Controller at City of LA

Ron Galperin is the independently elected Controller of the City of Los Angeles. He serves as the watchdog for taxpayers at City Hall, making sure public dollars are spent efficiently and effectively. Galperin oversees a team that audits municipal departments and programs, manages payroll and spending, reports on the City’s finances, pursues fraud and waste, and works to create a more transparent, accountable, equitable and modern government for everyone. Galperin launched ControlPanel LA, the City’s first open data portal, in 2013. During the pandemic, he created the L.A. Equity Index to help address local barriers to opportunity and released a series of resource maps and financial dashboards to aid businesses and residents. Read more about him here.

Head of Streaming at Databricks

Karthik Ramasamy is the Head of Streaming at Databricks. Before joining Databricks, he was a Senior Director of Engineering, managing the Pulsar team at Splunk. Before Splunk, he was the co-founder and CEO of Streamlio that focused on building next-generation event processing infrastructure using Apache Pulsar and led the acquisition of Streamlio by Splunk. Before Streamlio, he was the engineering manager and technical lead for real-time infrastructure at Twitter where he co-created Twitter Heron, which was open sourced and used by several companies. He has two decades of experience working with companies such as Teradata, Greenplum and Juniper in their rapid growth stages building parallel databases, big data infrastructure and networking. He co-founded Locomatix, a company that specializes in real-time streaming processing on Hadoop and Cassandra using SQL, which was acquired by Twitter. Karthik has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a focus on big data and databases. During his college tenure, several of the research projects he participated in were later spun off as a company acquired by Teradata. Karthik is the author of several publications, patents and a popular book, Network Routing: Algorithms, Protocols and Architectures.

Acting Chief Information Officer, Los Angeles County

Peter Loo is the Acting Chief Information Officer of Los Angeles County. With over 35 years of public sector IT experience, he serves as the principal adviser to the CEO and provides strategy, leadership and guidance on enterprise IT initiatives, IT Governance and the delivery of information technology capabilities to support the County mission and Board priorities. Prior to joining the Los Angeles County, Mr. Loo was Director of Consulting Services at a large multi-national firm, where he was responsible for the successful delivery of multiple public-sector ERP and public health projects at State and local governments.

Chief Information Officer at Los Angeles Unified School District

Soheil Katal is an enterprising, innovative, solution-focused IT leader, experienced in enterprise architecture management and a proven successful project leader. Twenty years of experience in both the public and private sectors and well-rounded expertise in business insight and technology innovation catapulted him forward to serve as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation’s second largest school district. As CIO, Soheil oversees one of the largest technology environments in the nation, with over 500,000 student and employee devices accessing a network of nearly 100,000 access points daily, 30,000 miles of cabling, and 16 petabytes of storage, 1,000 times the size of the Library of Congress. Soheil holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Information Technology from the Florida Institute of Technology and multiple technical industry certifications. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi.

CEO at Aware Health

Forward-looking entrepreneur, researcher, and subject matter expert focused on developing a company called Aware Health. Passionate about creating an empowered company culture where every individual's ideas are valued. Harnessing the collective heart and brain-power of the team, Aware is dedicated to working with companies to create a healthy workforce that is aware of and receiving modern treatments and preventative measures for orthopedic care at the lowest cost. I serve as the founder for Aware Health, and in my spare time (yes I always make sure there is some!), I love rock climbing, running, and spending time with my children!

Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Fastly

Lakshmi Sharma has decades of experience driving strategy and transformation in engineering, business, and IT, leveraging people, process and technologies for successful business and cultural outcomes. She is currently the Chief Product and Chief Strategy Officer at Fastly, A Global Programmable Edge cloud platform designed to help Enterprises and developers extend their core cloud infrastructure, closer to users. Before Fastly, she was the Director of Product Management for Networking in Google Cloud, where she was responsible for end-to-end customer experience for Networking and Networking Solutions, crossing multiple industry verticals. She also led Products and Engineering at Cisco, Brocade, RIFT.io, Apcera, and Target. Lakshmi is passionate about building inclusive and transparent organizational cultures where everyone feels supported in their growth and empowered to make an impact in the organization. In personal life she believes education is the best way to bring equality. She spends time supporting and growing communities by creating opportunities that were not available to them because of access to equal education and resources to grow.

Chief Data Officer at City of Los Angeles

Eva Pereira is the Chief Data Officer, for the City of Los Angeles. Her team leads the delivery of a wide range of data projects around topics like racial equity in programs and services, census outreach, COVID response, and more. In addition to this, she manages the open data portal, as well as community and academic engagement programs that leverage the City’s open data.

Data Scientist at Citi Ventures

Aboli is an Associate Data Scientist on Venture Innovation's Studio team, where she helps leverage the power of data science and machine learning to maximize their impact. She is passionate about using data for social good. She was previously a part of the CUPID program, where she worked as a Data Scientist Intern for Studio. Before joining the Studio team Aboli worked at Stantec, where she served as a Data Analyst analyzing and predicting flood frequency risk for rural catchments. She graduated with a master's degree in Applied Economics from the University of San Francisco and holds another master's degree in Water Resources Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Product Designer at Meta

Alison is Product Designer at Meta with a background in Data Science and Fashion. Alison has worked as a multidisciplinary designer building data visualization heavy products for brands such as Starbucks, SESAC, WarnerChappell, SONY/ATV and FINRA, and also worked as a Data Analyst for General Assembly. Committed to life long learning, Alison regularly takes bootcamp courses, but also teaches courses in Experience Design and Data Science and Data Analytics.

Chief AI Officer at Unscrambl

Anand Ranganathan is a co-founder and the Chief AI Officer at Unscrambl. He is leading Unscrambl's product development in several cutting-edge areas, including natural language processing, automated insights, data story-telling, and marketing optimization. Before joining Unscrambl, he was a Master Inventor and Research Scientist at IBM. He received his PhD in Computer Science from UIUC, and his BTech from the IIT-Madras. He also has over 70 academic journal and conference publications and 30 patent filings in his name.

