Energy & Basic Resources

Valued experts focusing on the exploration, production, and management of energy sources and raw materials

Shivangi Dhakad

Shivangi Dhakad

Shivangi Dhakad is a Data & AI leader focused on turning AI ambition into real-world systems. She leads Data, ML, and GenAI engineering and drives enterprise AI strategy at Eneco, working on large-scale platforms that enable data-driven decision-making in the energy transition.

Previously, she held senior engineering leadership roles at Booking.com, building and scaling data platforms & data products that power critical business decisions, and started her career as a software and machine learning engineer at companies like Microsoft, Directi and Morgan Stanley.

She also deeply cares about psychological safety in the workplace, people empowerment, diversity & inclusion and career growth topics and likes to advise and mentor on these topics. Her talks focus on why most companies struggle to become AI-first, what breaks when AI meets reality, and how to design data and ML platforms that survive beyond experimentation.

Shivangi Dhakad is a Data & AI leader focused on turning AI ambition into real-world systems. She leads Data, ML, and GenAI engineering and drives enterprise AI strategy at Eneco, working on large-scale platforms that enable data-driven decision-maki... Show more

Andrei Mungiu

Andrei Mungiu

I specialize in critical infrastructure cybersecurity. From physical networks affecting the energy supply for millions of people, to software development lifecycles and software supply chains for banking institutions.

I specialize in critical infrastructure cybersecurity. From physical networks affecting the energy supply for millions of people, to software development lifecycles and software supply chains for banking institutions. Show more

Fabrizio Pischedda

Fabrizio Pischedda

Fabrizio is the founder and Managing Partner of M-HUB, an international boutique consulting firm specializing in growth and scaling for global organizations.

With over 23 years of experience at the helm of international management consulting, he has led some of the most ambitious transformations on the global stage, generating measurable value for organizations operating on an international scale in the energy, transportation, telecommunications, manufacturing, and public sectors.
Before founding M-HUB, he held senior leadership roles at Arthur D. Little, BearingPoint, and Capgemini Invent, serving as Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer, and Head of Intelligent Industry, building a reputation as a growth architect for complex organizations seeking to scale in a structured and sustainable manner.

His approach combines strategic rigor with executive capability: he knows how to identify where an organization’s hidden value lies, how to unlock it, and how to create the conditions so that growth is not a one-off event, but a system. He has worked with the leadership of some of the world’s largest industrial and service companies, delivering concrete results in highly complex, high-stakes environments.

With M-HUB, he has translated this experience into a model focused on one thing: helping organizations truly grow and scale intelligently.

Fabrizio is the founder and Managing Partner of M-HUB, an international boutique consulting firm specializing in growth and scaling for global organizations. With over 23 years of experience at the helm of international management consulting, he h... Show more

Mariusz Kujawski

Mariusz Kujawski

Mariusz is an experienced Architect and Data Engineer who specializes in creating Data Platforms for projects focused on Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Machine Learning. He's skilled in popular cloud systems like Azure, GCP, and AWS and has over 14 years of experience in the data processing industry in Finance, FMCG, Pharma, and Telecommunication. Mariusz works on innovative projects for clients in Poland and beyond. He's certified in data engineering from both Azure and GCP. Beyond his technical expertise, Mariusz is a big fan of history, books, drawing, data engineering, and the Python language. He enjoys sharing his knowledge, and you can find his articles on Medium.

Mariusz is an experienced Architect and Data Engineer who specializes in creating Data Platforms for projects focused on Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Machine Learning. He's skilled in popular cloud systems like Azure, GCP, and AWS and has over 14... Show more

Javi Hernández Braña

Javi Hernández Braña

Today's complex environment demands leadership that not only understands change but thrives on it. I collaborate with #teams and #organizations to develop an #agile culture centred on adaptability and continuous learning, ensuring they are fully prepared to adapt and excel in ever-evolving circumstances.

