Environment & Cleantech

Skilled professionals dedicated to innovative technologies and practices that reduce environmental impact and promote sustainability

Claude Ndanda

Claude Ndanda

Claude Ndanda (internationally known as TrixX) is a full-stack software engineer and offensive security researcher based in Cameroon. He currently serves as the Solutions & Security Team Lead at Zen Africa, where he architects web and mobile systems using frameworks like Angular, Kotlin, and Laravel.

Balancing defense and offense, Claude spends his nights as an active Bug Hunter on HackerOne, auditing systems and testing AI/LLM applications for critical vulnerabilities. Driven by regional tech innovation, he is also the creator of project Baobab a localized Small Language Model built for Cameroonian administrative contexts.

Claude is a frequent technical speaker, having presented on appsec, AI, and secure coding practices at DevFest Douala, TEDxNdokoti, and IndabaX. He is dedicated to teaching builders how to deploy fast without leaving their applications wide open to attacks.

Claude Ndanda (internationally known as TrixX) is a full-stack software engineer and offensive security researcher based in Cameroon. He currently serves as the Solutions & Security Team Lead at Zen Africa, where he architects web and mobile systems ... Show more

Emanuel Toledo

Emanuel Toledo

Emanuel Toledo is a Data Scientist and holds a degree in Public Management, specializing in the implementation of artificial intelligence and the strategic use of data in organizations.

With over 15 years of experience in the public sector, he works on designing practical frameworks for AI adoption, addressing its limitations, risks, and challenges in real-world decision-making contexts.

He is the founder of Thinking Out!, a consulting firm focused on data analytics, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation, where he supports institutions and professionals in the effective integration of these technologies.

He is currently researching how the public sector can reduce its structural gaps and improve its capabilities through the strategic adoption of technology. As part of this work, he developed a digital transition approach adaptable to different types of organizations, aimed at effectively integrating data and artificial intelligence in real-world management contexts.

Emanuel Toledo is a Data Scientist and holds a degree in Public Management, specializing in the implementation of artificial intelligence and the strategic use of data in organizations. With over 15 years of experience in the public sector, he wor... Show more

Ankshita Maunthrooa

Ankshita Maunthrooa

Ankshita is currently working as a security engineer and has previously worked as a cybersecurity consultant in the paradise island of Mauritius, helping the biggest firms around the world implement strategic cybersecurity best practices and comply with the required standards. Before joining consultancy, she has worked in cybersecurity for approximately two years as a SOC analyst, thus gathering a rich hands-on experience on blue teaming tools and practices.

Ankshita has presented her cyber blue teaming skills at the DevCon2023, the biggest developers' conference of Mauritius organized by the MSCC and GDG Mauritius. She recently also spoke at the DevFest 2023 about introducing Golang to students.

Coming from a diverse background in Information Technology, Ankshita is familiar with development and programming in Java, Python, Javascript and Solidity. Her latest passion for learning narrows down to Golang which can be very effectively implemented in the field of cybersecurity as well.

During university years, Ankshita has also represented the Google Developers Student Clubs on her campus at the University of Mauritius and she had also been elected as the Huawei Campus Ambassador.

Ankshita is currently working as a security engineer and has previously worked as a cybersecurity consultant in the paradise island of Mauritius, helping the biggest firms around the world implement strategic cybersecurity best practices and comply w... Show more

Julie Braam

Julie Braam

Julie Braam is a certified commercial Senior Interior Designer living and working in Salt Lake City, UT. At MHTN Architects, she specializes in higher education and student life projects, with a passion for inclusive, community-centered design. In her role as Healthy Interior Environments Thought Leader, she also is invested in implementing sustainable design practices to make all projects healthier for people and planet.

Julie Braam is a certified commercial Senior Interior Designer living and working in Salt Lake City, UT. At MHTN Architects, she specializes in higher education and student life projects, with a passion for inclusive, community-centered design. In he... Show more

Duplex Tchakam

Duplex Tchakam

Je suis chercheur dans le domaine de l'intelligence artificielle spécialisé dans la vision par ordinateur et également formateur en IA. Je transmets les bonnes pratiques de la création à l'utilisation des modèles d'IA aux passionnés du domaine.

