With over 30 years of experience in the tech industry, Richard has a proven track record of architecting, building, and improving digital products and services for forward-thinking clients. His expertise spans business strategy, software delivery methodologies, and technical leadership. He has a specialism in marketing technology working with the early versions of Umbraco. As a digital native change agent, Richard combines experience, tech, commercials, and data to create extraordinary outcomes for clients.

With over 30 years of experience in the tech industry, Richard has a proven track record of architecting, building, and improving digital products and services for forward-thinking clients. His expertise spans business strategy, software delivery met... Show more

Cheryl Parks, the driving force behind The Sales Growth Coach, is an esteemed expert dedicated to elevating sales teams and individual performers. With a profound understanding of the challenges and nuances in sales, Cheryl crafts bespoke strategies that not only boost performance but also foster a culture of success and resilience. Her approach integrates cutting-edge techniques with timeless principles, ensuring her clients not only meet but exceed their objectives. At the helm of transformative leadership, Cheryl's guidance is a beacon for those aspiring to redefine the norms and achieve unparalleled excellence in their sales endeavors.

Cheryl Parks, the driving force behind The Sales Growth Coach, is an esteemed expert dedicated to elevating sales teams and individual performers. With a profound understanding of the challenges and nuances in sales, Cheryl crafts bespoke strategies ... Show more

Passionate about science, technology, science fiction, and sports. I work with Cloud, Kubernetes, and DevOps

Passionate about science, technology, science fiction, and sports. I work with Cloud, Kubernetes, and DevOps Show more

First year PhD student whose area of study is looking at the security of the implementation of the classical and quantum interface involved in quantum key distribution.

First year PhD student whose area of study is looking at the security of the implementation of the classical and quantum interface involved in quantum key distribution. Show more

Dr. Sowers received her PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from The University of Texas at Austin. She began her career as a bench research scientist, publishing ground-breaking mechanistic studies detailing the link between energy balance and cancer. She was well on her way to tenure at The University of Texas when she realized a need for less mouse and more human interaction. She followed the inflammation pathway to the pharmaceutical industry – pursuing both bench and clinical research opportunities in the field of allergy.

Dr. Sowers served as a lead research scientist in the US-based, allergen research lab at ALK, a global, allergy-focused pharmaceutical company. Her research made significant contributions to the bench-based understanding of allergen extracts and their use in both human and veterinary allergy immunotherapy. Her abilities to analyze and translate scientific data to commercial and clinical strategy prompted a transition from bench science to Medical and Scientific Affairs, where she spearheaded a team of PhDs and MDs.

Dr. Sowers presently serves as a clinical and scientific consultant, a lecturer, an educator, and a scientific/clinical strategist. With more than a decade in the field of Allergy and Immunology, Dr. Sowers is considered a subject matter expert among her peers.

Dr. Sowers received her PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from The University of Texas at Austin. She began her career as a bench research scientist, publishing ground-breaking mechanistic studies detailing the link between energy balance and cancer. S... Show more

An information technology leader, specializing in Cloud Technologies, including M365, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, compliance, in addition to general information technology, Strategy, Data and Management expertise.
Experience in multiple industries within with government, non-profit and commercial organizations in support of technology / migration, emerging technologies, product commercialization, business planning and strategy, design and technology implementations ranging from enterprise operations and security strategy cloud services. Dedicated to solving problems through leading-edge tools and technologies, with a specialty focus on integrating service delivery, strategy and technology to ensure customer success in a digital world.

An information technology leader, specializing in Cloud Technologies, including M365, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, compliance, in addition to general information technology, Strategy, Data and Management expertise. Experience in multiple... Show more

Jan Hohenheim worked in the software industry as a programmer, project lead and Scrum master. He wrote a book about Rust for Packt Publishing called "The Rust Standard Library Cookbook".
He is currently a member of the Institute of Neuroinformatics of the UZH and ETH Zurich.
He spends his free time developing games with the Bevy engine, for which he has contributed numerous open source tools. He also volunteers for the Rust gamedev working group.

