Keynotes
Ed Clark, PhD
Chief Information Officer at California State University, Chancellor's Office
Subash D'Souza
Founder of Data Con LA Director of Data Engineering and AI/ML at California State University
Sara Nourazari, PhD
Associate Professor at California State University, Long Beach
Anita Sengupta, PhD
Founder & CEO at Hydroplane Ltd.
Keynote Panelists
Xavier Kochhar
CEO, XKE Founder, The Video Genome Project (Hulu)
Hernan Lopez
Founder, Owl & Company Founder, Wondery (Amazon)
Adrienne Lahens
Co-Founder and CEO at Infinite Studios
Eric Shamlin
Governor, Academy of Television Arts & Science Founder, Firebringer AI
Suhaib Rangoonwala
Associate Partner, Technology & Digital Media at Altman Solon
Panelists
Shadnaz Asgari, PhD
Professor and Department Chair at California State University, Long Beach
Cambron Carter
Head of Engineering at Outsmart
Weixiang Chen, PhD
Sr. Data Scientist & AI Product Strategy Lead at Geminos Software
Lihao Chu, PhD
Head of Health Economics at Rubicon Founders
Annie Flippo
Chief Data Officer at Urgently, Inc.
Basil Latif
Chief Data Officer at ParagonTech
Matthew Lee, RN, PhD
Lead Generative AI Analyst at Nvidia
James Lott, PsyD, MBA
Lecturer at CSU Long Beach
Jon Morra
Chief AI Officer at Zefr
Vincent Nijs, PhD
Program Director of Master’s in Business Analytics at Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Bogdan Rau, MPH
Founder & CEO at Thinqpoint
Odessa Reyno
Chapter Director at Women In Big Data
Chris Smith
VP of Systems Engineering at Crexi
Pooja Tekchandani
Founder & Managing Partner at Teck Law
Speakers
Ellie Albertson, PhD
Senior Data Scientist at CVS Health
Alison Bunce
Product Designer at Meta
Xiaowu Dai
Assistant Professor at UCLA Statistics and Data Science
Tiffany Deaton
Director of National Operations at Best Friends Animal Society
Michelle Dunivan, PhD
Sr. Director Insights & Analytics at Best Friends Animal Society
David Edison
Lead Machine Learning Platform Engineer at Dave
Sayantan Ghosh
Senior Engineering Manager at Linkedin
Robert Hodges
CEO at Altinity
Brendan Hu
Sr. Manager, ML Platform Engineering at Dave
Madhumitha Karthikeyan
Senior ML/AI Researcher at IEEE Computer Society
Sunita Koppar
Senior AIML and GenAI Specialist SA at Amazon
Irina Kukuyeva, PhD
AI Diligence | Venture Partner at Kukuyeva Consulting
Manu Mehra
Staff Product Manager - Strategic Deal Pricing at Databricks
Devyn Miller
Big Data ML Engineer, TP-Link Systems Adjunct Professor, Chapman University
Kapil Poreddy
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Walmart Global Tech
Arvind Prabhakar
CEO at Tabsdata
Alex Rasmussen, PhD
Freelance Data Engineer at Bits on Disk, Inc.
Frederic Schoenberg
Professor at UCLA Statistics and Data Science
Lishuang Shen
Clinical Staff Scientist at Childen's Hospital Los Angeles
Kunal Sonalkar
Data Scientist at Nordstrom
Sebastian Vasquez
Business Intelligence Analyst at Pinterest
Tina Wang
Head of Data Analytics at Meshy