Je suis chercheur dans le domaine de l'intelligence artificielle spécialisé dans la vision par ordinateur et également formateur en IA. Je transmets les bonnes pratiques de la création à l'utilisation des modèles d'IA aux passionnés du domaine. Show more

Pablo Ardila Parra

Pablo Ardila Parra

Civil Engineer and Master’s student in Sustainable Water Resources Management and Hydroinformatics. I design process automation workflows with Google Apps Script, Google AI Studio, Looker Studio and API integrations, reducing processing times by up to 90%.

I have supported 60+ engineering training projects across 20 institutions, benefiting 2,500+ participants, building tools that turn Google Sheets data into emails, reports and presentations. I also bring a background in water resources, GIS and data analysis. AECODE AI Ambassador.

Civil Engineer and Master’s student in Sustainable Water Resources Management and Hydroinformatics. I design process automation workflows with Google Apps Script, Google AI Studio, Looker Studio and API integrations, reducing processing times by up t... Show more

Krishnakumar Venkataraman

Krishnakumar Venkataraman

Krishna is a Principal Architect with Infosys Limited, specialized in hybrid and cloud native architectures built on open source tooling such as Linux, Kubernetes, docker, helm, OPA, quay, podman, prometheus, SPIFFE/ Spire, Tekton and Argo. As a lifelong learner, he believes we are in the best decade yet for technologists.

Krishna is a Principal Architect with Infosys Limited, specialized in hybrid and cloud native architectures built on open source tooling such as Linux, Kubernetes, docker, helm, OPA, quay, podman, prometheus, SPIFFE/ Spire, Tekton and Argo. As a life... Show more

Allison Alimayu

Allison Alimayu

Dr. Allison Alimayu is a public interest futurist, keynote speaker, and founder of Alimayu Studio. Her work sits where decisions about children and families are actually made: in how health care is paid for, in the votes of public boards, and in the evidence that funders and regulators accept.

She spent more than a decade in managed care at UnitedHealthcare and DaVita Integrated Care, where she designed a five-state value-based reimbursement program that averaged $8.5 million in monthly savings. She was elected to the Nevada Board of Regents in 2012, served a six-year term including as vice chair, and later ran for US Congress. The US Secretary of Health and Human Services appointed her to the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee, and in 2026 she joined the North Carolina Oil and Gas Commission.

She holds a PhD in biomedical informatics from Rutgers University, taught at Tufts University School of Medicine, and was a 2025 to 2026 Fulbright US Scholar at Research Ireland. She has delivered more than 200 keynotes, panels, trainings, and media appearances, including TEDx Carlow College, Fox News, and the CNN post-debate spin room. She published earlier work as Allison Stephens.

Dr. Allison Alimayu is a public interest futurist, keynote speaker, and founder of Alimayu Studio. Her work sits where decisions about children and families are actually made: in how health care is paid for, in the votes of public boards, and in the ... Show more

Rajesh Hegde

Rajesh Hegde

Rajesh Hegde is a Senior Software Engineer at Unisys, working with the Global Innovation Office. He is a 2021 graduate in Information Science & Engineering and currently serves as a member of the Board of Studies (BoS) for the ISE department. He is a full-stack engineer with a strong focus on frontend and backend engineering, AI-powered applications, cloud technologies, DevOps, and modern software development practices.

Rajesh has experience delivering technical sessions and workshops for students and professionals across engineering institutions. He has also been a speaker at Open Source India 2025 and 2026 and actively engages with the academic and developer community through technical talks and workshops.

Outside of technology, Rajesh enjoys photography, travel, hiking, running, drawing and writing.

Rajesh Hegde is a Senior Software Engineer at Unisys, working with the Global Innovation Office. He is a 2021 graduate in Information Science & Engineering and currently serves as a member of the Board of Studies (BoS) for the ISE department. He is a... Show more

Julie Nottage CSP

Julie Nottage CSP

Julie Nottage, CSP, CEng, FEngNZ, is a Chartered Civil Engineer, international speaker and Commercial Confidence specialist with more than 30 years' experience across engineering and infrastructure in the UK, UAE and New Zealand. She helps technical professionals and organisations strengthen the human capabilities that turn expertise into impact — Confidence, Connection and Clarity. A Fellow of Engineering New Zealand and Certified Speaking Professional, Julie is President of Professional Speakers Association New Zealand (2024–2026).

