AI WORLD - Key Persons
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- Vice President
- Vice President, Data Science and Analytics, Northwestern Mutual
- VP, Data Strategy and Analytics, Enterprise Holdings
Anju Gupta is Vice President of Data Strategy and Analytics for Enterprise Holdings Inc. In this role, Gupta
Enterprise, Gupta was at Monsanto for more than a decade where she worked in statistical genetics, global
Gupta is an active member in the community, serving as an executive advisory board member for Artificial
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- SVP, Chief Data Scientist, Dun & Bradstreet
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- Co - Founder and CTO, OODA LLC
Bob previously founded Crucial Point LLC, a technology research and advisory firm. He is the publisher of CTOvision.com Bob collaborates in the operation of OODALoop.com. Bob's first career was as a naval intelligence officer, which included operational tours in Europe and Asia. Bob was the first Director of Intelligence (J2) at DoD's cyber defense organization JTF-CND. Following retirement from the Navy Bob was an executive with TRW and Northrop Grumman, and then returned to government service as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Bob was named one of the top 25 most influential CTOs in the globe by Infoworld. He was selected for AFCEAs award for meritorious service to the intelligence community, and was named by Washingtonian as one of DC's "Tech Titans." Bob was named one of the "Top 25 Most Fascinating Communicators in Government IT" by the Gov2.0 community GovFresh. Bob was noted as "Most Influential on Twitter for Big Data" by Forbes. The blog he founded and publishes, CTOvision, is now ranked among the top 50 federal technology blogs.
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- Engineer
- Senior Director Innovation Programs and External Networks, Sanofi Pasteur
Dany currently leads the implementation of various cognitive and other innovative technologies in departments like R&D and Regulatory Intelligence. NLP, machine learning, and advanced analytics are used to further our understanding of diseases and vaccination mechanisms, as well as the regulatory landscape. He also explores blockchain applications.
Dany is an engineer trained in biology and has over 20 years of industry experience at leading global vaccine companies GSK and Sanofi Pasteur. In various positions he contributed to the research, development, manufacturing and regulatory submission of both companies' line of vaccines. Next to vaccine and automation projects he developed and lead forward-looking change initiatives like "Project M: An Experiment in New Ways of Working, Inspiring Engagement, and Unleashing Talents" for which the team received multiple international awards.
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- Head of Innovation, Platforms and Analytics, Schneider Electric
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- Vice President of AI and Machine Learning at Unity Technologies
Dr. Danny Lange is Vice President of AI and Machine Learning at Unity Technologies where he leads multiple initiatives around applied artificial intelligence. Previously, Danny was Head of Machine Learning at Uber, where he led the efforts to build a highly scalable machine learning platform to support all parts of Uber's business from the Uber App to self-driving cars.
Before joining Uber, Danny was General Manager of Amazon Machine Learning providing internal teams with access to machine intelligence. He also launched an AWS product that offers machine learning as a cloud service to the public. Prior to Amazon, 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., and then as founder of his own company, Vocomo Software. During this time he was working on General Motor's 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.
He holds MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the Technical University of Denmark. He is a member of ACM and IEEE Computer Society and has numerous patents to his credit.
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- Managing Vice President & Head of Ctr for Machine Learning, Capital One Financial Corp
Dave Castillo, PhD, Managing Vice President & Head of Center for Machine Learning, Capital One Dr. David (Dave) Castillo leads Capital One's Center for Machine Learning and Emerging Technology. In this role Dave is responsible for driving excellence in Applied ML Research, University ML Research, ML technologies (tools and platforms), ML Consulting, and ML awareness within Capital One. Dave is a strong advocate of Responsible AI and has a keen interest in Automated Machine Learning and Timeseries ML.
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- Executive Director, People - Centered Internet Coalition, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Human - Machine Cognition
- Singularity University & Senior Fellow, Institute for Human - Machine Cognition
Dr. David A. Bray was named one of the top "24 Americans Who Are Changing the World" under 40 by Business Insider in 2016. He was also named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum for 2016-2021. He was named a Marshall Memorial Fellow and traveled to Europe to discuss Trans-Atlantic issues of common concern including exponential technologies and the global future ahead. Since 2017, he serves as Executive Director for the People-Centered Internet coalition co-founded by Vint Cerf, focused on providing support and expertise for community-focused projects that measurably improve people's lives using the internet. He also provides strategy to both Boards and start-ups espousing human-centric principles to technology-enabled decision making in complex environments.