Jan Hohenheim worked in the software industry as a programmer, project lead and Scrum master. He wrote a book about Rust for Packt Publishing called "The Rust Standard Library Cookbook". He is currently a member of the Institute of Neuroinformatics ... Show more

Experienced Sitecore .NET developer with a total of 15 years of experience in Development, Support, Architecture, Automation, Optimization, troubleshooting, and design. Sugcon India 2023 Speaker and Sitecore XMCloud, 10, CDP & Personalize, Content Hub, Order Cloud Certified Developer.

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Experienced Sitecore .NET developer with a total of 15 years of experience in Development, Support, Architecture, Automation, Optimization, troubleshooting, and design. Sugcon India 2023 Speaker and Sitecore XMCloud, 10, CDP & Personalize, Content H... Show more

Camila is a professional with more than 5 years of experience in information technology projects. She has 3 years of experience leading teams in LaTam to drive data-driven insights and optimize operational processes using her background in Data Analytics projects. Experienced in designing and implementing scalable solutions on AWS, ensuring efficient deployment and management. A results-oriented professional with strong leadership, adaptability, continuous learning, and planning skills. Eager to leverage expertise in cloud infrastructure optimization, data workflows enhancement, and maximizing the potential of organizational data assets.

Camila is a professional with more than 5 years of experience in information technology projects. She has 3 years of experience leading teams in LaTam to drive data-driven insights and optimize operational processes using her background in Data Analy... Show more

Charles Scarborough is an air quality data scientist at Sonoma Technology. As an air quality data scientist, he conducts analysis related to air pollution exposure, air pollution impacts, and wildland fires. He is currently developing Shiny Dashboards for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of a multi-year effort to provide quality assurance information to nation-wide air quality monitoring networks. Mr. Scarborough has a B.S. in Geography and a B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Georgia and an M.S. in Geography from the University of Delaware.

Charles Scarborough is an air quality data scientist at Sonoma Technology. As an air quality data scientist, he conducts analysis related to air pollution exposure, air pollution impacts, and wildland fires. He is currently developing Shiny Dashboard... Show more

Ellen Shapiro is an iOS and Android developer who's been building native apps since late 2010. She works for Pixite on their Zinnia journaling app. She lives in Rochester, New York. When not coding or talking about it, Ellen can generally be found traveling, biking all over the place, playing sous-chef to her wife Lilia, and relentlessly Instagramming their cats.

Ellen Shapiro is an iOS and Android developer who's been building native apps since late 2010. She works for Pixite on their Zinnia journaling app. She lives in Rochester, New York. When not coding or talking about it, Ellen can generally be found tr... Show more

Abbey joined Alias in the summer of 2021 as Executive Assistant after spending 7 years working in the nonprofit sector. Since that time, she has transitioned into Alias’ Chief of Staff to include Operations (overseeing construction and the move into our new HQ!), Human Relations, Sales, Communications, and Marketing. She oversees Alias’ daily operations and contributes to the planning and execution of strategic goals.

Abbey joined Alias in the summer of 2021 as Executive Assistant after spending 7 years working in the nonprofit sector. Since that time, she has transitioned into Alias’ Chief of Staff to include Operations (overseeing construction and the move into ... Show more

Daniel is a Software Manager with OVO - leading the Developer Platforms team as they enable over 400 engineers to work more effectively, with greater guidance and guardrails, lowering their cognitive load and improving their everyday lived experience.
The overall goal being to increase engineering productivity, staff retention and ensure OVO is considered a great place to work.

Daniel is a former Head of Engineering leading 50+ engineers. Over 5 years they transformed from being an Embedded Software team delivering Custom Hardware solutions to being software focused, developing primarily for the Cloud. To achieve this they transformed teams, ways of working, adopted Cloud platforms with CI and CD pipelines and looked at adopting a full DevOps model.

Daniel strongly believes in empowered teams, and ensuring that they have the freedom to innovate both in process and tooling.

Daniel believes that People, Process and Tech are the key to success, and in that order.