Julie Nottage, CSP, CEng, FEngNZ, is a Chartered Civil Engineer, international speaker and Commercial Confidence specialist with more than 30 years' experience across engineering and infrastructure in the UK, UAE and New Zealand. She helps technical ... Show more

Colleen Lake

Colleen Lake

Colleen Lake is a Developer Advocate at Gitlab and her team's resident hardware geek. She’s worked with NASA and was featured on Gimlet Media’s Startup podcast. When she’s not playing with robots or coding you can usually find her lost in the woods or on the internet (@colleencode everywhere).

Colleen Lake is a Developer Advocate at Gitlab and her team's resident hardware geek. She’s worked with NASA and was featured on Gimlet Media’s Startup podcast. When she’s not playing with robots or coding you can usually find her lost in the woods o... Show more

Zafar Riza

Zafar Riza

Zafar Riza is an entrepreneur, scientist, innovator, and published author, serving as President of ZR PRODUCTIONS. His interests and work span artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, advanced engineering, healthcare innovation, sustainability, and entrepreneurship.

Driven by a vision to shape the future, Zafar explores the intersection of technology, human intelligence, creativity, and societal progress. His philosophy, "Imagination Precedes Innovation," reflects his belief that transformative progress begins with ambitious thinking and is realized through scientific curiosity, leadership, and purposeful execution.

As a speaker, he aims to challenge conventional perspectives, make complex technological ideas accessible, and inspire entrepreneurs, researchers, students, and business leaders to think beyond existing limitations.

His central mission is to encourage people to become active participants in designing a more innovative and future-ready world.

Zafar Riza is an entrepreneur, scientist, innovator, and published author, serving as President of ZR PRODUCTIONS. His interests and work span artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, advanced engineering, healthcare innovation, sustainability... Show more

Emma-Claire Shaw

Emma-Claire Shaw

I am a creative and strategic leader with a focus on leveraging technology to drive positive change. Passionate about cloud-enabled transformation, I specialize in leading M365 adoption, governance and enablement, with a focus on the Power Platform. My goal is to unlock the immense value this technology offers, accelerating digital transformation and empowering individuals to make a meaningful impact. With 18 years of experience in technology innovation and consultancy, I excel at identifying and harnessing emerging tech to transform enterprises and deliver lasting value.

I am a creative and strategic leader with a focus on leveraging technology to drive positive change. Passionate about cloud-enabled transformation, I specialize in leading M365 adoption, governance and enablement, with a focus on the Power Platform. ... Show more

Diallo Thierno

Diallo Thierno

Currently, I am working as a Staff Engineer at Axa France for the past year and half. I worked as a Technical Leader/Senior Software Engineer at Axa France for 3 and a half years. I started at Axa France 5 years ago.

I am an experienced engineer with a proven track record in IT. I am proficient in Java/JEE/Spring/SpringBoot, Python, PostgreSQL, Webmethods, ODM, SOA concepts, statistical modeling, and Prolog. I hold a solid engineering background with a degree in Computer Engineering and Statistics focused on systems and network engineering, software engineering, and financial engineering from Polytechnique Lille.

Previously, I worked for SNCF for 4 years, and before that, for Capgemini for 2 and a half years.

Currently, I am working as a Staff Engineer at Axa France for the past year and half. I worked as a Technical Leader/Senior Software Engineer at Axa France for 3 and a half years. I started at Axa France 5 years ago. I am an experienced engineer w... Show more

Ankit Pathak

Ankit Pathak

Ankit Pathak is a Senior Data Scientist at Meta with over a decade of experience applying advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to solve high-impact business problems across startups and large-scale organizations. He currently leads data science efforts for Instagram's App Platforms team, where he has built foundational infrastructure and productivity metrics supporting a large team of engineers, driving meaningful improvements in engineering efficiency.
Throughout his career at Meta, Ankit has worked across Finance, Monetization/Ads, and Platform Engineering, delivering impactful results such as developing machine learning models for invoice anomaly and fraud detection, and pioneering geo-experiments in partnership with Google that helped justify increased investment in advertiser acquisition. His work spans causal inference, experimentation, and lifetime value modeling, consistently translating complex data science into actionable business strategy.
Prior to Meta, Ankit held senior data science and analytics leadership roles at Walmart Labs and Tredence Inc., where he managed sizable analytics teams, led major analytics initiatives for Walmart's website and app redesign, and was recognized with internal awards for his contributions. He also co-founded and served as CTO of Adferns Media, a programmatic marketing startup that he helped scale from the ground up.
Ankit holds a dual Bachelor's and Master's degree (5-year program) in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad. He is skilled in Python, R, SQL, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Snowflake, GCP), and a range of visualization and analytics tools, with deep expertise in experimentation, causal inference, and marketing/product analytics.