VP & Head of Data Solutions at Instaclustr

Anil is the VP & Head of Data Solutions at Instaclustr by NetApp, which provides a managed platform for open source data-layer and developer workflow technologies. Anil has 20+ years of experience in data and analytics roles. Joining Instaclustr in 2019, he works with organizations to drive successful data-centric digital transformations via the right cultural, operational, architectural, and technological roadmaps. Prior to Instaclustr, he held data & analytics leadership roles at Dell EMC, Accenture, and Visa, among others. Anil lives and works in the Bay Area.

Principal Developer Advocate, AI/ML at AWS

Antje Barth is a Principal Developer Advocate for AI and Machine Learning at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She is co-author of the O'Reilly Book, "Data Science on AWS." Antje is also co-founder of the global "Data Science on AWS" Meetup. She frequently speaks at AI and Machine Learning conferences and meetups around the world, including the O'Reilly AI and Strata conferences. Besides ML/AI, Antje is passionate about helping developers leverage Big Data, container and Kubernetes platforms in the context of AI and Machine Learning.

CEO at ServiceMob

Anuj is Founder & CEO of serviceMob, a customer service enterprise technology company based in Southern California. Anuj is passionate about helping companies achieve meaningful relationships with their customers. Prior to founding serviceMob, he led the Service Analytics Strategy group for Accenture, and served as the Innovation Lead for Internet & Social Media clients in Silicon Valley. At Accenture, he worked over a decade with some of the largest companies on the planet to help devise and implement strategies to become more customer-centric and achieve measurable business outcomes. Anuj is an enthusiast of how technology (including Artificial Intelligence, Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, Social Platforms, and IoT) and can be used to solve big issues faced by various industries and their customers. He is a tireless advocate for the customer experience, and has authored three US Patents in the space. Anuj holds a Bachelors in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and his MBA as a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he concentrated on innovation and analytics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Professor at University of Southern California

Arif Ansari is Professor at Marshall School of Business in University of Southern California, Los Angeles and the founder of Intuition Intelligence Inc. He is an expert in Big Data Business Analytics, Digital Marketing and Intelligent Systems. He holds multiple US and international patents Learning Systems. He has given many keynote speech on Business Analytics. He is an Advanced Predictive Analytics visionary and thought leader; he has developed a framework for Creative Analytics and has built advanced analytics engines for challenging problems. He has created real-time Viral Prediction Engine and Super Relevance Engine and custom-built Advanced Analytical Engines for the Retail, Finance and Media sectors. His guest editorial with Gerard Tellis and Yusuf Ansari (Intuition Intelligence) on Super Bowl 2022 Ad Virality Prediction and Insights is published in the World Advertising Research Center (WARC). His recent work with Wavemarker and Netflix won the ICOM Data Creativity Top Award in June 2022.

Instructor at Caltech

Ash Pahwa, Ph.D., is an educator, author, entrepreneur, and technology visionary with three decades of industry and academic experience. He specializes in the Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Search Engine Optimization. Dr. Pahwa earned his doctorate in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He is listed in Who's Who in the Frontiers of Science and Technology. He is also a Google Certified Analytics Consultant. In Industry, Dr. Pahwa has worked for General Electric, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Xerox Corporation, and Oracle. He founded CD-Gen, Inc. and DV Studio Technologies, LLC., which introduced successful products for CD-Recording (CDR) and MPEG encoding. His book, CD-Recordable Bible was published in English, Japanese, and German. In Academia, Dr. Pahwa teaches courses at California Institute of Technology (Pasadena) and the University of California system. Since 2008, he taught many courses at UC Irvine, UCLA, and UC San Diego.

Senior Director of Business Intelligence at HopSkipDrive

Bob Newstadt is a data expert and currently the Senior Director of Business Intelligence at HopSkipDrive, a transportation service for kids. Bob leads a team responsible for data science, analytics, data culture, data infrastructure, data governance, and data products. He is also a mentor with the SpringBoard School of Data. Bob has computer science degrees from CMU (Applied Math) and UCLA (Databases and AI).

Lead Software Engineer at Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

As a Lead Software Engineer at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Brandon is responsible for everything from software design to data analytics to infrastructure. He has an educational background in business analytics and finance. It was when he began working at Northrop Grumman, that he decided to officially turn to computer science full time. Approximately 8 years, 12 programming languages, 18 hackathons, and over +10000 GitHub commits later he has done software development in the following industries: real estate, aerospace, financial software, internet marketing, and currently film/entertainment. One of his true passions, in addition to working with technology, is teaching, inspiring, and leading others who are interested in pursuing careers in tech-related fields.

Senior Manager at Accenture

Chirag has extensive experience in Data and Analytics and has helped numerous companies implement best practice analytics platforms. He currently works with Accenture as a Senior Manager in their Strategy & Consulting practice with focus on Applied Intelligence.

Principal Developer Advocate, AI and Machine Learning at AWS

Chris Fregly is a Principal Engineer,  AI and Machine Learning at Amazon Web Services (AWS) based in San Francisco, California. He is co-author of the O'Reilly Book, "Data Science on AWS."

Analytics Manager at Activision | Blizzard

By day, Christian provides critical business insights for Activision by building optimized interactive dashboards, business processes, and data pipelines. By night, he hopes to inspire the next generation of Business Intelligence and Data Analysts through LinkedIn, Social Audio, and YouTube and podcast coming soon!

Co-Founder & CDO at togetherMDM

As a data professional, entrepreneur, and industry consultant, he helps companies to be more data-driven. That includes data management, data quality, data governance, reporting, and advanced analytics for all business units including finance, sales, marketing, operations, and client experience. Familiar with big data solutions on-prem and in the cloud. Hands-on expertise in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and blockchain solutions for data management. Each day, he mentors and coaches teams to produce analytics and insights that inspire and motivate data-driven decisions at scale. He is currently working on a stealth startup to transform master data governance with blockchain and smart contracts.