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- President of SRI International 's Information
- President, Information & Computing Sciences, SRI
- Research Scientist Manager, Facebook Applied Machine Learning
Dr. William Mark is President of SRI International's Information and Computing Sciences Division, which creates new technology in information security, system design, speech and natural language, vision and perception, planning and reasoning, and formal methods. The group's leading-edge research is complemented with a strong focus on intellectual property creation and commercialization. Projects include Internet interaction, intrusion detection software, physical and virtual information spaces, and technology for dynamic enterprise management.
Prior to joining SRI in 1998, Mark headed the System Technology Group at National Semiconductor. The group focused on system-level design and implementation of the silicon-based systems of the future, including hardware/software co-design, integrated DSP solutions, and reconfigurable computing technology.
Mark was formerly director of Information and Computing Sciences for the Lockheed Martin Palo Alto Research Laboratories. Before joining Lockheed, he was a co-founder of Savoir, a company developing software tools for flexible manufacturing. He was a designer of the Flexis product, for which he holds a software patent. Previously, he held positions at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute and the General Motors Research Laboratories.
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- Founder
- Founder / Conference Chair, AI World, Executive Editor, AI Trends
- Founder and Conference Chair
Mr. Weinman is Founder and Conference Chair of AI World. For the past two decades Eliot has been a successful entrepreneur and veteran high tech market expert. AI World was his fifth publishing start-up which he sold recently to Cambridge Innovation Institute. AI World and companion online magazine AI Trends have become the nation's largest independent AI business event and integrated media platform covering the enterprise AI market. He previously founded and sold four leading publishing firms whose media products had become the largest in their respective industry. He has been a publisher, editor and author of numerous magazines, newsletters, books and research studies in diverse areas of advanced technology. His writings have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Forbes, San Francisco Chronicle and The Washington Post.
Eliot received is M.S. in Computer Engineering from Boston University and completed a research fellowship in A.I. with GE and MIT where he worked on developing expert systems for the quality inspection of jet engine turbine blades. Before starting his first media business, he headed up the AI group at a top 10 property insurance company (Hanover Insurance) where he implemented one of the nation's earliest commercial expert systems in underwriting and claims. He also headed advanced engineering groups at the MIT Draper Labs.
Eliot has created more than 200 events in emerging technology markets, including Mobile Commerce World, 4G World, Mobile Internet World, RoboNexus, RoboBusiness, Client/Server Computing and Application Development Conference & Expo. Mr. Weinman has partnered with, consulted to and sold his businesses to many of the industry's leading computer hardware, software, publishing and research firms. He has taught courses at Northeastern University in AI and knowledge engineering. Previously he earned his B.S. in Accounting at SUNY Albany, and was a CPA for several large CPA firms.
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- Director, Data Science, Data Science Platforms, Uber
- Head of Data Science Platforms at Uber
- Vice President, Data & Analytics, Bp
Franziska Bell is the Head of Data Science Platforms at Uber, where she founded the Anomaly Detection, Forecasting and Natural Language Platform teams. In addition, she leads Data Science for Strategic Finance, Office of the CTO, Computer Vision, Experimentation, Behavioral Science, Infrastructure, Data, Growth Platform and Customer Care.
Before Uber, Franziska was a Postdoc at Caltech where she developed a novel, highly accurate approximate quantum molecular dynamics theory to calculate chemical reactions for large, complex systems, such as enzymes. Franziska earned her Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry from UC Berkeley focusing on developing highly accurate, yet computationally efficient approaches which helped unravel the mechanism of non-silicon-based solar cells and properties of organic conductors.