Today's complex environment demands leadership that not only understands change but thrives on it. I collaborate with #teams and #organizations to develop an #agile culture centred on adaptability and continuous learning, ensuring they are fully prep... Show more

Reneida Leon

Reneida Leon

Reneida has over 15 years of experience leading product management, UX and business strategy initiatives in various industries, from EdTech, eCommerce and Economic Development to the Life Sciences. Her solutions have spanned Web, mobile and API services for both DTC and SaaS companies. Throughout these experiences, end-user data products have emerged as a common denominator, informing her framework approach to managing high value analytics interfaces. Based in South Florida and originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Reneida is fluent in English and Spanish. She has a BSBA from the University of Florida and MBA from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Reneida has over 15 years of experience leading product management, UX and business strategy initiatives in various industries, from EdTech, eCommerce and Economic Development to the Life Sciences. Her solutions have spanned Web, mobile and API servi... Show more

Bhargav Shetgaonkar

Bhargav Shetgaonkar

AI Scientist driving scalable retail modeling, causal inference, and supply chain decisions for Target's growing digital business. Previously, he was a Graduate student in AI at Duke with research stints at the Center for Advanced Hindsight and IBM Labs for their open source and pro bono initiatives.

AI Scientist driving scalable retail modeling, causal inference, and supply chain decisions for Target's growing digital business. Previously, he was a Graduate student in AI at Duke with research stints at the Center for Advanced Hindsight and IBM L... Show more

Przemek Tomczak

Przemek Tomczak

AI governance should not be an end in itself. The objective is to help enterprises use AI to deliver business outcomes leaders can trust and stand behind.

As Chief AI Governance Officer at iTmethods, I set direction for our product and service strategy for governed AI. I work with customers, partners, and teams across product, engineering, and delivery to translate business objectives, risk, and regulatory requirements into practical controls, evidence, and operating models.
The market has no shortage of AI governance frameworks, security controls, guardrails, and development tooling. Each has a role, but none is the ultimate measure of success. What ultimately matters is whether leaders can answer five questions about AI-enabled work:

1. Was the action properly authorized?
2. Did the required safeguards operate as intended?
3. Was the intended business outcome achieved?
4. What material exceptions or residual risk remain?
5. Can the organization prove what happened?

My focus is helping enterprises put consequential AI-enabled work into operation with clear authority, appropriate safeguards, and evidence to help ensure the intended business outcomes are achieved.

A CPA, CA and CISA, my background spans Big Four advisory, operational leadership in regulated enterprises, internal audit and risk, and deep technology. I have advised boards and senior leaders, served as a Chief Audit Executive, carried operational accountability in complex environments, led the development and delivery of consequential technology systems, and built products, services, partnerships, and go-to-market strategies.

Most recently, at Ocient, I established and led the company’s Partnerships and Alliances program, working with technology partners, industry stakeholders, and strategic customer opportunities.

At KX, I built and scaled the IoT and Utilities business to 36% of corporate revenue.

At Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator, I served as Chief Audit Executive and led the Smart Metering Entity, which supported 70 utilities serving five million customers and processed more than 100 million transactions daily.

I welcome conversations with business, technology, AI, risk, audit, and security leaders working to turn AI investment into measurable business outcomes, with the safeguards, accountability, and evidence needed to stand behind the result.

AI governance should not be an end in itself. The objective is to help enterprises use AI to deliver business outcomes leaders can trust and stand behind. As Chief AI Governance Officer at iTmethods, I set direction for our product and service str... Show more

Emilio Belmar Quijada

Emilio Belmar Quijada

Emilio Belmar Quijada is a mechanical engineer with over five years in numerical simulation for mining and industry, and a former lecturer in fluid mechanics. He leads the CFD, FEA and DEM team at TNA Engineering, Chile, and directs CFD-IA: a 3D U-Net trained in PyTorch to predict velocity, temperature and pressure fields in industrial enclosures, replacing hours-long OpenFOAM RANS runs with seconds of inference on an open-source, fully local pipeline.

Emilio Belmar Quijada is a mechanical engineer with over five years in numerical simulation for mining and industry, and a former lecturer in fluid mechanics. He leads the CFD, FEA and DEM team at TNA Engineering, Chile, and directs CFD-IA: a 3D U-Ne... Show more

Praise Adegoju

Praise Adegoju

Machine Learning Practitioner and Community Strategist dedicated to driving Nigeria’s tech ecosystem. Formerly sevred as a Campus Lead for Google Developers Group (GDG) and a Campus Strategist for Perplexity AI, she has championed "permissionless leadership," growing her local developer community with active members.