Global Director Data Integrity at Tricentis

Curtis O'Dell is the business product manager for the data integrity offering for Tricentis. He has over 30 years of experience, having built fraud and risk data solutions for the largest banks in the U.S. His testing background includes every platform from mainframe to mobile. He has worked with testing embedded systems for Lockheed Martin's F-35 and Medtronic's pacemakers as well as the largest financial and business systems for ExxonMobil, Nationwide Insurance, and WorldPay. His experience includes managing the Emerald Health Service Bureau for Ross Perot's Perot Systems and building risk data systems for some of the largest banks in the southwest. A University of Texas at Austin graduate in Geophysics, a graduate of the System Engineer Development (SED) program at Ross Perot's EDS (now HPE), and Harvard Business School Business Analytics certified, he brings a breadth of knowledge of data and how to achieve solid data quality.

Developer Advocate at StreamNative

David is a committer on the Apache Pulsar project, and also the author of "Pulsar in Action" and co-author of "Practical Hive". He currently serves as a Developer Advocate for StreamNative where he focuses on strengthening the Apache Pulsar community through education and evangelization. Prior to that he was a principal software engineer on the messaging team at Splunk, and Director of Solutions for two Big Data startups; Streamlio and Hortonworks.

Founder / CEO at inRecovery

David is a serial entrepreneur. He co-founded UPrinting at 22 which Insight Partners acquired in 2010. Betting we'd all shop on our phones in the future, he founded the first m-commerce platform built for touch, which he sold to Magento. His struggle with mental health and addiction led him to homelessness. The overdose of a friend led David to seek help and checked himself into treatment. There he had a vision for data-driven care and inRecovery was born, the "operating system" helping modernize the addiction care industry, increasing access to care, and helping democratize reintegration to give people a real chance to thrive after crisis.

Sr Specialist Solutions Architect - AI/ML at Databricks

Debu is a Senior Solutions Architect at Databricks focused on implementing/optimizing machine learning and deep learning capable pipelines at scale. Previously he has co-founded a real-time identity graph management and analytics company called Throtle onboarding. Before that, he founded a nonprofit org in India that aimed at increasing education access to remote parts of India using virtual classrooms. In his current role, he interacts and aligns strategically with the technical and business leadership of Databricks Enterprise customers. He is leveraging his strong technical background, love for public speaking, and effective communication with customers to understand their business and technical strategy and challenges. He regularly engages in architectural design and whiteboarding sessions with customers as they see him as a trusted advisor. As a Senior Solutions Architect at Lifion by ADP, Senior Engineer at V12 group, and Bank of America, he has spearheaded multiple projects involving streaming and machine learning capable pipeline creation and optimization. his passion for cloud computing, machine learning, and distributed systems began while working on his Master's research thesis on Machine Translation at Johns Hopkins University.

Chair JCC at OATH

Donald Malloy is a Security Consultant, Founder of the Symposium on Securing the IoT and Chairman of OATH, The Initiative for Open Authentication. He helps organizations manage their security programs with their IoT security, authentication and identity management solutions. He is currently the Director of Business Development for DualAuth, a security company with multi factor authentication. OATH is an industry alliance that has developed the MFA market and shifted it from proprietary systems to an open source standard based architecture promoting ubiquitous strong authentication used by most companies today. Mr. Malloy has more than 25 year's experience in the Security, Semiconductor and Payment industry. Don was responsible for developing the online authentication product line while at NagraID Security (Idemia) and prior to that he was Business Development and Marketing Manager for Secure Smart Card ICs for both NXP and Infineon Technologies. Don originally comes from Boston where he was educated and has M.S. level degrees in Organic Chemistry and an M.B.A. in Marketing. He resides in Southern California and in his spare time he enjoys hiking, camping and traveling around this beautiful world.

Lecturer at California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

Elektra has 20 years of experience as a sustainability professional. She first became involved with the intersection of arts and sustainability in 2008 through Arts Earth Partnership, which was responsible for assessing arts and cultural facilities pursuing the LA Green Business Program Certification. Through this joint venture, Elektra performed comprehensive sustainability assessments of LA landmarks such as LACMA, The Natural History Museum, the Dolby Theatre, and Skirball Cultural Center. She started teaching the first required course for the Sustainability Minor at Otis College of Art and Design soon afterward, and since then has developed, taught and mentored eight sustainability-themed, interdisciplinary college-level courses. Elektra has contributed to two other City of Los Angeles sustainability projects. She assisted in the implementation of the RecycLA program, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while diverting 90 percent of the City’s landfill waste by 2025. She currently is a board member of Westwood Greenway, Inc., which partners with LA Sanitation & Environment. The Westwood Greenway cleans stormwater through natural processes, while providing an island of native habitat for birds, butterflies and other animals next to one of Metro Expo Line’s busiest stops.  Elektra is a LEED Green Associate and a Certified Sustainable Building Advisor. She has a Master of Science in Regenerative Studies (Sustainability), and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film, Video and Animation. Elektra is from Los Angeles – when she was a public art muralist, she apprenticed with veteran Chicano muralists East Los Streetscapers, and contributed substantially to a Koreatown mural which has been replicated and is on permanent display at the Petersen Auto Museum.

Data Platform Engineer at Stitchfix

Elijah has always enjoyed working at the intersection of math and engineering. More recently, he has focused his career on building tools to make data scientists more productive. At Two Sigma, he was building infrastructure to help quantitative researchers efficiently turn ideas into production trading models. At Stitch Fix he is a founding member of the Model Lifecycle team — a team that focuses on streamlining the experience for data scientists to create and ship machine learning models. In his spare time, he enjoys geeking out about fractals, looking at antique maps, and playing jazz piano.