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- Global Investment Research, Goldman Sachs
- Internet Equity Research Analyst, Goldman Sachs
- Lead Analyst for the Internet
Heath is the lead analyst for the Internet sector in Global Investment Research and is deputy business unit leader of the Technology, Media and Telecom business unit in Americas Equity Research. He joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in 2011. Prior to joining the firm, Heath was a managing director at Canaccord Genuity and senior vice president at FBR Capital Markets. Previously, he served as the director of Global Media and Internet Equity Research at Credit Suisse. Before joining Credit Suisse in 1999, Heath spent three years in international equity sales and trading with Merrill Lynch. Heath earned an MBA from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Alabama. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
As a physician John practiced in a wide variety of clinical specialties and venues, from hospital intensivist to primary care and preventive medicine, and he was a founding physician for LifeFlight Helicopter Trauma system and the Hyperbaric medicine programs at UCSD. While continuing his practice he was appointed Chief Health Information Officer for the largest Kaiser-Permanente region, SCAL. He assembled one of the best clinical informatics and integrated clinical operations teams completed KP's digital transformation project a year ahead of schedule and $267M under budget. One of the critical priorities now is to reduce the burden of EHRs and the impact on physician burnout, which is where machine learning can play a powerful role. He has immersed himself in numerous technical and socio-behavioral disciplines to accelerate the usability and use of digital data resources for the advancement of health, wellness and happiness. He was founder of the XML standard for health record exchange, known as the CDA, CCD, and cCCD, served as a member of the SNOMED International board, and has contributed to standardizing data ontologies across many fields, including phenomics (EHR/PHR data), genomics, proteomics, and neurosciences (as a member of the Ontario Brain Institute Advisory Board). He is currently experimenting with various use cases where distributed ledgers can be applied to health information to support how individuals can more safely and productively participate in both their own health care and in the advancement of medical science. He is an advisory board member for the NIH funded "Ethics and Policy for Creating a Medical Information Commons" for the Precision Medicine Initiative. He has led several workgroups for the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH), and he recently led a roundtable at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine on the future roles that blockchain and homomorphic encryption can play in genomics research and practice. He has published on a wide variety of topics, including co-editing the 2018 textbook on Health Information Technology, and has received various awards for contributions across many intersections of healthcare, health IT, informatics and policy. His professional passion is the convergence, operationalization and scaling of multiple exponential technologies and he is actively engaged in a wide range of projects involving ontologies, big data and predictive analytics, NLP and machine learning, data visualization, IOT, blockchain, genomics, microbiomics, privacy, health policy, mobile health apps and wearable sensors, and virtual care/telemedicine and cybersecurity, and he serves on the California State Task force on Cybersecurity. John has mentored scores of startups in health IT internationally on a pro bono basis. One of his current passions in anticipating the unintended consequences of machine learning, and the risks associated with advanced generalized intelligence, to stimulate a broader public discussion of how to mitigate those risks and minimize the inherent biases towards social inequity and isolation.
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- President and CEO of the Hurwitz Group
- President, Hurwitz & Associates
Judith S. Hurwitz is president and CEO of the Hurwitz Group - www.hurwitz.com - a consulting, research and analysis firm focused on emerging technology including cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, hybrid cloud computing and management, software development and operations, and security and governance. She is an author, thought leader, technology strategist, and consultant. In 2015 Hurwitz coauthored Cognitive Computing and Big Data Analytics (Wiley, 2015). A pioneer in anticipating technology innovation and adoption, she has served as a trusted advisor to many industry leaders over the years. Judith has helped these companies make the transition to a new business model focused on helping businesses to anticipate and solve customer needs. She was the founder of CycleBridge, a life sciences software consulting firm and Hurwitz Group, a research and consulting firm. She has worked in various corporations including Apollo Computer, and John Hancock. In 2011 she authored Smart or Lucky? How Technology Leaders Turn Chance into Success. (Jossey Bass, 2011). She has co-authored numerous Dummies Books published by Wiley including Big Data for Dummies and Hybrid Cloud for Dummies.
Previously, she was the founder of CycleBridge, a life sciences software consulting firm and Hurwitz Group, a research and consulting firm. She has worked in various corporations including Apollo Computer, and John Hancock. In 2011 she authored Smart or Lucky? How Technology Leaders Turn Chance into Success. (Jossey Bass, 2011). She has co-authored numerous Dummies Books published by Wiley including Big Data for Dummies and Hybrid Cloud for Dummies.
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- Vice President, Research and Development. Head - Center for AI and Cognitive Computing, Thomson Reuters
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- General Manager, Genomics, Philips Healthcare
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- Chairman of the Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation
- Chairman, Board of Directors, the Boston Global Forum
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- Industry Analyst
- Industry Analyst, CXOTalk
Michael Krigsman is recognized internationally as an industry analyst and host of CXOTALK. As a columnist for ZDNet, Michael has written over 1,000 articles on topics related to innovation, digital disruption and leadership. His work has been mentioned more than 1,000 times in major newspapers, television, radio, trade publications, presentations, academic dissertations, blogs, and other media. Michael has been quoted in about 50 books, published in the Wall Street Journal, and is syndicated on important technology websites. Michael is often a judge in prestigious industry contests such as the CIO100 contest (CIO Magazine) and CRM Idol. He has presented to groups such as CIO Symposium (Cleveland), Oracle OpenWorld, Digital Enterprise Show (Madrdid), CIO Summit (Boston), D-Summit (Stockholm), Harvard University, Babson College, Seton Hill University, University College London, CIO Summit (Scottsdale), CT Executive Symposium, Federal Home Loan Banks, Boston University, Suffolk University, SAP Sapphire, NetSuite SuiteWorld, MIT CIO Symposium, Educause, and others.