Praise combines technical expertise with grassroots impact. Trained with Nigeria's premier AI organization, she has worked on building AI tools for healthcare and education, focusing on bridging the gap between global technology and local application.

She is on a mission to prove that world-class innovation happens in Africa, not just is imported to it. Praise believes the next generation of African leaders won't just use AI—they will shape it.

Machine Learning Practitioner and Community Strategist dedicated to driving Nigeria’s tech ecosystem. Formerly sevred as a Campus Lead for Google Developers Group (GDG) and a Campus Strategist for Perplexity AI, she has championed "permissionless lea... Show more

Daniel Paillet

Daniel Paillet

Daniel Paillet is Senior Prinicple Cybersecurity Architect in Schneider Electric’s Energy Business Unit, focusing on secure‑by‑design solutions for energy and industrial systems. His experience spans U.S. Department of Defense programs and complex IT and OT environments across critical infrastructure, banking, retail, and point‑of‑sale systems. Daniel holds CISSP, CCSK, CEH, and ISA/IEC 62443 Cyber Security Expert certifications. He is a Senior Member of the International Society of Automation, an active contributor to ISA/IEC working groups, a member of the EC‑Council Global Advisory Board for Ethical Hacking, a published author, and has presented at industry security conferences on industrial cybersecurity and IEC 62443 adoption.

Daniel Paillet is Senior Prinicple Cybersecurity Architect in Schneider Electric’s Energy Business Unit, focusing on secure‑by‑design solutions for energy and industrial systems. His experience spans U.S. Department of Defense programs and complex IT... Show more

Oussama Elmerrahi

Oussama Elmerrahi

Oussama Elmerrahi is a data manager based in France with a deep commitment to sustainability-driven data governance. His work focuses on optimizing data quality, security, and compliance while integrating sustainable and ethical practices into digital transformation strategies. By leveraging innovative data solutions, he empowers organizations to make informed, decision-making, mitigate risks, and address the challenges of complex data environments.

With experience spanning diverse sectors, he has worked with leading companies such as Cargill, Renault, and Worldline, contributing to data science, industrial engineering, and sustainable technology projects. His expertise in robotics, industrial engineering, and leadership has enabled him to lead collaborative initiatives across teams, holding key roles such as chairman and section lead at IEEE.

As a youth global ambassador for the Internet Society 2025, he champions sustainable internet policies that promote digital inclusion, innovation, and environmental responsibility. Additionally, he is a public speaker and mentor with the Arqus European University Alliance, guiding students and young professionals to develop careers at the intersection of technology, sustainability, and data ethics.

Oussama is a passionate public speaker who shares insights on sustainability in data governance, ethical AI, and digital inclusion. He is available for keynotes, panels, and discussions that explore the role of technology and responsible data management in shaping a more sustainable and equitable future.

Oussama Elmerrahi is a data manager based in France with a deep commitment to sustainability-driven data governance. His work focuses on optimizing data quality, security, and compliance while integrating sustainable and ethical practices into digita... Show more

Sarah Perkins

Sarah Perkins

Sarah Perkins is Managing Partner of Product Place Labs, a Product and Technology Executive
with 15 years driving digital transformation for Fortune 50 companies and high-growth startups.
Formerly Chief Product Officer at Gusto and Global Product Management Leader for AI and Risk at
EY, she has guided product and IT organizations at UKG, Oracle, HP, Dell, and National Grid
managing multimillion-dollar portfolios and global teams across product, engineering, product
marketing, and operations. Sarah specialises in the intersection of AI product strategy, go-to-market
design with deep expertise in AI ethics, governance, and building high-performance product &
product marketing organization.
She organises communities of NYC Product Leaders and speaks publicly on how product teams
can turn AI acceleration into durable competitive advantage not just faster shipping. Her work lives
at the exact tension point of this talk: how do you move fast with AI-native tools while building
product foundations that actually compound? She is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Smith College graduate (B.A. Economics).

Sarah Perkins is Managing Partner of Product Place Labs, a Product and Technology Executive with 15 years driving digital transformation for Fortune 50 companies and high-growth startups. Formerly Chief Product Officer at Gusto and Global Product M... Show more

Mayowa Olokun

Mayowa Olokun

Mayowa is a cloud data practitioner and machine learning engineer with over 6 years
of hands-on experience designing, securing, and scaling data infrastructure across some of the most demanding environments in finance, retail, healthcare, and technology, with clients and institutions spanning the United Kingdom and beyond.