CTO at Georgy Technology Leadership

Named Entrepreneur Magazine's Top CTO to Watch in 2022, Emad is recognized globally as an execution-focused CTO, board member and powerful transformational leader. His passion is both developing durable architecture and developing leaders. He has led some of the world's largest digital transformations in financial services, retail, healthcare and gaming. Emad is the CEO of Georgy Technology Leadership and the creator of the first global standard for measuring Technology Health(www.technology.health), a standard implemented in thousands of organizations. He has held CTO positions at a number of enterprise brands including Experian. Emad has also contributed code to the Windows platform as well as a number of IBM's products. He was also one of the first 50 in the world to implement HBase in a production environment. Emad has been recognized for his leadership with numerous industry awards including the Computerworld IT 100 award, and has been featured on a number of podcasts about technology leadership. Emad has a passion for growing leaders in technology.

Head of Partnerships and Business Development at Amazon/ IMDB

I lead partnerships and BD for IMDb scaling advertising growth within the Amazon entertainment ecosystem. Prior to Amazon I was at Warner Bros /WarnerMedia driving synergy efforts for ATT Inc.

VP of Marketing at StarRocks

From Sun Microsystems to AWS and several startups that have transformed markets, Fadi Azhari has been leading the global conversation around computing and data analytics for over two decades. Today, he continues in his role as a data analytics industry thought leader as StarRocks’ VP of Marketing. At StarRocks, Fadi oversees the organization’s international go-to-market strategy, helping to educate engineers and business leaders on how to transform their data into powerful innovations and working directly with some of the world’s largest enterprises to help them deliver real-time analytics to their data teams.

Snowflake SME at Accenture & CEO at ITS

Frank has been the Snowflake Data Superhero for 3 years. He is also a SnowPro, Top Snowflake SME at Accenture (part time). He is a Data Thought Leader focused on data driven business, data sharing, and migrating data systems to the cloud. He is the Founder and CEO of a highly profitable technology/data consulting business for 19 years which was sold in 2019. Our consulting business delivered over a billion dollars of market cap growth to our clients. Frank's focus in most recent years has been on building inventions and teams which enable the intersection of automation, AI, and data to enable automated data driven business business. Frank's teams have built both the Saas Powered By Snowflake Solution - Snoptimizer which optimizes cost, security, and performance on Snowflake as well as the educational and snowflake data system community at ITS Snowflake. He has Built Snowflake Users Group in LA. Also, Frank was the main author of the popular Snowflake Essentials book.

Senior Solutions Architect at Boomi

Garnie Bolling is a Senior Software Consultant who has been working with data and data-centric projects for over 20 years. He comes from a wide background of experiences from his early days in eCommerce, Master Data Management, Data Quality, Data Governance, and Metadata strategies. He has led projects and engagements as a business consultant and software architect. Currently, as part of Boomi, LLP. Garnie helps organizations navigate the challenges in discovering, understanding, and leveraging data that has gone untapped. His philosophy is that all IT projects deal with Data, so knowing your data, understanding how to leverage it, democratizing it, and properly governing is the path to success.

Chief Information Systems Officer at California State University

George is a higher education technology leader at the California State University (CSU). The CSU has 23 campuses and the Chancellor's Office with 43,000 faculty and staff, 412,000 students and is the largest public university in the United States. Leadership responsibility include strategic and operational services for system-wide administrative systems (Finance, Human Resources , Student) and system-wide data ops and reporting systems.

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer at Pluvial.ai

As a leader in the technical, environmental, and utility fields, Graham has a solid reputation for technical excellence and superb analytical capabilities.  Forged from the leadership and systems analyses requirements as an Engineering Officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, Graham has developed and shaped organizations from the ground up, focusing on encouraging the inquisitive and investigative traits required to effectively and efficiently manage businesses. ​

CEO at Spokeo

Harrison is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Spokeo. He started Spokeo with his college roommates Mike Daly (CTO) and Eric Liang (CIO) in 2006 in his parents basement in 2006. and serves as Spokeo's Chief Executive Officer. Harrison guides Spokeo's product vision to build an experienced team that helps the company realize its mission of making the world around us more transparent. Under his leadership, He Harrison has helped build and scale Spokeo ’s user base from zero to serving tens of millions of users. He is passionate about building products that help customers get their jobs done. Harrison earned a B.A.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Economics and a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

Product Marketing Manager Lyve Cloud and Data Services at Seagate

Hugo Bergmann has been working with data and storage for over two decades. He is a product management and marketing professional for IT storage products in private, hybrid or multi-cloud data centers and has deep experience in creating top notch horizontal and vertical storage solution content and go to market strategies. Hugo also has experience in leading customer-focused interdisciplinary teams with global and multicultural team members to increasingly-higher performance levels and aggressive business objectives. He is based in Germany.

VP, Global CIO Industry Leader at UiPath

Jagjit Dhaliwal has recently joined as VP, Global CIO – IT Industry Practice Leader at UiPath. In this role, he is responsible for assisting client CIOs in their automation strategy. He brings in 20+ years of technology experience transforming public entities and Fortune 500 companies in multiple industry domains across various geographies. In his last role, Jagjit was a Deputy Chief Information Officer at Los Angeles County and acted as a Strategic Advisor to Public Safety and Health Departments. He collaborated with Department CIOs to foster digital transformation through IT strategy planning, organization digital & data maturity assessment, portfolio rationalization, governance, technology modernization, and adoption of emerging technologies like AI, RPA, IoT & Blockchain. He led countywide Data Strategy as well as developed a regional strategy for closing the Digital Divide gaps in the Los Angeles region. Before this, he worked with Cognizant Technology Solutions & Tata Consulting Services bringing in years of consulting, delivery, and sales experience. Jagjit has an executive MBA degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics from Punjab University, India.

