals & Petroleum, Industrial Products and Aerospace & Defense.   Jay is a member of IBM’s Performance Team and Acceleration Team, both of which focus on the company’s short- and long-term strategies for growth.  Jay holds a B.A. in Political Science from St. Michael’s College. Jay serves as a member of Board of Trustees at St. Michael’s College and on Advisory Board of the Center of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Claremont McKenna College.

CORINNE VIGREUX
Co-Founder and Founder
TomTom and Codam
CORINNE VIGREUX
Co-Founder and Founder
TomTom and Codam

 

Corinne Vigreux is co-founder of TomTom, a location technology specialist on a mission to create the most innovative technologies to help shape tomorrow’s mobility and create a safe, connected, autonomous world free of congestion and emissions.

 

Voted one of the top 50 most inspirational women in European tech, Corinne champions women in the workforce and advocates passionately for improved social mobility through education. In 2018, she launched CODAM, a tuition-free, nonprofit coding college in Amsterdam, because she believes coding is the engine for innovation that is driving the world forward faster than ever before. CODAM’s learning system is designed to unleash talent and open doors to new opportunities, and its mission is to help a new generation shape the future. Corinne is passionate about education, maximizing young people’s potential and social mobility.

 

Additionally, Corinne is a member of the supervisory board of takeaway.com NV and Groupe ILIAD, a member of the supervisory board of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet and an advisor to the Amsterdam Economic Board. She was made Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in 2012 and Officer in the Royal Order of Orange-Nassau in 2016.

ASTRID UNDHEIM
VP Analytics & AI
Telenor Group
ASTRID UNDHEIM
VP Analytics & AI
Telenor Group
VP Analytics & AI

Astrid Undheim is VP of Analytics & AI in Telenor Research, with responsibility for the AI research agenda in Telenor Group. She has a telecommunication background and has been in Telenor since finishing her PhD at NTNU in 2009. Astrid and her team has been part of establishing the Norwegian Open AI-lab at NTNU, and her team is working with NTNU researchers and students to advance AI methods and make it applicable to industry.

HELENIO GILABERT
Senior Director Business Transformation
Schneider Electric
HELENIO GILABERT
Senior Director Business Transformation
Schneider Electric

Helenio is the Senior Business Transformation Director for the Process Automation business unit and leads the innovation and incubation of new industrial solutions and business models that take advantage of emerging technology trends like IIoT and Industry 4.0 to deliver better profitability, operational efficiencies and increased production to Schneider’s industrial customers.

 

Helenio was previously the Senior Director for SCADA Solutions at Schneider Electric. During his 20 years’ career Helenio has also held positions in R&D, Portfolio Management and International Business Development in companies like Hyprotech, Aspen Technology, WorleyParsons, 3esi-Enersight and Zedi.

SATYEN YADAV
CTO, Analytics
Boeing
SATYEN YADAV
CTO, Analytics
Boeing
CTO, Analytics

Satyen Yadav is the Chief Technology Officer and head of software development for Boeing Digital Solutions & Analytics business. He is responsible for creating the vision and direction for digital product architecture, agile development methodologies, cloud service architecture, and security practices. Satyen is also responsible for providing industry technology leadership for airlines, MROs, and other commercial aviation and regulatory agencies.

CARLO RUIZ
EMEA Director
NVIDIA
CARLO RUIZ
EMEA Director
NVIDIA

The world of emerging, disruptive technologies has always been a major draw for Carlo. That’s why in 2015 he joined NVIDIA, the pioneer in AI computing. Carlo leads NVIDIA’s Enterprise Services, Operations and Datacenter Solutions. From scientific discoveries to artificial intelligence, modern data centers are key to solving some of the world’s most important challenges. The NVIDIA accelerated computing platforms gives modern data centers the power to accelerate deep learning, machinelearning, and high performance computing workloads. Carlo’s career started off at Compaq as a telecom technology consultant, followed by various sales leadership roles at Hewlett-Packard. Carlo lives in Amsterdam with his wife and 4 children. 

 

Quote: The AI race is on. Breakthroughs no longer come from scientific and research labs alone. Self driving cars, intelligent medical imaging systems, and autonomous factory robots have moved quickly from ideas to reality. And it’s only the beginning. AI holds enormous promise, but it requires a massive amount of computing power. Its time to solve the challenge of AI at scale.

DANIEL JEAVONS
GM for Data Science
Shell
DANIEL JEAVONS
GM for Data Science
Shell

Dan Jeavons currently works for Shell in the digitalisation department. He has led the multi-award winning Data Science Centre of Excellence since its inception in 2013, growing the team from the ground up to around 150 individuals. In 2018, he was recognised in the top 50 data leaders in the UK.