What sets Mayowa apart is a rare ability to operate fluently across the full data stack, from raw ingestion and pipeline architecture to predictive modelling and executive-level insight delivery while keeping security and data integrity at the centre of every decision. This is not a perspective borrowed from textbooks; it is earned from building real-time fraud detection systems, hardening cloud analytics platforms, and leading cross-functional teams through complex, high-stakes data transformations.

Currently with Amdari in the United Kingdom, Mayowa works with global clients across banking, retail, and technology to design ML pipelines and cloud data architectures that are production-ready, scalable, and resilient. Previous roles at Vista Technologies and Classic Systems Infotech reinforced a career-long conviction that the greatest risk in any data system is not what you know is broken, it is what you have silently trusted without question.

Mayowa holds an MSc in Automation, Control and Robotics from Sheffield Hallam
University (UK), is a certified Full Stack Data Science practitioner, and has contributed to peer-reviewed research in intelligent systems and applied machine learning. As a former academic who supervised AI research and delivered university-level instruction in Python, SQL, and data engineering, Mayowa brings a clarity of communication to technically complex topics that makes them accessible, urgent,
and immediately applicable.

A firm believer that security is everyone's problem and data is everyone's responsibility, Mayowa brings to BSides Brighton a talk that challenges the audience to stop trusting their pipelines and start proving them.

Mayowa is a cloud data practitioner and machine learning engineer with over 6 years of hands-on experience designing, securing, and scaling data infrastructure across some of the most demanding environments in finance, retail, healthcare, and techn... Show more

Ken Auguillard

Ken Auguillard

Principal Program Manager for Power Platform Developer and Admin Experience. Focused on empowering Citizen Developers, IT Professionals, and Executive Management by providing the Governance, Security, Compliance, Applications Lifecycle Management, and Service Management foundations needed to adopt the Power Platform to transform their business.

Principal Program Manager for Power Platform Developer and Admin Experience. Focused on empowering Citizen Developers, IT Professionals, and Executive Management by providing the Governance, Security, Compliance, Applications Lifecycle Management, an... Show more

Dennis Pockrandt

Dennis Pockrandt

As a Functional Safety Manager, I bring more than seven years of experience in implementing and optimizing functional safety processes. My expertise includes in-depth knowledge of the ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 standards, as well as the ability to design efficient, robust, and future-proof safety processes. In my current role, I support companies in successfully delivering complex projects with a strong focus on regulatory compliance, process efficiency, and engineering excellence.

With a hands-on approach and a strong emphasis on consulting and implementation, I help teams optimize development processes and establish sustainable solutions. I am passionate about applying systematic engineering principles and targeted measures across management, verification, and documentation to ensure the safety, reliability, and compliance of technical systems.

As a Functional Safety Manager, I bring more than seven years of experience in implementing and optimizing functional safety processes. My expertise includes in-depth knowledge of the ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 standards, as well as the ability to desig... Show more

Mohan kumar Dalai

Mohan kumar Dalai

Mohan Kumar Dalai is a seasoned EAM Integration Architect with over 18 years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale data integration and migration solutions. Based in Virginia, USA, he has built a distinguished career at the intersection of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), ETL/ELT processes, and cloud-based integration, serving clients across the Oil and Gas, Energy, Chemical, Banking, Insurance, and Healthcare industries.
Mohan currently serves as a Staff Software Engineer at GE Vernova, a role he has held since December 2016, where he architects end-to-end integration solutions connecting EAM platforms with Asset Performance Management (APM) systems. His work spans some of the most widely used EAM suites in the industry, including SAP ECC, SAP HANA, IBM Maximo, and Oracle EAM, as well as platforms such as AVANTIS and Direct Line Megamation. He has successfully delivered integration projects for more than 25 enterprise, multi-domain customers globally and has led data migration initiatives involving over 50 million records, most notably improving data accuracy by 40% for a major utility during a global asset data migration.
His technical expertise spans a wide range of integration and data tools, including Boomi, Talend, IBM DataStage, and Informatica, as well as cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Mohan is skilled in multiple programming languages, including Python, Java, SQL, PL/SQL, C#, and Unix Shell Scripting, and has hands-on experience with databases such as Oracle, Teradata, DB2, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. He also brings knowledge of Big Data technologies, including Pig, Hive, and Sqoop, as well as web services standards such as SOAP and XML.
Before GE Vernova, Mohan held integration and architecture roles at Meridium Inc., USM Business Systems, AnalytixDS, and Logikal Consulting, where he consistently drove improvements in ETL performance, workflow automation, and data architecture. Earlier in his career, he contributed to software product development at IBM India Private Limited and ITC Infotech.
Mohan holds a Master of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, where he graduated with a CGPA of 8.14, as well as a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University. He is also a certified IBM Data Science Professional (May 2025).