Senior Manager, Data Science at Aetna

Jai is a  seasoned data scientist with experience leading high performing teams and building analytical products in organizations ranging from scrappy startups to established multinationals. He has a proven track record of combining team management, technical expertise, and thought leadership. He is a technical expert in deep/machine learning, statistics, experiment design, and data visualization.

Software Engineer at NASA-JPL

Jason came from computer science background, with masters in computer science and data science. He has been with JPL for more than 10 years, mostly building web-based applications. More recently, he transitioned to a data engineer role that deals with Earth related data science projects. He spends most of his time developing data pipelines and patching/improving data analytic platform.

Founder, Chairman & CINO at Palmchip

Jauher is an award-winning tech entrepreneur, inventor and engineer with nearly 35 years experience. He is the chairman and CEO of Palmchip (CyberSecurity for Industrial IoT) , Netvinci (Oculus Metaverse), Moobila (Digital Marketing) where he oversees all Sales, Marketing, design, engineering and happiness. He founded Palmchip Corporation, a company that invented CoreFrame, the first System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture, which enables billions of wireless and storage devices today. He has been named twice as the "Top 20 visionary CEOs in the world" by the EE Times and was awarded the 2010 Terman Award for best Cloud Computing/Software as a Service product by the TechAmerica Foundation. He holds several technology patents having to do with CyberSecurity, SoC and on-chip interconnect technology. A leading expert in the area of SoC technologies, Jauher has participated on many panels and has written and presented a number of articles ranging from CyberSecurity, System-on-Chip (SoC), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies. In 1996, Jauher left Quantum Corporation to start Palmchip. Before that, he led a team to develop the world's first SSD system-on-chip controller at Quantum. He also worked at Unisys, Amdahl and Samsung. Jauher is an experienced in running several global companies like Moobila Corporation and Palmchip Pakistan (Pvt). He is always looking to invest in new startups. Please send your startup ideas to [email protected]

Data Scientist at Golden State Water Company

Jay is a Highly efficient and results-oriented multi-tasking data scientist/engineer with strong quantitative skills, development experience and strong education background with a MSc (Imperial College London (World Rank within Top 10 QS)). He is a Responsible self-starter with demonstrated experience in statistical programming language (R, Python, SAS, Scala) and programming language python for API’s.

Head of Analytics and Data Science at RTB House

Jaysen is a Southern California analytics, marketing, product, revenue and data science executive overseeing all aspects of analytics and data science for RTB House, a leading digital marketing ad-tech company. He has 15+ years of experience in technology and analytics leadership roles. He has managed global teams both on a remote and in-office basis and specialize in finding ways to bring data to the entire organization. He is a big proponent of making data both useful and FUN!

Deputy Mayor at City of Los Angeles

Jeanne Holm is the Deputy Mayor for Budget and Innovation of the City of Los Angeles, addressing technology, equity, digital inclusion, and fiscal accountability through municipal broadband, participatory budgeting, and digital transformation of government services. She was the evangelist for open data for the U.S. Government under President Obama, the lead for Africa open data for the World Bank, and the Chief Knowledge Architect at NASA. She serves as an advisor for the U.N. on data and astronautics, is a Trustee of Claremont Graduate University, is on the Global Leadership Board for Time’s Up, and teaches at UCLA.

Co-Founder and Vice-Chair at GAAD

Jennison Asuncion co-founded the annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) event in 2012 alongside Joe Devon. Working in the digital accessibility industry since 2006, He is Currently LinkedIn’s Head of Accessibility Engineering Evangelism. Jennison's industry and community contributions have earned him recognition including being named in 2020 by Business Insider as "1 of 30 power players helping new CEO Ryan Roslansky run LinkedIn.

Manager Advisory at KPMG

Jie is certified multi cloud solution architect with her strength in both breath and depth of understanding hybrid cloud infrastructure and Software Development Life Cycle. She is specialized in leading enterprise modernization with innovative solutions. As advisory manager at KPMG, her experience in integrating Kafka data streaming platform through hybrid cloud strategies has helped her client overcome data challenges and outpace fast growing demand.

Founding partner at Diamond and Co-Founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Joe is a serial entrepreneur who has been fostering the growth of the Los Angeles tech ecosystem since 2008. His experience includes co-founder at Diamond, a digital agency that builds accessible experiences, and Co-Founder and Chair of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) Foundation. In 2019 Joe and the Diamond team launched their first State of Accessibility Report. Joe has more than 20 years of development experience in high-profile projects spanning Digital Media, Search Engines, Performance Management; for Internet backbone providers, Investment Banks, Telcos, Big Pharma and Big Media. When Joe is not solving technology challenges for major organizations, you can find him on stage influencing every developer and corporation to build their digital products with inclusive design in mind.

President at Summit Capital _California

Joe is the president at Summit Capital _California

Sr. Director, Accessibility and Technology Compliance at Pluto TV

John Sweet is currently a Sr Director at Pluto TV in charge of accessibility and technology compliance. After earning his MS in Human Factors Psychology, John joined the accessibility movement working for Knowbility as IT Director. He then contributed in building the award-winning accessibility team at Charter Communications (Spectrum), before bringing his leadership experience to Pluto TV.

Head of Product at BreezeML

John Thorpe is the head of product at BreezeML, a startup focused on developing infrastructure support to democratize AI/ML. John recently graduated from UCLA with his PhD in Computer Science with a focus in operating systems, distributed systems, and ML systems. He has built his thesis on developing techniques that utilize the cloud to enable affordable training of resource intensive models.