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- Data Scientist, Children 's Hospital Los Angeles
Mr. David Ledbetter has an extensive and deep understanding of decision theory. He has experience implementing various decision engines, including convolutional neural networks, random forests, extra trees, and linear discrimination analysis. His particular area of focus is in performance estimation, where he has been able to accurately predict performance on new data in nonstationary, real-world scenarios, including detecting circulating tumor cells in blood, automatic target recognition utilizing CNNs from satellite imagery, make/model car classification for the Los Angeles Police Department, and acoustic whale call detection from underwater sonobuoys. Recently, he has been developing a Recurrent Neural Network to generate acuity scores and personalized treatment recommendations to optimize patient outcomes using electronic medical records from 15 years of data collected from the Children's Hospital Los Angeles Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
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- Vice President, IT Transformation & Innovation, Assurant
Norbert Monfort has been with Assurant Inc. since 1994. He currently serves as Vice President of IT Transformation and Innovation, leading initiatives in AI across the enterprise. He also teaches IT-related topics as an Adjunct Professor at Florida International University. Norbert has worked in Information Technology at Fortune 500 companies for over 30 years in management and as a senior engineer. He earned his M.S. in Information Technology and his B.S. in Computer Science from Florida International University.
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- Senior Manager
- AI & Machine Learning Technical Lead, Pfizer
Peter Henstock is a Senior Manager in the Business Technology group in Pfizer. His role as AI & Machine Learning Technical Leader is working to bring AI technologies across the company. He holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence along with 5 Master's degrees. He also teaches graduate level AI, Machine Learning and Software Engineering at Harvard University.
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- Program VP, AI Research, Global AI Research Lead, IDC
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- Chief Technology Officer, Deepsense.Ai
Robert is the Chief Science Officer of deepsense.ai where he manages the R&D team and focuses on deep learning and mathematical research. He started his professional career as a software engineer at UBS. Prior to joining deepsense.io, he worked on Big Data and Machine Learning problems as a project manager at CodiLime. Robert is a dual major holding Master degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from University of Warsaw. His interests include probability theory, functional analysis and theoretical computer science, which became a subject of his publications. He is also a successful Kaggle competitor.
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- Founder
- Managing Partner
- Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures
Rudina Seseri is Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to investing in the next generation of AI-powered technology companies. With over 16 years of investing and transactional experience, Rudina has led technology investments and acquisitions in startup companies in enterprise SaaS, IT software and data, marketing technologies and robotics. Rudina's portfolio of investments include Celtra, CrowdTwist, Inrupt, SocialFlow, Talla and Zylotech. Rudina served as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the Harvard Business School for 4 consecutive years and has most recently been named to the 2018 HBS inaugural group of Rock Venture Capital Partners. She is also a Member of the Business Leadership Council of Wellesley College. Rudina serves as Advisor for GSK Consumer, L'Oreal USA Women in Digital, and on the Philanthropy Board for Boston Children's Hospital. She has been named a 2017 Boston Business Journal Power 50: Newsmaker, a 2014 Women to Watch honoree by Mass High Tech and a 2011 Boston Business Journal 40-under-40 honoree for her professional accomplishments and community involvement. She graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College with a BA in Economics and International Relations and with an MBA from the Harvard Business School (HBS). She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Epsilon honor societies.
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- Executive Director of IT for Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine
Sandy Aronson is the Executive Director of IT for Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine. His team develops IT infrastructure required to support the evolution and practice of genetic based personalized medicine in both patient facing and laboratory settings. The system ecosystem the team maintains enables a real time continuous learning process. These processes allows laboratories to harnesses their clinical testing flows to advance knowledge surrounding genetic variation and the deliver this knowledge in near real time to clinicians treating patients. The team is also developing the Health Innovation Platform (HIP) to facilitate the introduction of app based IT interventions into the electronic health record ecosystem. Mr. Aronson is one of the founders of GeneInsight. Prior to his work at Partners HealthCare, Mr. Aronson also held several positions with Sapient Corporation, was a Monitor Company consultant and founded LearningAction. Mr. Aronson holds a Masters in Organizational Behavior and a Bachelors in Computer Science from Stanford University. He also received a Masters in Biology from Harvard Extension School.
Tolga Kurtoglu is CEO at PARC. Research in SSL focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, control, planning, optimization, and high performance analytics for a variety of cyber-physical system applications serving Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), CAD/CAM, Transportation, Energy, and Aerospace and Defense sectors.
Tolga leads the SSL team to create innovation and enterprise level business impact by applying leading edge scientific and technical solutions to solve complex real-world problems. He has served in various leadership roles at PARC focusing on product strategy and technology commercialization to manage transition of new technologies from an R&D output to production quality software systems and services. Prior to his work with PARC, he worked as a researcher at NASA Ames Research Center and as a mechanical design engineer and group lead at Dell Corporation.