Mohan Kumar Dalai is a seasoned EAM Integration Architect with over 18 years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale data integration and migration solutions. Based in Virginia, USA, he has built a distinguished career at the intersec... Show more

Luiz Gustavo Ribeiro

Luiz Gustavo Ribeiro

Senior Solutions Architect na Minsait, criador do AWS Local Simulator (projeto open-source MIT que simula 18 serviços AWS localmente) e AWS Community Builder for Serverless. Com 12 certificações AWS e mais de 30 anos de experiência em tecnologia, dedica-se a democratizar o acesso ao desenvolvimento em nuvem através de software livre.

Senior Solutions Architect na Minsait, criador do AWS Local Simulator (projeto open-source MIT que simula 18 serviços AWS localmente) e AWS Community Builder for Serverless. Com 12 certificações AWS e mais de 30 anos de experiência em tecnologia, ded... Show more

Ilya Sapelkin

Ilya Sapelkin

I sit at the intersection of industrial engineering and data science - and that overlap is where the interesting problems live.
For seven years I built and commissioned the systems that generate industrial data: private LTE/5G networks, automated LHD and manipulator control, low-latency Wi-Fi roaming (50ms handover), and IIoT telemetry across the Udachny and Komsomolsky mines. I know what the sensors mean, why the readings lie, and where the operational risk actually sits - context most analysts never get near.
Now I'm turning that domain knowledge into decisions. Completing a Master of Data Science (ECU, 2026).
The gap between OT and IT is where most industrial data projects quietly fail. I've worked both sides. That's what I bring.

I sit at the intersection of industrial engineering and data science - and that overlap is where the interesting problems live. For seven years I built and commissioned the systems that generate industrial data: private LTE/5G networks, automated LH... Show more

Mauricio Licul

Mauricio Licul

Mauricio Licul (1979) is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the technology company Quirk d.o.o. based in Pula, and the Head of Research and Development (R&D) at Novatec New Technologies headquartered in Labin, Croatia.
Licul has deep engineering, political, and data-science experience, uniquely combining artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), and media analytics. As a former political figure and prominent candidate for mayor of Pula, he possesses an intuitive, firsthand understanding of public communication, public sentiment, and media dynamics. By merging this practical political background with cutting-edge data technologies, he has specialized in extracting actionable insights and deep strategic metrics from vast streams of media data and public text.
He is the founder of DataFlip, an innovative venture focused on high-level NLP solutions. Licul has publicly presented the capabilities of his proprietary technology at major ICT events, such as the regional Let's Grow! conference in Pula, where he delivered a breakthrough session titled "How to recognize emotions in 10 TB of text" . Within DataFlip, Licul spearheaded the development of proprietary, in-house artificial intelligence models that combine machine learning, deep learning, and semantic analysis to detect and classify highly subtle emotional structures within massive, large-scale textual datasets.

Expanding on this foundation, Licul and his team at Quirk are currently developing even more advanced, next-generation models for semantic analysis, deep emotional interpretation, and complex text classification. A key competitive advantage and core differentiator of Quirk's models compared to foreign or mainstream big-tech solutions is their total infrastructure autonomy. By constructing the entire text-mining and semantic architecture completely from scratch without relying on external, third-party APIs, their models eliminate data-leakage risks, ensure total data privacy, and deliver significantly higher contextual accuracy tailored to regional linguistic nuances, complex idioms, and specific text data streams.
In his role at Novatec New Technologies, Licul oversees innovation and advanced technical ventures. Notably, he successfully led the IRI2 project "MUNIVO"—an innovative, low-floor electric vehicle developed in tight cooperation with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (FSB) and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) in Zagreb, resulting in two fully functional prototypes. His broad knowledge base spans industrial automation, software development, deep learning, semantic text analysis, predictive analytics, and smart urban mobility.