Chief Addressability Officer at Dentsu

In his role, Keith drives proficiency across dentsu’s agencies to ensure each are coordinated in delivering on an addressable future for clients. He works to find innovative ways to connect first-party data to supply sources. He also partners with Merkle and dentsu product leaders to elevate existing solutions like M1’s Publisher Addressable Marketplace, DELTA (Data Enabled Linear TV Activation), and dentsu’s contextual engine. Keith has a diverse background developing and leading marketing technology, consumer insights, and data science functions on both the agency and marketer side. Keith most recently served as the Global Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Initiative. Before that, Keith was SVP, Data Insights & Operations at WarnerMedia, where he modernized Warner Brothers' marketing technology capabilities and led the development of the data infrastructure for the launch of HBO Max.  He also held senior insights and analytics roles at IPG Mediabrands, TNS, and Yahoo!.

Founder & CEO at Enki

Kirill is the Founder and CEO of Enki, the company that helps teams with adoption of business intelligence and data tools. Previously, he co-founded Emerging Travel Group (including the brands RateHawk & ZenHotels) a profitable OTA with net annual revenues of over $100M, and Quid, a leading research and analysis tool for strategy teams with revenues of over $50M. In addition to his entrepreneurial ventures, he is an angel investor in Calm, AngelList, Opencare, and more.

Director of Clinical Design at Found

Laura Garcia PhD. is a Clinical Psychologist with a strong passion for the development of tech platforms that can support individuals’ mental health and wellbeing. She has expertise in behavioral science, therapeutic content design, and the evaluation of innovative digital therapeutics. Her creative process is informed by direct experience by providing evidence-based mental health treatment and assessment. Laura is the Director of Clinical Design at Found and former Director of Research, Design, and Innovation at Applied VR. She earned her doctorate of psychology in clinical studies at the University of Southern California.

Head of Data Analytics and Data Science at HyreCar

Linda Liu has extensive experience helping a business build analytics and data science foundations as well as roadmaps that empower data-driven decisions and improve user experience across the organization. She is also a big advocate for cultivating a data centric culture that enables teams across the business to better utilize data / analysis and bring added value to the day to day work.

Managing Director at Infiom, LLC

Mariana is the founder of Infiom, a global consensus blockchain economy for creation of Web3 ventures using DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and Metaverse principles. Prior to Infiom, she was the Managing Director of BitAngels, the first crypto angel network formed in 2013 that invested in the launch of Ethereum. She is an Advisor to SuperWorld, Open Therapeutics, Anode (Pkt), Monax, System9, EarnTV, SafeGram, BuddyDAO, Kirobo, and CryptoArt Agency. Mariana was EVP Business Development for NTN Buzztime, Inc. (AMEX:NTN) and Head of Business Development, Content Aggregation and Programming for MediaZone, a broadband video company launched and owned by NASPERS Internet (largest investor in Tencent). Mariana also founded and directed the Digital Media Incubator at KPMG LLP.  Portfolio companies raised angel investments from Michael Jackson, Beny Alagem, Al Copeland, IdeaLab, David Gefen, Brian Singer, Bob Daly, Jeff Pollack of Handprint Entertainment and John Gee, Executive Director of NASA Ames Research Incubator, and VC funding from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Intel, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Dell, Panasonic, and Chase Capital Partners. Mariana served on the New Media Board and serves on the International Committee of the Producers Guild of America and is a member of the Television Academy.   Mariana served on the Board of the Tim Draper's Zone Ventures Club and on the Mayor Riordan's Digital Coast Roundtable.

Quantum Evangelist at Quantinuum

Dr. Mark Jackson is the Senior Quantum Evangelist at Quantinuum. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Columbia University. He then spent 10 years researching superstring theory and cosmology, co-authoring almost 40 technical articles. To promote the public understanding of science, he founded the science crowdfunding platform Fiat Physica and non-profit Science Partnership Fund. He is Adjunct Faculty at Singularity University and a Director of Astronomers Without Borders.

Sr. Field Engineer at Neo4j

Mark is a field engineer at Neo4j where he helps global financial organizations solve complex problems using graph algorithms.

VP Digital Transformation at Autonomous Health

Martin Devon is an entrepreneur working on improving health outcomes by using better data. From the early application in health information exchange to using data to improve mental health, Martin has learned how important privacy and security must be balanced against the power of data.

Data Science Practice Lead and Director of Data Science at Fidelity Investments

Melinda takes big ideas and makes them work. She is a researcher and statistical software developer with over twenty years of industry experience. Her career ranges from statistics education to developing algorithms for commercial software to Hollywood script consulting. She co-founded Research Triangle Analysts, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit focused on education and training for people working in the analytics field in the Raleigh-Durham area she currently works as a Practice Lead in Fidelity Investments Workplace Investing.

Senior Cybersecurity Advisor at IBM

Michael is an IBM Senior Cyber Security Advisor, Certified Information Systems Security Professional, Author, frequent National public speaker and moderator, FBI InfraGard committeeman, and recognized subject matter expert in Security and Threat Intelligence, Identity Access Governance, and Authorization. He is a pioneer in Identity and Access Management, Access Governance, and Authentication. His past consulting roles include: Lead architect for many of the world's largest authentication and authorization infrastructures. This includes two of the 1st individual Billion user authentication infrastructures. He is the Founder, Moderator, and Group Secretary for 17 Regional CISO/Security Leader Round Table Chapters across the US/1200+ Security Executives. Champion, host and evangelist of regularly scheduled cyber range threat simulation exercises, cyber training and education.

Senior Analytics Specialist at Google

As a Sr. Analytics specialist with Google, Mike works with a variety of enterprise customers & partners in the Media & Entertainment industry - helping studios, publishers, brands drive innovation through the adoption of Smart Analytics services, Data Ops/Engineering best practices, and advanced AI/ML-based capabilities available through the Google Cloud Platform.

Data Enthusiast at San Jose State University

Angela is a data enthusiast who seeks insights from biomedical and clinical data for disease interception and prevention, so patients could be treated with appropriate therapeutic strategies to control disease development in advance.