Daniel is a Software Manager with OVO - leading the Developer Platforms team as they enable over 400 engineers to work more effectively, with greater guidance and guardrails, lowering their cognitive load and improving their everyday lived experience... Show more

Having spent nearly a decade as an Automation Developer writing test cases and delivering automated results for clients, I recently moved into the community side of DevOps when I found myself in the Salesforce space. My automations have mainly been frameworks of my own design in C# and other backend languages, but I know just enough Javascript to be dangerous. When I’m not achievement hunting, I like to complete RCA on software bugs. I have dual degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, know how to do some classic ballroom dancing, love Dungeons and Dragons, and have never turned down a learning opportunity.

Having spent nearly a decade as an Automation Developer writing test cases and delivering automated results for clients, I recently moved into the community side of DevOps when I found myself in the Salesforce space. My automations have mainly been f... Show more

Akram Sheriff is an Senior AI_ML IoT Software Engineering leader / Product leader/ Technologist with the Cisco IoT BU. Akram holds 30+ software patents, both granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and currently pending review at USPTO and in the Germany/EU region.

He specializes on different wireless protocols, IoT software stacks, and technologies for IoT products, and leads various product series. He is also an active peer reviewer of IEEE publications in areas related to WiFi, BLE, Wireless networking trends, AI/Machine learning, Enterprise WiFi, IoT architectures, Edge computing and the Cloud networking domain.

Akram is also an active member in some IETF working groups related to 6LoWPAN, RAW related to different low power wireless technologies.

Akram is also a frequent presenter in many Internal Cisco Live, Devnet, APJC SecCon -2020 and external conferences in topics related to AI/ML, Wireless Networking, IoT, and Cloud technologies.

You can also follow Akram on Medium.

Akram Sheriff is an Senior AI_ML IoT Software Engineering leader / Product leader/ Technologist with the Cisco IoT BU. Akram holds 30+ software patents, both granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and currently pending r... Show more

Pawel Jasionowski is Senior Data Scientist in Kyndryl Cybersecurity Risk Department. He hold The Open Group Master Data Scientist and MS Azure Data Scientist Associate certifications. His current role is mainly focused on Cybersecurity Risk and Cybersecurity Risk Management process automation. Moreover, Pawel is a contributor in the Quantum Safe core team, working on new innovative business solutions.
Pawel is Doctor of Computer Science, Master of Science in Mathematics, recognized Speaker and author of numerous patents in Cybersecurity Risk Management, Quantum and Service Excellence areas.

Pawel Jasionowski is Senior Data Scientist in Kyndryl Cybersecurity Risk Department. He hold The Open Group Master Data Scientist and MS Azure Data Scientist Associate certifications. His current role is mainly focused on Cybersecurity Risk and Cyber... Show more

Since his college years, Sheng-Wen Cheng has devoted himself to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle development. He completed his master's degree in Robotics at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, where he led the software development of a Quadrotor flight controller in an academic collaboration project with the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA). He is currently a Ph.D. student of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University.

Since his college years, Sheng-Wen Cheng has devoted himself to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle development. He completed his master's degree in Robotics at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, where he led the software development of a Quadrotor flight... Show more

Dr. (Chelsea) “Green Queen” is a forever young pharmacist and a preventative medicine and genetics health consultant. She is the founder of Green Roots Optimized Wellness (GROW) where she works as a genetic genius helping her clients reach sustainable, optimal wellness results utilizing their unique genetic makeup.

Dr. Green is passionate about preventative medicine and is re-writing her story after genetic factors were unveiled. Her goal is to help clients with physical pain, mental strains, and hormone irregularities achieve optimized wellness by uncovering the root causes of their illnesses. Your genetics don’t have to predict your future; learn how to age optimistically through getting to know your genes.

Dr. (Chelsea) “Green Queen” is a forever young pharmacist and a preventative medicine and genetics health consultant. She is the founder of Green Roots Optimized Wellness (GROW) where she works as a genetic genius helping her clients reach sustainab... Show more

John Darrington has been working for the Idaho National Laboratory for the last five years. As the lead architect in the digital engineering department, he works very closely with those seeking to change the world through clean energy. John is a software engineer by trade, and has worked in that field for almost ten years. He has experience in delivering large scale products and leading various sized teams.