 

He has been a significant contributor to the development of Shell’s digital and data platforms and has developed a series of high profile and well-publicised projects which have contributed significant bottom-line business benefits. He has also developed effective technology partnerships with a number of start-up companies leading to Shell investment.

 

He began his working life as an Accenture consultant working in their Upstream practice before joining Shell In 2008. He started in Shell in Finance before moving to IT in 2009. Subsequently, he worked in the CIO Office, and then in architecture before joining the Shell technology division in 2013. Dan is passionate about big data & analytics (a recurring theme throughout his career) but also has extensive experience in business process design and improvement, and business transformation and change.

 

He is married to Anne (a barrister) whom he met at university and has 2 children, Joshua and Isaac. He enjoys travelling, scuba diving and is a keen guitarist. He enjoys being able to apply expertise acquired within Shell in a charitable context.

ALEX CHISHOLM
Permanent Secretary
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
ALEX CHISHOLM
Permanent Secretary
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Permanent Secretary, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Alex Chisholm became Permanent Secretary for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in September 2016. Prior to that he was Joint Permanent Secretary for BEIS. He is also: · Trustee and Deputy Chair at the international charity Breadline Africa Previous career highlights include: · Permanent Secretary for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) · Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) · Chairperson and Commissioner of Ireland’s communications regulatory agency, ComReg · Chair of the Economic Regulators Network in Ireland · senior executive positions in the media, technology and e-commerce industries, with Pearson plc, Financial Times Group, eCountries Inc and Ecceleration Ltd Previous roles in government 1. Joint Permanent Secretary, BEIS o 2016 to 2016 2. Permanent Secretary, DECC o 2016 to 2016 3. Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority o 2013 to 2016

MARGUERITE SOETEMAN-REIJNEN
Chairman Executive Board
AON
MARGUERITE SOETEMAN-REIJNEN
Chairman Executive Board
AON
Chairman Executive Board

Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen is Chairman of the Executive Board of Aon Holdings B.V. and other Holdings entities in the Netherlands since 2016 and Global Chief Marketing Officer of Aon Inpoint since 2014.

Aon Holdings BV being the statutory shareholder/parent company of over 400 Aon companies – engaged in international insurance and reinsurance brokerage, pensions and employee consulting as well as risk management advice and services in the field of insurances- in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia Pacific, Canada and Latin America. Aon Inpoint being the management strategic advisory arm of Aon.

Previously Marguerite was Chief Broking Officer for Aon in EMEA. As a recognized authority in broking, she was instrumental in building the broking strategy in Aon, initiating and operationalizing the Chief Broking Officers organization as from 2008. Marguerite has been with Aon and its predecessors for over 29 years.

Marguerite is also Member of the Supervisory Boards of NautaDutilh, Koninklijke Stichting Defensiemusea and Gelre Ziekenhuizen. In addition she is a Member of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands. Prior roles include Chairman Supervisory Board Stichting ALS and Supervisory Board Madurodam, the Netherlands.

Marguerite received a Master degree in Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam and is an alumna of INSEAD and Harvard Business School.

She is married to Christiaan and they have 2 children Alexander (19) and Isabelle (18).

HENK JAN GERZEE
Chief Digital & Innovation Officer
Schiphol Group
 

HENK JAN GERZEE
Chief Digital & Innovation Officer
Schiphol Group
 

Henk Jan Gerzee is a digital leader with over 15 years online experience in the aviation, media and manufacturing industries, having served both B2C and B2B markets. Henk Jan has both directly and indirectly managed complex matrix organizations as well as startups. He has successfully led diverse teams in various countries, developed new business and transformed organizations to better serve customers benefitting from technology. Currently responsible for Digital and Innovation at Schiphol, Henk Jan is a strategic designer of digital ecosystems to meet the fast-changing customer needs and has the proven ability to drive organization-wide change. He has a solid academic background with a Masters degree in Economics obtained from Groningen University and Copenhagen Business School.