Licul graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from the prestigious University of Padua (Università degli Studi di Padova) in Italy and earned his PhD (Doctorate) from the University of Trieste. He remains a prominent thought leader and speaker in the regional and national tech ecosystem, frequently participating in panels and lecturing on AI regulations, machine learning, and advanced data architecture.

Mauricio Licul (1979) is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the technology company Quirk d.o.o. based in Pula, and the Head of Research and Development (R&D) at Novatec New Technologies headquartered in Labin, Croatia. Licul has deep engineering, ... Show more

Luciano Grossi

Luciano Grossi

Luciano Grossi é servidor público federal na ANEEL (Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica) desde 2005, atuando desde 2022 como Coordenador Adjunto de Governança de Dados e Informação. Lidera iniciativas de gestão e governança de dados em uma das maiores bases de dados do setor elétrico brasileiro, com mais de 150 bases de produção, 11 mil tabelas e dados de 90 milhões de consumidores. Tem interesse contínuo em tecnologia, dados e automação aplicada à gestão pública.

Luciano Grossi é servidor público federal na ANEEL (Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica) desde 2005, atuando desde 2022 como Coordenador Adjunto de Governança de Dados e Informação. Lidera iniciativas de gestão e governança de dados em uma das maior... Show more

Vimaladhithan Salem Marimuthu Rajagopal

Vimaladhithan Salem Marimuthu Rajagopal

Vimaladhithan Salem Marimuthu Rajagoapal (Vimal) is an accomplished SAP Cloud Technology Expert with over 18 years of proven expertise in enterprise software solutions and digital transformation initiatives. As a certified technical leader, he has successfully managed large-scale ERP/SAP projects ranging from $500K to $15+ million, driving operational excellence across diverse global organizations in insurance, energy, pharmaceuticals, and retail sectors.
Currently serving as a Senior Technical Lead, he specializes in architecting and managing high-availability SAP environments on Microsoft Azure and AWS. His deep expertise encompasses the complete SAP ecosystem, including S/4HANA, HANA 2.0, Business Intelligence, and emerging AI technologies through SAP's Business AI portfolio. He has led complex system migrations, upgrades, and cloud adoption strategies while ensuring seamless integration with existing enterprise landscapes.
His leadership extends to managing globally distributed teams of 45+ technical resources across the US, Canada, Europe, and India. He has successfully orchestrated critical initiatives, including data center migrations, system consolidations, and disaster recovery implementations. His technical proficiency spans multiple platforms, including HANA databases, various operating systems (Unix, Linux, Windows), and cloud hyperscalers.
A recognized industry thought leader, he has presented at multiple SAP ASUG SAPPHIRE conferences and contributed to North America's Center of Excellence initiatives. His educational foundation includes a Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology and executive leadership certification from the Wharton School of Executive Education.
His comprehensive certification portfolio includes SAP S/4HANA Conversion specialist, Microsoft Azure for SAP Workloads, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and Oracle Professional certifications. Through his strategic approach combining technical excellence with business acumen, he consistently delivers innovative SAP solutions that exceed business expectations while optimizing total cost of ownership and maximizing return on investment.

Vimaladhithan Salem Marimuthu Rajagoapal (Vimal) is an accomplished SAP Cloud Technology Expert with over 18 years of proven expertise in enterprise software solutions and digital transformation initiatives. As a certified technical leader, he has su... Show more

Alexander Varro

Alexander Varro

Alex Varro is the Founder of the successful UX design agency 8reasons Digital from Germany and Co-Founder of Pistacio, a Founders OS for growing companies.

For more than a decade, he has been helping organizations build digital products that create business value instead of just shipping features. His work sits at the intersection of UX, product strategy and artificial intelligence, always with one goal: turning complexity into products people actually want to use.