John Darrington has been working for the Idaho National Laboratory for the last five years. As the lead architect in the digital engineering department, he works very closely with those seeking to change the world through clean energy. John is a soft... Show more

Gabriel is university dropout, turned engineers, turned educator of all ages, turned learning experience designer. Yes, he has been around the block a few times and that journey he took, the road less taken, is what he shares with the people of the world. His various experiences made him feel that he had a big role to play in the K12 scene.

He wanted to connect the students globally through learning. Not to learning but through learning. Yes, there is a difference. A decade ago, he started building Score Campus, the learning eco system. Took him a decade but today, Gabriel brings authentic learning experiences to the world.

Gabriel is university dropout, turned engineers, turned educator of all ages, turned learning experience designer. Yes, he has been around the block a few times and that journey he took, the road less taken, is what he shares with the people of the w... Show more

Dipankar is currently a Developer Advocate at Dremio where his primary focus is advocating data engineers/architects/scientists on Dremio’s lakehouse platform & various open-sourced projects such as Apache Iceberg, Arrow, Project Nessie, etc. that helps data teams apply & scale analytics. In his past roles, he worked at the intersection of Machine Learning & Data visualization. Dipankar is a co-author of the upcoming O’Reilly book - ‘Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide’. He also holds a Masters degree in Computer Science with a research area focused on ExplainableAI.

Dipankar is currently a Developer Advocate at Dremio where his primary focus is advocating data engineers/architects/scientists on Dremio’s lakehouse platform & various open-sourced projects such as Apache Iceberg, Arrow, Project Nessie, etc. that he... Show more

Community Lead, Microsoft Teams Engineering

Laurie has spent 17 years at Microsoft managing user adoption and pre-release programs for Live Meeting, OCS, Lync, Skype for Business and Teams - helping to build better products and getting people to use them. Laurie's current role as Community Lead within the Microsoft Teams Engineering team is unique and demonstrates the commitment from Teams to understand, listen, and build a high-quality product around the needs of users. She manages the virtual Microsoft Tech Community, creating a robust network of worldwide community events and user groups, and continues to mobilize the MVP Community to share their expertise with community and help shape Microsoft Teams. In 2021, Laurie led the creation of the Women in Teams Community to help support the Women in Technology initiative and bring together experts and passionate Teams users looking to learn and share with others. Laurie's always listening for success stories, looking to make connections, and learning through experience.

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Community Lead, Microsoft Teams Engineering Laurie has spent 17 years at Microsoft managing user adoption and pre-release programs for Live Meeting, OCS, Lync, Skype for Business and Teams - helping to build better products and getting people to u... Show more

Biotechnology student, bioprocess engineering oriented, from Peru, focused on programming applied to make decision, in laboratory.

Biotechnology student, bioprocess engineering oriented, from Peru, focused on programming applied to make decision, in laboratory. Show more

Shalini Thirunilathil is an award-winning technology leader, currently combining two roles at Hargreaves Lansdown - Agile Coach Lead and a Brand and Outreach Lead. She has extensive experience in improving organisational agility, coaching, mentoring, and developing talent in the organisation. Her career has included a diverse range of roles, including Software Developer, Software Tester, Test Manager, Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, and Agile Coach for various top-notch organisations like Civica, Proactis, IBM, SAP, O2, Springer Nature, Lexis Nexis, and IRIS Software Group. Shalini has spoken at 10+ meetup events and panel discussions, including the 'Agile20Reflect Mini Festival' an international meetup event.

In 2021, Shalini won the Team Leader of the Year (SME) at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards. On International Women's day 2021, the Synapse QA community recognised her as an inspirational leader. In 2019 and 2021, she was one of the finalists for the Role Model of the Year category in the WIT Excellence awards. Outside work, Shalini enjoys music, travel, and cooking. She is also a trained Indian classical and Bollywood dancer and has taken part in dance performances across the UK.