Ankit Pathak is a Senior Data Scientist at Meta with over a decade of experience applying advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to solve high-impact business problems across startups and large-scale organizations. He currently leads da... Show more

Akshitha Gadde

Akshitha Gadde

Akshitha Gadde is a semiconductor and photonics R&D engineer with more than 10 years of experience spanning semiconductor fabrication, photonic devices, semiconductor lasers, optics, and reliability engineering. Her technical work focuses on the development and reliability of advanced semiconductor and photonic technologies, with particular interest in high-power laser devices, optical systems, and photonic technologies supporting next-generation computing and AI infrastructure.
Her experience bridges device-level engineering, fabrication, characterization, and reliability, giving her a multidisciplinary perspective on translating semiconductor and photonic innovations into robust, manufacturable technologies. She is also an inventor on patented semiconductor-laser technology and has contributed to technical work involving semiconductor laser design and reliability.
Her current technical interests include semiconductor laser reliability, silicon photonics, optical interconnects, photonic integration, and the reliability challenges associated with high-performance AI and data-center infrastructure.

Akshitha Gadde is a semiconductor and photonics R&D engineer with more than 10 years of experience spanning semiconductor fabrication, photonic devices, semiconductor lasers, optics, and reliability engineering. Her technical work focuses on the deve... Show more

Kudra Mohammed

Kudra Mohammed

Kudra Mohammed is an entrepreneur, business strategist, and community impact leader. She is the Founder and CEO of Nizarline, Kenya’s first branded hijab and scarf company, and leads Nizar Foundation, a community-focused organization working across clean water access, cancer and health awareness, youth empowerment, and environmental sustainability.

Through Nizarline, Kudra’s experience spans brand development, commercial growth, sales, marketing, and business operations. Through Nizar Foundation, she is committed to translating community needs into practical initiatives, including clean-water projects, health awareness, and environmental action. Her work brings together business leadership and community impact, with a focus on building initiatives that deliver tangible value beyond the individual leading them.

Kudra brings a practical perspective to leadership, organizational accountability, cross-cultural experience, and the challenge of turning a vision into sustained action. Her interests include how leaders mobilize people and resources, build effective organizations, and create impact across commercial and community settings.

Kudra Mohammed is an entrepreneur, business strategist, and community impact leader. She is the Founder and CEO of Nizarline, Kenya’s first branded hijab and scarf company, and leads Nizar Foundation, a community-focused organization working across c... Show more

Celestina Amadi

Celestina Amadi

Celestina Amadi is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and active community organizer recognized as a HashiCorp Ambassador, Grafana Champion, and IBM Champion.

She serves as an organizer for Grafana & Friends Nigeria, and HashiCorp User Group (Ibadan/Lagos).

Celestina specializes in cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes, and distributed systems. Driven by a passion for developer enablement and open-source growth, she leads community mentorship programs across emerging tech hubs to help the next generation of software engineers build impactful, production-grade systems.

Celestina Amadi is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and active community organizer recognized as a HashiCorp Ambassador, Grafana Champion, and IBM Champion. She serves as an organizer for Grafana & Friends Nigeria, and HashiCorp User Group (Ibadan... Show more