RAVINDER SINGH
Chief Information and Innovation Officer
Tata Singapore Airlines (Air Vistra)
RAVINDER SINGH
Chief Information and Innovation Officer
Tata Singapore Airlines (Air Vistra)
Ravinder Pal Singh (Ravi) is an Award winning Technologist with over 50+ global recognitions. His body of work, most 1st in the world are making a difference within acute constraints of culture and cash via commodity technology that can be seen and felt in day to day life and over the years. Ravi is a global speaker and has delivered over 100+ lectures and papers.
In the current year he has shared his body of work and its thinking in over 20+ renowned journals and conferences in Asia, Europe, USA and Africa. Ravi is advisor to board of 9 enterprises where incubation and differentiation is a core necessity and challenge. He brings in technology sanity, brutal honesty and no-nonsense simplistic management thinking towards rapid profitable business growth.
He sits on the advisory council of 3 global research firms where he contributes in predicting practical future automation use cases and respective technologies. He is a child right activist and also a holder, in his personal capacity, of several technologies patents, advance practitioner of yoga and flies aircraft
KATHLEEN LAWAND
Head Arms Unit - Legal Unit
International Committee of the Red Cross
KATHLEEN LAWAND
Head Arms Unit - Legal Unit
International Committee of the Red Cross

Kathleen Lawand is Head of the Arms Unit, in the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Since joining the ICRC in January 2000, she was posted to India, West Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan. From 2008 to 2012, she was Head of the Legal Advisers to the ICRC’s Operations. Prior to joining the ICRC, she worked for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She was called to the Québec Bar in 1990, and practiced law in Montreal mainly in the field of aboriginal law. In 1995 she obtained a Master’s degree (LL.M.) in public international law from the London School of Economics, with distinction.

Dr. LYDIA KOSTOPOULOS
Senior Researcher – AI in Disruptive Technologies
Digital Society Institute
Dr. LYDIA KOSTOPOULOS
Senior Researcher – AI in Disruptive Technologies
Digital Society Institute

Lydia Kostopoulos – Senior Researcher, Ai in Disruptive Technologies, Digital Society Institute:

 

“WSAI18 brought bright minds from all around the world who are tackling artificial intelligence issues that are not just at the forefront of the tech developments and debates, but also the issues that are on the edge. ‎I learned just as much from the lectures as I learned from the people I met there. The greatest value to me was the many conversations I had with other attendees and speakers where I learned about initiatives, research, people and events I never heard of! Can’t wait until next year!”

 

https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2018/20181121/Instead-of-amplifying-human-biases-can-algorithms-help-fix-them?src=shared&cmpid=shared-email

 

GABRIELE COMPOSTELLA
CTO
Volkswagen Data:Lab
 
GABRIELE COMPOSTELLA
CTO
Volkswagen Data:Lab
 
JO COUTUER
Chief Data Officer
BNP Paribas Fortis
JO COUTUER
Chief Data Officer
BNP Paribas Fortis
EMIL MATSAKH
Former Chief Data and Analytics Officer
Commonwealth Bank
EMIL MATSAKH
Former Chief Data and Analytics Officer
Commonwealth Bank

Emil Matsakh is a former Chief Analytics Officer at Commonwealth Bank of Australia where has was accountable for developing the Group’s competitive advantage in data and analytically driven insight and delivering value from this advantage through digital transformation. Emil joined the Group in 2010 as Executive General Manager, Portfolio Risk Management.

 

Prior to joining CBA Emil spent over 15 years at First Manhattan Consulting Group where he was co-head of the Risk Management and Capital Strategies practices. During his consulting career, Emil has advised over 50 leading global and US banks, insurance companies, fintechs and private equity firms on analytics, risk management, and corporate finance and strategy.

 

Prior to consulting, Emil worked in global markets with JP Morgan & Co. Emil is located in New York.

REZA KHORSHIDI
Chief Scientist
AIG
REZA KHORSHIDI
Chief Scientist
AIG

Reza is currently the Chief Scientist at AIG (leading the company’s global machine learning research and AI-first product development), as well as a principal investigator at Deep Medicine program at the University of Oxford’s Martin School (focused on healthcare innovation, and the use of AI in digital health ecosystems). He obtained his DPhil (i.e., PhD) in computational neuroscience and machine learning from the University of Oxford in 2010, and since then has been leading teams, research initiatives, and large-scale international projects in both academia and industry.

 

Reza’s team at AIG (i.e., Investments AI: a group of machine learning scientists, engineers, designers and product managers and strategists) is primarily focused on the development of AI-first products: apps and software services that employ Machine Learning to inform and assist their users. Such software products provide both AIG’s asset management (with near $0.5T AUM) and insurance arms with strategic differentiation in the market through the power of AI and design.