Shalini Thirunilathil is an award-winning technology leader, currently combining two roles at Hargreaves Lansdown - Agile Coach Lead and a Brand and Outreach Lead. She has extensive experience in improving organisational agility, coaching, mentoring,... Show more

I am currently doing my Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and my area of research includes variational quantum algorithms, tensor networks, and quantum computing. I have plenty of exposure to Python, specifically working with Qiskit, and TensorNetwork. I have already given introductory talks on quantum computing at PyCon Indonesia, Python Ireland, Pycode, Pyjamas, and Scipy India.

I am currently doing my Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and my area of research includes variational quantum algorithms, tensor networks, and quantum computing. I have plenty of exposure to Python, specifically working with Qi... Show more

Transformational leader bend on re-inventing life sciences for the benefits of patients. No patient should wait for innovative drugs due to lack of technology adoption.

Transformational leader bend on re-inventing life sciences for the benefits of patients. No patient should wait for innovative drugs due to lack of technology adoption. Show more

Gisli Olafsson currently serves as an executive coach to transformational leaders around the world. Prior to that he served as the Chief Technology Officer of One Acre Fund, a social enterprise that is helping bring over 1.2 million small-holder farmers out of extreme poverty.

Prior to joining One Acre Fund, he served as a Humanitarian Advisor to NetHope, a consortium of 60+ leading non-profit organizations around the world, and as the Chief Technology Officer of Beringer Finance, the largest technology focused investment bank in Europe. Gisli has been active in the IT industry for over 30 year, ever since he sold his first program at the age of 14. He worked for 10 years at Microsoft, where he was involved in product development, sales, technical evangelism, and most recently as a trusted advisor to national governments and international organizations on the effective use of technology in their operations.

Gisli’s deep understanding of technology, his long-time software product development expertise, and his extensive network inside and outside of the technology industry enables him to quickly provide value to technology companies. Gisli has also over the past 15 years worked closely with the startup community and is an advisory board member and member of board of directors of numerous startups and venture funds. Gisli is also a sought after mentor for innovation accelerators.

Prior to joining Beringer Finance in 2015, Gisli served as the Emergency Response Director of NetHope. Gisli is one of the leading experts in the world on the use of technology in disaster response and is a sought after speaker, trainer, and advisor on the role technology can play in enhancing the response to large scale natural and man-made disasters.

Prior to joining NetHope, Gisli has over 20 years of experience in the field of disaster management and was an active member of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team, a team of experienced disaster managers which are on stand-by to deploy anywhere in the world on a 6 hour notice to coordinate the first response of the international community to disasters on behalf of the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Gisli has participated in disaster field missions in connections with floods in Ghana (2007), Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (2008), Hurricane Ike in Texas (2008), Sichuan Earthquake (2008), Pandemic Outbreak (2009), West Sumatra Earthquake (2009), Haiti Earthquake (2010), Japan Earthquake/Tsunami (2011), Horn of Africa Famine (2011), Philippine’s Typhoons (2012 and 2013), West Africa Ebola Outbreak (2014-2015), European Refugee Crisis (2015), Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico (2017), and Tropical Cyclone Idai in Mozambique (2019). Following the devastating earthquake in Haiti 2010, Gisli led the first international rescue team that arrived in the country.

The combination of Gisli’s extensive field experience in disaster management and technology background provides Gisli a deep understanding how technology can be applied to solve the most challenging collaboration issues faced in austere environments. This has led him to be appointed to various advisory boards and committees, such as the US State Department’s sub-committee on the use of technology in international disasters. Gisli was named a UNICEF Humanitarian Innovation Fellow and a Technology Partner Network Advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2013.

Gisli’s deep experience in leading transformation efforts around the world, made him a sought after executive coach in the field of digital transformations. Leveraging his own experience in leading digital transformation efforts for large organizations, and in serving as a trusted advisor to governments and international organizations, Gisli focuses his executive coaching on working with transformational leaders and helping them tackle the challenges of leading digital transformation journeys.