When he's not working, you'll probably find him on a football pitch, in the gym, exploring another country or diving into everything related to mindset and personal growth.

Alex Varro is the Founder of the successful UX design agency 8reasons Digital from Germany and Co-Founder of Pistacio, a Founders OS for growing companies. For more than a decade, he has been helping organizations build digital products that creat... Show more

Pía Torres

Pía Torres

Ingeniera Electrónica. Certificaciones internacionales en Project Management (PMP®, SAFe®, CSM®) y especializaciones en STEM Entrepreneurship, Sostenibilidad y Agilidad.
Cuenta con gran trayectoria liderando transformación digital, automatización de procesos e innovación en industrias críticas como Energía, Oil&Gas, Nuclear, Food&Beverage y Tecnología.
Actualmente se desempeña como Sr. Technical Project Manager en Globant, liderando equipos globales AI Driven que desarrollan soluciones IOT.
Es docente en la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella de grado y postgrado, donde combina su experiencia técnica con visión estratégica de la innovación.
IEEE Senior Member, Women in Engineering Argentina Chair & Robotics and Automation Society Argentina VChair.
Humanitarian Technology Insdustrial Applications Board Member.
Trabaja en reducir la brecha digital y de género, y el desarrollo de habilidades clave para el futuro a través de iniciativas de impacto social como Roboteam. Growtec Co-Founder

Ingeniera Electrónica. Certificaciones internacionales en Project Management (PMP®, SAFe®, CSM®) y especializaciones en STEM Entrepreneurship, Sostenibilidad y Agilidad. Cuenta con gran trayectoria liderando transformación digital, automatización de... Show more

Rosheen Naeem

Rosheen Naeem

I am a Software Engineer at Miro and a community member at Open Climate Fix. I completed the Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Software Engineering for the Green Deal (SE4GD), a joint program across Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, LUT University, and Università degli Studi dell’Aquila focused on building software systems for environmental sustainability and the energy transition.

Through Google Summer of Code, I contributed to Open Climate Fix, where I worked on transformer-based solar PV forecasting and data pipeline engineering for renewable energy applications. My broader open-source experience also includes contributions through Google Season of Docs with ArviZ and an Outreachy internship with Open Food Facts.

I am a Software Engineer at Miro and a community member at Open Climate Fix. I completed the Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Software Engineering for the Green Deal (SE4GD), a joint program across Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, LUT University, and Universi... Show more

Luca Montanari

Luca Montanari

I am passionate about complexity, change, and lived experience. I have gone through wave after wave of transformation, from the deeply human and personal, to digital transformation, to agility, and now artificial intelligence.

I love driving myself and others to discover new perspectives through curiosity, learning, and the journey itself. I believe in the value of diversity and strive to create welcoming, nurturing spaces that respect different ways of being and functioning. Spaces essential for Life, ecosystems, socio-technical systems, and individuals alike to fully express their potential. Spaces that enable be-holding conflict and moving through it. I enthusiastically support and promote agility, having discovered that its core values align with my own and can help generate widespread, equitable well-being.

My professional path keeps unfolding, resisting convergence. Being multipotential, I've been playing and learning at every turn: Lego builder, programmer, researcher, systems integrator, team leader, project manager, IT manager, Agile coach, Scrum Master, trainer, facilitator, mentor, and ICF-certified coach.

I am currently observing turbulence and weak signals, imagining possible futures, designing the journeys that could lead toward the desirable ones, and seeking a balance between doing and being.

I am passionate about complexity, change, and lived experience. I have gone through wave after wave of transformation, from the deeply human and personal, to digital transformation, to agility, and now artificial intelligence. I love driving mysel... Show more

Matias Julian Christoffersen

Matias Julian Christoffersen

Matias Julian Christoffersen is a Microsoft Power Platform Architect who specializes in governance for the agentic era: how organizations run Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and multi-agent systems at scale without losing control of data, cost, or compliance.

As Direction of Automation & Technologies at twoday, he designs the environment strategies, security frameworks, and Centers of Excellence that let citizen developers build quickly while giving enterprises the audit trail and lifecycle control that agents now require. His background spans business strategy, IT governance, and program management, built over years advising Nordic enterprises, most recently as a senior consultant at Devoteam before moving to twoday to lead Power Platform and Copilot Studio governance advisory.