MOEZ DRAIEF
Vice President & Chief Scientist
Capgemini
MOEZ DRAIEF
Vice President & Chief Scientist
Capgemini
SID RAISONI
Head of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Nestle Waters
SID RAISONI
Head of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Nestle Waters
Head of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Sid is a customer experience ‘transformist’ with a track record of helping companies improve business results by changing how companies use Data. Sid has established and led Data science and Technology teams for various companies and is currently the Head of Analytics at Nestle Water’s North America. Specializing in strategy, insights, interactive design and leadership practices, Sid has earned a reputation for developing highly effective teams that increase revenue and profitability through focused execution.

VANESSA CANDEIAS
Former Head, Global Health and Healthcare; Member of the Executive Committee 
World Economic Forum
VANESSA CANDEIAS
Former Head, Global Health and Healthcare; Member of the Executive Committee 
World Economic Forum

Trained as a nutritionist, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Porto University; Master’s in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Formerly: worked at national level on developing and implementing health promotion policies with the Ministry of Health in Portugal and the Institute of Preventive Medicine of the University of Lisbon; worked with the World Health Organization Headquarters on global guidelines and policy development for noncommunicable diseases. Currently, Head of System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare and Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum. The System Initiative on Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare provides a dynamic platform for leading businesses, governments, civil society organizations and world class experts to shape the global health agenda; co-design and accelerate the implementation of collaborative approaches that transform the health ecosystem – across prevention, diagnosis, treatment, cure and maintenance of health; and ultimately enables populations to live healthier lives and have access to the care they need when they need it.

IVANA BARTOLETTI
Global Privacy Officer | Wipro
Co-Founder | Women Leading in AI Network
 
IVANA BARTOLETTI
Global Privacy Officer | Wipro
Co-Founder | Women Leading in AI Network
 

Ivana Bartoletti

 

Ivana Bartoletti is the Global Privacy Officer at Wipro, the leading international information technology, consulting and business process services company. 

 

Ivana is an internationally recognised thought leader in the fields of privacy, data protection and responsible technology. She has many years of experience working for large organizations in privacy policy, strategy and programmes related to digital transformation, cloud and automation. The Cyber Security Awards named her Woman of the Year (2019). 

 

As a Visiting Policy Fellow at the University of Oxford, her research focuses on how to advance the global sharing of information in the context of privacy, security, data protection and human rights.

 

Ivana is co-editor of The AI Book, a handbook for investors, entrepreneurs and fintech visionaries and is author of An Artificial Revolution, on Power, Politics and AI. 


She is founder of the influential Women Leading in AI network. A sought-after subject expert, Ivana is interviewed frequently in the mainstream media and speaks at many international events. An interview about her book is available here.

 

Website: www.ivanabartoletti.co.uk 

Twitter: @IvanaBartoletti

 

LINDA LEOPOLD
Head of Responsible AI & Data
H&M
 
LINDA LEOPOLD
Head of Responsible AI & Data
H&M
 

Linda Leopold is Head of Responsible AI & Data at global fashion retailer H&M Group, where she leads the company’s work on sustainable and ethical artificial intelligence and data. She joined the AI department at H&M Group in 2018, after many years in the media industry. She is a former Editor-in-Chief at the critically acclaimed fashion and culture magazine Bon, and the author of two non-fiction books. She has been a columnist for Scandinavia’s biggest financial newspaper and has worked as an innovation strategist at the intersection of fashion and tech. Her passion lies in merging fashion and culture with science and technology. 

DAVID BUDDEN
Research Engineering Team Lead
DeepMind
DAVID BUDDEN
Research Engineering Team Lead
DeepMind
Research Engineering Team Lead

Dr. David Budden is an engineering team lead and distributed systems researcher at DeepMind, the world leader in AI research and its application for positive impact. His recent projects include AlphaStar, the first AI to defeat a top professional player at StarCraft II, in addition to many other reinforcement-learning agents and environments. Before joining DeepMind, David worked at MIT and Harvard on projects including the first real-time “connectomics” system for reconstructing biological neuron connectivity maps from electron microscopy data. He was named Australia’s 2016 Young IT Professional of the Year for his startup work in the sports and education industries.

MATTIAS FRAS
Group Head of AI Strategy & Acceleration
Nordea
MATTIAS FRAS
Group Head of AI Strategy & Acceleration
Nordea

Mattias is driving AI strategy in Nordea. He has 20 years of experience from working with large corporate transformations in the Nordics. He has spent 10 years in management consulting, 5 years as CFO and 5 years driving transformation in Nordea leveraging new technology such as software robotics, virtual agents and machine learning / deep learning. His current focus is about building data driven organisations using AI related solutions. 