In 2014, Gisli published the book The Crisis Leader, about the role of leadership in times of crisis, leveraging examples from his missions around the world to provide readers with an insight into the key aspects of leadership critical during chaotic times like disasters. The book has been translated into two languages and been sold worldwide.

Gisli holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Chemistry from Copenhagen University (Denmark 1993), a Diploma in International Development from University of Iceland (2017), and is endlessly writing his Master’s thesis on the use of technology in humanitarian response. Gisli currently lives in Iceland, along with his wife, five children, two grandchildren, dog, and a cat.

Gisli Olafsson currently serves as an executive coach to transformational leaders around the world. Prior to that he served as the Chief Technology Officer of One Acre Fund, a social enterprise that is helping bring over 1.2 million small-holder farm... Show more

Jeremy obtained a bachelor’s of bioinformatics from Université Laval during which he did an exchange at Université de Strasbourg in the Master’s of Integrative structural biology and bioinformatics and completed an internship at The Hyve developing a user interface prototype for TranSMART. Following this, he completed a Master’s in computer science at McGill University by developing a machine learning algorithm based on phylogenetic networks that has significant advantages over commonly used genetic assignment methods. Jeremy joined The Hyve in 2018 to pursue a PhD within the context of the AiPBAND project and, more generally, his passion for multidisciplinary science.

The aim of this ESR project is to develop a big-data powered diagnostic infrastructure for brain cancer prediction. The platform will be deployed and run on cloud services . The platform will include a data warehouse for integrating clinical and omics data. This includes data generated by innovative biosensors, developed by WP2. The components of the platform will be designed as flexible microservices. Separation of concerns will facilitate high performance, security and scalability. One of these services will be the prediction algorithms, developed in close collaboration with ESR-11 at IC. Patients, clinician and potential industrial client will gain access via any device to their results on an intuitive user interface.

To achieve these goals, large quantities of health data is required at every step. For both simpy software testing or improving machine learning accuracy, quality data remains hard to get. The scientific opportunities locked-in the massive amounts of health data collected are inestimable. The growing concerns towards data privacy will only only complicate the issue.

Anonymization is generally employed to prevent misuse of private data. Anonymization trades data utility for privacy, but does not fully prevent reidentification. This means accessing data requires eminent academic credentials and resources. If real data is lacking for developments, delays and errors can have consequences on critical health informatics. The alternative is to produce synthetic data, thereby avoiding the privacy issues. Rigid and error prone statistical models have long been the only generative algorithms for this purpose.

Recently, generative adversarial networks have demonstrated their ability to produce indistinguishable synthetic data. Synthetic data has been gaining traction rapidly in medical imaging applications. However, due to certain complexities of observational health, the idea is only starting to gain interest. This project will explore GAN methods to produce synthetic health data that address these complexities. In addition to evaluating they gains provided to the development of the diagnostic platform.

Jeremy obtained a bachelor’s of bioinformatics from Université Laval during which he did an exchange at Université de Strasbourg in the Master’s of Integrative structural biology and bioinformatics and completed an internship at The Hyve developing a... Show more

Sushil is Cloud Solution Architect with Microsoft with specialisation in Data and AI. He specialise in Information Architecture and Data Governance having worked extensively in Financial Services and Life Science Industry.

Sushil is Cloud Solution Architect with Microsoft with specialisation in Data and AI. He specialise in Information Architecture and Data Governance having worked extensively in Financial Services and Life Science Industry. Show more

Software engineer with a passion for start-ups and information management.

Bjørn Erling Fløtten designs system with efficient use of development resources and simplified architecture facilitating multiple areas of use for every component.

Founder and cofounder of in total six companies, five of them within the area of Information technology. One successful exit (so far).

Currently working with Sikom Connect AS (Remote heating, alarm systems, IoT).

Bjørn consulted for Telenor (a telecommunications company) for 17 years, working with reporting and surveillance systems. Bjørn also has experience with other big organizations in the field of data analysis and reporting.

Software engineer with a passion for start-ups and information management. Bjørn Erling Fløtten designs system with efficient use of development resources and simplified architecture facilitating multiple areas of use for every component. Found... Show more