Darshna Shah is the Director of Innovation at Sustainability Studio (subsidiary of Elastacloud). Building on her broad-ranging consultancy experience, in which Darshna has developed and deployed a wide range of machine learning models on Azure across a myriad of industries, she has refined focus over the last few years to developing solutions in Sustainability. Darshna has a PhD in Neuroscience, specialising in neuronal network dynamics in drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy from which her passion for Data and AI stemmed.
Darshna is a Microsoft AI MVP and has established herself as a speaker and mentor, having given talks at Tech(K)now Day, Microsoft’s Future Decoded conference, SQL Bits, as well as co-organising and leading the monthly Data Science London meetup group - bringing together a community of over 10,000 members together to discuss and learn about the latest and most compelling data science algorithms and use-cases. She has a huge passion for sustainability and loves speaking with diverse audiences, learning and sharing knowledge through blog posts.