DR JULIAN MERTEN
Head of Data Science at Data & Analytics Mercedes-Benz Cars
Mercedes Benz (Daimler AG)
DR JULIAN MERTEN
Head of Data Science at Data & Analytics Mercedes-Benz Cars
Mercedes Benz (Daimler AG)
Head of Data Science Data and Analytics

I am looking for structure in complex systems and as a trained theoretical Astrophysicist I have done so from many different perspectives. At the end of the day, I was always drawn to information technology. For Daimler/Mercedes-Benz Cars I am therefore deploying machine-learning based solutions to the company’s data bases to, ultimately, fully optimise financial processes within Daimler/MBC. Key to this is the implementation of a positive data culture for all employees. As the Head of Data Science for the Data & Analytics team, I am particularly interested in advancing deep learning techniques for data analysis, representation learning, decision making, process acceleration and privacy protection.

In 2010 I was awarded my PhD in Physics from the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and worked as a research fellow at Caltech and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena/California (USA). I held Marie Curie Fellowships at the University of Oxford (UK) and at INAF Bologna (Italy) and taught as a lecturer at University College Oxford (UK). In my free time, I am particularly interested in the latest HPC trend, bit-level code optimisation and higher mathematics.

DR. MARC TEERLINK
Global Vice President, Intelligent Enterprise Solutions & Artificial Intelligence
SAP
DR. MARC TEERLINK
Global Vice President, Intelligent Enterprise Solutions & Artificial Intelligence
SAP
Global Vice President, Intelligent Enterprise Solutions & Artificial Intelligence

Dr Marc Teerlink mba/mbi is SAP’s Global Vice President for Intelligent Enterprise Solutions & Artificial Intelligence. Marc Is a serial corporate entrepreneur, responsible for vision and products that enable digital transformation of businesses around the world, through Innovation, Data Monetization, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies.

Prior to SAP. Marc was IBM Watson’s Chief Business Strategist during IBM’s formative years of AI. Before IBM, Marc built expertise as a banker, business manager, consultant, and change leader within nine countries across three continents.

Marc is active in the startup community as an angel investor, mentor, and board member and has been an active participant of the World Government Summit’s Global Governance of AI Roundtable since its conception in 2018.

PROFESSOR  ANIL SETH
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
University of Sussex
PROFESSOR  ANIL SETH
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
University of Sussex

Neuroscientist Anil Seth is interested in understanding the biological basis of conscious experience, a topic he considers one of the greatest challenges for 21st century science. His groundbreaking research provides fascinating insight into what this means for storytelling. His 2017 TED talk has been viewed over 5 million times.

Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and Codirector of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. He seeks to understand the biological basis of consciousness by bringing together research across neuroscience, mathematics, AI, computer science, psychology, philosophy and psychiatry. Key to his work is exploring the relationship between perception and hallucination, and how this applies to the experience of being a “self.” Seth is also Editor in Chief of the academic journal Neuroscience of Consciousness, a Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow. He was the 2017 President of the British Science Association (Psychology Section).

GEORGE MULAMULA
Governments Liaison (Africa Drone Forum)
World Bank Group Tanzania Office
GEORGE MULAMULA
Governments Liaison (Africa Drone Forum)
World Bank Group Tanzania Office

The founder and CEO of DTBi, the only Tech Incubator/Accelerator supporting entrepreneurship & innovation in Tanzania. Prior to that he was the first Principal Deputy CEO of the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) and Senior Advisor in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry and Ministry of Infrastructure & ICT in Rwanda. For over 8 years, Mulamula was the first Africa Technical Expert in Intellectual Property Automation with WIPO based in Geneva, Switzerland and worked with Sub-Sahara African Governments on the utility of ICT in IP innovation. He is a mentor/coach for entrepreneurs, conducted pitching sessions in and outside the country, including at Global Entrepreneurship Summits, GIST boot camps in Tanzania & South Africa, Unreasonable East Africa and Demo Africa in Uganda & Kenya. He is the Chair of the Tanzania Airtel Fursa judging team for the national youth entrepreneurship growth, on the Advisory Board of the Global Learning XPRIZE in California (USA), a member of the Tanzania National Financial Sector Deepening Trust, Commissioner on the Tanzania National ICT Commission.