Abhishek Ghosh

Abhishek Ghosh

Abhishek Ghosh is a Data Scientist and Applied AI practitioner specializing in computer vision, machine learning, insurance risk, infrastructure safety, and production AI systems. With six years of experience building and deploying machine learning solutions, beginning with his wildfire research in 2020, he has worked across insurance, environmental risk detection, infrastructure monitoring, and enterprise technology.
In his current role with a Berkshire Hathaway owned insurance company, Abhishek designs and deploys AI systems that support underwriting, underreporting detection, document intelligence, and risk identification. His work includes production ML pipelines, image classification, automated underwriting workflows, LLM-powered property risk analysis, and computer vision systems that analyze business and property characteristics. He has developed solutions using technologies including Azure Cognitive Vision, EfficientNet, XGBoost, and other machine learning frameworks.
Abhishek also brings significant experience in applied computer vision for public safety. His wildfire detection work focused on identifying smoke from real-time camera imagery and distinguishing smoke from clouds, fog, and environmental noise while minimizing false positives. His contributions to AI-powered wildfire detection were recognized in a published technical article by Roboflow leadership. He has also developed infrastructure risk models using drone imagery to identify vegetation-obscured utility assets and support large-scale inspection workflows.
Earlier in his career, Abhishek worked with Accenture on Duck Creek insurance platform implementations, gaining experience in enterprise insurance systems, underwriting, claims, data analysis, and system integration.
He holds a Master of Science in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University and a bachelor's degree from KIIT University.

Abhishek Ghosh is a Data Scientist and Applied AI practitioner specializing in computer vision, machine learning, insurance risk, infrastructure safety, and production AI systems. With six years of experience building and deploying machine learning s... Show more

Jeannine DuChateau

Jeannine DuChateau

Jeannine Du Chateau has more than 15 years of experience as a Senior Manager, leading Environmental, Health, and Safety governance, facilities operations, and enterprise risk management across multinational, multi-site organizations. Her professional focus centers on aligning Environment, Health, Safety, and Quality strategies with business objectives while supporting regulatory compliance and operational stability. Across sectors including manufacturing, food production, energy, chemicals, and medical devices, she has supported complex operations and global teams responsible for regulated environments.

Jeannine has developed broad experience strengthening ISO management systems and coordinating operational support functions across diverse industrial settings. Her responsibilities have included working with manufacturing shop floor teams, engineering departments, supply chain professionals, procurement groups, warehousing operations, and maintenance functions. Through consistent collaboration and structured processes, she has supported measurable improvements in cost efficiency, energy performance, and sustainability outcomes across light and heavy manufacturing, PCB and electronics production, automotive operations, chemical processing, plastics manufacturing, and the beverage industry.

She also participated in emergency preparedness and response assessments related to the Deepwater Horizon explosion. While working remotely from the BP Houston, Texas site, she monitored oil rig piping and underwater systems that remained active after the incident. At the BP training location in Mobile, Alabama, emergency response documentation was reviewed while preparedness procedures were evaluated. Observations were also conducted during preparations, during which fishermen's vessels were equipped for crude oil spill cleanup in the former Deepwater rig area. Training activities were later delivered at several FCX and Rio Tinto mining locations in the United States and internationally, including the DRC in Africa.

Du Chateau also conducted auditing assignments across several highly regulated organizations and operational facilities. These assignments included auditing NASA sites in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Houston, Texas, for compliance with ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. She supported certification processes for Thales sites in Florida and California. She helped guide ISO 14001 certification across Rockwell operations in multiple states in the United States and Mexico, covering 50 sites within Motion Control. Several food and beverage facilities across Coca-Cola locations in the United States were also audited as part of quality and safety compliance initiatives.

Her professional responsibilities also include guiding environmental, quality, and safety governance across multinational enterprise accounts. She works closely with leadership teams to align regulatory compliance with operational performance and governance frameworks. These activities include coordinating certification programs, supporting risk management strategies, and maintaining communication with executive teams responsible for operational oversight.

Jeannine Du Chateau currently serves as a Global Account Manager and Lead Auditor for LRQA, a London-based assurance and risk management organization that provides certification, inspection, and advisory services to multinational companies. Over the past four years, she has managed a portfolio of 20 multinational enterprise accounts across automotive, PCB and SMT manufacturing, chemical production, heavy manufacturing, and energy sectors. Through strategic account development and expanded services, she supported 26% revenue growth and 30% sales growth while assisting organizations with certification across ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, SQF, FSSC 2200, and emerging cybersecurity and ESG certification frameworks.

She previously worked with the same organization from 2017 to 2020 as Senior QEHS and Sustainability Customer Manager and Lead Auditor before returning in 2022. During that time, she collaborated with accreditation bodies to manage certification activities, support audit remediation processes, and maintain compliance continuity for multinational clients. These efforts strengthened certification visibility and operational credibility across global markets.