Matias speaks regularly on securing and governing AI agents. Recent sessions include building a trusted foundation for Copilot Studio agents at the Global Power Platform Bootcamp, and designing responsible, decision-making multi-agent solutions at the Fælles AI-Implementering conference. His talks cover environment strategy, Managed Environments, DLP, Entra Agent ID, and what it takes to run a Power Platform Center of Excellence as an organization scales from a handful of pilot agents to a production fleet.

Matias Julian Christoffersen is a Microsoft Power Platform Architect who specializes in governance for the agentic era: how organizations run Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and multi-agent systems at scale without losing control of data, cost... Show more

Sumaiyya Fatima

Sumaiyya Fatima

Sumaiyya Fatima is a Software Modeling Engineer with a strong background in enterprise-scale embedded systems engineering, specializing in hardware-in-the-loop simulation, system validation, and software-defined vehicle development. She brings extensive experience in designing, modeling, and validating complex embedded control systems across automotive platforms, with a focus on integrating software and hardware to ensure reliable and scalable system performance.
In her current role at General Motors, she contributes to system calibration and validation activities, supporting vehicle programs through cross-functional collaboration with software architects, calibration engineers, and system integration teams. Her work involves developing and refining calibration strategies, conducting root cause analysis, and improving system performance through structured testing and validation processes. She has also played a key role in modeling software architectures using AUTOSAR-based tools and supporting the deployment of diagnostic requirements and system interfaces within software-defined vehicle environments.
Previously, she worked extensively on hardware-in-the-loop simulation frameworks, where she developed real-time models using MATLAB and Simulink to validate embedded controllers across multiple vehicle domains. Her contributions include automating test procedures, integrating plant models, and supporting validation teams in executing complex simulation-based testing workflows. She has also been involved in building simulation environments for powertrain, chassis, and safety systems, enabling efficient verification of software functionalities before deployment.
Earlier in her career, she gained experience in embedded software validation and control system testing within industrial applications, contributing to the development and testing of electro-hydraulic systems and machine control software. She holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and has demonstrated a strong commitment to advancing embedded systems engineering through innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Sumaiyya Fatima is a Software Modeling Engineer with a strong background in enterprise-scale embedded systems engineering, specializing in hardware-in-the-loop simulation, system validation, and software-defined vehicle development. She brings extens... Show more

Lucía Villaverde Soler

Lucía Villaverde Soler

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Sankalp Gilda

Sankalp Gilda

Sankalp Gilda is a Staff ML Engineer and independent researcher focused on epistemic accountability and structured reasoning for AI-assisted workflows in regulated and high-stakes domains. He holds a PhD in Astronomy and has six-plus years of production data science experience spanning time-series analysis, uncertainty quantification, and MLOps -- most recently driving AI for electric-vehicle systems in greentech as well as in oil and gas.

He created tsbootstrap, an open-source Python library for bootstrapped time-series resampling (87+ stars, sktime-integrated), and gave its tutorial at SciPy 2024. His other public OSS spans the security and developer-safety ecosystem -- idna-ip-literal-smuggle-rules, a CodeQL/Semgrep ruleset and gopatch auto-fix codemod for a Go IDNA-canonicalization bug class (UTS-46 digit-fold IP-literal smuggling) he privately disclosed to the Go team in April 2026, and mcp-keyring-injector for session-scoped credential safety in MCP environments. Recent research includes workshop papers at ICLR 2026 -- Logical Reasoning of LLMs (algebraic invariants for LLM reasoning chains and weakest-link reliability propagation) and AI in Finance (epistemic accountability and generator-ratifier disjointness for agentic financial AI). He builds Verity, a reasoning-layer system for AI coding assistants in regulated environments, currently in private development.

Outside work he's drawn to high-commitment activities -- skydiving, scuba diving, kitesurfing -- that reward the same combination of careful preparation and decisive action that good engineering does. He consults across industries through DeepThought Solutions on AI governance, structured reasoning, and ML-for-regulated-domains problems.

Sankalp Gilda is a Staff ML Engineer and independent researcher focused on epistemic accountability and structured reasoning for AI-assisted workflows in regulated and high-stakes domains. He holds a PhD in Astronomy and has six-plus years of product... Show more

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