ALEX NTALE
CEO
Rwanda ICT Chamber
ALEX NTALE
CEO
Rwanda ICT Chamber
HRH Prince Jaime de Bourbon de Parme
Climate Envoy
The Netherlands
HRH Prince Jaime de Bourbon de Parme
Climate Envoy
The Netherlands

As Climate Envoy, Jaime de Bourbon de Parme is the dedicated representative of the Netherlands for climate diplomacy. He is to raise international climate ambitions and find common solutions for reducing greenhouse emissions and enhancing the regenerative power of nature. He also sits on the board of the Green Climate Fund, which assists developing countries in adaptation and mitigation practices 

 

Jaime has an extensive diplomatic career in forging partnerships for innovative solutions to complex global challenges. As Senior Advisor for Private Sector Partnerships (2018-2021) to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) his mission was to find private sector solutions for refugees, amongst which access to clean energy. As the Ambassador of the Netherlands to the Holy See (Vatican, under the leadership of Pope Francis) he partnered on climate action, forced migration and peace negotiations (2014-2018). As Special Envoy for Natural Resources (2011-2014), he initiated the Responsible Mining Index and set up conflict-free supply chains of metals and minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the private sector and civil society. 

 

He was selected to be a member of the Cabinet of the European Commissioner for Competition (2005-2007), worked in the field as political advisor to the Dutch Commander of the NATO Peacekeeping Mission in Afghanistan (2004) and helped set up the Netherlands Embassy in Iraq (2003). He has held various other roles in MENA, Africa and Latin America.

 

Born in the Netherlands, Jaime holds an MA from Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a BA from Brown University. He is married and has two young daughters.

JAN FREDERIK MORGENTHAL
Tribe & Product Lead
Deutsche Telekom
JAN FREDERIK MORGENTHAL
Tribe & Product Lead
Deutsche Telekom

Tribe & Product Lead

Jan is Chief Product Owner AI at Deutsche Telekom Group for several nimble, agile teams working on intelligent products & services such as chatbots, voice- & callbots, semantic search or emotion recognition. Beforehand he worked for digital boutique consultancies in Germany and South Korea and holds Master in Management Information Systems

JESPER SOEGAARD
Global Senior Director Big Data Engineering
LEGO GROUP
JESPER SOEGAARD
Global Senior Director Big Data Engineering
LEGO GROUP
Global Senior Director Big Data Engineering

Managing, architectecting and building a data Engineering and ML/AI practice within LEGO pure agile setup. Managing a team of 50 Data engineers and data platform engineers (internal and externals) all focused on delivering data , data products and AI/ML Products to the LEGO Group. Building solutions on a Cloud infrastructure

Part of the leadership team focusing on Digitalization and how to abobt and prioritise digitalization initiatives in LEGO

SANDEEP DADLANI
Global Chief Digital Officer
Mars
SANDEEP DADLANI
Global Chief Digital Officer
Mars

SANDEEP DADLANI 

Chief Digital Officer – Mars, Incorporated 

 

Sandeep Dadlani joined Mars, Incorporated as Global Chief Digital Officer in September 2017, and has responsibility for working with Mars’ global business segments to drive its digital transformation agenda, while delivering effectiveness and efficiency to existing business and technology platforms. In the last three and half years, he has driven a new wave of consumer and user centricity, unleashed the power of data, analytics, AI, and automation while driving new agile digital behaviors across the enterprise.  

Prior to joining Mars, Dadlani worked at Infosys, a $10 billion global systems integration firm, where he was President, Head of Americas and Global Head of Infosys’ Manufacturing, Retail, CPG and Logistic Practices. In this role, he managed a portfolio P&L worth US $3.5 billion and helped more than 300 global clients embrace digital technologies, including AI and Machine Learning. He co-incubated and eventually ran Infosys Edgeverve as Chairman, an AI and software company for Infosys.

Dadlani has 24+ years of experience in operations, consulting, business development and product management. He has been actively involved in helping organizations in the retail, CPG and logistics sectors become more competitive by embracing new emerging trends across digital consumers and emerging markets. 

VILAS DHAR
President
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
VILAS DHAR
President
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

Vilas Dhar is President and Trustee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, a 21st century philanthropy advancing artificial intelligence (AI) and data solutions to create a thriving, equitable, and sustainable future for all. A leading voice on equity in a tech-enabled world, Vilas champions a new social compact for the digital age that prioritizes individuals and communities in the development of new products, inspires economic and social opportunity, and empowers the most vulnerable. Vilas serves as a Trustee of the Christensen Fund, Co-Chair of the Global AI Action Alliance at the World Economic Forum, Advisor to MIT SOLVE, a Director of the New England International Donors, and has served as a Senior Fellow of the Berggruen Institute. Vilas holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law, a Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and dual Bachelor’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Birmingham, where his research drives a new vision for how vulnerable and marginalized populations represent themselves and find agency and sovereignty in and through their data.