Du Chateau also served for two years as Senior Maintenance Facilities QEHS and Security Manager at Thales Avionics, a company operating within defense, aerospace, and digital technology sectors. In this role, she oversaw governance across regulated manufacturing and airport environments. Reporting to the Director of Operations, she led cross-functional teams, managed a $300,000 budget, and supported operational continuity across six sites in the United States while maintaining regulatory compliance and safety programs.

Jeannine Du Chateau also held prior leadership roles, including eight years as Global Key Customer Project Manager at Det Norske Veritas in Norway. In that role, she supervised six-member auditor teams while guiding environmental, health, safety, and quality governance programs for multinational enterprises. Before that assignment, she served as the Quality, Environmental Health, and Safety Manager at General Dynamics in Tallahassee, Florida, where risk management and environmental stewardship were integrated into advanced manufacturing operations.

Her professional contributions have been recognized through several awards, including the Crystal Award for Environmental Excellence (awarded multiple times), the Governor’s Hazardous Waste Reduction Award, and the Values in Action Award for Customer Service. She is also active in professional organizations, including the Orlando Chapter of the American Society for Quality, the Technical Advisory Group for updates to ISO 14001, the Technical Advisory Group supporting the OCS Blue transition to an ISO standard, the Local Emergency Planning Commission, and advisory groups connected to the International Organization for Standardization.

Du Chateau graduated from Michigan Technological University with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and later continued graduate studies in Corporate Finance at Capella University. She also holds professional certifications, including First Aid, CPR, and AED, as well as Emergency Response certification through the State of Florida Local Emergency Planning Commission. She has also been certified by Exemplar Global, Inc. as a Lead Environmental Auditor, Lead Health and Safety Auditor, and Lead Quality Auditor.

Jeannine Du Chateau remains committed to community involvement alongside her professional career. She has volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and Viera Hospital, assisting individuals recovering from hip and knee surgeries. She served as a United Way representative while working with Rockwell, General Dynamics, and Thales. Community participation also includes involvement in American Cancer Society programs for 10 years, including the Cattle Baron’s Ball, Light up the Night Races, and Relay for Life events. She has supported Alzheimer Society of Miami fundraising activities and contributed to church Christmas drives supporting Clewiston, Florida. She is the mother of two and participates in youth sports by coaching her children’s flag football teams and supporting several leagues as a dugout parent.

Jeannine Du Chateau has more than 15 years of experience as a Senior Manager, leading Environmental, Health, and Safety governance, facilities operations, and enterprise risk management across multinational, multi-site organizations. Her professional... Show more

Kelley Versocki

Kelley Versocki

Kelley Versocki serves as the Director of the Office of Sustainability at Lehigh University, where she leads the strategic direction of campus-wide sustainability initiatives. She oversees the Office’s professional staff and a team of student change-makers who champion sustainability across campus through data, communications, and outreach.

She oversees Lehigh’s sustainability assessment frameworks, translating complex metrics into actionable insights for senior leadership to guide strategic decision-making. Partnering with university leadership, faculty, and operational teams, Kelley aligns sustainability goals with Lehigh’s broader strategic vision to drive meaningful institutional progress.

Blending a background in sociology with 15 years of experience in public relations, marketing, and communications, Kelley brings a unique, human-centered approach to institutional strategy. Through this dual focus on strategy and storytelling, Kelley ensures that campus sustainability initiatives are high-impact, measurable, inclusive, and deeply embedded in the fabric of the university community.

Kelley Versocki serves as the Director of the Office of Sustainability at Lehigh University, where she leads the strategic direction of campus-wide sustainability initiatives. She oversees the Office’s professional staff and a team of student change-... Show more

Dr. Ryan Rad

Dr. Ryan Rad

Dr. Ryan Rad is an AI researcher, professor, and industry advisor with over 15 years shaping how artificial intelligence is built, taught, and deployed. He holds faculty positions at Northeastern University and the University of British Columbia, where he has designed curricula and graduate programs in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Generative AI, and Data Science—reaching thousands of students across six universities and online. His industry work spans research, engineering, and leadership at startups and tech giants including Microsoft, scaling AI solutions across 40 countries for Fortune 500 companies.
A sought-after speaker with 50+ international talks and tens of top-tier peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Rad's research focuses on resource-efficient generative AI for edge deployment. He is the author of The Agentic AI Book—distilling years of building, teaching, and deploying AI into actionable insights—and shares AI perspectives on his YouTube channel.