Principal Consultant at njnm Consulting

Neal Fultz is a computational statistician and data scientist, with years of experience in developing predictive models and tools in topics ranging from lizard behavior to satellite tracking to tax credit forecasting. He's also an open-source enthusiast, with over 30 Python, R, and JavaScript packages to his credit, and a 2022 Google Summer of Code mentor.

SVP of Data at Whip Media

I build products, teams, and strategies to ensure businesses accomplish their key objectives. For the last 4 years, I've been transforming Whip into a data company via building their data teams, the enterprise data products, and data governance at Whip Media.

CEO at Percona

Peter Zaitsev is CEO and co-founder of Percona. As one of the foremost experts on Open Source strategy and databases optimization, Peter leveraged both his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to grow Percona from a two-person shop to one of the most respected open source companies in the business. Peter is a co-author of High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication, one of the most popular books on MySQL performance. Peter frequently speaks as an expert lecturer at Open Source, Databases and related conferences.

Chief Data Architect & Distinguished Engineer at Intuit

Ravi is an Experienced Architect with a valuable blend of technology and business skills and a passion for innovation and building/enabling high performing teams. He is results-oriented technology leader that loves to architect and deliver cloud scale, highly secure, resilient, and overall world-class technology solutions. He is a Software and system architect that emphasizes the alignment of technology solutions with customer/developer needs to accelerate business outcomes.

Senior Director at Keyrus US

Razvan Nistor is a Senior Director and Data Scientist at Keyrus US. He likes to use computers to help people solve complex problems in practical ways. He also heads up the CPG/Retail practice which is specifically focused on delivering tactical AI solutions that address major problems in the industry related to supply chain, demand planning, pricing analytics, and promotional ROI.

Founder & President at Koru Strategies

Rebecca is driven to improve the business of government through innovation, enhanced communication and collaboration. She has 15 years of experience including consulting at a leading professional services firm, managing gov tech education events and strategic workshop delivery, and project management and execution. She launched Koru Strategies, a government technology business development advisory firm in 2020.

Founder at Graphlet AI

Russell works at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). He is a four-time O'Reilly author and proven leader of teams that build, ship and operate AI applications. He has extensive experience in all aspects of data science, data engineering, machine learning and ML operations that are part of building data-driven applications. He is an applied researcher and product manager with a broad range of skills from 17 years of experience building and shipping data-driven products. He is currently interested in representation learning, graph neural networks, algorithmic trading and source code search and Q&A but is open to other opportunities. He is a former LinkedIn, Hortonworks. He has founder and Startup CTO experience.

VP, Principal Industry Strategist at Qualtrics

Customer experience has long been a passion of mine, though my path to it was unconventional. I began my career in entertainment; after graduating from Northwestern University, I joined the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus as a clown and also served as an animal rights spokesperson. I was inspired to attend medical school and graduated from Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine. I became an Emergency Physician and eventually originated the role of CXO for my healthcare system. This led to a deep interest in customer and employee experience and eventually led me to the industry leaders in Experience Management, Qualtrics.

MySQL Developer Advocate at Oracle

Scott is a developer with over 20 years of experience in a variety of languages. In all those years, MySQl has remained the one constant is his stack. He has a passion for sharing what he has learned on his coding journey so others may learn from the mistakes he has made along the way.

Principal Applied Scientist at Hypergiant

Scott is an Principal Applied Scientist at Hypergiant

CEO at Griot

Dynamic technology executive with 20 years of experience in all aspects of executive leadership. Results-driven professional who spurs new business opportunities in both small and large organizations through excellent customer understanding, empathy, analytical rigor, integrity, collaboration, business acumen, innovation, and strategic thinking. Industry experience includes Consumer Products, SaaS, and Manufacturing. Superb academic qualifications including a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Strategy from UNC-Chapel Hill, and a Bachelor’s in Economics from Occidental College.

Consultant at Instaclustr

Seth Muthukaruppan is a Principal Consultant at Instaclustr. Seth has 25 years of software experience in the data storage and cloud industries for companies including Ericsson, Nokia, and Nasuni, among others. He specializes in data analytics, AI/ML, natural language processing, distributed systems, and clean architecture. He also has extensive experience with search technologies such as Elasticsearch, Solr, and OpenSearch.

Executive Solution Architect at MongoDB

Sig has worked as a cloud and data architect in engineering and consulting specializing in micro-service and polyglot persistence architectures. Now an Executive Solution Architect at MongoDB, Sig is helping media, entertainment & gaming organizations build scalable and reliable solutions, and has spoken at conferences like QCon and Game Developers Conference.

Senior Data Analytics Specialist at AWS

Sonny Khan is a specialist at AWS for Data Analytics. He has served as a founder, executive and board member at various small, and large companies. Over 24 years, Sonny has worked in IT spanning across Development, InfoSec, Operations, Data, and Sales. Sonny has worked with Financial Institutions, Mortgage Banks, Supply Chain, Consumer Packed Goods, AdTech, SaaS, Insurance, gaming, and other industry verticals. He brings a unique perspective on business transformation and cloud strategies. He is passionate about technology solutions. He is a Computer Engineer from Purdue University, working on his first book, and does standup comedy for fun. At AWS, Sonny is helping his customers realize their business objectives by adopting modern data strategies in the cloud.

Chief Data Officer & Director Biomedical Informatics at Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Stephan is a senior computer scientist and accomplished C-Level executive with in-depth technical and leadership experience. He consistently achieves success leading sizable data-driven initiatives, innovating award-winning system and data solutions, building engineering teams, and implementing regulatory compliance and data governance. He has a talent for creating transformative digital strategies and long-term sustainable results within several computer science capacities. He is an experienced communicator, educator, and entrepreneur with the ability to forge solid partnerships and build consensus across multiple organizational levels and disciplines. Stephan is the Chief Data Officer at Children's' Hospital Los Angeles and Professor of Research Radiology at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California.