JACOMO CORBO
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder , QuantumBlack
QuantumBlack
JACOMO CORBO
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder , QuantumBlack
QuantumBlack
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, QuantumBlack
EDGAR KRAYCHIK
Head of Enterprise Data Management
Sears
EDGAR KRAYCHIK
Head of Enterprise Data Management
Sears
Head of Enterprise Management

My professional experience encompasses an intricate maze of highly diverse business and technology domains, and international locations across North America, Europe, and Japan. I’ve gained an insider perspective from an wide-ranging roster of companies, ranging from Bay Area late-stage startups experiencing an explosive growth, to private equity fund, to founding and bootstrapping my own company, to now leading a diverse IT portfolio for a traditional multi-billion dollar company, transforming to adjust to ever-changing market conditions. During my career, I’ve built some of the first VoIP cloud-based contact centers, invented Visual IVR for iOS, created Visual Voicemail (VVM) on Symbian and Blackberry OS ahead of iPhone’s VVM. I’ve built contextual communication service mashups that combined a variety of mobile, telecom, front-office and back office applications to deliver a game-changing carrier-grade PaaS and VAS for business communications, pioneered context-aware, brokered, multi-modal, and multi-platform interactive CaaS for mobile operators. My Enterprise Telephony Server was voted one of the most outstanding products on Microsoft campus and later became a part of MSFT Lync server(now Skype4Business). Today I am leading a massive transformation of technology debt towards cloud-based microservices, and implementation of Data Management, Data Governance and cloud-based Data Management Platform.

SERGEY PATSKO
Vice President, Custom AI Solutions
Capgemini
SERGEY PATSKO
Vice President, Custom AI Solutions
Capgemini
Vice President, Custom AI Solutions
NASER BAKHSHI
Director Artificial Intelligence
Deloitte
NASER BAKHSHI
Director Artificial Intelligence
Deloitte
Director Artificial Intelligence

I work as Senior Manager Analytics in the Deloitte Dutch Analytics service line. In the world of ever-growing data and continues new technological advances, my goal is to bring to bring the best, the newest and most innovative analytics solutions and unlock actionable insights for a fact-based decision making. I combine enabling technologies such as Machine Learning, Cognitive Analytics and intelligent self-learning systems to develop and embed advanced decisions support systems in the supply chain and in customer domain. Moreover, I’m an experienced transition manager with a strong feeling for organizational change and sensitivity helping organizations to define analytics strategy and build analytical capabilities.

AMIR HEVER
CEO
UVeye
AMIR HEVER
CEO
UVeye

Amir Hever is the CEO and co-founder of UVeye, the deep learning computer vision startup that is setting the global standard for vehicle inspection with fast and accurate anomaly detection to identify issues or threats facing the automotive and security industries. Hever co-founded UVeye in June 2016 along with his brother Ohad, who serves as the COO.
With an extensive background of over 10 years working in the field of computer vision, UVeye is Hever’s third venture. He previously held the position of VP R&D at Visualead which was acquired by Alibaba. There he created technology to improve interactions between people and brands through mobile innovation. Prior to Visualead, he worked with Correlsense, an enterprise-application performance-management (APM) company.

ALI BOUHOUCH
CTO
Sephora
ALI BOUHOUCH
CTO
Sephora
BERND RATTEY
CIO
Deutsche Bahn
BERND RATTEY
CIO
Deutsche Bahn
FARHAN SIDDIQI
Chief Digital Officer and member of the Executive Committee
Ahold Delhaize
FARHAN SIDDIQI
Chief Digital Officer and member of the Executive Committee
Ahold Delhaize

On January 28, 2019, Farhan Siddiqi joined Ahold Delhaize as Chief Digital Officer and member of the Executive Committee. He is responsible for driving digital transformation and innovation across Ahold Delhaize’s local brands, focusing on loyalty, data analytics and personalization.
Before joining Ahold Delhaize, Farhan served as chief digital officer at McDonald’s, and led the restaurant chain’s digital transformation, including the launch of mobile commerce in 20,000 restaurants, a new mobile app and the upgrade of self-service ordering kiosks. He was also responsible for data analytics and extending Customer Relationship Management capabilities.
Prior to this, Farhan held various key leadership positions within Bank of America, Target and General Electric, where he focused on implementing successful customer loyalty programs and digital payment solutions and launching strategic partnerships.