Dr. Ryan Rad is an AI researcher, professor, and industry advisor with over 15 years shaping how artificial intelligence is built, taught, and deployed. He holds faculty positions at Northeastern University and the University of British Columbia, whe... Show more

Smridhi Gupta

Smridhi Gupta

Smridhi Gupta is a Tech Analyst at Citibank specializing in secure LLM systems, RAG reliability, and AI evaluation frameworks. Previously a Research Intern at AIISC, she has authored six peer-reviewed publications spanning transformer-based medical imaging, enterprise AI, and applied machine learning research. Her work focuses on building trustworthy, production-ready AI systems that bridge research and real-world deployment. She is also a tech creator sharing insights on AI, development, and emerging technologies with a growing community of 6.5K+ followers.

Beyond research and engineering, she is the organizer of JS Community, where she has led 4+ offline tech events in the past four months in Pune, building a growing developer ecosystem with 350+ signups and an average footfall of 100+ attendees per meetup.

Smridhi Gupta is a Tech Analyst at Citibank specializing in secure LLM systems, RAG reliability, and AI evaluation frameworks. Previously a Research Intern at AIISC, she has authored six peer-reviewed publications spanning transformer-based medical i... Show more

Luis Zuñiga

Luis Zuñiga

Luis Zuñiga is a Cloud Architect specialized in the convergence of Autonomous Automation, Applied Intelligence, and Proactive Defense. With an expert focus on AWS and GCP production environments (PRD), Luis designs high-level resilient architectures that prioritize security and scalability at their core.

His expertise lies in automating complex security strategies through Infrastructure as Code (IaC), utilizing Terraform and YAML to build governed, self-healing cloud ecosystems. Currently, Luis is pioneering the implementation of Generative AI within production workflows, transforming how organizations detect threats and optimize operations through intelligent systems.

An active member of the global Dev community, Luis is an AWS Community Builder and a prolific technical writer. He is dedicated to bridging the gap between sophisticated security paradigms and automated execution, delivering strategic roadmaps that help teams transition to a state of continuous, AI-driven resilience.

Luis Zuñiga is a Cloud Architect specialized in the convergence of Autonomous Automation, Applied Intelligence, and Proactive Defense. With an expert focus on AWS and GCP production environments (PRD), Luis designs high-level resilient architectures ... Show more

Nannyombi Shakiran

Nannyombi Shakiran

A software engineer, community builder, and growing leader who loves organizing events and bringing people together. I am currently a finalist pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering at Makerere University, dedicated to driving collaboration and innovation within the tech ecosystem.

A software engineer, community builder, and growing leader who loves organizing events and bringing people together. I am currently a finalist pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering at Makerere University, dedicated to driving collabora... Show more

Oyinloluwa Adedoyin

Oyinloluwa Adedoyin

Oyinloluwa Adedoyin is a Product & Motion Designer. He has six years of design experience, four of them in product, and his work is in identity infrastructure, fintech, and edtech.

In 2025 he was appointed an Innovation Stage Judge for the Conrad Challenge 2025–2026, presented by Space Center Houston, a Smithsonian Affiliate and the Official Visitor Center of NASA Johnson Space Center. In that role he evaluates technology submissions from teams across more than 70 countries.

He is a Product Designer at VerifyMe, where he designs QoreID, an identity verification platform integrated by approximately 60% of Nigeria's commercial banks. QoreID processes over 1 million verifications a month for more than 400 API clients. He also designs Gova, a last-mile verification platform now past 670,000 completed verifications. Before VerifyMe, he led the redesign of the core learning experience at uLesson while the platform scaled from under 100,000 to over 2 million downloads, contributing to a $15M Series B funding round. His earlier work spans Maxim Credit Card, UBA Group, Crowdyvest, and Omnibiz Africa.