Founder at Analytica Consulting

Steve Rimar is a data analytics expert, technology evangelist, entrepreneur, and engineer with over 20 years’ experience in the software engineering, business intelligence, and IT industries. Steve has earned multiple honors including being published in CNN, NBC, Investor’s Business Daily, InformationWeek, Accenture’s Annual Report, Qualcomm’s Report About People and holds two U.S. patents. Steve’s experience and industry recognition within the data analytics field provided him the opportunity to found Analytica Consulting in 2014.

Principal Developer Advocate(Data Engineering) at AWS

Suman Debnath is a Principal Developer Advocate(Data Engineering) at Amazon Web Services, primarily focusing on Data Engineering, Data Analysis and Machine Learning. He is passionate about large scale distributed systems and is a vivid fan of Python. His background is in storage performance and tool development, where he has developed various performance benchmarking and monitoring tools.

Experiential Director at UXXR Design

Experience Director and XR Producer, Suzan Oslin, uses immersive technology to build aspirational futures that reflect her own wonder and awe for the majesty of this planet–at the same time revealing ugly truths that endanger our very existence. She is a visionary futurist and creative technologist with extensive experience in visual effects(Metrolight, Disney), computer animation(Warner Brothers), UX design(Technicolor, Fandango), coding, team leadership and program management.  Suzan believes in the virtue of the human spirit and that life is infinitely self-affirming. She uses her mastery of experience design to craft interactive immersive experiences that engender empathy and motivate action for maximum impact on important issues like climate change. Grounded in reality, her work looks honestly at the problem, provides a tangible response, and hopes to inspire collective intention to drive a positive vision for the future.  Suzan is a graduate of the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Data Scientist at Sense360/Medallia

Tatiana is a creative data professional with years of industry experience in Data Science, Financial Analytics, and Business Intelligence, living and working from New York City for the past 10+ years. Tatiana is part of an innovative data science team at Medallia, tuning robust pipelines and building sophisticated technology in order to support the Sense360 platform that transforms the world of market research analytics and empowers businesses with competitive intelligence, behavioral benchmarking, and 360-degree analytical insights. Tatiana's expertise in data is complemented by her background in finance, Master's in linguistics, and many certificates in various areas of IT. In her spare time, Tatiana contributes to the Data Science community by mentoring women in tech and wrangling data pro bono with equal enthusiasm. Driven by the passion to learn and contribute, she continues to pursue the never ending path to growth, developing her skills and sharing her knowledge.

Humans Skill Enabler at Code is Easy

Tom Henricksen is a problem-solving technology professional. He has worked in various roles in technology for over twenty years. Tom has learned how to solve challenging issues in technology and lead technical teams. He can help you develop those skills too!

Founder/CEO at T2 Content Ventures

Tracy is a skilled strategist and entrepreneur creating value at the intersection of content and tech. She is a thirty year entertainment industry veteran/key executive leading teams that built Dreamworks Animation/Shanghai, global Discovery content apps, and the AR kids/family product Amazon Glow. She is currently pressure-testing concepts for web3/metaverse games and education content.

CEO at IMO

Experienced CEO / Producer / PR Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the entertainment industry. Skilled Digital Strategist, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Marketing Management, Event Management, and Media Relations. Strong arts and design professional with a None focused studies in Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs from Centennial HS and Benson Polytechnic HS.

COO and CFO at pocket.watch

Xavier Kochhar is a veteran media and technology executive, entrepreneur, investor, and direct-to-consumer subject matter expert. As pocket.watch’s COO and CFO, Xavier oversees all operations, finance, corporate strategy and development for the business. He is a champion of diversity and inclusion and passionate about fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. He was the founder and CEO of The Video Genome Project, a video personalization engine and user experience company that built the largest, broadest, and most granular structured database of video content. The Video Genome Project was acquired by Hulu to create a more powerful way to surface the right content to the right user at the right time, in both live and on-demand environments. Xavier was most recently a senior executive within AT&T, Inc. and WarnerMedia’s Direct-to-Consumer (HBO Max) as Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer and later in the parent company’s Corporate Strategy and M&A group. He was previously the Managing Partner of Medialink, acq. by Ascential plc (LSE: ASCL), and has served in senior executive roles at The Walt Disney Company, WME, and L.E.K. Consulting.

Senior Software Engineer at Monte Carlo

Xuanzi Han is a senior software engineer at Monte Carlo, where she develops backend systems to power the company's category creating data observability platform. Previously, she worked as a senior software engineer on Uber's Marketplace team, helping create the algorithms and software driving decision making on the Uber app. In her spare time, she loves hiking, traveling, and hanging out with her beagle, Data.

Head of AI Research at Andromeda 360 AI

Zac is a Head of AI at Andromeda 360 Inc, a startup building a new generation ML platform to empower data scientist to do end-to-end ML with ease. He also holds a Research Associate position at Stanford University. Zac has worked as lead data scientist and ML engineer in various companies and research institutions in the past 10 years, including Hypergiant, QuantumScape, Driscoll's, Google, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Smithsonian, and NASA. He has been leading R&D and MLOps efforts and building AI systems in multiple domains, such as manufacturing sensory, remote sensing and imaging, supply chain, bioscience, and enterprise cloud product development. He has been invited to present at top ML conferences, such as NeurIPS and TensorFlow World and has 6 peer-reviewed publications in applied ML. He also has 7 open source development in data-centric AI, computer vision, natural language processing, as well as image processing for NASA Cassini spacecraft.

Computer Systems Analyst and Data Scientist at LearningFuze

Zia has been advising and helping customers develop solutions for their business challenges using system analysis, data analytics, machine learning, natural language processing, and deep learning. He has worked with companies to implement recommender systems and NLP projects including chatbots. He has implemented solutions based on python machine learning libraries i.e. Sklearn, pandas, keras and tensor flow.