JANET ADAMS
Chief Operating Officer
SingularityNET
JANET ADAMS
Chief Operating Officer
SingularityNET
Head of AI, Business Banking

 

MICHEL VAN DER STAPPEN
Digital R&D Director
Unilever
MICHEL VAN DER STAPPEN
Digital R&D Director
Unilever

CV – Michel vander Stappen

 

  • 1995: PhD in Chemical Engineering from Delft University of Technology
    Topic: Chaotic hydrodynamics of Fluidized Bed Reactors
  • 1995: Unilever Research in Vlaardingen, The Netherlands: manager & project leader in Process Design; a.o. developed a new method for the conceptual design of (Food) processes based on the microstructure and product (culinary) principles that drive quality.
  • 2001: Head of Processing Development in Global Technology Centre Savoury, Heilbronn, Germany
    Leading the integration of processing capability of Bestfoods (major new acquisition in 2001) into Unilever. Developing differentiating process technology for core Savoury products.
  • 2004: Global R&D Programme Director Savoury Cooking Aids innovation, Heilbronn, Germany.
    Leading a product design team and the global innovation program for the core bouillon & seasonings portfolio. One main deliverable was the innovation and launch of Jelly bouillons, a whole new product format.
  • 2006: Regional R&D Programme Director for Savoury Asia, based in Shanghai China
    Leading R&D in the regional category LT. Defining and delivering the regional (X-Asia) R&D programme. 
  • 2010: Director of the Research Programme for Savoury, based in Vlaardingen, The Netherlands
    Leading the longer-term programme for differentiating technologies (from consumer science, material and products to process technologies). New tools for the design toolbox so to speak.
  • 2016: Processing & Digital director in Beverages (Tea) R&D, Colworth, UK
    Created one global processing capability for the category, led several breakthrough technologies to scale-up into the factories/plantations. Also built the program and digital capability in R&D to design tea blend “in-silico”.
  • 2020: current role
    Foods & Refreshment R&D Digital & Data Director, Hive – Wageningen, NL
    Leading the divisional R&D capability for Digital & Data, which is transforming from a specification data support and mostly operational organization into a strategic capability for (a) system expertise & user solutions, (b) data insights & reporting and (c) Data Science & modelling.  Also leading the category end-end in-silico design programmes together with the design capability leaders.

 

  • Hobbies: hiking, travelling, food (cooking & eating)

 

FRANCESCO MARZONI
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
IKEA Retail (Ingka Group)
 
FRANCESCO MARZONI
Chief Data and Analytics Officer
IKEA Retail (Ingka Group)
 

Leading the Data & Analytics agenda at IKEA Retail (Ingka Group), Francesco is instrumental in strategically developing and implementing a Data & Analytics approach across the digital landscape. With his extensive competence and passion for data, he is a huge contribution to the IKEA Retail (Ingka Group) transformation journey.

Francesco started his career at Procter & Gamble where he has held several country, regional and global roles in the business analytics space, from data analyst and scaled product manager to division analytics head. He has also led Data & Technology departments at Bayer, as Data & Analytics Vice President. Most recently he is with Nestlé, being accountable for Corporate Data Strategy, Analytics & AI Products, and Integration Technology. He has an academic background in computer engineering and business management, with majors in Operations Research and Neural Networks Systems. Francesco is an avid reader and a passionate tennis player. 

CADE METZ
Technology Correspondent
The New York Times
CADE METZ
Technology Correspondent
The New York Times

Cade Metz is a technology correspondent with The New York Times, covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual reality, and other emerging areas. Previously, he was a senior staff writer with Wired magazine and the U.S. editor of The Register, the British science and technology news site that enjoys a worldwide following. 


He grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, where his father spent his career as an engineer and programmer with IBM and helped develop the Universal Product Code (the barcode on all your groceries). While studying English at Duke University, he interned at IBM as a programmer during the summers, before becoming a journalist. His first job was as a researcher at PC Magazine, which was then one of the largest tech publications in the world and is now defunct. 

Metz works in The New York Times’ San Francisco bureau and lives across the bay with his wife Taylor and two daughters. 

 

OTT VELSBERG
Government Chief Data Officer
Republic of Estonia
OTT VELSBERG
Government Chief Data Officer
Republic of Estonia

Ott Velsberg is the Chief Data Officer for the Estonian government. He oversees the strategic coordination of data science and data governance in Estonia, including domains like artificial intelligence and open data. He is also a Ph.D. researcher in the department of Informatics at Umeå University and Uppsala University. His research concentrates on the use of information systems in the public sector, with a special focus on the use of the Internet of Things (IoT).