His independent work travels internationally. Flatten Master, the Figma plugin he built and released in July 2025, picked up 750+ active users in its first four months. His 37 animation assets on LottieFiles have been downloaded more than 5,000 times and were featured on the LottieFiles homepage for four consecutive months in 2025, placing them in the top 0.1% of over 100,000 submissions. The assets are integrated into Chipper Cash (5M users), Maxim, Curaboard, and Gova. His free Figma Community packs are in use by designers across Nigeria, Kenya, India, Brazil, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia.

He has spoken at IndabaX 2025, Africa's largest AI and machine learning research community; at TekForce Connect 2025, a global virtual summit with 900+ live attendees across four continents; and at DevFest Lokoja 2024, where he delivered a 40-minute keynote to 400+ engineers and developers.

He writes for TechEconomy, Technext24, TechCity, and NaijaNews, and has been featured by Vanguard, Independent Nigeria, The Sun, and Daily Times. He has appeared as a digital technology expert on Channels Television, TVC News, and Trust TV.

Oyinloluwa Adedoyin is a Product & Motion Designer. He has six years of design experience, four of them in product, and his work is in identity infrastructure, fintech, and edtech. In 2025 he was appointed an Innovation Stage Judge for the Conrad ... Show more

Vinod Bijlani

Vinod Bijlani

I’m an AI Practice Leader for Asia Pacific and Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, based in Melbourne. I work on large-scale Sovereign AI Factory programs across Korea, Singapore and Southeast Asia.

My role spans architecture and delivery planning, from data-centre and GPU infrastructure through Kubernetes-based AI platforms, model serving, orchestration and production operations. I also focus on securing agentic systems, including Non-Human Identity, data-aware guardrails, MCP trust boundaries, runtime policy enforcement and risk-based human oversight.

I’m a named inventor on 25 patents and co-author of *Own Your AI: The Sovereign Stack Playbook*, and I regularly write and speak about AI infrastructure, security, governance and economics.

I’m an AI Practice Leader for Asia Pacific and Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, based in Melbourne. I work on large-scale Sovereign AI Factory programs across Korea, Singapore and Southeast Asia. My role spans architecture... Show more

Abhilash Majumder

Abhilash Majumder

Senior Deep Learning compiler engineer at Nvidia, ISO:C++ standardization member; Author

Senior Deep Learning compiler engineer at Nvidia, ISO:C++ standardization member; Author Show more

Dr Mohamed Ali Saeed

Dr Mohamed Ali Saeed

Dr. Mohamed Ali Saeed is a senior educational leader with over 25 years of experience in Arabic language education, curriculum development, educational leadership, and school improvement. He currently serves as Senior Leader for Ministry of Education subjects at Safa British School, Dubai, leading whole-school strategy to strengthen teaching quality, improve student outcomes, and advance curriculum innovation.

Holding a PhD in Educational Leadership, Dr. Mohamed is also an experienced bilingual school inspector, with extensive expertise in evaluating teaching, curriculum implementation, assessment, and school performance against national and international quality standards. Throughout his career, he has led educational improvement projects, developed Arabic curricula aligned with UAE and international frameworks, and coached educators to translate research into effective classroom practice.

His educational philosophy centres on ambitious expectations, inclusive teaching, and meaningful learning. He believes that every learner should experience both appropriate challenge and the support needed to succeed. For him, language education develops more than linguistic competence: it strengthens identity, critical thinking, creativity, and the confidence to communicate with purpose. He views assessment as a tool for understanding learners’ starting points, guiding teaching, and making progress visible.

His leadership philosophy combines a clear shared vision with trust, collaboration, and accountability. He believes sustainable school improvement grows through investing in people, listening to their perspectives, and creating a culture in which educators can reflect, question, and refine their practice. He advocates leadership that builds collective expertise and evaluates success through its impact on students’ learning and well-being.

A passionate advocate for excellence in Arabic education, Dr. Mohamed delivers professional learning on curriculum design, assessment, Arabic phonics in Early Years, AI in education, and effective classroom practice. His work connects educational research with practical implementation, helping teachers strengthen their practice and improve outcomes for learners.

Dr. Mohamed Ali Saeed is a senior educational leader with over 25 years of experience in Arabic language education, curriculum development, educational leadership, and school improvement. He currently serves as Senior Leader for Ministry of Education... Show more

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